Ezekiel Ministry

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Scripture Meditation

We are holistic beings, our spiritual, psychological, and physical faculties are completely intertwined. Every aspect of our nature affects us as a whole being. Daily meditation on the principles of life passed on from our loving Creator is more important for our health than food or sex or any other factor.

A primary reason Scripture meditation is vital for holistic health is that God’s thought pattern and values are in sharp contract to man’s views. Man is a totally depraved being, possessing selfish and ultimately self-destructive thought patterns and behavior. Show me a natural man, untaught in God’s principles, and I will show you a man who suffers from emotional pain. I’ll show you a person who is unconsciously fighting and struggling for a sense of significance, using worldly ways and losing every time. The sexual affairs, power, money or prestige only last for a little while.

A person’s sense of holistic well-being can only come from a personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ. But they need more than salvation for joy and peace in their daily existence.

To bring this joy and peace we must have God’s thought patterns and behavioral principles. We have learned to think negative, self-critical, other critical, destructive thoughts. These have become our patterns and we must change. The best way to change this is by Scripture Meditation.

Some suggestions for Scripture Meditation

  1. Go to a quiet place. Occasionally vary the place by going out to a lake or stream in private.
  2. Get in a comfortable position.
  3. Relax your whole body and mind.
  4. Pray that God will guide you into applicable truth as you read God’s Word.
  5. Read consecutively through the Bible, but do not place any legalistic guidelines on yourself. (such as “four chapters a day)
  6. When you come to a verse that stands out and offers you real comfort or confronts you with a needed change in behavior, stop and meditate several minutes on that verse or even a phrase in that verse.
  7. As you meditate on that single principle from the Scripture, think of ways you can appropriate the principle to your everyday behavior. Passively resist other related thoughts and worries that intrude upon your mind.

If you meditate in such a manner for ten to thirty minutes a day, you will experience:

  1. Greater knowledge of the scripture.
  2. Greater personal application of the scriptural principles.
  3. Greater understanding of who God is.
  4. Lower blood pressure and other physiologic responses.
  5. Greater ability to passively resist anxieties of the day even during nonmeditative times.
  6. Greater awareness of unconscious truths about your blindspots as you become less afraid of the truth and your mind puts up less resistance to the truth.