Wholehearted, passionate commitment means that once God grants you a revelation concerning an area you need to possess, you press into that area until you have success, mastery and victory (Jeremiah 29:11-13).
In my morning journaling I said, "God, I hate my personality! I am such a fighter. Why couldn't I be more of a lover. I dislike my passion to battle." The Lord spoke back in my journal:
"Mark, if I wouldn't have made you a fighter, you would never have fought for 10 years to learn to hear My voice. You would have never received the 4 Keys which have brought intimacy to your life and to those you have shared them with. Your nature to fight is a gift from Me which has allowed you to produce a gift for the world. So celebrate your willingness to battle and do not despise it."
Wow! OK, Lord, I celebrate the fact that I am a fighter, and that I am left brain, and that it took me 10 years to discover the right hemisphere in my mind.
When Thomas Edison had completed over 9,000 unsuccessful attempts at perfecting a light bulb, he was asked by a newspaper reporter if he felt like a failure and if he should give up. Edison simply stated “Why would I feel like a failure? And why would I ever give up? I now know definitely over 9,000 ways an electric lightbulb will not work. Success is almost in my grasp.” Edison passionately pursued his love to discover and create and it granted him the victory of over 1000 patents to his name (reference here).
Jim Lute has been hearing the Lord's voice for years. Some of his friends are uncomfortable with this, but yet he presses on. The Lord told him to build a train.
My attitude toward marketing had always been "yuck". I told the Lord that I hated marketing. The Lord spoke to me: "I want to teach you to LOVE MARKETING, and to become good at it. For you will become good at what you love."
Following is some journaling from the Lord, which Lyle sent to me (Mark Virkler) and I asked if I could share it with you all. I am the creative force of the universe. I made the universe. I made it all by the word of my mouth. I am the creative force of life, and of everything that is creative. Your creativity is an expression of my creativity. I have given you life and all the creative capacity, and its corresponding authority that goes with it.
Many Israelites missed their intended destiny of arriving at the Promised Land because they repeatedly tempted God in the Wilderness. Below are the twelve ways they tempted God (Num. 14:22). These are the things you do NOT want to do!
Creative Prayer is the devotional style I have used most often over the last 35 years.
Did you know that you can receive creative architectural designs through divine revelation? King David did. Check it out:
"Then David gave to his son Solomon the plan of the porch of the temple, its buildings, its storehouses, its upper rooms, its inner rooms and the room for the mercy seat; and the plan of all that he had in mind, for the courts of the house of the LORD, and for all the surrounding rooms, for the storehouses of the house of God and for the storehouses of the dedicated things." (1 Chronicles 28:11-12)
The following testimony is from George Medellin, Pacific Northwest Maintenance, LLC.
In July of 2015 I was doing assignments for the Communion with God course which I was taking with a Personal Spiritual Trainer and I received the following pictures:
