• Psalms 1:1 Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. 2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night. 3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.

If you do the first two, you will be the third.
Don’t walk in the counsel of the ungodly
Delight in the Word of God
You’ll be like a fruitful tree

There are benefits to meditation
A Stable Life

• You are planted; even if everything else around you is being uprooted you remain planted. You’ll have stability in your life because your roots go deep.

A Productive Life

• You’ll have a productive & fruitful life – yielding fruit, results, evidence of God in your life.

A Prosperous Life

• Prosperity is more than money, prosperity is the ability to make wise decisions – you don’t usually have to talk yourself into making the right decision. The choices you make each day determine your destiny. That’s why we have to daily meditate on God’s Word.

A Fresh Faith – his leaves will not whither.

• We all need refreshing of our faith on a regular basis. Nobody’s interested in buying something that’s stale; it doesn’t have the same appeal as something that’s fresh. We don’t want to live on stale bread, we live by the bread of God’s Word, and it’s best on a daily basis.

What does it mean to meditate?
Meditate - to think deeply or focus one's mind for a period of time, plan mentally; consider, think deeply or carefully about something, to utter a sound, to mutter; the act of thoughtful deliberation with the implication of speaking to oneself, muttering sounds spoken to no one in particular, melody

• Ephesians 5:19 speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,

Meditation is like a when a cow chews it cud. When the cow eats some grass, for instance, they will chew it and swallow it, then in one of it’s four stomachs the nutrients are absorbed and then the cow regurgitates the grass so it can be chewed some more and then swallowed again and more nutrients can be gotten from it.

That’s where we get the expression “I’ll chew on that for a while” when referring to taking some time to think about something. That’s a form of meditation.

Meditation is repetitive thinking. Worry is negative meditation, continuous thinking of a negative thought. That’s destructive. But the act of meditating on God’s Word is constructive in our lives.

The Source Of True Meditation – The Word Of God
The Strategy Is Personal – You Have To Do It – It’s A Relationship, Not A Checklist

Christianity is not a set of rules; Christianity is a relationship with Christ. Is your relationship Duty or Delight?

• Psalm 1:2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.

Four Steps Of Meditation

• Read - put it in your mind
• Ponder - think about something carefully, especially before making a decision
• Pray - talk to God about it
• Practice - carry out or perform a particular activity, method, or custom habitually or regularly

A Final Thought To Meditate On

• Joshua 1:8 This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.