God’s Battle Plan for the Mind Quotes

“What a person habitually chooses to daily meditate on reveals his true spiritual condition.”
― David W. Saxton, God’s Battle Plan for the Mind: The Puritan Practice of Biblical Meditation

“Bates taught that at the start of meditation, the believer should “beg the assistance of the Holy Spirit; He that is able to stop the sun in its flight,…He is able to fix thy thoughts and to stop their motion.”48”
― David W. Saxton, God’s Battle Plan for the Mind: The Puritan Practice of Biblical Meditation

“Though many believers excel at Bible study, some are not as skilled at putting the truth into actual practice. Reflexive meditation seeks to solve this unfortunate dilemma by asking, “What have I personally done with this truth that I have learned?” As Thomas Manton aptly expressed, “The fruit of study is to hoard up truth, but the fruit of meditation is to practice it.”
― David W. Saxton, God’s Battle Plan for the Mind: The Puritan Practice of Biblical Meditation

“If we want our practice and behavior to change in a lasting way, then there is no better way for this to happen than to begin to meditate on God’s truth.”
― David W. Saxton, God’s Battle Plan for the Mind: The Puritan Practice of Biblical Meditation

“Meditation is presented in the New Testament as a key aspect for the godly renewing of the mind. It is also used as a primary means to comfort and encourage Christian perseverance.”
― David W. Saxton, God’s Battle Plan for the Mind: The Puritan Practice of Biblical Meditation

“Hearing God’s Word is like one dip of the tea bag into the cup. Some of the tea’s flavor is absorbed by the water, but not as much as would occur with a more thorough soaking of the bag…. [Meditation] is like immersing the bag completely and letting it steep until all the rich tea flavor has been extracted.”38”
― David W. Saxton, God’s Battle Plan for the Mind: The Puritan Practice of Biblical Meditation