June 2009 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.
 To commemorate this occasion, we would like to give you the gift of free downloadable wallpaper for your desktop on the four keys to hearing Gods voice, created by Charla Virkler. Enjoy!
Thank you in advance for helping us help others achieve their destiny!
Cheryl has graciously taken time out of her busy schedule to answer a few questions for our readers. CWG: Cheryl, thank you for including CWG and CLU in the launching of this exciting new project. You said that you based this story loosely on your own conversations and relationship with God. How much of yourself can we see in the main character, Jessie? CM: A lot. Jessie is a fictionalized, humorous version of myself. God likes to ask me to turn my life and its angst into comedy. Sometimes, I cooperate. So through Jessie, I make fun of myself, my pain and my impatience with being in my thirties, still single and waiting and trusting God to show up and write my love story. (God and I have very different ideas about writing deadlines.) The conversations that Jessie has with God are based on conversations Ive had with God. Well, especially our fights. But I should clarify: God doesnt show up cute in my living room like He does in the story. CWG: You say that you took your dialoguing relationship with God and turned it into a film/book. What influence did what you learned at CLU have on your story? CM: The first time I ever really understood that God speaks and wants to spend time with us in a real relationship was when reading Virklers Dialogue With God. The day my mom gave me that book changed my life. This script is the result of my prayer journaling. The first journal entry I have about God wanting to write my love story is from 1994, just after I started reading Dialogue With God. He asked me if I would trust Him with that part of my life. He acknowledged it as a very natural desire. But He made it clear that it needed to happen in His timing and not mine. Yeah, that was 1994. I had no clue the wait I had ahead of me! But my answer to Him back then was, There must be a reason, Lord, that You want me alone. You must be shaping me for something. Me and my fleshly self are sick of it. Ill be honest. But as I always say, You know best. Im still saying that, even though I have my weak moments. And He hasnt stopped talking about the subject since then. CWG: There is a great surprise that people are saying is the biggest twist you didnt see coming since The Sixth Sense came out. How did you come up with such a creative idea? CM: Well, obviously, we cant talk any specifics here because we dont want to give anything away about the story. But I will say, that one night at midnight when I first started brainstorming the story, I asked God a question about why I felt inspired to write this script in a particular way. (He should know that answer. After all, He is my co-writer.) His answer to my question (which must remain a secret for now) astounded me. I looked up at the ceiling and shouted, No way! Thats awesome! It was far too good of an idea for me to come up with on my own. God definitely gave it to meHe makes me look good. CWG: Youre writing another book, Finally the Bride, which is a non-fiction companion to Never the Bride. Please tell us a little about that. CM: I kind of feel like the last year of my life, God arrested me. As much as I wanted to be out there making more movies, instead, God specifically told me I had to write the non-fiction version of Finally the Bride while Rene Gutteridge novelized my screenplay for Never the Bride. This was the year it had to get done. I had to write it during a season when Ive been in various degrees of pain over this single-life journey. Its almost finished. Then I will begin submitting to publishers. Those whove seen it feel like its a fresh message for this culture that could revolutionize how we see dating and how we must wait on God (and the detrimental effects of not waiting). So while Never the Bride has a strong purpose of using fiction and entertainment to get this message out (which will reach a lot of people who wont pick up a non-fiction work), Finally the Bride allows me to get a little more honest and raw about what Ive been through on this journey with God and where to go from here. And I share a lot of dialoging in it. (Yes, even my arguments with God.) So many people these days have to wait so long to find love and are losing hope. I want people to read these books and find hope again. CWG: What else are you hoping your readers get out of Never the Bride? CM: I want people to know that God can be trusted with the pen of their love storiesthat its worth waiting for Gods best. I want people to have hope in their present circumstances even if life hasnt exactly gone according to their plan or on their timetable. I hope people will hunger to have a close relationship with God when they see how Jessie and God interact. I hope people will see that God really is enough and is all we need. A husband will never fulfill us the way God does. I also hope people will get a clear picture of what true surrender to God looks like. And also, to see how just when we think God isnt doing anything for us, Hes working behind-the-scenes. He is trustworthy and the best Husband we could ever hope for. CWG: Is there anything else you want to share with our readers? CM: Obviously, Id love it if youd read the book. If you love it, please spread the word (but dont post any spoilers!). We want to do more projects like this. Im pondering its sequel, where God goes to work on the sister next (which the end of the book and script already set up). Also, when positive value films come out, go support them so studios will be encouraged to make more like them. (We hope to shoot Never the Bride later this year in Savannah, Georgia.) Lastly, the two benchmark messages of my life are that God still speaks today (and He loves to be pursued and sought) and that God can take any bad situation and turn it around for His glory. Let Him.
Feel free to visit my website: CWG: While this is an incredibly fun story about a single woman who longs to be married, the deeper message is clearly about surrendering your own desires and dreams to God, whatever they may be. By spending time with Him and getting to know Him intimately trust is built, and when we trust Him fully, we are willing to fully obey His leading. We highly recommend this entertaining and encouraging book! Please visit your local bookstore and ask for it by name, or get it online at Amazon.com.
Strongholds and principalities and dark spiritual forces that have been assigned to different nations will have to leave their post their ancient seatings in the heavenly realms. People groups all over the world will have a freedom that they have never known before I love My children, I want them all to come to Me for cleansing and to learn of My love for them Come, My children, choose Me now for a time is coming that the choices made now will influence how you live later My child, I AM a loving God, I desire all of you I will never leave you nor forsake you!
My darling Dawn, that is a very loaded question. For one thing, I finished the work which I had in mind from the beginning but at the same time I am still doing stuff. The difference is, that now, I do not have to speak it into being as it already has been done. My work from the beginning was spoken in such a way as to keep on evolving, and evolving right into eternity. So in that way, it is never finished. Always evolving. That is why, when you speak MY words into the heavens as declarations and decrees, the principle that I set in motion so long ago, will come to pass because it was already spoken. Does that make sense, Dawn? Yes, sort of, Lord. In other words what is going on perpetually in heaven is going on here on earth as we live, walk and proclaim in the heavenlies, for heaven to come to earth because that is Your will. Right? Yes, Dawn, right. It is My will for heaven to come to earth but it has been My will from the beginning for My people, who are called by My name, to do exactly that, for them to bring heaven down to earth. Pull it down, so-to-speak. Lord, thats awesome, but where does binding and loosing come into play here? It fits very well here; you bind what you do not like to see and know that its not My will to happen and then as you loose the things that are in heaven, so it shall be done on earth. Your domain. I gave it to you. Thats why you could speak to those storms recently and have them go over you and therefore cause you no damage. My people are beginning to rise up in the authority I have given them as never before. Satan hates for My children to get a hold of that truth as it does much damage to what he thinks is his kingdom; but he lost that right at Calvary. Dawn, this was My plan from the beginning.
Wow, Lord, there is so much to learn from You; please forgive us for spending so much time with even the good things when we could be spending time with You, our best Friend and finding out whats new with You, for us. LOL. Im so glad You are not the least bit worried about whats happening with us, re: economy, etc. because we can speak and have that turn around for us also. Right? I will, Daddy God. You are so awesome and I love and adore You so very much. :-)
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We praise God for this milestone, and are very thankful to Him and to you for the spreading of the message that everyone can hear Gods voice and live out of direct ongoing encounters with God, the Lover of their souls. 
