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WORKBOOK EDITION COURSE
T.O.P.?The Olive Press and T.O.P.?The Olive Press Workbook Edition is designed and dedicated to enriching humanity related to human suffering(s). This textbook attempts to define and encapsulates the theology of pain, suffering(s), and pressures associated with humanity, the cost for the anointing power, and the process for its divine purpose. The author explores issues and problems related to pain, pressures, suffering, and distresses faced daily using Biblical principles, godly application through the navigation of the “Word of God,” that will enlighten and impact your thought processes.
This Christian education study is an excellent tool for Christian, clinical or pastoral counselors, anyone doing helping the ministry in faith-based community roles, the entire community of care, licensed professionals, the five-fold ministry (apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, and teachers), Christian leaders, lay church members or caregivers that impart sound biblical principles and possess psychosocial insight that minister to hurting or suffering persons, and that can help facilitate personal wholeness (mind, body, spirit). This textbook and workbook edition is ideal for those who have a call to missionary work/ministry. Additionally, the T.O.P. textbook and workbook edition can be used to equip students as an excellent teaching tool for seminaries, colleges, or universities relevant to the primary studies in Christian counseling, psychology, or theology.
What is more, T.O.P Workbook has been created for individuals and theological institutions with a distinct burden to effectively minister to those who are hurting in the world today?and desire to gain a deeper knowledge base in the area of Biblical counseling that will enlighten and give leadership guidance to counselees whereby turning their hurts into hope, healing, encouragement, joy, and empowerment.
Based on her personal experience and professional background in this field, the author gives vital information to those seeking to heighten his or her counseling skills and with the suggested earning of four (4) university credit units.
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1. Topics listed in the Table of Contents
2. Topics embedded within the textbook: T.O.P. –THE olive PRESS…The Cost of the Anointing Power!
3. Topics are contained within all appendices.

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Date de parution	09 novembre 2022
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EAN13	9781665565936
Langue	English
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T.O.P.
THE olive PRESS
THE COST OF THE ANOINTING POWER!
WORKBOOK EDITION

II Corinthians 1:8

MELVEENA D. EDWARDS, P h .D.

© 2022 Melveena D. Edwards, Ph.D. All rights reserved.

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Scripture quotations marked KJV are from the Holy Bible, King James Version (Authorized Version). First published in 1611 and quoted from the KJV Classic Reference Bible, Copyright © 1983 by The Zondervan Corporation.

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CONTENTS
Dedication
Prologue
Introduction
How to Organize and Approach and Complete this Course
About the author
Chapter 1 Cries of Vulnerability, Pages 18-37
Chapter 2 Dimensions of Humanity, Pages 38-47
Chapter 3 The Cost for the Anointing Power Pages 48-62
Chapter 4 Rewards and Benefits of the Olive Press pages 63-71
Chapter 5 Christian Counseling Techniques and Interventions, Pages 72-80
Chapter 6 Memoir and Personal Journey, Pages 81-127
Chapter 7 Epilogue, Pages 128-138
DEDICATION
T.O.P.―The Olive Press and T.O.P.― The Olive Press Workbook Edition is designed and dedicated to the enrichment of humanity as it relates to human suffering(s). Additionally, it is intended for those called to Christian counseling, pastors, pastoral counselors, and anyone helping the ministry in faith-based community roles. T.O.P Workbook has been created for individuals and theological institutions with a distinct burden to effectively minister to those who are hurting in the world today―and desire to gain a deeper knowledge base in the area of Biblical counseling that will enlighten and give leadership guidance to counselees whereby turning their hurts into hope, healing, encouragement, joy, and empowerment.
PROLOGUE
“Pain and Pressure Produces Patience and Power”
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Theology
“And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.”
(II Corinthians 1:6, KJV)
“My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into divers temptations; knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.”
(James 1:2-4, KJV)
“Hurt in the World Today” - Demographics illustrate globally that there are countless billions of people who suffer in diverse ways originating from the fall of Adam and Eve. How do you rise, move forward, overcome, and heal when you’re hurting? How do you help when a crisis or negative situation happens to upright or righteous people? How do you explain pain and suffering to someone consumed with the circumstance? For instance, the Apostle Paul personifies a picture of incredible sufferings, trials, tribulations, and persecution as ascribed in II Corinthians 1:6. It is inevitable that humanity will face trials and tribulations in life according to James 1:1-4 and can “count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations.”
What’s more, as helpers, caregivers, imitators of Jesus, servants, ministers, and Christ-centered counselors, we must possess the ability to help hurting people heal from these times of pain, suffering, pressure, and distress by giving timely―answers, guidance, direction, and tools during life’s most perplexing situations. As a counselor, you cannot afford not to possess the ability to minister to others in the area of pain and suffering.
First, as a Christian and then as a counselor, you can rest assured that sometime in your life, in counseling practice, ministry, or spiritual walk, you will experience pain, suffering, pressure, and distress. Second, if you have not already experienced this, and if you have the mind of Christ, you will! So, the Apostle Paul asserts in II Corinthians 1:8b when he says, “that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, inasmuch that we despaired even of life:” in the like, one may ask God “Why must we suffer?”
In spiritual turbulence or turmoil, God has a way out for you. The “Word of God” says that He will make a way of escape that we may be able to bear it (I Corinthians 10:11-13, KJV). In other words, humanity or believers will be delivered by the “Word of God” through faith. In counseling―you can Biblically guide the counselee to learn to be a winner in: “ the olive press ,” a bleak or losing situation, and enable individuals to report the victory. Although there is a cost for the anointing power―a process for the divine purpose, you can rise to: “LIFE ON T.O.P (the olive press) and nothing can S.T.O.P. (success, triumph, opportunities, power)!” Christian counselors can ensure that hurting individuals can turn pain, suffering, pressure, and distress into power.

“For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength,
insomuch that we despaired even of life:”
(II Corinthians 1:8, KJV)
Melveena D. Edwards, Ph.D.
Professor
Licensed Clinical Christian Counselor-Advanced Certified
Licensed Clinical Pastoral Counselor-Advanced Certified
Westerville, Ohio
INTRODUCTION
This book encapsulates the theology of pain, suffering(s), and pressures associated with humanity, the cost for the anointing power, and the process for its divine purpose. Dimensions of healing, health, wellness, wholeness, or whole-person― (mind, body, and spirit) are explored. Additionally, this reading experience will impact and minister to people hurting globally.
The content within these pages will open doors, embrace a deeper meaning, demonstrate a way of escape, and give methods relative to ministering under the power of the anointing to those in despair. Readers will learn how to befriend these issues and count them as joy reaping divine rewards, benefits, and power.
Today in, this hurting world represents a pivotal time in history when statistics depicts that there are countless millions of people who suffer in diverse ways. The Holy Bible clearly outlines human suffering. For instance, in St. Matthew chapter 24:1-51, this book outlays manifold human suffering through eschatological (end-time) events. During Jesus’ earthly ministry, He taught His disciples what the world would experience during the end-time. According to St. Matthew 24:3-14, KJV says:
“And as he sat upon the mount of Olives , the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? And what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.”
Look at conditions the world over. Daily there are vast numbers of human beings suffering. For instance, the first thought when thinking about suffering(s) is usually physical anguish, pain, and diseases. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services asserts that:
“Chronic pain is the most universal form of human stress (1). Millions of Americans suffer from pain-related problems, often resulting in partial or complete disability. The social and economic impact of chronic pain is staggering. For example, in the United States, every year, 600,000 people develop pain from arthritis for the first time (2). Twenty-five million Americans experience the painful consequences of a migraine headache on a regular basis (3). Low back pain, another common complaint, disables approximately 7 million citizens and accounts for over 8 million physician office visits annually (4)” (Salovey, P., Seiber, W. J., Smith, A.F., et al., 1992, pp. 1, 73-74).
Another example of human suffering consists of the grim disease, human immunodeficiency virus―HIV. The human immunodeficiency virus―HIV is the virus that causes AIDS and presents epidemic statistics and suffering(s) that:
“About 50,000 people get infected with HIV each year. In 2010, there were around 47,500 new