SOAKING AT THE ZION ROAD HEALING ROOMS
SPETEMBER 25 2008
7:00 pm
3846 Zion Road
Jacksonville, Fl
Monday, September 8, 2008
SOAKING IN GOD'S PRESENCE
A few years ago, while at the library I saw a sign with a picture of a yogi. It was and ad for transcendental meditation classes being held there. Being a Christian, it occurred to me that the library should allow equal time to have Biblical meditation. I may have had a brief conversation with God about it. I'm pretty sure the moment was marked in Heaven.
With that moment totally out of mind, I discovered a new word for Biblical meditation while at Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship on my first visit there in 2004. They call it soaking.
Soaking is a simple word that encompasses the practice of stopping the busy mind, being still, focusing heart and mind on God . Waiting for Him to talk to me, asking Him to say whatever He wants, I have found that He has much to say.
In daily life, my habit of waking up, getting coffee, multi-tasking my way through the morning, working, talking care of the mundane duties that keep the household in order, my time with God is like a conversation while jogging.
Corporate appointments to do nothing but BE WITH HIM are rare in our churches and our daily lives. There is just so much to do.
Soaking meetings are the best time of all for me. This is a block of time where no wandering thought, no task, no duty, no agenda, no sermon will interrupt Holy Spirit when He begins speaking to my soul. During those times, He has plucked up weeds from the garden of my heart, healed childhood rejections, taken me on flying visits to other nations, imparted vision and gifts and convinced me that I am truly His daughter.
Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship has a ministry training program to teach how to facilitate soaking meetings. I went to this soaking school and became infused with a heart to host times for Jesus where He could spend this quality time with His bride.
Many people have their meetings at homes or churches. There's even a meeting at the Fusion Christian bookstore.
Back to the library -
I started looking for a place where anyone could come. Churches and homes can be so territorial. I knew the library had meeting rooms and made arrangements for our first meeting. That's when I remembered the moment years earlier, looking at the transcendental meditation sign. God seems to have remembered too.
If you're in Jacksonville, Fl, come join us. You can check out ctfministries.com or soaking.net
for some other soaking resources and places.
With that moment totally out of mind, I discovered a new word for Biblical meditation while at Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship on my first visit there in 2004. They call it soaking.
Soaking is a simple word that encompasses the practice of stopping the busy mind, being still, focusing heart and mind on God . Waiting for Him to talk to me, asking Him to say whatever He wants, I have found that He has much to say.
In daily life, my habit of waking up, getting coffee, multi-tasking my way through the morning, working, talking care of the mundane duties that keep the household in order, my time with God is like a conversation while jogging.
Corporate appointments to do nothing but BE WITH HIM are rare in our churches and our daily lives. There is just so much to do.
Soaking meetings are the best time of all for me. This is a block of time where no wandering thought, no task, no duty, no agenda, no sermon will interrupt Holy Spirit when He begins speaking to my soul. During those times, He has plucked up weeds from the garden of my heart, healed childhood rejections, taken me on flying visits to other nations, imparted vision and gifts and convinced me that I am truly His daughter.
Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship has a ministry training program to teach how to facilitate soaking meetings. I went to this soaking school and became infused with a heart to host times for Jesus where He could spend this quality time with His bride.
Many people have their meetings at homes or churches. There's even a meeting at the Fusion Christian bookstore.
Back to the library -
I started looking for a place where anyone could come. Churches and homes can be so territorial. I knew the library had meeting rooms and made arrangements for our first meeting. That's when I remembered the moment years earlier, looking at the transcendental meditation sign. God seems to have remembered too.
If you're in Jacksonville, Fl, come join us. You can check out ctfministries.com or soaking.net
for some other soaking resources and places.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
PRAYING FOR THE RNC
I've decided that I will vote for the sake of the possible supreme court judges and the unborn lives at stake.
As I watched my dear President, with red eyes, give a speech to an ungrateful nation last night I could only sob and pray for mercy for us and for him to be greatly blessed with the favor he deserves.
When the RNC followed his speech with a slap in the face by a video tribute not to his accomplishments, but instead skipped back to Ronald Regan it spokes volumes to me. I now understand vividly what God was saying to my mother a month or so ago.
She said "It was as though He was pacing and talking. He said he had given George W Bush to us as a gift and watched over this nation through him. It was bothersome to God how we had dishonored him. It was clear that He was weighing our actions as He looked at Mike Huckabee, the next gift He had prepared for us. "
The Republican Party is in much need of mercy and prayer. I'm pretty angry with her at the moment and it's difficult to pray effectively with a lack of love. I must though.
On an action level, I'm more compelled than ever to join the efforts of Mike Huckabee's HuckPac to help get the right people into the right offices.
If I continue to participate with the local and national Republican Party, they will probably wish soon that this vocal thorn in their side would just go away.
And I will soon write a personal letter of thanks to my President. I encourage you to do likewise.
As I watched my dear President, with red eyes, give a speech to an ungrateful nation last night I could only sob and pray for mercy for us and for him to be greatly blessed with the favor he deserves.
When the RNC followed his speech with a slap in the face by a video tribute not to his accomplishments, but instead skipped back to Ronald Regan it spokes volumes to me. I now understand vividly what God was saying to my mother a month or so ago.
She said "It was as though He was pacing and talking. He said he had given George W Bush to us as a gift and watched over this nation through him. It was bothersome to God how we had dishonored him. It was clear that He was weighing our actions as He looked at Mike Huckabee, the next gift He had prepared for us. "
The Republican Party is in much need of mercy and prayer. I'm pretty angry with her at the moment and it's difficult to pray effectively with a lack of love. I must though.
On an action level, I'm more compelled than ever to join the efforts of Mike Huckabee's HuckPac to help get the right people into the right offices.
If I continue to participate with the local and national Republican Party, they will probably wish soon that this vocal thorn in their side would just go away.
And I will soon write a personal letter of thanks to my President. I encourage you to do likewise.
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