MBC has a complete course on Meditation and Revelation. It can be purchased as a course from MBC via internet. I am simply refering to the introduction on the subject. There is much more practical applications but basically meditation means to study, consider and receive insight and guidance to know what to do and how to operate in life. Divine wisdom is available but we do not wait long enough to receive it so we run off with half-baked answers and get hurt as a result. There are definite techniques to be learned in the art of meditation.Meditation in the word ? seven steps

Joshua 1: 8-9 – ?Keep it in your mouth?

1. Apply it personally and corporately.
2. Revealed by Holy Spirit.
3. Ponder how it applies to you, to the church.
4. How does it change your situation?
5. Agree with what God says about you, us.
6. See yourself as God sees you.
7. Recognise the word as truth.

? Meditation fixes your mind on the Word.
? It orders your thoughts.
? It brings your will in line with God?s will for your life, your family, the church body.
? It will help you observe what to do.
? It will bring you prosperity and good success.

The word of God is just as active and alive today, just as operative as it was the day the prophets spoke it or wrote it.

MEDITATION & REVELATION ? ANDREW MURRAY
With additional notes of Apostle Dr. Andre Pelser.

How did men and women of God know what to do? Be strong and very courageous.
It was revealed to them. How?
Josh 1:7-9
– Meditate
– Observe to do
– Prosper
– Good success

If anyone needed a success formula, Joshua did:

?Blessed is the man whose delight is in the law of the Lord; and in His law doth he meditate day and night? ? Psalm 1:1-2.

Do not be afraid, nor dismayed for the Lord your God is with you.

Heb. H A G A H – Speak, study, talk, utter
Murmur in pleasure or anger
Ponder, imagine, mourn, mutter, row

?Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord? ? Psalm 19:14 & 49:3.

1. The true aim of meditation – To bring out ?ausziehen? discover technology
Study, reading, is to be found, not in what it brought into us, but in what is brought out of ourselves, by the awakening into active exercise of our inward power.

2. Reflection and Meditation: Not to grasp but assimilate into the will ? part of life.
Just as in reflection the understanding grasps all the meaning of a truth, so in meditation the heart assimilates the truth and makes it a part of its own life (the heart, i.e. the will and the affection). The meditation of the heart implies desire, acceptance, surrender, love. What the heart truly believes, that it receives with love and joy.

Meditation is the heart turning towards God with His own Word, seeking to take it up into the affection and will, into its very life.

To grasp an argument, the intellect often has to put forth its utmost efforts.
To grasp the mystery of God?s Word, we hide the Word in the depth of heart, and believe that, by the Holy Spirit, its meaning and power will be revealed in our inner life. ?Thou desireth truth in the inward parts?.
Philemon 14: without your consent?I will do nothing.
Acts 1:8 ? powers to be my witness?see what I can do.

In our intellectual study of the bible, the object is to know and understand. In meditation the chief object is to appropriate and experience. A readiness to believe every promise implicitly, to obey every command unhesitatingly. By obeying we will know if it is of God ? John 7:17.