CWG Ministries Newsletter - December 2008

December 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.

Merry Christmas!!!
Jesus is VERY MUCH ALIVE and Well on Planet Earth

We at CWG Headquarters are wishing you a very blessed Christmas and New Year! The stories in this newsletter will re-affirm to you that Jesus is very much alive and active in the lives of each and every one of us. During the economic turmoil we are facing, it is so necessary to be able to turn to Jesus and ask Him for His input on the situation, and to actually receive it!

He reminds us that the economy of heaven is very different from the economy of earth. As we sow, we receive. As we believe, divine miracles happen. Please make sure you continue hearing, seeing, believing and obeying, so Gods supernatural provision can be experienced in your life.

Continue to spread the good news that the Lord desires a personal relationship with all of His children. Lead others into this wonderful relationship. May the world be a better place because you came by!

We appreciate you, your friendship and your joining with us to spread the message of intimacy with Christ.

Your love and support have meant so much to us over this last year. Thank you!

From the CWG Ministries & CLU Staff:

Mark Virkler Writer and Speaker
Patti Virkler Academic Dean and Treasurer
Cheryl Rinn Administrative Assistant and Customer Service
Charity Kayembe Editor and Customer Service
Joshua Virkler Technology and Marketing Manager
Donald Swartzlander Shipping Manager and Printer
Karen Tanner Missions and ISOM Coordinator
Karen King CLU Instructor
Nicholas Kusmich, Jr. CLU Instructor
Steve Bydeley CLU Adjunct Instructor
Nate Krupp CLU Adjunct Instructor
Joanne Krupp CLU Adjunct Instructor
Salvatore Cerniglia CLU Adjunct Instructor
Andrew Hardy CLU Adjunct Instructor
Arvid Moin CLU Adjunct Instructor
Over 50 Certified CWG Facilitators

This newsletter contains:

	Seminar Schedule (plus free group bonuses)
	December Discount Special
	How to Hear Gods Voice Being Taught in Kenya!
	Dreams Still Protect and Guide Today
	An Opportunity to Share a Gift at Christmas with Orphans in Sudan
	A Waitress Is Instantly Healed and Comes to Christ!
	Into the Prisons with the Voice of God
	The Wonderful Counselor Still Counsels!
	New Translations Posted
	Start a Lamad Encounter Group

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Date	Seminar	Location
Jan. 16-18	How to Hear God's Voice	El Monte, CA
Feb. 27,28	How to Hear God's Voice	Jacksonville, FL
Mar. 6,7	How to Hear God's Voice	Toronto, ON

Seminar details available at cwgministries.org/itinerary.

December Discount Special
Here is another great CWG Ministries Christmas Sale! Give these life transforming materials to others during this Christmas season. From now until December 23, 2008, you can request a 20% discount off everything by Mark and Patti Virkler! This includes books, CDs, DVDs and electronic versions of them. You can order just one item (but why would you?) or one of everything or 10 of one item or mix and match. Everything by Mark and Patti is on sale until we close our office for Christmas at 5:00 PM on December 23^rd. Call to place your order now at 1-800-466-6961! Outside the U.S. call 716-681-4896.

(If youd like to place your order online please note that the shopping cart will not reflect the discounted price nor will it charge your credit card automatically. When we receive your order in our office we will manually deduct the 20% Christmas Discount before putting through the charge. Thank you!)

I am so very blessed by the Communion with God series so far. It has only been about 2 weeks and it is the best thing that ever, ever happened to me. I am thoroughly enjoying my time with God and finally realizing how much God loves me. I mean I always knew he loved me but now I am feeling that love and security in him. I have learned how to commune with him and listen for his voice and the first time I did it was awesome and so surreal. Then I got into it and I actually hear him speaking to my spirit and I genuinely look forward to hearing from him and starting my day with him.

I am so excited by this course and can hardly wait to see what the end will be. This is just the tip of the iceberg. I am so glad that God led me to this ministry. I mean I am excited, truly excited to know that he always wanted to commune with me I just never knew how to listen and what to listen for and how to recognize his voice. I was looking for something dramatic but its in the stillness that I found him. Thank you so much and I know that my life will never, ever be the same. Me and Jesus on this journey, listening and doing his will. Thank you again. Excitedly, Ann McIntosh, NYC

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How to Hear Gods Voice Being Taught in Kenya!
I am Pastor Joseph Otieno Aloo a Pastor of Mombasa Praise and Worship Centre Mombasa Kenya. Sometimes in 2003 you send me very many free books and I have been busy reading and teaching the church members. These books are real and all that God shared with you and you put in writing is true and practical.

The books have not only helped me but even other churches within Mombasa and as far as Nairobi, Kisumu, Nakuru and right now I have been invited to go and teach in Uganda and later on Tanzania. Most Pastors looks at me as a graduate from overseas and yet I have not even stepped in our local Universities. The youths in our Ministry are busy reading and some will be sitting for the exams soon. My daughter Bery is now teaching these truths to a group of youths called Intimacy.

The congregation now prefers me teaching out of the book How to Hear God's Voice rather than have me do normal preaching. They come at 9.00 am for the teachings only. I do thank God for introducing me to you and you are great help to me. The Books has made all the church members come to love reading the Bible which is a thing which was not present before.

Now I have too started Home Bible School and It is wonderful. God bless you for being of great help to people like me who would have not been able to teach. My prayer life has changed so much and so do the congregation. In July this year I taught about 150 Pastors in Nyanza Province on Communion with God. They are arranging for another class for me next year. The Pastors in the area where I live have requested me to hold a once week conference next year to teach on the Communion with God.

Four Keys to Hearing God's Voice

Dreams Still Protect and Guide Today
The birth and early years of Jesus life were surrounded by five dreams and three visions. Gods revelation, purposes and protection were given through these dreams and visions. And praise the Lord, He is still offering revelation, guidance and protection through dreams and visions today, as is demonstrated by this just-received testimony from England:

When we were in India at the beginning of this year, we had some really tricky situations to deal with. We got through because the Lord directed the ministry through a series of six dreams that he gave to June and me. They started just before we left home, and continued through the trip. It was amazing and the way the revelation opened up the situations enabled us to see both situations transformed in the very short time we had in two different places. Thank you for bringing the importance of dreams to our attention.
- Nigel Hamilton

Principles of Christian Dream Interpretation

An Opportunity to Share a Gift at Christmas with Orphans in Sudan
I (Mark Virkler) met Michele Perry a few weeks ago at a taping for Sid Roths television program. She is a vibrant Christian who asked God to send her to the worst place possible to minister His grace. So now she is running an orphanage in Sudan (www.iris-sudan.org). You can see Michele and her children on her personal website at www.changethewayyousee.org (Note: She is believing God to replace the leg she is missing.) Micheles online journal is Love is the Movement.

Micheles request: We welcome you to give a gift of hope this Christmas season. Iris Sudan currently houses 82 children in a small rental building, and their lease expires at the end of the year. God has provided a piece of land that they are currently developing in preparation for their move-in date at the end of December. A friend of their Children's Village has generously offered to match every dollar given toward this building project through the end of 2008 up to $200,000. See Bricks of Hope Sudan. Each brick will be used to provide places where the children will eat, sleep, learn, play, and worship. The bricks you buy not only build a building; they build hope into the heart of a generation.

1. Make a pledge that will be matched dollar-for-dollar, brick-for-brick: To pledge an order of bricks or a specific donation that WILL BE matched, dollar for dollar, brick for brick up to 100,000 bricks or its equivalent $200,000: please send an email to bricksofhope@gmail.com no later than December 31, 2008. Their matching grant is determined by pledges and has a deadline! So, please do not skip this step in order for your gift to have full impact. In your email include your Name, Organization, Address, Phone, Number of Bricks (at $2 USD/brick) OR dollar amount of contribution.

2. Send in your donation: Make all checks out to Iris Ministries and make sure you designate the check on the memo line: SUDAN - Bricks of Hope. Mail to: Iris Ministries Sudan, c/o Diane Perry, 37 Preakness Plaza, Orange Park, FL 32073

The King will answer and say to them, Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me.

A waitress is instantly healed in Heidelberg, Germany as Christians precisely follow the rhema and vision God gives them! Dennis and Lynnie Walker (www.dunamisarc.org)

We went out to eat after a meeting. Carina said, Why dont we practice what we are preaching and minister to our waitress. Dennis said, I already got a word for her. She has back pain that needs to be healed. Then Carina also got a word of knowledge and said, She has a little girl she is supporting.

We called the waitress over, and both words were true. She said she had been going home with so much back pain lately that she had been asking her husband to massage it every night. She was newly pregnant.

Dennis asked her if we could minister healing to her. After answering a few of her questions, she agreed. Dennis then saw a picture of two fingers placed at a certain point on her back. Carina did so with her left hand and nothing happened. Then Dennis said, I saw it done with the right hand. So she tried it with her right hand, and all the pain left! (Doing on earth as in heaven. Catching the initiatives of heaven.) The lady moved around and couldnt believe her pain was gone!

(Note from Mark Virkler A concordance study on right hand will convince you that the power of God flows out through your RIGHT hand!)

Then I, Lynnie, asked her if she would like to say a prayer to ask the Spirit of Jesus to come live in her heart, and that He could lead her in her life and speak to her in her thoughts. She agreed. Dennis and I took each of her hands and I led her in a prayer to receive Jesus, with a full message of the gospel and an invitation to be filled with Jesus, the Fathers love, and with the Holy Spirit. She was glowing and was so thankful. She even wrote by e-mail the next day to thank us so much.

Free Resources on How to Release Divine Healing

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Into the Prisons with the Voice of God Mel Rutkoske
We minister in the jail as a team and today I was to be the support person since we rotate as to who gives the message. However, this morning I received a call and the other leader was sick and couldnt go. My first thought was, maybe I should skip jail ministry, but I knew that was not the voice of God so I quieted myself down, fixed my eyes on Jesus and asked Him Do you have a special word for these men?

Immediately the flow began as to what I was to share with the prisoners: My sons, I am your Creator. I love you. I love you with an unconditional love. Many of you have made Me your personal Savior but have been hurt and turned your back on Me. I have been here all the time; I never left you. I stand at the door of your heart and knock. I want fellowship with you. I have forgiven you, now forgive yourself

Do not look to the left. Do not look to the right. Look straight ahead and seek My face. Seek Me for direction in your life. I have good plans for you. Do not lean on your own understanding. Trust Me. Seek Me with all your heart. Forgive that I might forgive you.

Be thankful this day, turn from bitterness and resentment, and be thankful. I know you better than you know yourself. Do not dwell on the past; this is a new day. Trust Me. I will lead you if you allow Me to. Be thankful this very day. I want to take you to a new level of a personal relationship with Me. I love you, My sons.

As I shared the above with the inmates, many of the men felt this was definitely a word from the Lord for them. One young man in particular, was not going to come to the service because he felt God had turned His back on him and he felt all alone. However the Spirit prompted him to come to the service and this man said that the words from Jesus spoke directly to his heart. Many of the men with tears shared even in the midst of being in jail how they felt Gods love and shared how they were thankful.

I know that God is teaching me to trust Him and He is stretching me as I rely on His leading.

The Wonderful Counselor Still Counsels! Pastor Terry
Father, are there areas of my life that have not been settled or resolved that may be causing my physical problems? What areas of my life are not in alignment with truth and Your will?

Terry, take My hands. Do you trust Me?

Yes, Lord!

Then hear My words. You must be honest with your pain. You too often want to ignore the pain of emotional struggle thus leading to your stress. You havent learned yet how to surrender the painful experiences you currently face to Me. Let Me show you. As I had you read the other day, you must pour out your emotions to Me until you are spent. Until you have released these things to Me, you havent let go of them. You look for answers and solutions, but you havent released them, or looked to Me yet for the solution.

Lord, that doesnt make sense to me. If Ive looked to You for answers, then why is that not sufficient? I have come to You.

Because, Terry, you are looking for an answer rather than Me to fill the void and Me to fill the emptiness, or Me to restore and heal. You still want a piece of information that you think will resolve the issue. Can you trust Me, that I AM the answer? I can remove, restore, heal, and return you to a place of wholeness and healing. Let Me fill you, Terry, with My presence when you feel stressed. You too often have carried it until you came up with a solution, or the emotion simply subsided. Thats not an answer, Terry. Thats simply you figuring it out.

As Ive told you before, there is a spiritual dynamic wherein I embrace the pain you are carrying, because I already carried it on the cross, then overcame it. So I can remove the sting of death associated with the pain. It also breaks the pathway to former destructive thoughts and patterns that have moved you back into your past mentality.

Are there areas of concern? Yes, some. Some that will take timeAs you are doing, keep pressing in to My Spirit and My presence. You will find all you need there. As to any specific areasthere is still fear of man. You have come a long way, but you must surrender that. It is still too much a stronghold in your life. Still too much of a priority, and I cant move in freedom in your life with that spirit in operation.

Lord, tell me what to do.

Die, Terryyou must die to the feeling of self protection. And die to the feelings of safety and security. You have built walls to keep the pain out, but it has also kept Me out, and I have not been able to accomplish all I desire. Die to the flesh.

Father, I invite You into those areas. Help me to be more aware of the unhealthy patterns I have used to protect myself.

Terry, become vulnerable to your wife, and to those in spiritual authority, and to those you submit to. Become vulnerable to correction and to exhortation. You are on the right path, but you still need to lay more down. Give up your rights to choose the appropriate response because those you have used in the past have not been beneficial or helpful in any way and must be abandoned.

I will teach you new ways. Ways that seem at first odd, and strange and very uncomfortable, but they will be Spirit led, and will produce not only in you, but in others a spirit of humility and of restoration and of peace. Listen to the thoughts that I put in your head, and trust Me and your heart to lead you You know youve sensed this before, but have ignored the words and thoughts, because it was more comfortable to stay in control.

Look into My eyes, Terry. What do you see?

Lord, I see pools of loverivers of water flowing from Your eyesa pure gold river of love and joy and peace.

Yes, a river of joy, and peace flowing toward you. Receive it, Terry. Because I have so much to give you it will amaze youStay in the river of My love flowing from My eyesyou must stay close to receive itand keep your eyes fixed on Meand I will fill you to overflowing. Stay here...in this place, and see where we go togetherWant to be amazed? Just stay hereokay?

Yes, Lord, Yes!

Four Keys to Hearing God's Voice

New Translations Help Us Spread the Word
Special thanks to Ren Testa who has translated Dialogue With God into Afrikaans. It is now available for free downloading.

Chapters 1-5 of Dialogue With God have been translated into Portuguese and are available for free downloading. (Name withheld upon request.)

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 over 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.