Freedom House Ministry BASIC 1 School
for Prayer Counseling Training

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Vision and Purpose for the BASIC 1 School
Elijah House Ministry's Video Schools was created from the ministry of John and Paula Sandford. In prayerfully planned instructional and ministry settings, they impart "Keys of Knowledge," opening the heart to receive truth and renewing the mind which results in life transformation through Christ. Led by the Holy Spirit, we are co-workers with Christ, working to "restore" broken and hurting hearts, reconciling relationships. In keeping with the Elijah House mission, our vision for the school is to equip, encourage, and release "Ambassadors for Christ" (II Corinthians 5:18 - 20), who will pick up His mantle and continue His mission of restoration and healing.

School Goals

• To provide a safe setting for building relationships, learning, and practicing prayer ministry in small groups
• To provide Scriptural foundation for Christ-centered Inner Healing (Sanctification and Transformation)
• To offer students the opportunity to experience personal healing through small group ministry from their peers
• To teach, model, and provide opportunity to practice ministry to one another according to the Word of God and in the power and sensitivity of Christ through the Holy Spirit

Who Should Attend the School?
Any layman, Pastor, Christian leader, counselor, or therapist, seeking experience in prayer ministry and healing from life's hurts, and desire to begin restoring healthy relationships with God and others, this school's is for you.

What Can I Expect From This Course?
These school's will help you discover Scriptural answers to many searching questions we all have about life, God, and ourselves. Have you ever wondered why you think, feel, speak, and act the way you do? Have you ever wondered why things happen in your lives and relationships the way they do, and why God allows certain things to happen? Jesus desires to bring you into wholeness through true change and to break through long-standing areas of your life. He wants to equip you with greater vision and hope for the future…to take you into a deeper, more exciting and fulfilling love relationship with Him…and to prepare, empower, and release you into a new anointing to minister to others.

With each lesson, you will gain understanding, be given principles of healing, and begin the healing process. Because we are dealing with the hearts of people, the school can, at times, be very intense. Personal responses to teaching and small group interaction may include, but is certainly not limited to, some of the following: expression of anger, prejudices and resentments; apprehension, anxiety, insomnia, depression, dissociation, etc. Because of time restraints and that your group is learning together, all of your personal life issues will not be dealt with during the course of the school, but some healing will happen. This is a life long process. We simply give you the tools to further your healing, restore your relationships, and minister to others. Many seek further ministry once the school is complete. If you feel there are already significant life issues that need to be addressed, prayer ministry or counseling prior to your enrollment in the school is advisable and always beneficial.

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Basic 1 Curriculum Lesson Briefs


Biblical Basis of Elijah House Ministry
God has written His fundamental laws into the universe from the beginning of time. They are absolute and eternal, and affect our lives as sure as gravity. They operate whether we believe them or not. This lesson outlines the four major laws of God that Elijah House Prayer Ministry is based upon. We briefly explain how they apply in our lives, but each will be taught in greater depth during other lessons.

Ingredients of Prayer Ministry
Prayer ministry is a Holy Spirit-led process that involves the following ingredients: recognition and confession of sin, repentance, forgiveness, reckoning sinful habits as dead on the cross, comfort, prayer, discipline to walk in a new way, small groups, and when necessary, deliverance. Though all are essential, the order and presence of each element during ministry is directed by the Holy Spirit. Prayer, spoken aloud with the person, is at the center of the ministry process.

Bitter Roots
Bitter root judgments are powerful driving forces behind many recurring patterns of trouble and destruction in our lives. Discover in this lesson how they work together with God’s unchangeable law of "sowing and reaping" to reap in kind what we have sown. Learn also how bitter root expectancies, which operate on the psychological level, also rob us of the abundant life Jesus came to give us.

Basic Trust
Basic trust is the first and foremost stage of human developmental. Without basic trust, each succeeding stage of human development is hindered. Learn how failure to acquire basic trust affects us throughout our adult lives, impacting our ability to relate to God and others.

Accomplishing Forgiveness
This lesson makes the necessity of forgiveness clear. We learn how resentments become lodged in the heart and, once entrenched, require a work of God’s grace to remove. We discover the main stumbling blocks to forgiveness and how to let God be the judge and jury, freeing us from the burden of holding the resentment and requiring justice.

Repentance and Restitution
Repentance is more than simply being sorry. In this lesson we look at the distinctions between remorse, Saulish repentance (fear of the consequences), and Davidic repentance (true sorrow for grieving the Lord). In addition, we look at restitution, God’s strategy for helping us to come to full repentance, restore trust in relationships, and write the cost of sin on our hearts.

Honoring Father and Mother
In Hebrew, "honor" or kabod, means to make glorious; in Greek, it is timee: to place high value or price upon. The law of honoring affects our lives more powerfully than we realize. To honor your father and mother is the 5th commandment, and the first one with a promise—"that life would go well with you." But who can honor parents who are abusive, addicted to drugs or alcohol, or have broken our trust? This powerful lesson brings godly balance and understanding to honoring our parents.

How We See God
How can we see an invisible God? In this lesson we discover how fathers and mothers model a picture of God for us. We learn to "see" what God is like by what they say and do. Over time, we form judgments and expectations, which distort what God is really like, as if we are looking at Him through "tinted spectacles." We learn how we can see God more clearly.

Performance Orientation
Performance orientation is a term that refers neither to the work we do nor the things we accomplish, but to the false motives, which propel us to do what we do. Once we bring performance orientation to death, we can find worth or value in who we are, not just in what we do. We may do exactly the same work in much the same way, but from entirely different reasons. In this lesson we explore the roots, identify the symptoms and examine the damage this problem causes.

Parental Inversion and Substitute Mate
Parental inversion and substitute mate describes the false identity children take on when a parent is unable or unwilling to fulfill his/her parental role. The parentally inverted child will carry the weight of care and responsibility meant for the father or mother. The role of substitute mate is a more serious type of parental inversion, where a parent relies inappropriately on a child for emotional comfort, as a confidant, and in severe cases, for physical satisfaction. Learn in this lesson the destructive impact these false roles or identities have later in life and how healing and restoration is accomplished.

Inner Vows and Heart of Stone
Inner vows are promises made to oneself early in life and then often forgotten. They act as directives that control our responses to situations and people around us. It is out of our inner vows that a "heart of stone" is formed. This is a powerful lesson, exposing the lie that we can protect ourselves from hurt by withdrawing inside these false protective mechanisms.

Identifications of Love
Identifications of love are those words, gestures, actions and attitudes we interpret as love from others. Learn how these "packages" become idols that define and limit our idea of what true love is to us. When we demand these "packages" of love from those around us, we practice unregenerate love, denying ourselves the full joy in giving and receiving true love.

Ministry Skills: Interviewing, Listening & Prayer
When is it time to ask questions, to listen, and to pray? This lesson offers practical instruction on integrating the interview process with listening and prayer.

Slumbering Spirit
This lesson helps us understand the functions of our own personal or human spirit. If our spirit is not fully awake, we will not be able to function as God created us to do in various areas of life. In this lesson we learn how to distinguish between soul and spirit, how to identify the symptoms of a slumbering spirit, what causes the spirit to slumber, and what steps can be taken to awaken slumbering spirits.

Spiritual Rebellion
We are all, to some degree, in spiritual rebellion. We are all angry with God about something, and in need of being reconciled to Him. This lesson explores the ways in which we reject our lives and ourselves, rebelling against God who created us and gives us life. It identifies some of the attitudes that indicate this condition and discuss the ramifications of this sin in our lives.

Burden Bearing
We are all to bear one another's burdens, but some are especially called by the Lord to do so. This lesson discusses the gift of burden bearing, and explores the character and experience of the burden-bearing personality, including the wounding that occurs when the gift is misunderstood or misappropriated. Healing the wounded burden bearer requires prayer for healing of the wounded spirit, as well as teaching and training in the gift.

Cutting Free
Many of us know God has a plan for our lives and have heard God’s call. Few understand how to achieve or carry that out. We may know the direction and see the destination in the distance, but feel tied down, without the freedom to pursue it. This lesson looks at some areas in our lives, which may be keeping us down from becoming all that God created us to be.

Personal and Corporate Strongholds
Strongholds are deeply embedded thought patterns that are formidable obstacles to the healing process. They are both personal and corporate, and can have lives of their own. In this lesson, we look at the origin of strongholds and the part the mind plays in blocking our relationship with God. We will look at scriptural models for entering into warfare against the strongholds that hold us captive as individuals, groups, and even as entire nations.

Deliverance & Inner Healing
Deliverance is often a necessary and practical part of the process of inner healing (sanctification and transformation). This lesson seeks to correct the abuses and misunderstandings that fuel the conflict between the two areas, and offers scriptural support for integrating them appropriately. Reconciliation between the fields of deliverance and inner healing will help to bring freedom, wholeness and maturity to the Body of Christ.

Healing Relationships to Authority – part 1 & 2
Issues with authority and/or people in authority seem to be the proverbial "thorn in the side" of many people, damaging what is meant to be a God-ordained relationship, full of blessing and protection. This lesson is a foundational teaching on the Biblical principles of true authority, whether one is in authority or under authority, and seeks to bring healing and reconciliation with the Author Himself, as well as with His appointed servants.

Denial
This lesson explores both the nature and the root causes of denial. It provides a scriptural base for understanding and healing when restoration is blocked by patterns of denial. It also outlines six different types of denial systems and how to minister to those in denial.

Rightly Handling Emotions
This lesson looks to Jesus as a model for dealing with our own human emotions. Through His responses in the Garden of Gethsemane, we explore some of the wrong attitudes we have about our own emotional life. We will learn what emotions are, how to identify and accept them, as well as how to express them appropriately. When we learn to do this as Jesus did, it becomes possible for us to share who we truly are with others.

Common Errors of Ministry
As ministers of healing, one must accept that we will not always minister rightly. We must learn to be able to rest in the fact that God is our Redeemer (thus the redeemer of our mistakes), our Savior and our Comforter. This lesson describes some of the many ways we can act outside the will of God while ministering to others and teaches us how to recognize and be aware of what God is doing in an individual's life.

Sealing Our Healing
This lesson illustrates numerous disciplines by which we can help maintain our healing and further develop our relationship with the Lord. These disciplines will strengthen new and healthy habits to replace old and sinful patterns in our lives. The healing process of prayer ministry would be incomplete without understanding the need for ongoing support in this vital area.

Basic 1 Classes are held one Saturday a month, start at 8am and go to 5:30pm. It will have 3 video lectures with Q & A time, 2 small groups for discussion and some ministry. Lunch break is 1.5 hours. Graduation for this school is scheduled to be held together with the Basic 2 school's graduation.

September 8, 2007
October 6, 2007
November 3, 2007
December No Classes
January 12, 2008
February 9, 2008
March 8, 2008
April 12, 2008
May 10, 2008
Graduation: Saturday June 14, 2008

Attendance Requirements
Plan to attend all dates, only one date can be missed. If more dates are missed, you will not be able to graduate with an Elijah House diploma. You may receive a generic certificate of completion, but this will not provide you what you need to go on to the Basic 2 School at Elijah House or Freedom House.

The Location of all Basic 1 Classes are:
Elmwood Park Presbyterian Church
7600 W. Armitage Ave.
Elmwood Park, IL. 60635

BASIC 1 Registration and Cost
$200 Tuition per student must be submitted with all application forms no later than July 17, 2006. Balance due 1st. day of school. An additional $20 fee for late registration or late payment.

Download and Print all BASIC 1 Application Forms Here

Basic 1 School Cost

	Singles	Couples
Elijah House Tuition	$75.00	$150.00
Course Notebook	$50.00	$100.00
Course Text Books	$70.00	$70.00
Shipping/Handling	$15.00	$20.00
Facilitators Fee	$170.00	$300.00
Total:	$370.00	$640.00

Please make all checks payable to Freedom House Ministries. All correspondence and payments should be sent to:
Freedom House Ministries
c/o The Andersen's
3217 S. Scoville Ave,
Berwyn, IL 60402

Questions call 708-656-3658

Text Books Used In The Basic 1 School

	Veteran counselors, John and Paula Sandford, show the reader how to experience the Transformation of the Inner Man. This is the most comprehensive book on inner healing to be found on today's market! Among other important topics, it reveals what you should know about: - Sexual Sins and Difficulties - Performance Orientation - Forgiveness - Inner Vows - Destiny Malaise - Bitter-Root Judgments - The Role of the Christian Counselor (Paperback, 412 pages)
	The Sandfords confront the issues facing families today with sound logic based on scriptural truth. In-depth insights from more than 30 years of counseling experience combine forcefully with helpful illustrations from the author's family life, providing valuable and practical wisdom for every reader who is concerned about his or her family. Restoring the Christian Family helps to fulfill the prophecy of Malachi, ..."And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers..." Mal 4:6 (Paperback, 319 pages)
	Choosing Forgiveness explains the necessity for Christians to live a lifestyle of forgiveness. It provides insights on how to respond appropriately to personal woundings, how to keep unforgiveness and bitterness from lodging in the heart, and how to receive healing and restore unity through the power of the Holy Spirit. Also includes a 31-day devotional guide to help you with your journey toward forgiveness. (Paperback, 205 pages)
	This book offers help for those whose spirits suffer from hidden hurts, either past or present. Through this book, God can show you how to receive His healing power in your own life and how to enable healing in others. John and Paula show you how to apply scriptural salve to spiritual wounds. (Paperback, 472 pages)
	A clear and concise definition of what inner healing is and is not, John and Mark also bring practical insight into the field of deliverance ministry. The reconciliation of these two valid fields of ministry promises to bring new dimensions for healing in the Body. (Paperback, 353 pages)