We have found over the years that those who have totally embraced charismatic teachings regarding signs, wonders and prophetic words  are the most difficult to reach.  Certainly, it takes a great deal of time and patience to work with clients who have been deceived over a prolonged period of time  into believing that their visions, dreams and messages have practically all been authored by unseen, invisible entities who are not of God, but fallen angels who have transformed themselves into agents of light.  These are clients  who are comfortable using phrases like "The Lord told me," "the Holy Ghost led,"  "I heard in the spirit," and "I have a word from the Lord on this matter."

IMPORTANT TRUTHS TO REMEMBER

1.                             Truth cuts and humbles.   Just as there are various degrees of deception, there are various degrees of deliverance.  A complete victory depends upon the client's  willingness to face the complete truth about his or herself, and the way that the client may have given ground to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils. God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble.  We need grace to overcome fallen entities.  Even if we are saved, if we won't receive correction from a true elder, we will be food for the entities.  Our counselors are true elders who themselves have been tried and tested through the fires of demonic deception.  True humility is the source of a permanent victory over these entities, so much so that demons  will walk away and leave you without even  needing to be cast out.

2.                             Psychic power is of the flesh.  The flesh profits nothing as it is an enemy to God. Most captives who have lots of dreams, visions and other supernatural experiences  have very strong psychic power.  Psychic ability may simply be the doorway used by the entities, triggered when  the client sought the Holy Ghost or  became an avid follower within  a charismatic or Pentecostal  church.  Because of the powers of the client's soul, it was bound to happen.

3.                             Psychic power must be rejected, for the rest of your life.   Even when  the entities have been exposed and the manifestations are practically gone, the deeper the deception the longer is the counseling time is required so that the client can  be "reprogrammed" from deception to truth.   For example,  "a supernatural" client  can't even read what appears to be a harmless horoscope or celebrate Halloween. The entities must not be permitted to interfere in the client's  life, particularly by the client  not giving new ground to them. Every supernatural experience must be treated with skepticism until examination through time can determine whether it was from God or the enemy.

4.                             Faith is the key.   Captives who have trusted in a false revelation gift which they believe to be the discerning of spirits, a word of wisdom and a word of knowledge must really learn to walk by faith and not by either natural or "supernatural" sight. True faith will bring the trust the client needs  to allow the love of God to flow through him or her  to others. The client will learn how  to demonstrate  faith by not needing to listen to the teachings of the entities, regardless of how benign the message may seem.  A goal of counseling is to equip the client to   follow God without needing a sign.  Once this is goal is achieved,  the stronger the client's true  faith will become.

Profile of a Fruitbaring Client

 Once a client conscientiously completes all of his or her  assignments with skill, insight  and understanding, he or she will begin to receive  his own revelations about himself and the organized church.  Such a client  demonstates an abiding respect for his counselor and for  himself.

 A good counselor will  lay back and take  great advantage of how the client himself perceives his  own presenting issues and how  he or she turned out more empowered for it.  A conscientious  client takes advantage of his counselor's challenges with grace and abiding ego strength. The counselor in turn will  enjoy every moment of extra time spent in studying the client's case and helping him or her  to put on and use the spiritual armor that will only work for an obedient believer.   

The traumas that each client has  overcome in life could have been devastating.  Counseling will help the client to   take it all in a healthy stride. Once the client has been refined and purified by the cross of Jesus Christ,  it is anticipated that the client is  going to be an important servant of God in these endtimes, ministering to and setting countless captives free in His Name.