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. 

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Today's meditation is by guest host Grace Albritton. Grace is a young adult on staff at the church where I pastor. She works in our operations office, but she also does special classes at our church on breathing meditation with scripture. They are always very well attended. So I asked her to guest host today's meditation.

Psalm 105:1-4 NLT

1 Give thanks to the Lord and proclaim his greatness.

    Let the whole world know what he has done.

2 Sing to him; yes, sing his praises.

    Tell everyone about his wonderful deeds.

3 Exult in his holy name;

    rejoice, you who worship the Lord.

4 Search for the Lord and for his strength;

    continually seek him.

Genesis 17:1 NIV

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty; walk before me faithfully and be blameless.

Exodus 3:14 NIV

God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ ”

Revelation 1:8 NIV

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.”

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Acts 17:25 NIV

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

Acts 17:28 NIV

“For in him we live and move and have our being.”

Isaiah 55:8-9 NIV

8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the LORD.

9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

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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. 

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Psalm 121:1-8 ESV

1 I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come?

2 My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth.

3 He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber.

4 Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.

5 The LORD is your keeper; the LORD is your shade on your right hand.

6 The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.

7 The LORD will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life.

8 The LORD will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore.

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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. 

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Acts 17:25 NIV

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

1 Corinthians 2:9 ESV

“What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him.”

Romans 8:28 NIV

“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.”

Matthew 6:33 NIV

“But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.”

Romans 6:4 CSB

“Just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in newness of life.”

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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. 

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Matthew 11:28-29 NIV

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. …For I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.”

Dane Ortlund, The Heart of Jesus

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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. 

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Psalm 118:17 NIV

“I will not die but live, and will proclaim what the LORD has done.”

Psalm 118:22-23 NIV

“The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; the LORD has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes.”

Matthew 21:42 NIV

Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?”

Psalm 118:26 NIV

“Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD.”

Matthew 21:9 NIV

The crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed shouted,   “Hosanna to the Son of David!” “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!” 

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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. 

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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.” 

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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. 

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Psalm 116:7 ESV

“Return, O my soul, to your rest; for the LORD has dealt bountifully with you.”

Psalm 103:1-5 ESV

1 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name!

2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits,

3 who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases,

4 who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,

5 who satisfies you with good

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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. 

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Psalm 103:1-5 ESV

1 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name!

2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits,

3 who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases,

4 who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,

5 who satisfies you with good

Psalm 103:11-12 ESV

11 For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him;

12 as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.

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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. 

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Psalm 103:1-5 ESV

1 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name!

2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits,

3 who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases,

4 who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,

5 who satisfies you with good

Isaiah 53:5 NIV

But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.

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