Download or read book The Devil in the Castle St Teresa of Avila Spiritual Warfare and the Progress of the Soul written by Dan Burke and published by Sophia. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We often think of demons appearing only in extravagant and extraordinary manifestations or working only through "bad" people. But the truth is more frightening than that. Most demonic activity takes place undetected, under the radar, and can even be hidden in our own prayer lives and in the churches where we attend Mass. Subtlety, illusion, and deceit are the preferred tactics of Satan's army of fallen angels, and they are waging an invisible battle for souls -- right now -- within and around us all. With St. Teresa of Avila's masterpiece The Interior Castle as his guide, bestselling author Dan Burke takes you on an illuminating journey through the seven levels of spiritual progress, explaining what God is accomplishing within your soul at each stage, as well as the finely tailored demonic strategies applied to throw you off your path. You'll learn how the devil is as active in your prayer life as you are, and how the saints were able to counter Satan as he adapted his schemes to correspond with where they were on their spiritual journeys. By discovering the myriad challenges St. Teresa faced and the remedies she employed to advance the spiritual progress of her soul, you'll know precisely what to expect as you progress in your current state to your final spiritual destination. You'll also learn: The marks of authentic contemplative encounter with God Why God uses dryness in prayer to advance the progress of our souls How to know if you're still in the "Purgative Way" How desolation can work for the good of the soul Why it's dangerous to assume that your decisions are correct if you feel at peace How to fight distraction in prayer The 11 ways to test the authenticity of charismatic gifts

Download or read book Close Enough to Hear God Breathe written by Greg Paul and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2011-10-03 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THERE ARE A THOUSAND VOICES TELLING ME WHO I AM, OR WHO I SHOULD BE. I WANT TO HEAR WHAT GOD HAS TO SAY. I WANT TO KNOW THAT HE'S REALLY THERE. I WANT TO KNOW THAT IN THE WHOLE GRAND, TANGLED SWEEP OF THE HUMAN STORY, MY LITTLE STORY MATTERS. I NEED TO HEAR HIS VOICE, SPEAKING TO ME, IN MY OWN EARS... In Close Enough to Hear God Breathe, acclaimed author Greg Paul shows readers through beautiful prose, powerful stories, and inventive teaching a rich message that recounts the story of a God who has been inviting all of humanity?and each individual?into a tender embrace since time began. God longs for a relationship with each of His children. Our stories matter to Him. Your story matters to Him. Reading the Bible ought to be like putting one's head on God's chest and listening to His heartbeat. Close Enough to Hear God Breathe will help readers do just that. And when they do, they'll hear God whisper, "You are my child. I love you. And I am pleased with you."

Download or read book Divine Intimacy written by Linda Chiyoge and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-29 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let's bring that SILENT STRUGGLE of yours to an end! Linda Chiyoge introduces you to her vision to advance The Kingdom of God's Daughters to be set free by helping you fall in love Christ and honoring Him, as you enjoy courting without sex before marriage! The Divine Intimacy was initially created in June 2016 as a program where over 200 women invested in Linda Chiyoge's advice, guidance the divine journey towards their spiritual well being. Their lives were transformed and tremendously changed, hence the The Divine Intimacy book was birthed. The Divine Intimacy has helped women to... - Be set FREE and delivered from sexual sins and soul tie bondages. - Let go of sexual addictions such as FORNICATION, PORN and MASTURBATION. - Become better equipped with strategies, biblical principles and tools that lead them on a NEW, REWARDING, FULFILLING, & DIVINE journey to practicing purity and building an intimate relationship with Christ. The Divine Intimacy is a life-changing experience that helps women develop and intimate relationship with Christ as they are delivered from lust, fornication and soul ties. It gives you back the power of self control from sexual temptation and helps you build self discipline. It's time you build your confidence back up so that you can be reminded of how worthy you are as a child of the most high God! By teaching you that your body is a sacred temple of The Holy Spirit, The Divine Intimacy lives up to its core objectives which are to... - Deliver you from strongholds that may have contaminated your soul and polluted your spirit. - Supernaturally transform your way of life so that the things you once desired, you will no longer be in search for. - Develop Divine Knowledge and deeper understanding of how detrimental sexual activities are in the long run. - The after effects that fornication and lustful activities have on your mind, body, soul and spirit. What are you waiting for? Over 200 women have been able to hear God like never before and fall deeper in love with Him! Day-by-day, with biblical scriptures and inspiration directly from Linda Chiyoge you too can break loose from the distractions of sexual activities such as porn, fornication and masturbation like so many others. Learn how to refrain from giving your body freely to men and wait in contentment until the day you say "I do!" Surrender to Jesus and propel your life according to HIS will. Finally, see your life through the eyes of Christ by making daily adjustments in order to please the most high!

Download or read book Unleashing the Power of Intercessory Prayer written by Joseph Hollcraft and published by Sophia Institute Press. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intercessory prayer is not something you have to do. It's something you are privileged to do. Indeed, praying for others is a beautiful way of thinking, acting, and living like Christ. Yet many people struggle with intercessory prayer because they lack a coherent understanding of what prayer is and because they're not well grounded in how to pray. This inspiring book walks you through nine key steps to boosting your intercessory prayer's power and efficacy. Each step is paired with practical tips to help you implement the principle in your daily life, a patron saint to provide direction and encouragement on your journey, and prompt questions to guide meditations and journaling. Armed with these tools, you can revitalize your prayer life and begin responding with confidence to those in need of your intercession. With this book's help, your “Yes, I will pray for you!” will have new meaning and poten

Download or read book Divine Communion written by Jay Emerson Johnson and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food, sex, and God– these intertwine at the heart of Christian faith and practice. This book invites Christian communities to reflect theologically and spiritually on the desire for God and the desire for sexual intimacy as the same fundamental desire for communion. This is likewise God’s own desire to be in communion with us, which Christians celebrate whenever we share a simple meal of bread and wine at the Eucharistic table. The longing for intimacy and its disruptions echo throughout our political contestations, economic systems, racial and ethnic conflicts, and ecological crises. In no small measure, the vitality of Christian witness to the Gospel in the twenty-first century depends on exploring the depths of desire itself in the ancient hope for Divine Communion made new.

Download or read book Diary of an American Exorcist written by Msgr Stephen Rossetti and published by Sophia. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archdiocese of Washington exorcist Msgr. Stephen Rossetti and his team have a very active caseload of demonic possessions. Msgr. Rossetti presents many of these stories here, without varnish or hype. In these ninety-five detailed cases, two vivid lessons consistently emerge: 1. Demons possess or simply harass people in myriad ways and need to be taken seriously, even when they do not enter a soul. 2. Demons are defeated, decisively, by the power of Christ and His Church, employing prayer, sacramentals, rites of exorcism -- and especially, invocations to the Blessed Mother. "Despite all their bluster and arrogance, demons are cowards," Msgr. Rossetti reveals. In fact, in every section of his work, he offers detailed "Theological Reflections" explaining the meaning of these possessions, why he thinks God permitted each, and the spiritual benefits accrued. The devil is no match for the Lord of Heaven and Earth.

Download or read book Intimate Conversations with the Divine written by Caroline Myss and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, from the New York Times best-selling author of Sacred Contracts and Anatomy of the Spirit, a timely guide with 100 prayers for entering into a personal relationship with the Divine. "I've loved so many of Caroline Myss's books, but maybe none so much as Intimate Conversations with the Divine. Has there ever been a more urgent need for her unique and profound (and sometimes wonderfully cranky) take on our spiritual reality, healing, and the language of holiness?" -- Anne Lamott, author of Traveling Mercies and Help, Thanks, Wow In her most personal book to date--now available in paperback for the first time--beloved teacher and best-selling author Caroline Myss draws on her own practice to help us regain our fluency in the language of prayer and renew our connection to the sacred. Intimate Conversations with the Divine offers 100 of Myss's personal prayers as a resource and inspiration to start a prayer practice of your own. Each prayer illustrates a different type of grace that feeds the human soul, from awakening, endurance, and healing, to silence, surrender, and trust. "We are one holy system of life and great cosmic truth, which is that all life--including all of us--breathes together," Myss writes. "I hope this book, these prayers, will bring you comfort and grace, and help you through the difficult times ahead. And I hope they will inspire you to believe that with God, all things are possible."

Download or read book Romantic Intimacy written by Nancy Yousef and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-04 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How much can we know about what other people are feeling and how much can we sympathize or empathize with them? The term "intimacy" captures a tension between a confidence in the possibility of shared experience and a competing belief that thoughts and feelings are irreducibly private. This book is an interdisciplinary study of shared feeling as imagined in eighteenth-century ethics, romantic literature, and twentieth-century psychoanalysis. Original interpretations of Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Austen show how mutual recognition gives way to the appreciation of varied, nonreciprocal forms of intimacy. The book concludes with accounts of empathy and unconscious communication in the psychoanalytic setting, revealing the persistence of romantic preoccupations in modernity. Yousef offers a compelling account of how philosophical confidence in sympathy is transformed by literary attention to uneven forms of emotional response, including gratitude, disappointment, distraction, and absorption. In its wide-ranging and eclectic engagement with current debates on the relationship between ethics, affect, and aesthetics, the book will be crucial reading for students of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century culture, as well as for literary theorists.

Download or read book Spiritual Warfare and the Discernment of Spirits written by Dan Burke and published by Sophia Institute Press. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Satan is always at work breeding sadness and anxiety while providing obstacles that prevent souls from making spiritual progress. In this concise yet powerful book, author Dan Burke presents the venerable, time-tested wisdom of Catholic mystics to help you understand the influence of the Enemy on your mind and heart, and the tactics you need to combat him. With St. Ignatius as his guide, Burke presents here an indispensable, authoritative manual for engaging in daily battle with the Adversary—combat that is both inevitable and winnable. Burke will help you recognize the ebbs and flows of consolation and desolation, and distinguish between the voices of God and of Satan. Best of all, you'll come to see the spiritual life not as a science to be learned, but as an intuitive art to be practiced as you move with increasing success from habitual sin to sanctity. The battle for our souls is unavoidable. The saints won theirs by learning how to be spiritual warrio

Download or read book Pursuing Intimacy With God written by Kevin Bart and published by Kevin Bart. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Expanded Edition - 40% more material. Pursuing Intimacy With God Bible study books & site to help you grow closer to God and enjoy intimacy with God. Our site includes many Bible studies for life and a large variety of Bible study topics. The Bible study book includes Bible study topics on Intimacy With God, Walking With God, How to Pray to God, Prayer in the Bible, How to Study the Bible, How to Seek God With All Your Heart, How to Hear God’s Voice, Meditate on God’s Word, True Worship in the Bible, Praise As A Spiritual Weapon, Praise Is Placing A High Value on God, How to Have Abundant Life, God’s Calling For Your Life, God’s Promises in the Bible, Faith Is Vital For Intimacy With God, Waiting on God, God’s Purpose & Mission For His Church, Revival & Spiritual Awakening, The Kind of Christian & Church God Wants… The PIWG Bible Study Book is ideal for individuals, or for small groups, Sunday School classes, and discipleship classes at your church Pursuing Intimacy With God website: www.intimacywithgod.com God has used the PIWG I & II studies to bless many people: "Words to appreciate I just can't find but please accept my gratitude. The study has really transformed my life and family." - Samuel "The time and effort you sow into reaching thousands upon thousands of people globally has and continues to touch lives and edify the body of Christ. I am thankful to God and to your ministry for your work." - Carlos, South Africa "We want you to know how much this guide has been a blessing to us. We have been using it on a regular basis and I'm sure it will always be a resource in our permanent library. Keep doing what you are doing. This has really changed our lives."- Carrie, US "What an awesome thing that your ministry is sharing with the world. God's word is user friendly, spoken as Jesus did where all can understand and want to learn more of Jesus, study more and do his will. I have never found such detailed shared information of God's word all in one book." - Ruby, US "Thank you so much for your website. I've benefited so much from it and it has helped me so much in my relationship with Jesus! I believe its the no1 thing I need to pursue." - Zsuzsi, Hungary "Your website, what I've read so far is an overwhelming refreshing shower to my spirit. To discover a ministry that focuses on loving God is so utterly a confirmation to me. What could be more important? Fathomless depths. Thank you for your precious hearts." - Julia, US "Just wanted to say thanks for this site. I typed in the search because this is what God has been doing in my life. Drawing me into intimacy." - Stephen, Australia "The material on your website is awesome. Glory to God !" - Ray, US "I am in awe of the study book. I did not expect to receive so much information. Thank you." - Olivia US "I have been blessed by your site & studies." - Dorota, Poland "The study was excellent ! I could understand it. It was done beautifully and simply... God has changed our lives through this study. We are both working for a soft and humble heart." - Nancy, US "Once again I cant thank you enough; your help is much appreciated and I am so grateful towards you for this." - John, Ireland "I will certainly join in praying for this study and for you as you continue to work with it as the Lord directs. Those weeks of study were so very meaningful to me! - Reid, US "Hi, Thank you for publishing this great material." - Johan, South Africa "Praise the Lord. Please I request a copy of your wondrous book." - Meshak, Uganda

Download or read book The Divine Intercessor written by Gary Wilkerson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tantric Intimacy written by Katrina Bos and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Tantra? It is joy, passion, and healing. It is trust and kindness. It is power. It is everything that a human being is capable of and more... so much more. Living a tantric life is a life filled with unlimited happiness. It is unfathomable in its greatness. It is a way of intimately connecting with the people around you that will change how you exist in this world.

Download or read book Fully Human Fully Divine written by Craig Holliday and published by . This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a value in seeing how spiritual awakening and being human meet in an ordinary Life, in relationship with our partners, kids, families and friends, with our busy lives, in illness, transitions, death, careers and in every area of our lives. This book is a call to awakening and embracing and transforming our humanity. It is a radical guide to spiritual awakening in the modern world. Not written from the monastery or ashram, but from someone who has lived in the pain of samsara, from someone who after years of seeking and meditation found surrender in the depths of pain, while life was falling apart around him. Craig Holliday is both a nondual teacher and a therapist. He teaches in a way that instructs us to not run from life, but to face life head on through embracing every moment as it is. Through this absolute embracing, we are given the gift of discovering that our Beauty-our innate Divinity is right here within us; that our very humanity is the doorway to our freedom. Craig has spent 20 years intensely seeking, meditating and studying with some of the world's greatest nondual teachers. Beyond his spiritual training, he has also bridged the gap between eastern spirituality and western psychotherapy. After years of trying to transcend his humanity through meditation and spirituality, his search brought him to the study of psychology and the emphasis on working with our humanity instead of simply trying to transcend it. Through this combined work of psychology and nondual spirituality, Craig offers a seamless transmission of nondual spirituality which fully acknowledges our humanity and our overwhelming Beauty and Divinity. His work is dedicated to the discovery of our innate Divinity in every aspect of our lives. He works in a way that addresses our everyday human suffering as a doorway to our inherent freedom. Craig offers Satsang, workshops, retreats and meets with individuals from around the world via Skype. For more information about Craig visit: craigholliday.com If you want to examine with me, what it means to be awake and how to work with a huge amount of karma and egoic conditioning-read on. If you want to know how to work with repetitive difficult emotions, with anxiety and pain, with a career, kids and relationships read on. If you want to examine what life before, during and after awakening is; what enlightenment is beyond ancient mythological or a dogmatic understandings read on. If you are compelled to examine with me, what it means to be human and Divine-not in some philosophical sense, but in the context of a down to earth awakened practicality, join me in this.

Download or read book I ve Seen Jesus written by Shadeen Anglin and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She stormed into a worship service in her pajamas to call an end to the "nuisance" that was disturbing her sweet morning sleep. Today, she is a minister of the Gospel, leading many in the ministry she once loathed, and guiding many to surrender to the God she once scorned. This is the story of how our unrelentingly loving Saviour sought, found, and gave purpose to a woman who was lost, wretched, and hopeless. Shadeen Anglin shares her personal experiences, employing them as a lighthouse for all who might be lost in a sea of spiritual quagmire, waiting to hear God's voice and desiring to abide in His presence. She goes against the grain of contemporary spiritual stories entailing dreams, visions, and out-of-body experiences by proving to the keen mind the scriptural validity of her experiences.

Download or read book Journey Into Divine Intimacy with St Teresa of Avila A Retreat Spiritual Direction Guide and Study Resource written by Leslie Lin Lund Ocdh and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-10 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journey into Divine Intimacy with St. Teresa of Avila: A Retreat, Spiritual Direction Guide and Study Resource is a guide through the various levels of the human person to the deepest center of the soul where God abides. It is based on St. Teresa of Avila's masterpiece on prayer and the spiritual journey to God: The Interior Castle. This book is also offered as a Retreat with practical suggestions for prayer, along with the wisdom of St. Teresa's spiritual direction guidance for growth in passive supernatural prayer. St. Teresa is a Doctor of the Catholic Church in mystical theology, and her teaching on prayer is comprehensive and sophisticated and cannot be immediately grasped without some guidance. Thus, the book also covers the underpinning pedagogical explanations of her terminology with extensive Supplemental Material. This book covers each of the seven dwelling places of the soul and includes a Description of the Dwelling Place and Teresian Teachings for Prayer and Life pertinent to each dwelling place. The first section is followed by a second that is directed more towards a retreat and the spiritual activity of praying and includes: Internalizing the Teachings, a Reflection, Reflection Questions, Guidance for Prayer and Prayer Period with Scripture Passages that suit that inner dwelling. There is also a Guided Meditation based on Teresian images that can be used for prayer associated with that particular dwelling. At the end of each of the dwelling places is a short biographical piece on St. Teresa that relates to her own stage of life and prayer within a particular dwelling place. The book comes with introductory material that describes how to get the most out of the book: How to Use this Book, How to Use this Book for Prayer and How to Use this Book for a Retreat. It also includes useful visual illustrations of the material in diagrams and charts that summarize important material. This book is meant to be a good balance of Teresian prayer-theory and inspirational Teresian mentoring for the practice of prayer and growth in contemplative prayer and Christian life. The audience for this book is comprehensive. It can be a directed retreat or a self-guided retreat, as well as counseling for personal spiritual guidance, or a manual for spiritual directors. It can be for beginners in prayer, those in a stalemate in their prayer life, or those proficient in prayer. It can be an introduction as well as a good basic academic teaching for those who want to better understand their reading of St. Teresa's Interior Castle. It would be of great value to Clergy, Apostolic Religious, Contemplatives, Lay Associates, Carmelites and anyone in initial religious formation. Prayer groups, religious educators, and any Christian seeking a deeper prayer life can be enriched by St. Teresa's teachings.

Download or read book Divine Intimacy written by Gabriel Of St. Mary Magdalen and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2011-08-08 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divine Intimacy is considered a classic throughout the Christian world, a work prepared with loving and conscientious labor by one of the great Catholic teachers of our time. This revision of his famous works vibrates with the freshness of the springtime of grace stirred up by Vatican II and inspired by the renewed impulse to a more vital return to Sacred Scripture. Of all the books of meditation available today, this series is the most practical, liturgically and spiritually formative, and helpful for true communion with God. Volume II covers from Ash Wednesday through Pentecost

Download or read book Divine Intimacy Vol 4 written by Fr. Gabriel of St Mary Magdalen and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 1987-03-01 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The classic book of daily meditations on the interior life, newly revised and expanded to correspond with the feasts of the Catholic liturigal year."--Cover.