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Jesus In My Actual Life

by Pastor Roy Esposito

Judges 6:6

2 Chronicles 20:20 – “The battle is not mine but His!”

2 Chronicles 20:17 – “Position yourselves!”

 Matthew 7:21-23 – It’s possible to move in the blessing and anointing of God and really not know Him.

 Lawlessness – Self-deception

 “Religion allows for self-deception as it substitutes itself for a true relationship with God.” – PR

 Stages of Christian Maturity – Bob Jones

1. Justified by Faith – get “saved/born again” – just as a baby is born
2. Sanctified – Learn how to be a Christian – like “potty training”
3. Signs and Wonders Stage – Begin to become profitable to the Kingdom. – “Hit and Miss”
4. Maturity/Discipleship – Died to self enough that Kingdom authority can be released and the Lord is seen in you.

Disciple – One who has decided to be with another, under appropriate conditions, in order to become capable of doing what that person does or to become what that person is.  An apprentice.

Romans 15:1-2_(Passion)

Becoming a Disciple of Jesus – is not a matter of learning to do everything He did but learning to do everything I do in the same manner in which He did all that He did.

It’s learning to live my WHOLE life, my ACTUAL life, as He would live it – if He were I.

“Discipleship to Christ is not a matter of WHAT I do but HOW I do whatever I do, considering the parameters of my abilities.” – PR

On the Job Discipleship

1. Don’t be the “moral police” – no nagging
2. Be gentle but firm in non-cooperation with things everyone considers wrong.
3. Work to develop an inward attitude of prayer for the activities of the job.
4. Develop a genuine love for the people you interact with.
5. Employ specific points of Jesus’ teachings as circumstances dictate (i.e. – non-retaliation; no gossiping).
6. Be watchful and prepared to meet any obvious spiritual need with words of comfort, encouragement, and acts of kindness.

Questions to consider this week:

1. Why am I a Christian?
2. Where am I headed going forward?
3. What’s my intention?
4. What actual decision did I make to follow Jesus?
5. Did I even make one?

 Relax Your Grip, Open Your Hand

by Pastor Roy Esposito

2 Chronicles 20:12-17 – Jehosaphat
John 5:19
Judges 6:1-16 – Gideon
2 Corinthians 4:6-7 – Vessels of clay get broken so the treasure of Light can breakthrough.

2 Chronicles 20:17-30 – God gives the specifics for victory:

1. Position yourselves to listen
2. Stand still
3. See
4. Don’t fear or be anxious
5. It’s coming down tomorrow at the Ascent of Ziz.

Verse 18 – Jehoshaphat bows his head: “Worried” king to “Worshipping” king
Hallel Praise – to rave; to boast; to be clamorously foolish; to act madly before God.
Verse 20 – Prophetic/ Apostolic mantle
Verse 21 – Tehellah Praise – a spontaneous, prophetic song that speaks what is on God’s heart.

Psalm 22:8 – God came in their midst and set ambushes against the enemy.

John 4:23-24 (Passion)

1. Truth -clear sight and discernment
2. Spirit — The graces of divine empowerment

Ekklesia – The “called”
Matthew 22:14 – “Many are called but few are chosen…”
Passion – “For everyone is invited to enter in, but few respond in excellence.”
Chosen – Eklektoi – worthy, pure, excellent
Excellence – done passionately and to the best of one’s ability.

The ” New Song” –

1. the sound of God’s unquestioned authority sung-through His people.
2. Accompanied by a “Death-knell” Selah over the enemy.
3. Declares, “God is present” in Zion

Revelations 14:5 (Passion) – a song “…whose words are always true and flawless.”

Grace to Listen, Grace to See

by Pastor Roy Esposito

Romans 12:3

Romans 12:6

Rev 21:15

Eph 4:7

Jer 29:13, Prov 8:17 — Seek/Find

Heb 4:16  —   “Find” grace  — implies seeking it.

New Grace —  More than a deeper understanding of God’s unmerited favor.

                       A fresh infusion of Divine Power to fulfill our destiny.

                                 David’s Qualification for Kingdom Leadership:

                  1. Loved God  2. Respected family  3. Did the daily tasks set before him

                                                    Psalms of David:

A vocabulary of God’s desires written on David’s heart and prophetically uttered through spontaneous worship which ushered in the Presence of God to the hearers.

2Chron 20:1-5

                                                 All Enemies Seek 5 things:

     1. The Land  2. The Harvest  3. To break the generational covenant  4.The worship  5. The Destiny

Molech –“To ascend to the throne.”

Lucifer “The anointed cherub that covers the throne.”  —   Ezk 28:14

Ezk 28:16 – Lucifer, cast down by God — left the throne uncovered.

Ps 22:3  – God enthroned on the praises of His people.

                                           3 Enemy Armies

Ammonites — Represent sexual perversion and perversion of the Truth.

Moabites —    Represent xenophobia: suspicion, rejection, and hatred of people of different cultures

Mt Seir   —    Represent an Erosion of faith

2Chron 20: 5-15  — Jahaziel  — “God will cause to see”  —   “Listen!”  —  ” See!”

“There is a grace coming available that will allow us to see into the realm of the Spirit (Heaven) where there is no debate about God’s authority.”  — PR

                     Jesus didn’t think logically, He thought optically.  —  Jn 5:19

Yes! We Will!

by Pastor Roy Esposito

Matthew 10:7-8_(Passion
Romans 12:6 – Use the proportion of faith you have to prophesy
John 6:63 – Jesus’ words à àà Spirit and Life
Matthew 10:11-14_(Passion) – Vs. 13_(AMP)
Matthew 28:20
Genesis 8:8-9
John 14: 27 – Jesus gives His peace
Acts 5:15-16_(Passion) – Peter’s shadow heals the sick

“Your shadow will always release whatever overshadows you.”

Luke 9:1 – Power and authority given to 12 disciples
Power – The ability or capacity to act or perform effectively.
Authority – The capacity to command, enforce and exact obedience over any opposing force.
Romans 8: 14 – mature children are Spirit-led
1 John 3:2 – Christ revealed
Revealed (Greek) – phaneroo – in true character

“The spiritual fuel of transformation is a combination of our zeal for God and His Grace.” – PR

Luke 5:17 – Power for a specific purpose.
Next step in spiritual maturity – “Lord, what is it you want done in this circumstance?”
Human Prophesying – Deducing what God wants and commands from a natural perspective.
Spirit generated Faith Prophesying – Speaking a word that releases a solution:
Aggressive intercession instead of condemning hostility. – Redemptive, not destructive.
Isaiah 6:8 – “Who will go for us? Here we are, Lord. send us!”

What Am I Becoming?

by Pastor Roy Esposito

Romans 6:23
Sin — The expectation of death.
Death — The concept of taking life; a wasting away

John 1:4 – “In Him was LIFE –” ZOE
Zoe — The principal of Life

Galatians 4:19 — Christ FORMED
Formed — 1. Mor-fah-oo– an inner change of reality 2. Schema — a semblance of the original

Mark 1:16-17 (Passion) — “— I will transform you into men who catch people –“

How to Identify a Disciple of Christ

1. John 13:35 (Passion) — love demonstrated
2. Put s faith into action — Galatians 6:1-9 (Passion)
3. Fulfills the duties of a Minister of Reconciliation — 2 Corinthians 5:18-20

Ephesians 4:26-27 — ” Be angry and sin not!”
Proverbs 4:4

Romans 5:12 — Sin: a doorway to death

“When you get down in the mud to wrestle a pig, you both get dirty but the pig likes it!” — LBJ

1 Corinthians 5:6 — leaven
Luke 6:14-16
John 12:16 – Judas: a thief
Acts 7:60 — Stephen stoned

2 Timothy 3:5 — Christian Pharisees
Love — the power of godliness

Godly Judgment -- a balance of Ethics and Wisdom. 

Questions: "What Am I Becoming?"
          "Do I carry the sweet fragrance of the Savior or the acrid stench of hell?"

The Gift of “Night Vision”
by Pastor Roy Esposito

1 Cor 12:10 — The Gift of Discerning of Spirits — The ability to detect the true source of circumstances or motives of people.

1. Desire and ask God for it. 2. Allow by yielding to God

Allowing/Yielding — 1. Trusting in God’s good intentions for hope and a future of blessings — Jer 29:11-13
2. Staying attentive to the Holy Spirit’s leading.

Rapid change >> Uncertainty >> Anxiety >> Stress >> Irrational Thiunking >> Irrational Actions

2Cor 10:5 — Taking irrationality captive to the Truth of Christ

1 Cor 2:6-16 (Passion) — God’s revealing the keys to “mysteries” He’s prepared and ordained for this time.

“God doesn’t hide things from us but for us.” — Rick Joyner

“Pitfalls can occur through the tedium of daily life wherein the Holy Things become Common and thereby lose their power for transformation. So stay alert !!” — PR

The Gift of Discerning of Spirits — the ability to perceive the obscure and concealed things of God: To see the hidden things (Oscura) in order to not be blinded by (Tinieblas) evil.

Darkness — Oscura — hidden
Tinieblas — Blindness

1 Cor 2:16 – The “Mind of Christ” — Knows fully the things of God. It perceives God’s instructions and “sees” clearly through life’s obscurity.

Golgatha — The Place of the Skull — 1. Where Jesus was crucified. 2. Where our old mindsets must be crucified.

Mindsets — Attitudes, thought patterns, random external thoughts

2Cor 10:5-6 — ” Every thought that enters our mind is alive and wants to remain so. We must put them to death to become alive.” — PR

1 Cor 2:15 — Spirit man discerns “all things.” — The good wolf from the evil one!

Rom 14:23b (Passion) — anything not springing from faith is sin!

Rom 5:12 (Passion) — Death is the result of sin.

“Unsurrendered sin creates in us the capacity to absorb death.” — PR

People learn to adjust to the world they live in.

Old Nature — learns to live with the expectation of death. — the concept of “taking life.”

Jn 1:4 — In Jesus — ” Zoe” — The principle or concept of life — the reality of being alive in God.

Eternal Life — Not just in duration of time but in the quality of the life lived.

The Sacrament of the Present Moment — Jean-Pierre Caussade