Experience Rest by Learning How to Delegate

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Everyone delegates. Delegation is one way we can reduce the stress in our lives. I am amazed at how effectively my son and daughter-in-law delegate jobs to their children and how well my grandchildren do these jobs. Through this my grandchildren are learning key life skills and being paid in the process.

Moses was experiencing burnout because he was the only one judging the Israelites when they had quarrels. Jethro, his father-in-law, taught him how to delegate. Read the story in Exodus 18:13-22.

The basics of delegation according to Jethro are as follows:

  1. Only do those things which others cannot do (18:19)
  2. Teach others key principles so they can perform properly (18:20)
  3. Select assistant-leaders who have excellent character (18:21)
  4. Grant them authority to do their jobs and the opportunity to come to you when stuck (18:22)

Know the levels of delegation

  1. Do as I say
  2. Research and report back to me
  3. Research and make recommendations to me
  4. Decide on best course and inform me
  5. Act independently

There is great value in delegating, overseeing and nurturing the gifts in others

Not only does it take a load of work off your shoulders, but you are also mentoring the next generation, and helping ensure their success by allowing them to work under your covering. Will they make mistakes? Of course they will, so just celebrate the mistake with them and point them in the right direction to succeed.

I have read that IBM funds "creaative developers," letting them follow their passions and pursuits and spend time "creating" on company time and even working from their homes at times. When something great gets created, IBM puts their finances and marketing skills behind the invention and shares the profits with the inventor. I love this approach!

This actually happened to me when I was working at Full Gospel Tabernacle, a large church of 3000 members. They gave me the freedom to develop curriculum which could be used by other church-centered Bible schools, and then they put their money and marketing skill behind this venture by placing ads in Charisma magazine and national conventions where this curriculum was presented. The end result was over 100 church-centered Bible schools, and an extra quarter of a million dollars coming into the church budget annually. Plus I was trained in how to create Bible school curriculum and now am president of Christian Leadership University with 15,000 students in 129 nations. So Full Gospel Tabernacle won, I won, and the Kingdom of God won. A triple win!

As we get older, it becomes our turn to apprentice

Now I realize it is my turn to raise up others, using the same process. Let them create, help promote them, and share in the profits. Ways we have done that is with bloggers, book writers, and curriculum developers. For example:

  1. Bill Dupley is publishing excellent blogs, and I was able to introduce him and get them published on Elijah List.
  2. Patty Sadallah has a passion for Spirit Life Circles, and we were able to help her develop and promote her concept worldwide.
  3. Charity Kayembe, my daughter, wrote a book on dreams, and we were able to get her introduced to Sid Roth and to Catch the Fire Toronto and provide a blogging platform and newsletter contacts of 40,000 homes.
  4. We have listed over 40 books by those we have taught how to hear God's voice who have included two-way journaling in their books.
  5. We have listed proven counselors and connected them with people seeking counsel.
  6. We have connected long-time journalers with those just starting out.
  7. We have helped over 100 churches create Bible Schools and Spirit Life training centers for their people.

It is a joy to see this come full circle. I was mentored and encouraged, financed and promoted, and now I get to do this for scores of others. I celebrate the ministry of the body of Christ as they minister God's grace one to another.

Personal Journaling Application       

  • Lord, who am I to be mentored by and in what area?
  • Lord, who am I to mentor and in what area?​

Cardiac Event Series

  1. How Could I Have Been So Wrong?
  2.  Biblical Truths Related to Heart Disease
  3. Causes of Heart Disease: Inflammation, Oxidation, Sugar and Stress 
  4. Drugs, Nutrition and the Lord 
  5. Is Stress The Number One Cause Of Heart Attacks?
  6. Ever So SLOWLY Learning About Blood Pressure
  7. Common Denominators of Great Diets
  8. God Says I’m Healed Yet Symptoms Persist
  9. Symptoms Go into Remission as I Speak to My Body
  10. Does Heart Surgery Cause the Heart to Pick Up A Spirit of Fear  
  11. Must I Work Hard To Be Successful?
  12. Which of The 10 Commandments Can You Break And No One Raises An Eyebrow?
  13. Experience Rest By Learning How To Delegate 
  14. Living In Rest Requires Living At Peace With Myself and Others 
  15. For Heaven’s Sake, Celebrate!
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Fulfill Your Financial Destiny CDs

Fulfill Your Financial Destiny Audio CDs

by Mark Virkler | 22 Sessions

Newly recorded for 2023! 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: $59.95

How Do YOU Know? CDs

by Mark Virkler | 12 Sessions on 4 CDs

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 series. 

This is a 12-session audio series on 4 CDs.

Price: $59.95
How to Receive Revelation Knowledge Audio CD

How to Receive Revelation Knowledge Audio CD

by Mark Virkler | 1 Disc

Knowing God's thoughts! It is possible. His thoughts are not our thoughts; His ways are not our ways. However, we can learn how to "reason together with God" (Isa. 1:18), and receive His insights and His revelations on each and every area of our lives. The process really is quite simple.

Price: $6.00
How to Walk by the Spirit Audio CDs

How to Walk by the Spirit Audio CDs

by Mark Virkler | 6 Discs

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.

Revised & Expanded 15th Anniversary Edition

Price: $59.95
Naturally Supernatural Audio CDs

Naturally Supernatural Audio CDs

by Mark Virkler | 13 Sessions | 6 Discs

BRAND NEW Revised & Expanded 30th Anniversary Edition CDs!

A step-by-step guide on “abiding in Christ” or how to let go and let God live naturally and powerfully out through you. Disarmingly simple. Mind-blowingly powerful.

Price: $59.95
Overflow of the Spirit CDs

Overflow of the Spirit CDs

12 sessions | 7 hours | by Mark Virkler and Charity Kayembe

Mark and Charity have teamed up again to create a training series on how to easily manifest the nine gifts of the Holy Spirit. It took us several years to break through all the confusion, and present a clear, simple understanding of how to release the nine-fold manifestation of the Holy Spirit everywhere you go and with everyone you touch. It is not hard! It can’t be since these are gifts of the Holy Spirit, not things you have to work for.

Price: $49.95

Rivers of Grace Audio CDs

by Mark and Patti Virkler | 4 Discs

You can be the parent God wants you to be: loving, encouraging, trusting and able to raise up your children in the way they should go, fulfilling their own unique destinies. Parenting was not intended to be a burden, and anyone who tells you differently has bought into a lie. You will learn to enjoy parenting as an exciting, joy-filled, divinely-ordained opportunity, not a wearying responsibility.

Price: $19.95

Take Charge of Your Health CDs

by Mark Virkler | 12 Sessions

Discover how you can take charge of your own health — keeping yourself young, energetic, attractive, and free of degenerative diseases! Discover the biblical injunctions on diet and health, and the amazing correlations between them and modern scientific research. Updated in 2015 with 20 years of fresh insights since recording the previous "Go Natural" series!

Price: $49.95

Through the Bible 1: Pentateuch Audio CDs

by Dr. Andrew Hardy | 3 Discs

Dr. Andrew Hardy takes you from Genesis through Deuteronomy in 10 sessions. This is part one of our Through the Bible series, which gives you an overview of the entire Bible.

Price: $24.95

Through the Bible 2: United Kingdom Audio CDs

by Dr. Andrew Hardy | 3 Discs

Dr. Andrew Hardy guides you through Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 & 2 Samuel along with parts of 1 & 2 Chronicles and 1 Kings in 11 sessions. This is part two of our Through the Bible series, which provides you an overview of the entire Bible. 

In these books, which cover the United Kingdom, you learn about the conquest of the Promised Land under the leadership of Joshua. Read about the early days of the nation of Israel as they lived under judges and kings. The nation prospered under righteous kings and languished under evil kings. Under Solomon, the nation of Israel reached its height in grandeur and glory. Discover what makes a nation prosper and what makes one fall. Learn how one person, living in obedience to Almighty God, can change the direction of a nation! Let us learn from history. 

Pray for God to give you revelation knowledge in your heart and mind as you meditate on His Word (Eph. 1:17,18).

Price: $24.95

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