This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life – a time for you to relax your body and refocus your mind to experience the reality of God’s presence. I’m Dave Cover. I want to help you with Christian meditation where you can break through all the distractions and experience God’s presence through biblically guided imagination. 

If your podcast app is set to skip the silent sections, disable that in your podcast app for this podcast.

Genesis 24:63 ESV

“Isaac went out to meditate in the field toward evening. And he lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, there were camels coming.”

One thing this tells us is that meditation has been a practice of God’s people for at least 4,000 thousand years. The word meditate or meditation appears 22 times in our Bible. But Christian meditation is not about emptying our minds at all, but about filling our minds with the reality of who God is, who we are to God, and the story our life is in. Meditation is an ancient form of prayer that enables God’s people to experience awe and wonder by envisioning spiritual realities with “the eyes of our heart” (Eph 1:18).

God says,

Psalms 46:10 (NIV)

“Be still, and know that I am God.”

Being still before God is essential if you really want to experience connection with God.

CS Lewis (Mere Christianity)

“God has infinite attention…to spare for each one of us. …You're as much alone with Him as if you were the only thing He'd ever created.”

Zechariah 12:1 NIV

“The LORD…stretches out the heavens … and…forms the human spirit within a person...”

The same God that created the entire universe also specifically created you to be a YOU in his creation. Forever! 

The apostle Paul was speaking to non-Christians when he said…

Acts 17:25 NIV

“…He himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.”

Each breath is your continuous dependence on God for your life at every moment. The Spirit of the God who created this universe is giving life to your body right now.

The apostle Paul also said…

Acts 17:28 NIV

“In him we live and move and have our being.”

Every moment in your life is a kind of experience of God — whether you realize it or not. But realize it now. The life you feel inside your body in a very real sense is feeling the presence of God.. 

Paul wrote to God’s people when he said…

1 Cor 6:19 ESV

“…Your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you.”

So imagine/envision God’s Holy Spirit in your body!

God says, “Be still and know that I am God.” 

Who can you share this podcast with? If you found this episode helpful, consider sharing it on social media or texting it to a friend you think might benefit from it.

Follow Dave Cover on X (Twitter) @davecover

Follow A Bigger Life on X @ABiggerLifePod

Our audio engineer is Matthew Matlack.

This podcast is a ministry of The Crossing, a church in Columbia, Missouri, a college town where the flagship campus of the University of Missouri is located.