Questions on Life
What is Soaking?
The Practice of Stillness
The Art of Making Space for God
Many of us understand the New Covenant as Jesus dying for our sins to offer forgiveness and eternal life. While this is true, it is only the beginning. The full inheritance we’ve received through Christ is far more: it’s the very indwelling life of God, given to us through the Holy Spirit.
We weren’t created to be self-sustaining.
We were never meant to carry within ourselves a source of life, strength, holiness, or happiness.
God Himself is all of this—and He created us to be in continual communion with Him, receiving from Him moment by moment.
As Andrew Murray once said:
“Each of us has 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.”
God is such a blessed Being—overflowing with goodness, power, joy, and life.
To draw near to Him is to come to a fountain.
You cannot be near Him and not begin to receive from Him.
His love delights to impart Himself to His children.
Let us let go of our many distractions and rushing, pressured thoughts.
Let us become still so we can turn ourselves fully to His presence.
Let us quiet ourselves—not rush into prayer with anxious thoughts or an overwhelming list of needs—but come simply to behold God. To allow Him to be all.
Let our hearts not be full of self and effort, but filled with faith in His working in this stillness.
Not striving, but receiving.
Stillness Is the Space Where God Fills
When Jesus rose from the dead, His first instruction to His disciples was not “Go” but “Wait.”
“Stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.” (Luke 24:49)
Why wait?
Because the New Life was never meant to be lived by our own effort, but by the Spirit.
Stillness is how we make room for the Spirit.
It’s how we die to self-effort and allow divine life to fill the space we surrender.
Isaiah 30:15 says, “In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength.”
God Works in Our Stillness
This kind of rest is not idleness—it is faith in action.
Hebrews 4:3 tells us, “We who have believed enter that rest.”
In the quiet, our hearts are recalibrated.
In the stillness, our vision is clarified.
We are realigned—not to our priorities, but to His presence.
It is in this space that peace comes.
It’s where we let go of what we’ve been clutching—our plans, our fears, our pressure to perform—and we shift our trust from ourselves to Him.
Stillness is not about emptiness.
It is about making room for the fullness of God.
Let Him Be All
To be filled with the Spirit is not to become more in ourselves, but to become less, so that He might be all.
As we stop, He begins.
God longs to reveal Himself.
He longs to fill you with Himself.
He is not withholding—He is always giving.
But we must stop to receive.
Let your stillness become a sanctuary.
Let it become the womb of transformation.
Let it be the setting where He is all in all.
Be still, and know that He is God. (Psalm 46:10)
Let go. Cease. Trust.
And receive the life you were created to live.
The Seedbed of Transformation
If you want to live from the fullness of God, there is a place to begin: Give Him time. Time is a seed. When sown in faith, it bears the fruit of intimacy, wisdom, strength, peace, and divine life.
Come and be still.
Let go of the things you are grasping for—answers, outcomes, control.
Release the burdens you carry and the noise within your mind.
Lay them down, and in that very act, put your trust afresh in Him.
This is the foundation of everything:
Not doing, but abiding.
Not working for, but resting in.
Not presenting your case, but waiting on Him in faith.
“In stillness of faith, wait on Him.”
Come empty-handed, yet expectant.
Give Him all you are—your hopes, your fears, your failures, your striving—and open your heart to receive all that He is.
He will meet you there.
He will fill what you surrender.
He will complete what you offer.
And in that exchange, you will find yourself made whole.
Not lacking. Not too much. Not behind.
But in Him, and with Him—enough.
“You are complete in Him.” (Colossians 2:10)
Stillness Restores Joy
In this space of surrendered stillness, something beautiful happens: you begin to rejoice again.
Not because circumstances have changed, but because you are no longer living under them.
You’re living from union with God, and that changes everything.
You begin to enjoy God—not just serve Him, not just seek Him for help—but actually delight in Him.
And astonishingly, you begin to sense that He enjoys you too.
This is not transactional religion.
This is communion.
This is friendship.
This is what you were made for.
He is not looking for your performance—He is longing for your presence.
He is not waiting for you to fix everything—He is waiting for you to sit with Him.
And as you remain, as you wait, as you quiet your soul and open your heart, the exchange happens:
His peace for your anxiety.
His strength for your weakness.
His joy for your weariness.
His Spirit, poured out into your stillness.
Getting Started
The goal of spiritual communion is not mere contemplation, but transformation—to be filled and respond to the Spirit of God, to abide in Him, to behold His glory, and in so doing, be transformed into His likeness (2 Cor 3:18). This is not about emotional stimulation or intellectual effort; it’s about spiritual connection and divine exchange.
- Before you begin:
- Withdraw from distraction (like Jesus did—quiet places).
- Get comfortable – sit or lie down
- Quiet your mind and emotions — ‘let go’ of your thoughts (give over your cares to God)
- Trust that being with God is more fruitful than “doing” for Him.
- Surrender self-consciousness and choose God-consciousness.
Like Mary chose the “better part” by sitting at Jesus’s feet (Luke 10:38–42), make space for God’s presence.