SPIRIT–DEPENDENT TEACHING:
#7 Meditative

7 Principles on Excellent Teaching

Paul J. Bucknell
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Index | Desirous | Purposed | Humbled | Prayerful
Attentive | Changeable | Meditative

Believing God’s Word will bear forth fruit

We are confident that the Holy Spirit will use God’s Word stored up through past meditation.

Meditation on God’s Word has both immediate and long term effects. Many truths are stored up for the future. It is like planting seeds in our minds from which the Holy Spirit at the appropriate time germinates the truth and thus bears fruit.

How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, Nor stand in the path of sinners, Nor sit in the seat of scoffers! But his delight is in the law of the LORD, And in His law he meditates day and night (Ps 1:1-2).

I sat down and started having devotion. I had already asked the Lord in the past week about this coming lesson on Samson. God took the word ‘power’ and ‘strength’ from Psalm 62 to begin teaching me many things that He wanted me to know about Samson even before I read the text. The word was stored in my heart.

Filling up with God’s Word

The teacher will not fear those quiet times in God’s Word when nothing seems to be said or done. He keeps going deeper, knowing that the Word of God will accomplish God’s great purposes (Isaiah). His studies are never in vain.

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