Soaking Prayer

We received Soaking Prayer at our Vineyard Church on Sunday, June 22 at the suggestion of one of the pastors. This is a time of intensive prayer from a dedicated and gifted prayer team. The two ladies who prayed with us that day were Vickie and Leslie. Joel also left some written thoughts for us that he had prepared ahead of time but was schedule to pray for someone else.

I doubt I can do justice to the time we spent in Soaking Prayer but will try. You are asked only to receive what the Lord has to offer. It is suggested that you fast the day before, or if you are unable to fast for health reasons that you give up something else. We felt it was best for all of us to not fast but we gave up television and sweets from Friday evening until after the prayer time and tried to focus on scripture and prayer during this time as often as possible.

The prayer team had many scriptures, pictures, words, and encouragement for us. They asked questions as they prayed and used a tag-team method. In the interest of space, I will make a few lists.

Words
Shalom - Malachi 4:2 - Peace = sound mind, prosperity, wholeness, physical healing, divine health.
Belief, Deliverance, Breath of Life (filling us), Hope, Strength, Released, Restoration, Healing, Sound mind, Justice

Pictures
Healing bowls of prayer in heaven filled to over-flowing! Bowls flow out over their tops into the floor of the throne room. God hears a chorus of voices singing as the bowls are tipping, and what flows out is the living water of Christ's heart - his very blood - poured out for our family. We are transformed by the light of God and come to know the power of his love in the center of our heart. We will know, that we know, that we know.

God's angels descending down to protect us.

John's tumors in the hands of God, squeezing and shrinking them.

Word: Restored and transformed. Released and free from all doubt and fear. Living testimony to the power and glory of God. A testament to the power of prayer. A living stone infused with the power of God; able to withstand all forces set against it.

Verses:
In the interest of space, I will not type these out but encourage you to look them up on your own. All these were excellent verses for us.

I Peter 2:4-5; 9-10
Revelation 5:8; 13-14
Psalm 42:7
Ephesians 3:14-21


Also, some verses that were given to me the day before were:
Romans 15:13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Romans 12:12 Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.

We came away from our soaking prayer time with very full hearts, feeling drained but peaceful and hopeful. Although we have always been close, we feel like this experience has drawn us closer together as a family and that God has great things in store for us.

I really could ramble on but I’ll close by saying that all of you praying for us during that time made a significant impact on us and we deeply appreciate it.

P.

PS – We did tell our prayer team how many people were praying at that time and they prayed for blessings to pour out on all of you!