Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, September 16th.

Daily time reading and thinking about God's Word is the training ground that develops strong

faith. Stay with us and learn about the power of biblical meditation.

The most important thing in your life and my life is our intimate personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

And the most important activity in our life is the time we spend alone with him.

Now, when you and I think about meditation, let's think about it the way I believe God thinks about it.

Meditation isn't Bible study.

Meditation is reading the scriptures, listening to God, thinking, concentrating, asking the Lord to speak to our heart, asking the Lord to apply it to our heart, being quiet, being alone is the best way, and just allowing God to grab our attention, to absorb,

and to become absolutely obsessed with him in his presence. Very important in meditation is consistency.

Notice what he said. He says, you to meditate upon this word when? Day and night.

Don't turn to the right. Don't turn to the left. Don't deviate one bit. You do exactly what I've told

you to do through my servant Moses. He says, because I'm going to be with you just like I was with

Moses, all the days of your life. He says, I'll never forsake you.

The crucial thing here is what he said to him in this time of Joshua's life when it was the

greatest challenge of his life. What was God's command to him? Joshua, if you want to be a success,

here's what you do. You learn to meditate upon the word of God, my word to Moses, my servant, and you will succeed in what you do.

And so last time we spent a lot of time describing what was involved in all that and meditation.

But what I'd like to do this evening is talk about what you and I can expect to happen in our lives when we learn to meditate.

That is to take time to be

alone with God, listening to him, talking to him, in his word, being quiet, not looking for

something to give someone else, but ask him the Lord. Father, I want you to search my heart.

I want you to speak to me. I want to be able to absorb and to apply and to understand what I need to hear from

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