I've seen this in the Purpose Driven Life as well as from Jim Berg's Biblical counselling course, if you know how to worry, you know how to meditate. Meditation in the Christian sense is not emptying your mind but the "thinking over" of verses, promises and attributes of God. If you struggle to sit down and read the Bible, just take one verse, one promise from God in the Bible and think about it.
The MAP method of meditation is one way to spend time on a verse:
1 > Memorise the verse. Express it in different ways, emphasizing certain parts of the verse and maybe express it in pictorial form so you can remember it easily.
2 > Analyse the verse. Think about what this verse is saying. Try to understand individual words in the verse. Look them up and see where cross-references of that verse leads you to.
3 > Personalise the verse. Think about how this verse applies to you. How is God changing you through this verse? How can you use this verse in your daily life?
If you find that your quiet time is not fruitful, the solution is increase your quiet time - your praying time, your reading time and keep reading the verses and ask God to show you what He wants you to get out of it. Have faith that God will speak to you through His word.
Try these verses to meditate on:
Hebrews 13:5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
Luke 12:32 Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
Jeremiah 33:3 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.
1 John 4:4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
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