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This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life – a time for you to relax your body, refocus your mind, and to re-imagine and re-narrate your life to a truer reality. 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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Imagination is your mind’s God-given ability to form powerful images of things not physically seen. It’s part of being created in the image of God. Remember in the first chapter of the Bible we see over and over how God first imagined (let there be) and then it was so.
If you lay in bed at night and think about having a conflict with someone, your imagination will make your body prepare for a conflict. That’s its power. Your body will believe the real and the unreal just as quickly, depending on what your imagination is focused on.
That’s why our imagination can be a tool of our spiritual enemy to deceive us. Often the devil’s slander happens in our mind through our imagination. When we ruminate on past offenses against us. Or ruminate on our shame. Or we imagine a future where God cannot be trusted.
But also our biblically guided imagination can be a powerful weapon in our spiritual warfare.
Our mind operates primarily through images. And so does the Bible. So much of the Bible gives us imagination more than information.
Our biblically guided imagination allows us to enter into an experience of God rather than just intellectual knowledge. A great example of this is what David writes in Psalm 16:8-9.
Psalms 16:8-9 (NIV)
8 I keep my eyes always on the LORD.
With him at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
9 Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest secure.
Today you can envision and embrace the joy, thankfulness, and security of “seeing” God’s near presence.
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This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life – a time for you to relax your body, refocus your mind, and to re-imagine and re-narrate your life to a truer reality. 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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Philippians 1:27 NIV
“Whatever happens, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ.”
Another English translation captures the literal Greek…
Philippians 1:27 CSB
“Just one thing: As citizens of heaven, live your life worthy of the gospel of Christ.”
Philippians 3:20 CSB
“Our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly wait for a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ.”
Philippians 1:28 NIV
“without being frightened in any way by those who oppose you.”
Philippians 1:6 NIV
“Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.”
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This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life – a time for you to relax your body, refocus your mind, and to re-imagine and re-narrate your life to a truer reality. 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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Job 33:4 NIV
“The Spirit of God has made me; the breath of the Almighty gives me life.”
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.”
Philippians 1:1-2 NIV
“Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, To all God’s holy people in Christ Jesus at Philippi…. 2 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.”
Philippians 1:6 NIV
“Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.”
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This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life – a time for you to relax your body, refocus your mind, and to re-imagine and re-narrate your life to a truer reality. 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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Philippians 1:1 NIV
“Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus,
To all God’s holy people in Christ Jesus at Philippi.”
1 Corinthians 6:11 NIV
“But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.”
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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.
This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life – a time for you to relax your body, refocus your mind, and to re-imagine and re-narrate your life to a truer reality. 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 46:10 (NIV)
“He says, ‘Be still, and know that I am God.’”
The verb in the ancient Hebrew (that this was originally written in) for “be still” can also be translated as, “let go; relax; let drop.” We can let go of our tension and self-guarding in our body when we remember to “know” what it means that God is God.
Psalm 37:7 (NIV)
“Be still before the LORD.”
“LORD” in all uppercase letters in our English Bibles indicates that in Hebrew God’s name, Yahweh, is used (for example, Exodus 3:14-15; Isaiah 42:8). Yahweh is the ancient Hebrew verb form for “HE IS.” God’s name, Yahweh, is used more than any other term for God in the Hebrew scriptures. More than “God” is used.
When we survey the various truths associated with God’s name, HE IS, in the Hebrew scriptures (what we call the Old Testament), four important aspects of God are emphasized.
We often meditate on God‘s name in this podcast because it is the key to experiencing God as HE IS. God’s name is filled with wonder and mystery and transcendence for us to meditate on using our biblically guided imagination.
So imagine – envision – this reality. He is the Source of all being; he is the Giver of your life and sustains your life at every moment; he is the one who “inhabits eternity” (Isaiah 57:15), and so has the eternal perspective in all your life’s circumstances; and he is infinitely, intimately, 100% present with you at every moment and in control of every circumstance in your life.
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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.
This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life – a time for you to relax your body, refocus your mind, and to re-imagine and re-narrate your life to a truer reality. 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 46:10 (NIV)
“He says, ‘Be still, and know that I am God.’”
The verb in the ancient Hebrew (that this was originally written in) for “be still” can also be translated as, “let go; relax; let drop.” We can let go of our tension and self-guarding in our body when we remember to “know” what it means that God is God.
Psalm 100:3 (NIV)
“Know that the LORD is God. It is he who made us, and we are his.”
Psalm 100:5 NIV
“For the LORD is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations.”
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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.
This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life – a time for you to relax your body, refocus your mind, and to re-imagine and re-narrate your life to a truer reality. 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 46:10 (NIV)
“He says, ‘Be still, and know that I am God.’”
The verb in the ancient Hebrew (that this was originally written in) for “be still” can also be translated as, “let go; relax; let drop.” We can let go of our tension and anxiety in our body when we remember to “know” what it means that God is God.
Psalm 100:3 (NIV)
“Know that the LORD is God. It is he who made us, and we are his.”
Psalm 100:3 (ESV)
“Know that the LORD, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his.”
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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.
This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life – a time for you to relax your body, refocus your mind, and to re-imagine and re-narrate your life to a truer reality. 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.
Psalm 46:10 (NIV)
“He says, ‘Be still, and know that I am God.’”
The verb in the ancient Hebrew (that this was originally written in) for “be still” can also be translated as, “let go; relax; let drop.” We can let go of our tension and anxiety in our body when we remember to “know” what it means that God is God.
Psalms 46:1 (NIV)
“God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.”
Psalms 46:7 (NIV)
“The LORD Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress.”
Psalms 46:11 (NIV)
“The LORD Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress.”
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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.
This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life – a time for you to relax your body, refocus your mind, and to re-imagine and re-narrate your life to a truer reality. 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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Psalms 63:6 (ESV) The ancient King David writes…
“…I remember (“mindful of”) you upon my bed,
and meditate on you ...”
So what this is telling us is that “mindfulness” and “meditation” are ancient biblical disciplines that God’s people have been practicing for thousands of years.
John Mark Comer (The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry)
“Worship and joy start with the capacity to turn our minds’ attention toward the God who is always with us in the now.”
Envisioning God being with us and in us is a kind of seeing with what Paul calls “the eyes of our heart“ in Ephesians 1:18.
God is present with you right now in this moment. The Spirit of the God who created this universe and gives all living things their life is in your body right now. “…Your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you” (1 Cor 6:19).
“Worship and joy start with the capacity to turn our minds’ attention toward the God who is always with us in the now.”
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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.
This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life – a time for you to relax your body, refocus your mind, and to re-imagine and re-narrate your life to a truer reality. 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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In our last few episodes we looked at what Moses tells the people of Israel.
Deuteronomy 30:19-20 (NIV)
“Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the LORD is your life….”
“Now choose life, so that you…may live.” “For the LORD is your life!”
“LORD” in all uppercase letters in our English Bibles indicates that in Hebrew God’s name, Yahweh, is used (for example, Exodus 3:14-15; Isaiah 42:8). Yahweh is the ancient Hebrew verb form for “HE IS.” God’s name, Yahweh, is used more than any other term for God in the Hebrew scriptures. More than “God” is used.
God’s name is filled with wonder and mystery and transcendence for us to meditate on using our biblically guided imagination.
When we see God’s name, HE IS, in the Hebrew scriptures (what we call the Old Testament), four important aspects of God are repeatedly emphasized.
We often meditate on God‘s name in this podcast because it is the key to experiencing God as HE IS.
So imagine – envision – this reality. He is the Source of all being; he is the Giver of your life and sustains your life at every moment; he is the one who “inhabits eternity” (Isaiah 57:15), and so has the eternal perspective in all your life’s circumstances; and he is infinitely, intimately, 100% present with you at every moment and in control of every circumstance in your life.
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.
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