Keys to Meditating on the Word of God

00:00 I want to welcome everybody to our fifth
00:02 session on choices determine destiny
00:06 it's our study of Psalm 1 and for those
00:09 that don't know me my name is Sue Burdullis
00:11 and I'm the director of the
00:13 Camarillo Healing Rooms unlike most of
00:16 the other sessions that we have done so
00:18 far I am gonna begin this session with
00:21 my own personal testimony of how God has
00:24 dramatically impacted my life through
00:27 the meditation of the Word of God and
00:30 then after that we're going to go
00:32 through some keys to meditating on the
00:34 Word of God as God has shown me through
00:38 just my own personal journey with him so
00:42 let's pray father I pray that you would
00:45 ignite a passion in our heart for the
00:49 word of God like never before cause the
00:53 very spirit in life of your son Jesus
00:55 Christ who is the word of God to
00:59 penetrate and utterly destroy the
01:02 deepest darkest pits of despair and
01:05 hopelessness father we thank you for
01:09 your word of psalm 119 130 that says
01:13 that the entrance of your word brings
01:15 light we welcome your light into our
01:20 lives tonight to enter in and do what
01:23 only they can do to bring the
01:25 resurrection life of Jesus Christ to
01:28 every place in our body our soul in our
01:31 spirit and our circumstances that
01:35 carries the fragrance of darkness or
01:37 death strengthen us according to your
01:40 word revive us according to your word
01:43 heal us according to your word restore
01:47 broken relationships according to your
01:50 word help us Lord to inhale your word to
01:54 eat your word to meditate on your word
01:57 and to become one with your word one
02:01 with you in Jesus's name Amen
02:05 Psalm one verse two exhorts us to
02:08 meditate and delight ourselves in God's
02:12 Word
02:13 Psalm 1 - this is my own paraphrase of
02:17 it as I personalized it my greatest joy
02:20 is Jesus Christ the word of God and in
02:25 his words I meditate day and night so I
02:30 want to let you know that meditating on
02:32 God's Word is one of the best things I
02:35 have ever ever learned to do in my
02:38 entire life I'm sure that there's some
02:41 of you who might feel the same way that
02:43 I do but those who do not I hope that
02:46 after this teaching and as you begin to
02:48 practice it you'll one day be able to
02:50 say the same thing that this is the
02:52 greatest thing if you've ever learned to
02:55 do in your life I don't think I really
02:58 realized the dramatic impact that the
03:01 Word of God had on my life until I was
03:05 talking with my husband in a normal
03:07 conversation and I was telling him about
03:09 somebody in my life that I felt was the
03:12 most transformed person I had personally
03:15 ever known and then he looks at me I - I
03:21 and he says sue you are the most
03:25 transformed person I know that statement
03:31 came from meditating on the Word of God
03:34 and if there's anyone that's going to
03:37 tell you the truth about your life it's
03:38 gonna be your spouse so you know what
03:41 the Word of God has done for my life
03:43 although I had gone to church weekly
03:45 growing up and continue to do so up
03:48 until this day I received Jesus Christ
03:52 into my life during my junior high
03:54 school years and I went to many Bible
03:57 studies and went to many Christian
04:00 activities it wasn't until I actually
04:04 started meditating on the Word of God
04:06 like Psalm 1 2 says day and night and it
04:09 came in a time of great despair in a
04:12 crisis in my life that everything began
04:17 to change for me the pages on the Bible
04:22 went from being just mere words to study
04:26 it became my lifeline it imparted the
04:30 very life of Jesus Christ and to me I
04:33 was very hopeless at that time in my
04:36 life and hope was restored like I never
04:40 felt hope before I never knew that I
04:44 could experience Jesus Christ like I was
04:48 experiencing him despite all those years
04:51 that I called myself a Christian at that
04:55 point in my life where I started
04:57 meditating on the Word of God I was
05:00 physically very very ill I went to many
05:03 doctors spent a lot of time energy
05:07 finances trying to get well and at that
05:10 lasted many years the symptoms were very
05:14 real but there was no definite diagnosis
05:17 given to me I thought if I just knew the
05:21 source of the problems the diagnosis
05:23 surely I was going to be able to
05:25 overcome it but I did not realize that
05:29 the battle that I was in was not just
05:32 physical battle it was a spiritual
05:35 battle and I did not know that I had
05:39 played right into the enemy's hand his
05:43 plan for my life by voicing his words
05:46 over and over again about how hopeless
05:50 and how fearful the situation was and as
05:57 I was walking with my husband this last
05:59 week I thought it was just kept to
06:01 myself that I thought I was going to die
06:03 but he told me he does know sue you
06:05 voice that to me so if I voice that to
06:08 him I know I voiced it out there in the
06:10 spirit realm the symptoms accompanied by
06:15 fear and anxiety had so consumed my
06:18 thought life that I believed like I said
06:21 I was going to die can you imagine the
06:23 atmosphere is creating in my own home
06:26 for my own spouse and for my children to
06:29 live in I was in a dark hopeless pit
06:33 where I saw no way out because no matter
06:37 what I tried I couldn't get
06:40 although I intellectually knew the
06:43 scripture even the ones about Jesus
06:45 healing people I did not truly know how
06:49 to stand on the promises of the word of
06:52 God by faith for my life and for the
06:54 Giants that I was facing in this life
06:57 and when I went to people that I thought
07:00 were strong in their faith I realized
07:02 they did not know how to stand on the
07:04 Word of God for me or to instruct me of
07:07 how to stand for myself upon the Word of
07:10 God to face the spiritual battle I was
07:13 in the things that I heard in my heart
07:18 from these people that I thought could
07:21 help me Christian people was I heard
07:25 that sometimes God wants to heal and
07:27 sometimes he doesn't you never know if
07:30 it's his will for you to die that was
07:33 not good news for me I don't believe
07:36 that that is the good news of the gospel
07:38 of Jesus Christ were to share with
07:40 people that are in need and it surely
07:43 wasn't what I wanted to hear or what I
07:45 needed to hear when I needed God's
07:49 intervention the most I truly truly did
07:53 not know who God was I did not know what
07:58 he was willing to do for me and I did
08:02 not know what he had already done for me
08:04 I really didn't know what he had
08:10 purchased for me through the 39 stripes
08:13 that he bore through his sufferings on
08:17 the cross and do his descent into hell
08:22 to pay the punishment for my sin nor did
08:27 I understand the victory that Jesus
08:29 Christ had purchased for me when he was
08:32 resurrected and seated at the right hand
08:34 of the Father when the Bible says in
08:38 first Peter 2:24 that by the stripes of
08:41 Jesus you were healed that was the
08:44 victory he had purchased for me he put
08:47 it into past tense because it had
08:50 already been accomplished but I did
08:53 not realize it I did not know how to
08:56 stand on the Word of God I believed that
09:01 if I could just figure out where and
09:05 when and how I messed up and I could
09:08 correct it or perhaps if I would just do
09:10 everything just right from that point
09:12 forward that somehow God would relent
09:15 and he would heal me but most people
09:21 that would look at my life would say man
09:23 she is so good what is she trying to get
09:26 right when I told my Hut yours later
09:29 that knew me very well when I told him
09:32 you know I just needed to get myself
09:35 fried and get my act together he just
09:38 laughed at me he goes if you're not good
09:40 enough who would be good enough but we
09:44 know that it's not about being good
09:47 enough I had played into the enemy's
09:51 hand because he the enemy what he will
09:53 always try to get you to do is to focus
09:55 inwardly to get conscious of your sin
09:59 and when you start looking at what sin
10:02 you have done to deserve whatever
10:05 circumstance you are under he will
10:08 always point out one more thing to you
10:12 that is in your life and then you start
10:15 condemning yourself for that sin and
10:17 therefore you don't have faith for God
10:19 to heal you or to help you overcome your
10:23 circumstance not only did I not realize
10:30 who Jesus Christ was and who God was and
10:34 what he had already done for me
10:36 I did not realize who I was in Jesus
10:40 Christ I didn't realize that I had
10:44 already been taken out because out of
10:47 Adam's family of being in Adam where the
10:50 law of sin and death reigned and
10:54 sickness is just slow onset of death so
10:59 I didn't realize that God had Ellery
11:01 takes me out of the kingdom of darkness
11:04 where I was in
11:06 and put me and place me in Jesus Christ
11:11 where the law of the spirit of life in
11:14 Christ Jesus is and where sin and
11:18 sickness and death do not and did not
11:21 have any control or dominion over me and
11:26 laugh I allowed it through the
11:29 confession of my mouth coming into
11:31 agreement with a kingdom of darkness and
11:34 opening the door for Satan to go ahead
11:37 and to rule and to reign the things I've
11:41 been teaching the last several weeks
11:43 through this course there's two core
11:49 realities that I never understood and
11:52 that's why I highlight it so so much to
11:54 you guys when you become a Christian you
11:58 become as righteous and holy as he is
12:02 righteous and holy and you become
12:04 adopted as a child of the Most High God
12:08 becoming the heir of Jesus Christ the co
12:12 heir of Jesus Christ so as Jesus is in
12:17 his resurrected state so are you in this
12:19 world if it can't come on Jesus it can't
12:23 come on you I did not realize who I was
12:27 in Jesus Christ I did not know how to
12:30 enforce who I was in Jesus Christ and
12:34 this is what God told me today as I was
12:36 preparing I'm going oh that's really
12:39 good Lord so when God calls us to
12:44 meditate like Psalm 1 2 says he is
12:49 inviting us to live different from the
12:53 call of the dictate of our circumstance
12:59 he is calling us to live holy as he is
13:03 holy holiness is one of the greatest
13:08 invitations that you'll ever have in
13:12 your life it's not about being perfect
13:14 like I thought I needed to be in order
13:17 to get well
13:19 but it's rather about placing yourself
13:22 in Jesus Christ the one who is holy the
13:27 one who has all the blessings of God and
13:32 you can dwell in Christ in His Holiness
13:36 because the blood of Jesus Christ has
13:39 been purchased for you he purchased this
13:42 place for you to be in Christ in his
13:46 holiness and as he dwell or abide in
13:52 Jesus Christ inside God's Word you are
13:56 separating yourself from everything that
14:01 is unholy every unholy thought every
14:07 unholy feeling every unholy attitude
14:11 every unholy sickness every unholy
14:15 circumstance this is what God is
14:20 inviting you and I into through Psalm
14:22 one two to meditate on his word he is
14:27 inviting you to meditate and to come
14:31 inside of him inside of his holiness in
14:38 his perfection it's a tremendous
14:42 invitation Hosea 4:6 says this my people
14:47 are destroyed for lack of knowledge this
14:53 is primarily the lack of knowledge of
14:56 who Christ is like I just explained that
14:59 I didn't know and who you are in Christ
15:03 Jesus this is what went ahead and took
15:07 Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden
15:10 the most blessed place on earth it took
15:14 him out of their place because they
15:16 really did not understand who God was or
15:18 who they were made in the image and
15:22 likeness of God himself
15:24 in Christ because we've been made
15:26 righteous and holy we have been given
15:31 then access to the gods
15:33 broan of grace anytime we can come
15:37 boldly before God's throne a grace to
15:40 receive the mercy and the help in the
15:44 time of our need we do not have to get
15:47 ourselves cleaned up like I thought in
15:49 order to be heard from him and to
15:53 receive an answer from him it's always
15:58 his will to heal you it's always his
16:01 will to meet your need and when is the
16:04 time second Corinthians 6:2 says now is
16:08 the acceptable time and now is the day
16:12 of your salvation we put it off because
16:15 we have to think we have to do certain
16:17 things in order to achieve or earn the
16:22 brownie points to receive the answer to
16:26 our prayers and basically then we're
16:30 taking the blood of Jesus and we're
16:32 trampling it under our feet because it's
16:34 only through the blood of Jesus that we
16:36 were able to go to his throne of grace
16:37 to receive every need of ours being met
16:40 I didn't know this stuff one of the
16:44 things I did not know is the authority
16:47 that I had in Jesus Christ I was giving
16:54 away my authority to the demonic realm
16:57 every time I chose to confess out of my
17:01 mouth mouth that I was surely gonna die
17:05 that I was gonna never get well I gave
17:10 my authority away I was like signing a
17:13 piece of paper authorizing the enemy yes
17:16 you can do this to me one of my own out
17:25 of my own desperation during that period
17:27 of time now I quit work and I began to
17:35 set aside the whole first part the time
17:38 I woke up to around twelve or one of
17:40 them in the afternoon to read my Bible
17:43 from cover to cover something I had
17:47 ever done in my life although I went to
17:49 church many many years went to many many
17:52 Bible studies and as I did that the
17:56 cloud of hopelessness and condemnation
18:00 just came over me really heavily as I
18:04 started from Genesis and worked my way
18:07 through because in the Old Testament
18:10 there wasn't the light that I needed yet
18:12 but somewhere during that time I don't
18:16 know when it was I don't know if I
18:18 decided like this is so dark I got to
18:20 get into the New Testament I don't know
18:22 what the decision was but one thing I do
18:25 know is that it was like a little
18:27 nightlight got started being turned on
18:30 in my heart and every time I read the
18:33 Word of God and considered what it was
18:36 saying to me personally it was like that
18:39 light got brighter and brighter and
18:42 brighter that's one of the very first
18:46 crucial steps of meditating on the Word
18:48 of God is reading the Word of God and
18:51 considering what does this mean for me
18:54 personally what are you saying to me and
19:00 as I and as I was doing that just from
19:04 you know the morning time to the
19:06 afternoon some of the things that I
19:08 would do is I mean I just did everything
19:10 that I could ever possibly think I mean
19:14 I went ahead and I would I hadn't played
19:18 the piano for years I would sit down and
19:20 plop down on the piano and start playing
19:22 it and put music in front of me and just
19:24 sing you know to my hearts you know just
19:27 out loud I've got flags in my house and
19:31 I got flags back here and I would flag I
19:33 would dance I would you know declare the
19:36 Word of God out loud I was just like one
19:39 crazy woman that was just crazy for God
19:42 to answer me you know and during that
19:46 time I didn't realize that Jesus was
19:53 coming on the scene I really did it he
19:57 was coming on the scene
19:59 and he started opening up the scriptures
20:01 to me and I started to understand them
20:05 like I had never understood them before
20:07 and these feelings inside of me started
20:11 rising up within me I started having
20:13 hope when you're hopeless and you start
20:16 having hope that's really really good
20:19 and I started then having peace joy I'd
20:26 read something I'm going well that's
20:27 really good
20:28 but you aren't supposed to feel like
20:29 that because you're sick no I'm gonna
20:33 feel like this this is what the Word of
20:34 God said I've started believing that I
20:40 was saved I went to my pastor and I said
20:45 and this is after like I received Jesus
20:49 into my heart in junior high so now I'm
20:51 probably and you know you know my late
20:53 40s early 50s and I'm saying to my
20:56 pastor I believe I'm a Christian I got
21:00 saved
21:01 that's how alive the word became for me
21:09 one of the things that I would do during
21:12 that time and we're gonna do I'm gonna
21:14 have you participate with me and it's a
21:16 form of meditation I didn't know all
21:19 these things I was doing with forms of
21:21 meditation I was just doing them I would
21:24 go ahead and I go to this back prayer
21:26 room and I would picture that woman with
21:30 the issue of blood that had an issue of
21:33 blood for 12 years and she got a hold of
21:38 Jesus's garment and life flowed out of
21:41 Jesus into her so I get in my prayer
21:43 time and I put my hands like this and
21:46 I'd say yes Lord and I would read that
21:50 story and I would believe that Jesus's
21:53 life was flowing into me causing all the
21:57 sickness to go what we do in times like
22:01 that envisioning it's just not mere
22:03 imaginations and I think the Lord wanted
22:06 to confirm this to me because when one
22:09 day when I walk through that prayer room
22:11 door after
22:12 I don't know how many dozens of times
22:14 doing this the pastor's wife cami let me
22:20 write up that door we're just crossing
22:22 paths and she says soon she says I see
22:27 you like the woman with the issue of
22:29 blood holding on to Jesus's garment she
22:34 had no idea what I was meditating on day
22:39 in and day out so let's all if you're
22:42 willing to close your eyes and I'm gonna
22:45 walk you through this for whatever
22:47 circumstance that you find yourself in
22:49 right now I want you to close your eyes
22:53 and if you're online you can do this I
22:56 want you to take one of the things that
22:59 is really bothering you
23:01 it could be a physical illness a
23:05 relationship that has God bad or
23:08 anything now I want you to hear Jesus I
23:15 want you to hear him ask you how long
23:19 have you had this condition how long
23:26 have you been in the circumstance with
23:30 no breakthrough for the lady with the
23:33 issue of blood it was 12 years now think
23:38 about this are you suffering from many
23:43 things the lady with the issue of blood
23:47 was suffering from many things from many
23:49 physicians your suffering may be
23:53 internal war it may be external has your
23:59 health or your circumstance just like
24:03 for this lady with the issue of blood
24:04 does it seem to have God and worse now I
24:10 want you to picture Jesus himself in
24:13 your mind's eye he's surrounded by a
24:16 crowd of people now picture this crowd
24:21 as all the voices you are hearing
24:25 of why Jesus will not heal you why Jesus
24:32 will not come and save you why Jesus
24:37 will not break through your circumstance
24:39 for you or your loved ones see yourself
24:45 pushing past every negative voice that
24:50 contradicts God's Word push past every
24:57 negative voice that contradicts his
25:01 great love for you and for those you are
25:04 standing for and tell you're face to
25:07 face with Jesus Christ Jesus Christ has
25:14 never changed he is the same yesterday
25:17 today and forever reach out and touch
25:24 him grab ahold of his garment receive
25:31 his life into your life into your
25:36 circumstance hear Jesus say my child
25:43 your faith has made you well don't argue
25:48 with him about the level of your faith
25:51 take your salvation take your healing
25:55 receive it it is yours as you keep
26:00 holding on to him you need to know he is
26:05 holding on to you go ahead and open your
26:11 eyes you can continue in this this is in
26:14 mark and you can do this at home until
26:17 this becomes more real than anything
26:20 else in your life that you're facing it
26:24 helped me tremendously and I'm sure it
26:25 will help you
26:29 one of the other things I was going to
26:31 share with you that when I was praying
26:34 learning to pray the Word of God and it
26:41 became you know very exciting for me
26:44 that I could take the scripture and just
26:46 apply it you know to my life or to
26:49 anybody's life I remember it's in the
26:51 back prayer room there was a group of
26:53 ladies and we were praying for somebody
26:55 that was in great need
26:58 they weren't present no one was praying
27:01 the Word of God it was something new
27:04 that I had learned and I went ahead and
27:07 opened my Bible to Ephesians 3 and I
27:11 just read it and prayed it over the
27:13 person after we are done the Lord wanted
27:18 to confirm how powerful the Word of God
27:21 was a lady that was in the same room
27:25 that I was in she had an open vision
27:29 like a movie playing out in front of her
27:31 and as soon as I started reading the
27:34 Word of God angels came into the room
27:39 and they had a big grindstone and they
27:43 started to sharpen their sword on the
27:46 grindstone as I read the Word of God
27:49 this is Psalm 103 that the angel he the
27:56 voice of the word of God and they go out
27:59 to perform it she says as soon as I had
28:03 finished reading the Word of God off
28:06 they went
28:07 and we know they went to perform the
28:10 Word of God that convinced me that
28:13 praying the Word of God is so powerful
28:21 another thing that I did during that
28:23 time because I wanted to hold on to the
28:27 Word of God wherever I wind is I started
28:30 to make well put scripture on index
28:33 cards those 3x5 cards that you kept for
28:36 a little of nothing like a dollar or
28:37 something you know at the local you know
28:39 drugstore and I would write scripture
28:42 out
28:43 and then I would carry the scripture
28:45 with me in my purse or in my pockets and
28:50 and I would just write them out and I
28:53 got so many I started categorizing them
28:55 like oh this one looks like faith this
28:57 one looks like love this one looks like
28:59 healing you know and then I put rubber
29:01 bands on all these categories and just
29:04 you know I have I still have these cards
29:06 now I'm even crazier I guess because
29:09 Kathy can she's in my gym class I now
29:12 print out pieces whole everything and
29:15 you know a whole passage of Bible and I
29:18 put it down there on the gym floor and I
29:20 sit there and meditate on it the whole
29:22 time we're sitting there pumping weights
29:25 but I carry these in the grocery store
29:27 in the car went on my walks and the Word
29:32 of God was getting deep deep deep down
29:37 in my heart to the place where those
29:39 ugly thoughts and feelings that were
29:42 once there because of my despair and
29:44 hopelessness because of the sickness and
29:46 the symptoms they didn't have any room
29:48 in my heart anymore because it was
29:50 getting so filled up with the Word of
29:52 God and it wasn't something I
29:54 intentionally like was you know wanting
29:56 to displace it just happened so I
29:58 encourage you guys in that I talked a
30:05 little bit about prayer reading the Word
30:07 of God I it was something that has been
30:13 just so transformational in my life see
30:15 when I was really sick and I was coming
30:18 to God in my time of need I would tell
30:21 him about my problem over and over and
30:24 over again and say how you know it's
30:27 almost like begging him to do the same
30:29 thing and you really it you kind of run
30:31 out of words after a while and then when
30:35 I found out that you can take this Bible
30:37 and you can open it up and you can
30:41 actually turn the Bible verses in here
30:46 to eye prayer it's like the whole world
30:51 changes so my conversation with God went
30:54 from like
30:56 do talking all about her problem and
30:58 problems too Lord this is so good this
31:04 is my conversational piece I didn't know
31:07 that you said that by the stripes of
31:09 Jesus who I was healed when did that
31:11 happen you know I'm starting to question
31:13 him about that that became so
31:18 transformational I decided that whatever
31:22 this Bible said because see I was in a
31:26 desperate situation I tried everything
31:28 the way I used to do Christianity so I
31:31 knew something had a change in my life
31:33 so I decided whatever tells me to
31:36 believe I'm gonna believe it whatever it
31:40 tells me to obey I'm gonna obey it
31:42 now we know we can't take this perfectly
31:45 so of course it was like lord I I
31:47 believe it but help Lord I choose to
31:53 obey this but help and who's the helper
31:57 the Holy Spirit he loves to help us
32:01 believe and obey the Bible so I
32:03 encourage you if you haven't learned how
32:05 to prayer read the Bible I'll personally
32:07 show you I have a whole session that I
32:10 do on that I know when I would pray in
32:13 when I pray in the prayer rooms at night
32:15 pray read the Word of God over people
32:17 that people that have never heard it
32:18 they go you can't do that you can't put
32:21 my name in there and Betty she's sitting
32:28 here we're during this time she gave me
32:30 a book and it's called personalized
32:34 promises that's a man James riddle and
32:39 he took the Bible from Genesis to
32:42 Revelation and made it into declarations
32:44 personalized in it
32:46 oh my that was the thrill of my life I
32:49 had never seen anybody do that in my
32:52 life before and I'm thinking oh you know
32:56 before people told me well during this
32:57 time that I if I had a Rhema word a word
33:00 from God then I knew that I could be
33:03 healed and how you didn't even know what
33:05 Rhema word was I came from a Catholic
33:07 background so I didn't understand
33:09 and so I'm going what's a Rhema word I
33:12 had to look that up in the dictionary
33:13 but when this personalized promis Bible
33:17 oh every promise of God is for me all
33:22 the promises are yes and amen
33:24 I can put my name into every promise of
33:27 the Bible you know why God wrote this
33:30 Bible for me he wrote it for me and to
33:34 me it's his love letter to me oh wow
33:37 well that really changed my life I
33:39 started writing then I don't even look I
33:42 used to always look at James riddle what
33:44 he had to say I do it myself I write my
33:47 own name into these and paraphrase it
33:50 till it starts drawing my own heart you
33:54 know that's how they have all these
33:55 translations of the Bible right so what
34:02 else okay why don't we get into the
34:09 introduction to the keys to meditating
34:12 on God's Word which is your handout
34:15 right now I'm gonna go through the
34:17 introduction which a lot of it I've just
34:19 shared the keys to meditating on God's
34:23 Word and then the practical points I've
34:26 already went over so you can just read
34:28 through them they're very
34:29 self-explanatory of how you can meditate
34:31 on God's Word at a practical level but
34:34 these keys that I have for meditating on
34:37 God's heart God's Word came from my own
34:40 personal walk with the Lord
34:43 so in someone god gives us one of the
34:48 most important keys to living a
34:50 successful prosperous life a blessed
34:53 beyond belief life a life that flows
34:56 from our Union and communion with God
34:59 the Father father God Jesus Christ and
35:04 the Holy Spirit the life got always
35:07 intended for mankind
35:09 this key it's described in Psalm 1 verse
35:13 2 but his delight is in the law of the
35:17 Lord and in his law he meditates day and
35:21 night
35:22 who is the Word of God Jesus when you
35:25 look at Jesus's life you will understand
35:29 more fully what the Word of God looks
35:32 like in the context of this world you
35:37 will understand that Jesus is life fully
35:40 embodied the blessing of God as the
35:43 first phrase in Psalm 1:1 States blessed
35:47 is the man wherever Jesus went the
35:50 blessings of God beyond anything you
35:55 could think or imagine broke out healing
35:59 signs wonders miracles pour forth from
36:03 heaven through his life Jesus shared
36:07 unreservedly the blessings of God Jesus
36:13 was able to lead the life God purpose
36:17 for him because he stayed in constant
36:21 communion with God only sane and doing
36:24 what his father said and did you are
36:28 able to do that when you stay in
36:31 communion with God your father and with
36:35 his son Jesus Christ through your time
36:37 meditating on God's Word and abiding
36:40 with him staying close in your
36:43 relationship with the Lord John 14:12
36:47 says most assuredly I say to you he who
36:50 believes in Me the works that I do he
36:52 will do also and greater works than
36:55 these will he do Psalm 1 it presents
37:02 that you have a choice to answer God's
37:05 invitation in Psalm 1 to fellowship with
37:10 him through the Word of God His Son
37:12 Jesus Christ and to enjoy his company
37:15 like Psalm 1 verse 2 says to delight
37:18 yourself the law of the Lord and in his
37:20 law to meditate day and night or you
37:22 have a choice to turn from him and to
37:26 fellowship with the world and to enjoy
37:29 its company that's Psalm 1 verse 1 so
37:34 you can correct that on your sheet
37:35 in the second-choice meditation this is
37:39 how you know it's thinking like what
37:41 could I tell you guys like what is
37:43 meditation so here's what I said
37:46 meditation involves seeing hearing
37:49 thinking knowing believing and speaking
37:52 God's Word as revealed in his son Jesus
37:57 Christ as you treasure the Word of God
37:59 you will discover yourself abiding in
38:04 Christ in the tree of life the
38:08 meditation of God's Word this is what it
38:12 does for me and I'm sure it'll do it for
38:13 you it'll strengthen you help you uphold
38:17 you convict you transform you into the
38:20 likeness and the image of Jesus Christ
38:24 key number one I call it put on the lens
38:28 of God's love if you don't know what
38:29 that is you can listen to the first four
38:31 sessions because I went into that
38:33 extensively but I use these glasses
38:36 they're rose-colored glasses red glasses
38:39 to represent that Jesus is Jesus He shed
38:43 his blood so that you could experience
38:47 the fullness of God's love for you in
38:50 the way of everything the Word of God
38:51 says one of the most crucial steps for
38:55 meditating on the Word of God is putting
38:58 on the lens of God's love for you which
39:03 is the lens of the new coven of God's
39:05 grace that was purchased for you by
39:08 Jesus's precious blood as you put on
39:11 God's love lens it will help you to
39:14 remember that God was willing to give up
39:17 what was most valuable to him his son
39:22 Jesus Christ so he could receive what he
39:27 considered of equal value to him and
39:31 that's you do you believe that John 1723
39:37 believed it
39:40 Jesus wants you to believe that that
39:43 you're as much this value to eat to
39:46 father God as Jesus himself
39:49 he says that the world may know that you
39:52 have sent me and have loved them
39:54 as as you have loved me the cry of God's
40:03 heart was expressed by Jesus as he
40:06 instituted the new covenant the Last
40:09 Supper
40:10 telling us to take and eat of his body
40:14 and to drink of his blood doing it in
40:19 remembrance of him what are you to
40:23 remember you are to remember God's great
40:29 love for you that he laid down his life
40:34 Jesus laid down his life becoming sin
40:39 for you so that you could become the
40:41 righteousness of God by faith every time
40:46 you meditate on God's Word remember
40:51 God's love for you
40:54 look at the Word of God through the lens
40:59 of God's covenant love with you without
41:04 this lens the enemy will distort the
41:09 truth like he did for me the enemy will
41:12 give you a long never-ending list of
41:15 things to do to prove your righteousness
41:18 before God and to prove that you have a
41:21 right to be loved and heard and answered
41:24 by him John 8:31 through 32 jesus said
41:31 if you abide in my word you are my
41:33 disciples indeed and you shall know the
41:35 truth and the truth shall set you free
41:38 key number two get to know Jesus who is
41:44 the word of God
41:46 now you might know this but you might
41:50 not live like this Jesus is not dead he
41:56 is alive Jesus's words
42:02 or filled Jesus's words are filled with
42:07 Jesus oh I did that Jesus is not dead
42:10 he's like Jesus's words are filled with
42:13 a very spirit in life of Jesus himself
42:17 that's John 6:63 revelations 1:18 he
42:22 says I am he who lives and was dead and
42:25 behold I am Alive for evermore here's
42:30 the rain john 6:63 the words that i
42:33 speak to you are spirit and they are
42:35 life you know when Jesus comes he is
42:38 like rain and he turns everything that's
42:42 dry and cracked like it's been here in
42:44 Southern California for years and years
42:46 now he turns him green that's his life
42:52 his Leafs never wither and your Leafs
42:56 are never to wither like Psalm 1 3 says
43:00 Jesus's name is called the Word of God
43:03 if you want to get to know Jesus like
43:06 I'm sure you do you need to get to know
43:09 the Word of God Jesus is the image of
43:15 the invisible God
43:23 Jesus the Word of God it's always meant
43:26 to be fleshed out in your life so His
43:28 grace and truth can be experienced by
43:31 you and those you intercede for always
43:36 accept Jesus as a new word for any area
43:40 of your life take a look at John 1:14
43:45 and the word became flesh and dwelt
43:47 among us then if you fleu be Don further
43:51 the Word of God is full of grace and
43:53 truth now we don't really understand
43:57 this word high-priest because we don't
43:59 really have high priest but the Word of
44:02 God and Hebrews 3:1 and Hebrews 7 23 and
44:06 24 tells us that Jesus is the high
44:09 priest of our confession he's not only
44:12 our Lord and Savior but he's our high
44:14 priest of our confession when you
44:16 declare the word of God the blessing of
44:18 God the Holy Spirit's power is release
44:22 for that word to become the very
44:25 substance of what it is meant to become
44:29 here on this earth when you get to know
44:33 Jesus the Word of God you'll be hearing
44:36 the greatest wisdom the greatest counsel
44:41 the greatest understanding you'll ever
44:44 hear and you'll receive the very power
44:48 the very might for that word to be
44:51 performed I was so thrilled when I you
44:54 know heard this verse in Isaiah 11:2 it
44:58 tells us about the Spirit of the Lord it
45:00 says the Spirit of the Lord shall rest
45:02 upon him that's Jesus
45:05 now where's Jesus he's inside of you
45:08 okay so think about all these qualities
45:13 residing in you the spirit of wisdom the
45:16 spirit of understanding the spirit of
45:19 counsel and might and knowledge and fear
45:22 the Lord where is it in you so we wanted
45:27 to get to know the word that's in us
45:30 because it's going to give us the wisdom
45:31 and understanding counsel knowledge
45:33 might and fear of the Lord that we need
45:35 in any
45:35 circumstance that we face key number
45:38 three see meditation on God's Word as a
45:45 vital aspect of prayer your relationship
45:49 with God so I say listen to the word
45:54 then speak listen again and then speak
45:59 so I want to go through this because so
46:01 often we want to come and just say the
46:04 same thing over and over to God about
46:06 our problem now some people they
46:09 distinguish that meditation is different
46:12 from prayer but I just see it as like
46:14 one total unit I see it as a listening
46:16 unit prayer is a two-way conversation
46:22 you're you're talking with God not just
46:27 to God you want to listen to him and
46:31 then you want to respond back to him
46:34 okay so let's look at listening to God
46:38 there are two gateways to your heart you
46:42 have the ear gate and you have the eye
46:45 gate you want to put the Word of God in
46:49 your ears and who are you gonna hear the
46:51 most yourself and you want to put the
46:54 Word of God before your eyes that's my
46:56 three by five cards always keeping the
46:58 Word of God before my eyes as you put
47:01 these in then you want them to fill up
47:04 your heart you want your heart to go
47:07 deep down into your heart because it
47:09 says either the heart the mouth will
47:11 speak and you want to put the Angels on
47:14 assignment so you want to speak God's
47:17 word out of your mouth and Romans 10:17
47:21 we know that faith comes by hearing and
47:24 hearing by the Word of God Smith
47:27 Wigglesworth one of the greatest healing
47:29 ministers of the 20th century was asked
47:32 what is the secret of his power he
47:34 replied I never go more than 15 minutes
47:38 without reading a verse a scripture and
47:41 I take from the table of the Lord every
47:44 day
47:47 after you listen to God speak to God
47:52 giving voice to the cry of your heart
47:56 what's wrong
47:57 I like the Psalms because in the Psalms
48:02 you can find your voice of how you were
48:06 feeling in any one of these Psalms the
48:09 Holy Spirit inspired these songs he
48:12 doesn't want you to keep all bottled up
48:14 within yourself all your you know
48:16 fleshly feelings and emotions and your
48:20 your fleshly thoughts he wants you to go
48:23 ahead and express them to him in prayer
48:26 but then he doesn't want you to stay
48:30 there
48:31 once you express them to God and prayer
48:33 like King David did here then who God is
48:37 for you and your circumstance and who
48:39 you are in Christ in your circumstance
48:42 and receive His Word so you first listen
48:49 to him then you to his word
48:52 you boys then what's on your heart you
48:55 know this is the problem Lord but then
48:57 hear his answer take and receive his
49:01 answer and then start letting it come
49:05 back out of your mouth speaking the Word
49:08 of God back to him and back to your
49:12 circumstances right it tells us to say
49:16 to this mountain be removed and cast
49:19 into the sea what are you saying you're
49:22 saying the Word of God to the mountain
49:25 you're not talking about the mountain
49:28 one of the biggest things that the Lord
49:30 has shown me the last couple of weeks
49:32 it's been several weeks ago when our
49:34 team met at my house and he showed me
49:38 this very clearly over the dinner table
49:40 as we are discussing film one that many
49:43 of us just like myself I spent years in
49:47 the wilderness in my sickness because I
49:49 didn't know who Christ was who God was
49:52 and who I was in Jesus Christ I didn't
49:55 know my authority and the power that I
49:56 was given I didn't know how to meditate
49:59 on the word I didn't know how
50:01 stand on the Word of God I didn't know
50:03 those things so I was wandering in the
50:05 wilderness just like the Israelites 40
50:07 years you know I was at 40 years but you
50:12 know get the picture you just wander
50:14 around and what are you doing when
50:15 you're wandering around just like they
50:17 were oh the Giants they are so big and I
50:22 just feel like grasshoppers I know that
50:25 that battle we would never win and all
50:28 you were doing was giving voice to the
50:30 anime's of the demonic would actually
50:32 take their words and perform their words
50:34 so they actually died in the wilderness
50:35 I really believe that the Lord was
50:39 showing me we can get out of our
50:40 wilderness when you come into the prayer
50:43 room it's good to give voice to it but
50:46 after you give voice to your problem
50:50 when we pray through the problem take
50:52 the Word of God as your new word for
50:57 your life and then wherever you go start
51:00 proclaiming it and declaring it and
51:03 doing like Joshua 1:8 says when Joshua
51:06 was told to go into the Promised Land in
51:09 Joshua 1:8 he was told this book do not
51:14 let it depart from your now your mouth
51:18 meditate on it day and night for Daniel
51:21 prosper and then you'll have good
51:23 success and whatever you do don't let it
51:28 depart from your mouth don't let the
51:30 enemy's words come out of your mouth on
51:33 a continual basis this is so key to
51:36 meditating on God's Word is keeping
51:38 God's Word in our mouth day and night
51:42 see because the enemy has a plan for our
51:45 life when they were trying to rebuild
51:49 the walls in Jerusalem the enemy 24/7
51:56 kept spouting their mouth off kept
51:59 trying to attack them 24/7
52:01 when Goliath faced David what did he do
52:05 day and night 24/7
52:08 laughs and if you go ahead and receive
52:12 that blablabla into your own heart and
52:15 then speak it out of your mouth diets
52:19 okay I am not making fun of you
52:22 what I am doing is telling you what I
52:25 experienced in the trap
52:27 I got eeeh and you heard my testimony
52:29 and I'm exhorting you by the word of God
52:32 don't get into that same trap amen do
52:37 you guys hear me I mean I'm not trying
52:39 to put you guys down I am trying to help
52:41 pick you up like the Lord picked me up
52:43 out of the pit of despair and
52:45 hopelessness that's why I'm talking to
52:48 you tonight and that's why I put prayer
52:52 and time and energy to release what I'm
52:54 releasing to you guys because I don't
52:56 want you to have to go through what I
52:58 went through hell on earth if you're
53:01 experiencing hell on earth right now you
53:05 need to know that God has put heaven in
53:08 your heart and he wants heaven it's word
53:11 to come out of your mouth
53:16 key number four meditate day and night
53:19 key number five do the Word of God
53:22 Philippians 4:8 through nine finally
53:26 brethren whatever things are true and
53:28 Noble just and pure good and lovely a
53:30 good report do these things meditate on
53:37 these things James 1:22 but be doers of
53:41 the word and not hearers only but he who
53:44 looks into the perfect law of Liberty
53:47 and continues in it and is not a
53:50 forgetful hearer but a doer of the work
53:53 doer of the work speak speak God's Word
53:57 speak his word or of the work don't let
54:00 the word of God depart from your mouth
54:02 do what only say what the father says
54:08 Colossians 3:16 that the word of Christ
54:12 dwell in you richly in all wisdom and
54:14 whatever you do in word or deed do all
54:20 in the name
54:22 Jesus Christ take a look at your words
54:25 and say wouldn't Jesus say this if he's
54:28 not gonna say it I'm not gonna say it
54:32 point key number six
54:35 enjoy meditating on God's Word
54:39 joy is a god-given emotion that
54:43 accompanies the eating and meditating on
54:45 God's Word how many of you enjoy eating
54:49 something that's very tasty this is one
54:53 of the tastiest things that you'll run
54:55 across in your life the Word of God but
54:59 you got to give yourself permission to
55:02 allow your emotions to come in alignment
55:07 with the Word of God when you allow your
55:11 emotions to come in alignment with the
55:13 thoughts that God is giving you the new
55:16 thoughts and the new words you'll have
55:18 joy inexpressible and you will live a
55:22 life full of joy and happiness it says
55:26 blessed is a man oh happy happy happy is
55:28 a man happiness true happiness comes
55:33 from eating inhaling meditating abiding
55:39 in the Word of God the practical steps
55:42 are listed for you in your handout to
55:44 invite you guys to go ahead this week to
55:47 do it to do your little app the
55:50 application assignment and report back
55:53 of how God is beginning to transform
55:56 your life and one day one day maybe
56:00 somebody close to you like happened to
56:03 me with my husband will say you are the
56:07 most transform person that I know of and
56:12 you'll know why
56:14 because it's been you have been
56:16 meditating on the Word of God you have
56:20 become one with the word let's pray
56:25 father I thank you for the word of God
56:27 that went forth and we thank you lord
56:30 according to isaiah 55:11 that your word
56:32 will not return void but Allah
56:35 I'll push what you please it will do
56:39 what you have called it to do so Lord we
56:43 thank you for your word this night we
56:45 give you all the glory and honor and
56:47 praise and we say well oh we love you
56:50 Lord amen