Led by the Holy Spirit, we aim to provide Christian based counseling to Thais who are struggling with depression, addiction, abuses and other hindrances keeping them from walking in complete freedom. The counselors will be trained to tell the counselees what God has said about the situations. Basically, the counselors will be trained to listen with love and kindness, to present the word of God, to pray with them so that the Holy Spirit will answer their prayers. Ultimately, they are trained to introduce the Thais who come for counseling the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior.
We do realize that not every problem is a spiritual problem, but the ultimate problem is. Without Jesus, man cannot expect to find real solution to be restored to God. Therefore, we will present Christ as the answer for their problems. When they accept Christ, they will experience new life, forgiveness, freedom from guilt and fear. To become Christians does not mean that one will live life problems free but they would realize that they will not face their life alone but with the Holy Spirit who will give him the new perspective to face with their problems and overcome them God’s way.(1)
We will depend on the gift of the Holy Spirit in counseling. We pray more and more for gifts of discernment, the word of wisdom and the word of knowledge. Apparently, the Holy Spirit has been with us counseling them through us.
I believe that the Holy Spirit has given me the spiritual gifts to make disciples through counseling for conversion. When I counsel with them, the Holy Spirit always let me know what to say and how to say it. Through one–on-one counseling for conversion, I have won more than 100 people to Christ. I usually start by providing them with
counseling for their problems and then pray to ask Jesus to answer their prayers. The Holy Spirit is working with me by confirming the gospel with a number of miracles: the girls were healed of cancer in the blood, my father was healed from stroke, the girl was delivered from demon possessed, one woman was delivered from pain of guilt, three women were healed from broken hearted instantly, a young boy was healed in the forest instantly, one young man was healed from eye decease instantly and did not have to have the operation on the next day, one lady was healed of last staged lymphoma, the girls received full scholarships to study abroad and many have experienced what are impossible possible for them and etc. Most of the prayers were answered and most of them come back to me to accept the Lord as their Savior. Not only the spiritual gifts: gift of healing the sick and the broken hearted, the gift of evangelism, but the fact that the Holy Spirit is always with me inspire me greatly to go back to do this mission in Thailand.
“Not by might, nor by power, but by the Holy Spirit.” Zechariah 4:6
(1)Charles G. Ward. The Billy Graham Christian Worker’s Handbook.
