Streams of Healing

By Cathy Little, Melinda Wilson, Judith MacNutt and 11 more

As the inner healing movement continues to grow and expand, it can be overwhelming to know what is actually available, and to find what works best for you. For the first time ever, 12 pioneering voices have come together to create a one-of-a-kind resource to help you find your way to freedom. They are the generals who represent the main headwaters from which many of today's inner healing streams flow. In these pages, you will find:

• A theological foundation for inner healing
• The history of how the models came to be
• An overview of the tools they use
• Powerful stories and testimonials of lives transformed
• Information on how to receive training and to request personal ministry

Whether you are a counselor or minister looking for tools to help others, or you are new to your own healing journey, dive in and allow the current to take you farther and deeper into the healing power of Jesus and the many ways he is healing his Bride.

 

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"The 'generals of inner healing and deliverance' have converged their anointings and methodologies to compile a comprehensive practical manual to equip and minister to the body of Christ. You will receive a tangible impartation while being equipped with practical tools for both personal freedom and to set free those who are 'captive.' As many streams become one river, get ready for a powerful journey into deeper waters with Him! I highly recommend this book!"

Dr. Tony Kim, Co-Senior Leader, Renaissance Church,
Executive Director, Harvest International Ministry, Senior Leader, Roar Collective

 

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Face to Face Ministries
• Release date: Nov 17, 2022
• ISBN: 9798215043844

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ENDORSEMENTS

"Amidst the global shaking over the last couple of years, Streams of Healing is a key book for this hour. The ‘generals of inner healing and deliverance’ have converged their anointings and methodologies to compile a comprehensive practical manual to equip and minister to the body of Christ. You will receive a tangible impartation while being equipped with practical tools for both personal freedom and to set free those who are ‘captive.’ As many streams become one river, get ready for a powerful journey into deeper waters with Him! I highly recommend this book!"

Dr. Tony Kim

Co-Senior Leader, Renaissance Church, Executive Director, Harvest International Ministry, Senior Leader, Roar Collective

"Streams of Healing is a loving invitation to respond to God in this unique moment on the earth in order to become the kind of transformed people whose entire beings are organized around the Triune God. Guiding readers to receive deep incarnational healing and integration, this book offers curated and distilled insight from key ministries that steward the healing power of the Gospel. These precious saints have found treasure hidden in a field. It is our task to respond and dive deep through their sacred work."

Morgan Snyder

Author of Becoming a King, Founder, www.BecomeGoodSoil.com,

Vice President, www.WildAtHeart.org

It is an honor for me to endorse this important reference work that brings together many of the inner and emotional healing ministries, methods, and practices that God has raised up for the equipping of the local church in the important Kingdom work of restoration of the soul. I have learned much from these ministries, and brought much of their material together in the ‘Emotional Healing’ track in Global Awakening's College of Ministry. The authors have accomplished a great resource here!

Dr. Mike Hutchings

Director, Global Awakening School of Supernatural Ministry,

Founder and President, God Heals PTSD Foundation

"Streams of Healing is a gift to anyone longing to experience freedom and encounter Jesus, the Prince of Shalom. Every man and woman was created in God’s image and commissioned to reflect that image throughout the Earth. Most of us are like broken mirrors that need healing until we become image-bearers of God. My own experience with the different streams of healing in this book has become a river of wholeness. Living immersed in the supernatural love of God is my passion and purpose. Streams of Healing is not just a book, but a daily guide by the best in the inner healing movement, many of whom I know as friends. This book is a vital key to finding the true you and fulfilling your divine destiny."

Leif Hetland

Author of Called to Reign,

Founder and President, Global Mission Awareness

Jesus calls us into full maturity, to live a life of fruitfulness and wholeness. As Christians, it is so important to recognize inner healing as a significant key to living in wholeness. This amazing book offers practical wisdom and insight to healing the wounds we carry inside and inspires us to live free from brokenness and pain, so that we can walk fully in His love and give it away with power to our world.

Duncan Smith

Author of Consumed by Fire, President, Catch the Fire World

What a beautiful presentation of healing in the body of Christ! So many colors and styles and yet the same ‘one Spirit’ is clearly working through them all. If you have a passion for binding up the brokenhearted, this is a resource you’ll find indispensable.

Sarah J. Thiessen

Author and Founder, Splankna Training Institute, Denver, CO

"Streams of Healing: Finding your Way to Wholeness with Key Leaders in the Inner Healing Movement is a much needed and long overdue resource for counselors and anyone needing healing. Healing is God’s heart. In His great wisdom, He’s shared the diverse approaches to healing you’ll find in this book with His faithful friends who are passionate about helping others walk more fully into the freedom of Christ. Here, those friends introduce you to the stream they teach and steward. You’ll discover how each stream flows from a common foundation and leads to wholeness. I know many of these writers personally and have been refreshed in my relationship with them and in their waters. I highly recommend this resource!"

Ed Khouri

Author of The Weight of Leadership,

Trainer and President, Equipping Hearts for the Harvest

"Periodically a team emerges who can both unify and differentiate what is being done in healing ministries. There is much in common and many differences between the mental models that ministries use and the language used to explain how people work with God to become more of who God had in mind. No one person or model can notice all that God is doing when God heals the soul, heart, and mind or body. But, what do the people who spend most of their time watching God at work observe and learn? How each one explains what they see differs but each one has learned to assist. Streams of Healing helps us see what 12 ministries watch when God is at work restoring wounded lives."

Rev. E. Jim Wilder Ph.D.

Neurotheologian, Founder Life Model Works

Author of Living from the Heart Jesus Gave You

"Like a Divine song, Streams of Healing authors have uniquely orchestrated words and melodies that invite hurting hearts to find their way to the One."

Yvonne Martinez,

Author, Counselor, and Sozo Facilitator, Transformation Center Ministry Coordinator, Bethel Church, Redding, CA

"Streams of Healing highlights and chronicles one of the greatest movements alive today, the restoration of the healing ministry to the Church. This one-of-a-kind book helps us see how God is moving in fresh and creative ways to bring his love, salvation, deliverance, and healing to his people. Whether you are a seasoned minister of healing, or someone who is simply seeking more of God’s healing in your life, you will find this book a welcome companion on your journey."

Terry Cantrell

Minister and Certified Pastoral Counselor

"Streams of Healing will certainly be placed alongside other essential works that have formerly addressed the ministry of inner healing. Each chapter contributor of curiously applies Jesus’ words to the woman at the well, ‘If you only knew’, (John 4.10) and uses this as their own invitations to their audience to drink more deeply and explore life more fully (John 10.10). Readers will find this book to be a cord of three strands (Ecclesiastes 4.12) that includes: biblical scholarship without imposing technical jargon, personal authenticity that inspires a call to action, and proven instruction for time tested practitioners whose congregation is, broken in spirit. As you read this book ask the Holy Spirit to give you never before experienced revelation so that you can become a luminary of hope to those who seek a Streams of Healing experience!"

Dr. Bill Effler

Associate Professor, Lee University, Cleveland, TN

Author of Out From the Shadows, Editor, Mission of the Church

Streams of Healing

Finding Your Way to Wholeness with Key Leaders in the Inner Healing Movement

Cathy Little, Melinda Wilson, with Leah Lesesne, Foreword by Judith MacNutt

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CONTENTS

DEDICATION

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

DISCLAIMER

ABOUT THE COVER

FOREWORD

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

A FOUNDATIONAL THEOLOGY FOR INNER HEALING

ELIJAH HOUSE

CHRISTIAN HEALING MINISTRIES

RESTORING THE FOUNDATIONS

SOZO

SHILOH PLACE

COMMUNION WITH GOD MINISTRIES

STREAMS MINISTRIES

TRAUMA PRAYER

HEARTSYNC

IMMANUEL APPROACH

LIFE MODEL WORKS

THRIVE TODAY

ABOUT CATHY & MELINDA

ABOUT FACE TO FACE MINISTRIES

DEDICATION

To the inner healing pioneers who have plowed the hard ground, and to the various streams of inner healing ministries that have been birthed because of their influence.

To those who have said yes to the Isaiah 61 mandate to heal the brokenhearted, and to the countless lives that have been, and will be, radically transformed by the healing power of Jesus because they did.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We cannot begin to acknowledge all of those who have impacted this book project, and us personally without first thanking Shari Pritchard. Without her curiosity and hunger to learn more about inner healing, without her trust in us to educate her team, without her invitation (that came out more like an assignment) to write a book, this project may not have even been a thought, let alone the product you are now reading. Jesus used her words to begin a domino effect which set an entirely new trajectory for our ministry.

We are beyond grateful for each of our authors who gave of their time and expertise to write their chapters, and who extended grace and patience throughout the revision process as we worked to get each chapter into a cohesive product. We are honored to call them friends and are thankful to them for their collective yes to partner with Jesus to bring healing and freedom to the world.

This project would not have landed anywhere near the product it has become without the advice and practical help of Leah Lesesne. After entering an Instagram contest for the Bethel Transformation Center and winning a conversation with one of our authors, Dawna De Silva, Dawna connected the three of us at a time when we all happened to be in the same geographical location even though we were living in California and Leah in Georgia. After a face-to-face meeting at a coffee shop in the Northwest suburbs of Atlanta, Leah said yes to stepping in and providing the support we needed to get this project all the way from a good idea to the finished product. Leah has put in countless hours editing, compiling, and crafting content for consistency, formatting the book for print, and providing advice and practical help with the entire self-publishing process. There are not enough words to express our gratitude.

We would also like to acknowledge Rochelle Holben and John Thomas who fanned the flame and brought our vision to life to bring many of the pioneering inner healers together, face to face, for our first Healer Gathering in 2020. It is out of this Gathering that the idea to invite the healers to author their own chapters for a compilation project was born; Dr. Mark Virkler who laid awake listening to Jesus during that Gathering for what could become of this group of peers, helping us birth an Alliance; Kent and Cathy Larson, Dawna DeSilva, and John Thomas who have walked closely with us on this journey of building a family of healers as we learn to value relational unity and mutual support for each other that transcends the methods and models we use.

I (Cathy) would like to personally thank Pastor Terry Cantrell, who said yes to the invitation of Jesus to catch me at my worst, walked beside me while I healed, and invited me to dream again. Terry’s tender heart, intentionality, protection, and peace-filled skill of being with me in what St. John of the Cross calls, the dark night of the soul, created a safe place for me to find my true self. Terry, along with many others at Riverstone Church in Kennesaw, Georgia, played a key role in propelling me forward into who I am today. I am forever grateful.

I also want to thank Melinda Wilson, my partner in ministry and my sister-by-choice. Even though I had experienced a profound personal inner healing journey and had developed a passion to help others, it was her heritage and training in the inner healing world that got me up to speed and planted in me a deep appreciation for the uniqueness and diversity of the models that are available to help people get free. As Melinda shares her thank you’s below, I share my appreciation for these people as well, for they have impacted my life through the impact they have had on hers.

I (Melinda) would like to thank several people who have had a profound impact on my journey with, and passion for inner healing:

Rev. Jim Brown, my former pastor at Church of the Messiah in Virginia, who led me through several inner healing sessions in the early 2000’s. This not only brought me healing, but also ignited a flame in me to help others experience healing.

Jim and Pat Banks, who are authors in this book, took me under their wings in the healing rooms which they established in Western North Carolina. They trained and equipped me in a variety of inner healing models and invited me to minister to others even while still on my own healing journey. I am forever grateful to them for throwing me into the deep end, because they saw potential in me that I didn’t know I had.

I also want to honor all of those who were part of the healing rooms in those days. They became family to me as we learned and grew together.

My mentor, spiritual mom, and dear friend, Debbe Buller, whom I met during my healing rooms days. Her hunger to learn as much as she could about inner healing has influenced me greatly. She has been a faithful companion as we have continued to explore heart healing together.

My mom and dad who filled our family’s bookshelves with authors such as John and Paula Sandford, Agnes Sanford, Francis MacNutt, and other pioneers in the inner healing movement. Beyond the books, they modeled for me a life of faith that God could heal every aspect of the human condition. This is my greatest inheritance.

Finally, I want to honor all the women and men who have been a part of our heart healing trainings. Thank you for taking up the torch and running with it, carrying the healing flame of Jesus to those around you!

To all of those who have dedicated their lives to help people connect face to face with Jesus and find true healing and transformation in their lives, thank you for giving yourselves to the Isaiah 61 mandate to bind up the broken hearted and set the captives free. Thank you for pursuing your own healing journey so that you can lead where you have been. Thank you for holding space for the hurting to find healing. We honor you.

We are also thankful for you, the reader. Whether you are diving deeper and broadening your understanding of the variety of streams that make up the beautiful mosaic of the inner healing movement, or, if you grabbed this book because you are looking for hope for your own healing journey, we are thankful that you are here.

DISCLAIMER

The ministers represented in this book are not doctors or counselors. The information in this book should not be seen as medical or mental health advice and is not intended to take the place of consulting licensed health care professionals. Their ministries are not in-patient facilities or crisis centers, and do not provide overnight or supervised care for mental illness, drug/alcohol addictions, suicide, or other immediate crisis care situations. In such cases, local hospitals, drug/alcohol rehabilitation centers or crisis centers are appropriate choices. Check with your doctor, counselor, and/or other health professional before implementing any of the information outlined in this book. Testimonies have been shared with permission.

ABOUT THE COVER

The models in this book represent unique colors, shapes, and sizes within the inner healing arena. They have different approaches and perspectives and they have received different areas of revelation. None of them carries the whole picture alone. They are all part of something way bigger than themselves, a beautiful piece of art, a MOSAIC of shapes and colors, all with a common love for Jesus and a strong belief in his desire and ability to heal the broken-hearted. They have all said yes to partner with him on the earth to proclaim freedom to those who are captive. We are grateful for our graphic designer, Julie McKnight, who beautifully captured the essence of this on the cover. Each piece represents unique streams of the inner healing movement working together, inviting people into a transformational connection with Jesus, our Healer, the perfect Counselor.

FOREWORD

Judith MacNutt, MA, President and Co-founder, Christian Healing Ministries

Several years ago my husband, Francis, and I were invited to Rome, Italy for a colloquium on God's ministry of healing with leaders from around the world. We were thrilled with the prospect of spending a few days sharing and learning with seasoned theologians, scholars, priests,