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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Our newsletter this month highlights two wonderful examples of meditating on the Scriptures, bringing together the Logos and the Rhema of God to have our hearts and lives changed: the book Spirit-Led Journaling Through John’s Gospel by Andrew Hardy and the journaling about Psalm 36:8 by Janelle Anderson. We want to encourage you to explore this kind of biblical meditation by offering our Through the Bible book and audio teaching for our May special.

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Update from Mark Virkler

Item One
In our How to Hear God’s Voice seminars we often speak together confessions of faith, to help set us free in the Spirit. Many times I have been asked if I had those confessions written out and available, but I have not had them in the past. I have recently put some on paper, and in this newsletter we have included a number of them.

Now, wherever you are, whenever you desire to boost your faith or break free from spiritual bondages, you can use them to declare truth in your life. Be sure the confessions are coming from your heart by using the “language of your heart” which is vision, flow and emotion. Enjoy increased spiritual freedom, and share them with others to help set them free. (The confessions may be found later in this newsletter.)

Item Two
A wonderful new free book is available for you to download. Andrew Hardy, a CLU Instructor from England, has just completed the book “Spirit-Led Journaling Through John’s Gospel”! It guides you in journaling through the gospel of John. Download it here and let the combination of the Word and the Spirit invigorate your morning devotions. Share this with your friends!

Item Three
This last week we were privileged to sign certificates of completion for 25 prisoners in Windhoek Central Prison in Windhoek, Namibia who had each just completed two CLU courses under the teaching of MacDonald Kambonde, a CLU student and a prison inmate. We are thrilled that these courses are so reproducible in all parts of the world and in every situation. Thank you, MacDonald, for taking the voice of God within prison walls!

A testimony from one former prisoner, Bobby Twine, Jr.
In December 2002 the Lord spoke to me and said, “It is time for you to become mentally knowledgeable in My Word. You need to seek and find a school of ministry that will reward you with a degree. I have given you the anointing to minister. The Spirit of the Lord is upon you, because I have anointed you. Use this time of incarceration to learn and retain a complete knowledge of My Word.”

I spoke to my family during a visit at Bland Correctional Center. I told my mother that the Lord desires for me to have a degree in ministry. There is a work for me to do when I’m released and I need to be prepared for it. My sister began an online search for seminary degrees via correspondence. The Lord revealed “Christian Leadership University”. It is by an act of God that I am enrolled. Under normal circumstances this would never have occurred. The Lord spoke to me in a vision. I responded and acted on that vision. I am now a student with the aspiration of receiving a doctoral degree in Divinity because I had a dialogue with God!

It is a miracle of God how He put me, a former crack addict, on the backside of the wilderness to detox and surrender my life to Him. I marvel at His wisdom, knowing that it would take the conviction of the possession of crack cocaine and a ten year sentence in the state penitentiary to transform my life.

In the spring of 2003, I began receiving Bible studies from Communion with God Ministries, at three years into my prison sentence. The studies filled me with an illumination of the Word of God that I had never experienced before. The more I learned the more I wanted to learn until being in His presence was the only excitement for me.

I was overwhelmed with the change within me. The things I used to do were not interesting to me anymore. The people I used to know were not the kind of people that I wanted to associate with anymore. The places I used to go I didn't want to go there anymore. People thought I was weird! All I wanted to do was study and watch the Christian network.

Two years later, I was ordained to preach the Word of God, in prison. The Lively Stones Ministries named me as the Associate pastor of the weekly Sunday evening service where I had the opportunity to preach, baptize, and lead other inmates to Christ. I was the Associate pastor there for three years before I was released on January 28, 2008. My father and mother and my sister greeted me, with several other prison ministries, on the other side of the gate. In her hand was my Associate Degree in Biblical Studies that I had just received from CLU. GOD CAN DO ANYTHING BUT FAIL!

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Spirit-Anointed Confessions
The Four Keys to Hearing God’s Voice: Stillness – Vision – Spontaneity – Journaling

Hearing God’s voice is as simple as quieting yourself down, fixing your eyes on Jesus, tuning to spontaneity, and writing.

Dear Jesus, I repent for believing that if I quiet my mind in Your presence, satan will get me. From this point on I will believe that when I ask for Your Spirit, I will receive Your Spirit. I will not get a serpent. I will not get a stone. I will receive the Holy Spirit! I repent of any belief that satan will get me. He will not get me! You will get me! I trust You, God, to “get” me.

I can release the anointing of God in the area You, God, have asked me to release it. I can release God’s revelation and power! I do release God’s revelation and power. Thank You, Jesus!

I choose to present both sides of my brain to the Holy Spirit to use and to flow through.

I can believe for five minutes. Once I learn to believe for 5 minutes, I am going to learn to believe for 10 minutes.

I choose to let pictures and visions bubble up within me by the Holy Spirit. I choose to be childlike. It is so much easier than living all stressed out.

I am a vessel. I contain the Holy Spirit. Much of what is within me is not me. It is the one I contain. It is the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is within me. I sense Him as a river. He’s flowing all the time. God’s power, grace, wisdom and visions flow effortlessly within me.

By a miracle of God, I have been joined to Almighty God. I am a partaker of God’s divine nature. I have been given a new heart and a new Spirit. I am pure gold at the core of my being. My new heart is pure and trustworthy! Thank You, Jesus!!!

God, I am sorry for not presenting the eyes of my heart to You. I choose to fix my eyes upon You as You have commanded. I choose to look for vision. I choose to honor vision. I choose to ask for vision. I will honor the pictures that light upon my mind as coming from You. I am a believer. I believe I can meet with God, Jesus and angels on the screen inside my mind, and I believe these are actual divine encounters, even as they were for Daniel. I am a believer. I believe the Bible works in me!

Seeing in the Spirit world with the eyes of my heart is a biblical technique. God speaks to me through dream and vision. Godly imagination is commanded as being part of biblical meditation. I choose biblical meditation. I choose to imagine. I choose to honor my imagination. It is a gift from God for me. I present the eyes of my heart to God to fill with divine vision. He does! I can see vision, and I can train others to see vision also.


Related article: Help! I Have Trouble Seeing Vision!

River of Delights – Journaling with Scripture – Janelle Anderson
“They drink their fill of the abundance of Thy house; and Thou dost give them to drink of the river of Thy delights” (Psalm 36:8).

Vision: I see someone (me, I guess) reaching up and into something, like an invisible but very real place. It’s like sticking your hand into a bag that is filled with a thick, jelly-like substance.

What are You saying to me, Lord?

There is a richness, a fatness, an abundance I want you to reach out for and press into. This river of My delights, this abundance of My house will satisfy you to the depths. I want to satiate your being with My richness and My abundant delights and pleasure.

It is a place where you will no longer be in want of anything because in this place I totally satisfy your soul. You’re reaching out for it now but only with your hand. You are fascinated by it and interested in it, but to truly partake, you must be immersed and committed with all your being.

It is the Promised Land, it is Eden, it is where you were created to live, in My presence, totally immersed in My rich abundance of pleasures for your soul. I desire to satisfy you so completely and to pour out on you all of the richness of My glory. This is My delight and I delight in filling you with My life, My richness, My fatness, My fullness, My power, My love! It is all here for you, My daughter. Drink your fill! Come and partake of all My abundant delights.

Lord, please take me to this place in You, I truly want to go there! Bring me into this place of abundance and richness of Your presence and walking with You there in the river of Your delights! I surrender all of my being to You right now and I lay down anything and everything that hinders me from this place in You.

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