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

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