What we do

Our work

Here are some principles and ideas of how we do our work.

Available Training Programs

We provide training programs that match the needs of your group. These trainings are available for both prophecy and deliverance ministries. A list of subjects that may be covered can be found here: Ministry subjects.

Comprehensive training
- 10-15 meetings, 1-2 hours for each meeting.
- These trainings include lecture with Q&A on the Biblical basis of these ministries, studies of the complexities of these ministries, practical instruction on the application of the ministry, and workshop practice with the participants in the training.
- This option is best for getting a new ministry started at your church.
- Note: the deliverance training at this level will include significant training about inner healing.
Intensives
- 1-5 meetings, 3 hours for each meeting, grouped together over a day, a weekend, or during a single week
- These trainings will have brief Biblical instruction, more practical instruction, and a focus on workshop time.
- This option is good for a church that wants to have a prophecy or deliverance conference for their members, or for a church/ministry that wants to increase their training in prophecy or deliverance.
Single-subject meetings
- A single meeting for 1-3 hours on a subject of your choice.
- Depending on the subject and the needs of the host, these meetings can be more focused on Biblical instruction, practical instruction, or workshopping.
- This option is good for a group that wants to be built up in a specific area, that wants some supervised practice in a specific ministry, or that wants to bring in a guest for single meeting (such as a monthly staff training).

Prophecy

What does it mean that we provide prophetic training? Put simply, it means that we help the body of Christ to hear God to do their life and work together in a powerful way. Christians should hear God for themselves, to have intimacy with Him, to hear His loving words towards them, and to understand His guidance. We should also be able to hear those same things for one another. And we should be able to hear God for guidance on the strategies and new ideas for the work we do both inside the church and outside of it.

Who should learn prophetic ministry? We believe that 1 Corinthians 14 says that we should all pursue it (verse 1), that we may all do it (verse 31), and that we should even be eager to do it (verse 39).

In our ministry, we talk about prophecy as simply hearing God. While this might be more accurately described as "revelation," we have found that most people use the term prophecy for the whole group of revelatory practices. These practices include prophecy, dreams, visions, words of knowledge, words of wisdom, discernment of spirits, and a few other esoteric areas. So we'll generally refer to them all as prophetic unless we're being technical about the differences.

We believe the core of New Testament prophetic ministry is found in 1 Corinthians 14:3. It is for "edification, exhortation, and consolation." Here is how we understand these roles.

Edification is the way we grow one another in maturity and skill in the Christian walk.

Exhortation is encouraging and strengthening one another to endure and overcome.

Consolation is providing emotional and spiritual support to suffer, grieve, heal, and rebuild well.

We can provide edification, exhortation, and consolation out of our own good thoughts and feelings, but when they happen with prophetic ministry, they have power (1 Corinthians 4:20).

Deliverance

Deliverance might be a scary subject to people. We help you to see that it's less like the horror movies and more about prayer and tissue boxes.

The ministry of deliverance is all about helping people to be totally free to follow Christ, not held back by sin, broken family patterns, or any affliction of evil. This ministry heals addictions, broken marriages, and oppressive thoughts. We believe that the core of deliverance ministry is bringing people into greater encounter with God as an ongoing part of life. We believe that effective and lasting deliverance is inseparable from intimacy with God.

Who is called to the ministry of deliverance? Simply, all of us who follow Christ are called to do it. The ministry of Jesus is about the Kingdom of God (Mark 1:15). The arrival of the Kingdom of God is evidenced by healing, especially deliverance (Luke 11:20). Deliverance ministry glorifies Jesus Christ as Savior and as Lord. We should all seek to follow Jesus in this ministry, just as His disciples and the early church did.

Deliverance, freedom from evil spirits, and spiritual warfare are all interrelated topics that we teach on. They have the commonality that Christ gave His followers the right and the duty to expel evil spirits from people. We teach people how this looks in practice and how to know the right boundaries for what we can and should do. Additional subjects in this area are inner healing (or Christian mental health), leadership, authority, identity, gifts, and callings.

Please note that the focus of our ministry training is not inner healing (Sozo, HeartSync, Restoring the Foundations, etc.). Inner healing ministries and deliverance do have overlap. Our focus is primarily on breaking off demonic oppression, whereas inner healing is about healing wounds that lead to broken patterns of behavior. These two ministries do overlap, particularly in the places where the wounds or broken behavior establish a home for the demonic spirits in the life of a person. As we teach and minister, we will provide some tools and techniques from inner healing, but it will not be the primary focus.

Individual appointments

We do meet with people for individual prophecy or deliverance appointments. A prophecy appointment will usually be fairly short, from five minutes to half an hour, while deliverance appointments are usually longer, half an hour to two hours, with additional appointments as necessary.

Our prophetic ministry times combine listening to God, sharing prophetic words, and praying into those words. We may take requests for what the prayer needs are, but we only prophesy as the Lord leads us, not according to the requests. For church, governmental, or business leaders, we may be willing to gather a prophetic presbytery.

Our deliverance ministry starts with the question: what's wrong? Most of the deliverance we do regards demonic oppressions or obssessions. We will dig into what the problem is, trying to find root causes, and then address those root causes with prayer and Biblical guidance. Our major focus is to break the lies, confusion, and entrapment of Satan off of the person. When we encounter a situation for which the next steps are increased maturity in Christ (unrepentant sin, forgiveness, unwillingness to surrender to God), traditional counseling (developing coping strategies, increasing in conflict resolution, etc), or psychiatric care (dangerous ideations, psychotic breaks, etc), we will suspend our ministry for that person.

Please note that we do not perform these ministries unless the person can meet in the same physical location as us. If you are outside of the Bay Area, please search for other ministries that are either in your area or willing to meet online.

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