Rhema, or the voice of God, is Spirit-to-spirit communication—where the Holy Spirit, in union with your spirit, speaks directly to you. Mark Virkler

So Moses got a relationship and the Israelites received laws, commandments, statutes, and judgements. Law was added to law until the burden became heavy. Mark Virkler

God’s passion has always been to have fellowship with His children. God created us for the supreme purpose of having a love relationship with Him. Mark Virkler

God yearns to be your Friend. He wants you to recognise His voice so that you can get to know Him personally. He longs for you to spend intimate time with Him, having no agenda other than sharing love together. Mark Virkler

We hurt Him so when we become too busy with our daily tasks to spend time enjoying His love or when we carelessly let sin slip into our lives and do not repent, destroying our close communion. We must seek Him as our greatest treasure, seeing our time of sharing with Him as the highest priority in our lives. Mark Virkler

I repented for my dispensationalism and told God I wanted my Bible back, so I could live it from cover to cover. If you don’t have your whole Bible to live, I suggest you, too, may want to take a moment right now in prayer and repent for allowing it to be stolen from you and tell God you want it all back for you to live today. Mark Virkler

However, spirit-to-Spirit encounters with God have become much too rare among Western Christians. Since rationalism has taken over the Western world in the past few hundred years, the Church has also come under its influence and has not given the attention it should to the work of the Spirit in our lives. Therefore, we are often bound by rationalism and miss the fullness of relationship with our Father that the early Church enjoyed. Mark Virkler

As I began to examine my own life, I realised that I often took antagonistic and adversarial attitudes toward people with whom I didn’t agree. I felt it was what God wanted me to do. However, finally it dawned upon me that the accuser’s stance is satan’s attitude (the word devil literally means “accuser”) and the comforter’s stance is the Holy Spirit’s position. Mark Virkler

It is absolutely essential that you not miss this step of recognising two or three spiritual counsellors in your life, and that you go to them on a regular basis to confirm that what you felt you heard from God actually came from God. The Lord has created us to live in relationship with one another. Mark Virkler

While they were vigorously defending Christianity, formulating creeds (propositional statements of doctrine), and attempting to vanquish heresy by excommunicating heretics, somewhere along the line they forgot that Christianity is a relationship to be lived, not merely a theory to be proved. Mark Virkler