Awakening the Contemplative YouDaniel 6:10, Psalm 1:1-4, Matthew 6:6

1. The revelation of the knowledge of Godrequires stillness.

2. Your contemplative world needs a window.

3. Your contemplative world needs a door.

4. Your contemplative world isn’t a wordy world.

Be still, and know that I am God.Psalm 46:10

But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen.

Matthew 6:6

Now when Daniel learned that the decree had been published, he went home to his upstairs room where the windows opened toward Jerusalem. Three times a day he got down on his knees and prayed...

Daniel 6:10

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?

Psalm 8:3-4

For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.

Romans 1:20

My soul finds rest in God alone…Psalm 62:1

Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he mediates day and night.

Psalm 1:1-2

I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order than you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints.

Ephesians 1:18