How-To for Spirit-Anointed Living with Mark Virkler

The Dream: I dreamt that I suddenly died at 7:30pm. I was in heaven with Jesus. I said, “It's not my time,” and something like, “What about my family and the others that still need to hear?” Jesus said, “You don’t want to be here yet? I said, "No, not yet." 

Blog of this episode available at https://www.cwgministries.org/blogs/i-have-timing-every-moment-your-life-mike-bastien

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• Hearing God Through Your Dreams - Book and Free Video Training
• 4 Keys to Hearing God's Voice - Book and Free Video Training

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Prophetic prayer begins by hearing God’s voice in your heart. For me, this comes as flowing words which just appear. For example, as I was wondering how to pray for a situation in which there was animosity, the following phrase appeared effortlessly within me as a spontaneous, flowing thought.

“My peace which surpasses all understanding shall fill their hearts and their minds, their sleep, their dreams, their bedroom, their home and their office.”

It was clear to me that I was to pray and speak this prophetic reality into the situation. This was the way God was moving in that situation. The phrase came to me day and night over three weeks, and each time it came, I declared in faith that this was God’s will, purpose and promise concerning this situation. This is prophetic prayer. In each case the timing of the fulfillment comes from the Lord. In this case, after three weeks I received a wonderful letter of peace! Prayer answered! Thank You Lord!

Blog of this episode available here.

Resources to Go Deeper:

• 4 Keys to Hearing God's Voice - Free Video Training
• Hearing God Through Your Dreams - Free Video Training

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God HAS given you a dream to fulfill in your lifetime. He has also given you a passion and love to purse this dream. God gives dreams to each of us. Abraham's life-long dream was that God would bless the world through his descendants (Gen.12:1-3), and God did!

Blog of this episode available here: https://www.cwgministries.org/blogs/are-you-pursuing-dream-god-has-given-you

Go Deeper - Additional Resources:

• Possessing Your Promised Land
• Use the five steps to creative prayer.
• Post your testimony here of a dream fulfilled
• 4 Keys to Hearing God's Voice - Free Video Training 

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Let me share an amazing email I received this last week. It relates to a truth discussed in our most recent book. I have been given permission to post this wonderful testimony with the names omitted.

She writes: In the book Unleashing Healing Power Through Spirit-Born Emotions you write that "Observation causes Transformation" is so fascinating to me. It explains a deep mystery that I had experienced. I was in prayer with the Lord and started to pray for my daughter who has struggles with mental illnesses including depression. 

This particular day I saw her in my prayer in her room but there was thick white webbing stuff that almost went to the ceiling. I asked the Lord what this was, and as I got closer I could see my daughter inside it. This alarmed me and again I said, "Lord, what is this?"  He let me see her close up and she was just lying there; it seemed like she was lifeless. Again I asked Him, "What's wrong?" He picked up her arm and it was limp. I knew this was very wrong and I was afraid.

I asked Jesus, "What do we do?" and He led me to roar at that white stuff. I roared (something taught in Chapter 4 of the book), clawed and tore it away from her, and then Jesus quickly came, picked her up and did mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on her. This whole vision lasted about a day. Every time I could go back to it (because I was at work), I would see it continuing.

By the way, I did text my daughter and I didn't get an answer. This was the normal time for her to be in her classes so I didn't really know what to do. I thought about calling the college to see if she was okay but was going to after her last class.  Throughout the day I saw this vision progress. Color started to come back into my daughter as Jesus continue to do mouth-to-mouth. The color went all the way down to her feet and there were little rainbows all over her. Jesus sat her up and she could sit on her own so I knew she was okay but her eyes still had white stuff on them.  I asked Jesus if He could heal her eyes and He touched them with his thumbs and held them there until the white stuff came off. Now she was sitting up and He was holding her and talking to her, and I felt a lot better.

Finally my daughter texted me back and she said she's fine, nothing's going on, she's okay. I called her that evening and she sounded fine but very busy. I was very puzzled about why I had this vision and experience. It wasn't until a couple of months later that my daughter told me she tried to kill herself that day. She said she took a lot of pills but, somehow, she woke up.

This was what happened that day - causing those waves to collapse and bring a miracle from the spiritual world with Jesus to my daughter. I'm so thankful for this small section in the book.  This explains it and it certainly changes my prayers now.  I always want to see Jesus in my prayers!  

Note from Mark - the key ingredients which released this wonderful miracle included: 

• Receiving an extended, day-long vision (Jn. 5:19,20,30).
• Being moved by compassion (Matt. 14:14).
• Praying into the vision as she watched it unfold over the entire day.

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Unleashing Healing Power Through Spirit-Born Emotions

4 Keys to Hearing God's Voice

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I first became aware of the concept of flow in 1979. I was reading a book about the mind and there was a research article on “The Flow Experience.” Science had discovered that when people are in flow, they are more creative, more insightful and more effective than when in their normal state.

I pondered that and said, “That is sure true in my life.”

So I looked for flow in the Bible and discovered that a river flows from the throne room of God out through our innermost beings (Rev. 22:1; Jn. 7:37-39). This river is the Spirit of God which releases God’s grace into our lives.

I have written extensively on how Christians can release God's creativity. However it sure appears that non-Christians can and do get creative ideas also. So what’s that about? Does God’s spirit, wisdom, counsel and creativity work for non-Christians or is it reserved for Christians only?

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After my heart surgery I prayed numerous times for healing of my heart. I used the prayer approach Inner Healing for an Organ. Every time I did this prayer exercise, I felt the healing power and presence of the Holy Spirit moving upon me. This was experienced as a manifestation of shaking which I believe to be my body's reaction to the Holy Spirit’s healing presence and power.

Blog of this episode available here.

Prayer Resources:

• Inner Healing for an Organ
•  Prayer for Healing Trauma - A prayer with music in the background by Jim and Pat Banks, which incorporates many of the ideas above. 
• Kurt Green 
• Brokenness Healed Through Words of Knowledge
• Breaking Agreement with Lies of the Enemy Releases Miracles and Opens Prison Doors
• Click here for a listing of additional prayer approaches

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Dreams are a wonderful way God counsels us (Psalm 16:7). This episode discusses one of Mike Bastien's dreams which he received as he worked through the course Hearing God Through Your Dreams. 

• Dream Your Way to Wisdom   
• How to Hear God's Voice!   
• Interactive e-learning module: Hearing God Through Your Dreams

Text version of this episode available here: https://www.cwgministries.org/blogs/dont-get-bogged-down-your-past-mike-bastien

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I wanted real life stories of how people received the baptism of the Holy Spirit and the gift of speaking in tongues, so I sent out an email asking for people to share their testimonies with me. Below are 20 such stories I received back. My guess is that if we did a survey of 2000, what we have below would be fairly typical of the 2000. So what do we learn from their true life stories?

The baptism in the Holy Spirit involves an interaction with the Holy Spirit. It is a yielding of my faculties to a greater degree to the Holy Spirit and allowing Him to take control of them. It is an empowering experience. Whenever the Spirit guides an action, power is present. The simplest gift to manifest is tongues, so that is a great place to begin, although not necessarily the only place to begin as in one story in Acts, prophecy was part of the initial manifestation of the Spirit. 

Text version of this episode available here: https://www.cwgministries.org/blogs/twenty-stories-how-people-received-baptism-holy-spirit

Free eBook -- How to Receive the Baptism in the Holy Spirit https://go.cwgministries.org/baptism-pdf

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We can learn so much from stories of how others have experienced the filling of the Holy Spirit. The Bible, after all, is a story book, full of real-life stories of encounters with the living God.

Full text of this episode available here

Deliverance Came BEFORE Water Baptism in the Early Church

Twenty Testimonies of Being Baptized in the Holy Spirit

Free eBook -- How to Receive the Baptism in the Holy Spirit

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As a young Christian, prayer didn’t seem to work very well. In my prayers I informed God of my situations and asked for Him to help. It all seemed quite rote and redundant and uneventful. It couldn’t be called a relationship because there was no communication back. There was no conversation. Just me talking.

In the church where I grew up, we used to sing the song “Sweet Hour of Prayer.” Well, it was not true as I didn’t pray for an hour, and I would not describe my prayer time as sweet. Then I got some training from an influential teacher on how to break up an hour to focus on various areas during different periods of the hour. I tried that and it was still just one-sided. Me doing all the talking. That was tiring.

Finally, ten years into my spiritual walk God taught me how to hear His voice. I quiet myself down, fix my eyes on Jesus, tune to flowing thoughts and pictures which is His voice and visions, and journal out our dialogue together. Wow! Now prayer was sweet, because I wasn’t doing all the talking. Actually He was doing most of it!

The Wonderful Counselor would speak to me. He healed my wounds, filled me with faith, gave me passion and vision, healed my body and released divine creativity within me. Prayer times became totally exciting, and could easily go for an hour.

Learning to hear God’s voice happened 40 years ago and as I have sought God since then, He has shown me 60 ways to pray to release His divine creativity, healing power and wisdom into every area of my life. I have taken the time to write 60, practical, how-to blogs detailing these prayer approaches. I describe them to you so you can try them out for yourself.

Read this episode as a blog: https://www.cwgministries.org/blogs/can-you-really-sing-sweet-hour-prayer-gusto

60 prayers here: cwgministries.org/devotionals

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