God’s Meditation, Revelation, Motivation, Action, Fruit
As you find areas in your life that do not line up with God’s plan, the need to change course will be clear. How can you effect the necessary change? In our School of Biblical Studies, we teach a principle that I call Meditation, Revelation, Motivation, Action, Fruit. This is what I personally use to understand and implement the course changes that God desires for my life. This system for change works for everyone because it is based upon God’s Word.
Remember, though, that if after learning this truth you don’t engage in it, this principle will become useless to you. Continue to use this system throughout your life for divine direction, for the power to change, and to release the authority of truth into your life. Then, you will not have to settle for living less than God’s best.
The Bible school course contains more details, but here we will summarize this truth. This principle states:
* Meditation produces revelation
* Revelation produces motivation
* Motivation produces action
* Action produces fruit
Meditation Produces Revelation
The Bible commands us to meditate on the Word of God. We find the biblical standard for the principle of meditation in the book of Joshua:
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. (Joshua 1:8)
The last part of this verse promises that biblical meditation will work for you. However, you must do it as God directs in this passage. Here, the Bible instructs that you must meditate on God’s Word continually so you can obey it.
In applying this principle to changing courses in your life, you need to meditate on the Word of God until He reveals His truth to you for the particular area in which you need direction. Meditate until you have the revelation of truth, which means that the cover is removed and you can see the matter as He does.
How do you meditate? The word meditate means to mutter and speak His Word over and over again. Therefore, you are to read the Bible and listen to yourself speak portions of it over and over and over and over again until it affects you. If you continue this process, you will capture the insight, understanding, wisdom, and revelation of God. Why? It is because He desires to show you how to obey His Word and fulfill His plan for your life.
If, after examining your life today, you find some areas that do not line up with God’s Word and purpose, determine what is causing these negative results. Remember that for every effect, there is a cause. The way to change a result or effect is to change the cause. In other words, you need to find the root of the error and remove it. Until you do this, it is useless to cut off the bad fruit in your life. The negative root will continue to poison your life until you destroy that bad root.
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