Prayer Guidlines

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1. Theophostic Prayer Ministry (TPM) is basically prayer and not traditional counseling (giving advice, diagnosing, providing insight, giving direction, proving steps of action, the facilitator solving the person’s problems, etc.). Therefore a TPM facilitator should never offer this type of counsel, but rather intercede with you to God. A TPM facilitator should encourage you to discover, while depending on the Holy Spirit, the lies you believe that are at the source of the emotional pain in your life.

2. A TPM facilitator should not take on the responsibility at any level to resolve your problems, issues or pain in your life, but should encourage you to own your emotional pain, take responsibility for your own thinking, not blame other people or circumstances for your emotional reactions, and move forward toward God’s resolution which is found in truth.  

3. A TPM facilitator should never pressure you to go to any particular memory, or to do anything that you do not choose to do.  It must be left up to you to make all the decisions about how far you will move toward your pain; whether you will embrace the pain, identify the lies you believe, and offer up the lie-based thinking you discover to the Lord for His truth.  You should be given complete freedom to stop the process anytime you chose to do so. Everything in the session should be determined by your own belief and free choice. 

4. Any information you share during the ministry session should be held in utmost confidentiality. A TPM facilitator should not share any information without first obtaining permission from you.

5. A TPM facilitator should avoid all forms of guided imagery and/or directed visualization. They should allow you to have a genuine mind renewal experience, prayerfully directed by the Holy Spirit while avoiding any additional input.

6. A TPM facilitator should not make ANY suggestions as to what he or she thinks your memory content may contain. He or she should avoid making suggestions as to what he or she assumes your lie-based thinking may be and thus allow you to make this discovery yourself.

7. A TPM facilitator should only ask questions that are reflective of the actual memory content or other pertinent information that you alone have surfaced, and avoid all questions or comments that are leading or reflect his or her opinions or assumptions.

8. A TPM facilitator should not attempt to interpret or give explanation to ANY information, visual or other inner mind reality that you report. Rather, he or she should encourage you to listen and receive understanding from the Holy Spirit and come to your own understanding.

9. A TPM facilitator should not interpret your dreams or visions you may experience outside the ministry session, but rather will only encourage you to identify and embrace any negative emotion that may surface as a result of having these experiences, and seek to identify any lie-based thinking that may be related to such emotion.

10. A TPM facilitator should withhold judgment as to whether the content of your memory is true or false since he/she has no way of knowing what is true or not in the context of a ministry session. The facilitator should allow you to come to your own conclusions in your own time concerning the validity of the content of your memories. He/she may help you in validating your memory information to the degree that he or she is able, but only if this is what you desire.