There is a process that the world has capitalized on and which we have kind of rejected, because it gets into the demonic. That is the process of meditation.

All the big names and successful people out there say,

"I meditate for at least 30 minutes a day."

You can imagine them sitting there in their Yoga pose and saying,

"Ohmmmm."

Have you tried meditating for 30 minutes? I can't even do it for one minute. My mind starts to go all over the place, because that is what meditation is; sitting and concentrating.

That is why you need words. Because when you speak words then you can visualize.

But meditation is not sitting there with your thoughts all locked up. Meditation in the Scriptural way involves speech. It means to mutter to yourself.

The world calls talking to yourself the first sign of madness. But who will say,

"Hey, you, get out of bed and do what you said you were going to do!"

You will need to hear a voice, and that voice will need to come out of your own mouth. You will need to hear yourself speaking and giving yourself instructions.

Meditate on Your Plans

So, you must take your plans and meditate on them. That means you read them and mutter them out loud repeatedly.

You might say,

"I'm going to do this and I'm going to do that."

You can do it under your breath when you get out of bed in the morning. Pull your plans out. Put them on your phone or your tablet and read them repeatedly.

Speak them out, and if you keep doing this repeatedly it sinks down into your memory. Then when it sinks down into your memory and goes deep down into your sub-conscious, eventually it will automatically start to come out of you.

So, the next time you are facing a situation where you should make a choice and should go in a specific direction, that is when that voice will come up out of you.

Meditate on the Word

Every believer should be meditating, and you should be meditating on the Word of God. Take a couple of Scriptures and meditate them.

Hopefully you are faithful enough to read the Word every day. When you do that, try and find at least one verse that jumps out at you. When you read that verse you might think,

"That is something I can put into practice."

Just take that verse and meditate on it. That means you read it repeatedly and start to speak it out loud. Mutter it repeatedly.

You can take one of the Scriptures I shared at the beginning.

This is how you could do it. You could say,

"Just as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without corresponding action is dead. If I don't act my faith is dead. I need to take action because faith without action is dead."

Say it repeatedly. See it, feel it, taste it and make it real.

When it comes to your plans, you won't need to say,

"What was that plan again?"

Because as you keep speaking, the plan will become alive in you.

Why You Need to Act

Why do we need action? Because action creates a vehicle for the spiritual forces to be released into the earth. Action brings up the power that is in your spirit and it comes out into this world. Until it comes out into this world, that power will accomplish nothing.

Did you know that even speaking words is an action? Think about it. If you do something often enough it becomes a habit.

So, start speaking those words. When you find yourself speaking those words you are doing something. And when you are doing that, you are now opening the way for that power in your spirit to come out. And it will to create the very things that you are desiring.

Get Your Timing Right

Here now is something very important. It is the subject of timing. When should you start speaking and when should you act? Should the one come before the other and should there be a waiting period?

You might ask, "How do I know when the time is right to start doing the things that I have been planning?"

Because you see there is a right time. And if you do it at the wrong time you will miss it.

It is just like firing a rifle at a target. If your target is moving about all the time and you take a pot shot, you will miss. You must wait until the timing is right.

Here is an example of that perfect timing. There it is; a deer in the headlights. It is staring right at you saying,

"Here I am. Shoot me!"

I am just using that as an example. I am not into hunting and killing innocent creatures. But there is a time and a place that is right.

If you go before time you will miss. And if you go too late you are also going to miss. You need to know when the right time is to release that power into the earth.

Charge it Up Fully

The first and most important thing is the power needs to be at its highest peak when you release it. If you release a weak force, you may hit the target, but you are not going to accomplish anything.

That is why you need to start by muttering, meditating and speaking all those things that you wrote down in your plans.

Do that until you begin to feel a charge building up inside you. Do it until you begin to feel your emotions stirring inside you, and until you see your circumstances coming together for that perfect moment for you to act now.

But we don't do that do we? If you act too soon, you will get very little results.

There are some people who think,

"What I will do is to act all the time. I'm just going to keep shooting until the target appears."

So, they shoot - bam, bam, bam. But what kind of power are they going to be putting out in their shots? A whole lot of little weak ones. Then when the target finally appears and they hit it, virtually nothing will happen.

If you do that, sooner or later you will hit something. Some people keep pushing on and on all the time. They are workaholics. We will look at the temperaments shortly.

Workaholics say, "I'm going to do it! I'm faithful and I'm not going to let my emotions get me down. I'll get up in the morning and I'll do my 30 minutes of cardio."

But they never seem to get fit, even though they have been so faithful. Because you find as the experts have begun to prove, that just ordinary cardio exercise at the same pace all the time never accomplishes much anyway.

You need to change the pressure and the stress. You need to have interval training. You need to push yourself harder and then take a rest.

Some people just work, work and work. They work very hard, but their lives are just about the same now as they always were. They are hard workers though.

I gave an illustration way back in the previous volumes of The New Way of Blessing. I said,

"If you take a cork, pull it back and let it go against a big piece of iron that's hanging there, that cork will have hardly any impact on the iron.

But if you keep releasing the cork and let it hit again and again, do you know what happens? The iron eventually begins to sway with the cork."

So, there you are perhaps throwing your cork. You will eventually get some results if you can keep up your persistence. But wouldn't it be better if you just took a bigger iron, hit it once and made it fly off?

Charge Up First

We don't take the time to charge up. We don't take the time to build our spiritual forces. We just keep letting them out.

You know a laser beam is light amplified. If you shine a torch on something it just gives a little bit of light. But if you take that same light and magnify it, then beam it at something, it will burn a hole in it.

Do you know how they make a laser? They take that light beam and send it backwards and forwards through a ruby crystal.

They put a mirror on both sides so the light goes through. It hits the mirror, then goes back through the ruby crystal. And each time it goes through it doubles in power.

The light goes backwards and forwards like that millions of times. And each time it does that the light gets stronger and stronger.

Then eventually, at the right moment, you just take the mirror out of the way. Or you make a hole in the mirror, and that light beam goes out and becomes laser. When that laser hits that object it burns a hole in it.

A lot of us are taking out little torches and just flashing them around, but that has no power. You need to charge up the power before you let it out.

How do you charge up the power? You do it with words. You lay a groundwork for the main action, then you take careful aim before firing. Then after you have fired, you go and check the target to see if you hit it or not before you go firing again. That is the sensible way of doing it.

Scriptural Examples of Using Charged Up Power

I want to now give you some Scriptural examples of this, so you don't think this is just theory that I am giving you.

The Raising of Lazarus

Jesus stood at the graveside of Lazarus. Some days before they asked Him to come, they said,

"Your friend Lazarus is dying. Will you please come and heal him?"

Jesus said, "Sure I'll come."

But He waited for a couple of days, and in the meantime Lazarus died.

Well why did Jesus wait? For the same reason that sometimes you need to wait. Because you need the right timing and you need the right power.

So, did Jesus pray in the meantime? I'm sure He did. I am sure He said,

"Father, what is going on here? What must I do?"

The Father said, "You hold fire and wait, because when you go there you will perform a miracle that will have a far greater impact than the little miracle of healing that you would have performed, if you just went and healed him."

So, Jesus stood there at the graveside of Lazarus and He knew what He was going to do. He waited for the right time, and when the time was right, He began to initiate a process.

He began to prepare for the miracle. He didn't just go off half-cocked. He stood there at the graveside and said,

"Roll away the stone."

Did He want to go and look at the dead body and smell it? Why did He do that? He was preparing for action and preparing for a miracle. Then He prayed and said,

"Father I thank you that you heard me. I know that you always hear me."

Jesus wasn't now coming to God in prayer and saying,

"Please Lord, do you think you could heal Lazarus?"

He had already done His praying, and He prayed for the sake of the people, so that they could see what He did, learn and know.

He had already charged up the power. He stood there, opened His mouth and let out His laser beam.

"Lazarus, come forth!"

There was an instant healing; an instant miracle and resurrection of a dead body.

Have you been waiting for God to do something? Have you been working hard to try and make it happen, but it just never seems to happen?

You have your little cork hitting against the iron all the time. It is time you learn to charge up that power.

You need to meditate on your plans. You need to speak them and build up and increase the template in your soul. You need to increase those pictures until you can almost taste it and you just know it will happen.

You stand when the moment is right. And when you speak, there will be no delay. It will come instantly.

Joshua and the Walls of Jericho

Another good example is Joshua and the conquest of Jericho. Joshua had a revelation on what he was going to do. He had prayed it through. He then prepared the ground for a miracle. He said to the people,

"You start to march around the walls, blowing the trumpets and praising God. But don't you open your mouth and say a thing! Don't do a thing until I tell you that the time is right."

Again, there was a delay. They went around the walls every day for seven days. Then on the seventh day they went around the walls seven times. On the seventh time Joshua said,

"Now shout, because God has given you the city."

When they did that the walls came tumbling down.

Can you imagine Joshua bringing the Israelites to the walls of Jericho and saying?

"Okay guys, we need to get working here. This is a big job.

Everybody, grab a hammer and a chisel and let's start hammering against those walls.

It's quite a thick wall and it could take us a while. But if we all do it together; if we do it consistently and keep working at it, we will get through."

Isn't that the way a lot of us want to do it? Well for those of us who are workaholics, that is the way we want to do it. Those of us who are not workaholics take one look at it and say,

"It can't be done."

Then we don't do it. But already here in the Scriptures we see the right way.

What makes the difference between us succeeding in this or not? Why is it that some people seem to find it easier and others have a problem? Why is it that some people want to go like a bull in a china shop and others want to hold back?

There is a very simple reason for it. It's called temperament.