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Food is not eaten to increase the size of the stomach. The ultimate of eating is not for the stomach to be full. You eat food to release essential body nutrients and fluids into your system. The food that will nourish the body must produce body nutrients. And the food that will produce these nutrients must
pass through the digestive process.
This same goes for the word of God which is the food of the spirit. You can only extract the treasures in it by meditating on it. Meditation is the process of digestion which leads to absorption and assimilation of the word.
Meditation is reasoning in the scriptures. People have attended great meetings. They have listened to the most renowned preachers. Every time they come out of meetings, you hear them sing
and shout for joy. Visit them the next day and it is all gone. The joy has gone.
The excitement is over.
Why? The substance, the raison d'etre of the word did not get into them.
Listen, beloved, at the end of the day, if you don't retain the substance of the word in you, you have no means of sustenance. The excitement of hearing the
revelation will go and if you don't have the substance, you may go with it.
The Ethiopian eunuch read and read but the word did him no good because he lacked an understanding of it. The nobility of the Berean Christians was
revealed through their daily search and reasoning in the scriptures after listening to great messages.
Meditation is thinking through. Pondering on the word is the gateway to a refreshing from above. You cannot get juice out of an orange without squeezing
it. Squeeze out the word of God and get it into your system for it is the entrance of the word into you that brings light, not the reading, not the hearing. The word has to be broken down and analysed before it can be absorbed.
There can be no careless glancing over scriptures. Each section under consideration must be thoroughly digested. Proverbs 24:32 says:
Then I saw, and considered it well; I looked upon it, and received
instruction
The instruction many require for living cannot be acquired by scanning theletters, words, phrases, clauses, sentences and paragraphs of scripture. There
must be a digging deeper. As the word penetrates, the mind receives illumination and the body is directed on what steps to take.
The word of God that will produce in your life must necessarily pass
through this process. No one can do it for you. You have to do the eating, you have to digest it to get the nutrients. It is time to accept your individuality and
step into your responsibility.
Israel Oladoja
𝐈'𝐌 𝐀𝐍 𝐀𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐋𝐈𝐂 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐓𝐇 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐀 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐎𝐍!
pass through the digestive process.
This same goes for the word of God which is the food of the spirit. You can only extract the treasures in it by meditating on it. Meditation is the process of digestion which leads to absorption and assimilation of the word.
Meditation is reasoning in the scriptures. People have attended great meetings. They have listened to the most renowned preachers. Every time they come out of meetings, you hear them sing
and shout for joy. Visit them the next day and it is all gone. The joy has gone.
The excitement is over.
Why? The substance, the raison d'etre of the word did not get into them.
Listen, beloved, at the end of the day, if you don't retain the substance of the word in you, you have no means of sustenance. The excitement of hearing the
revelation will go and if you don't have the substance, you may go with it.
The Ethiopian eunuch read and read but the word did him no good because he lacked an understanding of it. The nobility of the Berean Christians was
revealed through their daily search and reasoning in the scriptures after listening to great messages.
Meditation is thinking through. Pondering on the word is the gateway to a refreshing from above. You cannot get juice out of an orange without squeezing
it. Squeeze out the word of God and get it into your system for it is the entrance of the word into you that brings light, not the reading, not the hearing. The word has to be broken down and analysed before it can be absorbed.
There can be no careless glancing over scriptures. Each section under consideration must be thoroughly digested. Proverbs 24:32 says:
Then I saw, and considered it well; I looked upon it, and received
instruction
The instruction many require for living cannot be acquired by scanning theletters, words, phrases, clauses, sentences and paragraphs of scripture. There
must be a digging deeper. As the word penetrates, the mind receives illumination and the body is directed on what steps to take.
The word of God that will produce in your life must necessarily pass
through this process. No one can do it for you. You have to do the eating, you have to digest it to get the nutrients. It is time to accept your individuality and
step into your responsibility.
Israel Oladoja
𝐈'𝐌 𝐀𝐍 𝐀𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐋𝐈𝐂 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐓𝐇 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐀 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐎𝐍!