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Spiritual Disciplines of a C.H.R.I.S.T.I.A.N.
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Repetition
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Spiritual Disciplines of a C.H.R.I.S.T.I.A.N.

• Repetition Memorization, Meditation, Teaching
• Col 316 Let the word of Christ richly dwell
  within you, with all wisdom teaching and
  admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and
  spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in
  your hearts to God.
• Psa 11-3 How blessed is the man who does not
  ...but his delight is in the law of the Lord and
  in his law he meditates day and night day and
  night

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How important is Biblical Meditation?
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Causes Good Success Joshua 18 Protects from
temptation Psa 1199,11 Insures God will
abundantly supply Psa 11-3 Brings the peace of
God Col 315,16 Brings wisdom and insight beyond
teachers Psa 11999
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How do you Meditate Biblically?
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Memorize or Study or Familiarize yourself with a
passage of Scripture
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How do you Meditate Biblically?
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Press the Scripture through your soul (mind,
will, emotions) and body by externalizing
write, speak, pray, sing, draw, etc
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How do you Meditate Biblically?
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Run the Scripture thru your mind, will,
emotions and body during the rest of the day by
cogitating or murmuring it to yourself or by
applying other techniques
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How do you Meditate Biblically?
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Personalize
Confessionalize
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Visualize/Role Play
Diagram/Analogize
Record Insights/application
Pray
Sing
Translate
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Classic Passages for Biblical Meditation
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Beatitudes Ladder of Virtue Ten
Commandments Lords Prayer Apostles Creed Stories
and Teaching of Jesus
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Other Passages Common for Biblical Meditation
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John 11-5 Col 13-12 35-17 Eph 1 313-21
425-54 Phil 21-10 44-14 1 John 15-10
21-11 Rom 61-23 81-1718-39 Any passage of
Scripture
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Personalize

• Write or speak
• your name, your sins,
• your temptations, your circumstances, your
  problems, your situations, your concerns, etc.
  into the passage.
• Rom 61-23 Rom 81-17 Jam 12-5

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Confessionalize

• In Prayer
• (referring to the specific Scripture)
• Agree with every truth
• Give thanks for what is good and right in your
  life
• Agree with God on what still needs work
• Agree with God on how you have violated the
  passage
• Beatitudes Phil 21-10 Gal 516-21 Ladder of
  Virtue

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Visualize

• Picture the Biblical Scene
• Sights, sounds, smells, touch, taste.
• Picture yourself in the Biblical Scene
• 5 senses and Asking, Interacting, Reacting
• Picture yourself doing the Biblical Truth
• Actions, Reactions, Words, Thoughts, Attitudes,
  Motives
• Record these mental images in some way during or
  after
• Christ on the Cross, Christ at the Ascension,
• 1 Thess 43-5 1 Tim 66,17-18 Eph 525,28
  Titus 24,5

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Diagram/Analogy

• Draw, Diagram, Schematize the action or truth in
  the verse
• Suggest an analogy, metaphor or simile for the
  truth or truths in a particular passage
• The 10 Commandments
• The Fruit of the Spirit

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No other gods-No idols-No cursing-Remember the
Sabbath-Honor Father Mother-No murder-No
adultery-No stealing-No lying-No coveting
The 10 Commandments are the perimeter fence
around a blessed life
No other gods-No idols-No cursing-Remember the
Sabbath-Honor Father Mother-No murder-No
adultery-No stealing-No lying-No coveting
No other gods-No idols-No cursing-Remember the
Sabbath-Honor Father Mother-No murder-No
adultery-No stealing-No lying-No coveting
No other gods-No idols-No cursing-Remember the
Sabbath-Honor Father Mother-No murder-No
adultery-No stealing-No lying-No coveting
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No other gods-No idols-No cursing-Remember the
Sabbath-Honor Father Mother-No murder-No
adultery-No stealing-No lying-No coveting
1st and 2nd Great Commandments
No other gods-No idols-No cursing-Remember the
Sabbath-Honor Father Mother-No murder-No
adultery-No stealing-No lying-No coveting
No other gods-No idols-No cursing-Remember the
Sabbath-Honor Father Mother-No murder-No
adultery-No stealing-No lying-No coveting
No other gods-No idols-No cursing-Remember the
Sabbath-Honor Father Mother-No murder-No
adultery-No stealing-No lying-No coveting
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Love God Love Thy Neighbor
No other gods-No idols-No cursing-Remember the
Sabbath-Honor Father Mother-No murder-No
adultery-No stealing-No lying-No coveting
No other gods-No idols-No cursing-Remember the
Sabbath-Honor Father Mother-No murder-No
adultery-No stealing-No lying-No coveting
No other gods-No idols-No cursing-Remember the
Sabbath-Honor Father Mother-No murder-No
adultery-No stealing-No lying-No coveting
No other gods-No idols-No cursing-Remember the
Sabbath-Honor Father Mother-No murder-No
adultery-No stealing-No lying-No coveting
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The Christian Life is to be a garden of Holy
Spirit developed Fruitfulness
The Fruit of the Spirit
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The Whole Christian Life can be divided into 9
Relational Gardens

• Self Marriage Family
  Work
• God
• Church Money Society Friends

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The Christian Life is like a Garden

• Self Marriage Family
  Work
• God
• Church Money Society Friends

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Pray

• Ask for everything
• possible in the passage
• Eph 13-18
• Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
  Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual
  blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,  just
  as He chose us in Him before the foundation of
  the world, that we would be holy and blameless
  before Him. In love He predestined us to adoption
  as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself,
  according to the kind intention of His will, to
  the praise of the glory of His grace, which He
  freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. In Him we
  have redemption through His blood, the
  forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the
  riches of His grace which He lavished on us. In
  all wisdom and insight He made known to us the
  mystery of His will, according to His kind
  intention which He purposed in Him with a view to
  an administration suitable to the fullness of the
  times, that is, the summing up of all things in
  Christ, things in the heavens and things on the
  earth. In Him also we have obtained an
  inheritance, having been predestined according to
  His purpose who works all things after the
  counsel of His will,  to the end that we who were
  the first to hope in Christ would be to the
  praise of His glory.  In Him, you also, after
  listening to the message of truth, the gospel of
  your salvationhaving also believed, you were
  sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of
  promise, who is given as a pledge of our
  inheritance, with a view to the redemption of
  Gods own possession, to the praise of His glory.

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Record Insights/Applications

• As you are going over a passage of Scripture
• God will show you
• connections between truths
• ways to apply a truth
• solutions for specific problems evidence for a
  doctrine
• Record these in some way

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The Jungle and the Garden
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The Jungle
No other gods-No idols-No cursing-Remember the
Sabbath-Honor Father Mother-No murder-No
adultery-No stealing-No lying-No coveting
The Garden
The Jungle
The Jungle
No other gods-No idols-No cursing-Remember the
Sabbath-Honor Father Mother-No murder-No
adultery-No stealing-No lying-No coveting
No other gods-No idols-No cursing-Remember the
Sabbath-Honor Father Mother-No murder-No
adultery-No stealing-No lying-No coveting
Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,
meekness, faithfulness, self-control
No other gods-No idols-No cursing-Remember the
Sabbath-Honor Father Mother-No murder-No
adultery-No stealing-No lying-No coveting
The Jungle
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Sing

• Start singing Scripture whatever tune
• Do not change Scripture
• Write sing a song that goes with Scripture
• Do not change Scripture
• Paraphrase Scripture into an appropriate tune
• Stay as close to Scripture as possible
• Sing about a truth in a Scripture
• Be Biblical and pour out your heart
• Write sing a song about a truth in Scripture
• Psa 11-3 Eph 12-8

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Translate

• After studying a passage
• Write your own amplified bible with definitions
  woven into the text and expanded historical and
  grammatical references
• It still must be readable and Biblically accurate
• Many times this can be combined with
  personalization for a powerful but very personal
  passage of Scripture

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Action Steps
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I will spend extended time pressing the
Scripture thru my soul and body
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I will redeem at least 1 waste time per day with
Biblical Meditation
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