Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave Cover

This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life – a time for you to relax your body and refocus your mind to experience the reality of God’s presence. I’m Dave Cover. I want to help you with Christian meditation where you can break through all the distractions and experience God’s presence through biblically guided imagination. 

Acts 17:25 NIV

“...He himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.”

Nehemiah 8:10 (NIV)

“…The joy of the LORD is your strength.”

John 15:11 NIV

“I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.”

John 17:13 NIV

“...So that they may have the full measure of my joy within them.”

John 16:20 NIV

“Very truly I tell you, you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.”

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Follow Dave Cover on X (Twitter) @davecover

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Our audio engineer is Matthew Matlack.

This podcast is a ministry of The Crossing, a church in Columbia, Missouri, a college town where the flagship campus of the University of Missouri is located.

This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life – a time for you to relax your body and refocus your mind to experience the reality of God’s presence. I’m Dave Cover. I want to help you with Christian meditation where you can break through all the distractions and experience God’s presence through biblically guided imagination. 

John 6:37 (NIV)

“All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away.”

John 6:44 (NIV)

“No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day.”

1 Corinthians 12:3 (NIV) 

“…No one can say, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ except by the Holy Spirit.”

Who can you share this podcast with? If you found this episode helpful, consider sharing it on social media or texting it to a friend you think might benefit from it.

Follow Dave Cover on X (Twitter) @davecover

Follow A Bigger Life on X @ABiggerLifePod

Our audio engineer is Matthew Matlack.

This podcast is a ministry of The Crossing, a church in Columbia, Missouri, a college town where the flagship campus of the University of Missouri is located.

This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life – a time for you to relax your body and refocus your mind to experience the reality of God’s presence. I’m Dave Cover. I want to help you with Christian meditation where you can break through all the distractions and experience God’s presence through biblically guided imagination.

 

Psalms 119:73 (NIV)

“Your hands made me and formed me; give me understanding to learn your commands.”

John 15:9-10 (ESV)

“As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.”

Who can you share this podcast with? If you found this episode helpful, consider sharing it on social media or texting it to a friend you think might benefit from it.

Follow Dave Cover on X (Twitter) @davecover

Follow A Bigger Life on X @ABiggerLifePod

Our audio engineer is Matthew Matlack.

This podcast is a ministry of The Crossing, a church in Columbia, Missouri, a college town where the flagship campus of the University of Missouri is located.

This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life – a time for you to relax your body and refocus your mind to experience the reality of God’s presence. I’m Dave Cover. I want to help you with Christian meditation where you can break through all the distractions and experience God’s presence through biblically guided imagination. 

Psalm 27:1 NIV

The LORD is my light and my salvation— whom shall I fear? 

The LORD is the stronghold of my life— of whom shall I be afraid?

Who can you share this podcast with? If you found this episode helpful, consider sharing it on social media or texting it to a friend you think might benefit from it.

Follow Dave Cover on X (Twitter) @davecover

Follow A Bigger Life on X @ABiggerLifePod

Our audio engineer is Matthew Matlack.

This podcast is a ministry of The Crossing, a church in Columbia, Missouri, a college town where the flagship campus of the University of Missouri is located.

This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life – a time for you to relax your body and refocus your mind to experience the reality of God’s presence. I’m Dave Cover. I want to help you with Christian meditation where you can break through all the distractions and experience God’s presence through biblically guided imagination. 

Psalms 63:6 (ESV) King David writes…

“…I remember you upon my bed,

and meditate on you ...”

Hebrew: “Mindful of”  

Hebrew: “Imagine”

 

So “mindfulness” and “meditation” are ancient biblical disciplines that God’s people have been practicing for thousands of years.

 

Being mindful of God through our imagination doesn’t mean trying to picture God. It means using your biblically guided imagination to envision what the Bible tells you is true about God…and all that that means for you in how you envision/narrate your life and your future.

Whenever we imagine ourselves in the wrong narrative/story, we put anxiety and stress into our body because we are imagining our life story without God’s sovereignty, without God’s Spirit in us and with us, without God’s goodness and steadfast love for us.

In Acts 17 the Apostle Paul is talking to pagan philosophers in Athens. So he is using very general language. But everything he says is part of the gospel. That's what he's doing. He's preaching the gospel. The Good News. So this is God’s good new to you!

Paul says in Acts 17:24-25, “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth.” And then in the next verse, he says, “And he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.” Then in verse 28 he says, “In him we live and move and have our being.“

Who can you share this podcast with? If you found this episode helpful, consider sharing it on social media or texting it to a friend you think might benefit from it.

Follow Dave Cover on X (Twitter) @davecover

Follow A Bigger Life on X @ABiggerLifePod

Our audio engineer is Matthew Matlack.

This podcast is a ministry of The Crossing, a church in Columbia, Missouri, a college town where the flagship campus of the University of Missouri is located.