Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, November 27th.

Biblical meditation is the key to listening to God so believers can understand his will.

Let's listen to meditation. so believers can understand his will.

Let's listen to meditation, the key to listening.

If I'm going to be a follower of Jesus Christ, then I have to know where to go. In order to know where to go, I have

to be able to listen to him. And if I'm going to listen to him, I have to learn how to listen to him and if I'm going to listen to him I have to learn how to listen to him

and a part of learning to listen is meditation being able to meditate upon him and upon his word and focus upon him in such a way

that God is able to do something in my life that conforms me to his likeness. Now we think about meditation today, the easterners

have sort of taken that word and put another connotation on it when in the scriptures, meditating upon God was a lifestyle for God's servants and

his saints. Today meditation people think about yoga and all the rest, but God's people have probably gotten away from one of the most essential

elements in the Christian life if you and I going to be men and women of God. So I want us to look at a passive scripture because David the

one man that God said here's a man after my own heart. If you look at his life you

think a man after your own heart look at all the things he did that were wrong

that were evil here is committing not only telling lies and committing murder

and adultery and all the rest and God said here's a man after my own heart a man who

knew how to meditate upon God. So I want you to turn, if you will, to

2nd Samuel. Second Samuel is an event in the life of David and if you'll notice in the seventh chapter of where

he is at this point and then we'll read a little later on in the chapter the

scripture says in 2nd

Samuel chapter 7 now it came about when the king that is David lived in his

house and the Lord had given him rest on every side from all of his enemies. Therefore the wars were over, the

battles had been fought, he had won and now he's resting. He's taking a little easy. And so

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