Recently, I released a post entitled, “Discover the Power of Meditating God’s Word.” I shared three different passages of scripture revealing important components of meditating in the Word of God. To view that post, you can click here: Discover the Power of Meditating God’s Word – Come Away Moments
Just to review, these three passages in Proverbs 4:20-21, Mark 4:24, and Joshua 1:8 teach us that effective meditation involves our eyes looking at the Word, our ears hearing the Word, and a very overlooked part of our mouths speaking the Word aloud.
As seen in the following verses, the “zoe” life of God is able to quicken our bodies as His Words are believed in our hearts and come forth out of our mouths.
“The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words that I have spoken to you, they are spirit, and they are life.” John 16:63
But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you. Romans 8:11
”Life and death are in the power of the tongue.” Proverbs 18:21
As we read God’s word out loud, our ears hear our voice. God designed it this way because He says in Romans 10:17 that faith, or confident trust in God, is released towards us as God’s words are spoken and come to life inside our heart. Our heart will believe God’s words through our own voice quicker than through someone else’s voice!
As Christians we have all spent time reading, hearing and speaking God’s Word, but for me personally, I had not been setting aside dedicated time to do all three at the same time.
The Lord has instructed me to spend time carefully focusing on the Word by compiling a list of verses according to subjects or using consecutive verses from various chapters in the Bible. I then personalize the verses to make it applicable to me in this present time and with thanksgiving, knowing God is faithful to His Word.
***In this post I will be focusing on meditating God’s Word for physical and mental medicine. Please understand, I am not suggesting that anyone go off their natural medicine! The Lord can heal you while you continue to take your medicine. Your doctor will confirm when you no longer need it.
God definitely uses doctors and natural medicine, but let’s look at the passage in Proverbs 4:20-22, focusing on vs. 22 to see that meditating God’s word can also be used as medicine for our physical bodies and minds!
“My son, pay attention to My words incline your ear to My sayings. Do not let them depart from your sight. Keep them in the midst of your hearts for they are life to those who find them, and health to their whole body.” Proverbs 4:20-22
The word “health” in that last verse is the Hebrew word “marpe” which means healing, medicine, cure, or remedy. We can say then that God’s revealed word is life and medicine to our whole flesh! How exactly does this work?
The answer to this question is found in Acts 20:32. God says His Word of grace is able to build us up and give us our inheritance. Meditating God’s Word on healing will build you up in your faith and confident trust for healing.
Because Jesus secured our inheritance when He died on the cross, it becomes available the moment we ask Jesus to be our Lord and savior. Healing is a part of our inheritance as children of God! It is listed as one of the benefits of our salvation in Psalm 103 below:
Psalm 103:1-2. “Bless the Lord O my soul and all that is within me bless His holy name. Bless the Lord O my soul and forget not all benefits; Who forgives my sins and heals all my diseases.”
There are thousands of natural medicines for the different categories of sicknesses, such as chemotherapy for cancer. God shared with me that His medicine is called “rhematherapy,” which covers all kinds of sickness and disease, with NO adverse side effects!
Through meditation, God’s life is released through the power of the Holy Spirit into our minds, hearts, and bodies through the Word of God. By the way, The Word always refers to Jesus! As written in John 1:14, “the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.”
“Rhema” words are personal revelations from God. As we hear His Word being spoken, we receive rhema revelations where the spiritual veil is removed from our mind, and we have “aha!” moments of truth. These truths birth faith in our hearts for what God desires to do in our circumstances.
In addition to meditation, these rhemas can be also revealed through reading the Bible or other Christian books sharing God’s Word, hearing a minister preach or teach the Word, receiving a Word of knowledge or a Word of wisdom from a fellow believer, a dream, a vision, etc.
As with natural medicine, God’s medicine is not meant to be an instant cure, but rather it needs time to build up in our bodies. We do this through consistent intake of His Word. We don’t expect regular medicine to be effective when we miss doses.
Something else to remember is that the Word works to renew and release life into our minds and hearts first and then into our bodies. God works from the inside out!
Our natural mind is hostile to God’s Word because it frames reality according to our five physical senses (what we can see, hear, feel, taste, and smell). We must consume God’s Word to continually persuade our minds to think like God thinks.
Our mind must agree with God’s words to get them rooted in our heart where they can grow and produce results. Keeping our mind in agreement is the purpose of meditation!
Romans 12:2 – “Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.“
3 John 2- “Beloved, I wish above all things that you prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers.”
It is important to listen to God concerning any health issue. He will give you specific directions for your situation and how much Word you need to be meditating. He might also reveal other necessary actions before mental or physical healing can occur, such as confession and repentance of sin, forgiveness of others, or even deliverance.
In these days of life-threatening physical issues and pressing mental stress, it’s wise to stay renewed in our minds with God’s healing medicine. As mentioned in the last post, Joshua 1:8 mentions meditating day and night. It’s beneficial anytime, but especially beneficial in the morning before you open your heart to worldly wisdom and before you go to sleep.
If you feel led to practice meditation, I have created a new category of written meditations on my blog! Examples of meditations I have posted so far include:
*God Stands Ready to Help Me
*Benefits of My Salvation (Psalm 103)
*The Lord is My Shepherd (Psalm 23)
*Sweet Sleep Meditation
*God Wants Me Free From Sickness
*Do Not Grow Weary
Click on the menu lines to the right of my blog home page if you are viewing from your mobile device. Find the Meditations category. Once you have chosen a meditation, you will find an instrumental worship link at the bottom if you would like to add music.
It is helpful to meditate with earbuds to drown out distractions and to help you focus on your voice. Simply read the meditation out loud, slowly and with meaning. The verse is written first “as is,” and then I have written out a personalized reply for you.
Once you get the hang of it, you can make your own meditations by searching the internet for verses concerning any circumstance you are facing. You will quickly find meditating to be powerful and rewarding! If you have any suggestions for meditations, I am looking for new ones to write!
For your convenience, and to show you how this works, I have included a meditation on healing below. I have also included a printable link at the bottom if you would like to print the meditation.
GOD WANTS ME FREE FROM SICKNESS MEDITATION
Psalm 103:2 – “Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases.”
I bless you Lord with all my soul. I am careful to remind myself every day of the benefits You offer me as Your child. You forgive ALL my sins and heal ALL my diseases.
Isaiah 53:4 – “It was our sicknesses that He Himself bore, and our pains that He carried. Yet we ourselves assumed that He had been afflicted, struck down by God, and humiliated.”
Thank You Jesus for bearing my sickness and my pain in Your own body. Therefore, I say that sickness and pain have NO power over me. I do not allow this sickness to reign in my body.
Matthew 8:16-17 – “…and He cast out the spirits with a word and healed ALL who were sick that it might be fulfilled by the prophet Isaiah saying: ‘He Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses.'”
Jesus, you never turned away anyone who needed healing. You took my infirmities and became my curse of sickness. You have redeemed me from the curse of the Law.
Isaiah 54:17 – “No weapon formed against me shall prosper…“
No weapon of sickness formed against me can prosper. Sickness, you are leaving my body!
Psalm 9:3 – “When my enemies turn back, they shall fall and perish at Your presence. For You have maintained my right and my cause…”
These symptoms ARE turning back. They ARE falling and perishing at Your presence. You are upholding my RIGHT to healing Father. I take my healing! I take it! I take it! I take it! Healing power flow NOW into my mind and body!
Ezekiel 47:9 – “Wherever the river flows, there will be swarms of living creatures and a great number of fish, because it flows there and makes the waters fresh; so wherever the river flows, everything will live.”
Rivers of living water are flowing in me now. I believe Your living waters are flowing from the top of my head to the souls of my feet. Thank You Holy Spirit for quickening my body with the life of God!
Exodus 15:26 – “He said, ‘If you listen carefully to the LORD your God and do what is right in His eyes, if you pay attention to His commands and keep all His decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the LORD who heals you.”
LORD God, You are my Physician. You are Jehovah Rapha. You are healing me of every sickness, disease, toxin and spirit of infirmity.
Proverbs 4:20-22 – My son, pay attention to what I say; turn your ear to My words. Do not let them depart from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart. For they are life to those who find them and health to ALL their flesh.”
Father, I am paying careful attention to your words. I am listening with my ears as I speak Your words. I am keeping them before my eyes. I am keeping them alive and growing within my heart. You say that when Your words are revealed to me, they are LIFE and HEALTH to my WHOLE body. I take Your medicine Father! I take Your Life Jesus! I take Your healing power Holy Spirit! It’s mine, mine, mine!
Galatians 6:7 – “Be not deceived; God is not mocked; whatever a man sows, that shall he also reap.”
Father I am sowing Your words of healing into my heart; therefore, I am reaping a harvest of healing in my body.
Isaiah 55:11 – “My Word shall not return to me void of power. It shall accomplish the thing for which I sent it, and it shall succeed in the thing for which it was sent.”
I thank You Father that when I return Your words of healing to you, they do not return powerless. They ARE accomplishing what You sent them to accomplish and succeeding in the purpose of healing me.
PART 2 – SPEAK TO YOUR MIND AND BODY
Mark 11:23 – “Truly I say to you, whoever SAYS to this mountain, ‘be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but BELIEVES THAT WHAT HE SAYS WILL COME TO PASS, it WILL be done for him.”
SPEAK TO YOUR MIND
*Mind, come into agreement with the words my of My God.
*Come into agreement with the mind of Christ.
*I have the mind of Christ.
*I have a sound mind.
*I refuse mental instability.
*I think clearly, hear clearly, and recall clearly and quickly.
* I will never lose my mind!
*Heart, I do not allow you to be troubled or afraid. I will not fear; God is near!
SPEAK TO YOUR BODY
*Body, come in line with the Word of God.
*Sickness, Jesus has freed me from you. You cannot stay in my body!
*As I submit to God, and resist you sickness, you must cease in your operation against me!
*My body is the temple of the living God. My body is part of the body of Christ; therefore sickness, you are an illegal intruder. You cannot prosper against me!
*Body, respond to the healing words of God…respond to God’s river of LIFE flowing into every system, organ, and tissue bringing healing, restoration, and a reversal of all damages.
*Sickness in all its forms, leave my body now! (Call out your symptoms one by one and command them to go!
*Body, receive the life, health, wholeness and medicine of God from the top of my head to the souls of my feet!
*Tell your body what it needs to do physically! (“Blood pressure, you be normal.” “Heart, you pump and flow now as intended.” “Immune system, you be strong and fight off germs,” etc.)
Praise you Father, Jesus, Holy Spirit!
Hallelujah!
Praise You Jehovah Rapha!
I AM HEALED!!
To print this meditation, click here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17Pp4tL8PQT5_Z0RMCg2yjKchsgmTEcMV/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=111689598310173266555&rtpof=true&sd=true
You will enjoy listening to this instrumental below while meditating!