SID: Hello. Sid Roth here with Julie True. I call her a stress-busting psalmist because stress can’t raise its ugly head when the presence of God, did you hear that “Breathe You In”? Well there is lost art, I’ll put it that way, of soaking in the presence of God, just as you breathe the Spirit of God into you, as Julie was singing about. When you are soaking with music like Julie’s you literally are taking the life of God inside of you. Julie, what is your understanding of soaking?
JULIE: Well for me, I think it’s sort of like Samuel resting in the presence of God near the Ark of the Lord, and it’s a time to hear from God. It’s a time to receive. For me, it always involves music, you know. I think of it that way. But it’s a time to quiet your soul and open your spirit, be strengthened in your spirit. So it’s not a time to speak or to, for me anyway, it’s not a time to speak or anything like that when I’m soaking.
SID: What is going on with you when you’re soaking? What’s happening to you?
JULIE: Well when I’m actually singing and, you know, doing the worship time, it’s my time to express my worship to God in my prayers and my concerns, and my revelations, and I’m just like having a conversation with Him, and it’s just my interaction with Him. And so for me, it just creates an atmosphere for others to kind of come along with me on this little journey and interact with God as well.
SID: You know Julie, I interviewed the woman that, as far as I’m concerned, has the best soaking room in the world. She’s been doing it for 15 years, Cindy Parton.
JULIE: That’s awesome.
SID: And people come from all over the world. And you know what she told me?
JULIE: What?
SID: She loves your music for soaking. She uses your music for soaking.
JULIE: That’s awesome.
SID: And I’d like you to see this clip of an interview with Cindy Parton that I did on It’s Supernatural.
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CINDY: I’ve trained people that I want to go around the room while people are just in position, a comparable position, whatever that is, whether you want to lie, sit, wherever you’re comfortable at, and to let the Holy Spirit come. And I’ve trained people to come around the room and to touch them, to impart to them just a special blessing, the love of the Father. And as people feel that touch on them then, whether it’s on their shoulder, their head, wherever, it just helps them to feel connected to the Father. And everyone shares that as that touch is administered to them that it helps them to see their Father and to experience Him evenly deeper.
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SID: There is so much to this soaking. Julie, tell me about the song about “Let Joy Rise Up”.
JULIE: Well it was another day in the healing rooms and we were, me and my prayer partners that were there that day were feeling like we needed to invite the joy of the Lord to come in, because three was like a heaviness. And we were not at all feeling joyful. And so just, a lot of times I know there’s power in your words. And so if I don’t feel it I just sing in.
SID: Stop. That’s wonderful. Did you hear that? If I don’t feel it I just sing it. I think that is just such a profound thing. And so you didn’t feel joy. So what did you do?
JULIE: So I began singing, and so you can tell, I mean, the song is really, it’s not like a real up and happy moment. I just started singing it into being, let the joy rise up.
SID: I heard that happening as you, and you know her singing is spontaneous. Julie, I want to hear this song right now. This singing is spontaneous. It’s just as the Spirit of God bubbles up. But you could literally, when you hear the whole song, you can hear the progression of if I don’t feel it I sing it. And I read a book a long time ago. It was called “If the Devil Can’t Steal Your Joy, He Can’t Steal Your Goods.” Let’s hear Julie True with “Let the Joy Rise Up”.
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JULIE: [singing] Let the joy rise up, let the joy rise up, let the joy rise up in me. Let the joy rise up, let the joy rise up, let the joy rise up in me. Nothing’s gonna hold me down. Nothing’s gonna steal my joy. Nothing’s gonna snuff out the love of God in my heart. Let it rise up. Let the joy rise up, let the joy rise up, let the joy rise up in me. Let the joy rise up, let the joy rise up, let the joy rise up me. La, la, la…Let the joy rise up, let the rise up, let the joy rise up in me. Let the joy rise up, let the joy rise up, let the joy rise up in me.
