July 2009 – God’s Voice
Worldwide
From
Dr.
Mark Virkler, Author of How
to Hear God’s Voice and President of Christian
Leadership University
Mission:
To equip you to do everything as an outcome of your
daily conversations with God, and to train others to do the same.
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Date
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Seminar
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Location
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| Jul.
14-23 |
How to Hear God's
Voice |
Taiwan |
| Aug.
26-28 |
How
to Hear God's Voice |
Raleigh,
NC |
| Sept. 4-5 |
How to Hear God's
Voice |
Carrefour, Haiti
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| Sept.
18-19 |
How to Hear God's
Voice |
Columbus,
OH |
| Oct. 30,31 |
How to Hear God's
Voice |
Challis,
ID |
| Nov. 6-7 |
How to Hear God's
Voice |
New Hamburg,
ON |
Seminar details available at cwgministries.org/itinerary.
July
Discount Specials
Do you often wake up feeling there was a significant message in your
dream, but you’re just not sure what it is?
Like
Daniel and Joseph, do you long to be able to help others understand
their own dreams and win them to Christ as you explain His night
messages to them?
Do you ever feel like sleep is “a waste of time” and wish you
could be receiving divine inspiration, creative solutions to
problems, and direction from the Lord during that third of your life
that you’re “just” sleeping?
Do you usually only remember bits and pieces from your dreams
that don’t make any sense? Or worse yet, not remember any of your
dreams at all?
This month we want to offer you a pair of dynamic resources by
Mark Virkler on how to Hear God Through Your Dreams.
In them, Mark leads you in guided self-discovery as you explore in
detail the nearly 50 dreams recorded in the Bible and how God
interpreted them. Find out why symbolism is an important key to
understanding your dreams and learn practical principles for both
remembering and interpreting your own night visions. A CLU student
who took the course using these materials says it best:
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This
course has truly made a significant impact on my life and laid
the foundation for ongoing change and revelation. It is as if
a new door has been opened in my life leading to a whole new
world of never-before-found treasures and truths…I feel that
more tools have been added to my spiritual toolbox to help
myself and help others. The revelation of the importance of
dreams and what God wants to do with us through dreams has
been resounding in my spirit ever since I started this course.
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During the month of July, you can save money when
you purchase these life-changing materials!
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Get your copy of the Hear God Through Your Dreams
book and accompanying four-disc CD series for only
$29.95! |
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Prefer to get your teaching sooner and download it
electronically? Save over 30% when you order this teaching
electronically as an ebook and MP3s
for only $19.95! |
Order one
of these discounted sets today
Course
of the Month – Save 25%
If you really want to make this revelation your own, why not take
the CLU course REN310 Wisdom Through Dream Interpretation?
(Also available on the graduate level as REN510.) During the month
of July 2009, besides saving on the discounted class materials
above, you may also request a 25% discount on the tuition for
this course. (Financial Aid students may request a
10% discount off their already-reduced tuition.)
NEW
– Online Mentoring with the Dream Interpretation course!
In addition to the discounted price, we will be providing two
months of online dreams coaching through a Dream Interpretation
Workshop Discussion Group facilitated by Dr. Mark Virkler and Dr.
Karen King (Online workshop will run from August 1 –
October 1).
Students who purchase July’s Course of the Month may
participate in this private online group, and share their dreams on
the forum discussion with others who are also taking the dreams
course. The group and facilitators will work together with the goal
of helping the dreamer understand and act on the counsel God is
giving them through their dreams.
And, yes, if you are a CLU student and you have already taken
this course in the past, you can email us at clu@cluonline.com
and request to be included in this group also.
Get in on
this exciting opportunity: enroll in our “Dreams” course now!
We
want to extend a warm welcome to our newest
Certified CWG Facilitators, Angelina
Gibbons and Carol
Guttman! Thank you both for joining our team and helping us
spread the message of intimacy with Jesus with others.
Click
here to find the Certified CWG Facilitator nearest you!
What
Does God Think of TV? – Two-way Journaling
from a CLU Student
Lord, what do You think about us having television again? (We have
had no TV for over a year…)
Let me ask you, My daughter - why do you want it back?
Jesus, I guess to be entertained, to relax, to not think, to
laugh, to be stimulated intellectually, to be informed. Is that
wrong?
No, it’s not wrong, but what purpose does this serve?
To pass time, to not think.
Here is My take on it, My beloved child. TV is neither evil
nor righteous. It is a box.
But isn’t what we do with the box, right? Like maybe I should soak
for an hour, then watch TV for an hour.
Daughter, get out of the realm of the legalistic. Watch TV
WITH Me. Eat WITH Me. Sleep WITH Me. Drive WITH Me. Teach WITH Me.
Walk WITH Me. Sit WITH Me. Look at the Weather Network WITH Me.
Michele, invite Me into every area of your life. Do not see
activities as righteous or evil. You know evil. I trust you. You get
that. You know when to quit an activity, when to turn away. As you
invite Me into every minute of your day, I will order it. Get out
from under the law. You are free in ME. It is for freedom that you
have been set free.
I get this, Lord. Now, Lord. We need money…lots of money. Do
you have anything to say about this?
Michele, once and for all, you have NO financial worries because
the finances in your house are not your responsibility. NOT. Be a
good steward of what I give. Your husband is not your provider. Your
school is not your provider. I AM. What is My name? I AM. I AM. I
AM. Don’t give money a thought, just say I AM. I have such
interesting and particular financial provisions laid out for you and
[your husband and son]. You would laugh if you could see what I see
coming. Laugh now! Laugh in faith. Laugh with ME. Smile at the
future.
I love talking with You, Lord.
And I you, My daughter. You’re funny, you know. You’re so
funny. You bring Me so much joy. You are a delight to Me. That’s
all that matters. Really, you PLEASE ME because YOU are YOU.
Anything else, Lord?
Just rest. Relax. Just rest. Enjoy. Don’t strive. Just go
with the flow. My flow…the river that flows through you. I AM that
river.
At another time: (There have been a number of
deaths and tragedies in my family since last June. Circumstance
after circumstance of friends dying, my dear mom passing away, care
of my father with dementia, a car crash, pneumonia, falling down the
stairs and breaking a bone…. I have been grieving and somewhat
empty for months. I have been watching movies and just trying to
survive. The day the Lord spoke this was a major turning point for
me. I wrote this when Mark Virkler was teaching at TACF.)
Lord, what would You say to me today? (I see Jesus and me on a
stone bench under a tree. He turns, takes my hands and looks right
into my eyes. We are in front of a golden, flowing field.)
Look, it’s harvest time. (He gestures with a sweeping arm
motion.) Things you’ve prayed for for years will soon come to
pass. People you’ve cried out for will soon be brought in. Things
you thought impossible will soon come to fruition. You will stand
amazed. Things you thought you couldn’t do, you’ll do. I have
NEVER been angry or disappointed in you. NEVER. I’ve waited for
you, but never been angry or concerned. Let me be BIG in you. I lead
you by the hand. (He kisses my cheek, we sit together in peace
on the bench.)
Do you know I’ve been talking to you all day long for months? I’ve
never stopped - when you watch TV or try to escape, I’m still
there speaking to you, whispering, calling, embracing, loving. Dear,
dear Michele, Your name means “godly one,” changed at the last
minute by me. (My parents were going to name me something
else.) I’ve loved you and have been as close as your breath
since before birth…these days were planned for you. Open your
heart and recognize me in everything you do and experience. There is
NO condemnation. I love you, my dear one.
I just weep and weep and weep. I know that this is a day of
breakthrough.
Finding Your Identity in Christ – One more powerful
journal entry from Michele
My son is now 26, just married and moved away to the west coast.
Before he left, he was living with us and he and I didn’t get
along very well.
I have been struggling for many years believing I am a bad
mother. I was a single mother for 7 years when my son was young.
(Divorced from an unbeliever.) Many times I felt that I let my son
down in just so many ways. I have been remarried to a wonderful man
and good father for my son for 17 years. However, I have been
tormented by the thought that I am just a bad mother. On Saturday,
March 28, I was crying about this and just stating, “Well, Lord,
it’s just a fact. I am a bad mother. That’s the way it is. I
might as well face it. I ask again for your forgiveness for every
way I failed my son.”
The next day at church, a major breakthrough happened. We were
being taught once again how ungodly beliefs (UGBs) that attack our
very perception of ourselves are insidious and such life stealers.
The young pastoral intern who was teaching it, said at the end of
the service that we should ask the Lord if there was anything in
particular He wanted to heal - any ungodly identity beliefs. I had
forgotten the “bad mother” thing momentarily and didn’t think
there was anything at that moment that God wanted to deal with. Then
the pastor said, “Someone here believes that she is a bad mother.”
Well, I was undone. I cried and cried and couldn’t even speak. I
grabbed my journal and started to write:
Michele, STOP saying it! STOP believing it! First of all, it
is not over. Your motherhood is not over. Motherhood is a position
of honour that I have bestowed on you. [Your son] will always need
you the way you need your mother. THAT IDENTITY “Bad Mother” is
NOT from Me. I have loved your motherhood - the love you’ve had
for [your son]. You have been his champion, his encourager. You have
given him wings.
(The Lord brought back the memory of the moment I led my son to
Him on the corner of Balsam and 4th in Vancouver on Easter Sunday
when he was 6 years old.)
Many times you have been My hands on him, My voice to him.
But Lord, what do I say when these attacks come?
You say: I WAS, I AM, I WILL BE A MOTHER IN CHRIST.
Stop believing that [he] moved west to get away from you.
Acts 17:26-27 - I PUT HIM THERE FOR HIM.
You are MINE, you belong to ME….
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a sample and order it on our website.
Would
you sponsor a prisoner?
Once again we are coming to you with a request from a prisoner who
would like to take courses from Christian Leadership University but
is unable to secure a sponsor. Michael tells us that he has written
to 17 churches but all said that due to the economy they are having
a hard time just meeting their current obligations. We certainly
understand that some of you may also be in that situation. However,
we are believers in the biblical laws of sowing and reaping (if you
sow, you will also reap) and the law of the harvest (you will reap
multiplied more than you sow). Therefore, we are not afraid to ask
you to sow into the good soil of CLU, because we are convinced that
it will be to your benefit to do so.
Michael has confessed his sins to the Lord and taken full
responsibility for them. He feels called of God to preach the Gospel
upon his release from prison, and wants to prepare by earning a
degree from CLU. A gift of as little as $20 can get him started with
the Communion with God course. If you would like to participate in
his training, and thus in his reward, please email
Cheryl and she will give you all the information you need. Thank
you, and God bless you!
Coming
Soon – a New Social Network for Spirit-filled Christians
who are hearing the voice of God and wanting to share with others
about what God is doing in their lives. Watch for this to be
announced in the coming months. You will be able to create blogs,
groups, discussions, and much more.
Laughter
Is Healing
Online
Giving
Make a financial gift
online to CWG Ministries and help us saturate the world with the
message of how to hear God’s voice. We are so grateful for each
and every one of you who faithfully partners with us in this way.
Bless you!
Would
You Give Us Some “Link Love”?
Every day we receive calls and emails in our office from people
saying, “Where have you been? Christian Leadership University is
exactly what I have been longing for! Why didn’t I know about you
five years ago?” We want to make it easier for the people who are
looking for what we have to offer to find us.
If you have a presence on the web – a church or ministry website,
or even a Facebook profile or a blog – we’d
really appreciate your adding a link to: www.cluonline.com
or www.cwgministries.org
(or both!).
New: Click these
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Thank you in advance for helping us help others achieve their
destiny!
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