Chester Kylstra - Biblical Healing and Deliverance: A Guide to Experiencing Freedom from Sins of the Past, Destructive Beliefs, Emotional and Spiritual

2003, 2005 by Chester and Betsy Kylstra

Published by Chosen Books

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Originally published under the title An Integrated Approach to Biblical Healing Ministry by Sovereign World Limited of Tonbridge, Kent, England

Ebook edition created 2014

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Contents

Index of Figures

Index of Tables

Acknowledgments

Very little that is worthwhile has ever been done totally solo. The people who have given love, inspiration, and physical and financial help are usually not in front of the camera helping to collect the prize but are off to the side cheering or praising the Lord in their hearts. We had much support as we wrote and produced the first and second editions of our earlier book Restoring the Foundations . It has been the same as we prepared Biblical Healing and Deliverance for release.

Chris and Jan Mungeam of Sovereign World have been major encouragers. We are pleased to join our vision with theirs to take Christian books into third-world nations. Tim Pettingale has provided steady support and wise counsel as the book moved through the publishing process.

We also want to acknowledge the dedicated and committed friends and colaborers of the Healing House Network. Together we are taking the message and actuality of Gods healing to the world. Thanks for traveling with us.

We are also grateful to our office staff, including Susan Hedman and Jeannie Mack, for keeping the home fires burning while we are traveling and hiding out writing books.

We again want to acknowledge and bless all of the pastors, churches and network leaders that are helping us spread the Restoring the Foundations integrated approach to biblical healing ministry message and ministry.

We are grateful to Bishop Bill Hamon and Christian International Ministries for their continuing love and support, and for providing a home base for us even as we travel.

The Christian International Family Church intercessory team assigned to us as we travel internationally has helped keep the enemy at bay and the details covered. Thank you very much.

Without your help, we could not have brought this effort to completion.

Foreword

The ministry brought forth through Biblical Healing and Deliverance helps individuals return to their true foundations: the foundations of their soul, mind and spirit. As they go through ministry for the four problem areas, they receive enlightenment, healing, deliverance and restoration. My wife and I were greatly blessed by going through this ministry. These truths and ministries were such a blessing and so restorational that I requested that all of my Christian International Board of Governors receive the ministry. We also challenged all 500 ministers in the Christian International Ministries Network to go through the restoration process and then establish it in their church as an ongoing ministry.

The truths presented in this book are not theories but proven, divine biblical principles and practices that bring transformation and restoration. During the 49 years of my ministry, I have been exposed to almost every ministry available in the Body of Christ. I can truly say that Biblical Healing and Deliverance expresses the most balanced and workable ministry in this area that I have ever witnessed or experienced. This book and its application in the ministry the Kylstras have developed are being used by the Holy Spirit to take the spots and wrinkles out of Christs Church.

I have worked with Chester and Betsy Kylstra for many years. Their 10 Ms are in proper order in their personal lives. The evidence of the fruit of their ministry can be seen in the hundreds of transformed Christian lives, the many rescued marriages and restored ministers. We thank you and bless you, Chester and Betsy, for your commitment to God to bring such truths of ministry to Christs corporate Church.

Dr. Bill Hamon,
founder and president,
Christian International Ministries Network

Preface

We are pleased and excited to release Biblical Healing and Deliverance . It represents the continuation of a strong directive from the Lord to spread the word of the revelation of the power and effectiveness of the Restoring the Foundations ministry to as many in the Body of Christ as possible. The time is short, and He is coming back for a Bride without spot or wrinkle.

This book represents another very important step in spreading the word. It is a new venture in expressing the Restoring the Foundations (RTF) ministry. The first and second editions of Restoring the Foundations , released in 1996 and 2000, were the initial phases. They are published by Restoring the Foundations Publishing. But now Sovereign World wants to take the revelation of Biblical Healing and Deliverance worldwide. This book has been written to be a suitable vehicle for this mission. Our zeal to share the revelation in this book with the entire Body of Christ has increased with this opportunity. It is with much excitement that we anticipate seeing it translated into other languages.

This book represents many years of our personal healing and training by the Holy Spirit. Even as He was healing us from our own hurts and bondages, He was training us to minister to and train others. Restoring the Foundations integrated approach to biblical healing ministry expresses this very effective approach to ministry.

God has given us a revelation of His intense desire to see His people healed, delivered and set free. This desire is so great that He took a professional secular counselor/teacher (Betsy) and a professional aerospace, software engineer/teacher (Chester), and gradually developed a healing/deliverance ministry team responsive to His Holy Spirit. He has given us a desire to share this knowledge through Restoring the Foundations ministry by training, equipping and activating others. This book is one of the vehicles to be used for sharing these basic understandings, with biblical support for the concepts and principles.

This book covers the basic, foundational, restorational tasks that need to be accomplished in every saints life as God the Holy Spirit does His work of sanctification. This foundational ministry provides a good base upon which other, more specific kinds of ministry, discipleship and equipping can be built.

We think of this process as Restoring the Foundations ministry. It is an integrated approach to biblical healing ministry that deals with the four foundational problem areas of: