It is always beneficial to read other blogs and take a look at some of the fine articles that others have written to warn the body of Christ of deception. There is much to learn from others about their struggle past or present to leave false ministries. I encourage others to read the series of articles warning about Inner Healing from Jesus The Saviour. ***note…this blog no longer exists****(updated 12/25/08)
Here is an excerpt from “Inner Healing”…..
I became officially involved in the Inner Healing group in March 2002, and parted ways in January 2005. My church involvement became part-time at best from January to September. And it was in September 2005 that I made the decision to leave the church altogether.
My break from the Inner Healing ministry was anything but smooth. This may sound extreme, but I am thoroughly convinced that I was part of a cult. All the typical cult indicators pointed me to this conclusion. There was the spiritual guidance of a charismatic leader, the exclusivity of their teaching, the guilt and manipulative mind control…. but the telltale indicator was the struggle to break free from the group.
This is an excerpt from False Prophets #1
I met Sherry in January 2002. She was the leader of a small group ministry which counselled Christian women who struggled with homosexuality and other sexual/relational issues. I didn’t have a church home at the time, so Sherry invited me to visit her church, XYZ Baptist. I visited XYZ and was immediately drawn in by their intense contemporary worship, and their spirituality. Many of the people I connected with seemed to have this aura (for a lack of a better term) about them. They were so in tuned to “the spirit”, soft spoken, and at times almost ethereal.
Read the entire article Here
False Prophets #3 has an excellent article from Robert Bowman titled “The Faulty Foundation of the Five-Fold Ministry.
Here is a teaser:
THE FAULTY FOUNDATION OF THE FIVE-FOLD MINISTRY
It has recently become popular to speak of “the five-fold ministry,” a system of church government with apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers. The neo-Pentecostal “Restoration” movement and its offshoot, “kingdom now” teaching, claims that one of the things which God is “restoring” to the church is this five-fold ministry.
This is an important article to read concerning the dominionistic role that is being played by today’s so-called apostles and prophets.
Thank you Heidi for the great articles and your service to the Lord.
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November 30, 2007 at 12:06 am
cbgrace
I am interested in the subject but I wasn’t clear on what your thoughts are. Are you saying inner healing isn’t valid?
November 30, 2007 at 1:13 am
Kim
http://www.inplainsite.org/html/inner_healing.html#Healing1
Here is another good site for further information on Inner Healing. Most inner healing methods use regressive memory techniques and/or visualization.
I met a woman about a month ago who told me she was a medium and and shaman. She had just spent 6 hours with a woman who she was treating using regressive memory techiques. What she told me about what she does sounds EXACTLY what the Christian counselors are doing.
Agnes Sanford brought these techniques into the church and they unfortunately are still being promoted today.
Here is a quote from Dave Hunts “Beyond Seduction”.
“Those involved in the healing of memories techniques have to come clean and recognize the Jungian root in Agnes Sanford….Jung attributes his insights to his ‘ghostly guru’ Philemon, as he calls him, who was his spirit guide.”
Anyone who has a “spirit guide” has summoned up a false spirit, that is not of God. I believe Inner Healing is very dangerous for anyone to delve into.
November 30, 2007 at 2:03 am
cbgrace
Okay. How do you recommend dealing with past issues? Do you believe God can/will heal wounds from the past?
November 30, 2007 at 3:02 am
Mary
cbgrace,
I won’t answer for Kim. I can speak from my own experience. I became a believer in 1982 and had a whole lot of junk to deal with namely very low self esteem which distorted my understanding of Christ’s love for me and my freedom in Him. I went to a very good Christian counselor who did not use all this weird stuff Agnes Smith promoted. No new age practices. She just talked with me about how I viewed myself and what God’s word had to say about me. Things didn’t change over night. It was a long time- many months in counseling. But one of my changes came when she suggested I read Isaiah 53 I think it was where it is prophesied the suffering that Jesus would go through “He was dispised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows and aquainted with grief. etc…..” She suggested I insert my name in every sentence: He was dispised for (my name) etc…
The more I meditated on it the more I understood and like a light bulb going on in my brain I understood and wept and felt the spirit of Christ fill me. Other peoples’ circumstances are all different but it’s the word of God that has power. Meditating on the word of God releases all the junk we store in our brain and we begin to see life as God sees it. The emotions will follow. That to me is what biblical counseling can do. Everyone can meditate on the word of God and deal with what ever issue they have.
Remmember the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two edged sword. And along with that know that Christ is the word so when you are reading His word you are communing with him.
November 30, 2007 at 3:15 am
cbgrace
Mary, Thanks. I have gone throug some inner healing that worked out quiet well for me. It boils down to identifying areas of my life where I was not aligning with God says about me. There were some things spoken over me that were not what God said about me. For many years I believed those things. I had to come to a point of identifying and rejected those things in order for my life to move forward. It was difficult but freeing.
November 30, 2007 at 3:16 am
Mary
cbgrace,
I put that last sentence in to emphasis meditationg on the word of God is not an academic expercise. You are meeting with the Lord, the one who loves you with an everlasting love. Meeting with Him is conditional on if you do it in His Spirit and His Truth. I believe Agnes Sanford is practicing (is she still alive?) and teaching others to meet with a different Spirit and false truth.
November 30, 2007 at 3:20 am
Mary
cbgrace,
I just posted before I saw you recent comment. I am glad you have good discernment and were able to experience His freedom. Blessings to you.
November 30, 2007 at 4:38 am
Kim
cbgrace,
Like Mary said, the concerns lie with those who are using New Age methods and calling it Christian.
I believe the Word of God and Christ is sufficient. Spiritual problems have now become psychological problems and many have turned away from Christ and are now into self-help, self-worth, self-esteem instead. I like to take a “Not I But Christ”approach. Without Him i am nothing.
And yes i believe God will heal all wounds from the past, because we are new creatures in Him.
March 7, 2011 at 8:29 am
simon
Inner healing is a way to avoid coming to the cross. For in its root is the idea that we are whom we are because of our upbringing. In reality the scriptures teach we are who we are because of sin and its work. Jesus has bought us free from sin, its power and the power of the world. True inner healing comes when we acknowledge what God says about man his weakness and crookedness and accept Jesus as God’s answer. Inner healing avoids absolute dependency on God and will only run you around in circle never really getting free but deeper into the bondage you want out of. Inner healing belongs to this world sin belongs to this world. Christ died and so I have died to sin and this world.
March 7, 2011 at 8:40 am
Kim
Well said, simon.
Whether one seeks inner healing or physical healing, Jesus heals us spiritually of our sin. So many are being duped and shipwrecked because they want physical healing when this sign was to point to the deity of Jesus.
God still heals today but those who seek the miracle only may belong to that wicked generation that seeks signs and wonders.