May 2008

CLU Student Newsletter

Life Long Learning
by
Dr. Karen Joy King

Many of you have written and told me how much you are enjoying these newsletters. I greatly appreciate your comments! Through these newsletter testimonials, a number of students have shared how God has changed their lives. CLU and I would like to encourage each student, even after you have completed your degree, to continue taking these wonderfully anointed and life changing courses. You can always earn another degree or simply take more courses as a Life Long Learner.

Each course provides new insights into a closer walk with God and others. Each course contains another path to greater healing and ministry. Since CLU offers over 100 courses, there are a lot of topics from which to choose and receive multiplied blessings and answers for your needs, continued growth, and increased ministry capacity.

God birthed CLU to transform Christians into minister-leaders enabled and anointed to go out and change the world for Him. The more courses you take, the better equipped you will be to advance the Kingdom of God. Blessings and love to you all!



I Am No Longer Living in Stress
by
Donna West

Communion With God has taught me to trust the Lord in every thing I do, from paying my bills to the food I put in my mouth. Let’s start with paying my bills. Since I am on a limited income, it is very difficult to pay them at times, but this course taught me I can trust the Lord to provide the funds so my needs will be met.

My body is the housing for our Lord, and I know He wants me to take care of His house. Since I have been doing this course, I have lost 20 pounds. I didn’t even try, but God was working in me. If I wanted to eat something and didn’t feel it was right, I chose to eat something else. I feel He has taken over my life from the inside out.

Another life change He gave me was to move to Texas. I asked Him, “What is in Texas?” His answer was, “Heat.” I understood that because my back has not been able to take the cold weather here in New York the last few years. After talking it over with my roommate, and even though she encouraged me to move, doubts started to creep in. Through my journaling, God set me straight and my full trust in Him was once again on track.

I have received creative ideas through journaling. In the winter, my bathroom is really cold and unbearable since it is not insulated. The Lord gave me the idea to make covers for the toilet seat and lid. It has not only kept me warm this winter, but I also sold enough at a craft show to help with the cost of moving.

By taking this course, God has given me better relationships. First of all, my oldest son is back into my life! I have missed him very much! When I started the course, he was in my daily prayers. Then one day, his wife called and asked me to dinner in order to make amends. What a blessing, thank You, God!

All of my relationships have gotten deeper and closer. I now appreciate every moment and word I have with others. This change of perception has taken place in all areas of my life. The relationships that were not healthy for me have slowly faded from my life. I realize that each friend is placed in my life for a reason. After we learn from each other what we are to learn, the soul knows when to depart.

My attitude towards life has changed. I now appreciate my life. Life has become so precious that I can even appreciate all of God’s creation, right down to the blades of grass that get cut in the summer.

I have received many answers to life’s questions and answers about who I am and why I am here. I don’t want to sound conceited, but I have finally learned to love myself and to be able to receive God’s love. I did a lot of repenting during this course. Since God has forgiven me, now I can forgive myself. Now that I feel loved unconditionally, I am able to give love unconditionally.

I am trusting God to guide me and put the right decisions in my head so I do the right thing. When I am in doubt about anything, I journal. If I don’t get an answer, I do nothing, wait a few days, and ask again. When I get the answer, that is the path I take. Often it is not the answer I wanted, but I know it is the correct one.

I trust my intuition more than before since my instincts are awakened. For example, I was running late for a doctor’s appointment, so I called them to let them know. I was not even on the appointment list. The doctor had forgotten to put me in that day. So I saved myself an hour’s drive. It is this type of flow that occurs in my life daily. I am so thankful for the little things I never noticed before.

It is wonderful to learn to stay focused on Christ. When I am focused on Jesus, my mind quiets right down instead of constantly dwelling on negative things. This stillness helps to remove my anxiety and increases my interaction with others and myself. Most importantly, it helps with my meditation/prayer time.

Concerning my overall health, I am no longer living in stress! I’m no longer hard on myself. If a negative thought enters my mind, I focus on Christ, breathe Him in, and in an instant, stillness comes over me. I am still working on doing this all the time, but when I do it, it does help me get a grip on myself.

I hope this gives you hope. Don’t give up on God or yourself, for He doesn’t give up on us!

Listen
by
Nicole Masauli from Malawi

Recently, I applied for a job, for the third time, at a Christian Radio Station I had always wanted to work for. During the interview, several questions were shot at me by a panel of five people. It’s sad to say, but I found out that I knew next to nothing about the station. One of the key questions I was asked was, “How do you get married to someone you don’t know?” I didn’t even think to do my research properly before I applied.

A few weeks later, I had a dream in which I was getting married to someone I didn’t know and had mixed emotions about it: fear, guilt, lack of love, and unwillingness to go through with the whole thing. My sister was standing next to me while I cried the mascara off of my face and onto my very beautiful wedding gown. When I woke up, I was confused, but I remembered that most dreams are symbolic and often speak of current concerns. Somehow, I felt the dream was about the job.

I wasn’t as excited as I hoped I would be when the radio station told me I’d been successful. I started feeling very uncomfortable about it to the point that I literally couldn’t function. After battling a number of panic attacks, I took ill. I decided to seek the Lord, knowing if this was what He wanted me to do, He would grant me peace about it. The peace didn’t come, but I had the exact same dream again. I tried to convince myself that it was all me. I was afraid, but the Lord reminded me that fear is the opposite of faith and anything done in the absence of faith is sin.

If I were moving in the right direction, I knew the fear, or lack of peace, would subside, but it didn’t. I prayed again, but the discomfort actually seemed to get worse. I went to see them on Wednesday, with my knees knocking, to ask for more time. They gave me until Friday.

Praying and scripture reading seemed to bear no fruit so I resorted to worship. It seemed to help, but it only took my focus off the issue for a moment, and then I was right back where I started. As I attempted to retire that evening, I surrendered to the Lord and confessed that I was secretly hoping He would give me another dream so I wouldn’t have the opportunity to rationalise. In surrender, I asked the Lord to speak in any way that He saw fit.

That night, I dreamed again, but it had nothing to do with my current concern. A little disappointed, I took hold of my Bible and “just decided” to read Psalm 16. As I read, verse 7 jumped out at me. “I will bless the Lord, who has given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.” Ah, the missing piece of the puzzle. Then a lot of other pieces came flooding into my mind. God reminded me of how I was “settling” in the dream because I felt if I didn’t get married then, I would never get married. My Lord asked me, “Do you honestly feel that I have run out of resources? That I can’t give you anything else if you don’t take this? None of these entities even existed until I created them!”

There’s no better timing than God’s. I’m at peace with my decision to not work at the radio station. For now, I feel God wants me take a break from work to complete my degree and develop my music.

Writing Paralysed Me
by
Robin Fickle

One of the greatest challenges for me in starting the CLU Communion with God course was the fact that I didn’t really like to write all that much. There were numerous blocks to writing in my past which left me totally paralyzed in college many years ago. Yet God was very gracious to me during this period. After several years of hard work, He granted me the ability to write decent college research papers and take written exams. However, despite this grace, I was still left with a sense of not really enjoying the process of communicating in written form.

Through the CWG course, a marvelous change occurred in my ability to journal. I am now flowing with the move of the Holy Spirit, and I am actually beginning to really enjoy the process. That in itself is a miracle! I won’t say that it was easy, at least not at first. In fact, I was still struggling in my emotions with regards to writing well into the 8th lesson of the course. For example, I would do all the reading, watch the videos, and then hit a wall. Oh no! I have to do the journal exercise! I would gulp, sit down, and force myself to get started. But after a few times of pushing past all my negative emotions, I began to see that God really was speaking to me! That was a marvelous encouragement!

Now, I look forward to my journaling times with God and can honestly say that I am absolutely thrilled to be able to hear the Lord’s voice in this way! Thank you, CLU, for opening up the door for me to flow with the Holy Spirit through this marvelous course!

Journaling Question: Lord, how can my love for Your Word be increased?

Lamad Pathways for Spiritual Transformation

“My children with whom I am again in labor until Christ is formed in you” Galatians 4:19

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• “How to Hear God’s Voice,”
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