The fourth ingredient of meditation is CONFESSION. The Hebrew word for “meditation” means “to mutter, to murmur.” We call this CONFESSION. A vital ingredient to meditation is speaking or confessing to ourselves what we are thinking.
Joshua 1:8 tells us:
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
This verse shows us the connection between meditation and confession. There is a spiritual dynamic released when your heart hears your mouth speak God’s word. When you speak something, it becomes dynamic. Our thoughts and meditations are crystallized when we speak them out loud.
With the aim of keeping God’s Word at the forefront of our mind, confession is a vital link. This “speaking to yourself’ is a powerful tool in retaining God’s Word in your thoughts.
Many become easily swayed and directed away from the crucible of meditation because they don’t know HOW to meditate and retain God’s Word in their heart. Confession is an exercise in discipline and maintaining the direction you desire your thought life to pursue.
There is another important purpose to confessing or speaking God’s Word to ourselves. That principle is discovered in Romans 10:17:
So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Faith comes by hearing. The more you hear yourself speaking God’s Word, the more faith is released to you. The “hearing” of this verse is a “hearing” that produces understanding. This understanding becomes the foundation for strong faith.
