January 2007

CLU Student Newsletter

I believe God is going to do marvelous things for us this year! I am very excited! He is a big God with no limits! Let’s ask big and expect big!

I want to encourage every student to purpose in the Holy Spirit to really “dig” into your courses this year. Ask God to help you set aside a regular time each day to work on them so you can receive the blessings, deliverances, and fellowship God wants to give you through these lessons. Set a goal to complete each course in at least 12 weeks; otherwise, time slips by quickly, the courses slide and eventually are put on the back burner. Ask God for His special anointing to complete the course work.

You are all invited to join me on the Thursday night CLU chat room from 9:00 to 10:00 P.M. EST. This is a great time to get acquainted with other students, to ask questions, or just to chit-chat.

This newsletter features testimonies from two students. If you would like to share your testimony about your courses and experience with CLU, please email them to me. I am always open to and welcome your feed back on these newsletters.

May 2007 be the most blessed year you have ever experienced!

Dr. Karen King

The Bible says that what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal (2 Corinthians 4:18). We live in a world that is both seen and unseen. By only living in the natural, we miss out on half of what life is really all about. Communion with God has opened up to me the other half of life and to what's really worthwhile. It's creative, artistic, beautiful, and adventurous! To get out of the "go to work, eat, sleep, and repeat" cycle is something only God can enable us to do. I’ve messed up my life so badly only God could turn things around.

Communion with God (How to Hear God’s Voice) has opened up the possibilities that there really is more to life than just the daily grind. I've seen for the first time that God really does love ME! I did not understand how or why even though I’d heard it thousands of times from my parents, Sunday school teachers, and friends. Maybe I'm as hardheaded as the teenager who can only learn from the school of hard knocks. God Himself had to tell me before I could really believe it. Only He could move an idea from my head down into my heart. As I move into vision, I'm excited to see what God will show me. It's what makes life worthwhile.

My 30th high school reunion was earlier this year. However, there is no way I’d go. After all, isn't that to show your former classmates what a success you've made of your life and how things have worked out so well? I felt anything but successful. Sure, I had achieved a lot of things--education, a good job, a nice car, a nice home--but I was depressed, empty, and I'd spent my life running from one thing to another looking for the truth.

I ended up taking "Communion With God". I had to have something to fill my time, but I was not prepared for the impact it was to have in every area of my life. This was just another class, right? Wrong! It hit me like an atomic bomb! From the first lesson, the teaching on left brain/right brain preference, my world was turned upside down. It forced me to look at my life, and I didn't even recognize the person I had become.

My whole mindset has changed through this class and the encouragement of those who helped me through it. The biggest change, by far, has been a revelation of God's love. However, just as the Israelites spent 40 years wandering in the wilderness, although it was only a 14 day journey to their promised land, the 9 inches between my head and my heart seemed to be an impossible distance. That is, until God finally got through to me by journaling. The patience and love that finally reached me affects every area of my life. It doesn't matter what the circumstances are or how I feel. God is with me and loves me! That is the greatest gift anyone could ever have!

I have begun another class, "Counseled by God," and I'm really looking forward to what God does through this class as well! I feel like I've just started on a journey that will be the best part of my life! It would be easy to look back and see all the wasted years, but to God they are not wasted. He will use everything that I've gone through to perfect His plans for my future. Maybe I wouldn't have seen the truth that I've discovered in Communion with God if I had taken it sooner. God's timing is perfect!

I was stirred to study further after being in the ministry for 20 years. I am originally from South Africa and now living in the USA where we pioneered another church. I went through CLU’s web-site and was totally captivated. I compared it with many other colleges, institutes, and universities, but somehow I could not get away from it.

The more I read about the CLU courses by going through some of the abbreviated descriptions of the courses and how they would affect me, CLU started to grow on me. However, I thought perhaps I should just put it aside for now. When I least thought about it, the Holy Spirit took my attention back to CLU’s website. Then I heard the Lord saying, “If you really want to move to the next level in your growth with Me, I want you to enroll.” In obedience to God, even though I have been in the Apostolic / Prophetic for many years, I said to my wife, “I am going to do a doctorate through CLU.”

My first course was Communion with God, and my life became powerfully enriched as this course taught me more about God’s voice--how to cultivate it and to live fully out of it. After a couple of courses, my prophetic gifting from God moved to another level in expressing myself with a much clearer and more practical utterance into the lives of people. I then realized the power that CLU tapped into through Dr. Mark Virkler’s obedience to God in bringing about the “Lamad” way of studying.

In every course, I heard God’s voice since He does not want me to live out of the tree of reasoning, but instead out of His voice. Like CLU affirms, we are the head and not the tail. The head lives out of the voice of God.

I can truly recommend this university since it brings the Word of God back to life. The courses will help every individual know how to live and experience Christ Jesus in their daily lives. It puts the Kingdom of God first which will then add all those things that are outstanding for success and victory in our daily lives. This is a well-balanced university with a wealth of revelation, and you will learn from all the five-fold heart motivational teachers during the courses. This university is one of excellence, and I will recommend it wherever I go.

If you want to hear the Truth in how to be successful in life through God’s Word, then CLU is the place through which you ought to study. CLU administers Spirit and Life through all its courses. If you want to be one of God’s end time people ushering in His Kingdom, then you need to study these courses!