A Meditation to Experience God’s Presence with Your Biblically Guided Imagination in Psalm 16:8-9

This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life – a time for you to relax your body, refocus your mind, and to re-imagine and re-narrate your life to a truer reality. I’m Dave Cover. I want to help you with Christian meditation where you can break through all the distractions and experience God’s presence through biblically guided imagination. 

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Imagination is your mind’s God-given ability to form powerful images of things not physically seen. It’s part of being created in the image of God. Remember in the first chapter of the Bible we see over and over how God first imagined (let there be) and then it was so. 

If you lay in bed at night and think about having a conflict with someone, your imagination will make your body prepare for a conflict. That’s its power. Your body will believe the real and the unreal just as quickly, depending on what your imagination is focused on. 

That’s why our imagination can be a tool of our spiritual enemy to deceive us. Often the devil’s slander happens in our mind through our imagination. When we ruminate on past offenses against us. Or ruminate on our shame. Or we imagine a future where God cannot be trusted.

But also our biblically guided imagination can be a powerful weapon in our spiritual warfare. 

Our mind operates primarily through images. And so does the Bible. So much of the Bible gives us imagination more than information. 

Our biblically guided imagination allows us to enter into an experience of God rather than just intellectual knowledge. A great example of this is what David writes in Psalm 16:8-9.

Psalms 16:8-9 (NIV)

8 I keep my eyes always on the LORD.

With him at my right hand, I will not be shaken.

9 Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest secure.

Today you can envision and embrace the joy, thankfulness, and security of “seeing” God’s near presence. 

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