Saturday, 1st November, 2025
Bible Reading: Joshua 1:8
Memory Verse: Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. Joshua 1:8 (NIV)
What is Meditation? At its core, meditation is focused thinking. It’s the act of intentionally quieting the noise around (and within) you to reflect deeply, whether on God’s Word, your thoughts, or a specific truth/topic. It’s not about emptying your mind, but rather filling it with what matters most; all by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Unlike rushing through a Bible verse or rushing through your daily prayers, meditation is slow, intentional, and heart-engaged. Then, the Holy Spirit moves through your thoughts. It’s letting a truth soak in, like tea steeping in hot water; the longer it sits, the richer the flavour.
Why is Meditation Powerful? What you dwell on shapes how you live. Meditation anchors your thoughts, fuels your faith, calms your heart, and sharpens your decisions.
Meditation helps:
1. Replace lies with truth.
2. Turns head knowledge into heart conviction.
3. Strengthen your spiritual muscles.
4. Provide clarity in confusion.
5. Build resilience in trials.
6. In a noisy world, it is during meditation God often whispers into the strings of our thoughts.
In Joshua 1, Joshua was about to lead a whole nation into an unknown land. He didn’t just need strategy, he needed God’s wisdom and courage. Meditation was the key to his strength and success.
Practical Example: A Student and Anxiety
Bola is a 17-year-old preparing for her A-levels. She used to panic every night. Her heart would race, and self-doubt crept in. One day, she began reading Philippians 4:6-7: “Do not be anxious about anything… but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God…” Instead of rushing past it, she meditated on each phrase, repeating it softly, writing it out, even turning it into a prayer. Over time, that Scripture became her anchor. Peace replaced panic. Her results didn’t change overnight, but her response to pressure did.
How You Can Start Meditating on the Word of God?
1. Start small. Choose one verse or phrase.
2. Read it slowly again and again.
3. Ask: “What is this really saying? What does this mean for me today?”
4. Speak it aloud. Write it down. Pray it back.
5. Stay with it. Let the truth sink in.
Quote: Meditation is not a ritual. It’s a rhythm. It’s how truth moves from the page to your heart. And when your heart changes, everything changes.
Prophetic Decree: Life, power, strength and revelational wisdom shall surge through your spirit by the power of meditation, in Jesus name.
Prayer Focus
1. Lord, grant me grace to spend more quality time in your presence, in Jesus name.
2. Wisdom from above overshadow my heart, in Jesus name.
3. I receive grace to sit down with the Holy Spirit in deep meditation, in Jesus name.
4. Wisdom to solve the problems in my life, flow through me by the power of the Holy Spirit even as a meditate, in Jesus name.
5. I terminate every activity of mind demons in my heart, in Jesus name.
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