I Really Want to be Part of a Small Group that Is ANOINTED and LIFE-GIVING!

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When I began pastoring in the late 1970’s, we created small groups which met weekly for sharing, Bible study, prayer for personal needs, and fellowship. Everyone completed the assigned study during the week, and came to the meetings prepared to share what God had revealed to them during their meditation upon Scripture. We worked our way “Through the Bible” with a 2-year program. Years later, people have commented that this was the place they received their grounding in Scripture.


Four styles of small groups?

It appears to me that a small group is likely to follow one of the following styles: 1) a lecture, which is often boring unless the teacher is an anointed communicator; 2) a sharing of ignorance where questions are presented and people pop off answers from their own thinking without first prayerfully reflecting and getting the mind of the Lord; or 3) a sharing of revelation, where people have spent time during the week with the Lord and He has revealed things to their hearts which they share in the group meeting.

(A fourth type of group I have seen is "accountability" groups where you come together and confess your sins and failings so as to become clean and overcome. Personally, I find that when I focus on my sins they just become larger, because whatever I focus on grows within me and whatever grows within me, I become. So rather than focusing on my sinfulness, I focus on Jesus who is my righteousness, my wisdom, my power and my glory. Now instead of being depressed, I am uplifted.)

I say YES to groups designed to share revelation together and act on it

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I want to hear what God has ministered to each individual during the previous week of their lives. I don’t really want to hear about their encounter that happened 20 years ago (although that, too, is good), but I want to know they are having a vibrant relationship with God today and what He spoke to them this last week. Paul was clear in 1 Corinthians 14:26.

How is it then, brethren? Whenever you come together, each of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification.

This is body ministry. It is a sharing of revelation. It is each person manifesting the Spirit in some way. It is Spirit life. It is God alive in the midst of His Church and in the midst of our small group. I have participated in small groups in which, when a prayer need was presented, we all tuned to our hearts, listening to what the Holy Spirit was saying and then praying and ministering His wisdom and healing power to the indivudual. Together we released words of wisdom, words of knowledge, prophecy, tongues, healing and miracles. Healing always occurred on some level, either to those who were praying or the one being prayed for. This is what I choose for my small group. We experience the living God, alive in our lives and alive in our midst, and we build one another up in the Holy Spirit by sharing His revelation.

“Evil company corrupts good habits” (1 Cor. 15:33 NKJV), but when we "walk with the wise, we become wise" (Prov. 13:20). Good Spirit-anointed company builds a lifestyle of living by the Spirit, and I seek a Spirit-life group that will encourage me weekly to walk by the Spirit (Gal. 5:25). Are you hungry for such a group? If so, we can help you become engaged in one

My heart hungers for the Church to be fully alive and sharing with one another what Jesus IS doing in their lives. Forty years ago I read the book In His Steps by Charles Sheldon in which he suggested asking the question, “What would Jesus do?” I thought that was cool until I realized that Jesus is STILL speaking today (“My sheep hear My voice - Jn. 10:27). Then I decided the true question is, “What IS Jesus doing?” This replaces a non-speaking God with a speaking God. The world is hungry for a living encounter with God. As Bill Johnson says, the Church owes the world a living encounter with the living God.

Testimonies from people in Spirit-Life Circles

  • A woman was healed of epilepsy when the Circle prayed for her. She received a journal with 7 confirmation statements: "You are healed, right now." "It's done." "It is finished."
  • We practice dream interpretation all the time which leads to incredible revelation.
  • One woman was able to forgive her abusive father and now remembers her childhood without pain.
  • Another woman obeyed the voice of God and shared a prophetic message with a stranger due to increased confidence because we practice this in the Circle. The stranger was incredibly blessed by receiving this message.
  • A man was listening to our Circle conversation in a coffee shop and we included him for that day and taught him how to journal. He came back a week later and shared that the Lord showed up personally for him for the first time. He learned that God loved him and God stopped him from killing himself.

What God spoke to me about this

Mark, I too am hungry to see My Church releasing My life to the world around them. I am not a theology. I am a living being Who desires to live My life out through each of them. This reality has been stolen from many of My children as they no longer believe I speak today. I do speak today. I am alive today. I am alive in the midst of My Church. Let My Church come alive with My life. Let words of wisdom and words of knowledge and prophecy and discerning of spirits and speaking in tongues and casting out demons and healing the sick be that which they experience and that which they share. That has always been My intention. Not to study Me, but to encounter Me, My anointing, My wisdom and My strength. That is My Church in action. That is what you are to call My Church unto… a moment-by-moment living encounter with their living Lord. That is MY Church. So let it be spoken. So let it be done.

Yes, Lord.

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by Mark Virkler and Charity Kayembe | 14 Sessions | 6.5 hours

Build a theology and experience the role of Kingdom emotions to engage and release Kingdom power! Jesus, moved by compassion, healed (Matt. 14:14). You can, too! Discover how Kingdom emotions can be born in your heart to carry the Holy Spirit's power to perform healing, as well as turn on healing genes while turning off inflammatory genes. Experience God's Kingdom which is peace and joy in the Holy Spirit (Rom. 14:17)!

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This package includes 49 professionally taped sessions, each 5-12 minutes long which is my testimony of breaking free from each lie. I discuss what the lie is, its impact on my life, what Jesus spoke, my prayer of repentance and the new freedom I experienced which allows me to step into a new life in Christ.

If you have ever believed any of the following lies, then this book is for you: "Emotions are soulish;" "Money is evil or secular;" "It is wrong to seek vision;" "Don’t trust experiences;" "God gave me a mind and expects me to use it;" "Politics are evil;" God is always beating on me;" or one of 43 more such detestable lies...

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Divine Healing Toolbox CD/DVD Set

Divine Healing Toolbox CD/DVD Set

by Mark Virkler | 1 CD, 1 DVD

Jesus healed all who asked Him and our goal is to be like Him! He commissioned His disciples saying, "Heal those...who are sick, and say to them, 'The kingdom of God has come near to you'" (Lk. 10:9).

We begin with the assumption that we agree that it is God’s will to heal. Having prayed for healing for people for years, Mark has seen many wonderful miracles and also seen times when it appeared that very little happened. This short teaching describes some practical steps he has learned which make his prayers for healing more effective.

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From Oppression to Victory Digital Videos

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This eight-part training series takes you through the key biblical principles you need to know so that you can walk in the light and live free of demonic harassment. Ideal for personal or group study. Live free from oppression and demonic attack. Thrive in the victory of love, joy, peace, blessing, anointing and fruitfulness!

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Fulfill Your Financial Destiny DVDs

Fulfill Your Financial Destiny DVDs

by Mark and Patti Virkler | 22 Video 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.

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How Do YOU Know? DVDs

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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.

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How to Speak in Tongues CD/DVD Set

How to Speak in Tongues CD/DVD Set

by Mark Virkler | 1 CD, 1 DVD | Produced 2010

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