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The Church Must Prepare, Hear, Fight, Win

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I had a dream last night that I was not at all prepared for a major test that was coming up. I was frantic. There was no way I could prepare in the short time remaining before the exam. I awoke in turmoil.

I journaled - Lord, what have I not prepared for?

For intimacy with Me. You have been consumed with other activities and have not come to hear My voice. Come that we may be together and I may share with you the things that are on My heart for you to hear and to do.


Lord, I repent. I come to You now. What would You desire to speak to me?

The world is at a climactic point. It is cataclysmic. It is changing. It needs fervent prayer from the saints, for righteousness to be exalted and wickedness to be removed. It needs the saints to pray for the binding and casting down of principalities and powers and for a spiritual revival that releases intimacy and My power in My Church. This is My desire. This is what I desire to do. However, I need My Church to come into agreement with My purposes so that My purposes may be fulfilled.

In the wilderness, the Israelites would NOT come into agreement with My words and My desires and so many died in the wilderness, never achieving the goal I had promised to them. Today is no different. If My people who are called by My name will not humble themselves and hear My voice and obey it, they too will die in the wilderness, believing the lies of the enemy rather than the truth of My word.

Warn My Church to renounce the lies and to listen to My voice and to do My bidding. Throw off the cloak of religion and tradition and enter into an intimate relationship with Me. Hear My voice. See My vision. Experience My miracle-working power by praying for those who are sick and in need. See My glory released as they are healed!

A revival of My glory and My power will restore your land. Behold I have spoken. Behold it is to be done.

End of journaling

A biblical example of not listening to His voice

Surely all the men who have seen My glory and My signs which I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have put Me to the test these ten times and have not listened to My voice, shall by no means see the land which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who spurned Me see it. But My servant Caleb, because he has had a different spirit and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land which he entered, and his descendants shall take possession of it...."How long shall I bear with this evil congregation who are grumbling against Me? I have heard the complaints of the sons of Israel, which they are making against Me. "Say to them, 'As I live,' says the LORD, 'just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will surely do to you'" (Num. 14:22-28).

Specific prayer focus

  1. In Jesus' name, I bind and cast down the demons of deception, fear, lies, control, domination, destruction, and death.
  2. I pray for miracles of healing for all who are sick. I lay my hands on them and command healing in Jesus' name. (Do this – search out the sick and pray and lay hands on them.)
  3. I pray for righteousness to be exalted and for the wicked to be removed. Lord, preserve knowledge and overthrow the words of the treacherous man (Prov. 22:12).
  4. I pray for a Holy Spirit revival to sweep the Church.
  5. I pray for the Church to cast off the traditions of man and to embrace the voice, vision, and power of God.
  6. I pray for Christians to lead and not follow as God has destined for His people (Deut. 28:1-14).
  7. I pray for the Church to fix their eyes upon Jesus and NOWHERE else - not on evil or the antichrist (Heb. 12:1,2). 

Available resources

  • Ways to Pray
  • If you are unsure of how to hear God's voice, it is as simple as quieting yourself down, picturing Jesus at your right hand, recognizing His voice as spontaneous flowing thoughts which light upon your mind, and journaling out that flow of thoughts and flow of pictures. More in-depth training on these four keys is available at: www.CWGministries.org/4keys.

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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.

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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.

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Kids Can

by Karen Barnes | 98 Pages

This book will inspire you and train you to teach children to minister in the power of the Spirit! And the stories it contains will bring tears to your eyes! Kids Can is a message for the children of today about their destiny tomorrow. When kids encounter the pure essence of Jesus, they will become empowered, equipped and energized to serve Him accurately and with amazing clarity. As they hear His voice and are encouraged in their giftings, strong leaders are created and maturity, vision and skills are fine tuned.

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Lamad Biblical Education Association

Lamad Biblical Education Association

4 Co-authors | 44 Pages

FINALLY - A Spirit-Anointed Epistemology! A system of knowing for the Spirit-filled believer. A fresh moving of the Holy Spirit has been upon the Church of Jesus Christ for the last 100 years, since the Asuza Street Revival in 1902. In all that time the Spirit-filled community of believers (now numbering 27% of all Christendom), had yet to delineate an approach to learning which restored the Holy Spirit to His rightful place as the primary Teacher in our midst.

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Lamad Faculty Handbook

Lamad Faculty Handbook

by Mark and Patti Virkler | 78 Pages

This book presents lamad (revelation-based learning) standards  for teachers and curriculum writers. Lamad is a Hebrew word found in the Old Testament and it is translated "to teach" or "to learn."  It is a kind of learning that involves the Holy Spirit granting divine revelation to the heart of man. Thus it goes beyond western rationalism as a learning methodology.

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Living with Jesus - Book 3

Living with Jesus Book 3 – Talking and Listening

by Daphne Kirk | 47 Pages

This delightful book teaches children ages 4-8 the four keys to hearing God's voice and gets them started journaling (drawing pictures if writing is too hard for them) and seeing vision.  It is ideal for parents and children to use together, or for use in a children’s Sunday school class or children’s home group.

Book 3 - Talking and Listening - Hearing the voice of God.

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Living with Jesus Book 6 - What Do We Choose?

Living with Jesus Book 6 - What Do We Choose?

by Daphne Kirk | 47 pages

The Living with Jesus series is a unique, exciting  and transformational discipleship course for children, taking them through the fundamentals of the Christian faith in a relational, interactive and challenging way, always applying to their lives the commands to love God, love one another and love the lost.

Book 6 - What Do We Choose? introduces children to making kingdom choices.

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Living with Jesus Book 7 - Having Faith

Living with Jesus Book 7 - Having Faith

by Daphne Kirk | 47 pages

The Living with Jesus series is a unique, exciting  and transformational discipleship course for children, taking them through the fundamentals of the Christian faith in a relational, interactive and challenging way, always applying to their lives the commands to love God, love one another and love the lost.

Book 7 - Having Faith introduces children to a life of faith.

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Living with Jesus Book 8 - Staying Protected

Living with Jesus Book 8 - Staying Protected

by Daphne Kirk | 47 pages | Published 1999

The Living with Jesus series is a unique, exciting  and transformational discipleship course for children, taking them through the fundamentals of the Christian faith in a relational, interactive and challenging way, always applying to their lives the commands to love God, love one another and love the lost.

Book 8 - Staying Protected introduces children to spiritual warfare.

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Operations Manual

Operations Manual

by Mark and Patti Virkler | 134 Pages

We have helped hundreds of churches establish Schools of Ministry or church-centered Bible schools over the last 25 years. This manual draws together insights and approaches for how to do it easier, faster and better. Enjoy as you build on the success of those who have gone before you.

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