{"id":5055,"date":"2016-05-23T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T13:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/daily-e-votional\/?p=5055"},"modified":"2016-05-23T08:04:18","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T15:04:18","slug":"christian-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/christian-meditation\/","title":{"rendered":"CHRISTIAN MEDITATION!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Psalm 1:1-2<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>\u201c<\/em><em>Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; But his delight is in the law of the <\/em><em>Lord<\/em><em>, and in His law he meditates day and night.<\/em><em>\u201d <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Godless meditation scares the wits out of me. Modern-day gurus say clear the mind of everything and find that inner peace. Yikes! That certainly gives unguarded entry to demonic forces of every sort. STAY AWAY FROM IT!<\/p>\n<p>God does want us to meditate, but there is a difference. In today\u2019s Scripture the Psalmist begins the book of Psalms by introducing us to God\u2019s type of meditation. It is not the mind clearing sort of stuff, but the God-indwelling type.<\/p>\n<p>It begins with the way we are to behave. The psalmist says we are to stay away from the godless sinners around us. The first step to godly meditation is a true walk with God. If we are not walking with God, we cannot have communion with Him.<\/p>\n<p>If we walk in harmony with the Lord, we are called to meditate on His Word day and night. There is the key &#8212; it is not a blank mind, but rather a mind that is full of the Word of God and applying it to our life. Are you meditating correctly?<\/p>\n<p>Blessings dear hearts!<\/p>\n<p>May God richly bless you as you bless others by your words and actions!<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Pastor Cecil \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psalm 1:1-2 \u201cBlessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night.\u201d Godless meditation scares the wits out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psalm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}