CWG Ministries Newsletter - God's Voice World Wide - April 2008

April 2008 Gods Voice Worldwide

From Dr. Mark Virkler, Author of How to Hear Gods 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.

This newsletter contains: Seminar Schedule (plus free group bonuses) Finally! The Lamad New Testament Aprils Discount Special Course of the Month 25% off tuition Gods Voice Intervenes and Offsets a Fatal Heart Attack Give Us Some Link Love Journaling: Like the Golf Announcers Do CLU Around the World Health Corner Humor Heals New Translations Posted & the Opportunity to Fund a Tract in India Start a Lamad Encounter Group

Bring a group to an upcoming seminar and receive FREE books, free admission to the seminar (maximum value $20), and $125 off your next Christian Leadership University course! Click here to find out how.

Date	Seminar	Location
Apr. 25,26	How to Hear God's Voice	Buskirk, NY
May 16,17	Christian Dream Interpretation	Hephzibah, GA
Jun. 27,28	How to Hear God's Voice	La Mesa, CA

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 yearsa 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:

	I would like to thank Communion With God Ministries for hosting my reflective commentary and Translation of Matthew and Marks 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.

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

Aprils 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:

	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.

During the month of April, you can save money when you purchase these life-changing materials for you and your Bible study group.

	Option 1: Get the two main books, Naturally Supernatural and The Great Mystery, plus the accompanying two-hour DVD for only $29.95!
	Option 2: Get the two books and the two hours of CDs for only $24.95.
	Option 3: For the best deal of all, you can get the two books and audio teaching electronically as ebooks and MP3s for only $19.95!

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 of the Month Save 25%
If you really want to make this revelation your own, why not take the CLU course REN207 Naturally Supernatural? 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!

 

Gods 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 Were 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 didnt 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 church or ministry website, or even a FaceBook profile or a blog wed 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 engineand gets you rolling.

But be patient; it is one day at a timeI 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 daynot just once, but several timesso be ready to sit down and write and to listenthe promptings to hear will come in your belly. You will know I have something to say because of the effervescing in our stomachlet it direct youand let it confirm in you that it is Me talking.

Have you noticed your desires changing?

Yes, Lord, but why? We really havent 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 didnt know how to surrender them to Me. And so we didnt talk about them.

Besides, I am placing in you holy desires and holy passion for Meand the more you respond to that, the more it will grow and your passion will become all-consuming. And you wont have to work at this or that, it will become natural. It will be our flowand at times you will say, this is too easyand I will say, yes, thats the way I intended it

So dont fight it, or try to complicate it. Just go with it. And flowthroughout the day, when you read, when you pray, when you work around the house, even when you are talking to othersyou 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 arent conscious of it...

Let Me speak, and you listen. And then you say what you just heardKind of like the golf announcers dothey just repeat what they sawyou do the samelet the pictures become rich, and full, and life-giving. Dont 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 itand see if I dont do more than youve ever imagined. You see how easy this has been? You thought you were going to get just a short word, and here it is, youve filled a page with Me

Youre 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 othersHelp them see Me. Many dont 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 pageJust as I showed you the other day, teach others to hear and see

And Terry, lets have funsince your surgery we havent 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 thisif 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 theredont perceive this as something you have to go in and out of but rather a dwelling place that we can enjoy togetherBe blessed todayI 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 peoples hearts.

The demand for the seminars have grown to other towns, now I dont 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 Ill 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 Im 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 Gods 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).

	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.

 

Special thanks to Ren Testa for translating The Four keys to Hear Gods Voice and Overcoming Blocks and Hindrances to Hearing Gods Voice into Afrikaans.

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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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