{"id":4778,"date":"2009-11-22T01:01:15","date_gmt":"2009-11-22T06:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/?p=4778"},"modified":"2009-11-22T01:01:31","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T06:01:31","slug":"just-meditate-for-a-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2009\/11\/22\/just-meditate-for-a-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Meditate for a Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prayer: Just Meditate for a Month<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night. &#8212; Psalm 1:2<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let the old saints be our example. They came to the Word of God and meditated. They laid the Bible on the old-fashioned, handmade chair, got down on the old, scrubbed, board floor and meditated on the Word. As they waited, faith mounted. The Spirit and faith illuminated. They had only a Bible with fine print, narrow margins and poor paper, but they knew their Bible better than some of us do with all of our helps.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s practice the art of Bible meditation&#8230;. Let us open our Bibles, spread them out on a chair and meditate on the Word of God. It will open itself to us, and the Spirit of God will come and brood over it.<\/p>\n<p>I do challenge you to meditate, quietly, reverently, prayerfully, for a month. Put away questions and answers and the filling in of the blank lines in the portions you haven&#8217;t been able to understand. Put all of the cheap trash away and take the Bible, get on your knees, and in faith, say, &#8220;Father, here I am. Begin to teach me!&#8221; The Counselor, 136-137.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Guide me, Lord, as I take time throughout this whole year to meditate on You. Tozer is stimulating me, but my real desire is to hear from You. I&#8217;ll get on my knees this morning, Lord, in quiet expectation. Amen.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prayer: Just Meditate for a Month But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night. &#8212; Psalm 1:2 Let the old saints be our example. They came to the Word of God and meditated. They laid the Bible on the old-fashioned, handmade chair, got down&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}