Never Again Will You Need to Say, “I Can’t Make It… I Can’t Succeed!”
God’s “Unfair” Advantage Is 5-Fold Counsel
God has an amazing destiny envisioned for every one of us. He has uniquely gifted you with both natural and supernatural DNA as a foundation for achieving the destiny He has planned for you. In addition, He has provided each of us with several wise, Spirit-anointed advisors, each with a different heart motivation, so their combined counsel of complementary perspectives ensures that we have God’s full counsel as we move forward.
By inviting their counsel, acting upon it, and multiplying your giftedness you can and will succeed far beyond your wildest imagination. God’s revelation and anointing accomplishes this miracle. Let’s discover exactly HOW this works!
You are uniquely gifted by God to succeed
There is NOTHING average about you. Your personality, character traits, skills, abilities, and unique upbringing are all threads of a divinely orchestrated tapestry that reveals a magnificent destiny that God has laid out for you. As we follow Him, He leads us to His “Promised Land” of fulfillment and achievement for our individual lives.
We refuse to join the Israelites who whined in the wilderness saying they would die before they got to their Promised Land. That’s satan’s lie for our lives. Rebuke it NOW! Declare, “God has provided me a Promised Land destiny and I WILL inherit it!”
GOD is weaving His tapestry through the unfolding events in our lives
Ever notice how life seems to converge to move you in one direction or another? It could be several people saying the same thing to you, or a couple of events that guide you in a specific direction. When you look back, you realize it was God arranging those details in your life to move you forward in His plan for you. Interesting, isn’t it? Have you ever wondered if that just happens occasionally, or if He is doing that ALL the time (Rom. 8:28)?
My story of how God guided me into inheriting my Promised Land
How did I arrive at the point of success I am currently at? I am the Founder and President of Christian Leadership University and Communion With God Ministries. We have enrolled 15,000 students in 129 nations. I have traveled on six continents teaching spiritual intimacy. Hearing God’s voice was my greatest weakness and has now become my greatest ministry.
This is the dairy farm I grew up on.
My only desire was to take over my dad’s farm. After getting saved at age 15 in a very conservative Baptist church I felt a call to the ministry. Since that church did not believe in getting trained for the ministry, I dropped my membership and went to Roberts Wesleyan College and earned a bachelor’s degree. There I met Patti, who became my wife during our third year of college. Patti, my perfectly gifted companion, became my girlfriend after her college roommate dumped me, and Patti came to console me. Yes, these events were all part of God’s positioning of my life for the destiny He had for me.
The thing that ticks you off the most is likely the problem you are to solve
I hungered to hear God’s voice and no one could explain simply and clearly how to do that. As a result, I experienced deep frustration and pain and even backslid several times over this issue during the first decade of my Christian life. Finally, I was impressed to take a year of my life and devote it to researching and hearing God (and obviously this impression came from the Lord).
I used the natural character traits God had gifted me with as I researched. They include persistence, passionate pursuit, clear lineal reasoning, and a love of research. God orchestrated my search that year and it culminated with Him waking me up one morning with a booming bass voice saying, “Get up! I am going to teach you how to hear My voice.” He showed me four simple keys all found in Habakkuk 2:1,2. They are stillness, vision, spontaneity, and journaling. Hearing God’s voice is as simple as quieting yourself down, fixing your eyes on Jesus, recognizing His voice as spontaneous flowing thoughts, and writing down this flow.
The problem God solves for you is a solution for many others also. So you package it, make it affordable to all, and provide easy access to your solution.
An ever-expanding product line is something I did and you will do with your gift to the world
- Patti and I have co-authored 50+ books and each one draws the reader into a living encounter with Jesus where they hear His voice and see His visions.
- We have also built Christian Leadership University with 100+ courses which draw the student into a weekly encounter with Jesus where they hear His voice and see vision.
- To my knowledge, this is the only university in the world that offers this. Who would have thought such a thing was possible?
The wilderness experience IS part of our journey as we travel toward our destiny
I prefer not to walk through the wilderness on the way to my promised land. However, the wilderness experience teaches us lessons. This was necessary for the Israelites, Jesus, Paul, and likely everyone.
My wilderness involved leaving or being fired from several churches as I pursued insight after insight from Scripture. Through these multiple rejections I learned 1) I didn’t fit into any of their theological boxes, and 2) I could trust God to lead me and provide for me while in the wilderness.
I have concluded we are not designed to live in a box of rules, but by the River of Life which flows from the throne of grace and produces amazing fruit in our lives.
It is wise to begin small and not despise the day of small beginnings. We started Communion With God Ministries and Christian Leadership University in a garage behind our home. Many innovators begin in garages and grow from there. Jesus never even had a home or garage or building, and yet He started a movement that has impacted the entire world. Begin with what God gives you to begin with.
Multi-gifted counselors came alongside us causing us to step forward
Because of synergy, the wisdom of a team far outstrips the wisdom of any one single person. God gave me numerous unique counselors at strategic points along the way. They came through many chance encounters:
- A book table at a farm auction gave me a book with some amazing, beautiful keys.
- A week-long retreat with people of a very different theological persuasion from me gave me some wonderful insights.
- I learned I needed to step outside my box to find the answers that were eluding me, and to do this without fear. If the people in my box knew the answers, I would have already received them. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
I got picked up when wounded and lying beside the path
I taught the revelation of the four keys to hearing God’s voice to the church I founded and was pastoring. That made them decide it was time for me to leave. I ended up unemployed for several months and did odd jobs to survive. Then I was hired by Rev. Thomas Reid, pastor of a church of 3,500. His gifts and insights were used to thrust me and the message of communion with God onto the national stage. He was an apostle, a businessman, and a supurb marketer. There is no way I could have orchestrated a connection with him. God orchestrated these events supernaturally. He will do the same for you!
Fear made me hesitant to move on again
When it was time for me to leave Pastor Reid’s church and establish my ministry, that too, was challenging. I did not believe I could survive on my own. Since I was hesitant to leave the covering of a larger, more secure ministry, God had to push me out of this nest also, just to show me that I COULD fly and I would not die. God went before me and proved His faithfulness by providing everything that was needed to step forward once again.
Constantly stretched as I need to multiply gifts and talents
Jesus taught if you are given two talents, invest them wisely and gain two more. I started as a pastor and teacher and was perfectly content to just go with these two talents for my entire life.
However, God told me to add marketing and prophetic and apostolic leadership to my skillset. I objected, but since I had learned to hear God’s voice through two-way journaling, He explained that I needed those skills to fully achieve His purposes of transforming the world through the message of communion with God. I would never be able to build Communion With God Ministries to its destiny if I did not cultivate these skills.
So through following His leading, and some trial and error, I have slowly and consistently been mastering new skills outside my initial skillset. I do want to achieve my destiny, so I am willing to be stretched even though I find this challenging and uncomfortable. God will ask you to do the same.
It’s not over yet
God has given me additional visions and commissions which I am working on and anticipate fulfilling before my life is done. Are they beyond my abilities? Yes! Is that a problem? Not really, for everything I have achieved already is clearly beyond my natural abilities.
Could I have given up and quit anywhere along the path?
Summary keys from my life’s story
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People who have been impacted by discovering God’s pattern for success
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C. Peter Wagner – Founder of Global Harvest Ministries and Co-Founder of the World Prayer Center
How much time should we invest in discovering God’s pattern for success?
When the alternative to success is a lifetime of failure or mediocracy then there is no limit to the amount of time I need to invest to discover and apply God’s steps to victory.
I spent a year solving an “unsolvable” problem and then a lifetime sharing it.
The truths I learned in hearing God’s voice can be found here.
The lessons on how to succeed in mastering a skill and then effectively presenting it to the world are found in two books which are both part of this training module on Unique Gifts Make Winning Teams.
Book 1 – Gifted to Succeed – where you define your unique giftedness.
Book 2 – How to Build a Winning Team – where you discover how to create a well-functioning, multi-gifted team who will help in presenting your gift to the world.
Video Series – Unique Gifts Make Winning Teams – where you leverage the unfair advantage of 5-fold counsel.
The result is that you will be able to clearly define and maximize your unique set of gifts which God has graced you with, and you will know how to team up with others who have complementary gifts to fully finalize and share your creation with the world. How much is that worth?
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In Unique Gifts Make Winning Teams, you will discover God’s blueprint for success. I can guarantee that! You will need to practice turning to Him throughout the day to make this effective and life-giving. We can teach you in just three months what it took me a year to learn because I have gone ahead and prepared the way. This training can easily and comfortably be explored during your daily quiet times.
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About the Speaker:
Dr. Mark Virkler has authored more than 50 books in the areas of hearing God’s voice and spiritual growth. He is the founder of Communion With God Ministries and Christian Leadership University, where the voice of God is at the center of every learning experience. Mark has taught on developing intimacy with God and spiritual healing for 40 years on six continents. The message has been translated into 50 languages and he has helped to establish more than 250 church-centered Bible schools around the world.
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