A pastoral instrument for spiritual care, discernment, and the steps of freedom.
Choose how you are using it today.
A few gentle questions about you and your story, so the person caring for you can begin with some background already in hand. Takes about ten minutes. When you finish, you save a file to hand or send to them.
The full instrument: intake, safety, triage, entry points, the seven tests of discernment, the steps of ministry, and a printable plan with Scripture and prayer to send home.
Returning to a session already started? and you will pick up where you left off.
Confidential. Runs entirely on this device. Nothing is saved or sent unless you choose to download it.
Welcome. These questions are just to help the person you are meeting with understand a little about you before you sit down together. There are no right or wrong answers, and you can skip anything you are not ready to write. Take your time.
In your own words, what made you want to talk with someone?
This helps the person you meet with understand where you have come from. Share what you are comfortable sharing.
Who raised you, and what was home like growing up?
What are some good memories, times you felt loved or safe?
What were the harder parts, things that hurt or still weigh on you?
What has faith looked like in your life, and in your family?
Thank you for taking the time. When you are ready, save your answers below and hand or send the file to the person you are meeting with. Nothing here is sent anywhere on its own.
After you click save, a file will download to your device. Send that file to the person caring for you, or bring it with you.
This is the listening stage. Your aim is not to fill every box but to let the person tell their story while you capture what matters. Warmth first, information second.
The lines in italics and quotation marks are questions you can ask aloud. Use them or your own. If the person filled out a self-intake form, load it from the toolbar above and these boxes will already hold their words; your job then is to listen for what is underneath them.
What to look for: the wound beneath the presenting problem, the spiritual climate they grew up in, and where they sense God is near or far. Those three often matter more than the facts.
Build rapport first. Let them tell their story before you reach for a category.
Tell me what brought you in today.
Tell me about your family. Who raised you, and what was home like?
What were the areas full of joy?
What were the harder areas?
What was faith like in your family? Any occult or false-religion involvement?
This comes before anything else for a reason. Spiritual care never substitutes for safety. None of these items means a person needs deliverance; each means a person may need protection, medical help, or a professional, first.
If you tick any item, the printed plan will lead with a referral note ahead of everything else. Referring is not failure; it is wisdom. Ministering past your competence can cause harm.
What to look for: any present danger to the person or others. When in doubt, ask plainly and gently, and believe what you are told.
First, always. Read the list and mark anything true right now.
If any item is marked, the plan leads with a referral note. Where there is immediate danger, contact emergency services rather than continuing.
Any thoughts of harming yourself or others? Is anyone unsafe at home? Substances or addictions right now?
This is a thinking stage, not an action stage. You are naming what you are actually dealing with so the rest of the session knows its road. The single discipline this teaches is the most important one in the whole tool: do not treat an ordinary struggle as a demon, and do not miss a real one.
Step 1 lets you mark more than one kind of problem, because most situations are layered. Step 2 asks one question only: if a spirit may be involved, how deep does it go. A believer cannot be possessed, but can be oppressed or hold a foothold in one area. A person is more than one room.
The clue list that opens under the third box is exactly that, clues, not proof. They tell you to look closer, not to conclude.
What to look for: honesty over speed. Most problems are ordinary or rooted in a wound. The genuinely demonic is the rarer case, and the tool is built to keep it that way.
Name what you are actually looking at, so the rest of the session knows which road it is on. Nothing happens mechanically here; what you mark shapes the plan at the end.
A presenting problem can sit in more than one of these at once. Tick all that genuinely apply. Ticking the third opens a short list of clues.
Only one answer here. If Step 1 had no demonic element, choose the first option and move on.
These are entry points, places where the enemy may have gained access. They are doors, not a diagnosis. A long list of marks does not mean a heavy case; the discernment stage decides what any of it means.
Mark only what genuinely applies, and use the note line under each to record specifics, names, or how long. The asterisk marks a door that can open from a single occurrence, so it deserves attention even if it happened once.
The Wounds group is different in kind. Those are things done to the person, not sins they committed. They call for healing, not confession, and the plan will treat them that way.
What to look for: patterns that line up with the wounds and the family history you already heard. A door rarely stands alone.
Entry points, not a verdict. Five kinds of door: occult, sexual, persistent sin, generational, and the wounds done to a person. An asterisk (*) marks a door that can open from a single occurrence. Check only what applies.
This is the heart of the discernment, the seven tests. The governing principle is that the form of a thing is not its identity. Saul prophesied under both the Holy Spirit and an evil spirit. Demons quote true theology. So you test the source, not the spectacle.
Each test is a question with a Scripture reference and three buttons: passes, concern, or fails. Tap the one that fits. Some tests are marked over time, the fruit and life-trajectory tests, because they cannot be judged honestly in one sitting. Leave those for later sessions.
Below the tests, three quick reads narrow your conclusion, and your pastoral assessment is the single most important choice in the tool. It decides the shape of the plan: repentance, healing, professional help, deliverance, or a mix.
What to look for: convergence. One unusual sign proves little. A pattern across several tests, confirmed over time and weighed with others, is what discernment rests on.
The seven tests. The form of a thing is not its identity. Test the source, not the spectacle.
When you sit with this, do you sense peace, or heaviness and confusion?
Come here only when you have genuinely discerned a demonic element and the person is willing. This is not a formula to rush; it is a path to walk with them. If your assessment was sin, trauma, or a mental-health concern, you can skip this stage entirely.
The five steps are a sequence: establish authority, address the spirit rather than the person, break the agreements that gave it ground, command release, and then fill the house. Tick each as you do it so the encounter is recorded.
Filling is not optional. Cleansing without filling leaves a swept, empty house that ends worse (Luke 11:24-26). Deliverance opens a door; discipleship decides what walks through it.
What to look for: the guardrails below, which are easy to forget in the moment. Command, do not converse. No theatrics. Protect dignity. Never alone.
When you discern a demonic element and the person is willing, this is the five-step pattern. Walk it; do not rush it. The house must be filled.
No drama or theatrics. No extended conversation with a spirit; command, do not converse. Not in public; protect dignity. Never alone; minister as a team. Do not assume every problem is demonic, and do not create fear or fascination with demons.
Luke 11:24-26. Name the filling.
Everything you entered is assembled here into one ordered plan: the picture, the triage, the discernment, the doors, the Scripture and prayers for the road in, the ministry record if any, and the follow-up. Safety leads if any flag was set.
The lower part is a handout, Scripture and prayers gathered for the person to take home. You can print the whole plan for your file, or print just the handout for them. Read any prayer before you pray it; make it yours.
To edit anything, step back to its tab, change it, and the plan rebuilds.
Review the plan. Print or save it for your confidential file, and print the take-home handout for the person.