Encountering God Through Dance: The Dancing Bride

by Saara Taina

Overview

Dance away your troubles!

You can experience God’s presence and His healing power through dance. The heart of Encountering God Through Dance is to inspire and equip believers to worship Jesus in wholehearted devotion—to express love without fear or shame. Then David danced before the LORD with all his might… (2 Samuel 6:14). The author’s personal journey of devotion through dance has taken her worldwide and she wraps her exciting travels with a solid biblical framework for the importance of dance in the Kingdom of God—on earth, today. Then young women will dance and be glad, young men and old as well. I will turn their mourning into gladness; I will give them comfort and joy instead of sorrow(Jeremiah 31:13). While it is easy to understand why many Western churches have moved away from dance altogether for cultural reasons, Encountering God Through Dance provides compelling evidence for dance as a redeemable gift that was prevalent in Jewish culture as a means of worshiping God. Each chapter builds a sequential argument for dance and concludes with wisdom and insights about how to start a local dance team at your church. God’s presence and healing power are gifts to you through dance!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780768488340
Publisher:	Destiny Image, Inc.
Publication date:	05/15/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	704 KB

About the Author

Saara Taina was born in Finland and has been teaching worship dance for more than 10 years in Finland, Sweden, Norway, England, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. She has conducted a School of Worship in Jerusalem, Israel, and studied dance in Sydney, Australia. She currently lives in Redding, California, where she co-leads the dance ministry team at Bethel Healing Rooms and dances regularly in the worship dance team at Bethel Church.

Table of Contents

Preface 17

1 My Journey 19

2 Does God Approve of Dance? 41

3 Restoration of Dance 55

4 How Does the Holy Spirit Work in My Life Through Dance? 65

5 How Does Worship Dance Impact Others? 73

6 How Does Worship Dance Affect the Enemy? 83

7 Intercessory Dance and Prophetic Dance 97

8 Stepping Into Our True Identity 113

9 A Functional Dance Group in a Local Church 125

10 Worship as a Priority 141

Sources 155

Editorial Reviews

"The Dancing Bride is the wonderful journey of a radical lover of God, Saara Taina. To see Saara dance is to see the pleasure of the Lord resting upon a person fully given to Jesus. She truly is a lover of God in the fullest sense. This book is both the story of her journey as a worshiper and a manual for instruction and inspiration. In it is the invitation for everyone yielded to Jesus, to learn how to worship extravagantly."
      Bill Johnson, Senior pastor of Bethel Church, Author of When heaven Invades Earth and Face to Face with God
 

"The Dancing Bride will not only powerfully encourage the reader to move deeper into expressing their heart to God, but it will also, in a life changing way, help the mind grasp in detail what it means to worship the Father in Spirit and in truth."
      Marc A. Dupont, Mantle of Praise Ministries, Inc
 

"Finally a book, which doesn't just talk about the power of Kingdom dance, but testifies about it through gripping stories from Saara's own life as one who has trained others in dance throughout the nations. "
      Theresa Dedmon  Director of Prophetic Arts at Bethel Church, Redding CA

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