An example of revelation knowledge is when you are reading the
Bible and a verse leaps off the page, hits you between the eyes, and God says,
“This is for you right now.” These are precious experiences for the
believer. However, for many, they do not happen often enough. There are seven
things I do which allow me the privilege of receiving revelation knowledge every
time I read the Bible. Truth and insights leap off the page and an understanding
of how they are to adjust my life permeates my spirit and soul. I love this
experience and hunger for it every time I read the Scriptures. That is why I
prepare myself by doing the following seven things. Prayerfully reflect on these
steps and determine which ones you do and don’t use.
Biblical
Meditation
Resulting
in illumination, revelation knowledge, anointed reasoning
Do Not
Do This:
Left-brain
Study/Rational
Humanism
But Do
This:
Whole-brain/Heart
Meditation/Divine
Revelation
Have unconfessed sin
Have a pre-conceived attitude
Be independent: “I can...”
Read quickly
Rely on
reason & analysis only
Read without specific purpose
Take credit for insights
Be washed by Jesus’ blood
Have a teachable attitude
Pray: “Lord, show me”
Slow down, ponder, muse
Combine anointed
reason,
flowing pictures, music &
speech
Read with focused purpose
Glorify God for insights
The Seven Steps of Biblical Meditation Explained:
Lord, cleanse me by Your
blood: Since receiving divine revelation is at the heart of biblical
meditation, you must prepare yourself to receive from the Holy Spirit by
repenting and being cleansed by the blood of the Lamb. You must be obedient
to previous revelations from God (Matt. 7:6), and confess any sin in your
life, so you are not cut off from ongoing revelation (Is. 59:1,2; I Jn.
1:9).
Lord, grant me a teachable
attitude: Revelation is given to those who maintain an attitude of
humility, and it is withheld from the proud and the arrogant. So keep an
open, humble attitude before God, allowing Him the freedom to shed greater
light on any ideas you currently hold and to alter them as He sees fit (Jas.
4:6; II Pet. 1:19).
Lord, I will not use my
faculties myself: You can do nothing of your own initiative but only
what you hear and see by the Spirit (Jn. 5:19,20,30). You do not have a mind
to use, but a mind to present to God so He can use it and fill it with
anointed reason and divine vision (Prov. 3:5-7; Rom. 12:1,2). If you use
your mind yourself, it is a dead work (Heb. 6:1,2).
Lord, I pray that the eyes of
my heart might be enlightened: Slow down as you read, mulling the text
over and over in your heart and mind, praying constantly for God to give you
a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him (Eph. 1:17,18; Ps.
119:18).
Lord, I present the abilities
to reason and to imagine to You to fill and flow through by Your Spirit:
Meditation involves presenting your faculties to God for Him to fill and
use. These include your left-brain reasoning capacities as well as your
right-brain visual capacities. Look for the river of God (i.e. “Spirit
flow”) to guide and fill both hemispheres, granting you anointed reasoning
and dream and vision (Jn. 7:37-39). Music can assist you, as can muttering,
speaking, and writing as you go through the discovery process (II Kings
3:15).
Lord, show me the solution to
the problem I am facing: Focused attention brings additional energies of
concentration of heart and mind, which help release revelation. For example,
note the difference between a ray of sunlight hitting a piece of paper, and
sunlight going through a magnifying glass to hit a piece of paper. The
focused energy creates a ray so concentrated that the paper bursts into
flames. When you have a hunger to master a new understanding and discipline,
that hungry and searching heart will cause you to see things you would not
normally see (Matt. 5:6).
Thank You, Lord, for what You
have shown me: Realizing that the revelation came from the indwelling
Holy Spirit, give all the glory to God for what has been revealed (Eph.
3:21).
Another Great Aid to “Seeing”: Writing Out Scripture
When you write or type out a verse, you discover words which
you otherwise might have missed. Therefore, I write out verses which I know are
key truths for my life. I pray over them, diagram them, analyze them, meditate
on them. That is why I have written many of my books. I write so I can learn, so
I can put truths I am understanding in my own words and in a framework which is
meaningful for me.
The following is the law which God gave for new kings who had
just been crowned and were coming to sit upon their throne for the first time:
“Now it shall come
about when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself a
copy of this law on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests” (Deut.
17:18).
Since we are kings and priests, are we to do any less (I Pet
2:9)? Let us make the writing out of Scriptures an important part of our lives.
