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“IMAGINE”

IMAGINE

by Pastor Marie Esposito

Your decision to offer God praises gives Holy Spirit ascendency over your flesh.

Bowing down brings ascension.

Walking in the love of God is being able to see things through the eyes of God.

When you look at another through God’s eyes of love,

you are seeing them through HIS IMAGE.

His love is covenantal and a commitment

STEP INTO HIS NATURE.

STEP INTO HIS CHARACTER.

LET HIS NAME DROP INTO YOUR SITUATION.

HIS POWER IS REAL.

Your identity is the key to your transformation

– Ephesians 4:20

The prophetic worship of your heart opens all the doors to liberty and freedom in every area of your life as you listen and believe…

and obey His commands.

– Revelations 19:10

Image- Imagine

  • Colossians 2:15
  • Romans 6:15
  • Romans 8:14
  • Colossians 1:27
  • Romans 6:4
  • Revelation 19:10
  • Colossians 2:15
  • James 4:7-10
  • Colossians 2:10
  • Colossians 2:14
  • 2 Corinthians 10:5
  • James 1:21
  • 1 Corinthians 10:13
  • 1 Peter 5:7
  • Matthew 27:51

Hallelujah!

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Practical, Authentic Christianity

Practical,

Authentic Christianity

by Pastor Roy Esposito

  • 1 Corinthians 4:20
  • Mark 9:23
The Tripod of Stability: Faith — Hope  — Love

Faith

  • Jeremiah 29:11
  • Hebrews 6:19

Hope

  • Romans 5:5
  • Psalm 147:11

Love

  • Romans 8:28
  • 2 Timothy 2:12-13 (Message)
The Truth:  Is the starting point for any spiritual journey.
  • Romans 7:18
  • Hebrews 11:1(AMP)
  • 1 John 3:11, 14-18
Love is a choice – a choice to act in love
  • Romans 8:1
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Discernment

Discernment

by Pastor Marie Esposito

  • I Chronicles 12:32
  • Romans 16:25
  • I Corinthians 2:7
  • Ephesians 3:9
  • Colossians 1:26

Discern- to take apart, investigate, look into- to sift. To dissect, and discriminate. To inquire into, to scrutinize. To distinguish, to differentiate, or to perceive.

  • I Corinthians 2:10
  • Is 54:13, John 6:45
  • Proverbs 18:15
  • Isaiah 55:8-9

I Corinthians 2:12 – Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God. that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

Ephesians 4:22-24 be renewed in the spirit of your mind. Be delivered in the realm of your thought processes.

  • I Kings 3:9
  • Psalm 119:125
  • I Corinthians 2:14
  • I Corinthians 2:10

The discerning heart can understand and live according to spiritual truth, therefore living in harmony with God and walking in the kingdom of heaven; filled with the life of Christ, and from that Christ-filled repository spills forth His Words. Words that are uplifting, instructive, encouraging, and life giving-to us and those we meet.

the heart is the wellspring of life, the source from which all else flows Proverbs 4:23

ACOUSTICS

  • Psalm 119:34
  • Psalm 119:102-104
THE KEYS OF DAVID. prophetic worship.
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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

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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
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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