Use your mind to seek God in creative ways. Visualize yourself in a Bible story as you explore it as if you were there. Or place yourself into a different landscape or situation and allow the Holy Spirit to take you where it wills, as in this post.
Tag: prayer
Who’s Praying and Why? / Spiritual Meditations
Do you think your spiritual leaders’ prayers are more likely to be heard by God than your prayers? How does prayer work?
Unlocking Contemplative Meditation / Spiritual Meditations
In contemplative meditation, loving is more important than thinking, listening more important than asking, being more important than doing, and a deep and attentive silence the most important of all.
Healing Your Heart of Trench Warfare / Spiritual Meditations
The Gospels, silent prayer and Jesus are our antidotes to divisiveness.
Centering Prayer Forms Intimacy with God / Spiritual Meditations
Silent centering prayer balances the mistaken understanding of prayer as a one-way conversation by focusing on what is being communicated from the other end of the telephone line.
Rest Your Mind & Body / Spiritual Meditations
When our mind stills and enters deep silence we come to revelation about ourselves. Silence leads us into transformation and toward knowledge of God.
A Spiritual Expert’s Private Thoughts on Meditation / Spiritual Meditations
Prayer & meditation should never be regarded as a science or reduced to a system because it is essentially a living and personal relationship, which tends to become more personal and more simple, as one goes on.
Loss of Faith Regained Through Mysticism / Spiritual Meditation
When life takes on a dull meaningless quality void of transcendence, transformation can be accomplished through mystical experience of God.
Are You Ready for the Miraculous? / Spiritual Meditations
To experience the miraculous we cannot demand it from God by using some magical incantation. Neither is a life of study required. A seeking heart makes the connection.
You Can’t Ask Too Much for God / Spiritual Meditations
As long as we live on this earth, our constant approach to God will be that of persons in need. Prayer is not only a call for help. It is first and foremost an acknowledgement that everything we are and everything we have comes from God..