Hagah the Word Day and Night

We are told to mediate on the word of God at all the times lead a successful life to. Joshua 1.8 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.

So today let us consider the word mediate as used in the Word of God.

The Hebrew word translated meditate in Joshua 1.8 is hagah which means to muse, mutter, roar etc. (The word hagah occurs 25 times in 24 verses in the OT.) Thus we see here that there are three levels to meditating the Word.

At the first level, after reading we are to ponder it in our mind. It is at this stage that the Holy Spirit drives the Word deep into our spirit (take root). At the second stage, the Word that was in your spirit is now on your lips. The Word has become personal, Rhema to you. The Word is no longer the writings but a message spoken directly to you for a specific purpose at a specific time.

Now it is time to say it aloud. You speak the Word aloud that has become Rhema to you, thereby not only drowning your own doubts, but every other worldly voice that speak contrary to the Word of God.