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Theophostic Ministry Guidelines As the facilitator of a Theophostic Ministry session... Theophostic Ministry is prayer not counseling. Therefore I will not be offering you counsel but rather interceding with you to God. I will be ministering with you in prayer seeking to help you discover with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, the root sources of the emotional pain in your life. Any information that is shared with me during this ministry session will be held in utmost confidentiality. I will not share any information without first obtaining permission from the one with whom I have ministered. I will avoid all forms of guided imagery and or directed visualization and seek to allow you to have a genuine healing experience prayerfully directed by the Holy Spirit without information input on my part. I will not make ANY suggestions as to what I think your memory content may contain. I will avoid making suggestions as to what I assume your lie-base thinking may be and thus allow you to make this discovery yourself while relying on the Holy Spirit and through my asking NON-DIRECTIVE questions. I will only ask questions that are reflective of the actual memory content or other pertinent information that you alone have surfaced and avoid questions that are leading or reflect my assumptions. I will not attempt to interpret or give explanation to ANY information that you surface. Rather I will encourage you to listen and receive understanding from the Spirit of Christ. I will not interpret your dreams, visions or other inner-mind realities but rather encourage you to follow any negative emotion that may be behind these realities and seek to find the true original memory source. I will ask NON-DIRECTIVE questions to help you discern the lies you may believe in your memories. For example, if you say, "I feel all alone and abandoned." I might ask, "Why do you feel all alone?" You may reply, "Because they all left me." I might say, "Why do you think they left you?" You might respond, "Because they hate me?" I might ask, "Why do you believe that they hate you?" You might say, "Because I am worthless and no good?" etc. I will avoid ALL suggestive questions such as, "Do you think you may have been abused?" I will withhold judgment as to whether the content of your memory is true or false. However, I will seek to help you discover the source of your emotional pain in the context of the memory you have surfaced. I will allow you to come to your own conclusions in your own time concerning the validity of the content of your memories. I will not supply you with what I may think God wants you to know during the ministry session. I will keep my "words of knowledge" to myself until you have arrived at perfect peace in your memory as a result of your receiving truth from the Holy Spirit. I will defer my opinions and thinking to the Spirit of Christ, trusting Him to provide you with His truth and only use my words of insight for confirmation after you have received truth from Him. I will ask the Lord Jesus to help you to remember what you have the capacity to embrace and to help you discern the lies you believe that are contained in these memories. Example: "Lord Jesus, will you help (name) find the place where this emotional pain originated?" "Jesus, what is it you want (name) to know in this memory?" "Will you help (name) to discover what he believes that is causing him this emotional pain?" I will be careful to discern and call attention to any aspect of "truth" or visual you might receive during a ministry session that does not appear to be authentic and or Biblically consistent. Should this happen, I will encourage you to determine what is true or not and where the false information originated. Should I personally have some visual picture appear in my mind that I believe is related to your memory, I will not report this to you lest I implant ideas into your thinking that are not your own. Should your experience cause me to see images or pictures, I will keep them to myself. I will do my best not to hinder your healing by inputting my personal assumptions, insight or thinking that is directive or leading in nature. I will keep my "words of knowledge" and "prophetic insight" to myself and only share this information after the Lord has brought you into perfect peace by way of His truth and intervention. My desire is that you have a genuine encounter with the Spirit of Christ. He alone is the only one who can truly release you of the emotional lie-base pain in your life. I will not make any diagnosis or suggestive opinion of what I think your problem or emotional mental condition may be unless I am a trained and qualified professional, skilled in making such diagnosis. I will be careful not to go beyond my training, expertise or abilities in ministry. I will seek to network with others who are more equipped and work under their supervision if at all possible. Should I find myself in a place that is beyond my knowledge and understanding I will seek to defer to others more equipped. I will seek to minister under spiritual authority and in a community of like-minded ministers who use these principles and be accountable to them and they to me. For I am a member of Christ's Body working in concert with others through Christ. I will avoid changing, augmenting or repackaging the Theophostic Principles and seek to apply the principles as they have been taught in as pure a form as possible to avoid misrepresenting this ministry and confusing the Body of Christ. Should I choose to do otherwise, I will clearly state my doing so to those with whom I minister so that they will not be mislead as to what is genuine Theophostic Ministry and what is not. Feel free to make copies of these guidelines as needed New Creation Publishing Copyright 2001 More about Theophostic Ministry. . . New
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