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Guided Christian Meditation on Gratitude
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We have so many reasons to be grateful to God. Today, let’s take time to focus thankfully on His Word.
Join me as we meditate on three important relevant scriptures and prayerfully seek inspiration and guidance through the Holy Spirit.
First, let’s just breathe in and out. This breath is given us by God, and this helps us to settle and prepare for meditation. Three times we’ll breathe in deeply for seven seconds and out for seven seconds.
Follow my voice and the progress bar.
Breathe in.
Breathe out.
Again, breathe in.
Breathe out.
Last time, breathe in.
Breathe out.
Before we meditate, please offer a brief prayer in your head or out loud, thanking God for His Word and asking Him to meet with you today. I’ll give you a moment to pray.
We’ll meditate on three passages starting with 1 Chronicles 16 verse 34.
O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever.
Please repeat that after me out loud or in your mind.
O give thanks to the Lord
for he is good
for his steadfast love endures forever.
As a meditation aid, I’m going to ask two questions. I’ll leave the passage and the questions on screen for you. Do pause the video if you’d like more time on this.
Question one: How does God’s goodness provoke our thanks? Question two: How is God’s love steadfast?
Our second meditation passage is Psalm 118 verse 24.
This is the day that the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Repeat that after me.
This is the day that the Lord has made.
Let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Two more questions. Question one: What might God do in this day He has made?
Question two: How can you rejoice?
Our final scripture comes from Colossians 3:17.
And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.
Please repeat that passage now.
And whatever you do,
in word or deed,
do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus,
giving thanks to God the Father through him.
And two questions. The first is, list some things you can do in Jesus’ name.
And the second question, how can you do these things gratefully?
Thank you, God, for your good word, which you have provided to us as a help, a guide, and a revelation of your own holy person. Please continue to do your work in us through your Holy Spirit to transform us evermore into the likeness of Jesus Christ, in whom no evil is found. Amen.
I’ll make some space now for you to offer your own prayer to God, or simply to rest quietly in His presence as you reflect on this time of meditation.
Please come back to this meditation as often as it helps you. God is infinite, and he can show us so many different things in just one verse. With the Holy Spirit’s guidance, each time we meditate can be fresh and full of his life.
Can I pray a blessing over you?
There are so many reasons to thank you, oh God. We come before you in worship and awe. As my friend’s heart is lifted up to you now in gratitude, I ask you to fill it further with yet more reasons to thank and praise you. Fill us with yourself, our Lord, for that is more than enough. Amen.
