Charles H. Kraft - Two Hours to Freedom: A Simple and Effective Model for Healing and Deliverance

Two Hours to
FREEDOM

A Simple and Effective
Model for Healing
and Deliverance

CHARLES H. KRAFT

2010 by Charles H. Kraft

Published by Chosen Books
a division of Baker Publishing Group
P.O. Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287
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Contents

After reading Charles Krafts new book, we believe nearly everyone involved in the ministry of Christian healing prayer would profit by reading it. The very title Two Hours to Freedom reveals that Dr. Kraft is issuing a remarkable challenge. He believes that most Christians who suffer from deep inner and emotional problems can be freed after two hours of prayer using the principles he sets down here.

A psychotherapist by profession, I have seen the great value of Christian counseling but also, by and large, its limits. Counseling helps people with emotional problems to cope, but usually not to be freed, so I have a strong desire to read books like this one to learn about the amazing interior transformations that can come through prayer, which we have called inner healing. Dr. Kraft prefers the term deep-levelhealing. Francis and I hope Christian counselors can all experience adding healing prayers to counseling sessions to bring into reality the emotional and spiritual freedom that our clients long for.

Just this morning we received a letter from a man our ministry prayed for last week:

Words in the English language seem insufficient to express my thanks to you. You may not know of the healing and deliverance I experienced through your loving prayer ministers. I feel somehow lighter in my being. Temptation to sin is still there, but it doesnt have the same hold. Im still processing all that happened: the prayers, deliverance, blessings and anointing I received. I am writing with the utmost gratitude toward God, and sending to you grace, peace, love in the Lord and an abundance of Gods blessings.

Over the years we have prayed for thousands of people suffering from spiritual and emotional wounds, as well as demonic complications, and rejoiced in the healings we have been privileged to witness. But ordinarily, for us, these healings came in stages, over a series of sessions, until total freedom came.

In this remarkable book Dr. Kraft shares a method of prayer that generally takes two hours (though he admits it used to take him longer). This is an extraordinary, positive claim, and Dr. Kraft has the credentials to make it. His teaching comes from a combination of study and the fruits of experience more than 25 years in healing prayer ministry. We know him personally, moreover, as a thoughtful, rational and calm person, not given to hyperbole, and we believe his claim that ordinary Christians can expect deep results in two hours that will usually not require a return appointment.

Most of all, we are glad to see a book to add to the growing evidence that Jesus message of setting the captives free is being recognized more and more in a practical, vital way throughout the Christian world.

We much appreciate Dr. Krafts sharing of what he has learned for example, that most spiritual and emotional wounds come down through the generations. The need for deep-level healing is so manifest in the Christian community that you can almost feel the heaviness that weighs people down who fill the church pews on Sunday morning.

If everyone would read and understand Two Hoursto Freedom, churches and the people in them would be transformed.

Francis and Judith MacNutt
Founders and directors, Christian Healing Ministries
Jacksonville, Florida
www.christianhealingmin.org

I have been involved in the ministry of inner healing since 1983. And I am totally convinced that this ministry is at the top of the list of all the things the Church needs. Jesus came to set captives free (Luke 4:18). He also said that we would carry on His ministry (John 14:12). But for the most part, unfortunately, the American Church has gotten lost in intellectualism and practices little or none of the ministry of freeing captives that Jesus modeled.

Many in the Church have worked under the delusion that simply coming to Christ brings healing. When we come to Christ, we are taught, the old is gone, the new has come (2 Corinthians 5:17). Therefore we do not have to pay attention to the internal stuff that keeps us bound although if that stuff is bad enough there are professional counselors available to help us. What I have learned, however, is that healing is a step beyond salvation for many (probably most) Christians. Salvation is the necessary first step. But beyond it and built upon it is a second step the healing step.

Inner or deep-level healing is a ministry that corrects that problem. It specializes in freeing people from the emotional and spiritual garbage we accumulate as we go through life. It frees people to be what Jesus intended us to be, and it frees the Church to be what it is supposed to be as well. The Church is intended to be a hospital, serving the Kingdom of God by healing people spiritually, emotionally and physically like Jesus did.

Jesus said that when we see healing happening we will know that the Kingdom has come near (Luke 10:9). What if we dont see these things? Does that mean the Kingdom is not near? If so, the Kingdom is not near most of our churches.

As I state in the first chapter, it is as if Gods people are in prisoner-of-war camps. They come into our churches seeking healing, but they are often told to just suck it up and made to feel that they shouldnt need healing once they have given their lives to Jesus. Their problems, however, do not just go away when they pray and try to forget them. So they blame themselves for the fact that they cannot simply give their problems to Jesus, adding another layer of guilt to the other areas in which they need healing.

These people need help. Some of them make their way to secular counselors or to Christian counselors who use similar methods, not having learned to work in prayer power during counseling sessions. Many Christian counselors have been intimidated by the American Psychological Associations rules and fear that they may lose their licenses if they introduce prayer or deal with demons in their practices. Without deliberately bringing the power of Jesus into the counseling relationship, they have only human power to solve superhuman problems. So it seldom works. People get help from those who practice secular counseling but usually not healing.

Some of these persons come to me, get plugged into Jesus power and go away with the newness they were promised when they came to Christ. This is not because I am so good but because Jesus comes to enable me to do things I cannot do. Deep-level healing is Jesus healing. We start with Jesus, we continue with Jesus, we end with Jesus.