Page 191 - EMCAPP-Journal No. 7

Forum “Guidance

Through the
Vibeke Møller (Denmark) Holy Spirit

During the

As we want to answer this question we have to look at The Hoy spirit´s Counseling
role, the Christian counselor`s and psychotherapist`s role, the counse-
lee´ s role and on the blessings and problems or Therapy
Session:
The Holy Spirit´s functions
When we go to the various translations of the Bible we find a lot of diffe- Blessings and
rent names and functions of the Holy Spirit:
Problems”

Helper, the Spirit of truth, comforter, guide, advocate, counselor, the
redeemer of the accursed, teacher, Spirit of grace, revealer of sin. Most
of those and functions we could use in our own practice as a Christi-
an counselor or psychotherapist. Our work as a Christian counselor/
psychotherapist should be the Holy Spirit`s work. The Holy Spirit can
change counselees´ lives so that they recover, become healed and resto-
red. Because our effort to help people with various problems of life we
should be anointed and guided by the indwelling power of the Holy Spi-
rit. God wants us as Christian counselors/psychotherapists to be effective
and help people to change. The Holy Spirit can influence the mind and
change the will, can produce the fruit of the Spirit. The goal of counseling
and psychotherapy is growth of the counselee

The Christian counselor or psychotherapist´s role
As Christian counselors or psychotherapists it is very important to be
sensitive to the Holy Spirit if we want to be effective in your work/ mini- Vibeke Møller (Den-
stry. The question arises: How do we become sensitive? mark), MD, psycho-
therapist, director and
• Reading the word of God and meditating on it owner of IPSICC – In-
• Prayer and intercession ternational Psycho-
• Living a life in agreement with the Bible therapeutic School in
• Personal growth Christian Culture.
• Maturity
• Spiritual development

The counselee´s role:
What about the counselee? Must the counselee be a Christian before the
Holy Spirit can/will reveal anything that can be a help for the counselee?
I think that the Holy Spirit can talk to Christian and non-Christians.
John 16:7- 8 (NIV): the counselor(the Holy Spirit) when he comes he
will convict the world of guilt in regard to sin and righteousness and
judgment.
The Christian counselor or psychotherapist and the counselee have a
trialogue. The Holy Spirit can talk to /influence the counselor /psycho-
therapist, the Christian counselor/psychotherapist can talk to/influence
the counselee and the counselor/psychotherapist can talk/influence to
each other.

190