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  • 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. 

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    Acts 17:25 NIV
    “He himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.”

    Isaiah 42:5 NIV
    “This is what God the LORD says–the Creator of the heavens, who stretches them out, who spreads out the earth with all that springs from it, who gives breath to its people, and life to those who walk on it.”

    Psalm 73:25-26 NIV
    25 Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you.
    26 My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

    Luke 10:41-42 NIV
    “Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things, but few things are needed—or indeed only one. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.”

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  • This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life – a time for you to relax your body, refocus your mind, and to re-imagine and re-narrate your life to a truer reality. 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. 

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    Psalm 73:21-24 NIV
    21 When my heart was grieved and my spirit embittered,
    22 I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before you.
    23 Yet I am always with you; you hold me by my right hand.
    24 You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will take me into glory.

    2 Corinthians 4:17 NIV
    “For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.”

    Philippians 3:20-21 NIV
    “But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.”

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  • This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life – a time for you to relax your body, refocus your mind, and to re-imagine and re-narrate your life to a truer reality. 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. 

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    Acts 17:25 NIV
    “He himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.”

    Psalm 3:3 NIV
    “But you, LORD, are a shield around me, my glory, the One who lifts my head high”

    Psalm 3:5 NIV
    “I lie down and sleep; I wake again, because the LORD sustains me.”

    Matthew 10:29-31 NIV
    “Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father’s care. 30 And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. 31 So don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.”

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  • This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life – a time for you to relax your body, refocus your mind, and to re-imagine and re-narrate your life to a truer reality. 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. 

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    Acts 17:25 NIV
    “He himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.”

    Psalm 3:3 NIV
    “But you, LORD, are a shield around me, my glory, the One who lifts my head high”

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  • This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life – a time for you to relax your body, refocus your mind, and to re-imagine and re-narrate your life to a truer reality. 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. 

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    Acts 17:25 NIV
    “He himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.”

    1 John 4:9-10 NIV
    “This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.”

    “The most important discovery you will ever make is the love the Father has for you,” writes Pete Greig in his book Dirty Glory. “Your power in prayer will flow from the certainty that the One who made you likes you, he is not scowling at you, he is on your side.”

    “It’s being present to the One who chose me first and chooses me again today” (Staton, Tyler. Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools).

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  • This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life – a time for you to relax your body, refocus your mind, and to re-imagine and re-narrate your life to a truer reality. 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. 

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    1 John 3:23-24 NIV
    “And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. The one who keeps God’s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.”

    ​​1 John 4:18 NIV
    “There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear.”

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  • This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life – a time for you to relax your body, refocus your mind, and to re-imagine and re-narrate your life to a truer reality. 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. 

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    1 John 4:15-16 NIV
    “If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.”

    ​​1 John 4:18 NIV
    “There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear.”

    Acts 17:25 NIV
    “...He himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.”

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  • This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life – a time for you to relax your body, refocus your mind, and to re-imagine and re-narrate your life to a truer reality. 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. 

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    1 John 4:13-16 NIV
    “This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.”

    ​​1 John 4:18 NIV
    “There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear.”

    Acts 17:25 NIV
    “...He himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.”

    1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV
    “Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God?”

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  • This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life – a time for you to relax your body, refocus your mind, and to re-imagine and re-narrate your life to a truer reality. 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. 

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    Matthew 6:9-10 NIV
    “This, then, is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven…’”

    When we pray “Our Father,” we are remembering that we are deeply and completely and uniquely loved and important to God. And the more that takes root in us, something happens that begins to replace our fears and anxieties and insecurities with a calmer confidence and a new ability to love others that Our Father loves.

    You are my Father in Heaven
    I am already a child of Heaven (Phil 2:20)
    You love me just as you love Jesus! (Jn 17:23)
    You are the Creator of the universe and you’re my Father!
     
    You are my Creator
    I exist because you want me to exist (Rev 4:11)
    In you I live and move and have my being (Acts 17:28)
    As “our Father,” others are your precious sons and daughters
     
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  • This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life – a time for you to relax your body, refocus your mind, and to re-imagine and re-narrate your life to a truer reality. 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. 

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    Acts 17:25 NIV
    “...He himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.”

    Zephaniah 3:17 ESV
    “The LORD your God is in your midst (NIV: “is with you”), a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing (NIV: “will rejoice over you with singing”).”

    Because of Jesus’s death and resurrection, all these verbs are not only in the future but are now in the present tense. So envision/imagine this with your biblically guided imagination. God, the Creator, is with you right now. He has saved you. He’s rejoicing over you with gladness right now. He wants to quiet your anxiety and fear by his love. He’s rejoicing over you with singing.

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  • This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life – a time for you to relax your body, refocus your mind, and to re-imagine and re-narrate your life to a truer reality. 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. 

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    Lamentations 3:22-23 ESV
    “The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning.”

    Romans 8:30 NIV
    “And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.”

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  • This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life – a time for you to relax your body, refocus your mind, and to re-imagine and re-narrate your life to a truer reality. 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. 

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    Ephesians 3:16-19 NIV
    16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

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  • This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life – a time for you to relax your body, refocus your mind, and to re-imagine and re-narrate your life to a truer reality. 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. 

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    Ephesians 3:16-19 NIV
    16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

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  • This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life – a time for you to relax your body, refocus your mind, and to re-imagine and re-narrate your life to a truer reality. 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. 

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    Ephesians 3:16-17 NIV
    “I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.”

    1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV
    “Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God?”

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  • This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life – a time for you to relax your body, refocus your mind, and to re-imagine and re-narrate your life to a truer reality. 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. 

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    Psalm 145:10 ESV
    “All your works shall give thanks to you, O LORD, and all your saints shall bless you!”

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  • This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life – a time for you to relax your body, refocus your mind, and to re-imagine and re-narrate your life to a truer reality. 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. 

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    Matthew 5:14-16 CSB
    14 “You are the light of the world. A city situated on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 No one lights a lamp and puts it under a basket, but rather on a lampstand, and it gives light for all who are in the house. 16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.”

    2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV
    “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.”

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  • This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life – a time for you to relax your body, refocus your mind, and to re-imagine and re-narrate your life to a truer reality. 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. 

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    Psalm 145:5-8 ESV
    5 On the glorious splendor of your majesty, and on your wondrous works, I will meditate.
    6 They shall speak of the might of your awesome deeds, and I will declare your greatness.
    7 They shall pour forth the fame of your abundant goodness and shall sing aloud of your righteousness.
    8 The LORD is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

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  • This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life – a time for you to relax your body, refocus your mind, and to re-imagine and re-narrate your life to a truer reality. 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. 

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    Psalm 145:5-8 ESV
    5 On the glorious splendor of your majesty, and on your wondrous works, I will meditate.
    6 They shall speak of the might of your awesome deeds, and I will declare your greatness.
    7 They shall pour forth the fame of your abundant goodness and shall sing aloud of your righteousness.
    8 The LORD is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

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  • This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life – a time for you to relax your body, refocus your mind, and to re-imagine and re-narrate your life to a truer reality. 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. 
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    This is our last episode of 2024 as we take a break for the holidays. 
    Psalms 63:6 (ESV) King David writes…
    “…I remember you upon my bed,
    and meditate on you ...”
    Hebrew: “Mindful of”  
    Hebrew: “Imagine”
    So what this is telling us is that “mindfulness” and “meditation” are ancient biblical disciplines that God’s people have been practicing for thousands of years.
    Being mindful of God doesn’t mean trying to picture God. It means using your biblically guided imagination to envision what the Bible tells us is true about God. 
    And all that that means for you in how you envision/narrate your life and your future. 
    Christian meditation puts our imagination and therefore our body back into the truer narrative/story…
    Psalms 20:7 (ESV)
    “Some trust in chariots and some in horses,
    but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.
    (“Mindful of”)
    Let’s be mindful of God’s name: HE IS— 
    Creator
    Source of all life 
    Sustainer
    Eternal
    Infinitely present
    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.
    So this is something that we as Christians need to envision as a promise of the gospel, a foundational truth about God and our lives. 
    So 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.“
    The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth. The universe. HE IS.
    And he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. God is the one who gives you your life, your very breath right now. HE IS.
    In him you live and move and have your very being. He is giving you life right now. HE IS your breath of life right now in this breath. And he gives you everything else in your life. Everything in your life ultimately comes from his hand. HE IS.
    And so you have to decide if you're going to trust the God who made everything in heaven and on earth. Everything in this universe comes from him. He created the entire universe of a trillion galaxies. He is all-powerful. And yet he is a God of steadfast love and intimate, infinite focus on you to the very hairs of your head, Jesus says in Matthew 10. So you can trust God with your life, even in stressful times.
    Psalms 20:7 (ESV)
    “Some trust in chariots and some in horses,
    but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.
    (“Mindful of”)
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  • This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life – a time for you to relax your body, refocus your mind, and to re-imagine and re-narrate your life to a truer reality. 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. 

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    Zechariah 12:1 NIV
    “The LORD [is the one] who stretches out the heavens, who lays the foundation of the earth, and who forms the human spirit within a person...”

    The same one – the same mind — that created the entire universe also specifically created you.
    You are infinitely important (because he is infinite!) to the one who created this entire universe. He specifically created you to be YOU in his creation. Forever! But there is a real you that is in his image that he is transforming you into. That’s what your life is about. That’s the bigger story your life is in in every single moment.

    CS Lewis (Mere Christianity)
    “God has infinite attention, infinite leisure to spare for each one of us. He doesn't have to take us in the line. You're as much alone with Him as if you were the only thing He'd ever created.”

    Revelation 2:17 (NIV)
    “To the one who is victorious [those who remain true to Jesus’s name - 2:13], I will give …that person a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to the one who receives it [i.e., unique to the one who receives it].”

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