What do you allow in your life that distracts you from meditating in God’s word? Mark 4:18-19 recorded those things that choke out God’s word that was sown into our hearts. They are the cares of this world. Are you allowing the media to contaminate your thoughts?

They are also the deceitfulness of riches. Are you pursuing something that is not God-given direction? Another thing that chokes God’s word is the desire for other things. Do you read His word for understanding daily? Is it your priority?

Joshua 1:8 says that we are to read it for the express purpose to observe its truth and from it to make personal application. As we read with purpose and focus, the Holy Spirit will highlight the lies we have believed. He will also point out the truth that we are not walking in. He will reveal the hidden strongholds that oppose His will and ways.