Divinely Designed
Being changed into the image of Jesus
Being changed into the image of Jesus
Testimonies
This page contains testimonies of how our
ministry, including counseling, has blessed
people.
October 4, 2012
Judy Ozer Legare
Boca Raton, Florida
Hello Ed,
I wanted to thank you so much for your e-mail informing me of your
new book. I can't wait to read it.
"I Will Give You Rest" is beyond precious, and has been so incredibly
helpful to myself and my husband. I think I bought out all or most of
the copies at Amazon to forward to friends.
I feel that it is truly UNFORTUNATE that your message is not presently
taught in Churches. I am thinking of starting a group someday soon
(you mentioned that I Will Give You Rest is available in DVD/Summary
format).
It is really an amazing story how I came upon your book. I'd love to
share it with you someday soon.
Your book has truly inspired me in following the path of becoming a
Christian Counselor.
You are beyond amazing, Edward Kurath, and you have truly touched
and made a huge difference in my life.
I hope that God grants me the opportunity to meet you someday.
October 3, 2012
Caroline Rousseau
Quebec, Canada
Your first book has been a milestone in my life. My circumstances
were very difficult at the time, and my anger just got worse and
worse. I had so much anger within me, and my then 4-year adopted
son was my main target. I felt so much remorse, and just could not
figure out why I could not control my anger. Your book has helped me
tremendously deal with past issues. I had been to counselling before,
and thought I had forgiven my parents, my husband and other
important people in my life for past offenses. However, I just kept
getting angrier and angrier... until one day I cried out to God and
asked him to help me figure out why, and how I could change. That’s
when I googled something about anger and Christians which led me
to your website. At last, God answered my prayer. I finally understood
that I had this deep root of anger within me because of my judging
others. God has started a healing process within me, my son and my
husband.
September 12, 2012
The understand and insight God gave you has been the most
amazing gift in my life. Its very concerning so few have been able to
benefit.
Nancy K., Virginia.
August 17, 2012
Hello Ed and Kay,
WOW life is tremendous!!! Just wanted to say hi and thank you SOOO
much again. My summer is winding down and it has been incredible.
Bookings are better than my wildest dreams and the nightmare of
financial distress is gone, at least for now. I am much wiser and more
careful now and oh so thankful for the blessings.
I have never imagined life could be so sweet. My joy is contagious.
Have been very faithful to pray through negative emotions and listen
closely to Bradley. Has become more and more my nature.
Thank you so much. Hope your book launch is proceeding well. Both
because I wish for your blessings and also because people are so very
desperate to be freed from the bondage of legalism.
Blessings
Brad
Brad Frei / Owner/ Outfitter
Premier White Water & Fly Fishing Adventures
on World Famous Middle Fork of the Salmon
adventuresunvalley@gmail.com
(208) 507-1012
www.middleforkexpeditions.com
I am including Brad's contact information, because he has graciously
offered to have people contact him if they would like to hear his story.
Brad had struggled with depression and self-condemnation.
Sandra Polischeck, Perry Hall, MD.
Hello Ed!!
I just wanted to let you know that I have been experiencing incredible
inner healing over the last three weeks through the guidance and love of
Jesus and your book has been so wonderful in helping me find my way to
Him on this journey. I can't thank you enough for your encouragement
through your book and your e-mails and using the Bible as the foundation
for all of your counseling.
I have successfully weaned off of all the anti-depressant and anxiety
medications in only three weeks after taking them for over three years
and it has been the most freeing and rewarding experience!!
I still have moments that are not easy and I listen to these emotions and
pray often throughout the day. I also have many more moments of peace
and joy and I am forever thankful for the happiness that I have found in
my heart. It is truly a miracle of God to allow us to enjoy a close and
personal relationship with Jesus and to open our hearts to reveal the
wonderful "treasure inside" all of us.
I have continued going to my new Christian church here in Perry Hall and
my husband and I have started counseling with our Pastor and his wife. It
has been very helpful to me and I have already made a lot of new friends
and we pray and share our love of the Lord.
I am so thankful that God led me to your book and started me on this life
long journey with Him. May He bless you and your family!!
Marilyn, Ohio
I would like to share with you that after reading your online book I
ordered it. That same day, after ordering your book and starting to put
into practice some of what I had read, during the evening hours I had a
healing touch of the Lord. The touch was so absolute I know it was Jesus
who did this. I cannot explain this, but what I prayed to be healed of was
totally different than what I received and I instantly knew the Lord had
put the first things first. Actually, I did not even know that I needed to
healed of what I was healed of. Sounds a bit confusing but I know what is
written on my heart and I know WHO wrote it. I am a beloved child of
God.
The second witness is that I began to share some of the basic principles
of your book with my mother and my sisters. I then loaned the book to
them to read for themselves what I was sharing. To say that it has
touched them would be a understatement. My Mother, who had extreme
bitterness and unforgiveness was healed. Praise God! My younger sister
who was without hope and depressed is now regularly attending church
after about an absence of five(?) years. We all still have a lot of weeding
to do, but I feel that we are on the right road. We do a lot of turning and
repenting every day. It seems that there have been a lot of blessings
lately.
This may sound strange, but there has also been a lot of spiritual warfare
going on.
So in closing, I know that your book, which is a great gift from Almighty
God himself, needs to be shared .There are so many spiritually sick and
undernourished souls in this world who are really hungry for the Lord. I
do not know what my part in this may be , if any, but I will keep praying
for the success of your ministry. God Bless you.
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!
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?
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.
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.
The following is an example of walking out one's healing
by immediately pulling out new bitter roots as they occur:
M.L., Turku, 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.
The next two testimonies involved "Inner Child Prayer,"
as outlined in Chapter 15 of the book.
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!"
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!
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