A Clear Day

by Pastor Roy Esposito

  • John 6 – Feeding the 5.000
    • Barley – a symbol of poverty Fish — a symbol of the souls of men
  • John 10:30 – Jesus and the Father are One and of One mind
  • John 8:12 – “He who follows Me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
  • 1 Corinthians 2:16 – “We have the mind of Christ.”

Thinking With His Mind

  1. Humble yourself. – Have a repentant heart
  2. Listen – 1 Samuel 3:7-11 – “Speak Lord, Your servant is listening.”
  3. Be kind and patient with yourself. – Romans 7:15-20
  4. Remember: God is FOR you. – Romans 8:3
  5. Realize: “I am the Prodigal Son!” – My Father will come out to meet me on my way home to Him.
  6. There’s a happy ending: – Revelation 21:3-7 (Passion)

The “Old Order”

  1. Security at any cost
  2. Pleasure without regard
  3. Power, control, and manipulation

“Imitators of Christ” – Ephesians 5:1, 1 Peter 2:21, Philippians 2:3-8, 1 Corinthians 11:1

Not Imitations or counterfeits but replications of Christ.

Philippians 4:13 (Passion)

The “Mind of Christ” is empowered and directed by its focus on God’s love and grace.

Jesus knew this – lived this and was very transparent about it.

In Jesus, no “self” is seen. Only the unconditional love of God.

Opaque – blocks the light. – to be in sin.

1 John 2:11 – “He walks in darkness and doesn’t know where he’s going because the darkness has blinded his eyes.”

Matthew 6: 31-34

“The Eyes Are the Windows of the Soul”

  1. Entrance to the inner self
  2. Reflects what’s in a person’s heart

Hebrews 12:1-2 (NLT) – Looking to Jesus – the only prescription for transparency.

Luke 12:34

Good News! – All it takes to become authentic is to begin as a “Wanna-be.”

“To change your point of view – change the point from where you’re viewing!” -PR

Colossians 1:13 (Passion)
Mark 9:23 (Passion) – “If you are able to believe, all things are possible to the believers.”

Prophetic Word for RCF — 2019

On a clear day
Rise and look around you and you’ll see who you are
On a clear day
How it will astound you
That the glow of your being
Outshines every star
You’ll feel part of
Every mountain, sea, and shore
You can hear from far and near
A world you’ve never, never heard before
And on a clear day, on that clear day
You can see forever, and ever, and ever
And evermore.
(Lerner / Lane)

Wisdom

by Pastor Marie Esposito

Recap from Pastor Roy’s message to RCF: sanctify yourself, stay alert, be intentional, guard your words
SEEK WISDOM
Proverbs 3:20-26
WORSHIP AND WAIT- WISDOM AND DISCERNMENT
Proverbs 4:25- Set your gaze on the path before you. with fixed purpose, looking straight ahead, ignore life’s distractions.

  • Proverbs 30:2
  • James 5:1
  • Proverbs 5:1
  • Proverbs 30:5
  • 2 Corinthians 1:20

LET’S PURSUE WISDOM
Proverbs 4:5-9 – VICTORIOUS IN THE RACE
Proverbs 2:9,11
If we do this, we will receive revelation from the Throne room and the wisdom to guide our steps;directing our life and launching us into our DIVINE DESTINY. We CAN come into a deeper reality of knowing God
THROUGH EXPERIENCE.

TRUE REVELATION UNFOLDS AND ENCOUNTER WITH THE LIVING GOD. -B. Simmons

  • Psalm 119:130
  • Psalm 119:129-131

YES AND AMEN
REVELATION MEANS UNVEILING.
Proverbs 20:27
ACCELERATION ELEVATION ASCENSION
Revelation 4:1 – Ascend into the realm.

BREAKOUT SEASON
TURNAROUND YEAR
CROSS OVER, WITH THE ARK IN OUR MIDST, INTO THE PROMISED LAND

  • 1 Chronicles 12:32
  • Exodus 14:13
  • Proverbs 29:25
  • Proverbs 1:33
  • Proverbs 3:5-6

WE NEED TO CONTINUE TO WORSHIP

  • Proverbs 3:7-8
  • Proverbs 3:16-18

The next move of God is the preparation of the Bride for the Bridegroom. His coming is imminent.

  • Proverbs 21:29
  • Proverbs 31:10

RISE UP WARRIOR BRIDE  and hear the cry of My Heart.

two specific proverbs Father gave me to study:
Proverbs 21:20-22
New wineskins – Holy 5 Virgins filled with oil.

A WARRIOR FILLED WITH WISDOM ASCENDS INTO THE HIGH PLACE, AND RELEASES REGIONAL BREAKTHROUGH, BRINGING DOWN THE STRONGHOLDS OF THE MIGHTY
Proverbs 25:2
Proverbs 4:21-23

GOD CONCEALS THE REVELATION OF HIS WORD IN THE HIDING PLACE OF HIS GLORY.

Proverbs 4:21-23
Psalm 119:105

READ TOGETHER:
Psalm 119:41-57 May Your lovingkindness also come to me, O Lord,
Your salvation according to Your Promise,
for I trust [completely] in Your Word [and it’s reliability], and I will walk at liberty,
for I seek Your precepts.
Remember [always] the word and promise to Your servant, in which You have made me hope.
This is my comfort in my affliction,
that Your word has revived me and given me life.
Your statutes are my songs…
YOU, The Lord ARE my PORTION

RCF Year 23: Crossing Over

by Pastor Roy Esposito

Year # 22  — Reintegration- Reorganization- Reordering of:

  1. Priorities
  2. Vision
  3. Understanding
  4. Methods

22 = 11×2

3 Ways the written Word is corrupted:

  1. Addition to the Divine Authority (10 + 1)
  2. Subtraction from the Divine Rule and Authority  (12 -1)
  3. Alteration of the Word to fit man’s interpretation

Psalm 12:1 – “HELP LORD!”

Psalm 12:6 – Word tested 7x  by fire in the crucible of clay – the heart of man

2 Corinthians 4:7-9  – “Jars of clay…”

Hebrews 12:5-12 (Passion)

Year  #24 – Associated with Heavenly Governmental Authority

Hebrews 8:5 – Building/operating the tabernacle of God
– Establishment of temple worship as a copy of how it is in Heaven.

Revelation 4:4 – The 24 Elders – leaders of heavenly worship

Year #23 – Year of “Crossing Over”: New perspectives, Divine Interventions, Increased Faith and Magnified Vision

  • Joshua 3:1-17
  • Hebrews 11:1-3

Acacia Grove – Thorny place; place of wailing

Joshua 3:1-4 – “…you’ve not passed this way before.” – Crossing by a different method – “When you see the Ark, follow it.”
Vs 5 – Sanctify – divorced from the unclean – devoted wholly to God
Vs 6 – priests went first before the people
Vs 17 – miracle of the waters standing in a heap

Adam – mankind

Zaretan – distress

Prophetic Picture for RCF:
The waters of distress will not touch even the bottoms of your feet as you cross over in year # 23″

“This doesn’t necessarily mean that the trials will end — only that you won’t be in distress about them.”  — PR

Instructions for Success in 2019

  1. Sanctify yourself – Divorce and Devote
  2. Stay Alert – 1 Peter 5:8 (Passion)
  3. Be Intentional in your walk with God – 2 Corinthians 10:5 (Passion)
  4. Guard Your Words – Proverbs 4:23 (Passion) – Exhort, Encourage, Edify – Prophesy LIFE!
  5. Seek Wisdom — John 3:13 (Message)

“Yes!” and “That’s Right!”

by Pastor Roy Esposito

PROMISE  — PROCESS   — PROVISION

2 Corinthians 5:17 – Being “IN Christ”  is gaining a revelation of  Christ IN us.

John 14:18 – “I will come back to you.” –

Comes in 3 Ways

  1. Literally after His Crucifixion
  2. At the 2nd Coming (Parousia)
  3. At Pentecost in the Person of the Holy Spirit to live within us

Galatians 2:20 – My life empowered by the faith of the Son of God

John 20:22 – “Accept the Sacred Breath.”

Acts 2 – “When the day of Pentecost had fully come…” or “When the time of process had come full circle and was ripe.”

Liminal – The Threshold Stage

God is working stuff out of us so He can work stuff into us!

We are not being saved from something but for something!

2 Corinthians 3:18 – Transformed by the Spirit from glory TO glory

Psalm 118:24 – I WILL rejoice and be glad …

Philippians 4:13 – I CAN do all things through Christ …

Passion – “For I am trained in the secret of overcoming all things …  and I find the strength of Christ’s explosive power infuses me to conquer every difficulty.”

Colossians 1:27 (Passion) – the mystery of Christ living within

Number 23:19 (NLT)

“It’s awe inspiring  that wind, breath, air and spirit are precisely nothing and yet everything.” – PR

Psalm 150:6 – “Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.”

(Hebrew) – Breath – ‘Nishmat Chayim’ – “The Sacred Breath” – John 20:23

We possess great power to influence our own reality – Proverbs 23:7

We must learn to never begin something with a “NO” attitude

Concerning God’s promises for us we say “YES” and agree with God

2 Corinthians 1:20 (Passion) “For all of God’s promises find there fulfillment in Him; and His YES and as our AMEN ascend to God, we bring Him glory.”

Passion Notes :  It is Christ whom speaks the Amen of faith through us.

Christ Our Peace/Christmas 2018

by Pastor Roy Esposito

  • John 14:27  — The Gift of Peace
  • Romans 7:22-23  — the battle for our minds
  • Ephesian 2:14-15 — He is our peace

Jesus, our Peace — the One who neutralizes the conflict that rages within giving us balance in the midst of turmoil.

  • Colossians 2:14
  • Romans 5:1
  • Ephesians 5:14 (Passion)
  • Luke 17:21
  • Isaiah 26:3  — Perfect Peace when focus is fixed on Him!Luke 1:8  — “Two Boats”  —    Spirit / Flesh

“The Way of Wisdom” — Doing stuff God’s way.   (Holiness)

  • Romans 14:17 —   The Kingdom of God — “Righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit”
  • Matthew 1:1-2 (Passion)\
  • Jeremiah 29:13
  • Matthew 2:11  — Before they offered their gifts — THEY WORSHIPED !
  • Luke 1:46
  • Luke 2:10-11

Magnify — to swell to a crescendo 

Joy

by Pastor Marie Esposito

Joy is a place…Joy is a choice

LET’S DECLARE AND DECREE THIS PROCLAMATION: I’M A NEW CREATION, OLD THINGS ARE PASSED AWAY, ALL THINGS HAVE BECOME NEW, THIS IS MY MOMENT TO RISE UP AND OVERCOME. I CHOOSE JOY.

Psalm 16:5-9- “O Lord You are the portion of my inheritance and my cup; You maintain my lot.  The lines have fallen to me in pleasant placed; Yes I have a good inheritance.  I will bless the Lord Who has given me counsel; my heart also instructs me in the night seasons.  I  have set the Lord always before me; because He is at my right hand I shall not be moved.  Therefore my heart is glad. and my glory rejoices;my flesh will rest in hope”

  • Hebrews 12;2
  • Proverbs 12:25
  • Psalm 94:19
  • Proverbs 2:10
  • Psalm 47:1,2
  • Psalm 16:11
  • Psalm 1:1-3
  • Psalm 28:7
  • I Peter 1:6-8
  • James 1:2-4

Let’s cultivate joy

Romans 15:13

LET’S CHOOSE JOY

Psalm 118:24

Ecclesiastes 9:7

Authentic Christianity: Continuous Conversion

by Pastor Roy Esposito

Romans 10:10

“Knowing God is not a mind thing. God is beyond human thought.  Knowing Him is a love thing. To know Him is to love Him.”.  — PR

Western religion  — tells people what to know instead of how to know.

Church at a crossroads — From belief systems to actual inner experiences with God — From head to heart.

“If our salvation remains in our minds alone without transforming our hearts it will be just an idea that’s never fully expressed in our reality”. —  PR

Jesus saved us — not just from something but for something: We’re saved by LOVE  to LOVE

PROMISE  —  PROCESS  —  PROVISION

  • John 3:3-5  — Born of the Spirit to ENTER the Kingdom of God
  • 1 Corinthians 2:9
  • 2 Corinthians 5:17  — “A new life has begun.”

Viewpoint  — a view from a point!

Confessing Our Faith: The 5 Stones of David

by Pastor Roy Esposito

Brennan Manning  — “We must confess our sins. We must acknowledge the evil operative that resides within us, which shows itself through our relentless self-absorption.   If we gloss over our selfishness and the evil within us, we can only pretend to be sinners and therefore only pretend to be forgiven.”
“Christ’s love and compassion is not given due to our goodness.  On the other hand, it’s also not withheld because of our lack of goodness.” — PR
Genesis 15:1-21 — God’s covenant with Abram required an offering.
— God asks us to give Him something that He, Himself, doesn’t need — but something we need to give!
1 Samuel 17 — David vs. Goliath
1 Samuel 17:40 — 5 Smooth Stones of Warfare — 5 Proclamations of Promise / 5 Confessions of Faith
1) Covenential Confidence (1 Samuel 17:26).  We have one with God — Our enemy doesn’t!!!
2) Don’t lose heart for the battle!  — “I’m all in to the end!” — (1 Samuel 17:32)
3) Remember Past Victories — (1 Samuel 17: 37)
4) Confidence in the humble, mighty in God, weapons of your warfare — (1 Samuel 17:45, 2 Corinthians 10:4-5)
5) Declared Faith — (1 Samuel 17:46-47)  “This day… !”

Psalm 46: Reflections on the Nature of God

Part 2 

3. God Is Hidden
— The full truth of God is beyond our comprehension.

—  If we try to explain God by a specific event, situation or doctrine we are in essence “playing God” and end up distorting the truth.

— Truth:   No spiritual leader, Pastor, Priest, Monk, Rabbi, Imam or Spiritual Director has any special knowledge about God. 

GOD IS ALWAYS GREATER THAN OUR MINDS AND HEARTS !
Matt 4:16 (Isa 9:1-2)  The mystery of life revealed — To discover the personal God.
Discovering His Presence through A Perception of His Absence: The Cloud of Unknowing.

Psalm 22:1-5 In the Cloud” we meet God in the way He wants us to: beyond human knowing and beyond what we are presently.

4. God Is Looking For Us

He is:  The Good Shepherd leaving the 99 for the 1.

  • The woman who lights the lamp, sweep the house until the lost coin is found.
  • Abba — watching for us and patiently waiting for our return.

The question: 

  • Not — “How do I find God?” but “How can I best let myself be found by Him?”
  • Not, “Who is God for me?” but A quest for me to discover “Who God says I am to Him”
  • “When I cry ‘Abba’  I claim that I am a seeker of a deeper relationship with God and I will be found by Him !  — “PR

    Luke 15:9-10 (Passion) — Woman with the lost coin