The Power of a Story

By Mark Virkler

Rather than doing all the steps below, you are welcome to simply send an email to Mark Virkler at mark@cluonline.com which shares the impact of any of our books or courses on your life, and your excitement about them and Mark will see that it gets properly posted to this website. Thank you!

I became a Charismatic because of one person’s story of how God had moved in her life! When I was attending a conservative, evangelical college studying to become a pastor, I was completely anti-Charismatic and so was my school. I could argue theology with the best of them and I had many “proof texts” demonstrating that healing was not for today. And no one could change my mind!

Except I was not prepared for the power of a story. Patti was doing her student teaching at a school near our college, and her sponsor teacher often invited us to her home for meals. She was a strong Charistmatic Christian, and during the meals she shared many stories of healings in her friends and family. Well, this shocked me because here was a very real person, and a very nice person, with a very powerful story which contradicted my theology.

Obviously her story was not a lie! She was living proof of the healing power of God. Her story so impacted me and so contradicted my theology that I decided I should go back and explore what the Bible taught about divine healing. As I did, God granted fresh revelation, my theology completely changed, and I became thoroughly Charismatic, totally committed to the Spirit-filled lifestyle… All because of the power of a story!

We Want YOUR Testimony!

Your story is powerful as well! You, too, can change lives by telling your story – especially your testimony of meeting with Almighty God and the life-transforming impact the experience had upon you. First, your account demonstrates that such encounters with God are real and can happen. Second, it makes others thirsty to experience them as well, and third, it points people in the right direction, as they pursue their own encounters with the Living God!

Our mandate is to saturate the world with communion with God so that everyone can have the intimate daily fellowship with God that He longs for. You can help us further our goal by sharing your personal testimony of the impact God has had on your life through these products. By doing this, you make your life a billboard, proclaiming 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, all around the world: “Here is a living story of how God met me and changed my life.” You become a missionary sharing good news with the 30,000 people a month who visit our website, and you get to tell them, “Here is how God impacted me! Here is what God said to me! Here is the vision God showed me! Here is the dream God gave me! Here is how I acted on it, and here is the blessing God poured into my life as a result! Why don’t you try it, and let God change your life, too?”

Stories speak to hearts and convince people of a new reality. I can tell them that the truths in our book will change their lives, but when you post your picture and you tell how the book changed your life, then they listen, and then they believe, and then they try a book or CD or DVD set and discover that they, too, are changed by the Almighty hand of God!

If You Desire Help Writing Your Story – Read This…

One way you could approach your product review is by answering some or all of the following questions from your heart:

  • What do you like most about the teaching?
  • What were your perceptions before you read the book (or listened to the audio, etc.)? Were you skeptical or hesitant? What were your initial objections? (Hint: Initial objections and skepticism are not a bad thing!)
  • How has that perception changed?
  • What are the three biggest benefits you have enjoyed? Be specific!
  • Would you recommend the product to others?

Following are some suggestions on how to write your story in the most powerful, insightful way, so it becomes salt that makes people thirsty to drink from the stream of Living Water, the Holy Spirit within! You do want to write from your heart, which means from flowing thoughts and flowing pictures and with flowing emotion. So ask, “Jesus, what do You want me to tell others?” and then tune to flow and write:

  1. Begin with a overview statement of the wonderful healing touch you experienced from the Lord.
  2. Then describe in more detail what the Lord said and did and the result it has produced in your life, family, marriage or ministry.
  3. Conclusion: I recommend this to you…

Your encounter with God is now memorialized into a powerful testimony which touches the hearts of untold millions over the coming years. And we want your picture with it! We all love to see faces to go with names. Your face with your story will help convince others that they could have the same kind of encounter with God that you have had because you don’t look so very different from them.

Sample testimonies – all styles are fine! (Scroll down to find the testimony section)

 

How to Upload Your Story So It Becomes a Billboard

Click Here to see a sample of one uploaded testimony (scroll down to “Customer Testimonials” tab and click on it and you will discover Christine Taimanglo’s picture and testimony).

Take these steps to upload your testimony with a picture:

1) Go to our website (www.cwgministries.org), and on the top navigation bar, near the right, click on “Register.”

2) Answer a few questions and then click on “Create a new account.”

3) Add your picture to your profile. (We want to see your picture along with your testimony! The picture you place here will automatically appear next to any review you leave on our website.)

4) Select the products you want to write a testimony for. You do this by going to “Store”, then “Shop by Title”, and select the title of the product group you desire. For example, you select the first product group, which is “4 Keys to Hearing God’s Voice”. There will appear a 3-page list of all our products and packages and e-packages that teach on how to hear God’s voice. Click on the product you want to write a review of. Scroll down until you get to the bottom of the blue order box which is in the center of the page. Under that box, click on the words “Write a Testimonial”.

5) When you write your testimony of how God impacted you through this product, your picture will be posted along with your testimony. If you prefer, you can write your testimony in your word processor and work on it for a few days, making it as powerful as possible, and then copy and paste it into the testimony box on the website. When you post it, it goes into a queue bin, giving us the opportunity to review it before it is posted to the public.

So please, help us spread the good news that God speaks with man by sharing your living encounter with our visitors!

Question: Which product medium should I post it to (the book, the CD, the DVD, the package, the electronic package)?

Answer: Well, we would love testimonies at each location, so please be guided by the following principles:

  1. As much as possible, put your testimony next to the medium you purchased, or
  2. If there are lots of testimonies next to that medium (6+), then perhaps you could post your testimony with a corresponding medium of the same product name, just so there are great testimonies next to every item in our shopping cart. You are helping spread the message of spiritual intimacy! Thank you.

Other Great Features for You on This Website:

By registering on our new website, your checkout with our new automated shopping cart will be even faster. When you order downloadable products, they will be INSTANTLY sent to your online account on our CWG website, so you have immediate access to them. Plus, your account will keep a complete history of all purchases you make with us in the future.

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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.

Price: $9.95
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)

Price: $17.95
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!

Price: $9.95
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. 

Price: $15.95

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.

Price: $17.95
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!

Price: $12.95
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.

Price: $2.95
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.

Price: $13.95
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.

Price: $10.95

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