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Realizing that everyone carries spiritual baggage, we should not wait until we have a crisis. As the Lord reveals areas of weakness or strongholds in our lives, we should actively pursue our healing journey. Focus of Prayer Ministry ~ At Places In The Father's Heart we provide Holy Spirit led, Biblically based prayer ministry. The ministry will address and deal with issues and struggles and the focus will be on identifying and healing underlying reasons or root issues that exist in the individual that hinder the manifestation of the life of Jesus in the person and the ability to receive the Father’s unconditional love. We will then apply the healing grace of Jesus, the power of the Holy Spirit and the love of the Father for problem resolution. We minister to the whole man ~ spirit, soul and body. This type of ministry is not designed to deal with individuals who are in crises and need immediate medical attention, or those who have active chemical addictions. What You Should Expect ~ If you plan on coming for ministry to our facility here in South Carolina, you should allow two to three days with 5 hours per day set aside for ministry. Follow up sessions can be scheduled by phone after your return home as necessary. We provide lunch on your ministry days. You are responsible for your own accommodations and other meals. We will be happy to help you with motel/hotel reservations if you wish. Please bring a notebook or your journal with you. Your notes will help you as you walk out your healing process. For those who are unable to travel to our location, we can also provide effective prayer ministry by phone. These sessions are by appointment only and are scheduled weekly for 1 ½ hrs per session. It is the client’s responsibility to have their appointment time set aside privately with no interruptions. If you have children you must arrange for a baby sitter. Please have a notebook or your journal available during your sessions for note taking. Each client must complete the following required reading assignments before their first ministry appointment. Read Father’s Love eBook and The Heart of Marriage eBook. These eBooks are free downloads here on the website. Click here to download. Love Offerings for Prayer Ministry ~ With the exception of the application fee, prayer ministry is offered on a love offering basis. We ask each applicant to seek the Lord and ask for His direction concerning what they are to share with Places In The Father's Heart and how often, and then be obedient to His instruction. As you pray, we encourage you to avoid a spirit of entitlement and ask Father to release upon you a spirit of generosity. P I T F H is solely supported by donations and love offerings. Every offering we receive helps keep us available to the Body of Christ and will be passed forward to build the Kingdom. We have found over years of ministry that people tend to value their healing process more if they sow something into it. Please do not let lack of finances be your reason for not actively seeking your healing. If there is a legitimate financial need, contact our office so that we may discuss possible alternatives with you. How to Apply ~ If you would like to apply for prayer ministry, please scroll down to the Prayer Ministry/Life History Forms link below and follow the directions on that link. To expedite the possibility of your ministry, we suggest that you begin the required reading at this time. Please journal where you find yourself in the material. These will be some of the discussion points during your ministry sessions if your application is accepted. To Ministers, Pastors and Church Leadership ~ It has been documented by Focus on the Family and others that approximately 1,500 pastors are leaving their calling every month. We have seen leader after leader fall into moral failure and leave behind many followers and colleagues disillusioned, wounded and hurting. Clergy families are crashing all around us. Many leadership spouses wish their mates would leave the ministry. Many say the biggest mistake they ever made was entering the ministry. The reason most often given in these cases is that as a leader, they had no where to turn, and no one they could trust to share the depths of their struggles with. This is a lie that began with the enemy and has been inflamed by the Body of Christ itself. As a result, much of church and ministry leadership is bound in guilt and shame and the lack of transparency and intimacy. It is our firm belief here at Places In The Father's Heart that if we successfully help leadership find answers to their most personal and often secret struggles, the Body of Christ will then follow. While we desire to see every child of God set free from their woundedness, it is our passion to see leadership set free and then return to their field of ministry ready to give away the gift of love they have received from Father. We make every effort to provide a safe place for you to come; a place where you can pour out your heart without fear of condemnation and fear of rejection. To those of you in ministry who are headed for burnout or who are already there; to those who are wounded and hurting; to those who have lost hope and are fighting depression; to those who are suffering from ‘sheep bite’, Jezebel or Ahab; to those who simply do not know where to turn, please know you are welcome at Places In The Father's Heart. We strongly encourage you to embrace your healing journey. Everyone has personal ‘baggage’ that needs to be dealt with on a regular basis. Here is what one pastor says who made that call: “The message that the Taylors’ have helped save my life. During the dark night of my soul, I found myself standing at their front door, a broken man filled with self-hatred and self-loathing. Sitting in their living room, they introduced me to the Father that I prayed to, but feared. I could not answer their haunting question, “How is your relationship with your Heavenly Father?” They lovingly showed me how to open the door of my heart to my Abba Father who loved, accepted and forgave me.” Pastor Rodney West, A Favored Son Prayer Ministers ~ We are not licensed, professional counselors. We are people just like you who are in the process of our own healing journey. We are School of the Holy Spirit trained and have had 29 years of ministry experience. In addition, we have studied under several mature, well respected ministries who specialize in Christian prayer ministry such as Alfred H. Ells, MC and founder of Leaders That Last Ministries™, Mesa, AZ., Arthur Burk of Plumbline Ministries and Sapphire Leadership Group, Anaheim, CA., and John and Paula Sandford of Elijah House Ministries. We traveled extensively in 2004-05 with the late Jack Frost who along with Ed Piorek and James and Denise Jordan are some of the primary leaders of the current day message of the Father’s love worldwide.
“Confess to one another therefore your faults (your slips, your false steps, your offenses,
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