God Morning Family!As we push towards deeper prayer we must understand that our thoughts or opinions, desires, and emotions (in other words our souls) can greatly influence if and how we pray.
Eph 6 tells us that as we put on the full armor of God that we are also pray in the Spirit at all times and to be watchful. It is not just the devil we need to be on the look for but our very own selves.
Unfortunately we are very easily influenced by false doctrine, other people, entertainment, this worlds system, and anything else that agrees with our flesh. For this reason we need to stay rooted in God's Words to us.
We have all heard this phrase.
"You are what you eat."
This is not only true with our bodies but with our spirit. Whatever we take in through our eyes or ears has the power to shape our thoughts. Whatever dwell on in our minds has the power to change our hearts. And out of our hearts flows our words and actions.
As we take this time to let God search our hearts and help us to commit to consistent and deep prayer I ask you to consider what are you allowing in that distracts you from God or causes you to think or meditate more like the world instead of like Jesus. Novels, videos, movies, music, self help books, talk shows, and people are all preaching to us. The issue is not these things but the message. If they are preaching a message that is birthed from the Word of God, brings us to repentance, and helps us become more like Christ our time in prayer and the Bible will reflect that. However if these things feed our pride, push us to carnality, and lead us away from Jesus to sin then we need to cut these things out of our lives.
Let us dig out scripture and memorize it. Memorizing scripture is not just for kids. Hiding Gods word away in our hearts will insure we always have His word with us.
Let us speak it out, take it apart, do word studies, think on it, and pray about it until we are one with it. This is what meditation does.
Let me also say temperance in even a good thing is needful. Books, videos, godly friends with the right message are helpful but should never replace our intimacy with God and our need to hear His voice. Lazy Christians would rather eat of the fruit of anothers' time with God then search Him out themselves. Meditation on Gods work requires time and effort. It's work. But the fruit of it is well worth the effort.
GET TO WORK :)
http://www.allaboutgod.com/christian-meditation.htm
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