“Word-centered meditation is bringing the intellect to complete focus on listening to God. This ordinarily leads to the kind of prayer often called ‘affective’ prayer which is a combination of deep repentance and offering up of the life in new degrees of surrender [because of the goodnews of Christ.] This in turn leads to praise and thanks in which the soul simply rests content in contemplating God’s beauty and greatness. Finally, the soul looks outward toward its challenges in the world, and now with clarity of perspective, it begins to wrestle to have God’s will done on earth as it is in heaven.” Timothy Keller
