Above & Beyond Christian Counseling
Christian Counseling, Deliverance Ministry and Spiritual Warfare
As a Christian counselor and deliverance minister, the fear God’s people harbor about this topic is so maddening for me that I just had to bear down and put pen to paper. What is the truth about catching someone else’s demons?
I hear this lament most frequently in church and ministry settings. An altar worker might accurately discern demonic torment in a person coming forward for ministry. [Read more…]
When conversing with counseling clients, we use the term “deliverance ministry” in discussions. They will often ask about exorcisms. Exorcism or deliverance: what’s the distinction?
Like so many of my generation, I was intrigued by the original “The Exorcist” movie back in 1972 and attended a screening. It was not a wise choice. I was not a Christian at the time and had no biblical understanding of the demonic realm. [Read more…]
I visited Above & Beyond Counseling Center because I had unresolved issues from my childhood with my mother. I received years of therapy regarding this issue but I knew there was something that was still not right inside of me.
My first appointment with Phyllis was like meeting an old friend. I opened to her in a way that I had not opened to anyone before and I knew this was a God connection. [Read more…]
From January 7 to January 18, 2013 I was in a deep spiritual comma where ending my life was the only way out that I saw. After a year of a traumatic event in my life, and a lifetime of generational curses, those were two weeks of constant torture of the mind, not eating, not sleeping, not resting. The thought of suicide was always present, always weighing down on me, always. The spirit of suicide is extremely heavy and so I was not living, but simply existing. [Read more…]
How does one best do deliverance ministry? What is the right way to do it? Are there wrong ways? Deliverance ministry is the driving out of demons, and I want to give you a quick overview of some of the current practices. [Read more…]