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Meditation is more than just reading.

It involves filling your mind with God’s Word, so you think about it throughout the day. It requires the discipline to keep His Word on the front of our minds despite the twists and turns that our day makes take.

Sure, you think about other things as well, but all the while, you are applying the Word of God to yourself personally and to the things you do. Instead of dwelling on your problems or the latest media report, you dwell on what God’s Word says.

God’s Word won’t bring you down like so many words spoken in this day and age. His Words don’t invoke fear, guilt, or frustration but instead provide feelings of peace, wisdom, and true, fulfilling happiness. His Words build us up instead of tearing us down. They never discourage but instead motivate us to be closer to Him.

God created a picture for Joshua. He painted the picture that God was with him, and He was for him. It was a picture of strength and victory—a picture of success.

When you meditate on the Word, God paints a picture on the inside of you, too. It is a picture of you being the head, not the tail. Of you being blessed, not cursed. It is a picture of your soul prospering, of abundance and not lacking.

When you meditate on God’s Word, it fills your heart and mind just as it did for Joshua. As a result, you have peace and calmness even during extreme difficulties.

Because God’s Word is in your heart and mind, nothing the devil does can make you stumble.