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• Due to the amount of press that Transcendental Meditation received in the sixties, many associate the term “meditation” with Transcendental Meditation.
• Many devout followers of Christ are convinced that meditation is bad and identify meditation with the new age, the occult, or eastern religions.
• Scripture makes it plain that meditation is as normal and practical as prayer, and should be part of our daily lives.
• Biblical meditation can be defined as listening to God.

• We begin by detaching ourselves from the world; we continue by attaching ourselves to God.
• Due to our busy schedules, we can't escape to the wilderness every time we want to meditate, so we each need to find a secluded place within ourselves where we go to pray and be with God.
• The greatest obstacle to meditation is our inability to say truthfully that we want God alone.

• When we meditate, we submit ourselves to God’s timing.
• Meditation moves us beyond simply asking and receiving and leads us into a deeper kind of communion with God that simply basks in his presence.
• When we meditate, we commit ourselves to waiting on God in faith, and resting in his presence.

• Spiritual growth requires that you be silent long enough to hear the voice of God.
• Many people are uncomfortable with silence.
• When noisy distractions are eliminated, it is easier to think about God.

• Scripture challenges us to take our prayer life a step further, into intimate communion with God, where we remove all the distractions of the outside world and can hear his voice.