What
Complete stillness, waiting upon, seeking, knocking, entering into his presence without an agenda or timeline. Intimacy comes from a relationship that is natural and spontaneously surprisingly AWEsome.
It’s the absence of DOING or performing, it is resting in HIS PRESENCE. It’s an invitation to the red day q, saying, Here I am Lord, all of me, do what you want in me. I am yours alone.
It is an inward journey of the Holy Spirit’s reign and rule over our life. It’s the space or resting and ceasing from striving.
One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple.”
-Psalm 27:4
How
Instrumental music, journal, visualization, breathing. Be open to no time limit, an insatiable desire to receive and open heart to believe He will fill your cup to be overflowing.
Where
A quiet peaceful space. A bath can be the perfect place to Purify. Soak. Cleanse. Renew.
Epsom Salt baths- “Lord make me salty”; making others thirsty for God comes from our contagious sensation of Christ seeping from us.
Why
To “Be Still and Know”
John Arnott compares soaking prayer to the process of making pickles.
“I found a classical Greek word study on the words ‘bapto’, meaning ‘to dip’, and ‘baptidzo’, meaning to immerse. … The recipe called for the raw fruit to be dipped in boiling water to blanch or sterilize the cucumber, using the word ‘bapto’, which means, ‘to dip in and out quickly’. Then it called for the cucumber to be immersed, using the word ‘baptidzo’, and soaked in the brine and the pickling solution for several weeks. What happens during this soaking time is that the marinade or the pickling solution soaks deep into the flesh of the cucumber until it takes on the flavor of the pickling solution so that it no longer tastes like a raw cucumber.”
“This is what we mean by soaking,” Arnott explains. “May you be so marinated in the presence of the Holy Spirit, soaking in the River of God, that you no longer ‘taste’ like your old, raw nature, but you have taken on the flavor of the Holy Spirit. ‘Pickle us Lord, in the marinade of the Holy Spirit. Soak us in your wonderful presence until we become more and more like you.’”
For those who drink from this well shall never be thirsty again.
Essential Oils – “Humility”
-I believe Humility
-I choose Humility
-I manifest Humility
-I declare Humility
Affirmation: I am still before the Lord and wait patiently for Him.
Now may the Lord Bless and keep you and cause his face to shine upon you….
And I pray that you being ROOTED and established in love, may have power, together will all the saints to grasp how wide and long, and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge- that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.