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God has given us a covenant of steadfast love. He established it and made the covenant commitment to do good for us all the time, but it must be established in our hearts. To be established means to be firm, fixed, and steadfast. One of the best ways to get his steadfast love established in our hearts is by meditating on his word.
A great passage of scripture on being established in our hearts is found in Psalm 112:7-8
He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord. 8 His heart is established, he shall not be afraid, until he sees his desire upon his enemies.
When we understand God's steadfast unfailing love for us it drives out all fear and causes faith to rise up in us. Isaiah 60:1 AMP says...
“Arise [from spiritual depression to a new life], shine [be radiant with the glory and brilliance of the Lord]; for your light has come,
And the glory and brilliance of the Lord has risen upon you.
Jesus often told people to ari...
Proverbs 24:3-4 says
By wisdom a house is built,
and through understanding it is established;
4 through knowledge its rooms are filled
with rare and beautiful treasures.
All throughout the Old Testament God said he would establish his covenant with the people and in Deuteronomy chapter 7 he calls it a covenant of love. In Ephesians 3 Paul prays that God's the people would be rooted and established in love.
To be established means to be firm, fixed, confirmed, standing up, or to arise. We are to be established in God's covenant of love with us, but we must understand the covenant and get it established in our hearts.
A covenant is like an agreement or contract. God has obligated himself in the New Covenant to steadfast, unconditional, unfailing love. His love and grace for us is not dependent on our actions, it is unconditional. To become established we must understand this, receive it, and let his love flow through us to others.
Our role in the covenant i...
Part of the prayer I pray every day is for God to increase our capacity to receive his purpose, grace, and all the good he has for us. Recently God has shown me that meditating his word is one of the biggest keys to increased capacity.
Meditating in his word helps it expand on the inside and get established in our hearts. Meditation helps us bridge the gap between the seed of God's promises and seeing them come to fruition or producing fruit in our lives.
To meditate in Hebrew is to ponder, imagine, recite, rehearse, go for a walk in nature, mutter, and to growl. As we ponder and mutter about God's promises over and over it helps us to break them down, get established in our hearts, and convert them into the proper actions. Meditation is a converter.
In Deuteronomy 7 God says he keeps his covenant of love to a thousand generations to those who love him. God has given us a New Covenant of love. God is keeping his covenant commitment to steadfast love for us and we are to remain in his love and let it flow through us to others.
Ezekiel 16 has a beautiful passage about how God shows his covenant love. He talks about how he cared for Israel, took care of them, and made them beautiful. God is the source of all beauty.
Here is the passage from Ezekiel 16...
4 On the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to make you clean, nor were you rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths. 5 No one looked on you with pity or had compassion enough to do any of these things for you. Rather, you were thrown out into the open field, for on the day you were born you were despised.
6 “‘Then I passed by and saw you kicking about in your blood, and as you lay there in your blood I said to you, “Live!
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Pentecost was earlier this week and it was the midpoint of the year on God's calendar. It was the transition of the year where the two sides come together, which reminds us of our covenant with God. In Ephesians 3 the apostle Paul prayed for the people to be rooted and established in love, and in Deuteronomy 7 God said he gave the people a covenant of love. God has given us this covenant of love and this time of year is a reminder that we must be rooted and established in it. With trees they must grow a whole root system underneath the ground to support the tree and an established tree is one that is grown, fixed, immovable, and consistent.
This time of year is a reminder to be steadfast and fixed in our covenant of love with God. A covenant is a partnership or agreement where the two sides come together. Our covenant of love is to receive God's steadfast love and let it flow through us to others.
This is a special communion meditation for forgetting troubles and painful memories. Sometimes in life we go through painful or traumatic experiences that can keep replaying in our minds over and over for years after the event. And there may be certain triggers such as words, smells, sounds, places, etc that trigger these memories to start stirring up on the inside again. Nothing is impossible with God and he can make us forget these troubles and painful memories. God can make all things new and give us a fresh start.
When we go through these types of experiences in life they are usually times of very high emotions and these emotions seem to embed them deeply into our hearts and souls. In this communion meditation we are going to ask God to help us remember these things no more.
Prayer
Heavenly Father, I pray for all those watching, listening, or reading this and their families, friends, and all those connected to them along with our church and governmental le...
Winning the Battle at the Gate (Communion Meditation)
Sometimes we have to win the battle at the gate. The gate into our lives is the mind and imagination. Winning the battle at the gate is winning the battle to stay in peace and joy when thoughts of fear, doubt, discouragement, stress, sadness etc come into our minds. It is also winning the battle to stay in the present moment with God when imaginations try to get us to dwell on bad events of the past or worry about the future.
One of the greatest ways to win the battle at the gate is by taking communion. This idea of winning the battle at the gate by taking communion comes from my book The 8th Date: God's Operating System for Abundant Life. Here is an excerpt from the book.
The Battle At The Gate
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In Genesis 22:17, after Abraham had committed to offer Isaac as a sacrifice, God tells Abraham, “I will surely bless you and multiply your offspring like the stars of the sky and the sand on the seashore. And your
Communion Meditation
Recently my youngest daughter brought me a pocket sized New Testament and asked me to read her a Bible story. Her favorite Bible story is Jesus walking on the water and when I flipped open the Bible it fell to that story. In the story it says Jesus was going to keep walking past the disciples in the boat until they called out to him. A similar thing happened on the road to Emmaus when the disciples turned to go into a house and it says Jesus was going to keep walking until they invited him in. Jesus will often wait until we call out to him and reach out to him. When he was walking on the water Peter called out to him and asked to come out to him. Peter started walking on the water, but then he got his eyes on the wind and the waves and started to sink. When he called out for Jesus to save him, the Bible says Jesus stretched out his hand to caught him. Jesus lifted Peter up out of the water and brought him safely back to the boat.
We have bee...
Here is a communion meditation from Psalm 25. In the Abundant Life Blueprint the most important thing we do is daily communion and when combined with meditation it is very powerful. In Hebrew meditation means to mutter, recite, rehearse, and growl. In Psalm 25 are some powerful verses to begin to rehearse and recite to remind us of God's covenant of love so that his love comes into our minds and out of our mouths at the time when we need it. Here are a some individual verses to meditate on along with the entire Psalm down below.
10 All the ways of the Lord are loving and faithful
toward those who keep the demands of his covenant.14 The Lord confides in those who fear him;
he makes his covenant known to them.
15 My eyes are ever on the Lord,
for only he will release my feet from the snare.
Here is the entire Psalm.
Psalm 25
Of David.
1 In you, Lord my God,
I put my trust.2 I trust in you;
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do not let me be put to shame,
nor let my enemies triumph over me
Today is the day of Pentecost. On the day of Pentecost the Holy Spirit was given. He was sent to be our guide and help navigate our lives. Pentecost is the 4th feast of Israel and in Genesis on the 4th day God created the sun, moon, and stars which we use for time, signs, seasons, and navigation.
When we navigate our lives, we can rely on God's Holy Spirit to guide us into the way of love. When navigating our lives I think there are three paths we can choose when faced with tough decisions.
Path 1 = Retaliating, quiting, leaving, doing evil back to those who wrong us.
Path 2 = Doing nothing, withdrawing your presence, holding things in and being bitter and frustrated.
Path 3 = Choosing to grow in our love no matter what is going on around us.
Pentecost is a reminder that God has given us a covenant of love. He chose path 3. He could have retaliated against us, left us, or withdrew his presence from us but he chose the way of love and poured out everything...
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