Truth Restoration Exchange Encounter
The purpose of the TREE ministry is to help people encounter the Holy Spirit and experience truths that set them free to progress in the journey of sanctification.
In the course of receiving this ministry, we are healed from past hurts and delivered from demonic powers that have held us in bondage; baggage that hinders us in our spiritual journey are removed, and strongholds of lies in our lives are torn down and replaced by God’s truths to live by.
This ministry is a major building block, a key ministry in EEC to help us fulfil our Mission Statement: It fulfils an important part of the Great Commission in carrying out what Jesus commanded His disciples to do: to preach the Gospel (God’s truth), to heal the sick and to drive out demons. It also helps us to obey the Great Commandment
by removing obstacles that stand in the way of loving God and loving people.
TREE ministry is currently open to EEC members only.
Enquiries: e-mail – khkim@emmanuelchurch.org.uk
Phone: 020 7799 2828 ext. 103
2010 EVENTS
Restoration Encounter Residential (For EEC members only)
Restoration Encounter Residential is held in a setting away from the normal distractions of everyday life, over a period of two and a half days (starting around 12pm on Friday and ending at 6pm on Sunday). This is a time when we can experience a personal life-changing encounter with the Lord. It provides us with an opportunity to know the Father Heart of God and to deal with unresolved issues in various areas of our lives through the application of the Cross of Jesus and the ministry of the Holy Spirit. We shall experience the powerful ministry of the Holy Spirit, healing us from past hurts, setting us free from strongholds and bondages and releasing us into an intimacy with God that will bring about transformation and develop Christ-like character in our lives.
Process:
Teaching sessions (some via DVDs)
Practical One-to-one Ministry
Personal Testimony
Waiting on the Lord; soaking
Dates: 23-25 July 2010
Place: All Nations in Easneys Ware, Herts (food and accommodation provided)
Fee: £90 per resident* (including registration fee, £20 – non refundable)
Registration: Register at the welcome desk in EEC on Sunday / or by e-mailing khkim@emmanuelchurch.org.uk. DEADLINE: 6th June 2010
Places are limited and are on a first-come first-serve basis!
Please note: We are UNABLE to provide childcare!
Counselling Yourself Course (For EEC members only)
The ‘Counselling Yourself’ helps us to constructively address issues and challenges in our lives in accordance with the truths in God's Word and through the ministry of the Holy Spirit. As we embark on a journey of healing and restoration, the disciplined appliciation of God's Word and faithful submission to the Holy Spirit helps us to experience progressively the transforming power of God's presence in our lives. It is an essential part of the sanctification process to being more Christ-like.
Dates: 25th March, 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29th April 2010 (six consecutive Thursdays)
Time: 7:15pm – 9:30pm
Place: Emmanuel Centre, Westminster
Fee: Just £10 as a contribution towards the materials
Deadline for registration: 14th March
PLACES ARE LIMITED AND ALLOCATED ON A FIRST-COME-FIRST-SERVED BASIS
READ OUR TESTIMONIES!
From Restoration Encounter Residential, July 2009
"I spent much time wondering whether to come on the encounter weekend or not, and asked many folks about their opinions to find out what it was about. There was also the possible conflict with work that made it look like I would not be able to come after all - but this disappeared and I found myself thinking that actually God had arranged things because He wanted me to go.
On arrival I was very unsure about how open I was going to be. In my nature I am not necessarily very open with 'strangers' about personal things, and especially my faith.
A few days before the conference I had been praying that what would happen on the weekend would be of God, not of 'man'. I also prayed about another important area of my life for which I really wanted guidance, and I remember sitting in a church yard asking God a simple yet profound yes/no question.
The first thing that happened in my ministry time was that God answered my simple question - He said 'Yes.' This both shocked and amazed me at the same time - as I didn't expect God to answer so quickly to such an important question. This broke me right open - from the start. God cared enough to answer me like that and on this weekend. I could not hold stuff back from Him after that.
What followed was a long journey into the Father's love. How He cared, wanted me to come to Him at any time with any request. He wants to know everything I feel, I do, I think. The ministry time at the end of Saturday (Orphan Heart) was very emotional for me. I thank God for a ministry facilitator who sat with me for well over an hour as I cried with the revelation that God really knew all that had happened to me, and that He desperately wants the best for me. Since I returned from the Encounter I have not been the same. I am exploring what it means to receive and live in the Father's love. I am so grateful for God's provision and look forward to the good things he has for me.
I can say it was a truly blessed time."
"Just wanted to say thanks for a great weekend. I cannot say that I enjoyed the experience, it was painful and so exhausting! I have never cried so much in 48 hours and I feel as though I was in a wrestling match...God was telling me to let go of destructive ways of thinking but I didn't want to... these patterns of thinking and behaviours have defined me for so long that I don't know who I am if I let them go! But praise God, by His grace and through the help of the fantastic counsellors, I am leaving these things behind! Thank you for making these things possible. All praise to God and I'm so grateful for all the willing workers."
I went to the Restoration Encounter weekend with excitement, wondering what would happen. I had already attended events like this elsewhere, but this turned out to be more intensive, more detailed and more thorough than I anything I’d previously experienced. I expected God to give me a spiritual spring-clean and actually what I received was a spiritual makeover! God is so gracious and provided a safe space and very gentle ministry for His work in us. The Lord gave me the grace and courage to look at dark shameful places in my life which were hidden behind closed doors, and then to bring out what was hidden in the darkness to the light. The precious blood of Jesus washed me completely clean, praise the Lord, and I have been set free from stuff that I didn’t know was there. I know now in deeper ways than ever before that God loves me, He loves me, He loves me, He loves me, and I am beautiful and perfect in His sight because everything that God makes is beautiful and good, and I am good because I am His workmanship. I give all praise and glory and thanks to God, and thanks to the ministry team who have worked so hard to organise and run this event. Thanks be to God.
I went for a Restoration Encounter during the weekend and it was very amazing.
During the session of forgiveness, I asked the Holy Spirit to reveal to me who I should forgive, there was nothing. Then I thought to myself, maybe I should ask the Lord to speak to me those whom I had hurt them and asked the Lord to speak to them to forgive me and I prayed and prayed and continued to speaking in tongues. There was nothing. So I just relaxed. Then I felt a very gentle breeze came to my left face. I thought someone had opened the door so I opened my eyes and saw there was no one and the door remained shut. Immediately, I knew it was the Holy Spirit. So I prayed to Him, Holy Spirit, who do you want me to forgive. He said to me with the gentle breeze passing over my face, very cooling and slowly even though my ear was still filled with heat, He said, 'Forgive yourself!', when I heard it, I did not speak a word and my heart was bumping fast even though peaceful. Then there were thoughts of myself, 'You are hopeless, you are trouble maker, every where you go, you bring trouble, you are sick and good for nothing, you born to destruction and you are hopeless, hopeless' I was in fact speaking to myself all these words without realising it, and the ministry facilitator spoke to me loudly, hey, what are you talking? He shook me, ' What are you talking about, this is not from the Holy Spirit, rebuke it and renounce it now!' Then, I responded, 'I am hopeless, I am. You don't know me.' Then he prayed for me and renounced it with me all those words I had spoken and he asked me, 'What did the holy spirit say to you? Forgive myself,' 'Then you must write down on the file and let us pray', he guided me through the process. I felt very relieved inside me. I have forgiven myself and we went for tea break. After the tea break, I moved to a different session with a different ministry facilitator. After the sharing from the pulpit by one of the ministry facilitator about the topic of the orphan heart session, we have to quiet our heart and pray quietly asking the Holy Spirit to show us what he wants us to know. We have to answer the questions like when did I leave home? When did I make a choice in my heart to no longer be a son, a daughter to my parents and therefore to God? I wrote down the day when I wanted to leave home is when the day I accepted Jesus Christ and I wanted to serve Him full time and I spent a lot of my time in church until very late night. Then the ministry facilitator asked me to quiet my heart down and to continue to ask the Holy Spirit to show me what he wanted to show me. I sat there with my eyes closed and relaxed. There was no rushing or pressure of time. Just relaxed. My thought came with those time when I had at CNEC serving God with joy, had Bible studies and chat with a close Brother in Christ etc. and I was still speaking in tongue whilst with the those thought. Then ministry facilitator whispered a word into my ear. Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, with my eyes still closely and tightly shut, it was like, as if I was in a roller coaster, I was travelling at a very high speed, I was in a channel, a tunnel, dark but it was at great speed, then it stopped suddenly. I was in a dim orange coloured environment as if in a section of a swimming pool. I was in the water floating very slowly and I did not struggle to breathe. In fact, I was quite comfortable floating inside the water. Then I heard loud voices and I heard mom and dad, their voices, they were both quarrelling. Mom was shouting and Dad was shouting. They were both blaming each other and it was about me. I felt it was my fault. It was me. I felt the pain in my stomach, it was painful, so painful but I could not do anything about it. I did not struggle, just remained floating inside the water. I asked myself, where is this place? The Holy Spirit said to me, you are in your mom's womb. How can this be? I questioned, I am imagining things here, I said. The Holy Spirit did not say anything to me. Then He brought me to another scene, in this scene, I saw a boy, same age as my son, he was struggling to get off a pond he fell into. He was drowning and struggling for air. He did not shout for help because he was drowning. But no one was there, whilst two of his friends were walking ahead of him. This boy, me, caught hold of a branch and I managed to get up out of the pond. The Holy Spirit asked me, can you remember this? I said, yes. I almost died. I followed two of my friends to a place with a lot of ponds and I fell into one of the pond. The Holy Spirit asked me, remember this event? I said yes, I nearly died because I could not swim. Then the Holy Spirit brought me back again to the womb. I was again floating inside the water surrounded by orange and pinky coloured environment. There was no more argument and it was very quiet. Then the Holy Spirit spoke a word to me. I broke down inside me. I cried, cried and cried. I don't know how long I was crying for. But I was crying quietly and controlled though. With my eyes closed tightly and tears flooded my eyes non stopped, the Holy Spirit brought me back to my chair. Every scene moved from one to another in just seconds, yet the memories were so fresh! very fresh. I could see everything clearly even with my eyes closed.
The Holy Spirit restored my heart. I thought I knew him and I loved him, I was nothing. It is a very humbling experience. I am learning and I am still learning about Him. I love Him now and I will always love Him even more so now. I like to let you know that the Holy Spirit has healed my inner most hurt in my life that I did not realise it had hurt me so much. He has restored me to His love. I felt very light in my spirit now and I have been singing since this morning. I am very peaceful inside me. Light and peaceful. I just do not feel like doing anything but just want to soak myself in His love. It is amazing! Very amazing experience! I now know that God loves me and He has created me. I now understand and I know that he wants me to love Him and just love Him.
This encountering weekend is amazing, very amazing, very humbling experience. I love mom, I love dad and I love myself and I love everyone of you. It is overwhelming, my spirit inside me is very light. I kept praising him this morning in my quiet time.
From Healing Encounter Residential 2008
"I was very blessed over the weekend and it was a significant time for me, particularly in the area of deliverance from rejection and ungodly beliefs."
"It really was great and I was very blessed, and set free! Praise God. I was impressed by your and the whole team's dedication and organisation. It must have been quite a lot of work, and I feel privileged to be part of a church which has a ministry team such as this."
"Before I went away, I was rather scared because I was afraid that the counsellors would impose their views and judgement on my situations and freely give me all kinds of unhelpful advice once that I had heard thousands of times over - the same old
statements such as "love them to bits and God will turn things around for you." However, my apprehension was to be unfounded. Instead, I found the TREE counsellors to be kind, patient, unhurried, and best of all, they invited the Holy Spirit to minister to me, and allowed TIME for Spirit to do a deep healing work in all of us. The counsellors prayed with me and comforted me and did not judge me. The best bit was that their prayers were so directed by the Holy spirit in the areas I was struggling with."
"I found new hope in God, the father, the son and the Holy Spirit in my life on that weekend. Every topic covered by the DVD teachings had healed my longings, my broken spirit, and my broken relationship with God the father."
"I just wanted to say a very big thank you for giving us there, whatever reasons we may be there for, a chance to rediscover the Father God's eternal love for us and that we can move on now with a deeper sense of his tender love for us. Please keep the
TREE going for the sake of broken children of God, that they may be healed and be ever more fearsome for God. God has begun this enduring works in our church through the different back-bone ministries now. If we continue this way, God will be blessed. May the Lord continue to bless you all for this loving work through Him!"
From Counselling Yourself, March 2008
"I had been encountering recurring problems in my life as a Christian for more than 20 years, and I had sought various kinds of counselling and prayer from mature Christians in my life, and attended day seminars run by well known Christian Counselling organisations. As they were day courses, they were not thorough in dealing with my situation, and always carried out in a hurried manner. If I wanted to receive further counselling, I had to be prepared to week sessions and to pay for them. I did not have the time or the money, so I relied on Christian self-counselling books to help me resolve my problems and issues. However, I could not get the torment of those recurring problems out of my mind, and I managed to resolve them with my own ways over number of years. I would feel angry at God for those issues in my life, due to his not answering my prayers.
"This last year, the torments increased, and I have no outlets for my problems. I also felt very guilty because I was angry with God. ' How dare I display such emotion at Him?', I asked myself. The words from the Bible did not ease my pain anymore. When EECannounced this course "Counselling Yourself," I told God that I will give this course a last attempt. I enrolled and was quite frightened, just in case I had to spill the beans about my life, but it was not like that. The course always starts with role play, simple question and answer sessions, games, and most important of all; scriptural teaching in answering those problems about today's relevant questions on Christian living in an increasingly harsh environment.
"I began to look at my life with God's eyes and mind in a new perspective which I had not learnt about; why, and how could Christians behave in a certain way? I realised wrong choices in my life were made due to seeking approval from people around me, not allowing God's ways to take precedence, but allowing others to take control over me; mainly due to my rejected past, always willing to please at all costs. I also learnt that I had erected a lot of God-substitutions in my life; such as giving in to others demands on my time and energy, to satisfy my need for their approval and love; and this in itself was idolatry and displeasing to God. At the end of the course,
I was set free from the poor image of myself and of God.
"I would encourage everyone who is a Christian to attend this course, where I have found my security, self-worth and significance in God alone. Nothing else really matters anymore, not from my own workings or the need for approval from others to satisfy that need in me. Praise the Lord!"
"I was quite afraid of sharing personal experiences at first; soon I realised that the more we shared, the more it became apparent to us that we all had common threads underlying our stories… It was really uplifting to see that the theory of the course really made sense at a practical level. Personally I was helped to see humans under the authority of God and to see life from a biblical perspective. I was helped to think about how to love and how to live by relying on the right resource for drawing love and affirmation."
"As a single, sometimes I had experienced frustration as to why I did not yet have a partner. However, in this course the Holy Spirit
showed me I was placing my security on a marriage rather than on God. He also showed me that my longing came from my childhood
loneliness while my parents were away for a while. I am so grateful to God that through this course HE healed my pain and restored
my security in HIM. So free….."
"As a man, it's not easy to open up and discover weaknesses and then ask for help. I have been a Christian since a young age but have never really connected with the God's love and delight in me. Unknowingly, this caused me to become self-reliant; I became used to getting on with life without knowing God's love deeply - also a spiritual earwax which deadened the Father's voice. The TREE weekend covered 14 topics such as hardened hearts, forgiveness, rejection and ungodly beliefs - all of which helped to lighten and in some cases unload the baggage of the past. Undoing the burdens, getting to grips with root causes and breaking strongholds will take time but then I will be truly free! This may sound quite deep and painful - and it was at times - but everyone can overcome the past by degrees. There is no better place to do this with experienced and very caring one-to-one ministry facilitator than on the TREE course. It's not for the weak. Do it! Do it this year!
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