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MAIN POINT: Root problem with your
prayer, personally and corporately, is that you believe Christ is
absent
1. If I were to ask you to teach me how to meditate,
how to listen to God, how to hear his voice, based on your personal
experience, what would you teach me?
2. How have you experience the presence of Christ
in your personal and corporate prayer life this week?
DEFINITION - Meditation is
V Holman Bible Dictionary
- The act of calling to mind some supposition, pondering upon it,
and correlating it to one’s own life. A wicked individual
meditates upon violence
V Beacon Dictionary of Theology
– An act in which one thinks carefully in search of or consideration
of any truth. Form of mental prayer or devout reflection involving
the memory, the imagination the emotions, and the intellect, aimed
toward spiritual insight and growth.
V New Age Meditation
– Repetition of a mantra whenever your mind wanders with a
goal of emptying mind to seek unity with a God, going beyond all
thought and to a state of pure awareness.
V Dictionary.com
- close or continued thought; the turning or revolving of a subject
in the mind; serious contemplation; reflection; musing. To reflect
on; contemplate. To plan in the mind; intend ie. Premeditated
V Buddhism & Hinduism.
To train, calm, or empty the mind, often by achieving an altered
state, as by focusing on a single object.
V The Bryan Todd definition
– the ability to hear God’s voice and obey his word.
Hangin’ out with the Lord, figuring out what he is doing,
and joining him in it |
