August 2007 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. Bring a group to an upcoming seminar and receive FREE books, free admission to the seminar (maximum value $20), and $125 off your next Christian Leadership University course! Click here to find out how.
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What Friendship with God Isn't Journaling I have been praying about what it means to be a friend of God, knowing that not every believer is a friend of God automatically. While singing to the Lord recently He spoke to me that He wanted to tell me something and that is what I recorded here.
Yes, Lord, Your servant is listening.
Prophetic words alone do not indicate that someone is My friend. Remember Samuel? He was just a boy and did not know Me when I spoke to him the first time. Remember also King Saul? My Spirit came upon him and he prophesied when he was in rebellion. Friendship with Me includes knowing My ways and not only My words. Remember how I spoke to Abraham My servant and Moses as well? They knew why and not just what I was doing. Remember how others in the camp of Israel prophesied on the journey from Egypt to the Promised Land? Yet they only knew what I was saying and not why I was saying it. Revelation of Scripture and prophetic words do not equal friendship with Me. Friends know that because or the so that of the action or command, whether it pertains to them or if it is for intercession on behalf of someone else. (Then God began to describe to me how friendship with God is different from regular friendship.) The heart of the King can only be shared with those who are fully committed to the King and His Kingdom. Only those committed to the King and His Kingdom can handle the truth and the weight of the Kings heart. All others will become selfish or afraid. They will use the ways of the King for their own gain in the eyes of the other subjects. Or they will leave the King because the weight of the Kings heart is too heavy to bear. This is why friendship with Me begins with servanthood. Servanthood is loving obedience to the King. Those that love Me and those that are friends with Me obey Me. In this place a person finds commitment to the King and His Kingdom. The lower a person goes the closer they will be to hearing My heart. Pride has no room in My Kingdom. As a person is low and obedient they will see that I am faithful and they will dream of knowing My ways. This is the beginning stages of becoming My friend. Serve Me, son, and you will see this is true. I love you with an everlasting love. Obviously the Lord wanted to correct some ideas that I had. I thought that being a friend of God looked like being able to prophesy or to know great mysteries from Scripture. And while those things can be included in being a friend of God, it is clear to me now that they do not equal being a friend of God. The Bible even records that people will go to hell that have prophesied in Your Name and that even if I know all mysteries but do not have love that I have missed it. I must be fully committed to God and His Kingdom. We all start as subjects to the King (Rom. 10:9) and perhaps grow into friendship with Him. I do not think that I am a friend of God right now. It is my prayer that I will be. Even as I thought about this I wept that God shared with me some of the whys of being a friend with Him. A Journaled Poem: A City on a Hill Pam Lina You are a city on a hill, a lighthouse to the nation, A royal, holy, priesthood, a chosen generation. I have called you out of darkness, to manifest My light, You are now My people, Go up and fight the fight. As you climb My mountain, you must throw off every weight, If others leave, dont listen, theres no time for debate. I need your full attention, as you grip hold of jagged rocks, Each step you scale is crucial, for My Kingdom it unlocks. My Spirit is compelling you to seek My face and not My hand, Buy gold from Me, refined in fire, this is My command. This is My holy mountain on which you now ascend, I require your participation so you may apprehend. My resurrection power is here it lifts you to the top, For I have heard you say to Me, Lord, Im tired, I want to stop. You have pursued and honored Me, when you felt like turning back. Your earnest prayers went up to Me even when the times were black. At every plateau you waited, for the breath of My fresh air, As each trauma that unfolded left you feeling stripped and bare. You know there is a price to pay, you must lay down your life, You cant afford offenses now, it causes too much strife. You are empty now and broken you have identified with Me, Youre drawing from My virtues, for you have found the key. I have taken you beyond yourself, you stand together on the peak, Youll see great signs and wonders, and with boldness you shall speak. As the kings of the earth take their stand, and the nations rage in vain, My mountain top will thunder and declare My imminent reign. Theres a breaking in the heavenlies, in which My glory will appear, For you have heard the clarion call, thats ringing sharp and clear. And as you speak the words you hear, you send out My decree, You are a city on a hill, where all nations will be free. CLU Student Shares the Four Keys in Burundi! Joe DiLeo I returned from Burundi, Africa last week, after a two-week mission there with Times Square Church.   While there I had the opportunity to share some of the teaching on keys to hearing Gods voice. I gave out the 4 Keys tracts in French to some pastors there whom I met. I also asked one of the pastors who served as our pastors translator to translate the 4 Keys tract into their language, Kirundi, and he said by email this week that he would do that. Prayers That Heal the Heart Helps Restore a Marriage (names have been changed) Last fall when I initially started praying the 7 prayers over my life, I started to see changes happening in people who were related to those prayers. Then I heard Mark speak in one of the lecture CDs about the possible correlation that when we pray to have things break in our own lives, or situations, that its possible that it also breaks in the lives of others. I believe this, and I experienced this while at Elijah House. The first situation has to do with my lack of trust in my husband. This started when his addiction to pornography was exposed. These past 4 years I have struggled with the fear that every time I leave home, I will come back to hear how this time hed had a full-blown affair. This led me to try to control the situation by saying who could be in my home and who couldnt when I was gone, etc... My trust rebuilding has been conditional on whether or not my husband follows through on his recovery work, which he should, but my trust cannot be based on his performance; my trust needs to be based on God, and God taking care of my needs through my husband in spite of his weaknesses, because it is God who moves the hearts of people like channels of water turning them where He desires them to go. While confessing and repenting of the Negative Expectations/Inner Vows [judgments] I had been holding towards my husband, God gave me a vision of my husbands hand, palm turned up, and I could see his wedding band. When I asked God what this meant, He said, Sally, you can trust that hand, because My hand is in that hand. I cant tell you how healing that was for me, and the burdens that lifted off of me. Later that day when I talked with my husband, he was struggling with lack of trust and doing things in his own strength, I felt God say, Tell him about that vision. When I did, my husband started to weep, (I have not seen my husband cry in over 3+ years), and out of his mouth came, I want to trust God. He went on to pour his heart out, and the conversation ended well. This moment I believe also opened the door, 2 days later, for my husband to be open to spend an hour conference call with me and my prayer minister to pray for areas of his life where he was struggling also. The same day I had this vision, I had already confessed and repented of my Negative Expectations/Inner Vows [judgments] towards my parents and was interceding for my extended family, and the need for reconciliation there. Two years ago my parents both verbally and emotionally bashed me in front of my daughter and brother, and even though I had written letters to reconcile; after a few months I heard from my parents with no apology, and to this day almost 2 yrs later, I have not heard from my brother. I have not stayed in my parents home since then; staying at my sisters upon visits where I felt safer. That afternoon my mom called and asked me to go see my uncle who had been brought into the hospital in Spokane, then call her and let her know what the doctor had said. I called the next morning, and before we got off the phone my mom said that my dad wanted to talk to me. My dad got on the phone and said, Sally, a few years ago you were treated very bad in our home and that was largely my fault I could have prevented it from happening. I know that you have forgiven me, but I need to apologize to you because I want a second chance, and I promise you that if you give me a second chance, [meaning stay in their home] that nothing like that will ever happen again. Now I know that were not supposed to make promises, but the fact that nearly two years later, my dad out-of-the-blue, apologizes to me this is no coincidence; it is directly related to the prayers that were being prayed. While I was praying God was speaking to peoples hearts, my husband and dad were listening and acted in obedience to what God was speaking to their hearts and it bore fruit. I believe God was also speaking to other peoples hearts, but they were not listening. In the fullness of Gods timing, when those astray become ripe; I believe total reconciliation will happen in my extended family. Glory to God. (Click here to purchase Prayers That Heal the Heart books, CDs, MP3s or DVDs.) Laughter Heals! Billy Graham was returning to Charlotte after a speaking engagement and when his plane arrived there was a limousine there to transport him to his home. As he prepared to get into the limo, he stopped and spoke to the driver. You know, he said, I am 87 years old and I have never driven a limousine. Would you mind if I drove it for a while? The driver said, No problem. Have at it. Billy gets into the drivers seat and they head off down the highway. A short distance away sat a rookie State Trooper operating his first speed trap. The long black limo went by him doing 70 in a 55 mph zone. The trooper pulled out and easily caught the limo and he got out of his patrol car to begin the procedure. The young trooper walked up to the drivers door and when the glass was rolled down, he was surprised to see who was driving. He immediately excused himself and went back to his car and called his supervisor. He told the supervisor, I know we are supposed to enforce the law, but I also know that important people are given certain courtesies. I need to know what I should do because I have stopped a very important person. The supervisor asked, Is it the governor? The young trooper said, No, hes more important than that. The supervisor said, Oh, so its the president. The young trooper said, No, hes even more important than that. The supervisor finally asked, Well then, who is it? The young trooper said, Im pretty sure its Jesus, because hes got Billy Graham for a chauffeur! Tent-Making Activity (Acts 18:1-4) Following is Patti Virklers personal story. Even if you have no interest in the particular superfood that she is referring to, I hope that you catch the vision that your body can heal itself, no matter what the ailment, if you simply provide it with the right building blocks to do so. Do you have a health quirk from which nothing has seemed to provide any relief? 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A special thanks to Utomo Iman Santosa who has translated the Four Keys to Hearing Gods Voice into Javanese. 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 27 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. Start a Lamad Encounter Group in your home or church today! E-mail: mark@cluonline.com Websites: cluonline.com and cwgministries.org Enroll in Christian Leadership University: cluonline.com/apply Marks speaking itinerary: cwgministries.org/itinerary Online shopping for books by Mark and Patti Virkler: cwgministries.org/catalog Ordination opportunity: cluonline.com/network Establish a church-centered Bible school: cwgministries.org/college |
