We are walking in today: We Need To Soak in God's Presence.
Psalms 37:7 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass. Rest and wait on the LORD. Now that you have laid it down, soak in prayer before the Lord. This is essentially what "soaking" is. When we soak in God's presence, we are in a place of rest where we wait upon Him. Back in the day my mother showed me how to tarry. This is where they would spend long hours waiting on the Lord. Many times. however they were waiting to be filled with the Holy Spirit and their waiting was more a form of pleading and trying to get to the place where they felt ready to receive the Holy Spirit. Fortunately, we have gained more understanding of the word and the heart of God and know that the Lord desires to pour out His Spirit upon us. Soaking in the Lord therefore, while similar to tarrying, has an emphasis on rest and receiving by faith, as opposed to striving and crying out to God. To Soak something, is more than a five minute dip. It is allowing it to become saturated and full of what it is soaking in. If you take a cucumber and place it in vinegar and spices for a few minutes, then eat it, it would still taste like a cucumber. But if you take that cucumber and soak it in that solution for a couple of weeks, it no longer tastes like cucumber-- it has become a pickle. It has taken on the flavor of that solution. Soaking involves becoming saturated with God so that we take on God's flavor or nature. Too often we "taste" of flesh. But God wants us to be transformed into the image of His Son and carry His fragrance and flavor. 2 Corinthians 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. The definition of solution is an action or process of solving a problem, an answer to a problem, explanation; the condition of being dissolved; a bringing or coming to an end or into a state of discontinuity. So we find that soaking in the Lord is the answer to every problem, it is He that gives the explanation. While we are soaking in Him, sitting in His solution we are being broken down and dissolved. No longer are we carrying our will but His will! We are in a end state of re-choosing Him. It has been decided and no longer a question or puzzlement, it is always God, no other option! Fiveamprayer, we discontinue our former state, behold God makes all things new! 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. When we soak in God's presence, we begin to behold Him. As we do, we become like Him. Soaking in God's presence enables us to behold the Lord. We can not do this and remain the same. We are changed from glory to glory--transformed to be more like Him. Lay down your willing thing and wait. Isaiah 40:31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. This familiar verse reveals that something happens when we wait on God. Who He is, starts to get on us and in us! This divine exchange of His strength for our weakness and His ability instead of our frailty and inadequacy, happens because we spend time waiting on Him. Many of us have experienced this in our day to day lives. When we spend time with the Lord in the morning our day is empowered. As we soak in God's presence this effect is intensified--the results of being in His presence. Is getting a revelation. Revelation is often the fruit of soaking in God's presence. The Lord delights in revealing the secret counsel of His heart, dealing with issues that need to be addressed and bringing wisdom to our situation and needs. The scope of all that is made available to us, as we soak or wait upon the Lord, is revealed in Psalm 27:14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD. David climaxes this Psalm with his declaration in verse 14. Now soak in the word all day!! Amen, amen.
Fiveamprayer, it is time to soak in the Lord until we are transformed. Soak until we can walk it out as God directs us. Soak until we have a new mindset. Soak until we get the revelation. Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. Ask God to saturate you in the anointing. Sometimes we get into fear and doubt--soak us! He is the one who makes a way out of no way! Isaiah 45:2 I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron. Surround us, Lord. Soak us in Your presence. The Lord makes a way when He shows up. We get new mercies daily, soak us, Lord! We get a new word every morning on fiveamprayer! Rain on us Lord! Send us the latter rain. Job 8:7 Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase. The devil is trying to get you in your mind. Soak our minds and hearts Lord, let them to be set on and focused on You. We wanna be like You, Lord. Like a child that imitates everything that their father does, we want to be like You. People should see us and say that we take after our Father. Thank You Lord for drenching us in Your presence! Soak us Lord, that we can count it all joy, no longer looking at this with with worldly eyes. Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. Soak us in Your word, Genesis, where it all began, Exodus, Leviticus, to Job where we learn, though He slays me, yet will I trust Him! On to Psalms where we learn that The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want, on to Revelations to find that He is the Alpha and Omega--Revelation 1:8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. Soak in this word, fiveamprayer. Just like soaking in a tub full of scented water when you get out you carry that aroma with you. Soak us Lord that we leave a heavenly aroma of who we belong to, every where that we go. Overtake us God, we have set down the willing thing God. We want more and more of You, less and less of us. Lord we need You. That is it. Nothing else can satisfy what we are looking for--searching the world we come up empty outside of Your presence. We need Your Spirit resting on us. Pour out on us, Lord!! Soak us as we seek wisdom, knowledge and understanding of You and Your word! Saturate, douse, overfill us, Lord. We wanna be closer to You, Lord. We wanna walk with You, Lord, soak us! We don't want to be the same. Let us be transformed in Your presence, soaked and taking after our Father! We will walk differently, from the soaking. We will speak differently, from the soaking. Thank You Lord for making us brand new--no longer seeking empty and temporary things. Holding to and chasing the eternal rewards--our hands put to the work that builds up the kingdom--with our words and deeds. James 2:26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. Fill us Lord with Your Spirit, that we are no longer dead, living unto the world. Let our works reflect our faith in You and trust in Your word. We don't want to get into fear any more, we want to stand trusting you--Psalm 27:3-4 3) Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident. 4) One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple. Lord our mind is set on You, soak us! Let our mind stay on You--Isaiah 26:3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. You have given us Your word, we can stand on it. Let us keep our minds on You, that we remain in perfect peace. Soak us Lord in Your peace in our minds! We know that it is You that supplies all of our needs! No other place can we go--soak us Lord to trust and know that You are God all by Yourself. You don't need our help, Lord. Acts 17:24-25 24) God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; 25) Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things. We keep getting into fear, we want to trust You, Lord. Sometimes our mindset goes back to defeat. Soak our mind, Lord. It is You that supplies all of our needs. How else did you make it with out a job or what is going on in your finances, if not God!? He still provides and makes a way. How can you speak, what you speak? Proverbs 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. You will have what you say! Greater is He that is in me, than he that is in this world. We can do all things through Christ which strengthens us. Stop trying to fix it and thinking about it. Soak me Lord, pull down every stronghold. I would rather have Jesus--not a car or a house. Lord give us wisdom, knowledge and understanding. This world is not our home, we are just passing through. Soak our ministry, to bring in souls to the kingdom. The things that we do for God is the only thing that will last! Don't hang up from this call, and set back down in doubt. Stop turning to things and others, turn to God. You need to be soaked, fiveamprayer. There is a soaking going on!! Soak us in Genesis, where You said, "let there be light." You spoke this whole world into existence. And here we go worrying about paying a light bill?! Only depend on God to bring you through!! He is not trying to find a way, He makes a way out of no way!! He has already gone before us! Soak us Lord!! Soak us in Your presence. The rain is coming down--grace, mercy, favor in His presence. He is showing up and moving on this line!! God is raining down on fiveamprayer. He is sending us the latter rain. Tell Him, "I rather have You!" Everything else will fail or be lost. Hallelujah for receiving the eternal gifts of God that can not be spoiled nor tarnished--Matthew 6:19-20 19) Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20) But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. Thank You Jesus! Soak me Lord!! Saturate me to be transformed, more and more like You! It is raining, go get soaked in His presence!! It is another anointing from on high, we are being soaked in power from God. Fiveamprayer, soak in His presence today! We have laid down the willing thing, soak us Lord! Change our mindset. It is raining, He is soaking, saturating us. We want more and more of You and less and less of us. Rehearse this word all day long. This word should be in your spirit, let this word take you over. God had us walking in trust for one whole week so that we would be able to submit to Him. This is not a hostile take over, God is a gentleman and will not come in unless invited or accepted in. "Lord, take us over!" Like the soft drinks that are sold that have zero calories, we need to be like that, zero percent us and one hundred percent God!! Cast off the old ways of the old man, as Pastor Taffe taught months ago. That is why we had to let go of the willing thing and to choose God at every turn. This is not auto pilot, we are apart of this walk, this life but who is leading us?! The flesh, the ways of the world, other influences or the Truth ,the Way and the Life? Just like when you have a stain in your clothes, you have to do a pre-soak to get that stain out. We have ways the we have walked in for sometime. Let God's presence permeate, soak in and take over in those areas--competition, offenses, jealously, and any other tools of the enemy to trip up the saints in the work that God has assigned us. We will rest in Your word, waiting on You. That is when the soaking starts. Wait on Him, fiveamprayer!! Rest and wait on the Lord! He is sweet, I know! He gets gooder and gooder. God is changing us. We are not the same, we don't even have the same responses to those same situations. Thank You Lord for teaching us the good and right way! This is the word that can change your mindset--go soak in His presence! We lift up prayer requests those known and unknown, we ask that You would soak us in healing and deliverance. The soaking in Him will set us free! Hallelujah! We repent for sins known and unknown. Soak us, Lord to forgive like You. Casting the sins in to the sea to be remembered no more. If we won't or don't forgive, You will not forgive us. Let us let go and forgive!! No more walking around in unforgiveness--soak us in Your love to soften our hearts towards those we are to forgive. Soak us out of unforgiveness. Soak us in Your blood, there is still power in the blood! We lift this prayer up to You this morning.
We seal this prayer in His precious blood: 1 Chronicles 4:10 And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.
Welcome to the overflow...
Soak us in You, indeed! Soak our requests, Lord. Hallelujah God!! Thank You Lord! A change has come over me! I know you feel the transformation!! A wonderful change has come over me! Now I am complete. Now I sit at my Master's feet. Work till the work is done. Tell Him, " I would rather have Jesus!" Soak us God! Thank You God! Hallelujah! When God begins to soak you, your mind has got to change!! Transformed because you are soaked in His word. Come up a little bit higher, up under the veil. Come up higher to get soaked in His presence. Thank You Lord!! Thank You Jesus! Thank You Holy Spirit! We are sitting at Your feet! Thank You God. Walk in this word today--soak me in His presence. Visit us on facebook. Walk in this one--really sit in, rest on and wait upon the Lord to soak you! Have a blessed day!
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