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Divinely Designed
Being changed into the image of Jesus
Being changed into the image of Jesus
Testimonies
B. O. Dublin, Ireland
Having struggled with depression, phobia, and
shame, I am now experiencing lasting hope,
freedom and peace in my heart. Through
listening prayer I have experienced His
forgiveness again and again.
Tom McManus, Raleigh, NC
What a pleasure to hear from you. I have been
giving your book to many people, it has
ministered to me and others in a profoundly
deep way. What a wonderful gift of joy God has
blessed you with to be able to see God move
through you in such a way. There has been a
transformation in my life, I have rarely
experienced the instantaneous release from
being overcome with fear and anxiety to
absolute peace in Christ that I felt while I was
reading your book. It has been also a
reference manual when I have needed a "tune
up" or better yet a "tune in". I feel like the blind
man who has been given eyes to see, I am
seeing Jesus clearer and clearer. Thank you
my brother.
C.C., Moscow, Idaho
I had been living my life actually believing
when something bad happened or when I
sinned God disappeared and I was on my own
. . . Oh Brother Ed, I'm so glad He was there!
He never leaves His children, and beauty of all,
He was there before I knew He was. He
showed me He was there in my first known
dark hour . . . I wanted you to rejoice with me
and know how God has used you and your
book.
Rolf had almost died in childbirth, and had a
very difficult childhood. From his parents he
received ridicule rather than support and The
Blessing. He was bullied, by other children,
but his parents didn't protect him.
Rolf had been a Christian for many years, and
had been a very devoted believer. Yet he had
suffered from bouts of depression for years,
and had received many hours of counseling
from a variety of practitioners. He had tried
many psychotropic drugs, but he was either
allergic to them, or they didn't help. And yet,
after all these attempts at healing, he was still
suffering desperately.
As Rolf and I listened to the Lord, Rolf saw a
rickety bridge over a gorge. The gorge wasn't
very wide, but it was very deep and dark
inside. The Lord was standing on the other
side of the gorge, beckoning for him to come
across the bridge, and to not look back.
Rolf hesitated, because he was afraid. The
bridge looked so fragile that he was afraid it
would break if he stepped onto it. Finally, he
decided to trust the Lord and to step out. As
he walked across the bridge it broke, and he
fell into the dark gorge.
As he lay in the darkness at the bottom of the
pit, he felt so alone. "Nobody is here for me. I
am always abandoned. In my time of greatest
need, I will be alone."
Then he cried out to Jesus, "Where were you
all these years?" All Rolf saw was a big black
hole!
In that moment he realized he had a huge rage
in him towards God.
"I am screaming at God", Rolf exclaimed, with
amazement and some fear.
Then he said with astonishment, "He says He
loves me!"
Rolf asked God to forgive him for judging Him.
He realized that he had always tried to be his
own God, because he didn't trust God to be his
protector.
I (Ed) sensed a darkness present. So I
commanded it to leave, in the name of Jesus,
and it left. It had been inhabiting this terrible,
deep root of bitterness that Rolf had towards
God. But now it had to go, because God had
redeemed that place of bitterness in Rolf.
The demonic presence no longer had a legal
right to be in that place.
Then Rolf said, "Ed, I have never seen this
before. For an instant I was in touch with the
severity of God. You don't want to mess with
this dude!"
Rolf was feeling afraid, and in awe. He said,
"Lord, I want You to be my God."
The Lord gave me (Ed) the right question to
ask. I asked Rolf, "Is the severity aimed
towards you, or towards that evil spirit?"
Rolf was still for a moment. Suddenly he
began to cry very, very hard.
After some moments he said, "You showed
up. I have been waiting all these years for you
to show up. And I thank you."
"You took care of the bully inside."
"You loved me that much!"
And then the Lord held him!
Rolf realized that the spirit of fear that had
inhabited him came in at birth when he almost
died.
This whole encounter with the Lord probably
lasted no more than twenty minutes.
He felt good for the first time in his life.
The next day Rolf said, "Yesterday was the
happiest day of my life."
Rolf's life was changed by this brief encounter
with the Lord!
Having struggled with depression, phobia, and
shame, I am now experiencing lasting hope,
freedom and peace in my heart. Through
listening prayer I have experienced His
forgiveness again and again.
Tom McManus, Raleigh, NC
What a pleasure to hear from you. I have been
giving your book to many people, it has
ministered to me and others in a profoundly
deep way. What a wonderful gift of joy God has
blessed you with to be able to see God move
through you in such a way. There has been a
transformation in my life, I have rarely
experienced the instantaneous release from
being overcome with fear and anxiety to
absolute peace in Christ that I felt while I was
reading your book. It has been also a
reference manual when I have needed a "tune
up" or better yet a "tune in". I feel like the blind
man who has been given eyes to see, I am
seeing Jesus clearer and clearer. Thank you
my brother.
C.C., Moscow, Idaho
I had been living my life actually believing
when something bad happened or when I
sinned God disappeared and I was on my own
. . . Oh Brother Ed, I'm so glad He was there!
He never leaves His children, and beauty of all,
He was there before I knew He was. He
showed me He was there in my first known
dark hour . . . I wanted you to rejoice with me
and know how God has used you and your
book.
Rolf had almost died in childbirth, and had a
very difficult childhood. From his parents he
received ridicule rather than support and The
Blessing. He was bullied, by other children,
but his parents didn't protect him.
Rolf had been a Christian for many years, and
had been a very devoted believer. Yet he had
suffered from bouts of depression for years,
and had received many hours of counseling
from a variety of practitioners. He had tried
many psychotropic drugs, but he was either
allergic to them, or they didn't help. And yet,
after all these attempts at healing, he was still
suffering desperately.
As Rolf and I listened to the Lord, Rolf saw a
rickety bridge over a gorge. The gorge wasn't
very wide, but it was very deep and dark
inside. The Lord was standing on the other
side of the gorge, beckoning for him to come
across the bridge, and to not look back.
Rolf hesitated, because he was afraid. The
bridge looked so fragile that he was afraid it
would break if he stepped onto it. Finally, he
decided to trust the Lord and to step out. As
he walked across the bridge it broke, and he
fell into the dark gorge.
As he lay in the darkness at the bottom of the
pit, he felt so alone. "Nobody is here for me. I
am always abandoned. In my time of greatest
need, I will be alone."
Then he cried out to Jesus, "Where were you
all these years?" All Rolf saw was a big black
hole!
In that moment he realized he had a huge rage
in him towards God.
"I am screaming at God", Rolf exclaimed, with
amazement and some fear.
Then he said with astonishment, "He says He
loves me!"
Rolf asked God to forgive him for judging Him.
He realized that he had always tried to be his
own God, because he didn't trust God to be his
protector.
I (Ed) sensed a darkness present. So I
commanded it to leave, in the name of Jesus,
and it left. It had been inhabiting this terrible,
deep root of bitterness that Rolf had towards
God. But now it had to go, because God had
redeemed that place of bitterness in Rolf.
The demonic presence no longer had a legal
right to be in that place.
Then Rolf said, "Ed, I have never seen this
before. For an instant I was in touch with the
severity of God. You don't want to mess with
this dude!"
Rolf was feeling afraid, and in awe. He said,
"Lord, I want You to be my God."
The Lord gave me (Ed) the right question to
ask. I asked Rolf, "Is the severity aimed
towards you, or towards that evil spirit?"
Rolf was still for a moment. Suddenly he
began to cry very, very hard.
After some moments he said, "You showed
up. I have been waiting all these years for you
to show up. And I thank you."
"You took care of the bully inside."
"You loved me that much!"
And then the Lord held him!
Rolf realized that the spirit of fear that had
inhabited him came in at birth when he almost
died.
This whole encounter with the Lord probably
lasted no more than twenty minutes.
He felt good for the first time in his life.
The next day Rolf said, "Yesterday was the
happiest day of my life."
Rolf's life was changed by this brief encounter
with the Lord!
R. B., counselor and teacher, Jacksonville, Florida.
Something happens when it is either read or
told. It captivates and moves people. I have
read the book several times and have
highlighted it so when I teach I am simply telling
the highlighted parts. It's anointed. I am finding
in all of my groups that we end up with your
book even if we start with something else.
People who have been in such bondage for so
long are seeing the light."
J. P., Florida
Your book is giving real understanding and
insight to the healing we believe God has for His
body. As lay counselors we believe your book is
giving us a prayer model that will change lives.
L.R. Idaho
I want to say again how much your introduction
to a new way of thinking/living has changed my
life and my whole family's lives.
W.R. Idaho
Since I came to see you, my life has changed
drastically. I feel like I was blind before that
time and that God has opened up my eyes and
now I can see. I lived the first 20 years of my
walk with the Lord blaming everyone else for
my unhappiness . . . Anyway, things are good
here with the Rosenthals. Ron and I are able to
work through things now and he continues to
amaze me with his new ability to forgive and
reconcile. WOW!
N. K., Centreville, Virginia
I have to tell you that it is blowing me away.
Although I have read "Transformation of the
Inner Man" several times and have been
exposed to the concepts, this book lays the
material out in an incredibly understandable
fashion. The Sandfords' book is certainly
awesome, but it requires a highly dedicated
student to grasp it the first (even second) time
around.
D.G., Hawaii
I appreciate Ed's sensitivity in allowing the Holy
Spirit to reveal things to people in His way and
His time. Through Ed's ministry, my life, my
family, and our ministry was unjammed. We
praise God for him. Inner healing was the most
profound experience, outside of salvation, that
either one of us have ever experienced.
M. R., Missionary and teacher, Mount Gravatt,
Australia.
I asked, 'Why, Lord?' An answer came to my
heart. 'When you feel rejected by others, you
reject yourself. When you fail to accept and
love yourself, in no time bad fruit begins to take
over'. . . I quickly reread the relevant chapters of
the book again. It all made such sense. For
how many years had I been turning the slightest
sense of rejection into rejection of myself?
Dr. Stephen R. Crosby, Pastor, Author, Professor,
Wasilla, Alaska
I really must compliment you on an outstanding
work. As I probably mentioned when we were
together, I am not intuitively drawn to a lot of
counseling and inner healing stuff that I have
seen. Frankly, I don't like most of it.
Without a doubt yours is the best, and I could
really think of nothing to add to improve it. If you
knew how opinionated I am, the fact that I have
nothing to say would really give you a frame of
reference for how great I think this work is!
As a local church pastor who confesses to
'unenthusiasm' toward trendy, pop-culture
Christian counseling methods that seem to
dominate much of the evangelical Church, I am
happy to have found your ministry.
The following is an example of walking out one's
healing by immediately pulling out new bitter
roots as they occur:
M.L., Finland
Mikko had a major tendency to judge himself.
He had a great fear, the fear of "I'm, not OK"
(the Big Hurt). He was afraid of his customers
criticizing him, and it was very hard for him to
admit he doesn't know something, because that
would trigger his self-rejection.
In our counseling appointments he prayed about
the root of this self-rejection. Then one evening
he went to his saxophone lesson. He had
forgotten that he had placed a spare reed inside
the saxophone. When he began to play for his
teacher, the instrument made a very strange
sound. His teacher called his attention to it, and
Mikko got red in the face and felt ashamed. At
that instant he realized he had just judged
himself. He immediately prayed about this new
bitter root, and the embarrassment left
completely. When he came to his counseling
appointment the next day he said, "Ed, it is so
easy!"
He said that in the past he would have wrestled
with the feeling of inadequacy for days. It was
"easy" because he had let Jesus bear his sin of
judgment.
M.M., California
For many years Matthew had lived a
homosexual lifestyle, and he almost died of
AIDS. In the process of redeeming his life, the
Lord had miraculously healed him of HIV
infection, which is a physical impossibility.
Though the Lord had delivered him from the
bondage to homosexuality prior to our
counseling time, there were still basic self-
esteem issues with which he struggled.
As we prayed and waited for the Lord to come,
Matthew saw a strange scene. He saw Father
God standing with something in the palm of His
hand. At first he couldn't identify what it was,
but all of a sudden, he saw it! He realized that it
was himself that God was forming. God showed
him that He created him, and He created him to
be a man.
Then he saw another scene. It was the moment
of his conception, and his earthly father said,
"This had better be a girl!" From this vision,
Matthew knew that in his spirit he had been
aware when his dad uttered that statement.
This meant that from the very beginning of his
existence, he was convinced that he should be
a girl! So his problem with his masculinity had
always been with him.
At the moment that he saw God forming him in
the vision, he knew God had made him to be a
man, and God was happy that he was a man.
There was an enormous and powerful healing
that happened inside of him; because now he
knew, to the depths of his being, that he was the
right sex. Through this encounter with the living
God, his identity was healed.
Something happens when it is either read or
told. It captivates and moves people. I have
read the book several times and have
highlighted it so when I teach I am simply telling
the highlighted parts. It's anointed. I am finding
in all of my groups that we end up with your
book even if we start with something else.
People who have been in such bondage for so
long are seeing the light."
J. P., Florida
Your book is giving real understanding and
insight to the healing we believe God has for His
body. As lay counselors we believe your book is
giving us a prayer model that will change lives.
L.R. Idaho
I want to say again how much your introduction
to a new way of thinking/living has changed my
life and my whole family's lives.
W.R. Idaho
Since I came to see you, my life has changed
drastically. I feel like I was blind before that
time and that God has opened up my eyes and
now I can see. I lived the first 20 years of my
walk with the Lord blaming everyone else for
my unhappiness . . . Anyway, things are good
here with the Rosenthals. Ron and I are able to
work through things now and he continues to
amaze me with his new ability to forgive and
reconcile. WOW!
N. K., Centreville, Virginia
I have to tell you that it is blowing me away.
Although I have read "Transformation of the
Inner Man" several times and have been
exposed to the concepts, this book lays the
material out in an incredibly understandable
fashion. The Sandfords' book is certainly
awesome, but it requires a highly dedicated
student to grasp it the first (even second) time
around.
D.G., Hawaii
I appreciate Ed's sensitivity in allowing the Holy
Spirit to reveal things to people in His way and
His time. Through Ed's ministry, my life, my
family, and our ministry was unjammed. We
praise God for him. Inner healing was the most
profound experience, outside of salvation, that
either one of us have ever experienced.
M. R., Missionary and teacher, Mount Gravatt,
Australia.
I asked, 'Why, Lord?' An answer came to my
heart. 'When you feel rejected by others, you
reject yourself. When you fail to accept and
love yourself, in no time bad fruit begins to take
over'. . . I quickly reread the relevant chapters of
the book again. It all made such sense. For
how many years had I been turning the slightest
sense of rejection into rejection of myself?
Dr. Stephen R. Crosby, Pastor, Author, Professor,
Wasilla, Alaska
I really must compliment you on an outstanding
work. As I probably mentioned when we were
together, I am not intuitively drawn to a lot of
counseling and inner healing stuff that I have
seen. Frankly, I don't like most of it.
Without a doubt yours is the best, and I could
really think of nothing to add to improve it. If you
knew how opinionated I am, the fact that I have
nothing to say would really give you a frame of
reference for how great I think this work is!
As a local church pastor who confesses to
'unenthusiasm' toward trendy, pop-culture
Christian counseling methods that seem to
dominate much of the evangelical Church, I am
happy to have found your ministry.
The following is an example of walking out one's
healing by immediately pulling out new bitter
roots as they occur:
M.L., Finland
Mikko had a major tendency to judge himself.
He had a great fear, the fear of "I'm, not OK"
(the Big Hurt). He was afraid of his customers
criticizing him, and it was very hard for him to
admit he doesn't know something, because that
would trigger his self-rejection.
In our counseling appointments he prayed about
the root of this self-rejection. Then one evening
he went to his saxophone lesson. He had
forgotten that he had placed a spare reed inside
the saxophone. When he began to play for his
teacher, the instrument made a very strange
sound. His teacher called his attention to it, and
Mikko got red in the face and felt ashamed. At
that instant he realized he had just judged
himself. He immediately prayed about this new
bitter root, and the embarrassment left
completely. When he came to his counseling
appointment the next day he said, "Ed, it is so
easy!"
He said that in the past he would have wrestled
with the feeling of inadequacy for days. It was
"easy" because he had let Jesus bear his sin of
judgment.
M.M., California
For many years Matthew had lived a
homosexual lifestyle, and he almost died of
AIDS. In the process of redeeming his life, the
Lord had miraculously healed him of HIV
infection, which is a physical impossibility.
Though the Lord had delivered him from the
bondage to homosexuality prior to our
counseling time, there were still basic self-
esteem issues with which he struggled.
As we prayed and waited for the Lord to come,
Matthew saw a strange scene. He saw Father
God standing with something in the palm of His
hand. At first he couldn't identify what it was,
but all of a sudden, he saw it! He realized that it
was himself that God was forming. God showed
him that He created him, and He created him to
be a man.
Then he saw another scene. It was the moment
of his conception, and his earthly father said,
"This had better be a girl!" From this vision,
Matthew knew that in his spirit he had been
aware when his dad uttered that statement.
This meant that from the very beginning of his
existence, he was convinced that he should be
a girl! So his problem with his masculinity had
always been with him.
At the moment that he saw God forming him in
the vision, he knew God had made him to be a
man, and God was happy that he was a man.
There was an enormous and powerful healing
that happened inside of him; because now he
knew, to the depths of his being, that he was the
right sex. Through this encounter with the living
God, his identity was healed.
- Matthew later wrote, "Your ability to ask
questions, listen, and most importantly,
hear from the Holy Spirit and be guided
by the Lord Jesus Christ during each
counseling session makes your ministry
unique and needed in these last days. I
came to you for direction and my life
changed drastically. Your ability to focus
me on my inner-self, a part of me that I
did not know existed, brought a new
dimension of healing in my life that I
never knew possible!"
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COPYRIGHT 2003 EDWARD KURATH
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