Main Summary: Meditating on God’s Word by Peter Tan is a powerful guide to spiritual transformation through biblical meditation, confession, and contemplation. It reveals how feeding your spirit with God’s Word renews your mind, strengthens your inner man, and unleashes God’s power and presence in your life.
Lessons You’ll Learn From This Post
- How Important is Meditation
- The “How to” For Meditation
- The Art of Contemplation
- Your Words Are Important
- The Importance of the Thought Life
Meditation is the most important key in Christian growth.
How Important is Meditation
- Meditation is essential for spiritual growth and success in Christian life.
- Biblical meditation involves muttering or speaking God’s Word aloud, not just silent reflection.
- Using your eyes (to read), mouth (to speak), and ears (to hear) engages multiple senses in absorbing the Word.
- Meditation is key to spiritual strength. And the strength of the spirit man determines the extent of God’s presence and power that can manifest through a believer.
- Paul emphasized strengthening the inner man (spirit) through prayer and meditation for the fullness of God to be realized.
- Meditation is the spiritual equivalent of eating food—it feeds the spirit man.
- Acting and meditating on the Word (e.g., Joshua 1:8) guarantees spiritual success.
- Meditation must be a daily practice, integrated into every part of life (Deut. 6:7,8) to bring about success.
Also read The Power of Your Mind by Pst Chris Oyakhilome [Summary]
There is neither mountain nor any problem that can stand against our spoken word once our spirits are filled and saturated with the Word of God.
The “How to” For Meditation
- Meditation is not a shortcut but a steady and reliable path to spiritual growth.
- Just as physical growth occurs naturally when the body is consistently nourished, spiritual maturity develops naturally when the spirit is consistently fed.
- Meditation consists of two main aspects:
- Confession – speaking the Word aloud to implant it into your spirit and later to decree it over circumstances.
- Contemplation – deeply thinking and imagining the Word to shape desires and actions.
- Implanting the Word involves:
- Personalizing and speaking Scriptures out loud.
- Recognizing that God’s promises are already ours in Christ (2 Cor. 1:20).
- Allowing the Word to move from head knowledge to heart revelation.
- Meditation helps activate God’s promises—transforming them into spiritual reality.
- Four progressive steps (mirrored in both sin and holiness):
- Thought
- Imagination
- Desire
- Action
- Repeated confession and visualization of God’s Word builds a desire to act righteously.
- Once the Word is rooted, decreeing it in faith (speaking to “mountains”) becomes powerful and effective (Mark 11:23).
- You will fail to see results because you skip the first step—feeding the Word into your spirit.
When we read God’s Word, we must not only read with our intellect but also with our imagination.
The Art of Contemplation
- Contemplation is the silent, imaginative side of meditation, often forgotten in modern Christianity.
- Many Christians are mentally weak due to constant distractions and a lack of focus, making it difficult to hold holy thoughts.
- Just as the body can be trained physically, the mind can be trained spiritually through daily contemplation.
- To be spiritually minded (Romans 8:6) is life and peace—this comes through focusing thoughts on spiritual truths.
- Four Steps of Biblical Contemplation (from Hebrews 11:13):
- Seeing the promise – visualize the Word.
- Being assured of it – gain inner confidence.
- Embracing it – feel and internalize the promise emotionally.
- Confessing it – declare it aloud in faith.
- Visualization activates the imagination to “see” the truth of Scripture and personalize it deeply.
- The mind has two aspects:
- Dialogismos – reasoning intellect.
- Dianoia – imagination tied to the heart.
- God wants the imagination renewed, not just thoughts (Eph. 1:18).
- Just as negative imagery (e.g., Eve, Lot, Achan, David) led to sin, positive imagery (Abraham, Joshua, Peter) can strengthen faith.
- The mind must be trained daily to visualize and feel the reality of God’s Word. It brings peace, assurance, and transformation.
Also read Understanding Faith by Peter Tan [Summary]
The words we speak will control the course and direction of our whole life.
Your Words Are Important
- Words are powerful tools in the Christian life. A person’s spirituality is reflected in their ability to control their tongue (James 1:26).
- There are two Greek words for “word”:
- Logos – the total revealed wisdom of God (written Word, principles).
- Rhema – the specific spoken word for a person, moment, or situation.
- Rhema comes from Logos. Every Rhema is a portion of the Logos spoken by the Holy Spirit for a particular purpose.
- Some miracles (like walking on water) require a specific Rhema; others, like healing, are already promised to all believers in the Logos.
- Faith grows when we meditate until the assurance drops into our hearts, not just because we see others do it.
- Confession (homologos) means to say the same thing God says.
- The power of confession is seen throughout Scripture:
- David spoke before killing Goliath.
- Caleb and Joshua entered the Promised Land because they spoke faith.
- Rachel died because of Jacob’s negative words.
- The tongue determines the course of life, like a rudder or steering wheel (James 3:4–6).
- Paul emphasizes tongue control in almost every epistle—believers are to speak what edifies, gives thanks, and aligns with God’s truth.
- The Holy Spirit is grieved by wrong speech. Ephesians 4 shows that speaking and grieving the Spirit are directly linked.
- The filling of the Spirit leads to Spirit-controlled speech (Eph. 5:18–19).
- Faith confession is not just empty words—it is the result of belief in the heart.
- Speaking without faith (while doubting) leads to unfruitful confessions.
The human mind is a spiritual sensor and receiver of the things in the spirit world.
The Importance of the Thought Life
- Many Christians attempt to change outward behaviors without first changing their thought life, which is the root of action.
- The New Covenant Jesus introduced deals primarily with the inward man, especially the mind and heart.
- Paul emphasized that sin operates in the mind, and true transformation begins with renewed thinking (Romans 7:22–25; 8:5–6).
- Jesus taught that sin begins in the heart and thoughts, not merely in outward actions (Matt. 5:28; 15:19–20).
- Doubt originates in the thought life, and it can block miracles—even Peter sank because of fearful thoughts (Matt. 14:31).
- Our mind is a gateway to the spirit realm, receiving thoughts from:
- The physical realm (senses)
- Our reasoning
- The spiritual realm (Holy Spirit or satan)
- Satan introduces wrong thoughts to create doubt, fear, or sin; he jams the frequency so you can’t hear God clearly.
- The Holy Spirit speaks to our spirits, but for His messages to rise to your mind, you must have a renewed, clean, and Word-filled mind.
- The Word of God discerns and cleanses your thoughts (Hebrews 4:12; John 15:2–3).
- The mind must be sanctified just like the body; sanctification starts by contemplating God’s Word daily.
- A sound, spiritually renewed mind brings life, peace, and the ability to be led by the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:6; Col. 3:15–16).
- Confession and contemplation are the twin engines of spiritual growth—without them, Christian living becomes shallow.
Also read Effortless Change by Andrew Wommack [Summary]
After reading this, don’t just agree mentally—start applying it. Pick a promise from God’s Word, meditate on it, confess it daily, and visualize its fulfillment. Your spirit will grow, your mind will renew, and your life will shift. Begin now—God is waiting.
Finally, here’s a question we’d love you to answer.
Have you been reading the Bible without seeing real transformation in your life?
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