NBCF believes that God wants us to be free. Free from bondage to sin, free to worship Him without condemnation, and free to operate in THE BLESSING.
Many times in our lives, situations and past hurts cause us not to be free. Sin, unforgiveness, and the like cause us to withdraw from God and from His people.
But God is wonderful. He gives us the Way to be free! Jesus Christ is the Healer! He is the Savior and Healer of the world. No man can heal. It is the Blood (the Cross), the Victory (the Resurrection) and the Authority (the Ascension) through Jesus Christ and His Name that has conquered all sin and forms of death and darkness. And, therefore, “…We are more than conquerors through Him who loved us,” (Romans 8:37) “…Because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world,” (1 John 4:4)
Jesus taught that we were to bring healing to the people of the world, just not physical, but emotional and mental also. And despite what you may have heard, God is not a man that He should lie or a son of man that he should change his mind. This means that when Jesus said He came to set us free, Hem meant it for us today as well.
Isaiah 49:9a NLT – “I will say to the prisoners, ‘Come out in freedom,’ and to those in darkness, ‘Come into the light.’”
Do you want to know more about how we receive freedom at NBCF? Keep Reading.
What Freedom Ministry is Not
Freedom Ministry is not a counseling service or program. Freedom Ministry ministers may not all be licensed counselors or ordained ministers.
Freedom Ministry is made up of anointed ministers who care about the healing ministry of Christ to people and who have made the commitment and taken the time to gain proper instruction and training through the Word of God and the Word-based ministries associated.
Freedom Ministry is about offering Biblical and practical instruction and prayers of agreement using various keys or tools to produce healing in the area needed.
The Departments of Freedom Ministry
NBCF uses materials and methods all founded in God’s Word. We believe in deliverance and inner healing.
Freedom Ministry is made up of 4 major departments, which offers various ways and approaches to healing and wholeness.
- Altar Ministry
- The Inner Healing Department
- The Physical Healing Department
- Discipleship (you can read more about our discipleship program elsewhere on this site.
We believe that Jesus used different ways and methods to minister healing and wholeness and that He would have us minster as He did.
Altar Ministry
The Altar Ministry provides anyone who is in need–whether spiritual, emotional or physical–with ministers who will pray earnest, powerful “Word” prayers for and with them at the altar. James 5:16 NIV says–”The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.” And James 5:16b AMP says–”The earnest[heartfelt, continued]prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available[dynamic in its working].”
The NBCF Altar Ministry is the “first response” to the lost soul in need of the Salvation of Jesus Christ, to those who are seeking the Baptism in the Holy Spirit, and/or those who need the “prayer of agreement.” But, Altar Ministry may also be for those who need of some form of “urgent and immediate” healing and deliverance–in other words, the first response to healing and deliverance.
Inner Healing PRAYER Ministry
Inner healing is best described as healing of emotional wounds. Every person, no matter their background, has experienced some emotional wounding–some much more than others.
Why does a Christian need inner healing? Although Christ has fully accomplished our death on the cross, our flesh refused to accept death–it springs back to life: “See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, and by it many be defiled” (Hebrews 12:15 NAS).
Many Christians have rightly celebrated salvation as a free gift, but have not understood that they are to grow up into it. They have celebrated with Paul that “by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are [being]sanctified”(Hebrews 10:14), not noticing that the second part of that verse is ongoing. They have not understood that sanctification is a process and have not acknowledged with Paul, “Not that I have already obtained it, or have already become perfect, but I press on in order that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus:(Philippians 3:12).
As Christians, we tend to press on in terms of “managing” our behavior rather than renewing our mind and receiving a new heart, which naturally “changes” behavior. Many have tried to forget “what lies behind”(Philippians 3:13) by ignoring the past rather than by letting the Holy Spirit search the innermost parts of the heart in order to allow Jesus to put deeply ingrained attitudes behind us through His cross. They have attempted to put aside the old self with it practices of anger, wrath, malice and slander, as if these were only external expressions, whereas Jesus called the Pharisees (and us) to “clean the INSIDE of the cup”(Matthew 23:36). So, our goal is not to try and forget a hurtful event or trauma, but to receive healing for that event, where the Holy Spirit removes the stinger from it. The when we look back upon a healed wound, we can see it in a different way, because it has been healed and is no longer painful to look back upon.
In NBCF’s Freedom Ministry, there are several ingredients to facilitate the process of sanctification. All ingredients are grounded in Scripture. At their center are these three, which call us to wholeness:
“Confession”: bringing to the light what has been held in secret.
“Repentance”: exercising godly grief based in love for God and for those who have been wounded, resulting in real change.
“Forgiveness”: releasing to God those who have hurt us, as well as asking Him to forgive us for our own sin.
It is by these three facts that we are reconciled to God and to one another. Christ’s work is complete, but God is still at work in our lives. True freedom requires recognizing that many of today’s problems have their roots in our sinful responses to yesterday’s wounds. These problems cannot easily be erased by fleshly efforts of good behavior.
The ministers of Freedom Ministry, therefore assume their humility and come under the grace and authority of Christ being led by His Spirit–Holy Spirit in order that His will be accomplished in all aspects of inner healing.
Some of the Inner Healing tools use by Freedom Ministry are:
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Turning hearts–changing lives. Elijah House Prayer Ministry was founded with the mandate to restore the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers (Malachi 4:5-6). This is being accomplished by recognizing and understanding common problems and patterns of difficulty in our lives, and identifying wounds and roots of bitterness, the applying the elements of healing: confession, repentance and forgiveness.
Some of the topics for Elijah House Prayer Ministry are Bitter Roots; Basic Trust; Forgiveness; Honoring Father and Mother; How We See God; Performance Orientation and more.
Elijah House Prayer Ministry is offered one on one and also in group ministry sessions.
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Thriving is a solution-centered approach to recovery that helps participants develop joyful relationships with God and with others. Thriving : Recover Your Life is an innovative and comprehensive life training program founded and developed by Ed Khouri and Jim Wilder and comprised of 5 different modules that will help you:
- learn skills to engage God in order to grow spiritually
- recover from painful addictions, trauma and attachment pain
- learn to create community and healthy relationships around you
- discover how to experience the presence of God in a way that heals
- experience how God can heal the barriers that we put up in our relationships
One of the most unique and exciting elements of Thriving: Recover Your Life is that it brings people of all levels of maturity together to build a joyful healing community. This is one aspect of our program that you won’t find anywhere else. Participants heal and grow by building joy in the context of secure, healthy relationships with God and others.
Freedom from Demonic Trauma and Oppression
“The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I cam that they may have life, and have it in abundance [to the full, till it overflows],” John 10:10 AMP.
While our spirit is the part of us that becomes “born-again”–our soul (mind, will and emotions) is the part that must be transformed and set free from demons who oppress and torment us.
We have used the term “deliverance” in the past–today we like to use the more user-friendly word, freedom. But deliverance, while it has been misused and misunderstood, simply means “to set free or liberate; to release or save.”
Deliverance is freedom or liberation from the slavery of demonic activity that has entangled us and lives in the strongholds of our lives to where we think and act upon demonic rule, power and manipulation.
This is why Isaiah used specific deliverance phraseology about Jesus Christ/Messiah: “…to open eyes that are blind, to free captives from prison and to release from the dungeon those who sit in darkness,” Isaiah 42:7.
Isaiah 61:1–”The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners,…”
Jesus Himself reiterated His mission of deliverance in Luke 4–”The Spirit of the LORD is on me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed,…”
And, finally the Great Commission recorded in Mark 16 tells us “He said to them, ‘Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well,’” (Mark 16:15-18).
What does NBCF believe deliverance should accomplish?
Deliverance can take place in many ways and forms including inner healing, undoing soul ties, breaking the bonds of rejection, addiction and lust and more–all done in a calm, safe and controlled ministry environment.
To receive deliverance is to receive the freedom of Jesus Christ.
Physical Healing
“…And He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed,” 1 Peter 2:24.
Not every time, but sometimes sickness and disease in our bodies can be linked to sick, hurt, and traumatic spiritual, emotional and mental problems. For instance, unforgiveness is a spiritual problem and sin that, if left unchecked, will cause physical sickness or disease in our bodies. This is one reason the NBCF Freedom Ministry deals with the inner person as well as the outer person. And, at the same time, many physical sicknesses and diseases are linked to generational curses, accidents, traumas, birth malformations, environmental effects and direct demonic attacks upon the human body.
God is not the author of such, otherwise, He would not have sent His only Son to bring us healing.
The ministry of Jesus Christ on earth was “marked” by physical healing and according to 1 Peter 2:24 we “were” healed.
The first phase of receiving physical healing–is knowing and believing [faith] that Jesus Christ has already given us physical healing through His shed blood. Of course this is true in both inner healing and physical healing, but the truth is, some people can have an easier time believing for inner healing, but not physical healing. This is shown even in our basic belief to be saved. Many can believe that Jesus wants them saved and that He desires to heal their hurts–but when it comes to physical healing there can be a big question in their minds.
We believe that physical healing can be a process, but that it can also be instant or come through a creative miracle. Our Mighty God cannot be put into a box or limited in the way He desires to bring forth healing.
The Process
- To ask questions or request a Freedom Ministry application, email: djack@inbcf.com
- We will answer questions, obtain your mailing information, and mail you the application and release form
- Fill out the application and release form
- After the application and release form are received, someone will call you to make the actual appointment with you.
- While we do not charge for this ministry, we do ask that you consider a love offering for the prayer ministers.
NBCF uses materials and methods all founded in God’s Word. We believe in deliverance and inner healing. More information can be found concerning both at The Freedom Resource, Elijah House, and Thriving Recovery. and through resources such as this at Arsenal Bookstore.