Imparting the Father's Love
Because of our experiences growing up, most of us do not have a good understanding of what it is like to be the son or daughter of a loving Heavenly Father. When Jesus said to the church in Ephesus “you have left your first love,” he wasn’t just talking about the first time we started loving Him, but rather leaving behind the reality of His “first love” for us. We need to receive in our hearts (not our heads) His “love first,” before we can have love to give away. In this 2 or 3-day event, Rick and Sue will help a group or individuals walk through some of the major hindrances to experiencing His love and move into a position of sonship in “Daddy’s House.” The experience can be expanded to include a series of evening sessions during the week or a separate weekend that will deal with some of the other problems and issues that interfere with walking in sonship and fully receiving His love. View Material
Back to the Garden
Restoring Our True Identity and Removing the Fig Leaves
What type of relationship did Adam and Eve have with the Father before the Fall? Is it possible for us to have that kind of relationship with the Father today? These are good questions and are at the heart of what we want to share with you in this series. Knowing our identity empowers us in the spirit realm too. If we know who we are and become committed to walk in that reality, then we will be unbeatable in the battles of life.
Unfortunately, most of us do not have a complete understanding of Jesus’ death and resurrection, and we end up living our lives less loved full of shame, fear, guilt, condemnation, self-hatred, and low self-esteem. We tend to wear “fig leaves” and try to cover up who we think we are. These masks and our false self tend to rule our life. Besides living this false life, we can be trapped in performance and the law and miss living in His grace with peace and rest. In this series we will also look at the hindrances to getting rid of the “imposter” and how to become the real person Father made us to be, true sons and daughters.
In this 2 or 3 day event our desire is that each person realizes that he or she is Father’s greatly loved child (our true identity) who holds a special place in His heart without doing anything! The experience can be expanded into a series of evening sessions or separate weekends. We simply want to love on people and believe they will taste the sweet goodness of our Father. We want each person to experience His love personally and walk in a greater degree of freedom as His son or daughter! View Material
Healing Prayer Ministry
Many of the things that affect our physical body, relationships with others, responses to situations and circumstances, emotional and psychological well being, and our intimacy with Father or others can be traced back to what happened to us growing up and how we responded to it. This is a one-on-one ministry that Rick and Sue do through the guidance of the Holy Spirit to help bring healing and wholeness to the individual both spiritually and physically. Through forgiveness, the cross, and prayers, they walk an individual through the consequences of the choices they made in response to the pain and wounding in their heart. The Lord brings them to a place of greater peace, freedom, and heart-to-heart experiences with Immanuel!
Special Events
Our hearts are to help men, women, and children live the abundant life Jesus referred to in John 10:10 and walk in their inheritance as sons and daughters. Upon request, we will also consider ministering to men, women, parents, or married couples through seminars or retreats on a variety of topics related to experiencing more of Father’s Love, walking in true sonship, and having healthy relationships.
Men or Women Retreats
Rick desires to help men be set free from addictions and the fallen masculine, walk in their true authentic masculinity, and experience joy-filled loving relationships with their wife and children. Rick will share from his own experiences and what he has learned about why we do and say what we do and the root issues behind the destructive and hurtful actions in our relationships. He will provide helpful tools and resources to develop the skills and life changes to help set you free to enjoy the life Father has always wanted you to have!
Sue’s passion is to see women elevated and set free to walk in their true identity, value, and worth as the daughters of our good Heavenly Father. She will share some of her healing journey of being set free from feeling “less than” or “of little worth” to now live in her true identity — Father God’s royal daughter, knowing she is approved and valued just the way she is! Sue will expose the enemy’s “war against the feminine” and help each woman embrace the beauty Father has placed inside them. She will share resources and practical ways to remove hindrances in our hearts so that we can receive our Father’s love, rest secure in His family, and live loved with each new day!
Parenting Retreats
Unfortunately, our children did not come with an owner’s manual on how raise them! Depending upon what kind of home you grew up in, you may have a very limited or skewed image of what a “normal” home is like. Or you may not have any skill sets or knowledge on how to help your children grow into healthy mature adults. If we don’t decide to make any changes, by default we will raise our children the way we were raised. Rick and Sue from their own experiences will help you with the skills to impact your children to live joy-filled Father-centered lives.
Creating Joy-filled Relationships and Community
Joy is a powerful emotion that helps us deal with negative emotions in healthy ways, build positive relationships, and live in joyful supportive communities. Building joy, returning to joy from negative emotions, quieting and rest, forming healthy bonds and attachment with others, and many other brain skills were meant to be taught and transferred to us from our parents. However, you can’t give away what you don’t have, and most of our parents were not able to gives us these skills because they didn’t get them from their parents. Rick and Sue would like to introduce you to new joyful ways of relating to others that can powerfully transform your marriage, family, church, and other groups that you are connected with.
Marriage Retreats
Marriage was meant to be where a man and woman full of love could come together, give love away to each other, and enjoy the pleasures and delights of a life-long love affair! Every couple would spend their years together learning to become one and create a loving atmosphere where they could bring their children up in the nurture and instruction of the Lord. Unfortunately, for many of us that does not happen primarily because of the hurts and wounds we received in our hearts growing up and the bad choices we made to compensate for the pain from those wounds. For some, marriage becomes an endurance contest or we become married singles living parallel lives with little interaction. For others, marriage is a collection of unmet expectations, broken dreams, loneliness, and often ends in divorce or separation. Rick and Sue want to bring new hope for a better future and breathe new life into your marriage. Speaking from over 49 years of marriage and what they have learned and applied from a variety of resources, they can help you transform your marriage, set you on a new path of love and intimacy, and avoid many of the problems and struggles common to marriages. They will give you new ways and many practical applications to create a joy-filled life-long love affair!
