"Inner healing," a wide open door with a welcome mat.

If Christian psychology has anything of any value to offer the Christian, then the church was without it for 1900 years and the Holy Spirit somehow left out of the Bible things that we need to have to deal with our problems today."

"Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.  So, it is no surprise if his servants {demons}, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness.  Their end will correspond to their deeds."  2 Corinthians 11:14-15

Today in many churches, experience supersedes sound doctrine, to the point that bizarre and unbiblical practices are accepted as "spiritual." 

"It is absolutely necessary to allow the Bible to judge every experience.  If there is not clear biblical teaching in the Bible to support a practice, it should not be adopted by the church today, regardless of how beautiful and seemingly miraculous the experiences are that it produces."

A very well known and popular church in the states has made a stand that "whatever transpires in their midst it is from God." That is why laughing in the spirit, barking like a dog, convulsions of power and electric shock transformations are taking place without a question of doubt.   How is it that the church has gotten so far away from the authority of God's Word and replaced it with bizarre and unbiblical experiences?  Because,

"the Spirit expressly says that in later times {that is today} some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves {and their church} to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons."  1 Timothy 4:1

"Satan’s basic strategy for the seduction and destruction of mankind. His deception began by questioning God’s Word, and offering tempting alternatives. Eve responded by believing Satan, rejecting God’s Word, and turning to her own self-interests. The enticements were so desirable to the flesh, including immortality, enlightenment, godhood, and knowledge (Genesis), that she eagerly embraced the lie." The Berean Call

One such seduction, that has made its way into the church and thus the homes of believers,  is known as inner healing.

"Agnes Sanford’s book The Healing Gifts of the Spirit (1966) was foundational to this movement {inner healing}. She taught that the recovery of hidden memories of past events hold the key to emotional suffering and psychological problems in the present."

Sanford was born in China as the child of missionaries.  Described as a one who "swam against the flow," Sanford began dabbling in Thao {the force} at a young age.  She believed that, "God is a life force in everyone, and you can do this with your mind, you can project this force to others."

She also wrote, in her book The Healing Light, quoting Ephesians 5:8, "walk as children of light," meant to, "live as if you are made of a living light, moving energy like that."

Although this woman, and her modern day followers, John and Paula Sandford,  claim to be Christian, their teachings as well as their practices lean closer to the occult, new age religion, scorcery and Jungian psychology than biblical Christianity.

For example, the Sandford's teach to, “Follow the soul of Your child all the way back to the hour of birth and heal the soul even of pain and the fear of being born into this darksome world. ... And if even before birth the soul was shadowed by this human life and was darkened by the fears or sorrows of the human parents, then I pray that even those memories or impressions may be healed, so that this one may be restored to Your original pattern, the soul as free and as clean as though nothing had ever dimmed its shining” (The Healing Gifts, pp. 122, 123). "

There is no where in the Word of God where we are commanded or taught to "look to our inner child" or "past hurts" for healing.  Rather, scripture after scripture speaks of new life in Christ,  freedom from our old life by way of accepting the the death of Jesus Christ and forgetting what lies behind and setting our minds on what is ahead--the upward call of God in Jesus Christ.

"The Bible offers no example of prophet, priest, or apostle dealing with anything vaguely related to buried or repressed emotional memories.  If this were the great truth that inner healing practitioners insist it is, then surely the Bible would have both teaching and example to offer."  Dave Hunt

"Sanford taught that the individual should ask Jesus to go back through all of the stages of his or her life and heal everything, even to birth and beyond.

Of course there is not a hint of such a thing in Scripture. It has no biblical authority whatsoever. “The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law” (Deut. 29:29).

As with all cults, parts of scripture are often used to back up their "theology" as in inner healing, but it is almost always misquoted and misinterpreted. And in the midst of it, the enemy has accomplished what he set out to do, what he does best, "kill, steal and destroy."

Through the practice of recovered memories countless lives have been ruined, families torn apart, fathers and mothers and grandparents and other family members wrongly condemned. Some have been gone to prison on the basis of “recovered memories” that have turned out to be completely bogus. Some victims of “recovered memory” delusions have committed suicide." The Berean Call

Inner healing is a wide open door to evil influences that will surely do more harm than good to the minds of children who are placed under its demonic authority.  

I plead with you, please do not sacrifice your children's minds "to the fire."

"God does have mercy to protect Christians from occultic involvements who have out of ignorance used shamanistic techniques {such as inner healing}.  One would not expect, however, that God would honor occult methodologies by manifesting Himself to those using them."  Dave Hunt

Please do not take my word for it, visit this very insightful website--{http://www.inplainsite.org/html/inner_healing.html}

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Once again, I would like to share from personal experience--which lines up with scripture {always a must for the sake of verification}.

When I was in high school I came under the bondage of "perfection, exercise and food."  Modern day psychologists call it the disorder of anorexia {a lie from hell}. At a loss, due to the fact that I was trying to slowly kill myself {which I was nearly successful at accomplishing} my parents placed me into an in-patient psyche ward with an "eating disorder" unit.

I am so glad that I had the Spirit of God protecting me {yes, I was a believer, just one that  allowed the enemy to put the chains back on}.  The first thing the psychologists did was drug me. I was then, day in and day out, subjected to various psychotherapeutic techniques.  I sat under the streams of both individual and group psychotherapy.  At one point, and the reason I am sharing this story, was that I was told to bring my mind back to childhood {through various shamanistic techniques}, where I was pressured to remember s*xual abuse.  None of which I experienced nor took part in--but the "specialists" want answers for your behavior.  Behaviors that only Jesus Christ can reveal, issues of the heart that He alone can minister too, by His Spirit and through His word.

"How did I find healing?" you may ask.  To be honest, it was a long season of bondage {4-5 years}.  But one day, I was out walking and the Lord spoke as loud and clear as if we were walking side by side, He said, "Summer, you are living in blatant sin against Me."  For reasons unknown to me, but more than likely due to a hardened heart, this was the first time I heard the Lord say this.  And from the moment on I was set free.  My mind was no longer consumed with lies from the enemy, allowing the sweet Word to wash over me.