Soaking Sessions

[Guest]

What do you think of soaking sessions in the Holy Spirit?  I’ve tried them for a bit and found them to be peaceful, refreshing, and exhilarating.

[thereselittleflower]

I've never heard the term before.

 

[other one]

33 minutes ago, ethrayn said:

What do you think of soaking sessions in the Holy Spirit?  I’ve tried them for a bit and found them to be peaceful, refreshing, and exhilarating.

ethrayn,  it is helpful with/for some people.....    I kind of hesitate to comment for I would not want to do anything that would be against His work.....   However I would tell you to be careful for back in the 70's what you are doing is exactly what I was doing to get in touch with some very dark entities that started out expressing themselves about the same as this...

So I would just remind you that Jesus told us to test the spirits we came in contact with....   The Holy Spirit will have no problem telling you who Jesus is and that he came in the flesh......   and I would hope be proud of us for asking.

[MorningGlory]

I've no idea what 'soaking sessions' are.

[SavedOnebyGrace]

Joseph Prince was the only name I recognized from a quick Google search of soaking sessions.  I personally do not care for Joseph Prince.  He's somewhat connected to the "name it, and claim crowd" and Kenneth Copeland.  For that reason alone, I'd be suspect of this method of teaching/relaxing.  Soaking sessions sounds alot like a combination of New Age Meditation and Hypnosis.  Personally as a Christian, I'd stay away.

[thereselittleflower]

 

16 minutes ago, Saved.One.by.Grace said:

Joseph Prince was the only name I recognized from a quick Google search.  I personally do not care for Joseph Prince.  He's somewhat connected to the "name it, and claim crowd" and Kenneth Copeland.  For that reason alone, I'd be suspect.  Soaking sounds alot like a combination of New Age Meditation and Hypnosis.

People who get wealthy off the gospel are not to be trusted. 

• 1 Timothy 6    3If anyone advocates a different doctrine and does not agree with sound words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and with the doctrine conforming to godliness, 4he is conceited and understands nothing; but he has a morbid interest in controversial questions and disputes about words, out of which arise envy, strife, abusive language, evil suspicions, 5and constant friction between men of depraved mind and deprived of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. 6But godliness actually is a means of great gain when accompanied by contentment. 7For we have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either. 8If we have food and covering, with these we shall be content. 9But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge men into ruin and destruction. 10For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

 

• Titus 1:11
  They must be silenced, because they are disrupting whole households by teaching things they ought not to teach--and that for the sake of dishonest gain.

 

• 2 Peter 2:3
  In their greed these teachers will exploit you with fabricated stories. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.

 

If by "soaking sessions" one is meaning "Quietism" there is a great danger in this  - one must tread very carefully here as one can be led into a spiritual passivity that is not of God.

 

But I'm not sure this is what is meant here.     I did a quick search and saw  

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Soaking is a Psalm 23 experience. He makes us to lie down in green pastures and He leads us by still waters. He restores our soul. As part of the restoration process we may find ourselves responding physically or emotionally. We might laugh, cry, or shake as the Holy Spirit works in us.

 

This is a danger area -  opening oneself spiritual to be controlled bodily.   When one opens oneself up spiritually like this to be controlled, one is opening oneself up to the spiritual realm and that doesn't mean one is opening themselves up to the Holy Spirit and not any other spirit.     The danger here is in believing that demonic spirits cannot take advantage of our opening ourselves up like this and deceiving us.  This is true for much of what passes for "experiences of God" in the Charismatic movement.   The devil wants us to seek such experiences as it gives him opportunity to deceive us and get us to run in circles spiritually.

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

[SavedOnebyGrace]

1 minute ago, thereselittleflower said:

 

People who get wealthy off the gospel are not to be trusted.

• 1 Timothy 6    3If anyone advocates a different doctrine and does not agree with sound words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and with the doctrine conforming to godliness, 4he is conceited and understands nothing; but he has a morbid interest in controversial questions and disputes about words, out of which arise envy, strife, abusive language, evil suspicions, 5and constant friction between men of depraved mind and deprived of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. 6But godliness actually is a means of great gain when accompanied by contentment. 7For we have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either. 8If we have food and covering, with these we shall be content. 9But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge men into ruin and destruction. 10For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

 

• Titus 1:11
  They must be silenced, because they are disrupting whole households by teaching things they ought not to teach--and that for the sake of dishonest gain.

 

• 2 Peter 2:3
  In their greed these teachers will exploit you with fabricated stories. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.

 

If by "soaking sessions" one is meaning "Quietism" there is a great danger in this  - one must tread very carefully here as one can be led into a spiritual passivity that is not of God.

Within the last decade or two, the evangelical fringe have gotten into many things that seem to me to be not biblical.  "Soaking Sessions" are but one example.  "Holy Laughter" is another.  My wife and I left our home church because they started teaching visualization techniques for enhancing healing.  Authors Constance Cumby and Dave Hunt have written books on how the "New Age Movement" was infiltrating the evangelical church.  Of course, not all evangelical churches, I don't want to paint with too broad of brush.  My advice is to check everything against God's word, including anything I might write.  I'm just a man.

[thereselittleflower]

5 minutes ago, Saved.One.by.Grace said:

Within the last decade or two, the evangelical fringe have gotten into many things that seem to me to be not biblical.  "Soaking Sessions" are but one example.  "Holy Laughter" is another.  My wife and I left our home church because they started teaching visualization techniques for enhancing healing.  Authors Constance Cumby and Dave Hunt have written books on how the "New Age Movement" was infiltrating the evangelical church.  Of course, not all evangelical churches, I don't want to paint with too broad of brush.  My advice is to check everything against God's word, including anything I might write.  I'm just a man.

I was adding some of this to my post when you responded.  Yes, I agree.  Having been involved in the Charismatic movement I have seen it from the inside out, and I have to say there was much that happened I now have to question. 

I also understand the pull of quietism  - there is a fine line of balance here, for we are to draw close to God in stillness -

• Psalm 46:10

  Be still and know that I am God

 

[SavedOnebyGrace]

Just now, thereselittleflower said:

I was adding some of this to my post when you responded.  Yes, I agree.  Having been involved in the Charismatic movement I have seen it from the inside out, and I have to say there was much that happened I now have to question.

Since my wife and I were both involved in the Charismatic Movement in the particular church I mentioned, I agree with you.  Questioning is the proper attitude.

[Ezra]

2 hours ago, MorningGlory said:

I've no idea what 'soaking sessions' are.

A session where you get "soaked" (many interpretations).