Walking In Abundance- Part 27
November 14, 2026 – 3:37 amWhat you meditate on will impact your abundance!
To review, Joshua was given the task of leading God’s people, Israel, into the Land of Canaan, the Promised Land. Moses had brought them to the border of the Promised Land, then Moses died and Joshua took over the leadership.
As Joshua faced this tremendous task of bringing probably three million people into this land, God gave him certain specific instructions and God told him, “If you follow these instructions, you’ll be totally successful.”
God lays down the conditions for success to Joshua.
It is written by The Holy Spirit in Joshua chapter 1:
8 The Lord said this to Joshua:
“Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.” (NIV)
Consider those two words put together—prosperous and successful. That covers every kind of situation. If you’re both prosperous and successful, there’s no room for lack; there’s no room for failure.
God says, “If you will do certain things, then you will be prosperous and successful.” Now all the things that Joshua was required to do are related to the Book of the Law which was as much of the total Scriptures as was available in Joshua’s time; that is, what we call the Pentateuch, what the Jewish people call the Torah, the first five books of the Bible, the five books of Moses. That’s what Joshua had.
Bear in mind that today, to you and me, is granted 66 books. If Joshua could do that well with five books, just consider how well you and I ought to be able to do with 66 books.
What are the conditions? “This Book of the Law, this Word, must not depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night; be careful to do everything written in it.”
Start with the condition of meditate. Meditating is something that we do in our mind. God says, “Meditate on the Word in your mind.” Then He says, “Don’t let the Book depart out of your mouth.” Keep speaking it, declaring it. Fill all your conversation with the Truths of this Word. The Scriptural word for that is confess.
Confess—say the same with your mouth as God says in His Word. So the first requirement is in your mind. Meditate on the Word of God.
The second, confess it. Fill your mouth with it. Don’t talk a lot of empty trivial things. Don’t give expression to unbelief and fear and doubt but express the Truths of Scripture in your conversation.
Third, be careful to do everything written in it; doing, acting. Once you’ve meditated; once you’ve spoken, then do it. Do whatever it says. Do it and apply it in every area of your life. On that basis, God said to Joshua, “You will be prosperous and successful.”
The same principles work just the same for you and me. God has no favorites. He doesn’t Love Joshua any more than He Loves you and me. It’s a question of meeting His conditions. What are they?
Meditate on the Word in your mind.
Confess the Word with your mouth.
Act on the Word in your life; then you will be prosperous and successful.
That was God’s counsel to Joshua.
It is written by The Holy Spirit in Psalm chapter 1:
1-3 “Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. But his delight is in the Law of the Lord, and on His Law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.” (NIV)
“Whatever he does prospers.” Those words leave no room for failure, for frustration. That’s a certain kind of man who does certain things; the Bible says, whatever that man does, prospers. What are the things that he has to do?
There are five conditions for successful living. The first three are negative; the last two are positive. What are the negative conditions? Do not walk in the counsel of the wicked. Do not stand in the way of sinners. Do not sit in the seat of mockers.
There has to be a separation from everything that’s wicked and ungodly and displeasing to God and it’s interesting that there’s a certain order in which the Words are presented.
They go this way: walk, stand, sit. That’s a kind of downward path; first of all, you’re walking, then you slow up and you’re standing, then you stop standing and you’re sitting. You’re sitting in the seat of mockers. You’re rooted; you just can’t get out of it. You’ve come to rest in the wrong place because you started walking in the wrong way, then you stood in the wrong way, you ended up sitting. Those are the three things that you must not do. You must not walk in the counsel of the wicked. You must not stand in the way of sinners. You must not sit in the seat of mockers.
Now we go on from the negative to the positive. What are the positive things? What are the things that we are required to do?
First of all, delight in the Law, in the Word of the Law. We have to find our pleasure in God’s Word. Does that sound difficult to you? I have to tell you that the Word of the Lord is my delight. It’s my Source of pleasure, of satisfaction, of strength, of peace.
And the second positive requirement, meditate on it day and night. Notice again the emphasis on meditation which was there with Joshua. Meditate on it day and night. I find as I go through the Bible that the main root activity which is essential for prosperity is right meditation.
You cannot think wrong and live right. You cannot think right and live wrong.
The object of your meditation will determine the course of your life!
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