Sid: Have you read, there is such a difference in the Bible between twenty-first century American Christianity and what the Bible says it’s suppose to be like. And one of the biggest problems is discipleship and one of the biggest problems in discipleship is the early church understood things that have been lost. For instance, in the area of deliverance; the early church understood how to literally dismantle the anchors of demons so that they have no legal rights so it’s simple to cast these spirits out. And my guest Mark Virkler has been instructed by the Lord to put together a series called “Prayers that Heal the Heart.”…Mark I am really overwhelmed at how complete your course is…
Mark: …everyone needs these prayers and when I first went through them with Kaye Cox my first question was, I think I’ll find out from the prayer counselee which of these seven prayers they need. And then after I prayed with a half dozen people I came to the realization everybody needs all seven and so I stopped asking the question which one you need and I said, guess what, you need all seven. And if by any chance you didn’t need one of them, that means you wasted five minutes in prayer you didn’t have to waste, but it’s better to cover all your bases rather to have something hanging around.
Sid: Well, let’s go to the third supernatural prayer for replacing negative beliefs and renouncing intervows, what is that?
Mark: Well, it’s a couple of prayers that actually go hand and hand. A negative belief would be an unbiblical belief; a belief that does not line up with scripture; like for example I believe that “I’m probably going to fail.” Okay, that’s surely doesn’t line up with scripture and if I believe that I might make a promise to myself; I might promise and say, “You know what I’m not even going to try, because I’m pretty sure I’m going to fail.” So with every belief comes a vow, you might not be aware of the vow, but the vow in this case would be, “I’m not going to try, because if I try I’m just going to suffer I’m just going to fail again and again and I can’t handle the emotional pressure so I’m not going to try.” And people say well I don’t think I made a vow and if I did make a vow I have no idea of what my vow would have been. I say, “Well look at your action, because you believe you’re going to fail what action do you take?” And they say, “Well, the action I take is I don’t try anymore.” I say, “Okay then your vow was “I’m not going to try,” because it’s a root fruit relationship.” You look at the fruit in your life, trace it back to the root and say what is the root that’s producing this fruit? And so we need to replace ungodly beliefs and inner vows with godly beliefs and godly purposes. Not another godly vow, because we don’t really want to make a new vow; we want to say, “I purpose by the power of the Holy Spirit to do this.
Sid: Well, I’ve heard of people that have made vows literally, “ I make a vow to do something and it was an ungodly thing,” it was before they were even a believer and then I’ve heard of them saying, “Well, I break that vow in Jesus Name, but nothing changes.”
Mark: Well, you know just last week in a seminar I did the lady I was praying with she had battled with rejection and inferiority; feeling she wasn’t worth anything and she said she went to a seminar recently and got prayed for and they prayed through a specific prayer which happened to be one of these seven prayers. She said that she felt a level of relief but it wasn’t totally healed. And I said, “You know what, you prayed one of the seven prayers, let’s pray the other six because you know there’s power when one can put a thousand to flight, two can put ten thousand. So I don’t suggest anyone pray one prayer, I suggest they bundle them up, pray all seven and if they do they are going to find an intensity of release instead of just a partial release and a partial healing. They are going to find a complete release and a complete healing. So in this case here, you know you got to believe I am going to probably fail, so I’m not going to try. Well if you journal that and say, “Lord what do you want to say to me about my belief I’m going to fail.” He is going to come back and say, “I will make, I have made your way prosperous.” And so that’s a godly belief; that’s a railroad track to run on, because belief’s are railroad tracks that govern my life so now I’m going to say fine, my confession is “God has made my way prosperous and therefore my new purpose in the Holy Spirit is I’m going to step out in faith believing that God is with me and believing He is prospering my way.” So an ungodly belief and an inner vow repented of, “Lord I repent for believing I will fail, I repent for the vow of not trying and instead I replace this with a godly belief that You have made my way prosperous and I choose to step out in faith believing that you are with me.
Sid: You know Mark; I love your section on replacing negative beliefs and renouncing inner vows. What about in the area of money – finances. Have you had any testimonies in that arena?
Mark: Well, probably all of us have our own personal testimony; one ungodly belief would be I’m not going to have financial freedom in my life. I’m always going to be in want, there will never be enough to make it through.
Sid: You know someone might not even verbalize that, but there life pattern is they’re always in trouble financially.
Mark: Exactly, again you look at your fruit and if the life problem, life says I’m in trouble, then there is a root belief behind that. And in this case the belief is probably “I believe money is secular, I believe money is evil, I believe I can not earn enough,” and so I have to vow something so how about if I just vow that “I’m going to equate poverty and godliness together, that it’s spiritual to be poor and God doesn’t care about money.” And now I got a rail road track , I’m running my life on an ungodly belief and so I need to come to God and say, “God what do you believe about money?” What do you want me to say and believe about money?” And I might journal; I might write down the question, “Lord, what do you want me to say?” And then I fix my eyes on Jesus, tuned to flow and write down what He says back. He may give me a scripture verse or He may give me something else. Here’s one of the things that He’s given me; He said, Mark I have given you the power to make wealth in order that I might confirm the covenant with you. Now that’s a scripture verse from the Old Testament. And so I say, “Wow the proof that you are in covenant with me is that You have given me, You have given your children the power to create wealth.” Well then I am going to have a new purpose in the Holy Spirit. I’m going to purpose to believe God for the power to make wealth, I am going to believe God for financial prosperity and financial blessing that is what I purpose and I will not give up until that is the reality in my life and that is what I see. I lend and I do not borrow, and now I have a new railroad track, a track of faith, a godly belief that replaced an ungodly track which was a track of a negative belief.
Sid: You know, I’ve said this before, but what a difference it would make in someone’s walk with the Lord if they had just known these seven areas of prayer and gotten set free of all these familiar spirits and spirits of infirmity and spirits of addiction and look at all the nonsense they would have avoided in their walk with the Lord.
Mark: Well, I agree Sid and in my own life God has corrected me and several ungodly beliefs. I use to say I have a B level brain because when I was in college and high school I got straight B’s all the way through. So my belief and my confession and my vow was I have a B level brain. And when I prayed about it God said, Mark don’t ever say that again. He said now that you have the mind of Christ you have a triple A brain, you are brilliant and you confess that. Say in the anointing of the Holy Spirit I am brilliant and He said get yourself out of the prison and box of unbiblical beliefs and come and believe what I believe about you.
Sid: How can two walk together unless they be agreed? It’s good to agree with God.
Mark: Amen, amen.
Sid: Alright Mark let’s go to another area and that has to do with breaking negative words and word curses.
Mark: Word curses, yeah. You know a lot of times the Bible says life and death is in the power of the tongue and God spoke things into existence and we speak things into existence and if someone speaks a negative word it can crush our spirits and crush us and we can speak a negative word I just gave you an example. I spoke a negative word, that I have a B level brain and it crushed my ability to move forward and be all that God wanted for me. Sometimes people will say, you can’t take that job because that job can’t provide an income for you so even though you’re an artist or musician I think that you should to and take some other job. Well, that’s a word curse and if you believe it and you let it soak into your spirit and you agree and say yes, I cannot support myself as a musician now this word curse controls you and rips from you your destiny in God. And that has to be broken in prayer. Say “I break the power of this word curse in the name of Jesus, it has no authority over me, I command it to fall to the ground and become powerless and I confess the truth that God has spoken to me,” and then you go in prayer and say, “God what is the truth you want me to confess,” and you let Him give you the new truth and then you speak that.
Sid: And I know that from previous times we’ve had you on the show, is that you find that the discipline of believing God will say something to you and write it down shocks people. People that have never heard from God all of a sudden start hearing from God.
Mark: Well, exactly you know when you’re in prayer just quiet yourself down and fix your eyes on Jesus picture Him right there with you. And say, “Jesus what do you want to say about this belief or this thing.” and then you tune to His voice and we define as spontaneous thoughts that light up on your mind. And you begin to write that flow of spontaneous thoughts and you’ll end up with a paragraph of God talking to you. And you bounce it off your spiritual advisors and make sure it’s God and then you run with it.
