April 2008 – 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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| Apr.
25,26 |
How to Hear God's
Voice |
Buskirk,
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| May
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Christian Dream
Interpretation |
Hephzibah,
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| Jun. 27,28 |
How to Hear God's
Voice |
La Mesa,
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Seminar details available at cwgministries.org/itinerary.
Finally!
“The Lamad
New Testament” which encourages Revelation Based Learning
– A New Testament with Journaling Questions Throughout!
Thoughts from Mark Virkler: I have hungered for
this for years…a New Testament with journaling questions alongside
each Bible story. Now we have it! The journaling questions guide you
in asking Jesus to grant you personal revelation and specific life
application concerning the passage you are reading.
Now you can exclaim right along with the disciples who walked
with Jesus on the Emmaus Road, “Were not our hearts burning
within us while He was speaking to us on the road, while He was
explaining the Scriptures to us?” (Lk. 24:32)!
The Gospels of Matthew and Mark are currently available
for free downloading. Experience and celebrate this anointed
combination of the Word and the Spirit touching your life.
The developer of this powerful version of the New Testament is
Andrew R. Hardy, a CLU student living in England. Andrew has this to
say:
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I
would like to thank Communion With God Ministries for hosting
my reflective commentary and Translation of Matthew and Mark’s
gospels on their website. I would like to get
feedback from readers concerning their experiences of using it
as they seek revelation knowledge. Please give me your
revelation-based feedback.
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He can be reached at ar.hardy@ntlworld.com.
Note from Mark: I encourage you to download
these PDF files of Matthew and Mark and read through them, trying
out the journaling questions, and letting us know your thoughts. Any
suggestions you can offer for ways we can improve this will be
considered and applied as Andrew works his way through the entire
New Testament over the coming year. Thank you!
Download
these free PDF documents 
April’s
Discount Special
Are
you satisfied that you are living the “abundant life” Jesus
offers?
Do you “grow weary in well-doing,” regularly trying with all
your might to resist the power of sin and live a good Christian
life?
Do you sometimes feel like only the strong-willed can be “overcomers”?
Would you describe your Christian life as one of “rest”?
Do you ever wonder if maybe we are missing something in the
Gospel message that New Testament believers knew?
This month we want to offer you a package of materials by Mark
Virkler on how to live Naturally Supernatural.
Mark wants to share with you the revelation he received on Galatians
2:20 that can transform your Christian life. A CLU student who took
the course using these books says it best:
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This
course radically changed my life in every way possible. When
once the Christian life was somewhat of a duty and chore, it
is now a lifestyle of rest. What was once my trying to be good
for the Lord is now having Him be good out through me. What
was striving to serve Him in every aspect of my life is now
simply loving Him and yielding to His Spirit to live out of
me. By understanding, experiencing and living out the seven
revelation truths of abiding, my life in every way and
dimension has been radically changed.
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During the month of April, you can save money
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This is an excellent study for a group to do together, so if you
purchase the DVD bundle, you may receive a 10% discount on
any additional copies of the two books you order this month
as well.
Course
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If you really want to make this revelation your own, why not take
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During the month of April 2008,
in addition to 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.)
The price will never be lower than it is right now, so enroll in
this dynamic course today!
God’s
Voice Intervenes and Offsets a “Fatal” Heart Attack
–
Personal testimony by Elder Rod Arnold, a CLU student & Bible
teacher at Agape Christian Ministries in Austin, Texas
“I was in Tulsa (500 miles from home) at the Hilton across from
ORU on March 23, 2000. I was awakened in the night by a literal
voice saying, “You need to go to the hospital.” I had thrown up
earlier in the evening but did not consider this significant.
According to the pastor of the church I grew up in, hearing voices
like this was simply the ‘bad burrito you ate last night.’
“I had recently started attending a church that emphasized
listening to dreams and visions so I called the front desk and they
called the emergency room. The emergency room person said that there
was no reason to come in and the front desk called me back. I told
them I would just go back to bed but as I was putting the phone down
I heard the voice again. I picked the phone back up and asked the
hotel to take me to the hospital. I immediately heard several loud,
angry voices around me saying I would look like a fool going to the
hospital for an upset stomach and how wasteful and expensive it
would be.
“At the hospital, the doctors took my blood pressure and
listened to my heart, and then they hooked me up to an EKG. The
doctor went off to a corner and talked to other doctors. I was
feeling very good by now and expected the doctor to tell me to take
some antacid and go back to the hotel.
“What he told me was that I was having (present tense) a heart
attack. I was immediately taken to intensive care, put on oxygen and
several tests were run. One of the main heart muscles had stopped
beating and my heart was only pumping about half as much blood as it
should.
“An angioplasty was attempted only to find that there was too
much damage to my heart. A temporary pump was placed in the main
vein leading back to the heart to keep me going and build up my
strength for open heart surgery. The quintuple bypass surgery went
so well that there was no need of blood transfusions.
“In July, follow up tests indicated a problem with some of the
bypasses. I was scheduled for another angioplasty to correct the
bypasses and was told there was a slight chance of having to have
another open heart surgery. At church that Sunday the pastor had
everyone in the congregation turn to the person next to them and
pray for their needs. I shared the heart problem and as my neighbor
prayed for me I felt a warmth in my chest.
“Later, in the hospital, I was in an operating room and could
see my heart beating on video screens as the surgeon checked out the
vessels in my heart. He finally turned to the operating room crew
and simply said ‘We’re done here,’ and then he looked down at
me and said ‘I can hardly tell you have even had a heart attack.’
The bypasses were all in good shape, the heart muscles had resumed
beating, and my blood flow was back within five percent of normal.
“It is clear to me now after talking to doctors and doing
research on my own that if I had not listened to the Voice of God
and gone to the hospital, in spite of not feeling sick, I would not
have survived that night. The doctors said I had what is called a
silent heart attack. It is so named because it has none of the
symptoms associated with heart attacks. The person having a silent
heart attack simply goes to sleep and does not wake up, never having
been diagnosed with any type of heart problem.
“Literature from Austin Heart Hospital says that the diagnosis
is usually made during the autopsy, it is most often fatal, and the
few that survive will have such a badly damaged heart that they will
be confined to a wheelchair. Because I heard and headed the Voice of
God, I have led a normal life for the past eight years, marched in
parades, and participated in field days.”
Four
Keys to Hearing God's Voice
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 CLU.
One way to do this is to increase the visibility of CLU on
Christian websites where potential students may look. If you
have any suggestions of such sites that you think would be
a good match to CLU, or places you and your friends frequent for
information about the Christian marketplace, we would appreciate
hearing them. (Please email us!)
Also, if you have a presence on the web – a
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we’d really appreciate your adding a link to www.cluonline.com
or www.cwgministries.org
(or both!).
Thank you in advance for helping us help others to achieve their
destiny!
“Like
the Golf Announcers Do…” –
Journaling
from Pastor Terry
Lord, how important is journaling to my future and my accomplishing
of Your purpose and destiny for my life? What do You have to say to
me about journaling? And what is a good time for me to journal,
i.e., what part of the day?
“Terry, it is not the journaling per se that I am
interested in, but your obedience. I want you to go back over what I
have spoken and put into place a plan to accomplish them, with Me of
course, and begin to align your life to what I have said.
“Allow Me to direct your steps. Just as you have felt Me in
the last few weeks, guiding and directing, and it has brought such
confidence and peace, I will do that and more. Listen to Me as we
talk and share about those things, and I will take you deeper. Your
journaling will become your life source for fresh bread, for fresh
revelation, and for re-fueling. It will be like the coat that stokes
the engine…and gets you rolling.
“But be patient; it is one day at a time…I know the times
and dates that need to be accomplished, and I know when to move and
when to stop. And I say right now, be patient, and wait on Me. You
will know the time, and yes, there will be fruit borne that will
evidence that I am in the midst. Miracles will be just a part, but I
will use you to ignite passion, to fan into flame the dead and dry
wood of others, and to re-arrange paradigms that have become twisted
and distorted through religion and a lack of proper obedience and
alignment to Me…
“Trust Me as I have already said, and I will direct you. As
to the time, we will do it first in short segments throughout the
day…not just once, but several times…so be ready to sit down and
write and to listen…the promptings to hear will come in your
belly. You will know I have something to say because of the
effervescing in our stomach…let it direct you…and let it confirm
in you that it is Me talking.
“Have you noticed your desires changing?”
Yes, Lord, but why? We really haven’t worked on anything per se…
“But we have. We have identified things that were only
thoughts or questions in the past. Now they have been uncovered, and
have been surrendered...Once I have them, then I can do something
with them. In the past, you had thoughts, but you didn’t know how
to surrender them to Me. And so we didn’t talk about them.
“Besides, I am placing in you holy desires and holy passion
for Me…and the more you respond to that, the more it will grow and
your passion will become all-consuming. And you won’t have to work
at this or that, it will become natural. It will be our flow…and
at times you will say, this is too easy…and I will say, yes, that’s
the way I intended it…
“So don’t fight it, or try to complicate it. Just go with
it. And flow…throughout the day, when you read, when you pray,
when you work around the house, even when you are talking to others…you
see, I can speak into your spirit anytime. I am not bound by the
constraints of others. And I can speak to your spirit even when you
aren’t conscious of it...
“Let Me speak, and you listen. And then you say what you
just heard…Kind of like the golf announcers do…they just repeat
what they saw…you do the same…let the pictures become rich, and
full, and life-giving. Don’t despise them at all for now. Even if
they seem “wacky” or weird or odd.
“You will have to learn how to identify them, but by
critiquing them from the start you will only cut off your ability to
see them more clearly. Like a baby beginning to talk, experiment
with them. Go with it…and see if I don’t do more than you’ve
ever imagined. You see how easy this has been? You thought you were
going to get just a short word, and here it is, you’ve filled a
page with Me…”
You’re amazing, Lord.
“I know… (as you would jest)… But this is how I
intended for our relationship to be. But others distorted it, and I
am calling you to be restored in it and to restore it for others…Help
them see Me. Many don’t see. They think they do, but they only see
what they understand in their heads. Only what is letter, what is
black and white, and they have difficultly seeing anything beyond
the words on a page…Just as I showed you the other day, teach
others to hear and see…
“And Terry, let’s have fun…since your surgery we haven’t
had the time together we were having. I want to encourage you to not
let other things press in and steal that time. It is still of urgent
priority for you. Keep on top of this…if not our enemy will rob
you of not only your time, but your joy, your strength, your peace,
and your productivity. Press in to Me, and remain there…don’t
perceive this as something you have to ‘go in and out of’ but
rather a dwelling place that we can enjoy together…Be blessed
today…I love you….”
Get
Connected
Are you looking to tell people what God is speaking to you, or see
what God is saying to others? Check out the Forum at
www.cwgministries.org/forum
and register (completely free) today, and get the opportunity to
share and be encouraged!
CLU
Around the World…
Pastors Healed in Africa by Levious Zulu
“When I started the course ‘
Prayers
That Heal the Heart’ I cruised through it but when I reached
the end I realized how relevant the course is to our setting here in
Africa. I started all over again moving slowly so I could grasp
every part of the Seven Prayers.
“I wish to tell you that starting from September last year more
than 100 people have attended the Seminars I conduct every month.
One seminar I had more than 60 Pastors and church leaders in
attendance and God has been doing amazing things in these meetings
healing people’s hearts.
“The demand for the seminars have grown to other towns, now I
don’t seem to have time since I am in formal employment, I just
try to squeeze the seminars during weekends and holidays. The
testimonies of the people who have attended these seminars and
continued journaling are also amazing. God is working miracles
through these people. I would not be surprised if a revival breaks
out.
“God bless our University (CLU), Dr. Mark & Patti and all
faculty staff. Amen.”
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Humor
Heals – The Christian Barber
There was a barber that thought that he should share his faith with
his customers more than he had been doing lately. So the next
morning when the sun came up and the barber got up out of bed he
said, “Today I am going to witness to the first man that walks
through my door.”
Soon after he opened his shop the first man came in and said, “I
want a shave!” The barber said, “Sure, just sit in the seat and
I’ll be with you in a moment.” The barber went in the back and
prayed a quick desperate prayer saying, “God, the first customer
came in and I’m going to witness to him. So give me the wisdom to
know just the right thing to say to him. Amen.”
Then quickly the barber came out with his razor knife in one hand
and a Bible in the other while saying “Good morning sir. I have a
question for you... Are you ready to die?”
New
Translations Posted – Spread the Word to Those Who Could Benefit!
Special thanks to Philip R. Chandane for
translating “You Can Hear God’s Voice,” “Principles of
Christian Dream Interpretation” and “Healing Toolbox” into
Marathi (a dialect spoken in India).
Download
Marathi translations
Philip has a request below which you may want to help him fulfill.
If you do, please contact Philip directly at (philipchandane@yahoo.co.in).
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I
printed the copies of ‘You Can Hear the Voice of God’ in
Marathi and distributed here. I found it more useful as people
can easily keep in pocket or purse in easily read it anywhere,
anytime. The internet is good thing but it has limitations
here as majority of Marathi Christian people do not have
computers or internet connection in Mahrashtra. So it is
useful and practical to print and distribute the literature.
“I
prayed for this for a long time and now prayerfully suggest
you to take up this project. I have vast experience not only
in translation, but also printing, publishing and distributing
Christian literature. I think instead of just translating the
books, it will be good if we print here and distribute. With
your prayers and financial support we can work together for
the glory of God. Lord willing if you have any plans of
printing and distributing them in Maharashtra, I would be glad
to cooperate with you in that area also!
“I
thank God for bringing us together in His right time for his
Glory and be a part of your vision to reach the Marathi people
through quality Literature. I do this work as a ministry,
because I believe printed page is best and cheaper way of
evangelism.
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Special thanks to René Testa for translating
“The Four keys to Hear God’s Voice” and “Overcoming Blocks
and Hindrances to Hearing God’s Voice” into Afrikaans.
Download
Afrikaans translations
We have received offers from individuals around the world to
translate our books into various languages, and we now have free
material available on our website in 30
different languages (plus English!). We appreciate each and
every person who has given of their time and talent for this work.
If you would like to volunteer to translate any of our materials,
please contact Mark Virkler.
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