I warned that many would come in my name that I didn’t send, and told my followers to take heed that no man deceive them. For when the faith grew and became popular it involved the risk that people would join out of mixed motives, or claim the name of Christ to advance their own agenda. Have you seen those who seem more eager to advance their own interests in my name than they are to be conformed to my image and belong to a Kingdom that is not of this world?
You know that you can’t change the past, but there are some things that can be applied retroactively, which is sort of like changing the past. For example, you could get a pay raise at work, and your boss could make it retroactive to some previous date, so you will get more money than you expected, because you had been working for more money than you realized. How do you view grace? Can you see that from the moment you call upon it, it applies retroactively to your entire past? Can you also see that it applies to the rest of your life going forward?
When the Bible states that Jesus healed everyone present, ever wonder how much detail we are missing in these stories? Perhaps 99% is missing, as the Gospel writers pack three years of Jesus' ministry into a relatively short portion of Scripture.
That is, 3 years x 4 Gospel writers = 12 years X 365 days/yr = 4380 days. All squeezed into just 78 chapters of the four Gospels combined.
How do you describe your faith? Do you say that it is a relationship with me? Is there anything else involved? For this statement implies that you can do it on your own. Do you know Christians who have taken this approach, and wandered off into error or extremism? Some horrible things have been done by those who claim to be followers of me. Your faith places you in a community with all other believers, and beyond that to all whom I have created if you are willing to go that far. How large are you willing to draw your circle?
The Virkler revelation is a useful and compact tool to jumpstart a lifestyle of seeking God. Until I learned the four step method in 2021 through Mark’s teaching at the Global School of Supernatural Ministry,
Are you familiar with the concept of line upon line, precept upon precept? This is an approach to studying the Bible, and it is taken from the Bible in Isaiah 28:10. Is this method the one you are familiar with from school, and find that it adapts well to studying the Bible? Can you think of an alternative approach? For if you read ahead to verse 13 what sense do you get of how pleased I was with this method of study? The purpose of your faith is transformation. Can you obtain this through the incremental approach to learning you were taught in the classroom? How else would you do it?
Spirit Life Workshops recently delivered the SOAR HIGHER Spirit Life Workshop in Panama City Beach, Florida and I (Mark Virkler) asked Dr. Patty Sadallah to share the anointed finale encounter she led us in. Both Patti and I had powerful heavenly experiences as we participated in this visionary journaling experience. In the guided exercise below, Patty Sadallah had us go for a walk with Jesus up through the clouds into heaven where there were several doors/rooms He could take us into to reveal things to us. As "flow" took over, this became wonderful heavenly room experiences that profoundly impacted our lives with faith, hope, and love. I trust you will experience the same!
Are you quick to regard other people as evil? If you know the rules and they don’t, it may explain why they don’t follow them. In a court of law the ignorance of the law is a defense, although it is more commonly used as a mitigating factor in sentencing. This is consistent with my word in which the difference is between being beaten with many or few stripes. If you are a child of the light and of the day, be glad and rejoice in it. Others walk in darkness and their unawareness is not the same as evil.
I have always believed I was right, no matter what position I held. And I notice other people hold the same opinion of themselves. They believe they are right, even when they disagree with me. Hm!
Are you familiar with the concept of consolation? Do you think of it only in terms of a consolation prize; an award given to make you feel better about a contest you lost? The Biblical concept of consolation is more positive than this. Life involves unavoidable suffering. You would like the suffering to cease, but how often are you able to obtain this? Yet even as you endure afflictions and hardships I am present with you in them. This is the meaning of consolation, that I will sustain you, even in the midst of your afflictions.
