God's Role:

The Role of the Holy Spirit in the Healing Process </strong></p>

Healing the wounded spirit is primarily the work of the Holy Spirit. Many secular counselors, psychiatrists or psychotherapists have something to offer but a lot has to be integrated with spiritual principles.

There is actually much research and information we can benefit from the secular world of psychology and related medical fields. On the other hand, secular academics have also benefited from the bible by learning most workable principles from the scripture (with little or no acknowledgment to the bible). God's prescription is always the ultimate prescription.

Without the integration with spiritual or Christian principles the secular prescription is largely limited in its effect. That is why many under secular treatment are under perpetual care that they fail to stand and deal with matters on their own.

Secular counselors, psychiatrists or psychotherapists are popularly known as shrinks in USA. Its sarcastic meaning descends from an old term “headshrinker.” This means a shrink shrinks the brain of a person by disabling him/her from thinking for himself or herself. In extreme cases a person literally ends up under the constant care of a counselor year after year. The word “shrink” now refers to all counselors, secular or Christian.

The challenge for those seeking counsel is to find a counselor who does not shrink one's brain but empowers it. By any rate the best counselor is one who connects a person with his/her true Counselor, the Holy Spirit. “I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever-- the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans,” John 14:16-18.

The Holy Spirit lives inside each inside each of us born again Christians. We are like cared for orphans and not like ones left to struggle on their own against forces more powerful than them. The Holy Spirit has a parental role over us. He is able to bring true healing when we enable him to work in the innermost parts of us. Certain mindsets that evolved throughout our upbringing and through various experiences are transformed into Christ-like nature.

The transformation of our minds directly affects the other areas in our spirits - emotion and will areas. Only the Holy Spirit knows how to piece together matters of our past and use them to work to our good not against us. Secular counseling cannot enable this.

This is also not to say all of us Christian counselors are better than secular counselors. There are some Christian counselors who use false teachings in their counseling or deliverance ministries. These false teachings end up doing as much damage, if not worse, on innocent believers seeking deliverance.

Of major concern are deliverance ministries that easily jump to bind and cast out demons from people who are under demonic influence, not demonic possession. They shrink the brains of innocent believers who seek deliverance by casting out demons that are not in a believer.

When the Christian returns home in the same state he/she assumes he could have some powerful demons inside him. Christian shrinks have done the harm by focusing on non-applicable matters. Once these innocent souls finally get to where there is biblical deliverance it can be quite a battle in convincing them that the problem is not demonic possession but demonic influence.

Other battles include moving them away from harmful false teachings innocently adopted through books, multimedia and ministries that preach false doctrine. Some are preoccupied with binding and loosing demons, pleading the blood of Jesus against evil spirits (which is a way of talking to them), speaking in so called spiritual warfare tongues, spiritual warfare or deliverance prayers against evil spirits, and so on.

Most of them are very intelligent Christians yet can still be misled when they seek deliverance out of desperation not biblical truth. The believers can end up with more demonic activity after embracing harmful false teachings.

That is why this book was inspired (by the Lord) - to enable fellow Christians to avoid deliverance ministries that invite more demonic activity and to equip the body of Christ with biblical principles of Christian deliverance and deliverance ministry. These principles if applied provide the required counsel for biblical deliverance and healing in areas of interest.

No need of further counseling if one reads and applies the biblical principles in this book. Reading through more than once may help in grasping certain unclear areas. Plus there are more resources online at our websites: JesusWorkMinistry.com and SpiritualWarfareDeliverance.com (the two websites for Jesus Work Ministry are interlinked through easy navigation).

Avoid rushing to any nearest deliverance ministry that tries to cast out demons that are actually operating from outside, not inside. You'll avoid much heartache by following Christ-centered principles instead of demon-centered ones. Christ-centered principles may not have a lot of drama and sensation yet they work.

Prayerfully searching for doorways of access

As we draw near to God and submit to his will we also prayerfully search for doorways that are allowing demonic influence. There is no need to wait for some strange discernment or a supernatural word from God while searching. God may speak in a still small voice in our hearts but this usually comes in the midst of the search, through prayer, his word, a sermon, a book, and so on. Sometimes while just resting, minding your own business.

Staying still and hoping God will speak is like transcendental meditation, a non-Christian practice. And guess what? You will always hear something when you “blank” your mind out. This because our minds were created to always be active. What you may hear may just be a product of any one of the two sources: your own mind at work or Satan speaking like an angel of light.

It is doubtful if god would want to speak in a moment of “blanking out.” This is because he never prescribed it as a way for us to hear from him. My other book has more detailed information on hearing from God: Hearing the Voice of God and Fulfilling God's Purpose for Your Life .

God gave us a mind to use and he usually speaks through it. It is not evil to think. The only difference with unbelievers is that we have “the mind of Christ” (1 Corinthians 2:16) controlled by the Spirit of God.

After praying to hear from God the next step is to apply your faith of believing that he has answered your prayers. You begin to think and think, read and read, on areas relating to your obstacle.

Key matters that need to be effectively dealt with may have come through any of the four doorways: 1) deception, 2) ignorance, 3) sin, and 4) storms of life (when responded to in a wrong way).

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