Meditation is all about waiting on God and giving ourselves the time and space to be in communion with him. This is not an unfocused event but carries a deep sense of purpose: we want to be open to hearing God’s voice everywhere. I constantly carry a notebook with me because God speaks to me in the most peculiar places.
Sometimes waiting on God means letting God know that you actually love him, that he’s important to you, and that you take pleasure in who He is. There are times when we wait on Him, and nothing will happen. That’s OK, for if God does not speak initially, he will always speak eventually. We need to be ready when he does.
Waiting on God is born out of a spirit of quiet and stillness. We have to calm the clamoring thoughts within our minds and hearts. Meditation and waiting on God go hand in hand; one often births the other. It fills our minds with thoughts of God, and we become God conscious. Into the quiet, God drops his words like the morning dew, refreshing our souls and spirits.
Conquering this discipline in private will deepen your public ministry. Being in the presence of God slows down our heartbeat. It slows down our reaction and calms us on the inside. The louder it is on the outside, the quieter we must become on the inside.
My ability to quiet myself before God has allowed me to hear his voice in the most pressure packed circumstances.
Unreality occurs when Christians are not operating out of rest and peace but live according to the whims of the external pressures they face. It sparks a form of mental gymnastics where revelation cannot penetrate. The mind can be the enemy of the spirit-and the spirit is where God deposits his revelation. It takes faith for our conscious mind to accept the things our spirit tells us.