Do you find it hard to rest? Do your emotions sometimes get in the way?  If you long to learn how to invite God into your emotions and desires, and experience nearness to His heart,  this episode is for you.   Enjoy this training based on Isaiah 30 with an exercise at the 15 minute mark, that leads you into deeper rest and abiding.  

Scriptures: Isaiah 30:15-16 (New Revised Standard) ;  Also,  Isaiah 28:12, Is 29:13, Psalm 131:2. 

Word Definitions: Rest, Saved-  Coppes, L. J. (1999). 1323 נוַּח. R. L. Harris, G. L. Archer Jr., & B. K. Waltke (Eds.), Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (electronic ed., p. 562). Chicago: Moody Press.

Quietness:  QUIETNESS- idle, undisturbed, inactive, silent……2453a שֶׁקֶט (šeqeṭ) tranquility (I Chr 22:9).šāqaṭ occurs forty-one times, in the Qal and Hiphil. Some of the words with which it is associated or whose meanings it sometimes overlaps are 1) beṭaḥ “security,” “a feeling of confidence”; 2) nûaḥ “settle down,” “rest”; 3) ḥāraš “be silent,” “be inactive”; 4) dāmâ “be silent”; 5) dāmam “be motionless, physically quiet”; 6) šaʾănān “ease,” “undisturbed, without anxiety” and 7) šābat “cease, rest from activity.”

Trust: in Hebrew, bāṭaḥ expresses that sense of well-being and security which results from having something or someone in whom to place confidence

Austel, H. J. (1999). 2453 שָׁקַט. R. L. Harris, G. L. Archer Jr., & B. K. Waltke (Eds.), Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (electronic ed., p. 953). Chicago: Moody Press.

References to other resources: 

"Trauma Prayer by Jim Banks” Healing house -

 Immanuel prayer- Experiential training on the podcast- Face to Face ministries; 

On Karl Lehman's website (the developer of Immanuel Prayer), www.immanuelapproach.com- There is a list of Immanuel prayer facilitators and you can find someone to work one on one with you to help with trauma.  You can also contact Denice MacKenzie, at alignwithgod.org for further information about one on one sessions with Align ministries.  

Thank you!