CWG Ministries Newsletter - July 2003

 


July 2003 God's Voice Worldwide From Dr. Mark Virkler
Author of Communion With God and President of Christian Leadership University
Vision: To Saturate the World with Communion With God

This newsletter contains: CLU Graduation Service; New 10-part CWG Seminar Video Series; How to Be Safe This Year; Enroll Now in CLU for the Fall; CLU Courses Impact Students' Lives; CLU Students Journal; Healed of Environmental Sickness During Seminar; Applications of the Spirit-Led Reasoning Process by Mark Virkler

CLU Graduation
This year's annual CLU graduation ceremony was conducted June 22nd, during the Sunday morning service at Abundant Life Baptist Church in Jacksonville, North Carolina. Dr. Mark Virkler brought the commencement address and, together with Apostle A. G. Mullen Jr., presented certificates and degrees to a number of students from their Bible school and from CLU. The following students graduated from CLU: Rita Gaither, Ph.D. in Christian Counseling, Zinabu S. Degife, Ph.D. in Christian Leadership, and Masresha Wodajo, Bachelor of Christian Counseling.

New 10-part Video Series of the CWG Seminar Being Produced You Can Help!
Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship has just co-sponsored the production of a 10-part video of the Communion With God Seminar. The taping was awesome, with 48 livewire participants. This series is being edited now, and will be television quality when completed. CWG Ministries is contributing $5000 toward the production cost. We could use your help in making this wonderful tool available to the body of Christ for years to come. $3500 has been raised so far. If you are led to contribute, please send checks to CWG Ministries, 3792 Broadway St., Cheektowaga, NY 14227, or call our offices (1-800-466-6961) if you would like to make a donation by credit card. All contributions are tax deductible. Thank you for your help.

Statistics from a Preacher: How to Be Safe This Year

  1. Avoid riding in automobiles because they are responsible for 20% of all fatal accidents.
  2. Do not stay home because 17% of all accidents occur in the home.
  3. Avoid walking on streets or sidewalks because 14% of all accidents happen to pedestrians.
  4. Avoid traveling by air, rail, or water because 16% of all accidents involve these forms of transportation.
  5. Of the remaining 33%, 32% of all deaths occur in hospitals. Above all else, avoid hospitals.


You will be pleased to learn that only .001% of all deaths occur in worship services in church, and these are usually related to previous physical disorders. Therefore, logic tells us that the safest place for you to be at any given time is at church! Bible study is safe, too. The percentage of deaths during Bible study is even lower.

FOR SAFETY'S SAKE - Attend church and read your Bible. IT COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE!

Enroll Now for the Fall!
It's time to sign up for the Christian Leadership University courses you want for the Fall. Grow in intimacy with God and the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Let your life be transformed by meditation upon the Word of God, and living in His Spirit.

CLU Courses Impact Students' Lives Around the World!
Australia - We ran the course for the whole year last year and were blessed out of our socks. There was hardly a night that the Holy Spirit Himself didn't come and minister to us. Many of the group, we included, have put into our lives many of the biblical principles that you taught. Thank you for being obedient in putting the series down; it continues to bless us so much. Jim Willis

Bolivia - I am so blessed with every course I take. I shared Gifted to Succeed and Achieving Your Potential while in Bolivia. The Lord's laborers were really blessed with the teachings. I left information for them to contact you directly for further information. Conchita

Taiwan - Greetings from Taiwan. I have just completed the course Counseled by God and I have to say that it has been one of the most life-changing things I have ever done. The principles in the course touched me and ministered to me very deeply. On one of the tapes, one of the gentlemen from Australia was giving a testimony and he said, 'We don't ask Jesus to help us do something, we ask Him to do it.' Then you repeated that statement just after him. That revelation has changed my life. It is amazing the things the Lord is doing now as I realize it's Him doing it through me. I'm just the vessel. Thank you so much for the teaching and I am looking forward to the next course. Cindy

USA - Communion With God truly is the best course I have ever taken. Ken Day

CLU Students Journal
I saw the Lord next to the sea; I joined Him and began to skim stones on the water. I got 3 skips. The Lord did the same and it skipped to the horizon. He grinned. I did it again and this time did better - 5 skips. Again the Lord did it and it went to the horizon. As I bent to get another stone He stopped me and gave me a stone. It didn't look like a good skimming stone, but I took it. I threw it and it skimmed TO THE HORIZON. The Lord looked at me with a smile and said, 'Paul, what I put in your hand goes further than the things you pick up.' WOW...it has caused me to ask the question when things are offered me and invitations come, is this what the Lord is putting in my hand or is it something I am picking up! - Paul Morley, England




Father, I realized again, over the weekend, talking with my friend Wayne that I have such a hard time really believing You and Your words to me. I want to and I try but find myself doubting so much. I believe, but help thou my unbelief. Why do I have such a hard time believing? How do I simply believe and trust You?

Reply: As you repeatedly listen, hear and take to heart what I am saying, you will begin to believe with your whole heart. There is a chipping away at the walls and patterns of unbelief that have been a part of you for so long. Also, as I show you specific areas of doubt and unbelief, you must bring them to Me, lay them down and repent of that which you have held on to; to the lies and misconceptions of Me and also of who you think yourself to be. I am not in many ways who you think I am and you are not in many ways who you think you are.

As I mentioned earlier, your ungodly beliefs lead you to failure over and over again. Unbelief is sin. It is one of the most damnable sins that a Christian indulges in. It is one of the root causes why My children go into all sorts of sins and failure. You see yourself as such a failure, such a hopeless case and therefore you already have given up and thrown in the towel to defeat and failure. You convince yourself even before the fight that you will not win, which results in certain failure and defeat. When one goes into battle already believing that they will lose, then there is no hope or strength to conquer. Defeat is inevitable.

But I do not see you that way! I am not convinced or persuaded of those lies and misconceptions. You are My son. Bought with My precious blood. More than a conqueror! An overcomer! A delight to the Father. You are overturning many years and generations of ungodly belief and ungodly structures that have been set up against the knowledge of God. I will help you to identify and then to pull down ungodly patterns of unbelief in your life. I will bring you to a place of utter rest in Me and to a place of great intimacy which will result in great exploits that will reach the nations. FIX your eyes on Me! I am able to do this. I am the Great I Am.

You are no different than My disciples were. They were also steeped in great unbelief as they walked with Me and saw all that I did and yet they were still engulfed in unbelief and ungodly patterns of thought. But I brought them to a place of great faith and relationship with Me. I am faithful. Great is My faithfulness to you. You are Mine. You are Mine just as much as the apostles were Mine. They were not more My children or more favored than you. You are just as much a child of Mine as they were. Continue to acknowledge and repent of your sin of unbelief and turn your attention and focus to Me, to My words for you and you will continue to experience a transformation in your life that will revolutionize your world that will in turn, revolutionize all those that you are called to affect.

Trust Me like a little child would trust his father. Remember Josiah at a young age when you repeatedly told him to trust you when he was ready to jump into your arms in the water. He was so afraid to jump, but you persuaded him to trust, to jump, because you knew you would not fail him. And you did not. He jumped, then again and then again until his fear of the water was overcome. Trust was built and established. Now, trust Me and jump. I will catch you. You can do it. Jump! I cannot fail you. I will not fail you. I will catch you. You are forever safe in My arms. You will not drown. I will not fail you. Trust will be built and established. Mike Bastien, Canada



Father, what do You want to say to me today? What would You have me do?

Karen, look to Me. I know you are uncomfortable and wondering how this is all going to come out. Yes, you are in the death to the vision stage wherein you think life is falling apart on you, and you realize there is nothing you can do about it. You see doors closing on you and none opening at the moment. You feel boxed in with no place to go. This shall soon pass.

I am Your place and I want you to simply trust Me. The ministry I am calling you to is to be accomplished by My power so all will know it is from Me. When I am lifted up, I will draw all men unto ME. I will provide for you as I have promised. I know your needs. I know all about the bills. I know your desire to give more into My kingdom. You are important to Me, so important that I am taking special care to teach you these lessons. Relax, and enjoy Me and the life I have set before you. I am always with you and I am giving you time to come apart with Me in this wilderness. Rejoice in My love and that all is well even though to you it doesn't seem that way. I am refining you so you can be the clean, pure vessel of gold that you desire to be for Me and so I can work mightily through you. You have nothing to fear.

Thank You, Father. Take me. Work out Your precious will. By the power of the Holy Spirit, I take my hands off my life, my finances, my health, the ministry You are calling me to, work, everything. Karen, Ohio

Healed of Environmental Sickness During Seminar
During the Go Natural! seminar, when we prayed for healing, I came forward for prayer for environmental sensitivity. The prayers involved the use of visualization. I'm ecstatic to say that the majority of things that used to give me extreme headaches, no longer bother me at all. (I still can't handle scented candles, but with the junk they put into them, I'm not sure I want them around anyway.)

During prayer, I saw Jesus standing in front of me, with His hands spread open. What looked like lightning was coming out of His hands and going into my body. It was like I was outside myself looking on, and I disappeared in what looked like a brightly glowing white bag. Suddenly, it burst, and there I was, only I was transparent. I had a body, but it was sort of see-through. Kind of like holding a thin sheet of paper up to a light. There were no blemishes in my body anywhere, no dark spots, I was clean. I understood this to mean that I was healed.

Immediately following the seminar, I took my wife to the two places that I have avoided like the plague: Sears perfume counter, and The Body Shop. They used to be guaranteed to give me a dusey of a headache, just walking by. Well, we wandered through both places, probably spending 45 minutes in total, and not even a hint of pain. My wife got some new perfume, and I got another reason to thank and worship God, and praise and glorify and magnify the name of Jesus. (Not that I needed another one, like most people in North America, I was already blessed beyond belief.) Thank you for your faith, and for your obedience to God. Lawrence Willson, Ezekiel Ministries

Applications of the Spirit-Led Reasoning Process - Mark Virkler

When trying to solve a problem I generally do the following:

  1. I clearly define the question, staying tuned to pictures, flow, and peace.
  2. I clearly define the goal and any blockages to achieving it, staying tuned to pictures, flow, and peace.
  3. I listen to Scripture and to life, exploring the steps that will bring forth release and victory, staying tuned to pictures, flow, and peace.
  4. I present these steps carefully, clearly, biblically, and expectantly to the hungry seeker, listening to his response to discern if his need has been met and fulfilled. If it hasn't, I re-adjust what I am saying until it is being said in a way that is meaningful to the hearer.

When presenting truth to another person, the following is suggested:
You need to constantly get inside the head of the person you are talking to, and discern their frame of reference and their frame of knowledge. Then answer their questions, building line upon line, starting from where they are and taking them slowly and carefully to where God wants them to go.

Stay tuned to flow, pictures, and peace throughout this entire process. Check with them constantly to see if they are keeping up with your line of thought and are in agreement with it, seeing what you are seeing. Work slowly, beginning from their frame of reference, using their vocabulary, and moving carefully and slowly, making sure you do not omit any key points. The books of Romans, Galatians and Hebrews are grand examples of this. Explore them to see a demonstration of this methodology.

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