Live Audio Recordings: Living in Union with Christ
This five-day school walks through all the key topics from Leanne Payne’s Healing Presence and Restoring the Christian Soul through Healing Prayer. These live audio recordings include lectures, testimonies and prayers from July, 2025 at Cedar Springs Christian retreat center.
As you come to Him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious,
you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood,
to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. — I Peter 2:4-5 (ESV)
The Holy One is With Us
To know God at all is to know Him as holy, and He imparts this knowledge through His incarnational presence with and within us. This session lays the foundation for the rest of the school and begins exploring our call to abide in Christ.
Due to technical difficulties, the audio recording of this session has some sound distortion, for the first 5 minutes. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Presenter: Dr. Sarah Colyn
The Story of Salvation
We’re created to participate in God’s eternal life, and must choose either to abide in Him or to rebel so that our image-bearing gift becomes miscreative. By His Cross Christ frees us from our bondage to the fallen world our sin brings about, and restores our freedom to become mature members of His Body.
Presenter: Dr. Sarah Colyn
Receiving & Responding as Sons & Daughters
It is our privilege to listen to God’s voice. Although we are prone to tune in to other voices, He is merciful and ready to revive the damaged will and restore us to an upright posture of responsive dependence on Him.
Presenter: Dr. Sarah Colyn
The Disease of Introspection vs. the Power to Be
Compulsively turning attention inward on the self misuses our rational abilities and makes the heart sick. This session facilitates repentance from diseased self-analysis and engages with Love to restore the capacity to be.
Readings: The Healing Presence, Chapter 12, by Leanne Payne.
Presenter: Sarah Lim
Healing of Memories Lecture and Testimony
In the healing of our memories, the Holy Spirit finds and touches the root issues underlying our lack of freedom: rejections, trespasses, and deficits of the past that yet await the ministry of forgiveness of sin.
Readings: Restoring the Christian Soul, Chapter 6, by Leanne Payne
Presenter: Dr. Sarah Colyn & Gay Barretta
The Virtue of Self-Acceptance
Following Jesus into maturity means accepting ourselves as God accepts us, leaving self-hatred behind, and trusting in Christ’s righteousness as our own. Knowing God as Father and receiving His personal affirmation enables us to develop this essential Christian virtue.
Readings: Restoring the Christian Soul, Part 1, by Leanne Payne.
Presenter: Tom Wright
Receiving Forgiveness
God gives forgiveness freely, but our hearts can be blocked from receiving His gift. This session addresses the common blocks to living as forgiven people so we can walk in the Spirit.
Presenter: Dr. Sarah Colyn
Image and Healing of Woman
Whole women image the true feminine while also participating in and completing the masculine. This session honors God’s image in woman and ministers to the hatred of the feminine that is part of the spiritual attack against God’s kingdom.
Presenter: Dr. Sarah Colyn & Deb Lazetti
The Sacrament of Marriage
Marriage imagery runs through all of scripture from the creation story to the wedding supper of the Lamb. The good and true symbols of marital love enable us to see and know God and how He brings us into His life. All are called to the spiritual self-giving and parenthood that are symbolized by marriage.
Presenter: Dr. Sarah Colyn
Receiving the Gift of Life: Being and Well-being
By taking Jesus as our model of what we are meant to be, we see that we are made to be accepted and sustained in God’s love from the womb to eternity. This session looks at developmental threats to being and well-being and how personal wholeness is restored through Christ’s death-defeating, life-giving cross.
Presenter: Dr. Sarah Colyn & Doug Carrington
God Within Us: True Self
Every person who has accepted Christ has a home within, a place of quiet rest and strength. This is the true self, and as we grow into the truth of who we are in Christ, we simultaneously die to the illusions that the old man embraced.
Presenter: Dr. Sarah Colyn & Ana deMiguel
Healing of Memories Prayer, part 1
Healing of memories is the heart’s experience of forgiveness of sin at the precise sore spot where it is needed.
Recommended Readings: Restoring the Christian Soul, Chapter 6, by Leanne Payne
Presenter: Dr. Sarah Colyn
The Virtue of Hope
This supernatural virtue is a God-given grace that must be pursued and cultivated. Hope protects against despair and energizes us as pilgrims-on-the-way to fulfillment in God’s heavenly presence. This recording includes the “treasure chest” prayer to illuminate the desires of the heart.
Presenter: Jean Holt
Freedom in Christ: Renouncing Sexual Idolatry
A right understanding of the sexual union of husband and wife shows the nature of God’s love and His plan to make us one with Him. This session calls all of us – married, single, or celibate – out of idolatrous and enslaving distortions of sex and into the dignity of personal integration.
Presenter: Dr. Sarah Colyn
Healing of Memories Prayer, part 2
The Holy Spirit guides this extended prayer, ministering to the rejections, trespasses, and deficits of the past that yet await the ministry of forgiveness of sin.
Presenter: Dr. Sarah Colyn
Forgiving Others
Forgiving those who’ve sinned against us is essential to living in union with Christ. In this session we look at how forgiveness fits in the process of reconciliation, and work through some of the most challenging types of unforgiveness that can burden our hearts and relationships.
Presenter: Dr. Sarah Colyn
Teaching-testimony
Sillimon Davis imparts hope as he shares his personal journey of finding wholeness in Christ.
Presenter: Sill Davis
Sacramental knowing, eucharistic living
Our lives and all creation are God’s gift, given so that we might participate in His life. We find ourselves in finding Him, and can offer every moment and situation back to Him with gratitude.
Presenter: Dr. Sarah Colyn & Chelsea Peck