Shalom! Welcome to episode 8 of Overcoming Daily with Anna Johnson. Today's tidbit to overcoming daily is that the overcomer meditates on the Word of God.
Now, why is this so important to the overcomer? Well, what I've discovered in working with others - and even in my life - is that as humans, we have a tendency to meditate on our troubles and not meditate on our solutions. Without the Word of God breathing and being active in our life and in our being, there simply is no overcoming.
When we meditate on the Word of God, we have hope. When we meditate on the Word of God, we have a righteous solution to each and every one of life's challenges. See, we can study the Word of God. We can know the Word of God, but will the Word of God become part of who we are.
Meditating on the Word of God could be likened to something soaking and being saturated in something. For example with cooking - if you want, you want your dish to be savory, you are going to soak that, that meat - particularly, maybe a meat that you're cooking - you're going to soak that meat in that seasoning. You're going to leave it in that seasoning, and you're just going to let it set in that seasoning till it is seasoned to the place of perfection. Well, we should be doing the same for our being. We should first read and study the Word of God - that comes first. And many of you that are listening have already done that. But then we need to take some time to simply meditate on it.
Now, I'm not talking about meditation that we hear about, you know, from the world's standpoint, but I'm talking about a meditation that sits and really just focuses on the Word of God. Sometimes we try to meditate on too many things. Sometimes when I'm going through a difficult season, I will meditate on these words - God is good.
Those are the words that I meditate on. Now, that is a digested version of various scriptures that I have read over the course of my lifetime. But knowing that he is good, that gives me hope and it helps me to focus on overcoming, versus on being stuck. See, when we practice meditating on the Word of God daily, overcoming starts to just be a natural response.
And overcoming should be a natural response. It should be something that just simply - it's something that we just simply do. Not something that we have to remember to do.
Messiah is a great example of how overcoming can be so natural.
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