WHAT IS ‘SOAKING’ ?

Be still, and know that I am God (Ps 46:10)

“râpâ̱ ” is the Hebrew word for “still” and means to slacken, let go, stop, cease.
We often get caught up in all the noise and busyness of life, getting trapped in our soul – our many thoughts, our feelings, our own strength and efforts.

It takes time to stop! To cease! To rest from all our thinking and feeling and trying, to be still and know God; to stop and let God.
Soaking time is an opportunity to reset our life with this simple act of being STILL where we LET GO and STOP and enter into His REST. (“It is finished!”)

“All that the Church and its members need for the manifestation of the mighty power of God in the world is the return to our true place, the place that belongs to us, both in creation and redemption, the place of absolute and unceasing dependence upon God.” Andrew Murray

The point of this spiritual exercise is to let go of self – self-focus and self-effort and allow ourselves to be consumed with Him alone. It is holding ourselves still in Him and beholding the Lord in all His glory and goodness, the beauty of His person. He is such a blessed Being, full and overflowing of goodness, power, life and joy which He desires to pour into each of us. We can soak Him up like the sun.

And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit. (2 Cor 3:18)

The natural result is a transformation of ourselves into the likeness of His glory, His holiness, a BEHOLDING AND BECOMING.

We are spirits and God is a spirit and there is a life and communion that is beyond our rational minds. This is a deep abiding, a beautiful flow of divine life producing in us a flourishing fruitfulness.

“Each of us have been made to be a vessel into which God can pour His life, His beauty, His happiness, His love. Every one is created to be a receptacle and a reservoir of divine heavenly life and blessing… the object of our creation – is to be always receiving” Andrew Murray

More than just attending to Him with our minds, rather a receiving of Him, experiencing Him. Truth is a person who we can experience and with whom we can have a relationship.

“be filled with the Spirit” (Ephesians 5:18)
The Greek command here is the present continuous tense and therefore may be rendered as “keep on

being filled with the Spirit” or “continue to be being filled with the Spirit.”

“…there is no Holiness but what He has, or rather what He is, and gives. Holiness is not something we do or attain: it is the communication of the Divine life, the inbreathing of the Divine nature, the power of the Divine Presence resting on us.” Andrew Murray

Soaking is an opportunity for us to stop, reset our focus on God, behold Him, wait on Him and position ourselves again to be filled with His fullness.