give you a heart of flesh. (Ezek. 36:26)

I know this verse is true because God has healed my heart completely from extreme darkness. What He has done for me, He will do for you. All you’ve been missing are the right tools (drawn from Scripture), and effective guidance so you can use them skillfully. I will show you seven prayers which He used to restore faith, hope and love to my heart. I will lead you in applying these specific prayers to every area of sin and woundedness in your heart, and you will be set free! I guarantee it, because it has proven to work for the thousands who have tried it. 

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!

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!”

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.

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).

Often in addressing your own pain, you have, in effect, addressed many other people’s pain too. I had no idea most people struggled to hear God’s voice easily. When I taught these 4 Keys people were overjoyed as it allowed them to step into a deeper relationship with Jesus, their Friend, their Lord, and their Savior. They could enter into two-way conversations with God as part of their daily devotions and capture His love, wisdom, and revelation in their journals for future reference and reflection.

Now we present these principles in a book, workbook, audio and video package and e-learning module, making it affordable and easily accessible to all. As a result, God has built an international ministry around these 4 Keys. Wow! Who would have believed that my greatest weakness – not being able to hear God’s voice – would be transformed into my greatest strength and become a gift to bless the world?  

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.

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:  

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. 

Sure could! Many have abandoned their destinies and decided to side with satan and say, “I can’t.” Well, the idea of letting satan win in my life is completely revolting!!! We are the light of the world. We are to set our lights on a hill and light the surrounding areas. We are to disciple all nations.

Overtaking darkness is a vision that God has planted in my heart. It is different than the vision provided by the religious training I grew up with. They believed in darkness to overtake the world. God has asked me to believe that of the increase of HIS government there will be no end (Isa. 9:7). I choose to believe in God’s ever-expanding light since He says the zeal of the Lord will accomplish this (Isa. 9:7).

Yes, we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us (Phil. 4:13). I can believe that, or I can believe that I can’t win. Whichever I believe will determine my outcome. One of my counselors challenged me deeply one day by stating, “Leadership is automatically transferred to those who remain optimistic.” Since I wanted to be a leader, I gave up pessimism. You will need to do the same. 

“Last week I ordered a bunch of the material from your catalog. I am devouring them!! I have been having a truly WOW experience all week. 

The BEST was my encounter with the How to Build a Winning Team book [which is part of the Unique Gifts Make Winning Teams package]. For years I have felt like a crazy person because I have perceived in my spirit that the Lord had something different in His heart and mind concerning how the body is to function... Your book confirmed all that I have had in my heart for years. I really consider this week of my life to be a major deliverance because now I know that I am not crazy. I believe that there are sooo many of the body members that are suffering because they feel that something just isn't right, but are shamed into believing it is their problem.

I feel that the magnitude of this problem is very similar to when Martin Luther was raised up to bring deliverance to the Lord's people. I am praying for your voice and the voice of others to be heard so that the people can be free and the Lord's heart and mind will be manifest in His Church. I believe that it is time for another ‘95 Theses’ to be nailed to the door!” 

Note from Mark Virkler – Your team of counselors are those who manifest the five heart motivations underlying the five-fold ministry of apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, and teacher (Eph. 4:11). We all need to surround ourselves with such an amazing team of advisors who all speak from different heart motivations and perspectives. I am eternally thankful to God for showing me this truth. 

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.

Book 1 – Gifted to Succeed – where you define your unique giftedness.

If you are one of His sheep, then He is speaking to you and you are hearing His voice! The problem is that we have not learned how to recognize His voice and differentiate it from all of the other voices that bombard our hearts and minds. Mark Virkler's teaching on the four keys to hearing God's voice has helped thousands of people of every age on every continent begin to recognize the voice of the Lord within their own hearts clearly and consistently, leading to a deeper intimacy with Him as well as greater faith, hope and joy in their lives.