As we begin this meditation,
I want to invite you to just find a comfortable position.
Allow for yourself to get any shifts or movements out and just find a still quiet place to be able to rest your mind and your body.
During our time together today,
We will focus on two scriptures from the book of Psalms,
Both written by King David.
Psalms 26 2 reads,
Prove me,
O Lord,
And try me.
Test my heart and my mind.
Psalms 32 8 reads,
I will instruct you and teach you in the way that you should go.
I will counsel you with my eye upon you.
Let us pray.
Dear Heavenly Father,
I pray that we are able to open our hearts and our minds to let you guide us.
I pray that we steadfast within your love and the journey you have set before us.
Allow for us to use this time with you to nurture us mentally,
Emotionally and spiritually.
In Jesus name I pray,
Amen.
Surrendering and obeying the Lord is the key to discerning his voice.
God keeps you from surrendering to the Lord.
What is stopping you from fully obeying the Lord in all aspects of your life?
Amen.
Hold in your hand the key of surrender and obedience.
Right now in your mind's eye picture God's guidance and directions as a large key.
A magic key.
Imagine your key running the full length of your palm extending beyond both your fingers and your wrist.
What does your key look like?
What does the weight of your key feel like?
What is engraved?
What is engraved within your key?
This key is like no other key that you have seen or used before.
That's how you know it must be able to unlock something that you have never experienced before.
As you continue to imagine.
And explore your key.
I want to invite you to send your breath down your arm.
Close your wrist onto your palm out of your fingers and into your key.
Continue to breathe life into your key.
Fuller silence.
Allow for all of the things that you are holding back from surrendering and obeying to be released upon to God.
Right here,
Right now,
I want for you to make the commitment that you are holding back from the Lord.
I want you to make the commitment to use your key.
Choose right now to receive this key and take seriously the privilege of using it.
Allow to use this key even without full clarity of what he may ask you to do or where he may instruct you to use it.
Say yes Lord.
Yes Lord.
Be brave enough to let God search you further.
Ask him to reveal anything and all things that may be blocking you from clearly hearing him.
Let us pray.
Father God,
Please allow for us to let go of those people,
Places or things that you say are blocking us from hearing you clearly.
Please do not let us forget that we can always lean upon your written word.
Lord,
Please open our hearts so that we can fully obey and surrender to you and only to you.
Lord,
We are open to you testing our heart and our mind.
We know that you say,
I will instruct you and teach you in the ways which you should go.
Lord,
Please allow for us to let go of our own will and seek the will of our creator.
In Jesus name I pray,
Amen.
