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Four-hour video taping of
How to Hear God’s Voice
with International School of Ministry
San Bernardino, CA
Standing
Against Sickness and Sin – Mark Virkler
Several prophetic words have been spoken recently about an attack of sickness
upon spiritual leaders. I know of half a dozen strong spiritual speakers and
leaders who are fighting cancer or had heart attacks and are fighting for their
lives.
As I have listened, I have felt the Lord saying that satan will attack each of
us at our weakest point and try to pull us down. Therefore we are to
strengthen ourselves in the Spirit and especially strengthen ourselves in the
areas where we know we are weak, so satan can have no inroads to destroy us.
Peter Daniels from Australia tells how to “write a weakness out of one’s
life.” He recommends that you sit down and visualize all the ways a failure in
this area would devastate and bring pain into your life. Visualize and describe
how it will hurt you, your family, your friends, your ministry and your Lord. Be
as detailed and descriptive as possible because this forms a powerful picture
which in turn creates intense energy that drives you away from the sin or
weakness and into the strong arms of the Lord. He says that he wrote 12 pages
one day, and through these 12 pages he was able to write a life-long problem
completely out of his life.
Physical health requires taking in good nutrition (including a great superfood),
exercising, cultivating healthy thoughts, and much, much more which we talk
about in our course “Take Charge of Your Health” which I highly recommend to
all. At the very least, you should read our book “Go
Natural.”
I also have a file on my computer of “Health Ideas”
which I send out to anyone requesting it that describes alternative and biblical
approaches to fighting cancer and other diseases. You owe it to yourself to
study and apply biblical principles of health care, and to rid your life of weak
areas where satan could attack you and bring you down. The warning we hear is
that we are entering a dangerous time. So protect yourself now!
Two-way
Journaling Blogs – An Anointed Idea from Uta Milewski (Buffalo, NY)
“Since taking Communion with God, I have enjoyed journaling, but I’ve often
wondered if what God was speaking was just for me or for others, too. It’s
been frustrating to keep it to myself, but I didn’t know what to do.
About a month ago I found the book God Calling. When I began to read, God’s
presence came, and I realized how others could be blessed by what God speaks to
me, because I was so blessed by that book.
“So in August I began to publish my journaling in a blog. At first I didn’t
tell anyone about it, but time and again situations arose with the people around
me that one of the blogs addressed. So I began to e-mail the link to
friends. Now I am finding that it is a blessing to those who are reading it.”
(utamilewski.blogspot.com)
Mark’s suggestion – Click on Uta’s website above and read a few of
her journal entries. You may also want to pray about whether God wants you to create
a journaling blog. Make sure your spiritual advisor reviews your journaling
entries so only pure rhema is posted. (Also, since Uta is secretary to
the Senior Pastor at LoveJoy Gospel Church, you will find a link on her website
to LoveJoy, which is where our family attends.)
Journaling
from Rev. Steve C. Stutz
“Don’t you remember all the time we spent talking about your getting out of
the parish? I love you and Krista so much that I have been arranging life to
bring into being all the circumstances that will be necessary for you to thrive
in the land I will give to you. It took 40 years for my people to be prepared to
enter their land—and I have been using each day to move you a step closer to
where I want you ultimately. Where you are now is where you must be during this
season. Your mentors are all around you if you will only open your eyes. Look
and listen as much as you can while I have you here.
“Steve, I know that you have areas in your make-up that I need to strengthen
before you will have faith enough to step out of the dead security you now enjoy
into the living abandon of my arms. You have inherited from your parents a set
of fears that I am breaking off of you. You really need to believe that I am
good, and that I really will take care of you—without the fortune of your
parents—that what I am calling forth in your life will be the best yet. Do not
lay foundations and build great houses when you are only a sojourner in this
place.
“Prepare yourself for the move that I am bringing about. Krista is very
correct to say you must move out of the rut in the road you have been walking.
Use the days you have now to drink deeply of Me. Share your experiences with
those around you. You are doing a great job of passing on my things to your
people.
“You were tuning into my presence last night when Janet was praying for Benny’s
knee. As you mentored her, you were only doing and saying what you sensed I was
doing. As you used the eyes of your spirit, you saw me behind him, you saw my
hand on his knee. This is why her second attempt was much more powerful than the
first. You directed her to connect with me first.
“I am honoring your desire to use the senses to minister. I was giving you
words last night, but you were distracted by the TV! Your ears are not that
sensitive yet to do both. I am very well pleased with you. I can’t tell you
how much I love you—I have to show you that by my death. You are going to make
it. All will be well. I am with you—keep walking on!”
Readers
Write Orlando Figueiredo – “I am happy to report that ‘Communion with God’
has now been taught in Fiji, and was very well received by the Bible college
students where I taught. We had some excellent journals from the students, who
also began spreading the teaching among their local Fijian friends.”
Tim Koop – “Hi Mark. My wife Val and I first saw you on “It’s a
New Day” aired in Winnipeg, Canada earlier this year. You were a very
interesting speaker and you also had some very interesting things to say about
hearing from God. It gave us a lot to think about, but what made me decide to
put some action into it was your guarantee. I thought that was such an
outrageous thing to say that I had to take you up on it. So we bought Dialogue
with God and read that, along with a lot of the other free stuff
available on your website. We convinced our cell group to study this topic and
so we are currently going through your new
DVD videos every Thursday.
“Of course, this message is completely life-changing. Over the months that we
have been dialoguing, it’s like our Christian life has finally begun. I can’t
imagine how we ever lived before we learned how to hear from God regularly. So
thank you for getting this message out and teaching us how to hear God’s
voice.
“I would like to say that the blessings I have received already from REN503
are AWESOME. God is so good! My relationship with the Lord has grown to a level
I could not have imagined even a year ago. Dialoging with God and looking for
vision have made me feel like a child, wanting to learn and experience more
every day.”
Mike Blackburn – “I have been blessed with a pastor who is a
friend and counselor and who has given me the opportunity to share my experience
through messages at my church. The September 10th message is based on ‘Hearing
God is as easy as...’” (www.tgpcommunity.org/message.htm)
Rev. Steve C. Stutz – “Mark – I was reading St.
Teresa of Avila’s Interior Castle this morning. She begins
the work thusly:
‘WHILE I was beseeching Our Lord to-day that He would speak through me,
since I could find nothing to say and had no idea how to begin to carry out the
obligation laid upon me by obedience, a thought occurred to me which I will now
set down, in order to have some foundation on which to build.’
“St. Teresa, looking for rhema from God with which to fulfill an
obligation she couldn’t do on her own, focuses her attention (vision) on
‘Our Lord’ and ‘a thought occurred’ (spontaneous flow begins) which she
then ‘set down’ in writing (journaling) which became one of the foundational
books of mystical theology in the western church.”
Humor
Heals Add this one to your billboard list...a local church posted it after the
recent Hurricane Ernesto rains: “Kinda makes that Noah thing seem more real,
doesn’t it?”
Monastery Life: A young monk arrives at the monastery. He is assigned to
helping the other monks in copying the old canons and laws of the church by
hand. He notices, however, that all of the monks are copying from copies, not
from the original manuscript. So, the new monk goes to the head abbot to
question this, pointing out that if someone made even a small error in the first
copy, it would never be picked up! In fact, that error would be continued in all
of the subsequent copies.
The head monk, says, “We have been copying from the copies for centuries, but
you make a good point, my son.” He goes down into the dark caves underneath
the monastery where the original manuscripts are held as archives in a locked
vault that hasn’t been opened for hundreds of years. Hours go by and nobody
sees the old abbot.
So, the young monk gets worried and goes down to look for him. He sees him
banging his head against the wall and wailing, “We missed the ‘R’!
We missed the ‘R’!”
His forehead is all bloody and bruised and he is crying uncontrollably. The
young monk asks the old abbot, “What’s wrong, father?” With a choking
voice, the old abbot replies, “The word was... CELEBRATE!!!”
Tent-making
Activity(Acts
18:1-4)
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New
translations posted – Spread the word to those who could benefit!
Special thanks to Desta Samuel Balla for translating the “Communion With God
Seminar Guide” into
Ethiopian.
Special thanks to Siew Yin for translating the “Four Keys to Hearing God’s
Voice” into
Indonesian.
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 22 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.
