Life's Most Important Activity

Meditation must be a priority in my life. If I want to hear what God is saying, I must turn aside, get quite and listen to God. God wants to speak to us but He doesn't force Himself on us.

Exodus 3:1--Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the desert and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. So Moses thought, "I will go over and see this strange sight-why the bush does not burn up." When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, "Moses! Moses!" And Moses said, "Here I am." "Do not come any closer," God said. "Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground." Then he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob." At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.

Most of the things in our life hinges on our personal private time with God. Meditation is thinking, focusing, gleaning, serious thought, absorbing, lifting my heart heavenward, focusing on Him and shutting everything else out. Meditation is listening.

3 Essential Things in Meditation

1. Holiness in Heart: It is the habit of your life because you hunger, long, want, to be with God. You're interested in what God has to speak into your heart. You can't walk in obedience with God without meditating. This is what creates holiness; A life of Contentment; To be a Help to someone else. We are to be dependent on Him. If we don';t draw our strength from Him, we are impotent. Limitations are shattered when we spend time, meditate on Him. Meditation requires a priority in my life. I must be will to turn aside to turn to God.

2. Meditation requires a place. Give God His own place. Build an altar to the Lord.

3. Purpose. I want to get to know God in Whom I've entrusted my whole future, whose name I bear, in whom I trust, whom I want to be like. I want an intimate relationship with God. Plan: read, then be quite.

10 things meditation will do to you

1. it will quite your spirit.
2. it will enlighten your mind.
3. there is a divine, emotional, spiritual energy that comes from meditation.
4. it will purify your heart.
5. it enlarges your view of God and what He's like.
6. it increases our love for God.
7. increased sense of His power, authority, sovereignty.
8. it strengthens our faith.
9. it sensitizes us to the presence of God.
10. it shapes and conforms us like Jesus.