Theophostic Prayer Counseling

Well…..it is the greatest concept ever.  The only way I have ever received true healing. When you (when I) think about it, searching for healing from anywhere other than God, is quite silly anyways.  God is better at counseling no matter how many degrees the psychologist/counselor has.  It’s all about exposing the false lies you have grown accustomed to thinking and letting God forgive you.  I’ll say more on it later.  I just got back from a meeting, and just wanted to say it was awesome. Thank ya Jesus!  I think it could be a great tool for me to help other birth moms too! An answer to the prayer about grief processing, huh. It is specifically designed to combat disenfranchised grief too.

http://www.theophostic.com

a copy and paste job, because I didn’t explain it very well:

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TPM as, “Intentional and focused prayer with the desired outcome of an authentic encounter with the presence of Christ, resulting in mind renewal and subsequent transformed life.”

Theo (God) Phostic (light) is a ministry of prayer that is Christ centered and God reliant for its direction and outcome. Simply stated, it is encouraging a person to discover and expose what he believes that is a falsehood; and then encouraging him to have an encounter with Jesus Christ through prayer, thus allowing the Lord to reveal His truth to the wounded person’s heart and mind. It is not about advice giving, diagnosing problems, or sharing opinions or insight. It is about allowing a person to have a personal encounter with the Lord Jesus in the midst of the person’s emotional pain.I (Ed Smith) understand that it is the Holy Spirit that lead us into all truth and that it is He that intercedes for us in prayer to the Father.  However, I also believe that we can have a personal relationship with the person of Jesus.  The Apostle desired to “know Him” (Phil. 3:10) and experience Him; “Him” being the person of Jesus.

Some might suggest that we can only have a relationship with God by way of the Bible through growing in deeper knowledge.  I believe that knowledge is very important and Bible study a necessity but knowledge alone “puffeth up”
(1 Cor. 14:1).  Theophostic Prayer seeks to know Christ experientially and relationally.  At the same time it does not seek to replace any of the Christian disciplines such as prayer, fasting or personal Bible study.

I do not believe that people who report seeing visuals of Christ are seeing Him literally as in a visitation.  I believe this picture is the Holy Spirit communicating personalized truth in a visual manner.  However, I believe that people can come to know Christ intimately in a ministry session.  I also believe that this same relational experience can occur in a sundry of different venues such as personal worship, meditation on Scripture and just experiencing life walking with God.

Feelings Match Belief

Theophostic Prayer Ministry believes a person’s present emotional pain is often rooted in misinterpretations (lies) embraced during life experiences.   This is not to say that some emotional pain is due to what is happening in the present, but there are often historical roots as well. Our emotions tend to match what we believe. If I am feeling something then I probably believe something.  For example, if I believe that a robber is in my house I will probably feel some measure of fear. If I discover what I thought was a robber was only my cat making a fuss, then my fear changes to relief because my belief  changed.  If an adult 
feels shame when he thinks about a sexual abuse memory, the shame is not because he was abused, but because of what he believes about the abuse.  For example, he may believe the abuse made him dirty or was his fault (lies).

Life experience provides us with an interpretive grid of knowledge we will carry forward.
When I have a negative emotional response in the present, it can almost always be traced back to a belief harbored in an earlier event. In this earlier event a belief was established……and cont..