Focus

The focus of muttering is on speaking God’s Word aloud repeatedly so your heart and body take it in, hiding it in your heart and aligning your will with His truth. 

Background of Muttering  

• In Jewish culture, rabbis taught their students to pray using a form of Biblical meditation called "Haggah", which means “to tell, to utter, or to mutter.” This practice involves softly but audibly speaking God’s Word aloud, repeating it so both your heart and body can truly hear it. By speaking the Word, it sinks deeply into your mind, heart, and body, making it a living, active part of you. 

Why Muttering is Helpful 

• Muttering repeatedly reads a Bible verse or passage to hide God’s Word in your heart.

• It is the opposite of complaining; you are filling your heart with God’s truth instead of a negative outlook.

• Your heart loves to hear your own voice and naturally follows it.

• Repeating the Word puts buoyancy in your spirit—bringing hope, faith, and peace.

• Muttering helps you stay attentive to God.

• Unlike memorization practice, muttering is continuous and does not focus on checking progress. Memorization can be a natural by-product.

• As one practitioner noted: “Yes! [this is the] blessed by-product of the intentional pursuit of meditating on His Word and [it is also the] fruit of obedience in Biblical meditation.”

Muttering And Our Will

• Our human will tends to ignore God’s Word, and often dampens His voice in our hearts.

• Muttering retrains our minds and hearts to hear and value God’s Word.

• By speaking God’s Word aloud ourselves, we actively choose to put it deep in our hearts and bodies.

• When you mutter, you are saying to yourself and your body: “Listen! This Word of God must go deep in me. This is important. Align with these truths because this is what I want!”

Bible Verses on  Biblical Meditation with your Mouth, and Heart

"Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. - Psalm 1:1-2 NIV

"This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success." -  Joshua 1:8 ESV

"So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ." - Romans 10:17 ESV

"Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise." - Deuteronomy 6:4-7

"Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits." - Proverbs 18:21

"Anxiety weighs down the heart, but a kind word cheers it up." - Proverbs 12:25

"For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and defile a person.” - Mark 7:21-23 NIV

"My son, pay attention to what I say; turn your ear to my words. Do not let them out of your sight, keep them within your heart; for they are life to those who find them and health to one’s whole body. Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it." - Proverbs 4:20-23 NIV

"My son, give me your heart and let your eyes delight in my ways..." - Proverbs 23:26a NIV