If you have ambitions to do something worthwhile, I suggest that you begin by taking ten or fifteen minutes daily for meditation. Shut yourself alone with your spirit, and shut the world out. His testimony can be that of any believer who will follow his example and spend time meditating in God’s Word. His people were revived and he began to have good success. More people were saved in that one service than had been saved in that church in the past two or three years. After thirty days had passed, at the close of his Sunday morning sermon a landslide of souls was at the altar. Daily he set aside a certain time for meditating rather than asking. After hearing me teach along these lines of meditating in God’s Word, he decided to follow this course. He would bring home various programs and ideas, but it seemed that they didn’t work in his church. He flew all over the country visiting many of the larger churches, studying their methods and trying to find out what made them successful. One pastor once told me that he had been trying to make a success of his church. One cannot develop spiritual wisdom without meditation in God’s Word. The most deeply spiritual men and women I have known are those who give time to meditation. God told Joshua to meditate in the Word, and that if he would do so God would make his way prosperous and he would have good success.
Another translation of the last phrase of Joshua 1:8, quoted above, says, “You will be able to deal wisely in the things of life.” Certainly we wouldn’t have good success if we could not deal wisely in the things of life. Rule 1 – Meditating in the Word of GodĨ This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.Īfter Moses’ death when God anointed Joshua to lead the children of Israel, God told him at the very outset of his ministry of the importance of meditating in the Word. The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord. This means that God is going to use our own spirit to guide us. God said in His Word, “The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly” (Proverbs 20:27). As we instantly obey our spirit, we will find that we are obeying the Holy Spirit. God communicates with the spirit and not with our reasoning faculties. Instantly Obeying the Voice of Our SpiritĪs we apply these four principles to our daily lives, we can come to know the will of God in even the minor details of life. In this lesson we will look at four ways by which this can be accomplished:Ĥ. It can be built up in strength just as the body can be built up. Just as the human mind can be educated and trained intellectually, so the human spirit can be trained spiritually. Central Truth: God will use our own spirit to guide us.
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