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Is There Something Better Than a New Year's Resolution?

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I have discovered something far better than a New Year's resolution: It is a Divine Commission. Every January 1st I ask God what area He wants me to focus on as I begin a new year. I listen and I record what He tells me. I then focus on that area until I have mastered it and the Lord tells me it is time to move on.


Receive Your New Year's Focus and Resolution Through Two-way Journaling

I highly recommend everyone hear from God for the next period of their lives. Pray and let God tell you what area is important to Him for you to master during the next period of your life. Then allow Him to guide you as you explore and master that area over the next several months. For me it normally takes one year to master an area, and by way of example, for the last two years I have been focused on Vibrant Health Through Miracles and Gifts of Healings, and now, 120 blogs later and much healthier, I finally hear God say, "It is time to move on." 

Since I am a teacher in the body of Christ, God not only has me master areas, but then He guides me in developing simple, practical, revelation-based training modules which can be used by individuals or groups to help them master the same or similar areas in their own lives.

Now that I am just leaving a two year focus on achieving maximum health, does that mean my readers are ready to move on also? Maybe yes. Maybe no. God will tell each individual (and each group) what they are to focus on. Over 30 years of asking the Lord for annual direction for my life, I have noted that God has me focus on the area needed to be mastered next so I can continue to move forward in achieving the goals and purposes He has for my life.

What Does It Mean to "Focus On" a Topic?

Once God gives me an area to focus on, what do I do? I prayerfully meditate on all Scriptures on the topic. I read books by leaders in that area. I ask God to guide me to two or three people I can connect with who are ahead of me in that area, and I connect with them for a period of several months. I experiment, trying various things which I hope will take me forward. Some things work. Some don’t. I discard the things that don't work, and embrace the things which do. Eventually I arrive at a new level of mastery in the area!

Make Sure You Obtain the Highest Quality Mentors, So Your Growth Is Swift and Effective

Obviously, one’s passion and commitment to invest time and energy is important, as is the quality of the books and mentors you discover. These will determine how far you go and how quickly you master the area. So I am passionate to seek out good mentors and good training materials and I set aside quality time in pursuit of the area God has chosen for me.  

And incidentally, I feel that if I can place into a person’s hands good training materials, and they work in a group or with a good coach/instructor, they can learn in three months what it took me a year to learn.

OK, it’s your turn. Take some time in prayer and see what God wants you focused on for the next period of your life. 


Revelation-based, Proven, Life-transforming Resources for You OR Your Group

Four levels of intensity: Level 1 represents the simplest (personal spiritual growth) and level 4 is most in-depth (college level). Students within a group can be taking the same training module at different intensity levels (i.e. 1-4).

  1. Basic: 18+ Revelation-based Training Modules by Mark and Patti Virkler (1 hour homework per week, no tests, no degrees granted)
  2. Intermediate: 18+ Electronic Modules through the School of the Spirit (2-3 hours of homework per week, online self-scoring quizzes, CLU diploma awarded)
  3. Intermediate: 100+ Coaching Experiences from Communion With God Ministries (2-3 hours of homework per week, a coach provides guidance, no degrees)
  4. Advanced: 100+ Training Modules through Christian Leadership University (7 hrs homework per week, tests, grades, online instructors, degrees awarded)

Testimonies

The classes have been beyond anything I had hoped for. This has been more like an adventure than school. Vanessa Tinsley-Stone

Every Christian should read Naturally Supernatural at least once a week! You write so clearly it would be pleasant to sit under your teaching! It really would be a life-changing experience!  Isaac E. Rerri

I heartily recommend Prayers That Heal the Heart. It is the most biblical book I have read on counseling and spiritual warfare, in terms of emotional healing. While there are other good books out there that God has used, red flags have always gone up in my mind by their use of methods borrowed by modern psychology. This book isn't like that, and it is thoroughly practical with its exercises and worksheets. It can definitely be used by the Lord to change your life and break the enemy's power in your life. Brian Shilhavy

Praise the Lord for the 4 Keys to Hearing God’s Voice course! Through the adventure into the practices of journaling, vision, and unabashed praise I have come to feel closer to God than ever I have in my years of one-sided prayer and self-righteous appearances in church on Sunday. As a result of this course I have drawn infinitely closer to the Lord and continue to move closer still. Communion with Him is indescribably more rewarding than the lopsided prayer directed to a faraway God to which I was accustomed. Jessica Burton

“The best teaching I have ever seen on interpreting dreams” - Sid Roth

I have just interviewed Mark Virkler, an extraordinarily gifted man of God who teaches a course on understanding dreams. I have interviewed many on this subject over the years, but Mark’s approach is different. He is a very logical teacher. He guarantees after taking his course you will have at least a dream a week and understand them!

I took him up on his challenge, and it is working for me. I have had very few literal dreams in my life. And frankly, I usually ignore the symbolic dreams. I call them “pizza” dreams. However, since I started following Mark’s instructions, I have had dreams and I understand them! None of the other courses have worked for me. Now I have received major direction! I am so excited when I go to bed and look forward to God speaking to me in my dreams.


 

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Fulfill Your Financial Destiny

Fulfill Your Financial Destiny

by Mark and Patti Virkler | 66 Pages

Though the economic system (mammon) of this world is under a curse, we have received instructions for how to move out from that dominion and into the blessing of the Kingdom of God. God’s promises to His children have not changed with the whims of government or Wall Street, nor have His directions for how to walk in those promises. We can “choose not to participate” in the economic recession that is around us if we instead choose to obey the logos and rhema of the Lord and enjoy the blessings that result.

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Gifted to Succeed

Gifted to Succeed

by Mark and Patti Virkler | 189 Pages

There is no joy so complete as knowing who you are -- who God has made you to be and what your basic giftings and drives are. The goal of this book is to get you effectively functioning in roles which allow you to adequately express your heart motivations and gifts. The fulfillment you experience when you function in your gifts and calling is a joy almost beyond belief.

"Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will stand before kings; He will not stand before obscure men." (Prov. 22:29)

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The Great Mystery

Great Mystery

by Mark and Patti Virkler | 54 Pages

This is a workbook which guides you in meditating on hundreds of New Testament verses which speak of Who Christ is within us and how to touch and release Him and His wisdom, power and might continuously and effortlessly out through our lives. You will look up every New Testament verse on being "in Christ," "in Him" and "in Whom." In addition, you will meditate on the various names given to the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, and realize that all that He is is available within you and even joined to you (1 Cor. 6:17)! Absolutely amazing!

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Health Mastery Through MRT

Health Mastery Through MRT

by Mark and Patti Virkler | 82 Pages

Wouldn't it be great if there were a way for my body to tell me exactly what it needs and desires, without having to take expensive or invasive tests? Wouldn't it be amazing if I could perform these tests as often as I wanted, right in my own home (or anywhere I wanted), with no costly instruments necessary? 

Price: $19.95

Hearing God Through Biblical Meditation

by Mark and Patti Virkler | 179 Pages | $15.99 retail list price

For many years I studied the Bible incorrectly, and it produced death rather than life. Even though I had a knowledge of the Scriptures, I did not personally experience the life and the realities they revealed. The Bible calls this the ministry of death, rather than the ministry of righteousness (2 Cor. 3:6–9). Upon coming out of Bible college, I found myself just like the apostle Paul, attacking those who disagreed with my theology. 

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How Do You Know?

by Mark and Patti Virkler | 180 Pages

How do you know? What is the process you use to discover truth? I did not ask that question during the first 25 years of my life. I used eleven different methods for discovering truth including: if my parents said so, then it was so. If my teacher said it was so, then it was so. If my pastor said it was so, then it was so. If my theology said it was so, then it was so. I have discarded them all and adopted a twelfth method, which is in harmony with what the Bible teaches. We teach you this method in this book.

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How to Build a Winning Team

How to Build a Winning Team

by Mark and Patti Virkler | 105 Pages

Can I succeed like others have? What do I need to do? How do I go about it? What if I don't have the gifts necessary to do something great?  The wonderful truth revealed in Scripture is that God uses ordinary people to accomplish extraordinary feats, especially when they say, "Yes, Lord" to the destiny He has prepared for them!

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How to Receive the Baptism in the Holy Spirit

How to Receive the Baptism in the Holy Spirit

by Mark and Patti Virkler | 44 Pages | Published 2002

This brief booklet walks a person through the main obstacles to speaking in tongues, and shows how each one can be successfully overcome. It is down-to-earth, practical and biblical, and in it Mark Virkler shares the struggles he went through before he was able to speak in tongues. Some were theological issues and some simply practical issues, like the fact that if I am going to speak in tongues, I will need to speak. Otherwise, nothing happens.

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How to Walk by the Spirit

How to Walk by the Spirit

by Mark and Patti Virkler | 136 Pages | Previous name "Sense Your Spirit"

Are you like many western Christians who have been taught little about how to sense their spirits? Do you have trouble even defining what spirit sensations feel like within you, much less recognizing them? This training was birthed from Mark’s passion to live out of his spirit, and thus release the anointing of God. The problem he faced was lack of clear biblical definition as to what his spirit felt like. So Mark looked up every verse in the Bible on heart and spirit.

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Intimacy with the Holy Spirit

Intimacy with the Holy Spirit

by Mark and Patti Virkler | 223 Pages

This book leads you in meditating on and journaling about two hundred and fifty verses that discuss the Holy Spirit. You will grow in intimacy with the indwelling Holy Spirit, and the anointing within you will increase! You will exclaim as the disciples did on the Emmaus Road “Did not our heart burn within us…while He opened to us the scriptures?” (Luke 24:32)! In addition to being led to journal through these verses, you will read numerous two-way journal entries from Mark Virkler, as well as a five-page prayer at the conclusion of the book.

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