“Mutter” the Word

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. -Joshua 1:8

The word meditate means “to read, to study; to think about; to mutter.” We are to keep that Word coming out of our mouths.

It’s ironic when you stop to think about it. The enemy has propagated a theory in this world that people who talk to themselves are going crazy. But we Christians ought to be speaking the Word to ourselves all the time. We ought to be meditating on the Word of God continually—reading it, studying it, thinking about it, “chewing on it” and saying it to ourselves.

For instance, you can use the time when you’re driving in your car to speak the Word aloud to yourself. You can say: “Thank God, He sent His Word and healed me. Jesus had compassion on the multitudes and He healed them all. Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching and preaching and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. By His stripes I am healed!”

The world might think you’re a little strange when they see you muttering to yourself. But that’s okay. You know something they don’t know—you’re on the edge of a  miracle!

CONFESSION:

I keep God’s Word before me and mediate on it day and night. His Word is seed planted in my heart, and it’s working mightily in me to produce a harvest of healing!

From: A Devotional for Divine Health Prescription for a Miracle, Mark Brazee, 1999