"It's not the absence of thought but actually very deep thought on one specific topic." - Love this! Thank you for this video!

Psalm 1:3 ~ "He is like a tree planted by streams of water." A tree is sturdy, they stand firm during storms. Streams of water are a life support. Jesus is the Living Water. A stream of Life. Be firm in your stance, don't break when the storms come. Remain close to your stream of Living Water (Jesus) and you will be strong and able to withstand.

I think some of us will get confused with the word "meditation", as you also pointed out. It really is stuck in peoples heads as something that like buddhists do. But after listening to your song where it says "day and night I will meditate on your word" I read the passage and and realized what meditation in a biblical sense really ment. In german bibles there is this word for this called "nachsinnen". It really describes this act because it is translated like 'deeply thinking over and over again about something', which you said aswell. So in my german bibles there isn't "meditieren" (meditate) as a word, but rather "nachsinnen", which I find interesting. So thank you for doing this video! I think it will help many people, myself included, while reading the scripture!

Glory be to the father spirit and son

I have to agree that both reading a complete passage like a book and meditating on a specific verse / a few verses is really important. I was just reading the book of Jeremiah and it gave me a great overview over his life, how God worked through him and about the history of his time. but then one passage jumped out at me although I didn't fully understand it at first, so I started thinking about it and reading it over and over again and asking God what this was supposed to show me. And slowly, the meaning of the passage for my personal life seemed to unfold in my head and it's really helped me ever since. thanks for sharing your opinion on the topic! I might go ahead and try out that method you presented.

Wow! Thank you so much for sharing this!! As you read your verse God shared some insights with me!.. Plus, my brain always has like 7 tabs open 🤪♥️

Thanks for this! I find it so encouraging to hear how other Christians spend their quiet time. We are all in this together.

This is so beautiful! You’re truly a trailblazer. You’re setting such a great example for this generation. I absolutely love that you’re not watering down the word but truly living it out.

Great video! Really enjoyed the practical 3 part method - so helpful - I will be using that! When I meditate, I tend to just write a verse or two over and over again (usually creatively, sometimes just simply) so that I learn it and then as I go over the words, usually ask God what it means and pray about it! Not only at the time has it been beneficial, I have found that even weeks/months after, God will remind me of the verse in a relevant situation e.g. When I'm concerned about what's next, I remember verses like 'For I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you and not harm you, plans to give you hope and a future' etc. which will then help me to focus on Him and His truth for me in that situation. Recently, I've been meditating on Matt 7:13-14 and asking God how and what it means to take the narrow gate. 'Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.' I feel like there's so much to these verses and how it looks practically!! Being in the world but not of the world, committing to serve the Lord wholeheartedly, standing firm in battles and trials, being led by the Holy Spirit, godliness, daily sacrifice etc. It also made me think of the verses in Luke 14 about counting the cost and also in Heb 12 about running the race! I'm still learning and wonder if I've only just scratched the surface 😆 This video has also encouraged me to meditate more regularly and reminded me of the benefits, thank you! I'm planning on setting some separate time to meditate each day this week and am excited and expectant that God will highlight new things in the verses, change my heart, deepen my faith & love for Jesus! I'm going to pick a verse and start meditating now!! Who else is going to join in?!

I was reading a book named Divine Direction. First passage caught me, "You are one decision away from changing your life forever" and from that I made a decision to read and meditate His word on a daily basis. Few months, I've listened to rivers and robots and wooo man it really helps me while reading and meditating the Word of God. Until the Lord brought me to this channel and I almost watched every vids you made. This is one of the plot twist of my 2019. Watching and listening to your music and vlogs really helps. Keep it up brothers in Christ! Thank you so much for being an inspiration to this generation 😍

I prefer turning it in to a conversation with God than singing or writting the scriptures again and again. But this is beautiful, i want my life to be full of meditations

One thing I would like to add, while in eastern theology one's goal is to achieve an empty mind, and as a Christian, this is not what we are trying to do, but to be filled with the things of God. That being said, I have found great importance in emptying my mind (of carnal thoughts, nagging tasks, things contradictory to the Lord etc..), so I might have my mind consumed with the things of the Lord. To cast of the things of the outer man, and put on the inner man which is created after Him that created him, (Ephesians 4:22-24). How can we mediate on the Lord if our mind is already occupied, right? Just something I have found helpful in my personal walk. Cheers in Christ!

I'm definitely trying this method

Brilliant! 🌞🌞🌞 I just did this for the first time ever and I think I'm hooked! We're almost instantly intimate with God because you're dialoguing instead of just praying for things we want. Also, DEFINITIONS ARE AWESOME! So many words are so common to us we dont even grasp what all they mean but looking up the definition to words like "belong" or even "through" can bring you a couple layers deeper into, for me, how HUGE God is to have come up with this all as a Creator and how much it really cost him to get back what has really been his: Us. I meditated on Romans 7:1-6 but only got to v. 4 so I'll have to Part 2 it tomorrow morning or maybe tonight! Thanks for SHARING!! This was dope!!!😆😆😆😆

Thank you brother for sharing tips on meditating, and sharing the video. GOD bless you...

Very creative love it

Thank you.for this tips!

Thank You for you clear guidance.

This is so helpful! Thank you! God bless you!

I love this! I am implementing immediately!

Really liked this method. Thanks.

Absolutely LOVE this idea!! Thanks so much for sharing!!!!

Thank you!!!

Your songs are like meditation to our souls honestly 💛

Thank you for this easy and practical example!

Wow!!! This vlog is so enlightening. Thanks so much for sharing!

Wow! Thats great! Thank you!!

Great idea super helpful

Biblical meditation just came to my attention, and your chart makes it seem so practical. Thank you!

Great idea. Will try it tomorrow.. Thank you

All glory to God !!! thanks 🙌🏼🙌🏼 Valió la pena ...

Lovely to have something practical taught on meditation and easy to understand.

Thanks for sharing.will start meditation henceforth.

Thank you for this❤️

I love this thank you

This video is exactly what I was looking for thank u

This is great! Another way I also meditate is on what God creates and supplies. For example I may be engaging in an art form of sorts like clay sculpting and I love to understand natural resources and how they can be used to create things. And I stop and think about how God talks about how he creates seed for every plant and how he molded his creation form the earths soil. And so a daily part of my meditation is in what God puts into my hands and what he created my hands to do. Among many things to think about going back to the clay example. God will show you how to relate circumstances or lessons to what you are currently engaging in. Clay is made from the earth and water and goes through a process to create a moldable and reusable resource. As it dries up it hardens and can sometimes crumble apart. But when you add water to it, it becomes moldable again by the creator. It can also be forged through fire and so on. Similarly God showed me that this can be applied to other people who are influenced by worldly or sinful things. Our creator graciously replenishes us with water so that he may shape us to be what he created us to be. And he supplies us with the courage and strength to walk through the fires of life. But surely if you deny his steadfast hand you will become hardened by sin and crumble. Only until you accept the flowing waters of life into your life will you again be renewed. God molds us in his image and we should rejoice for all his ways are perfection! There are many things God shows us in everyday life that can be reference from the Bible and I think that it is truly amazing! 🙏🤍🕊 I always love your music and videos Jonathan! Keep shining!

Thanks for this video! I will definitely try out this method.

thank you for this wonderful lesson I will try to do.

Thank you for making this video! May God bless you and your family!!

Thank you for your vlog. I appreciate the music of Rivers and Robots and the revelation you share of what God has given you. Thank you!

This is so useful! Thank you so much ❤️ God bless you

thank you for your video brother.

Thank you so much for Sharon this! Such a great way to read and focus on God's word!

I think this is my favourite of your videos. Really cool!

Thank you 💛 I can't wait to try this!

Thank you so much for this video. God bless you and keep you❤

Thanks--I've heard meditating is good but not sure how, you helped a lot

Greatly appreciated

TBH ive been really busy with life and this is just what i need in my life right now thanks jon!!

I love this! Thank you!

God Bless You!

This is sooooo cool!! Thank you for sharing!

Thanks for teaching.have never done it but will start henceforth.thanks

thank you for this! God put it on my heart to meditate for a long time, but I never really knew how to start, thank you!

Thank you, thank you, thank you...what a flame these sorts of things light in my soul

Great video with a lot of good applications. God bless you.

Love it! 😍😍👏🏻👏🏻🙏🏻🙌🏻💕 I'll definitely try this! 👍🏻 You inspire me in so many ways. Thank u! God bless!

So helpful for starting out, thank you! GOD BLESS YOU! GLORY TO JESUS!!

Song about Lord Almighty from was awesome on Rivers and Robots. While doing personal worship.

Dios les bendiga saludes desde cali Colombia

Waoooooo thank you very much for sharing this amazing advice. I am definitely going to do it every day 🙏🙌

This is great! Thank you. Am going to try this out! Thank you for these vlogs! Appreciate the helpful heart behind them. May God continue to bless you all.

Jonathan l appreciate you and the work of your hands, you are truly a blessing to my life😇

God bless you. I love ❤️ your method and I’ll start practicing immediately 😅. 🙏🙏🙏

Really good idea

Thank you 🙏🏻

Thank you

Shalom

This was very helpful

Thanks! Very helpful and engaging. I am doing a post on meditation to help relieve pain but as a Christian I wondered how to do so. Will also help my devotions.

Great thoughts. I'll have to try the way you beak up the paper (even though mine won't likely have a deer in the corner. I try and spend time meditating in the mornings and read through a reading plan that takes two years to get through the Bible in the evening. I've found that is a nice balance to slowing down but still being able to get through the entire story of the Bible for a great overview. Thanks for the great video man.

"Don't worry; you don't need a deer to do this exercise." Lol :)

I love this!

This is so awesome!!!!

Brilliant idea! And timely! I wanted to do something different with my quiet time with the Lord. I'm definitely going to use this method. Jonathan, you're a blessing!

Great concept, I will definitely be applying some parts of this tomorrow morning haha

Very interesting method, and very gopd points, I never saw it this way. It's like you said sometimes we read verses and not fully understand or meditate on what it means, what God wants from us, what He is trying to point out. Well explained brother, God bless you!

This is fabulous encouragement for me right now! I'm focused in on the topic of prayer, specifically intercession, and asking God about starting an intercessor ministry at my church. I was meditating on Romans 8 to start with. :) I think the key difference is something you briefly touched on. Biblical meditation has a FOCUS, something you are placing on purpose into your head. Other meditation tends to push being empty inside, which invites other outside influences to come in and fill that space. And I would say that's the danger. Well explained, thanKS for the video!

Sounds good, I like the prayer idea you shared!

This was really helpful. Thank you. Sn: I’ve literally went through it catalog on Apple Music. What’s the song playing in beginning and background?

Love this, thank you! I definitely need the side-bar to-do-list, that is going to help my busy, distracted head tremendously! Totally going to start using this, but first I need to go out and buy a notebook because I currently have none, hehe! Recently, I have been meditating on 1 Samuel Chapter 1 and finding there is so much to unpack in it, but specifically noted how Hannah prayed to God in her "deep anguish" and I have been really looking at the events and response from God surrounding that. Then in a devo Psalm 13 was brought up and it pairs beautifully perfect with this. Speaking how we can vent to God about the big or the little stuff, and cry to Him about our concerns and ask Him "who, why, when, where," without it making us less spiritual or "untrusting," but, on the contrary, bringing those questions to Him BECAUSE we trust He has the answer, or He has the blessing waiting for when we call upon Him and ask Him for it. "Complaining" to God, with a heart of knowing God is all-sufficient and dependable is a sign of a strong trust in God to come through, either with comfort, a solution, a blessing, or what have you. But God loves every bit of us including our pain and anxieties and He wants us to give Him that part of us too. And what is on the other side of vulnerably offering our worst up to God, instead of trying to figure it out for ourselves, will be a blessing regardless of the form in which that blessing comes, but more often than not, that means receiving peace in place of lament, at a minimum. Hannah started off so depressed from her enemy provoking her, she could not even bare to eat, she could only weep. She cried to God to "remember" her, and to give her a son, and her heart was in the right place as she only wished to bless God with her son in return, and God came through, gave her that son, and she returned her son back to God. She trusted Him with something so deeply personal and painful. In that time and in a culture where a woman unable to bare a child was a disgrace and often forsaken. Though Hannah's husband did not see her that way and even gave her double portions because he loved her so much and wanted her to know that he would never love her any less due to her barreness, Hannah still was attacked by "her rival" (which, to make more relatable, I see as anxious thoughts and lies being placed in her head, either by a person or a spiritual attack, or both), who caused her to be miserable and feel forgotten by God, and she did not hold back admitting this to God, (v. 10-11) she "poured out her soul" (v. 15) to God in an utterly transparent way and in v. 19-20, God "rememerbed" Hannah and gave her a son. Like in Psalm 13, God was good to Hannah in His unfailing love and she praised Him by giving God her most prized possession. Hope you enjoyed that ESSAY. Whoops.

Wauw thanks so much for this video, I always knew there is meditation with the word of God, but along the line got confused with the worldly meditation way.. and I googled it and found your video.. such a eye opener thanks so much. Godbless u

Gracias

Like it thanks for this

Thank you 😊 A brother in my Bible study group named Matthew sent me this video. He uses this method and today is going to be my first day trying it after going to the dollar store and getting that old school technology 😅 A pen 🖊 and piece of paper 📃

Du hilfst bestimmt so vielen Menschen 😄 ! Jeder Person die das liest wünsche ich sooo viel Gesundheit und Freude am Leben 😙

Awesome vid mate!

Thanks

This is great. Thanks for sharing! Have you guys think about subtitle your videos to other languages? Like spanish? That would be awesome!

Really enjoy your blog, thank you R&R! Did you know the interpretation of the word "meditation" in Hebrew means "to mutter" or "groan" ? So it literally means while you spend time reading and reflecting in the Word, as you say in your blog, it's also important to say the words out loud!

So helpful, thank you!! The "to do" section is genius. I too often get so distracted thinking about this and that. And I promise that I listened to your whole message buuut names of the intro and outro music pls??

What’s the second instrumental? Sooo good

First, awesome accent:) Second, I should totally try this, it looks awesome, and I think it could be really amazing. I'm excited to try it, thank you! :)

Amen & Amen🙏🌞🤗❤️👍👏

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Thank you so much cause I been doing it all wrong

Life

I'm really shocked hahaha. I meet this band since the last year, but I never thought you could have a channel just to talk about these things so important. I was trying to figure out some video that helps me meditate in this way - with the Bible -, but I never find it. However, one thinking came to my brain "Why not search on the youtube", and for my surprise, which was the first video that appeared? Haahhaah, thanks for all "advices" and tips

I was looking for a video like this because a friend of mine was telling me that meditation is not of God and then I have two other friends telling me that it’s in the Bible so I look for myself and then I got confused again I watch some KZfaq videos and the videos were saying that meditation means to plan on the word to think about the word. Which didn’t sit right with me because I had an experience when I was meditating I saw a light i’m not sure if the light was good or not but I do find Jesus Christ I do believe Jesus is Christ the Messiah the son of God. The light felt good it scared me I went through a lot actually pretty bad I had really bad anxiety and I thought that I invited something in that wasn’t of God. I even got a name the name of Ezekiel The only thing I could find in the Bible related to Ezekiel was the book of Ezekiel. Oh my anxiety well most of my anxiety went away after talking with the pastor and the pastor told me the next time that I see the light to just pray and if the light stays it’s of Jesus if it’s not then he’s not and you know. I thought I was losing my mind until my niece took a picture of me in the very light that I see I actually have evidence of it in the picture. I would love to continue to meditate but I do not want to do something that displeases Jesus Christ. The Scriptures have been confusing now I feel like I need to just meditate on the word meditate after hearing this video. I found other videos where people have said that they have seen this light and me Ezekiel and called him an angel. I saw the comments saying that you’ve opened your third eye and other things and I just said I don’t know if this is what I’m supposed to be dabbling in. When I meditate I meditate with a clear mind and that was it. The light showed after that I did not do any mantras or a chance or nothing like that. Nor did I call up on anything However I do remember I was asking For something that was intimate to me that I do not want to share here however I got the message “you already have everything you need” I appreciate this I’m nervous to do it as well I don’t want to invite anything in either lol Although I know I am protected that Jesus walks with me and I have nothing to fear.