ABOUT FREEDOM PRAYER
Freedom Prayer is a personal prayer ministry focused on recognizing and resolving issues that affect the ability to grow in closer relationship with God. Through guided prayer time with members of the Freedom Prayer team, we help build a biblical framework of prayer to identify and break strongholds, bring healing and freedom, and provide tools for greater connection with God.
The focus of Freedom Prayer is to know God better (Ephesians 1:17) as He guides us in truth together (John 16:13). Each prayer session with an individual will always include three trained Freedom Prayer team members to guide the prayer and processing experience.
RECEIVE PRAYER
To schedule a prayer time, please fill out a request form. You will receive an automated response with available dates/times to schedule your session. To learn more about Freedom Prayer, you can read through our FAQs. If you have any questions about requesting a prayer time, please email freedomprayer@northway.org.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What is Freedom Prayer?
Freedom Prayer is a personal prayer ministry available at North Way aimed at helping people find deeper connection with God and resolving issues that keep them from an authentic and abiding relationship with Him. Prayer sessions are designed to help individuals consider what emotional or spiritual needs are lacking or blocking their relationship with God. Freedom Prayer aims to help each individual move past these places, develop a deeper prayer life, and experience a stronger connection with God.
How does scripture apply to and work with Freedom Prayer?
We believe the Bible contains all the truth we need to find healing and restoration in Christ. Explore the biblical framework for Freedom Prayer below.
What does a prayer time "look" like?
During a prayer time, you will meet with 2-3 prayer team members. One team member will primarily lead the prayer time with help from the other two members. This team will have been praying on your behalf prior to your scheduled prayer time and during the actual prayer time as well. It’s important to note that this is not a counseling session or a time of conversation with the team. Rather, it is a time of prayer where we trust the Holy Spirit to lead through applicable areas such as forgiveness, repentance, identifying and removing lies and/or ungodly beliefs, confession of sin, and receiving God’s truth and His heart towards you. There will also be a time of blessing during the prayer session. Both you and the team will be active participants in the prayer time as we seek the Lord’s heart together.
Are there qualifications to receive a prayer time?
While there are no specific qualifications necessary, Freedom Prayer is most effective when the individual is truly open and honest. We hope an individual seeking Freedom Prayer has a desire to be free and is willing to be fully transparent and willing to submit to God’s word. It is ideal if the person is a Christian, and if applicable, willing to be open about the places that are hidden from others. The individual should desire freedom, not just relief.
Is my prayer time confidential?
Yes, everything that is said and done is held in the strictest of confidentiality. However, the information, as needed, may be shared with other leaders in the prayer team if necessary for future scheduled prayer times.
Furthermore, if there appears to be personal danger to you or to someone else that is discussed during the prayer time, the prayer team may need to share information for your safety or the safety of others.
What kind of follow up occurs after my prayer time?
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It is our goal that everyone who receives prayer is in a discipleship relationship and walking in close community. At North Way, this ideally means that you are in a small group and in close relationship with people that can continue to walk with you in growing freedom and accountability. While prayer sessions can be powerful times of personal ministry, continued freedom requires the help of other believers. Our goal is to help you establish those relationships if you do not have them.
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A Freedom Prayer session is not a one and done type of thing. You are welcome to schedule another prayer time to continue walking in freedom — whether it's for the same subject you addressed in your first prayer time or something completely different. We believe seeking the Lord, removing those barriers, and pursuing our spiritual freedom is a lifestyle, not a one-time event.
Can I sign up for a prayer time if I am not part of North Way Christian Community?
Prayer is open to anyone who desires to meet for prayer whether you attend North Way or not. However, our goal is that everyone who comes to pray will be a part of true Christian community.
Can I sign up a friend or family member for a prayer time?
We request that if you recommend prayer, please direct that person to our website so they can explore what the process entails. It is important that the person coming for prayer understands what they are signing up for and takes responsibility for the decision to come and pray.
What if I am under the care of a psychiatrist, psychologist or counselor?
We recommend that you consult with the person(s) whom you are under the care of and get their feedback before scheduling a prayer time. While it is likely that a prayer time will only enhance your progress towards freedom, we respect and partner with practitioners and would advise that they are aware of areas covered in the prayer time. While we are a prayer ministry, we are not trained or authorized in licensed counseling or medical practice. We recommend that you continue in whatever treatment you are currently receiving and consult your doctor about your therapy and/or medications.
Who is leading the prayer time?
Prayer times are led by trained volunteers who have completed an in-depth training over several months that is followed by an apprentice period. Because of the variety and depth of hurts that are encountered, members are trained in confidentiality and in which circumstances professional or legal authorities should be consulted. Team members have also sat in your seat — each having sought their own freedom in prayer times led by a team.
SCRIPTURE FOUNDATIONS FOR FREEDOM PRAYER
At North Way, we believe that there is a strong and compelling scriptural basis for why and how we conduct Freedom Prayer. Although the terms “Freedom Prayer” or “inner healing” are not found in scripture, the concept is throughout the Bible. We are instructed to work with God in developing followers of Christ to help heal broken people, bear burdens, confess and forgive, repent, and much more. Here are some of the many scriptures that point to our path to freedom and how to help others in this process.
Freedom
“For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.” Galatians 5:1
Waiting on the Lord
“Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him…” Psalm 37:7; “Be still and know that I am God.” Psalm 46:10
Praying together
“Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.” Matthew 18:19-20
Asking for greater understanding of God and His ways
“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.” Jeremiah 29:11-13
“That according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.” Ephesians 3:16-19
Confessing and turning away from sin
“Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.” James 5:16
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” 1 John 1:9
Giving up unforgiveness and judgement against another
“Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven; give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.” Luke 6:37-38
Asking God to show us strongholds and lies we believe so we can walk in the light
“For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ.” 2 Corinthians 10:3-5
“But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.” 1 John 1:7
Better understanding of our access to God, the Father
Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God,” Hebrews 10:19-21
“But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, ‘Abba! Father!’ So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.” Galatians 4:4-7
Looking to the Lord to heal our hurts and wounds
“The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.” Psalm 34:18; “He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.” Psalm 147:3