Get Help: prayer counseling
“Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4:6-7)
What if you could work through issues of thoughts, emotions, forgiveness, identity, addiction, relationships (and so much more) without sharing personal details with others or reliving painful or traumatic events? Our prayer counselors will help you do just that! Often, in as little as one session!
Let’s pray through it it together!
The Pray Through It Approach is a question-focused intercessory prayer model that fosters processing core beliefs, emotions, and actions through expectant interaction with the Lord.
Question-focused Intercessory Prayer Model- asking prayer questions for others.
Processing core beliefs, emotions, and actions- helping to understand how ideas and feelings shape our view of ourselves, God, and others, and our way of life.
Expectant interaction with Lord – anticipation of real-time communication and help from the God of the Bible that results in a re-formation of core beliefs, emotions, and actions.
Thank you again for meeting with me and keeping me in your prayers. Today taught me a lot about myself and really taught me a lot about God. I have never experienced God in such a way that I did today and it was truly amazing!
Our First Prayer Counseling Session Together
Session Length– 1.5 – 2 hr. per session
A Pray Through It Session usually entails two waves of question-focused intercessory prayer. In the first, you will discover how key events and people have shaped your perceived identity, beliefs, and emotions. In the second, you will test and re-shape these through expectant interactive prayer.
Our time of prayer will be focused on facilitating a conversation between you and the Lord. So, unlike traditional counseling, little time will be spent in conversation, and our prayer team will not need to know any private or embarrassing details. All that will be needed will be some very basic key words to form prayer questions that will help you and the prayer team to understand a framework of your life story in a pattern of event-belief-identity-life strategy.
This means:
1) We will not need to know specific details.
2) We will not spend time reliving or lingering in painful or traumatic events or linger long in unpleasant or disempowering emotions.
I have never felt more free. Every time I would pray that God would give me strength to fight it or that he would take it from me, I only continued to fail. I have been waiting for as long as I can remember to get rid of this burden, and I can confidently say that I have given it to God and no longer have to live under it.
a Sample prayer counseling session
Perhaps it would be easiest to show you what we do?
One of our clients has graciously given us permission to share with you so that you might better know what to expect in a Pray Through It session. As you watch, avoid comparing your story to theirs. Rather, focus in on the process and consider if God might be leading you to connect with Him and process life through prayer with someone on our team.
Through prayer I was able to understand that I was believing the lie that God didn’t care about my feelings or about what happened to me. God brought closure to our conversation by showing me that He in-fact DESIRES for me to live a life of abundance and that He deeply cares about me and how I feel! I am still trying to figure out what that life of abundance looks like, but am thankful to have the clarity He gave me.
Frequently Asked Questions
How Long is Each Session?
Between 45 minutes and 2 hours and 15 minutes. It can be shorter or longer depending on how many issues we need to pray through in order to get freedom from the main issue. But rarely is the issue that the client is coming in for the main issue. So, expect your session to be about 1.5 hours.
What is a Session Like?
An average session will look something like this:
- Meet and Greet
- Prayer of Dedication
- Prayer of Thanksgiving
- Praying Through It (1 hr 10 Min):
- Part I: Discovering your Old Story
- Part II: Discovering Your New Story
- Debrief, Sharing Time, and Next Steps (10 Minutes)
All throughout this process, one member of the team will be guiding the session by directing prayer questions to the Lord, asking for your feedback, and then using that feedback to form the next prayer question.
The other members will silently intercede throughout the time. The goal is to allow the Lord to lead the direction of our prayer time together, placing our experience and gifts in the background. We will pause, at times, to reflect on the story that we are hearing, and we may share a bit with you what we are sensing from the Lord at the end of our session for confirmation and encouragement, but the majority of our time will be spent praying through things, rather than in conversation
Often, by the end of our session the person receiving prayer says that they feel “lighter” and “tired, but a good tired.” At the very least, you can expect a couple of significant foundational breakthroughs that will serve as cracks for light to shine into the dark places of your life. Often once we have prayed through things together, clients relate to their new story far more than to their old. They have a renewed understanding of their true self and a new way to view and approach life that often redefines how they view their past, the way they live in the present, as well as how they are looking to their future.
How Much Does a Session Cost?
Nothing. However, you will need to put down a $150 refundable deposit. This deposit demonstrates your commitment to:
1) Attend your prayer session at the agreed upon time.
2) Listen to the session recording and complete assigned post-session exercises and survey.
3) Attend your follow up meeting where you will discuss your prayers session, post-prayer session exercises and survey. Then we will overview Pray Through It resources and ministries and invite you to become a monthly supporter.
Once you have completed these, you may choose to either: 1) donate your deposit as a tax-deductible gift; or 2) request a refund.
Who will be there?
About 2-3 Prayer Leaders.
Is it Confidential?
One benefit of our approach is that we do not need to know any private or embarrassing details in order to pray through things. So, you can rest assured that nothing will be shared that is private or embarrassing – because we won’t even know those details. When you hear a testimony on our website, conferences, or podcast, we change and personal details and leave out anything that is not edifying to make sure that everyone feels protected and comfortable with what we are sharing.
Does this Replace Counseling?
Often, clients come to us without any previous professsional counseling whatsoever and are able to very quickly experience breakthrough. Others come when they feel as though their counseling sessions have plateaued in their effectiveness and, there too, we are often able to get to underlying beliefs that have proven to be illusive or not yet discovered through counseling. One prayer client said that after two one-hour sessions, “Finally, everything makes sense that my counselor has been trying to tell me for the last 7 years, because Jesus is now in His proper place!”
Nonetheless, we are still see great value in the fruit we have seen coming from time spent in counseling sessions. Often, we find that those who have had professional counseling before our sessions come with a greater understanding of the relationship between core memories, key events, and beliefs in relation to fleshly behaviors and thought patterns. This understanding will often give them a leg up, as it streamlines the first segment of the first prayer counseling session. And continued professional counseling following our prayer session will certainly benefit you as you build upon the progress made in your prayer counseling session(s) with us.
How Many Sessions?
Pray Through It Prayer Counseling is designed to help you make significant headway in just 1-3 sessions. Often in just one 1.5 hour session, you will: 1) have a much clearer understanding of how relationships and life events shaped what you believe about yourself, God, and others; 2) have made headway in bringing your thoughts and feelings into agreement; and even 3) have exchanged lies, disempowering emotions, and fleshly life strategies for biblical truth, empowering emotions, and Spirit-led life strategies.
Pray Through It is more than a Prayer Counseling Ministry. Our hope is that our sessions model how to integrate listening and inner-healing prayer practices into your day-to-day prayer life, so that you can increasingly process thoughts, emotions, and life-events through prayer on your own. Beyond this, we are here to connect you within a praying Spirit-led community where, together, you will support one another and process life through prayer.