JOEL 2 GENERATION

Last night a Morroccan Muslim couple, M. & A., came to visit. Actually, they are very close to the Kingdom of God because they have encountered many miracles - healings, dreams, visions and powerful encounters with the presence of God. A.'s sister was visiting and they brought her along to our house. Our friends wanted to hear about all the miracles we had seen over the summer as they had been in Morrocco and we hadn't seen them in a couple of months. While we were telling them some stories, the Spirit of Prophecy came on me and I just stopped and started to prophesy over A'.s sister. The Lord showed me that she would be a prophetess in His Kingdom. I told her that she was already "seeing things", which she confirmed. Knowing that the enemy was using her, I explained that as she submitted to the Holy Spirit, her prophetic gifting would increase exponentially. I then saw that she had been in a relationship that had ended for a specific reason - namely be...

As long as we carry the misconception that sickness and evil is part and parcel of God's sovereignty, we haven't meditated deeply enough on the Incarnation and the Crucifixion. Nor will we join Christ in destroying the works of the devil. Greg Boyd writes, In my view, every other understanding of divine providence [read: the models where God determines everything ] to some extent diminishes the sovereignty and glory of God. It brings God's wisdom and power down to the level of finite human thinking. We would need to control or possess a blueprint of all that is to occur ahead of time to steer world history effectively. But the true God is far wiser, far more powerful, and far more secure than we could ever imagine. Remember whom we are speaking about. This is the omnipotent Creator who "flexes His omnipotent muscle, "as it were, by being born in a stable, growing up with the stigma of being an illegitimate child, hanging out with sinners. . . and [dying] o...

My friends and I went to pray for these two old bachelor brothers. Let me set the scene: these guys are in their mid-60s and have never married. They live in a small house in a small town and grew up in the backwoods of America. Well, these guys called us and asked us to come over and pray for the older brother's (George) leg. He had "been down" for a few days and couldn't walk without difficulty. After we prayed for them both for an extended period of time and asking the Lord to bless them, we left noticing that the swelling had gone down a little. This happened the beginning of the summer. Yesterday, one of my friends who had gone to pray with me ran into the two brothers. He asked George how he was feeling these days. George testified that some guys (he didn't recognize my friend as one of the ones who had prayed for him) came over and prayed for his legs to be healed and 15 minutes after they left, his leg was totally healed. Then John (the younger br...

Sometimes a familiar Scripture jumps out and grabs you - almost as if you've never read it before. I believe this to be a manifestation of what Paul calls "a spirit of wisdom and revelation"(Eph 1:17). Last night this is exactly what happened to me (and subsequently my wife) listening to a Bill Johnson message entitled "A Mandate for Miracles". My whole understanding of John 14:12 changed completely. Jesus said, "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father. (NASB) Many Charismatic Christians, like myself, will quote this verse often. We talk about it amongst ourselves, we preach from it, and we even use it to defend our theological convictions. I have often referenced this verse in my own preaching. For the most part, Charismatics tend to focus on the latter part of the verse - the 'greater works'. I think one of the reasons we have...