Eleutheria Ministries: Truths From God's Word

Our working definition of intimacy is a warm, personal, private friendship developed through a long association.  The question we are working to answer in this blog series is this: What does intimacy with God look like?  As I state each week, while this is not an exhaustive list, I believe intimacy comes through our times in prayer, worship, reading the Word, meditating on God, and soaking in the Lord’s presence.  This is the final lesson on Intimacy with God. Today we will look at soaking in the Lord’s presence. Merriam Webster online Dictionary defines soak as: to become saturated by or as if by immersion.   To “soak” in God’s presence is to rest in His love rather than to “strive” in prayer.i  Soaking involves setting aside time to rest in His presence. To listen to His heartbeat. There is no right or wrong way to soak in His presence, however, as stated above soaking is not intercession, it is resting and listening.    Someone has said that so...

Our working definition of intimacy is a warm, personal, private friendship developed through a long association.   The question we are working to answer in this blog series is this: What does intimacy with God look like?   As I state each week, while this is not an exhaustive list, I believe intimacy comes through our times in prayer, worship, reading the Word, meditating on God, and soaking in the Lord’s presence.   Over the past two weeks we unpacked the topic of worship. Today I want to look at meditating on God.  Meditation is defined: to engage in contemplation or reflection. Biblical meditation then can be defined as: pondering the Word in our hearts, preaching it to our own souls, and personally applying it to our own lives and circumstances. It is how we sanctify our thinking and bring it into submission to Christ—taking every thought captive.i  We know that Jesus is the Word made flesh. John 1:14, The Word became flesh and made his dwelli...

Our working definition of intimacy is a warm, personal, private friendship developed through a long association .    The question we are working to answer in this blog series is this: What does intimacy with God look like ?    As I state each week, while this is not an exhaustive list, I believe intimacy comes through our times in prayer, worship, reading the Word, meditating on God, and soaking in the Lord’s presence.     Last week we began to unpack the topic of worship and we looked at Who we worship. Today we will dive into what worship is, and how and why we worship .    Just a reminder: Websters online dictionary defines worship as: 1. to honor or show reverence for as a divine being or supernatural power. 2. to regard with great or extravagant respect, honor, or devotion. i   First, what is worship? Worship is our humble posturing before a Holy God! Bringing our entire being into submission to His heart and will . Richard Foster, in ...