Seeking, Finding and Receiving The Intimate God

Seeking, Finding and Receiving

The Intimate God

by Pastor Roy Esposito

  • Proverbs 8:17
  • Exodus 20:19
  • Exodus 33:18-19
  • Exodus 33:11
  • Job 23:13-14
  • Matthew 4:1-11

Metanoia – Spiritual conversion

  • John 5:30
  • John 14:10
  • John 10:4
  • John 16:13

Matthew 7:7-8 – The Promise of God to those who seek – “They will find Me.” – Proverbs 8:17

Imagination – The power of the mind to form an image or concept of something not seen.

“As I could not make reflection with my understanding I contrived to picture Christ within me.” — Teresa of Avila

Romans 1:21

Suggestions To Help With Meditative Prayer

1) Set The Goal – 1 Thessalonians 5:17

2) Set apart time for formal meditation

3) See your day as a whole entity

4) Pre-designate a place for prayer

5) Be conscious of your physical posture

6) Focus on a particular scripture

Remember: This is not study time.

Let the written Word become a personal message to you.   Internalize it, don’t analyze it.

Example: Peace — John 14:27, Isaiah 26:3 – 

Rather than dissecting the concept of peace with rationality — ENTER into it!

2 Timothy 1:7 – Fear is overcome by “power, love and a sound mind” and bears self-control and discernment as fruit!

Colossians 1:27

Meditation – Not a single act, but a progressive journey of communication with God

Setting Our Spiritual Compasses

Setting Our Spiritual Compasses

by Pastor Roy Esposito

Meditation a human mode of prayer by which one ruminates on a particular aspect of God (a word, a principal, etc…)

Contemplation a divinely infused prayer which cannot be initiated by man

  • Romans 12:2
  • Ephesians 5:26
  • Ephesians 4:24
  • James 1:8
  • Colossians 3:1-2

Meditate (Greek) – “to listen and reflect”

  • Psalm 119:97-98
  • Jeremiah 20:9
  • Luke 11:24-26
  • Song of Solomon 3:4
  • Proverbs 8:17
  • Romans 14:17

RCF Year 21: Two Paths, Five Imperatives

“RCF Year 21:

Two Paths,

Five Imperatives”

by Pastor Roy Esposito

  • 1 Kings 14:6
  • 2 Timothy 3:1-7
  • Genesis 17:25
  • John 6:63 (NLT)
  • 2 Timothy 3:5
  • Psalm 16:8

5 Keys to Staying On the Path of Life

 

  1. Develop an ongoing realization of God’s Presence in your daily activities.
  2. Chose intimacy with God over the acceptance of the crowd.
    • Exodus 33
  3. Rejoice and be thankful in all things
    • Philippians 4:4
    • Acts 16
    • 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
  4. Honor your spiritual parents
    • Esther 2:7
  5. Embrace what God says even if you don’t understand it yet
    • Luke 1:26/34-38
    • Luke 2: 16-19
    • Isaiah 55:11