Christian Meditation for A Bigger Lif...
Christian Meditation can help refocus your mind and recalibrate your body to get the stress, anxiety and anger out of your heart and out of your body. Spend about 23 minutes to "be still" with God as each episode uses a different biblical image to experience God's presence and promises in a way that brings relaxation and renewal. Look for new episodes every Tuesday and Thursday.
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How to Imagine a Deeper Relationship with Jesus...
Sometimes Jesus uses poetic, imaginative language to illustrate his relationship with us, especially in the Gospel of John. These are great places in Scripture to use for prayer. John 10 is particularly one of those places where Jesus gives us imaginat...
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Reset and Re-calibrate Your Perspective Through...
Every day I need to recenter my perspective by remembering my neediness for God, and remembering to put my trust in him. That sounds so basic, yet most problems in our life first stem from getting off center from basic truths. This is a short basic psa...
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How to Pray as a Meditation on Who You Are in C...
Prayer is also a form of meditation. For years, I have found Paul’s self-descriptive words in Galatians 2:20 to be a powerful prayer/meditation for me. It focuses on who I am in Christ, what my life story truly is now, and my basis for confidence in Go...
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How to Pray When You’re Burdened | Prayer on Ps...
On a scale of 1-10, King David’s fear and anxiety was at an 11 in this psalm. The African theologian Athanasius (AD 296–373) once observed, “The other Scriptures speak to us, but the Psalms speak for us.” That’s what we’re doing in this podcast. Lettin...
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How to Pray When You’re Afraid
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How Do We Pray Through Rumors Against Us? | Pra...
There are times when people are spreading rumors about us. Maybe at work. In our extended families. Our church. Among our friends. And these times can be emotionally draining. We’re not sure how to begin to defend ourselves. We toss at night with worry...
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How Do We Pray When We Feel Far From God? | Pra...
Sometimes we feel far away from God. Often that’s because we feel a low-grade guilt for sin in our life. But Psalm 65 shows us that God is not surprised or shocked by our sin. He just wants us to come to him with it. That’s why he has built into these ...
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How to Live the Joy of the Future Now | Prayer ...
This podcast is called A Bigger Life because I’m convinced the biggest obstacle to our joy-filled life is when we get hijacked by a smaller narrative for our life. The Bible’s bigger story is the remedy for that. And Psalm 66 gives us an interesting gl...
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When Unfaithfulness to God Looks More Appealing...
Psalm 73 sounds as contemporary as it gets with an honest struggle when we see the lives of those who disregard God as people with better lives. God becomes boring to us. Our Christian life becomes burdensome to us. This is one of those true-to-reality...
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What Do You Do When Praying Doesn’t Work?
Sometimes when we’re anxious or worried and we pray, our anxiety and worry seem to get worse. We can’t sleep. What do you do then? Let’s look at this raw reality by meditating on Psalm 77.Psalm 77 ESV A PSALM OF ASAPH.1 I cry aloud to God, a...
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Joining Thousands of Angels in Prayer | Prayer ...
When we get the Gospel wrong, we pray wrong. Revelation 5 gives us a glimpse behind the scenes of what the real story and promise of the Gospel is as we join thousands of angels in praise. Revelation 5:1–12 NIV 1 Then I saw in the right h...
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Praying in Awe | Prayer on Revelation 4
Imagine the awe of being present before God’s very throne. That’s what John sees in a vision in Revelation 4. And we can imagine that scene as we pray through John’s description of what he saw. Revelation 4:8–11 NIV 8 Each of the four liv...
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Praying to Be Godly | Prayer on Psalm 86
Psalm 86 is a good go-to psalm when you want to pray something that re-boots your perspective on your life and problems. It helps you re-focus your trust in God as YOUR God and his steadfast love for YOU..Psalm 86:2–5 ESV 2 Preserve my life, f...
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Living Inside the Story God Created YOU For | P...
When you can hear God speaking specifically to YOU in this passage, he reminds you who HE is and who YOU are and the real story your life is in. Praying through God’s words in this passage is very powerful.Isaiah 44:1–8 NIV1 “But now listen, Jacob,...
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Believing What The I AM Says About You | Prayer...
When you can hear God speaking specifically to YOU in this passage, you can replace your fear and anxiety with God’s presence and love. Praying through God’s words in this passage is very powerful. Isaiah 42:5–7 NIV 5 This is what God t...
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How to Not Be Afraid | Prayer on Isaiah 41
When you can hear God speaking specifically to YOU in this passage, you can replace fear and anxiety with God’s presence and care. Isaiah 41:8–10 NIV 8 “But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, you descendants of Abraham ...
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How to have a bigger concept of God | Prayer on...
LIke Psalm 81, these verses in Isaiah 40 are God speaking to his people. We can get a bigger/truer picture/concept of God’s power, wisdom and care by lifting up our eyes and experience God speaking to us. Isaiah 40:12 NIVWho has measured the...
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What Will Satisfy You? | Prayer on Psalm 81:8-16
Our lives are always a miserable prison when God gives us over to follow our own stubborn hearts. But we can find true satisfaction by listening to his word and submitting to him. This Psalm is the voice of God to us through the prophet Asaph....
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God Rules From Forever Past to Forevermore | Pr...
Using our imagination, praying through this Psalm helps us see the reality our life is in forever. Psalm 93 1 The LORD reigns; he is robed in majesty; the LORD is robed; he has put on strength as his belt. Yes, the world is established;...
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Worship In the Very Presence of God | Prayer on...
How can we worship in the very presence of God? The ancient Temple in the Old Testament is a picture of how we worship Him in Spirit and truth when we enter his presence through Jesus. Psalm 84 ESVA PSALM OF THE SONS OF KORAH. 1 How l...
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Feasting on the Abundance of God | Prayer on Ps...
We can see our sin for what it really is when we compare it to feasting on the abundance of God. Psalm 36 ESV 1 Transgression speaks to the wicked deep in his heart; there is no fear of God before his eyes. 2 For he flatters hims...
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The Fountain of Living Water | Prayer on Jeremi...
What would you exchange for the glory of God? The strongest motivation not to sin is when we understand the stupidity of turning from God as our only true satisfaction. Jeremiah 2:11–13 ESV 11 But my people have changed their glor...
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The Power of Giving Thanks | Prayer on Psalm 92
We bring God’s power into our lives and circumstances when we learn to give thanks. Psalm 92:1–5 ESV 1 It is good to give thanks to the LORD, to sing praises to your name, O Most High; 2 to declare your steadfast love in the morn...
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Can We See God’s Presence? | Prayer on Psalm 91...
We can take refuge in God’s presence by seeing him with our imagination in prayer Psalm 91:1–2 ESV1 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. 2 I will say to the LORD, “My refuge and my fo...
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Our Dependency on God’s Mercy | Prayer on Psalm 57
We can take refuge in God’s mercy for us whenever we approach him in prayer Psalm 57:1–5, 10-11 ESVTO THE CHOIRMASTER: ACCORDING TO DO NOT DESTROY. A MIKTAM OF DAVID, WHEN HE FLED FROM SAUL, IN THE CAVE. 1 Be merciful to me, O God, be...
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