How Belief Becomes Experience - Adding Declaration to Your Meditation - Part 2 - The Power of First Person

Main Post of the Week #2 (Week of Mar 16-22)

Okay, so we’ve taken a Scripture or passage, and been meditating on it, - verbatim.

It’s truth, over time, has begun to transform from simply language we comprehend, to life on the inside of us. Faith has been growing as we have kept with it. It’s welling up inside us, but what now? We have aligned ourselves with what is true; it’s becoming part of us and we agree with it more deeply than ever before.

Comment from a Reader:

Here is part of a comment from one of our readers which reinforces the point I am making:

“I am finding that my inner man - by the Spirit that God has sealed in me - is being built-up in a big way through these meditation practices: especially through speaking them out. I started with a few select verses from the Word and for the first time in my Christian walk I am noticing how they are being deeply implanted in my heart - to where they aren’t words I just understand, but they are words that both have life and are changing my life. So, for example, internally, I am seeing the Kingdom of God differently than before and, externally, I’ve been able to pray differently for people (or speak God-inspired words into their life with more boldness).” D. Shoquist

(Scroll down to 1st part of this Series, the comment section, to read full comment if you’d like.)

Are you getting this? I am telling you folks - it works…take it from other readers who have been following along just like you!

Doubting Christians Miss the Point

Even so, some Christians have doubts about meditating on the Word, citing Scriptures like these - if they happen to know them.

Matt 6:7
7 And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words.
NKJV

Let’s shoot this theory right in the heart and move on. The repetitions you are using are not for God, so He will hear you - THEY ARE FOR YOU! We know God hears us when we pray according to His Word.

You are wrapping your life around the Word - displacing contrary ideas you have developed independently of God - replacing your lower thoughts with His higher ones. Yes! -You are doing it.

Getting Practical - Pay Special Attention to This Part ————–

Now let’s take this concept forward and kill two birds with one stone. Speaking of knowing God hears us, look at this Scripture:

1 Jn. 5:14-15 This is the assurance we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will He hears us - and if we know the He hears us, whatever we asked, we know we have what we asked of Him. NIV

Let’s say this is a verse you have been meditating on. Wow; what powerful truth is here!

In the context of this verse, the trick to answered prayer is not how loud or soft you declare something or how many times you say it, but asking according to His will. (Remember, the meditation and repetition you have put into this on the front end is for you.)

Now that it’s in you, you can begin putting it to work because you can truly mix that word with faith. Without genuine faith - which takes time to develop, it ain’t going to work.

The one place we always know that we can find God’s will is IN HIS WORD. The more Word we have in us, the easier it is to pray according to His will. Now get this which is the two for one and the point of today’s lesson.

The Word Working IN & THROUGH US - not one or the other

We can agree and believe the Word, yet if out of that belief we don’t speak it toward a certain situation, we may remain disconnected still from experiencing it’s full reality. In other words, we can believe a Scripture is true and have meditated on it deeply, yet not see fruit in the seen realm. You have to put the Word to work outside - once it’s worked inside - you.

One of the ways to bridge this gap is to position the Word in the first person:

This is the assurance that I have in approaching God: that if I ask anything according to His will He hears ME - and if I know He hears ME, whatever I asked, I know I have what I asked of Him

Say that a few times. This helps convert the truth from something we admire and agree with that’s now deeply inside us, to something we may experience in our personal reality and through us into others’…

This is just a simple technique to use in your declaration here and there, yet quite powerful.

I sort of apologize if this seems overly basic to you - but my experience is that many people who understand this concept and nod their head that they know it - don’t actually employ it consistently and fully, effectively robbing themselves. Just don’t let that be you.

Work it in, regularly, and watch faith grow and mountains begin moving.

Rick for TI-MC

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