Learn to recognize God’s voice, quiet internal noise, discern truth from lies, and cultivate an ongoing, conversational walk with Jesus — through a course that blends solid biblical foundations with hands-on prayer labs.
David Yarborough & Jim Kampa
7 Weeks · Live Online
Live sessions + self-paced modules
$329
WEEKS LONG
Online Format
Cohort Size
$329
Prayer was never meant to be a one-way conversation.
From Genesis to Revelation, Scripture reveals a God who speaks, guides, comforts, corrects, reassures, and walks closely with His people. Jesus Himself said, “My sheep hear My voice” (John 10:27). Listening prayer is not for spiritual elites; it is part of normal, healthy discipleship.
This six-week course is designed to help you move from prayer as monologue to prayer as relationship by learning how to recognize God’s voice, quiet internal noise, discern truth from lies, and cultivate an ongoing, conversational walk with Jesus.
This course blends solid biblical foundations with practical, experiential lab sessions so you don’t just learn about listening prayer—you practice it in community.
Week 1: From Monologue to Conversation
Discover the heart of a relational God who delights in speaking with His children and learn why listening is foundational to prayer.
Week 2: How God Wired You to Hear Him
Explore how God designed the brain for connection, joy, and relational awareness, and why we hear Him best when our relational circuits are on.
Week 3: Listening Through Scripture
Learn how to engage Scripture as a living conversation through listening prayer and Lectio Divina.
Week 4: Experiencing God’s Nearness
Practice connection-based prayer that strengthens joy, calms fear, and opens the heart to hear God with clarity.
Week 5: Recognizing God’s Voice and Identifying Lies
Learn how God speaks through impressions and how to identify and replace lies that interfere with hearing Him clearly.
Week 6: A Lifestyle of Listening Prayer
Integrate powerful tools and daily rhythms that help listening prayer become a natural, ongoing way of life.
Listening Prayer is a practical, relational approach to prayer that helps believers grow in clarity, intimacy, identity, and spiritual discernment. Rather than striving to make something happen, you will learn how to notice what God is already doing and saying.
Throughout this course, you will explore:
By the end of this course, participants will:
This course course is open to anyone hungry to grow in hearing God’s voice. But it’s especially designed for:
This School of Ministry six-week elective course costs $299 and includes:
This course emphasizes experience and practice, not performance.
This course is a biblically-balanced approach to listening prayer. In our approach:
This course creates a safe, grounded environment to grow in listening without pressure or performance.
Listening prayer is not about trying harder.
It is about becoming more attentive.
God is not distant or silent.
He is present, relational, and already speaking.
This course is an invitation to slow down, tune your heart, and rediscover prayer as a living conversation with Jesus.
Will you join us?
Understanding Breakthrough! is the first step to exploring the transformative world of heart-focused care ministry. You’ll leave with practical tools, a clearer vision, and a personal ministry plan.
Learn how to identify and address the deep-level emotional and spiritual wounds that keep people stuck, rather than treating only surface symptoms.
Gain hands-on experience with the essential techniques of heart-focused care ministry through structured exercises and guided practice.
Develop your ability to listen and respond to God’s leading in ministry contexts, deepening your own spiritual life in the process.
Create a clear, actionable roadmap for your next steps in care ministry — whether you’re just starting or looking to formalize your calling.
Survey the advanced topics available in the full certification program, including spiritual warfare, complex trauma, and discipleship.
Connect with a cohort of like-minded believers who share your heart for helping others experience God’s freedom and grace.
Most ministry training stays at the level of technique. Understanding Breakthrough! goes deeper — connecting your own inner healing journey with the skills you’ll use to serve others.
This isn’t academic knowledge for its own sake. Every session is designed for immediate, real-world application.
"I have exponentially grown closer to God. I have discovered a biblical language that helps me discern my own inner life and ask good questions that help others discern their inner life."
Each week combines expert instruction, interactive practice, and practical tools — delivered live so you can engage, ask questions, and grow alongside a community.
You’ll view 8-sessions of biblically balanced teaching by Dr. Marcus Warner. In these video sessions you’ll gain a clear understanding of the five engines than drive our emotions, and helpful tools and strategies designed to lead to breakthrough.
Each week you will have opportunity to discuss and practice what you are learning with fellow classmates in online breakout rooms. Discussing what you are learning in a relational environment will allow the learning to go much deeper, fostering significant growth in your walk with God.
More than just information, this interactive course provides hands-on exercises, personal assessments, and practical tools to help you apply what you are learning. Learn what keeps people stuck–and how to help them get unstuck and moving toward the life that God has planned.
Finally! With Breakthrough I find a model that integrates it all: Biblical truths, brain science, practical tools, clear and simple steps that will help me become a better spiritual encourager to God’s hurting people. You will LOVE learning how to experience breakthroughs first in your life for greater joy, health and freedom. And then invite others on this journey to maturity!
Every Christian who ministers to others should keep ‘Breakthrough!’ as a field guide to help them diagnose root causes to problems and assist others in becoming the people that God created them to be. ‘Breakthrough!’ systematically examines the different models of growth and presents practical holistic approaches to help others experience freedom, healing, and wholeness. Rather than posit one answer to people’s problems Warner exposes the five engines that drive our emotions and presents a wheelhouse of methods that address the whole person and lead one to healing and freedom.
My favorite thing about Marcus Warner is how he takes complex topics and subjects and makes them simple. Breakthrough! takes the Bible and brain science—with the Holy Spirit—and provides an integrative approach to building emotional resilience.
This book examines the areas that we can get stuck and offers a comprehensive guide to healing, and overcoming addiction and trauma. Our memories and hearts can heal. We can mature and grow in Christ. Whether you’re at your end or simply in need of some spiritual vivacity, this book won’t disappoint and will act as a roadmap to hope, maturity and freedom.
Jim is excited to be joining Deeper Walk, and in particular the Prayer Ministry Certification Program. Jim graduated in December of 2024, and has been utilizing all the great tools he learned in his work as a Prayer Minister with Heart to Heart Ministries in Nebraska. Jim works primarily with Men, Addictions and Recovery, and Spiritual Warfare.
Jim has retired from a secular counseling career, which has seen him work in a variety of settings including Community AODA Prevention, Intervention and Treatment, Juvenile Court, Inpatient Psychiatric, and K-12 School Counseling and Social Work. He has also recently retired from the Green Bay (Wi) School District, where he has worked both Teacher Staff Development, and High School School Counseling and Social Work.
Jim is very active in his local church, teaching courses around discipleship and spiritual warfare. Jim also teaches nationally with Understanding the Wounded Heart. He has been married to his wife Laurie for 41 years, Has 3 believing daughters, 3 son in laws, and 5 grandchildren.
In his spare time, Jim likes hiking, biking, snowshoeing, and whitewater kayaking and rafting.
Jim also has completed the Advanced Spiritual Warfare Tools and Training with Deeper Walk, and has been excited to see the level of freedom that people have been able to achieve in their walk with The Lord after participating in Freedom Sessions.
Understanding Breakthrough! has no prerequisites — it’s designed to be accessible whether you’re brand new to ministry or looking to formalize the skills you already use.
Not included in tuition — purchased separately by the student.
The course meets weekly online for 1.5 hours for seven weeks. Participants are encouraged, but not required, to practice simple listening exercises between sessions to deepen the experience.
If you miss a session, you will be given access to that week’s teaching video and any assignments you may have missed.
Yes. Listening prayer, as taught in this course, is firmly grounded in Scripture and anchored in the character of God as revealed through Jesus Christ. While it is wise to approach listening prayer with caution, we believe Scripture consistently presents God as a relational God who speaks to His people and invites them into responsive relationship with Him. At the same time, we hold unequivocally to the authority and sufficiency of Scripture as God’s infallible Word. Any insight, impression, or sense received through prayer must be tested against Scripture and the revealed character of God, and anything that contradicts biblical truth or the nature of Christ is to be rejected.
No. Most people do not hear God audibly. Listening prayer focuses on the gentle ways God commonly communicates such as Scripture coming alive, words, pictures, impressions, inner promptings, clarity, peace, conviction, and relational awareness. These are consistent with how God speaks throughout the Bible.
Discernment is a central part of the course. You will learn how to distinguish between God’s voice, your own thoughts, and other competing voices by testing everything against Scripture, the character of Jesus, the fruit it produces, and the presence of peace rather than fear or condemnation.
That’s completely okay. This course is designed for beginners and experienced believers alike. You will be guided step by step through practical exercises in a safe, supportive environment, with no pressure to perform or “get it right.”
Listening prayer is not a performance or a skill to master. It is a relationship to nurture. This course emphasizes grace, safety, and growth, not pressure. You cannot fail at listening prayer. God delights in meeting His people.
While listening prayer can bring emotional clarity and freedom, this course is not a deep inner healing or deliverance class. The focus is on connection, discernment, and relational prayer practices that can be used in everyday life.
This course includes both teaching and guided practice. Each session includes practical lab time where participants can experience listening prayer together, apply what they are learning, and build confidence through practice.
No. Listening prayer complements and deepens traditional prayer and Bible engagement. It helps Scripture move from information to conversation, and prayer go from routine to relationship.
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