INNER HEALING MINISTRY 1 SYLLABUS Certified by the Apostolic Network of Global Awakening Welcome to the Christian Healing Certification Program (CHCP) provided and sponsored by Global Awakening (GA). Inner Healing Ministry is one of three certification courses offered by GA, the other two being: Deliverance and Physical Healing. These courses are provided to equip the body of Christ in areas of inner healing ministry. Required Reading: Transforming the Inner Man John Loren & Paula Sandford Christ the Wonderful Counselor Micah Williams Experiencing Father s Embrace Jack Frost Required Videos to watch: Video 1 Mark Virkler: How to Hear God s Voice (2 Parts) Video 2 - Micah Williams: Being vs. Doing Video 3 - Ready, Set, GREW video by Steve Griebling on SweetenLifeSystemswebsite (http://sweetenlife.com/readysetgrew.aspx) or Vimeo Channel (http://vimeo.com/19524815) Video 4 - Randy Clark: Intro to inner healing Video 5 Micah Joy Williams: Belief & Unbelief Video 6 Micah Williams: Promises and Waiting (Unbroken Conference 2017) Video 7 Trisha Frost: How we see Father God (3 Parts) Video 8 Katie Luse: Compassion (Unbroken Conference 2017) Video 9 Trisha Frost: Father Loves You Video 10 Father s Love Letter: http://fathersloveletter.com/video.html Recommended Optional Reading: 4 Keys to Hearing God s Voice Mark & Patti Virkler Prerequisites: 1) A personal computer with Microsoft Office 2003 or higher (or Mac equivalent), an Internet connection and email account. Course Objectives: 1) To equip students with the understanding and spiritual tools necessary to become effective inner healing ministers. 2) To provide a balanced and acceptable process for inner healing, focusing on hearing God s voice, having a right view of God and value for ourselves and others based on those two things. Online Participation: This course is offered online only. Upon acceptance of the student s application and the receipt of required fees, student will be sent a digital welcome letter, links to 1 P a g e
a digital copy of the syllabus, and links to required resources. Instructions with a username and password to access the online course will be sent to you shortly before classes begin. Academic Honesty: All work must be the student s unless collaboration is required. Collaboration with others, including other students, is not permitted without permission or assignment from the instructor. Roommates and spouses taking the same course should be particularly careful. If collaboration is authorized you must acknowledge the collaboration in writing. If you are unsure what constitutes plagiarism, review rules of original writing at: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/. Plagiarism will not be tolerated and the claim of ignorance is no excuse. Those found plagiarizing may be dropped from the course. Grades: Each week the instructor will post in the grade book either a PASS for satisfactory completion of each assignment, or FAIL for an unsatisfactory grade. At the end of the course, a course grade of PASS is required to receive certification by Global Awakening. If you do not submit an assignment, or it is late, the instructor will apply a Fail. See following criteria for grading. If you receive four Fail grades, you will not pass the course. Pass Fail CRITERIA FOR GRADING Responses reflect demonstration of having completed the reading(s) or video(s) or other, and provide bread crumb references to the materials. Reflects additional research and citation. Good personal examples when required. Answers are well thought out, comprehensive and well presented. Student views and replies to instructor s input. Responses do not demonstrate a strong evidence of having read or watched / listened to assigned materials. No bread crumb trail references to the materials. Reflects no effort or personal examples when required. Answers are not well thought out, and there is excessive poor grammar and/or misspellings present. Student does not view and reply to instructor s input. If a student receives four U s, they cannot pass the course. Discussion Posting Requirements and Guidelines: The course will run for eight (8) weeks. Course content will be divided into units, with one unit to be completed each week. Learning experiences such as readings, audio, and video reviews will be assigned. Students are required to participate in on-line discussions, as well as with other appropriate online activities including sending/receiving email, navigating the course, etc. A class week is defined as the period of time between Monday and Sunday at midnight Eastern Standard Time (EST). NOTE: Because this is an online course designed to get feedback on assignments to you directly via Internet, you must make prior arrangements before submitting an assignment via email, fax or the postal service. Discussion assignments must be posted by students each week on Thursdays and Sundays by midnight Eastern Standard Time (EST). Failure to turn in assignments by the date due, or timely participation in required online discussions, may result in the student being withdrawn from the course. 2 P a g e
Students are responsible to contact instructor directly by email if they are having any difficulty posting or require additional time with assignments. Failure to do so will result in a failing grade for that discussion assignment. Four failing grades constitute a failure of the course. Students are required to read and reply to at least one post per week of their fellow classmates that they find encouraging or insightful. This assists with participation and enhances discussions. Students are required to re-visit their posts and review the instructor s response by Sunday for Thursday assignments and by Wednesday for Sunday assignments. Your assignments will not be counted as completed and accepted for grading until you have posted back to your instructor s comments. Be sure to indicate in your response back to the instructor s comments that you fully understand their feedback. Please ensure that your communications reflect proper grammar. No texting style or other short cuts should be used. Students may be instructed to resubmit work containing excessive: misspellings, incomplete sentences, etc. Please use Check Spelling on your work prior to posting, uploading or emailing. Students are highly encouraged to save their work in a Microsoft Word doc or notepad software prior to posting online if they plan to spend more than two hours on their posting. The Moodle system will timeout after 2.5-3 hours and your work could be lost without warning if your posting is still open. All students should use courtesy and online etiquette when communicating. Participation in the weekly discussion questions is required for the completion of assignments. Posts are not private and students are encouraged to respond to other student posts. Discussions are not to be used for any other purpose or communications. Communications such as prayer requests, events or conferences, exchanging contact information, etc. should be conveyed privately using student emails or the built in messaging system. Additional Information: CHCP course videos, audios and additional media are for the exclusive use of CHCP students only and may not be shared. Access to CHCP media by others is not authorized or permitted. CHCP students are not permitted to share, copy, show, play, post, record and/or otherwise use any CHCP course media. Students are not permitted to share access to or provide course log in information with others. All media content included on the CHCP web site including, but not limited to, video, audio, text, graphics, images, etc., are property of the Apostolic Network of Global Awakening and is protected by U.S. and international copyright laws. Cancellation & Refund Policy You may cancel a Level 1 course through the 1st week of the course term for a refund minus a $100 non-refundable administration fee. Upper level courses will be charged a higher nonrefundable fee. For a Level 2 course you will receive a refund minus $125, Level 3 course, you will receive a refund minus a $150 non-refundable administration fee (per course). For a Level 4 course, a $200 non-refundable fee per course would apply. 3 P a g e
You may also transfer to a later course term through the 1st week of your current enrollment for a $50 (per course) administration fee. Your transferred course tuition will be held for a period of one year starting from the day you originally enrolled into the CHCP program. If you have not contacted Global Awakening to re-enroll in another course within the year time frame, all monies will be forfeited and will not be refunded. Any request to cancel or transfer after the 1st week of the course term will not be honored and all monies paid are non-refundable. 4 P a g e
COURSE SCHEDULE: WEEK 1 Video 1 Mark Virkler How to Hear God s Voice 2 Parts (80min) Christ the Wonderful Counselor Chapter 1: Looking at Jesus Chapter 2: How Jesus Did Inner Healing Chapter 3: Hearing Jesus Transforming the Inner Man - Introduction (4pp) Chapter 1: Sanctification and Transformation (20pp) Chapter 2: Seeing God with an Unbelieving Heart (18pp) Q1 See Below. (due Tuesday by Midnight EST) Q2 3 See Below. (due Thursday by Midnight EST) Q4 5 See Below. (due Sunday by Midnight EST) Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Introduce yourself and tell us where you are from, what you do or your occupation, and what you hope to get out of the course. (Tuesday) After watching the video on how to hear God s voice, share your love letter to God and His response without filtering it. (Thursday) In Chapter 1 of Christ the Wonderful Counselor, Micah Williams describes many ways in which Jesus brought transformation to the disciples as they lived and walked with Him for 3 years. What is one way that Jesus brought transformation to his disciples that you also have experienced in your life. Please describe how you have experienced this. (Thursday) Read Hebrews 3:12. Provide another reference from the Bible that illustrates the importance of our heart being involved in belief. Describe at least one experience showing how you have been involved in ministering healing and restoration to someone s heart. (Sunday) Why is it important for Christians to continue the process of sanctification and transformation (inner healing) instead of depending solely upon an instant experience of conversion? (Sunday) WEEK 2 Video 2 Micah Williams: Being vs. Doing 5 P a g e
Video 3 - Ready, Set, GREW video (56min) by Steve Griebling on SweetenLifeSystemswebsite (http://sweetenlife.com/readysetgrew.aspx) or Vimeo Channel (http://vimeo.com/19524815) Recommended Optional Video - The Power of Empathy (3min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1evwgu369jw&feature=youtu.be Transforming the Inner Man - Chapter 3: Performance Orientation (30pp) Q6-7 See Below. (due Thursday by Midnight ET) Q8 9 See Below. (due Sunday by Midnight ET) Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Define performance orientation. Offer three reasons why it is so difficult to give up performance orientation. Explain. (Thursday) What were the two most helpful insights you had from the video by Micah Williams? (Thursday) What were the three most helpful insights you gained from the Ready, Set, GREW video? Explain why they were helpful to you. (Sunday) Set aside time to sit with God and do two-way journaling in faith with this question - "God, how do you see me?" Share the response you hear from God without filtering it. (Sunday) WEEK 3 Video 4 - Randy Clark Intro to inner healing Christ the Wonderful Counselor Chapter 4: Jesus Words Chapter 5: Jesus Example Experiencing Father s Embrace Chapter 1: My Encounter with Father s Embrace (16pp) Chapter 2: You Were Created for Love (18pp) Q10 11 See Below. (due Thursday by Midnight EST) Q12 13 See Below. (due Sunday by Midnight EST) Q10 What were the three most helpful insights you gained from Randy Clark s video? Explain why they were helpful to you. (Thursday) 6 P a g e
Q11 Q12 Q13 From the chapters Jesus Words and Jesus Example, which of the ways that Jesus used words or was an example resonated the most with you that you desire to walk in? Present it to the Lord, and ask Him how you can begin to make it part of your life even more. Share your interaction with Him here unfiltered. (Thursday) In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve traded a perfect, unhindered intimacy with one another and hid behind shame and fear. Describe a fear that you have overcome in order to have greater intimacy with your heavenly Father. (Sunday) Listen to a friend for at least 15 minutes without offering any commentary, answers or great insights. You do not have to be completely silent, but simply encourage them to keep talking, if necessary. How did you feel as you listened quietly? What was your body language? (Sunday) WEEK 4 Video 5 Micah Joy Williams teaching on Belief & Unbelief Christ the Wonderful Counselor - Chapter 6: Belief Chapter 7: How Does Belief Arise? Chapter 8: Recognizing Unbelief Chapter 9: Activating Belief Experiencing Father s Embrace Chapter 3: You are Father God s Happy Thought (19pp) Afterword: Father s Love Letter (p. 241) (4pp) Q14-16 See Below. (due Thursday by Midnight EST) Q17-18 See Below. (due Sunday by Midnight EST) Q14 Q15 Q16 Q17 What were the three most helpful insights you gained from Micah Joy Williams video? Explain why they were helpful to you. (Thursday) In Christ the Wonderful Counselor, Micah discusses Belief and Unbelief in chapters 6-8. Which is the most significant way that she describes [anointed teaching, miracles, etc.] that caused belief to rise-up in you regarding truth about who God is, or how He sees you, or some other paradigm? Explain the process and who was involved. (Thursday) What symptoms of unbelief, as described in Ch 8 of Christ the Wonderful Counselor, do you recognize in the culture around you [instead of us, since some of our students are not in American culture] Share personal examples of yourself or others about which you have first-hand information. (Thursday) Slowly read Father s Happy Thoughts (pp. 64-70 bullet points) out loud in a room by yourself. Choose 3 statements that resonate the strongest with you. Explain. (Sunday) 7 P a g e
Q18 Slowly read Father s Happy Thoughts (pp. 64-70 bullet points) out loud in a room by yourself. List three statements that are the most difficult for your heart to believe. Choose one to do two-way journaling about. Using either the verse or the bullet point, ask God why that is difficult for your heart to believe. Share His response below without filtering it. (Sunday) *Note you will be paired up with another classmate, and specifically respond to their post on this assignment in Q19 for Week 5. (Sunday) WEEK 5 Video 6 Micah Williams: Promises and Waiting (Unbroken conference 2017) Christ the Wonderful Counselor - Chapter 10: Stewarding Emotions Chapter 11: Identity in Christ Chapter 12: How Inner Healing Affects Physical Healing Experiencing Father s Embrace Chapter 4: The Prodigal Father (17pp) Chapter 5: The Older Brother Syndrome (15pp) Q19-21 See Below. (due Thursday by Midnight EST) Q22-23 See Below. (due Sunday by Midnight EST) Q19 Q20 Q21 Q22 Q23 You will be assigned by the instructor to another classmate for this question. Read that classmate s response to Q18 of Week 4. Copy their original text and post it in this discussion entry. Make sure to put your partners name in the subject line. Respond with a minimum of four sentences of encouragement. Tune to Holy Spirit s voice as you write. (Thursday) In your own words describe repentance. Use at least one Scripture to support this description. (Thursday) List three or four lies that people dealing with long-term illness could believe about themselves or about God. Choose one and write out a non-cliché response, expressing truth about who God is or how God sees them that you would express verbally to them. (Thursday) What were the two most helpful insights you gained from Micah Williams video? Explain why they were helpful to you. (Sunday) After reading the chapters 4 & 5 in Experiencing Father s Embrace take time to sit before the Lord in faith. Do two-way journaling about Eph. 3:17 with this question, What do you want to say to me about being rooted and grounded in love? Respond to what He says. Share what you hear as the Lord s response without filtering it, as well as your response to what the Lord says. (Sunday) 8 P a g e
WEEK 6 Video 7 Trisha Frost: How we see Father God 7a-Part 1 Trisha Frost: How we see Father God 7b-Part 2 Trisha Frost: How we see Father God 7c-Part 3 Transforming the Inner Man - Chapter 8: Bitter-Root Judgment and Expectancy (34pp) Experiencing Father s Embrace Chapter 6: Dealing with Father Issues (16pp) Chapter 7: Dealing with Mother Issues (18pp) Q24-25 See Below. (due Thursday by Midnight EST) Q26-27 See Below. (due Sunday by Midnight EST) Q24 Q25 Q26 WEEK 7 In the chapter on fathers, there are six types of fathers listed. Which one (or combination) best describe your earthly father? How has that influenced your expectations of Father God? What benefits did you gain from your father, despite the type that he was? (Thursday) Describe an experience you have had with the storge love of God. (Thursday) For your two-way journaling assignment this week, ask the Lord if there are any negative patterns in your life that are similar to patterns in your mother/father s lives. Bring those negative patterns to the Lord, ask if there were any judgments that you made against your parent(s), and repent of those. Ask Holy Spirit to lead you into truth regarding those patterns. Write about your experience, especially how you respond to what He says. (Sunday) Q27 Read John Chapter 14: 1-31. How does Jesus describe our relationship with Father God and Holy Spirit? Give three specific examples from this Scripture reading to support your answer for each relationship, and explain in approximately 300-500 words. (Sunday) Video 8 Katie Luse: Compassion (Unbroken 2017) Experiencing Father s Embrace Chapter 8: Would You Rather be Right or Have Relationship? (18pp) Chapter 9: Walking in the Light (20pp) Chapter 10: Abiding in Love (16pp) 9 P a g e
Q28 30 See Below. (due Thursday by Midnight EST) Q31 32 See Below. (due Sunday by Midnight EST) Q28 Look at the breakdown of Law vs. Grace on p. 147 of Experiencing Father s Embrace. Ask Holy Spirit to show you which column you tend to live from in your closest relationships. In that revelation, ask the Lord to show you how you can become love even more in your closest relationships. Write which column and what He shows you in response. (Thursday) We have a very important assignment for you this week! This exercise requires you to practice Genuineness, Respect, Empathy and Warmth. Pray and choose one person you want to affirm and bless. Following is how: Q29 Write a one page, personal letter containing the following: (Thursday) Give specific examples of how they have impacted you personally and positively. Tell them why you are thankful for them. Let them know how you felt then and now about the relationship with you. Write it in a clear and understandable manner. Make an appointment with the person. Take the letter to that person and read it to them. Give the letter to the person. (Optional Suggestions to make it more special: Print it out in a colored paper/parchment paper, use a fancy script font, put it in a frame or have it laminated.) After you complete the interaction, take at least an hour and reflect on the entire experience and answer the following: Q30 Q31 Q32 What three insights did you gain from the video by Katie Luse? Describe why they were helpful to you. (Thursday) (Sunday) 1) How did you feel and what were your thoughts as you: a) Wrote the letter? b) You read the letter to the person? c) After you gave him/her the letter? 2) How did this experience impact your friend? a) Did they react as you expected? b) Explain. In the chapter Abiding in Love there are descriptions of excuses for sin. Imagine that 3 people told you those excuses. Please write what you would say to each person in a response that is non-condemning and yet truthful. Please include at least one biblical reference or concept in each response, even if it is simply to paraphrase it, but noting the reference in your response. (Sunday) Note: Imagine that 3 people told you those excuses. Please write what you would say to each person in a response that is non-condemning and yet truthful. Please include at 10 P a g e
least one biblical reference or concept in each response, even if it is simply to paraphrase it, but noting the reference in your response. WEEK 8 Video 9 Trisha Frost: Father Loves You Video 10 Father s Love Letter: http://fathersloveletter.com/video.html Audio Christy Nockels: Be Loved Worship Song Experiencing Father s Embrace Chapter 11: Walking in the Spirit (16pp) Chapter 12: Restoring the Heart of the Family (20pp) Afterword: Father s Love Letter (p. 241) (4pp) Q33-34 See Below. (due Thursday by Midnight EST) Q35-36 See Below. (due Sunday by Midnight EST) Evaluation See Below. (due Sunday by Midnight EST) Q33 In the chapter on Walking in the Spirit, there are three suggestions given to position your heart to walk in God s rest. Name an area in your life where you are feeling stuck, weary or defeated. Using some things that the Bible says regarding that, let your heart agree with that truth in this way, Father, I thank you that is true in my life. You made me to be. Because of what Jesus death/resurrection accomplished I have., etc. Write out your prayer of affirmation. (Thursday) Q34 Slowly read Father s Love Letter out loud in a room by yourself (found on p. 241 in Experiencing Father s Embrace) or watch the video version. With this as inspiration, write your response to the Lord. It could be a restating of some of these statements, from your point of view, thanking Him that they are true, or some other format. (Thursday) Q35 Q36 Ask the Lord what action steps you can take to foster intimacy in a deeper way in your closest relationships. Share which specific relationships you are referring to and the Lord s response here without filtering it. (Sunday) (Sunday) 1. In what area of your life did you experience the most transformation through this course? 2. What topic/concept from the course was the most impacting to you? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Course Evaluation Please complete the online course survey located in week 8 of the online course information. 11 P a g e
Students are required to complete this brief online evaluation survey to receive their grade for the course. 12 P a g e