The staff at the International House of prayer Northwest have been practicing silent prayer. So Good. The idea is to listen to Jesus while setting in quiet for an hour every day.
Doing this was really hard, to listen that long and be still, I found that I would fall asleep during part of it. I remember the Lord saying once that while I was silently listening that I was strengthening my inner man as I sat silently before Him.
What I have found that helps me is to ask the Lord what verse I should meditate on (or just pick a verse that has been speaking to me) and then go to that verse and read it , and think about it and read it and ask Holy Spirit about it and just be quite before the verse. It is so important to be silent before the Word of God and allow it to do its work after all the Word of God is a living person, Jesus is His name.
I Remember when I was living in Hawaii during the fall of 2007, I was meditating on the Psalms in my morning devotions. I remember that it was during one of these times that I was just reading and rereading this one Psalm asking about the meaning and contemplating on the verses when the Lord said to me "this is the most intimate thing that you can do with me." I did not fully realize the significance of what He was saying (probably still don't) but He was saying in essence you are meditating on my Son, Jesus is the word of God.
The Word of God is in essence God exteriorizing Himself to us in a way that man can internalize ourselves toward God. Jesus taking on the form of man, and living amongst is the ultimate picture of this.
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