testimonies of soaking prayer

I am giving this testimony to encourage others to soak and get the Father's love so they can give it away.  I have been singing of the Father's love prophetically in the market place to His orphans for over a year now.  Helping me to do this was the soaking process of getting Father's love myself and understanding how much He loves me so I could then give it away.

I participated in the soaking event at Word of His Grace the weekend of Oct 9 & 10.  This soaking time for me took me to a unique depth in the Father's love. Someone gently touched me to minister Father's love while I was soaking and it took me to a deeper place in Father. I had visions, and one was Father took me to a big mountain and we got into a ski lift and went up the mountain.  We arrived at the top of the mountain and I felt safe with Father, who then playfully threw me in the air and I was turning somersaults as He watched.  Father was laughing and laughing and laughing. Through this vision and other visions during soaking, I came to a greater realization that the orphans don't know they have a Father and they are missing these wonderful experiences for the Father to enjoy and delight in them. It's all about the reality of how very real He is.  Soaking gives me these experiences of a loving Father so that I can go give His love away.

I woke up Sunday morning, Oct 11, knowing I was different and transformed somehow--not exactly knowing what happened to me, only that I had more of His passionate love for me and for the orphans.  So I went out to the market place to give it away with a new boldness and zeal.  As I stood in the market place, I looked at the orphans with the Father's eyes, having more of His love for them.  I encountered many people, but two particularly stood out: they were two gay women that the Father prompted me to stop and sing to about the Father's love and how Father loved them unconditionally.  They were both tearful and one spoke: "You will never know what this did for me."  They thanked me profusely.  As I went on the Father's journey that day, His songs were at a depth I'd never experienced before and were with such fun and playfulness.  I believe that I was transformed due to the corporate soaking in His love so that I could give it away even more.

In our Father's love,
Judy

The Lord’s presence permeated the room as I stretched out on the chairs and waded into the river. My heart was tenderized as I inhaled His unconditional love. Let the river flow…  His love is so gentle, I’d forgotten.   Slowly I surrendered.   Then the regrets came to my mind.   “Jesus, please take my sins.”   Next He gave me a picture of Us sitting together.   I’m about 8 years old sitting in a chair with pigtails.  He was kneeling facing me, looking so happy to be with me.  I dropped my head and said, ‘Jesus, I have something I need to give you.   It’s in this big box.”   He opens the box then gives me a puzzled look and says,   “There’s nothing in the box.”   Then he starts laughing. I didn’t feel like laughing yet, so he starts tickling me so that I will laugh.    Now we’re both laughing and it’s really fun.    (A two Kleenex moment, I assure you.)   

I’ve had chronic pain for years and as I continued soaking, the pain lessened and my range of motion was noticeably better.   Walking out for the break, I noticed that my ankle was stronger and I wasn’t limping.   It’s been about two weeks now and I feel amazingly well.   I’m feeling 50-75 better and stopped the anti-inflammatory meds. Best of all, I’m reacquainted with the lover of my soul.     

Mary

Thank you so much for opening your hearts for the Father's weekend, well for me I have not been the same since that weekend and the week in March when Ivan and Isabel came to Victory, I am hungry.  But many things from Soaking in HIS Presence... How Daddie God has and is forgiving me and others wow.....I thought I was ok in this area but then the Holy Spirit began to disclose to me many people, myself included and the most important the Father daddie that I needed to forgive and to receive forgiveness. Then He gave me a picture of me as clay in HIS Hands and the Potter(Daddie God), holding me the clay. I also bought the book on forgiveness and the Holy Spirit started talking to me about how we are engrafted into the tree of life we don't need to walk in the tree of good and evil, I have the opportunity to be seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus and let the Holy Spirit have all of me down here. I picked up some music from your store to soak with, soaking is so precious. The weekend was freedom in Christ Jesus. Thank you again!!!!

Amazed with the Father's Love

Cindy

As a child I had been molested multiple times, causing insecurity and a lack of trust in God and many other things. I have gone through many inner healing sessions and conferences as well walked through forgiveness and deliverance. But as I lay before God during one of the soaking sessions God began to bring up those past wounds again so fresh that I remember being taken back to one of my memories as if I was re-living it. As I was there I began to feel emotions that were so deep inside my heart and watched as I suppressed them with the surface pain's. God began to show me how much was linked to the emotions that I had suppressed. I had completely forgiven those who hurt me and myself, as well been healed from the many damages and pains. But what I hadn't been restored in was my ability to trust in God to fulfill my intimate desires with him and others so instead closed off and in many areas looked within myself to fulfill my needs.

After the session we had a time to repent of area's that we hadn't given to God. One of the ladies on the team prayed for me and as she released purity over me as well picture that God had given her. "I see you as a new born baby.." After hearing this it broke something inside of me and restored me in more ways that I can express here. But my innocence was fully restored. 

I didn't want to share all the details but this is the overall biggest healing that took place that weekend.

Anonymous

Thank you SO much for your part in bringing Kelly and Robert Augi to the Pacific NW! Intimacy and transparency in worship are so needed, and as they are real in worship, it helps others to become aware of their hearts and be real, too. I really enjoyed hearing Kelly's testimony. There was something about the sounds released that broke strongholds. Here is my testimony from Tuesday night:

As I was laying on the floor, at first I was having a little difficulty letting go and forgetting about everyone around. I closed my eyes and remembered that Jesus was there (where two or three are gathered, there I am in their midst...) and looked to see in the spirit what He was doing. He was walking amongst people, and then I perceived that He was with me and gently massaging my arms and legs (as my husband can attest to, massage is one of my favorite things!). I couldn't actually feel Him doing this, it was just a sense in the spirit. As He did so, it was like a demonstration of care and he was bringing life into my limbs and fear was leaving. I felt so cared for and it helped me to relax and go deeper. I was in a very deep, relaxed place for awhile and then suddenly a revelation became real to me - God loves me! Father God loves me! He loves ME. Wow, all I could do was say it over and over to myself and marvel at it. The same God that created the sun loves ME. The same God that created the stars loves ME. It became very real and I just knew it. It felt so incredibly wonderful, and it just made me love Him more and want more of Him. His love is incredible. This simple revelation was huge to me because I've sought the Lord hard for years, even soaking by faith regularly for the past year, but there was still a block to being able to receive His love.

The Lord showed me after Tuesday that what He gave was like a seed of revelation that needs to be guarded, watered, and nurtured to grow. I've been soaking to "Here With You" and the Lord is doing that and opening my heart up and continuing to heal in deep places. It is like a whole new world is opening up to me - the world of coming from the heart and not from my head. His love is amazing and I am looking forward to getting into rivers of love!

The Lord has spoken to me many times that soaking is the way to intimacy with Him. In that place of not doing anything and waiting in faith, God can really extend grace. We are changed from glory to glory in His presence. In stillness comes the knowledge of God - "Be still, and know that I am God."

Bless you, thank you for having the soaking and encouraging others to receive from the Lord in this way!

Carol

My husband and I and our children have been attending the soaking conferences (Soaking in the Father's Love Weekends) for about a year now.  Words cannot explain all that I am feeling and have been feeling since we attended our first soaking conference at Word of His Grace Church.  All I can say is that I thank God for the Holy Spirit guiding us to the church.  

My experience at the soaking conference was amazing. I felt heat go all over my back and I had been having back problems since I had my 3rd baby. I had been having such problems with my pregnancy and since that night I stopped throwing up and was able to eat and gain the weight I needed for my baby. I have since had the baby, he is now 8 months old. My back is completely healed.  It has been a year now and when I think of what he did for me that night my back starts to heat up again. My marriage has been restored and healing has taken place.
I am so addicted to soaking. Thank you for the boldness to keep on doing these weekends. Since I have been soaking in my own home God has been bringing inner healing in my own life. I was rejected and abandoned by my father, my mother was not there for me. I have been raped and molested by my uncles and had always struggled with the fear of someone doing it to my children. I have felt so lost and when you guys played that clip of the man dancing with his daughter on the screen, I too started to see myself in the spirit dancing with my Daddy who has always loved me. I never truly knew how much I was loved 'till that day. I have gone through some horrific things in my life and to survive is God alone. But to have healing from it all is Freedom!!!

Thank you for sharing this opportunity for many others just like me to experience God and to experience that my Daddy loves me. You see I was a little girl always hungering for someone to love me just for me and I will never forget the night he wrapped his arms around me and I can go through life now knowing that He is truly a Father to fatherless and a mother to the motherless.

Connie

From Soaking in the Father's Love Weekend: Our daughter is going through a divorce - the grandchildren are acting out, alot of painful stuff was happening in my life.

So almost immediately upon laying down at the soaking weekend, I felt the love and comfort of the Father's love - many loving words began to come to me and I pictured all my family kneeling at the feet of Jesus being healed.  The pain lifted off, tears came and kept coming, it felt like healing tears.  It felt so good just to be quiet before Him.

When someone came over and put a pillow under my head more tears came - I felt so loved and cared for - felt as if it was Jesus.  This same sense came when someone touched me on the shoulder for awhile.

Again today the touch seemed to get even deeper inside my being.  I'm so enjoying just resting in His presence and want to continue soaking on my own.

Friday when I stopped at Bartells to pickup something, there were many open doors with the clerks there - even hugs and one of the clerks said "Come back" and then I felt to stop my car on the way out to give a man my "clown" paper (about Jesus) and when we spoke I knew it was right - and he was very responsive.  I felt that somehow all of this took place after I had that time alone with Jesus at the soaking weekend - I just knew there was a link between soaking and touching our world - I felt such joy about it.

Also, I was congested with cold symptoms when I first came and feel so much better physically also.

Sharon

From Soaking in the Father's Love Weekend:  Yesterday I came in pain - it felt like I was getting one of those painful infections.  During the soaking I was receiving joyful memories of things my earthly father used to do with me when I was a little girl - take me to the park, ride the carousel, laugh at the crazy chimpanzees.  It felt good to have those memories since at the age of 8 and thereafter I felt like my earthly daddy rejected me.  As those memories were occurring, one of the ladies came and laid her hand on me and prayed.  Before I knew what was happening I felt a very, very heavy weight on my chest, my body trembled a bit, tears ran out like water.  My spirit and soul kept crying out, "Don't leave me, don't leave me!"  I could sense the love and presence of my Heavenly Daddy and it was so comforting and soothing!  Today, my infection feels much better!

This morning during the 10 am soaking, during one of the soaking songs, I (my spirit and body) had the sensation of soaring like an eagle, what a beautiful feeling!  I could even visualize the eagle and then saw the eagle high and mounted up at the top of a very high cliff standing over and guarding her nest.

Carol A

In 2006 I started experiencing occasional slight pain down my back and across the hip area which I believe stemmed from an old injury in my left shoulder coupled with long hours of sitting at the computer. In November, I helped my parents move and for six weeks I lifted boxes, some of them were very heavy.
During that time, I started experiencing pain down my back and across my lower back (hip area) constantly. I would wake up several times in the middle of the night and try to find a position that would give the most relief. Often, if I had been sitting for a long time, it was hard for me to get up out of the chair.
I was invited to a soaking conference at Word Of His Grace and debated whether to go or not because of laying on the floor for a long period of time with this pain. During the conference as I was laying on the floor, one of the ministers laid their hand on my left shoulder. I felt a sensation of what I describe as "liquid fire" come out of their hand, move across the inside of my chest cavity and flow down the right side of my body, down to my feet. From that time until now I have been completely pain free in my back and hip area. I'm completely healed!!
Carolyn

I had a spill on my motorcycle Monday the 7th of May.  I came down on my left knee.  It became very swollen and I could barely walk that night and the next morning.  During soaking prayer several people laid hands on me and prayed for healing.  I felt warmth and twitching in my knee where someone had their hand.  By the next morning I was healed, walking normally and pain free.

Robert

My mother died a week and a half ago and I came to Soaking with my grief.  I knew if I could just get here, I would feel better.  I came to Soaking and shared with the Lord how much I was hurting.  I cried at times and told Him how much I needed Him to comfort me and heal my heart.  I felt wave after wave of His presence and love going through me.  A series of these waves hit me several times.  I felt so much better when I left.  The next day I could concentrate so much better at work.  I didn’t feel like I was going to cry at any moment.  I think that coming to Soaking made a world of difference in my healing and ability to function well again.  What a blessing it was.

Paige

From the Soaking in the Father’s Love Weekend:  I felt determined since hearing about the weekend to go to as much of it as I could.  I really believe I needed to.  It truly has a cumulative effect.  It was such a blessing to “soak” as the brochure stated, not striving in prayer this time, just soak in the environment of love and sense God’s presence.  On my third day a woman once again came over to pray.  I was so excited and grateful to have someone do this.  Next thing after a bit my eyes began to tear, then I couldn’t help myself.  I just let it all out, I don’t even know where it all came from.  I didn’t want to disturb others, but she said it’s okay it doesn’t have to be that quiet.  I am not completely sure of the specific healing – I  only know something was released and there are many needs body, mind & spirit I’m in prayer for.  I’m convinced this is to be a vital part of my life in order to have more of God and less of me.  Thank you and God bless you.

Lynda