Book Cover Photo Credit: “The Immanuel Approach: For Emotional Healing and for Life” by Karl Lehman
The Immanuel Approach to Healing and Prayer
www.AliveWell.org- A comprehensive training in the Immanuel Prayer Approach
facetofaceministries.org - On site training weekends in Immanuel Prayer Approach
The Immanuel Approach to healing trauma and prayer ministry was developed by Dr. Karl Lehman at the website referenced. On this website he describes his approach in detail and includes many aspects of his book entitled “The Immanuel Approach” which is a 700 page book outlined in chapters describing in detail how to pray with someone using this approach in just about any situation. Below is a brief description of what the Immanuel approach is and an excerpt from Karl found on his website. Feel free to visit his website yourself and explore the rich content. Karl was integral in training our training and learning how to pray with people using the Immanuel Approach. I (Denice) currently use the Immanuel Approach to help people heal trauma in my psychotherapy practice with amazing results (www.TLCCounseling.com)
“Immanuel means “God with us.” This promise is the foundation of a growing movement of lay ministers and professionals who are using the Immanuel approach to deepen intimacy with God, discern God’s ongoing guidance, and resolve past pain. This method is based on current brain science interpreted through Scripture and proven by repeated applications over the last fourteen years. The Immanuel approach has been developed by Dr Lehman and Dr. E. James Wilder working together in close collaboration, and Dr. Lehman remains one of the foremost experts regarding this new, exciting approach to life and emotional healing.
“As described in Chapter 3, I started my journey with the Immanuel Approach believing that the primary objective was to heal psychological trauma in order to relieve suffering. As also described in Chapter 3, Jesus told one of my clients, “I love my children, and I am glad to free them from suffering; but the primary, most important purpose of all this emotional healing stuff is to remove the blockages that are between your heart and me. The primary, most important purpose of emotional healing is to remove the blockages that hinder your heart from coming to me.”
When my client reported these words from Jesus, both she and I immediately realized, “Wow! This is huge – this is foundational!” And that’s how the whole “Intimacy with Jesus is the number one priority” component of the Immanuel Approach got started. As I have continued to ponder these words from the Lord, I have realized that this intimacy-priority component of the Immanuel Approach applies to more than just the ways in which emotional healing removes blockages that hinder our hearts from coming to Jesus. As will be discussed in more detail below, there are many components of the Immanuel Approach that inherently prioritize our connection and intimacy with God.”
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Life Model Works is the parent company started by Jim Wilder that posts much of the materials backed by scripture and brain science that have been honed into daily tools that can be brought into every day life. All kinds of relationships will benefit including with God, within our marriages, within ourselves to help us fortify and build the relational brain that God has given us. Through our growing up years we may have missed important developmental milestones that left relational wounds needing repair. In addition, we all face crisis in our lives as adults that can hurt us and cause us to go into fight or flight mode, rather than relational mode, that remain hidden and subconscious. Through these simple tools our brain can find it’s way back to peace, balance and harmony. Some of the material is available for free, and with others you may need a monthly subscription, but it is well worth it for the value it holds.
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