I have a confession to make to you.
Sarah and I have gone to bed quite a few times with issues between us.
But, Ephesians 4:26-27 (CSB) says,
26 Be angry and do not sin. Don’t let the sun go down on your anger, 27 and don’t give the devil an opportunity.
I used to hear this taught that you need to settle things with people right away. You don’t want to go to sleep having an unsettled disagreement because the devil will cause a divide. I remember how overwhelming that felt. I thought it was just because I wasn’t good with conflict but it was exhausting just thinking about the idea.
After reviewing and studying students’ testimonies for the past couple of years in an effort to more precisely define what Shiloh Place does, we realized we don’t just bring healing to hearts; we strengthen families and teams through healing hearts.
The orphan is unable to feel accepted in a family or group. Family is the source of pain and rejection for so many people, so when we target allowing God to heal these areas, we strengthen the fabric of families and teams.
“I felt like the wall that surrounded my heart came down and I’m able to feel and process my pain better. I don’t feel as numb and disconnected. I also feel healed from some mother and father wounds as well as some symptoms of PTSD from traumatic events in my life.” - Raquel - Oct. 2019 Power of Father’s Love Encounter Raquel is at a new beginning in her life. She later told us attending the September Heart of Sonship Encounter saved her marriage and possibly her husband’s life. Her husband’s testimony is quite dramatic. He was set free from deep trauma. When he left the Encounter, he was beaming. He said he really didn’t expect much, but he came because a mutual friend recommended it. The message and ministry impacted them so much that they attended the Power of Father’s Love event in Burlington, NC two weeks later. The fact that they traveled from their home in New England to South Carolina, and two weeks later back to North Carolina with a five-month-old in tow speaks powerfully about how God met them! This is a true testament of willingness to go to any length for healing and connection with God. Whether by sharing your own experience of healing, giving a Shiloh Place book as a gift, making a recommendation to attend an Encounter, through prayer or financial support, many of you reading this make stories like Raquel’s and countless others possible. God’s goodness doesn’t end there! Here are more of those stories of God bringing wholeness this Fall: “Shiloh Place Encounters have been a safe harbor for me. I have cried, I’ve been hugged and allowed just to be sad. Because of that, I have been able to receive healing not only for my recent losses (deep family division), but for hidden strongholds that were keeping me from experiencing Father’s Love.” - Beth ( Heart of Sonship 2018 & Power of Father’s Love 2019) “I had a revelation of how much pain was connected with my childhood sexual abuse and the lies I believe about life/love/God as a result. I see how I have caused pain in those I love as a result of my pain. I am beginning the walk to allow God’s healing as the roots of my pain are exposed.” - Rod (Sonship 2018 & Power of Father’s Love 2019) “When I came I did not know I had an orphan heart. I did not really know how that heart had been developed. All my life I had been focusing on the symptoms and not the cause. Thank you Jesus!!! I can finally see my enemy. Thank you so much!” - Luis (Sonship 2019) “Before I came, I was grasping at straws and without hope. I feel now I have dealt with parental issues and past trauma. I have let go of so much anger, unforgiveness and bitterness. I think now I am able to place my offenders at the foot of the cross. I know it will be a process to completely step into my identity as a daughter and leave the orphan thinking but I am encouraged and excited because I now have hope that I will totally be healed. I am not forever broken. God bless you Shiloh Place.” - Jennie (2019 Sonship) These are the stories that people shared on evaluation forms and gave us permission to share, and there are so many more stories we have the privilege of hearing every time we minister. It is an honor and a privilege to be a part of God’s work in these people’s lives. We often see God change the future of family trees before our eyes. Recently, a son and daughter-in-law attended an Encounter because they saw their mother come to life after she attended a couple of Shiloh Place events. In a matter of months, she was a different, life-giving person because of what God did in her life. And guess what? The son and daughter-in-law had breakthrough as well. Although they were skeptical at first, they left with huge smiles on their faces. This is what your support does. We thank you for considering Shiloh Place Ministries on Giving Tuesday (#givingtuesday), December 3rd, and for your end-of-year giving. We are grateful for all of the people who stepped up and helped us last Fall after the flooding. Things seemed so uncertain, but because you and others like yourselves rallied around us, the future is bright and lives are being changed as the power of Father’s Love meets them in their need! I (Doug) am presently in Medellin, Antioquia in Colombia, South America doing a Father’s Love Conference with our friends Robert and Cyndi Hartzell. We were brought in by Tom and Jenn Atwater of 911 Life Ministries . The Atwaters wanted to introduce the message to local pastors. So far, the reports are amazing. The message has deeply impacted a few key pastors who are at the event, and I will share more on that in the coming weeks.
What do we do when leaders wreak havoc amongst the people they should be leading and shepherding? It’s a sensitive subject and has become a hot topic that seems to be happening more often.
To be clear, we are not talking about someone who has ended up in an affair because they have unaddressed pain. That is tragic. We are talking about abusive behavior that seems almost crazy to be occurring anywhere, much less the church.
People wonder, “Why do I still have trouble getting healing when I know so much? I have read this book and gone to that seminar. I can tell you how my issues started.”
How much you know might be the problem. We see it all the time. People come to our events and they nod their heads in agreement because, well, they “know” that...
*Disclaimer: This is not a woe is me post. Enjoy! A Word “You have been called to full-time ministry and I believe you know that. He (God) wants to confirm that because the enemy is going to challenge you at some point about it. When that time comes, remember that God has spoken it and [...]
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Matthew 4:1-3 1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 2 And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. 3 And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of [...]
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With having finished up our winter/spring events we thought it would be a good time to share what people who attended those events have experienced. We have begun taking our Encounters on the road and the results have been incredible. These Encounters are shorter than the ones we hold here in Myrtle Beach by a [...]
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