JOEL 2 GENERATION

Ok, so I was one of the guys who was out with Isaac that night that nothing happened. After several dead ends, we were so desperate that at 11 PM we decided to head out into the desert and find some Arabs in tents. The desert is literally littered with tents this time of year—it is common for Arab men to spend their evenings with their friends out in the desert, so we were just going to crash in on one uninvited. I kinda decided that we’d drive twenty minutes out into the desert and then turn off the highway and stop at the first place we find. The only thing is that apparently we found the only stretch of the desert were there were no tents what-so-ever. We headed straight for the only visible lights of any kind assuming that it was a camp. It turned out to be the office for a landfill. There were some Asian expats working there and a steady stream of Arab drivers dumping loads of rock and dirt. As Isaac mentioned in his post we (he) gave out several wrong words and basically

One of the greatest parts about this Christmas was the opportunity we had on two occasions to distribute food to the poor as a family. So much is working against us at Christmas time to obscure the ‘reason for the season’ (i.e. that God GAVE us the gift of His Son). Giving to the poor is a violent act of Kingdom expansion. Each time we went, we expected God to manifest His Kingdom in some kind of miraculous way and we were not disappointed. A few days ago, a woman came to the food warehouse where we would distribute the food and clothing. She was so happy with all that she had received – the donations to the warehouse had been particularly generous that week. However, as she was about to leave the Lord gave me a word of knowledge about a problem in her left shoulder. She had that problem and it was painful at that very moment. We asked to pray, lay hands upon her and the King gave her one more gift for Christmas – a healed shoulder. All the pain was gone. I learned so much ju

A few days ago, I posted an entry called "The Night of Nothing. . .?." Here's the follow-up. I'll let Tenacious B. tell his side of the story and all the great things he got to share. Tonight, Tenacious B and I met with one of the guys (hereafter "T.") we ran into in our search for sick people. He actually called Tenacious B and asked to meet. We were to find out later that when he left us the other night, he had had a feeling that we were different and that our meeting was not coincidence. As we talked about different things, I started asking the Lord for some words for him. My first word was about a sister. As I thought about it some more, I thought it meant that she had some kind of breathing problem or allergy. As it turns out, none of his sisters have any of those problems, but he did have a twin sister who was killed in a car accident. I also got a word about him being a good uncle-- the kind that brings presents. He confirmed that. I also

On the way home from work today, I was driving and my neck started hurting on the left side and then quickly stopped. My default mode now is to think of it as a word of knowledge, so I started thinking about who it might be for. Since I was in the car alone, I started to rethink about it being a word. Suddenly, my phone rang and it was the delivery man who was wanting to know when I would be home so he could bring a package. After I told him and hung up, the thought came to me that the word that I had just had was for him. When the delivery man arrived, I signed for the package and asked him if his neck hurt on the lower left side. He looked at me incredulously and asked, "How did you know?" I explained that I was a healer (as all Christians are, i.e., little Christs, aka Little Healers) and that this pain could be healed if he wanted. He started making excuses about needing to leave and I pressed him a little more and told him that it would only take a minute. He sa

Today I went to the dentist. On the way, I started thinking about getting some words for the dentist. For some reason, I was hesitant, but I told the Lord that if He reminded me to ask for words while in the chair, I would. So, a few minutes later and the dentist is cleaning my teeth. I remember I was supposed to ask for words. I started asking and got the impression that she had two boys and that one of them had an eye problem. I told the Lord that if these words were from Him, confirm it. I asked the dentist if she had any kids and she said, "Yes, two." I started to get nervous. I asked if they were boys or girls and she said, "Girls." I breathed a sigh of relief and let her keep cleaning. Some days, I'm more chicken than others. I thought I would tell this little anecdote because I thought it might encourage some people out there who are trying to live the supernatural lifestyle, but find themselves missing it a lot. Keep going!

the other day my family and I were distributing food to the poor and needy. after each person/family received what they needed, we had the chance to pray for their needs. One man was an Iranian muslim man who let me pray for him. While praying the Lord gave me a word of knowledge for the very part of his body that hurt and needed healing. After praying, he testified that all the pain was gone and he was healed. Another woman let us pray and I got a word for a back problem she had. We prayed and she could feel God's presence come into her back. When we finished, she wasn't completely healed at that point, but because of the physical manifestation of God's healing power in her back, she knew He was doing something supernatural. there is something very special that happens when we minister to those who are truly desperate and needy. Jesus revealed that those who are "poor in Spirit" receive the Kingdom of God - that term describes those we ministered to exact

This past Wednesday night, I got to share with a fellowship in my city. After teaching for some time, I and Ravished got the opportunity to pray for some of the members of this group. I'm not sure of the details for Ravished-- I'll let him blog his own. As for me, many people came to me wanting prayer for different areas of their lives and for impartation. The pastor was the first one up. How many times does that happen? The deeper I go into the supernatural, the more I realize that there are many things the Lord wants to do among His people and all of them are as equally valid. I have had to repent of thinking that if I don't get some really specific word for someone that I haven't really ministered to them. Person after person in this fellowship didn't have a thing wrong with them or any major problems in their lives; they just wanted more of the Lord. I released divine creativity, boldness, courage, wisdom and got to play Santa for Jesus by releasing the

Last night some of the guys and I went out on our usual Kingdom treasure hunt (where we go where God leads and pray for the people we find there, etc.). We stayed out much later than usual and drove all over the city and even into the country looking for people to pray for. We went to place after place and before giving up and going home, I had given four wrong words of knowledge that didn't even get a question! This is about how it went several different times: "Do you have a pain here?" "Nope." "Here?" "Nope." "Everything is good? No pain anywhere?" "Nothing." "Ok. Good night." "Good night." So, as I went to bed last night, I was thinking about how we did end up with a phone number of a guy who might call. He seemed loney, but that was about it. I thought to myself, "Nothing blogworthy from tonight." However, as I sat down to write about some things from other times this week, it stru

This afternoon while waiting in a classroom, the Lord gave me a very clear word of knowledge for the teacher's lower right arm (below the elbow). I asked her what was wrong in that specific place. She in fact had a painful problem in that very area and had actually been up much of the night before in pain for that condition. I asked if I could pray explaining that God was going to heal the problem. As I began to pray, I could physically feel the healing take place in her arm. After prayer, all the pain was gone and she said she was healed. This is normal christianity - don't let anybody tell you differently!!!

"Impartation" is a widely misunderstood concept in the Kingdom - either it seems to be horribly neglected or cheaply abused. On my recent trip to a Middle Eastern country, I was asking God for impartation - I had anointed men and women pray for me and I believe I left that muslim country having received something from God - new GRACE to further His Kingdom. The funny thing about impartation is you don't really know what you got until you try to give it away. Last night, an opportuntity afforded itself in a group of hungry and desperate believers to see what the Lord had given me. I began to share the stories of what God had done on our trip, about the encounters with God and about the miraculous lives of believers we met there. One woman's life in particular in that nation is a sign and a wonder - miracles have been happening in and around her for several decades. She prayed for us, anointed us with oil, and I KNEW (because I physically felt God doing somethin

I was at the mall shopping for Christmas presents, when I noticed an Arabic antiques vendor limping around. As I was paying for my gifts, I asked him what had happened to his leg. He smiled and began to tell me how he had fallen off a motorcycle and broken his leg. I asked him if he had any pain and if I could pray for him to be healed. He said that the pain was not that intense, but that it mostly hurt when he went to sit down or do something strenuous. Before I had a chance to ask him again if he would like to be healed right then, he pulled out a huge folder from behind his counter and proceeded to pull out his X-Rays. He held them up to the light in the middle of his shop and showed me how his bone was cracked in two and how he had this hard core metal brace strapped to the bone to keep the leg in place. After a bit of conversation between the two of us he allowed me to lay my hands on him and pray for Gods kingdom to come and completely heal the leg in Jesus name. I then

While sitting next to a woman on a plane flight, I began to "see" that this woman was incredibly sensitive spiritually and had what would be termed a "seer" type of prophetic gifting. I also got a word of knowledge for a left elbow problem and decided to go with the elbow word initially. Well, she didn't have the elbow problem (later she told me she felt it was for her entire left side, which she had a long term condition with). I'll just go with "I missed it" and move on however:). Almost immediately she told me she was a believer and we actually attend the same type of Church. As I began to share with her more of what I "saw" about her, she confirmed that she did have a "seer" gift and also said others had "seen" that on her as well. It was encouraging to have given her an accurate prophetic confirmation of something she was already moving in. So often the prophetic ministry isn't about giving someone some &q

I have been having so much fun with the Lord these last months! It started in the summer in Canada . I would go on my morning walks with a purpose, listening and watching for direction from the Lord. Every morning I would run into people that needed prayer for healing. I never during this time received a ‘word of knowledge’ but would just run into them, see their ailment and pray. I prayed for heaps of people who didn’t get healed, though they all seemed blessed and I was frankly just feeling pleased at my boldness for trying. This is not for the faint of heart! Though at one point I did think I was going to have a heart attack! However, two of the people I prayed for WERE healed!! A guy on crutches felt heat all over his ankle and was able to move it without pain! That opened the door to talk to him about Jesus, the healer! There was also a girl behind a food counter who had a severe tooth ache. I asked if I could pray and put my hand on her cheek. She l

A few nights ago, Isaac of Ninevah, Tenacious B and I headed out together and met a group of Syrian muslim men who worked downtown. As Isaac pointed out in his blog post, we saw the Lord speak prophetically very clearly over a number of their lives. We were able to demonstrate the difference between the way God the Father speaks and heals, and the way their islamic seers and healers operate. They had quite a bit of exposure to these types of people. Sometimes the so-called 'prophetic words' that their islamic mystics will give are accurate but don't instill hope and produce faith. The vast majority of the time muslims have to pay these people for their 'supernatural services'. In sharp contrast, we explained that since God gives us His gifts freely, we use them freely. We also prophesied hope, potential and God's purposes and future ministry plans over these men. I saw one of these men had been a noted athlete in his youth, which he confirmed. I told him

I didn't know how much of what we saw in the other country would transfer back home, but it seems like we received an increase of some kind. Last night, we were downtown and got into a conversation with some guys. It quickly became a supernatural conversation. I prophesied to one guy that he was a great secret keeper and that he liked esoteric things most people didn't like. He nodded in agreement. For another man, I told him that he carried a healing gift and that people recovered from illnesses after a couple of days after he had been near them. He also confirmed that this was true. For one of the other guys with us, I told him that he had a teacher in his family and that he too had a teaching gift of some sort. He told us that his relative was an Islamic preacher. I also told another that he had a heart for justice, which was on as well. As we're talking, another older man comes up and the guys testify about what just happened. He turns to me and says, "We

On the plane home, we tried to minister to the stewardess who sat in the jump seat next to ours. Most of our words were way off except I saw her home being diagonally situated to an old stone church in her home country. DJ also got the name of her future husband, which, incidentally, turned out to be the name of her ex-boyfriend, too! As I was writing all of these testimonies down, I realized a few things. First, I hope no one gets the idea that we think we were somehow responsible for all of the things that happened. There is a hiddeness about our King and He has a love for participation. When He co-labors with us, we are the ones who people see. If He’s ok with that, I am, too. Many would have others say, “It wasn’t me, it was Jesus.” Theologically, that’s accurate. Religiously, it sounds good, but biblically, it’s not what He told us to say when doing signs and wonders. He said to tell people the Kingdom of God has come near. People get so hung up on what someone says aft

As we were walking around the airport, we felt like we were on a roll of some sort and looked for more opportunities to do the stuff. For one lady, I got a word about her being a great babysitter, which turned out to be on. But the last encounter we had was by far our best at the airport. For this one guy selling candy, I got the words that he didn't use an alarm clock, that his dad and brother worked together but he didn't work with them, and that he was the fastest runner among his friends when he was younger playing soccer. I also told him that he enjoyed reading – especially history and that he did his reading in his bed before going to sleep. The crazy thing was that it was ALL right. He clarified that he liked political history the best, though, but close enough. DJ also got a word for his back and some heart words for the lady working with him. Both were really blessed. What was the fruit of all of these words? We may never know this side of heaven, but each of

On our way out of the country, we were able to pray again for Yusif’s wrist and see some great stuff at the airport. Since we had arrived early to our gate, we decided to sit down in one of the coffee shops and just see what the Lord had planned. As we were sitting there, DJ and I both got a word about a pain in the left side of the neck. We asked our waiter to ask around and he did. It turned out that one of the guys in the kitchen named Mustafa had this pain. (Oddly enough, he told us later that he only had a pain there every now and then, but not at that time.) He sat down with us (it wasn’t too busy) and we started prophesying over him. I told him that he wanted a big family and that someone in his family was a leader. He agreed with the first word and told us that his uncle was an imam (an Islamic preacher). I also told him that he was up for a promotion of some sort. I then proceeded to get crazy with destiny words about his future wife: light colored hair, beautiful, a

The next morning we were back at the Souq. As we were getting some hot chocolate from one of the vendors, I got a word about some pain in his back. I asked him and he denied having any pain, but it opened the door for DJ to give his accurate word about the man’s right ankle. As DJ prayed for his ankle, I got a word about this guy being very friendly and having many different friends all around the area. Both he and the guy standing behind him confirmed it. I don’t know what it meant for these guys to hear something true about one of them from some stranger, but it’s encouraging to me to get words right—even if they are slightly broad.

While we were still at Abu George's, I realized that the first lady I had prayed for didn’t get much by way of prophecy, so she came back for more prayer (I firmly believe physical healing goes hand in hand with inner healing and this is all part of the prophetic gift. Well, that’s what I think.) This lady, Hanan, needed some healing for her carpal tunnel (a word I had gotten before) so I prayed for her healing and for some pain in her shoulders. I got the impression that she needed to forgive someone at work and she said that there was a guy there who kept pressuring her boss to make her work more. I told her that she should bless him instead of curse him. It then came out that she had been to some witchdoctor and he had told her all about herself, given her a talisman, and told her how to curse this guy. I first told her that she should burn the talisman. She got really excited and explained that that morning she had prayed at the church this prayer: “If I should get rid o

After our visit to the church, we went to a little market to get blessed by a native Aramaic speaker. As he was praying for us, DJ got a word about his shoulder and we prayed for his healing. He was very willing to both bless us and to receive from us. It was awesome. We thanked him and left. As we were walking to the car, Abu George came running out and invited us to his home to pray for his granddaughter. Here’s the scene: DJ, me, our Bedouin host, and our local, Muslim tour guide going into the house of an Orthodox family to pray for the little girl. When we got to his house, they were just finishing lunch and invited us to sit down. I looked around at the room, leaned over to DJ, and said, “Looks like a great place to have a healing meeting.” And we did. Abu George and his family were wide open for the Kingdom. We started off by praying for his granddaughter, and then, as we were praying for her, we started getting words for the other people in the room. One by one, we

That afternoon, we met up with the brother of a friend who wanted to show us his country. He works as a translator in the city, so this really worked out well for me since I don’t know much Arabic and DJ couldn’t translate everything all the time. Anyway, the first place he took us to was an ancient city that arose around an ancient Christian site of a female saint for whom God split a mountain so she could escape persecutors. Even to this day, there is a canyon where the rocks were split and a convent on the same site. Moreover, at this site, many people come to ask the saint to pray for them to receive healing. In fact, on the wall in the hallway going into the convent/church/reliquary, there is a recent (5 months) testimony of a man who swallowed some nails and came for prayer. After an open vision of two saints and Elijah, he went back to the doctor who did another x-ray and couldn’t find the nails. Part of the testimony includes the before and after x-rays, the business car

On the street the following day, I gave a wrong word to a man selling tea and coffee, but then got the impression that he had lost a really good friend and had never really found another one. He started to tear up and we prayed and declared that God would bring him another.

That afternoon, Yusif brought his sister, his mom, and his father an hour’s drive to receive prayer from us in the GZAB (see other posts if you don’t know what this means). I got a word for a shoulder, an eye, and a wrist. The shoulder was for the sister, but the eye was Yusif’s as was the wrist. He told me that he couldn’t put any pressure on it. I prayed for it and told him to do some pushups—which he did with NO PAIN. (Interesting note here: Yusif told us the last day we were there that the pain had come back when he had gone to pray at the mosque. Coincidence?) I also prayed for his eye while DJ prayed for his sister’s shoulder and the father’s knees. During this time, I also got a word for the mother that she had many Christian neighbors and that she had carried out the “when you did it to the least of these, you’ve done it to Me” lifestyle. She told us that most of their neighbors were Christians and she was really compassionate to the poor. She then felt the presence of

We then wandered around the city and stumbled along some people in different stores. One man had had childhood polio and we prayed for him. I told him that I saw a dove on his shoulder and that God had was giving him a lot of peace. The next guys we encountered in a gold shop. I prophesied that one of these guys was very active in his church in a leadership role and he said that he was in charge of the social activities. I also told him that it was important for him to read the book of Revelation and he told me that he was involved in a Bible study already. I also told him that I felt like the Lord was leading him to love other people regardless of religion, but especially Muslims, in a unique way. He received it well.

The next morning, we got up, ate breakfast, and headed for an ancient Christian holy site. When we got there, I got a word for a right ankle so I asked the policeman sitting on the bench if it was his. It wasn’t. So, we got our tickets and went down to the little worship room set up in this place. As I was sitting there, I saw an angel to the right of the altar, just standing there. DJ and I had come to this place in hopes of receiving an impartation. The angel told me that he didn’t see too many people come for that reason. He also told me that the Lord had used this saint (we were in his house) because he had a good sense of humor. All three of us tried to feel something were I saw this angel. It was neat to see the excitement on our host’s face when I told him that there was an angel in the corner. We, then, went back up to the little store and DJ got a word for the guy there for his neck and, as it turned out, he also had a bad, right ankle. Our next stop was a mystic’s

We had Salaar sit down on the couch and just receive prayer. We prayed for him for a long time because he said that he had a weak heart. We released the Kingdom and he said he felt something leave the top of his head and a lot of peace. I also sensed that the Lord wanted him to have a vision, so we asked him to imagine his room and tell us what he saw in it. His response was a man in white. Shooba. After seeing all of this, our host (the man who had been healed in our city a year or so ago) wanted some prayer as well. I prophesied that he had hit someone with a rock when he was a kid and still carried shame about it. He told us that it wasn’t a rock, but a bottle and confirmed that he still carried some shame. We asked Jesus to come and minister to his heart and carry that shame away. He, too, felt peace.

Back to the GZAB. . . After the barbershop, we went back to the manager and his friends. As we were sitting there, I just started looking around and started getting words for guys. For the manager, I told him that he looked like his uncle and that really respected and wanted to be like his uncle—even more than his father. He said that I was right. I also told another one of the guys that he dominated a game on the PlayStation 2 and he started laughing because that was true, too. For another one of the guys, Salaar, I told him that he had a gift with children and that he wanted many of them. I also told him that he had a close relationship with his mother and considered her to be one of his good friends. He turned really red and confirmed all of it. Let me take a second here to tell what the Lord told me. I kept asking for words that would freak people out, and He told me, “What difference does it make how freaky the word is if it gets the job done?” Seriously, some people jus

Back at the GZAB, we sat down with the manager and his friends and just let loose with words of knowledge and prophecy. I prophesied about one guy who wasn’t even there, but I had seen earlier. . . or at least thought I had seen. So, I started reading this guy’s mail about how he was talented, a musician, a good soccer player, really funny, but no one catches his jokes, etc. They were all astounded. But it turned out later, I had a completely different guy in mind, but it didn’t make much of a difference. It helped show some seeds in their minds about a God Who knows them. A little while later, DJ wanted to get a shave, so one of the guys went out with us to show us a good place. Along the walk, I prophesied that he like basketball and was between girlfriends. He confirmed both and went on to tell us that his last girlfriend had passed away rather recently. He also told us that he wanted more courage and bravery—that he wanted to be a new man. DJ and I told him that we knew h

The hotel was a great place for us because it had two bedrooms and a sitting area. This gave us the place and opportunity to do ministry in the room. It was really an apartment we rented for the time while we were there. After settling in, we headed out to a sheesha place where the men waste their time and money smoking and playing backgammon and chess. At the sheesha bar, DJ and I got some words for some of the guys at a nearby table. So, we went over and a few minutes later, one of them came to our table. He received healing and I gave him some prophetic words as well. I told him that the Lord was going to give him new sight and bless his business. I also felt like the Lord wanted him to know that He was restoring broken dreams. I also got the impression that he had someone close to him that he communicated with regularly, but was in another country (at this time, I thought he was a native to the city, so it wasn’t like I knew he was already from a different area). He confi

I would like to add a few more details about what happened on our trip to a nearby Middle Eastern country. To say the least, I didn’t know what to expect. As I told DJ before leaving, it was the least prepared I had ever been for an international trip. Anyway, we arrived in the afternoon so that gave us most of the day to do the shooba around town, but it really began with the taxi driver. As we were headed to the capital city, DJ and I both got numerous words for the driver and for our companion with us. I got a word for our host’s ankle and for our driver’s stomach. I asked him if he had had pain in the stomach—on the right side, just below the navel. He excitedly confirmed that though he didn’t have pain there at the time, he had recently had an operation in the exact same spot. I also got a word about a burn, which turned out was for the driver’s sister and another word for an ear pain which was also for the driver’s niece and our host. By the time we arrived to the hotel, t

Our trip was incredible in many ways, but arguably the most incredible facet was that a Bedouin muslim man traveled with us and witnessed every miracle, every prophetic word, every evangelistic sermon THE ENTIRE TIME WE WERE THERE. This was a man who was healed by the Lord a year and half earlier of migraine headaches when we prayed for him in a different country. He introduced us to his completely veiled aunt, who had a visitation of Jesus when her infant son had died. What did Jesus do? What He always did when He encountered dead people - He raised her son from the dead. He has always followed Jesus, even though the son had no contact with Christians as he was raised in a completely muslim village. Also, Desert Princess, prayed for this aunt to also become a follower of Jesus. Our friend traveled over 20 hours to be with us in the capital city of his country. He lived with us, he ate with us and saw first hand what it looks like for 2 Christian men to release God's Kingdom

The day we left, we got to the airport quite early. Because there wasn't anything else to do, we decided to plant ourselves in the middle of a bunch of muslims and see what God would say. Most of this I will leave for Isaac to share, but I would just say that God was so faithful yet again to speak to us and through us to a number of different muslim men and women. We did get alot of words wrong - I can try to package what I just said differently, but basically I'll call a spade a spade - there were times when we would open our mouths and just missed it. Again, some have a major problem with trying to prophesy and getting it wrong (due mostly to a Christian 'urban legend' that states that prophecy can/should never be wrong because they were taught that OT prophets that missed it were killed). In short, a 'false prophet' is completely different than a Christian who is growing in their prophetic gifting. I can say however, that the words that were right were at

There are several groups of Christians who still speak a form of the language that Jesus spoke, Aramaic. They live in several different Middle Eastern countries. We happen to visit one of their villages and God showed up. In this monastery, we asked the nuns if they would pray for us in Aramaic - but none of them spoke it because they weren't from that village. They directed us to a shopkeeper named Abu George (Father of George) who was an Aramaic speaker and would be able to help us. Little did we know what God had set up. When we got to the shop, we told him that we wanted him to pray for us in Aramaic - he prayed the Lord's prayer (very cool!). While there, the Lord gave me a word of knowledge for him and he let us lay hands on him and pray. I don't remember the actual result/outcome of our prayer, but it must have been something, because the next thing we know, he is inviting us to his house to pray for his mentally handicapped and blind granddaughter. What follow

The following morning I woke early and went out to find some place to drink tea. I found a small shop and the Lord gave me two words of knowledge for the a man in the shop named Abu Muhammad - back problems and pain in his ribs. Both were accurate. He was also a taxi driver and since we were going to utilize his services later, we delayed our prayer time for his back and ribs. I eventually got to pray for him and the Lord touched him. A neck problem he was having improved dramatically after prayer. While on the way back to the hotel, a word of knowledge came strongly for a lower back problem on the left as I passed a group of muslim men. I approached them, explained what happened. One of the men said it was for him. I prayed for him and the presence of the Lord came upon his back and he felt electricity. I told him I would come back to see him the following morning to check up on him but I couldn't find him again (nor on our final morning). Words of knowledge for strange

At the end of our first day in this massive Arab muslim city, the Lord opened some doors to minister to the men who worked in our hotel. We had just been in a coffee shop where the Lord gave me some words of knowledge (a left shoulder problem and a lower back problem) and let us pray for a guy. Isaac also prophesied over him. As we got back to our hotel, we were still quite keen to minister and sat on the ground floor with the employees of our hotel. Much of the ministry was Isaac prophesying over these men, including a very unusual 'seer' gift that was in operation. (which he will share about). He suggested I do something that we call "manifest fire" as a demonstration to unbelievers that the Kingdom of God is truly 'at hand'. I had this one muslim guy close his eyes and move his hand over my hand and to stop when he felt intense heat. (note: this isn't done close enough for my own body heat to affect the outcome). Anyway, after a couple of times,

These "Kingdom Adventures" posts will be from my perspective (DJ's). Isaac will also blog about our trip together, emphasizing different things that the Lord did. Our adventure began soon after we arrived at the airport and were picked up by a muslim taxi driver named Yusif. we began to get words of knowledge for he and his family. We got a word for his mother - her left leg. Ben also got words for his neice, his sister and him personally. He was interested and wanted to me again. The following night Yusif arrived at our hotel with his parents and his sister who all wanted/needed prayer for healing. He drove an hour from outside the city for ministry! (Sadly, I have Christian friends who won't drive 1/2 hour for a miracle meeting). Over the course of the next two hours, Isaac and I ministered healing, prophetically and were able to preach many things about the Kingdom of God to this muslim family. The father, Abu Khalid, was like an oak tree when we ministered t

Recently, Isaac of Ninevah and myself headed off on a 3 1/2 day adventure to another middle eastern country. We had no real agenda other than to allow the Holy Spirit to blow us around wherever He wished. All we knew was that we 'might' visit a muslim friend of ours who was healed of migraine headaches when we prayed for him about a year and a 1/2 ago. There was also a Christian woman who has had many visions and experiences with the Lord that we hoped to find. In the next few blog posts, Isaac and I will try to capture some of the miracles we experienced. It never ceases to amaze me how when we 'conscecrate' a few days (or a week) to focus on outreach and ministry, that the Lord ALWAYS shows Himself strong and performs kingdom miracles in His Name. This trip was no different. We didn't see all the sicknesses and/or challenges we faced bow to the Name of Jesus, but we saw a huge number that did. We saw many many healings. We prophesied over dozens of people

I just got back in from doing the stuff tonight and it’s 12:20 AM. I felt like the Lord wanted me to go ahead and write down what happened while it was still fresh in my mind. So, here it goes. As usual, we got together and prayed and asked the Lord where to go and who to go to. I got a cafe in town as well as some other words about physical problems. We then prayed into the location and asked for some more specific things. As we were doing that, I saw a man in a shirt and jeans with horizontal stripes on his shirt that were light blue and red. I also got the impression that a younger brother of his had leukemia and needed prayer. As it turns out, when we got to this cafe, there was the man! I talked to him a little and asked about his brother, but he said he didn’t have a brother with that condition, but he had a nephew with anemia. I also showed him the picture I drew before coming to the cafe of a man in a striped shirt and the colors. For some reason, he didn’t seem that

Just in case anyone gets the wrong idea: JESUS is the Healer. JESUS is alive and loves us enough to work through us--imperfect as we are. All glory is His. The guys in the sheesha place did not have any doubts about whose Name we prayed in. Also, less than 24 hours later, my firstborn son had a fever of 102 out of nowhere and was complaining of a headache and stomach-ache. We prayed for Daddy to intercede on our behalf and fight for us and He proved Himself to be a very present help in time of trouble. My son is now sleeping quietly. If there's any confusion out there as to where sickness comes from: isn't it more than passing strange that we had been preaching the Gospel the night before?

Last night the Kingdom broke out. I say that because this might be the longest post yet from Isaac of Ninevah and I wanted to start it off with a good catchy sentence like most good books do. From the beginning. . . I wrote a few posts ago that we followed a guy into a sheesha place (the hubbly-bubbly pipes so famous here in the Middle East) who was on crutches. I also noted that we didn’t see a lot of power released that night, but we got to share some of the Kingdom with a few guys. Unfortunately, we left that night without getting any numbers so we weren’t able to do any follow-up. The one guy I gave my number to, didn’t call. Fast forward to a couple of days: Sojourner is at a wedding and M. from the sheesha place is there and walks up to him and says, “I remember you.” Sojourner asks from where and M. tells him that he remembered him from the sheesha place. M. then proceeded to tell Sojourner that he had been talking with a friend at work about what had happened Sunday

An Egyptian friend of mine injured his back recently. It was getting worse and worse. I noticed yesterday that he had a massive bandage on his lower back and was in severe pain. Since I was "on duty" (Wigglesworth used to say "not on my shift", in reference to people not receiving their miracle of healing), I explained to my muslim friend what I was going to do - I just boldly said, "the pain is going to leave". During prayer I just began to pray for the establishment of a "pain-free Kingdom zone" in his lower back. As I began to pray, the Presence of Lord began to come. I knew something was happening. During prayer, a word of knowledge came to me about a problem in his left ribs. I asked and he confirmed that he had in fact broken one of those ribs. I shifted my prayer focus for the moment to the rib area and God took away the sharp pain in the very spot I had spoken of. I explained to my friend that God did that to really release our f

One evening late in September, DJ and I went to a hospital in the city where we live (in the Middle East), at the request of one of my Muslims students. I have previously written about this student, as he has experienced supernatural healings in response to our prayers on 3 separate occasions. His father has cancer, a very rare type that is very difficult to deal with surgically due to the location of the tumor. The family are traditional Bedouins. When I walked into the hospital room, I sensed an atmosphere of fear and despair and hopelessness. It turns out that my student didn’t want us to pray for his dad – just to look at medical reports and comment on what treatment they should pursue. (He said, “I know God can heal, but we need something more scientific this time.”) We were able to give them some advice, but during a moment when others left the room, I spoke words of hope and faith to the dad. I held his arm as we talked, and I prayed quietly for him, speaking life and health int

Last night, we were out looking for people to pray for. Prior to going out, we get together and pray and ask the Lord to show us who to look for. So, I made a list of some people I saw and one of them included a man on crutches. Later that night, it was getting late, and I hadn't seen anyone on the list. . . until this guy comes down where we were sitting on crutches. He passd us and went inside the smoke-filled sitting area while we remained outside. Remember we had a man on crutches on our list, I asked one of my friends with me to go in and break things open. We went on inside and did the pleasantries and then cut to the chase: "God told us to pray for your leg to get healed." Well, as it turned out, the man had broken it and had metal plates inside of it. This past summer, however, I had been there when someone prayed for a lady with metal plates in her arms and afterward, she couldn't feel them anymore. I told the man this testimony, but I don't thin

Tonight as I got the opportunity to pray for a muslim man to be healed and offered to pray for several others, I was wondering what would happen if Christians REALLY believed they had been given authority to heal the sick and would take risks to pray for people in public. I live in a muslim country, and yet thousands of Christians live and work here. What would happen if say 10,000 of these Christians (there must be over 100,000 Christians overall) - so what if 10% of the Christians who lived here prayed for 1 muslim a week. that would mean that in a given week, 10,000 muslims would receive prayer for healing per week. How many would God heal?? who knows, but let's just say that 30% were healed (that would be close to what one of the leading Christian healing ministries says are healed when their teams minister). Let's do the math - that means that in this unreached Muslim country that 3000 miracles of healing would take place each week. 156,000 miraculous healings would

I got a word of knowledge about a foot problem on the top of the foot (I thought it was the left foot). I broke into a group of about 5 Arab muslim men (Syrians, Palestinians and one Gulf Arab). I explained what I was looking for (a foot problem) and why (because God wanted to heal it). this led to a lengthy discussion about healing, demons, God's power working through men, etc. It was quite interesting as most of these guys were quite skeptical. Finally one of them with a serious acid reflux problem and pain every time he eats allowed me to lay hands on him. He couldn't test it out at that moment, but I told him to call me in morning with the report. Actually, I told him to call me if he was healed and to rip up my business card and forget me if he wasn't. either this stuff is real or it isn't and we have to be willing 'put up or shut up' as the expression goes. I also found out who had the foot problem, one of the Syrians. It came intermittedly and so

Dark Horse, Desert Princess and I went to visit an Ethiopian church that a friend of ours pastors. We knew that God was doing something special in this congregation, and we just wanted to go and experience His presence with them. We weren't disappointed. At the end of the service, I asked if we could pray for the sick. The pastor agreed and the 3 of us headed up front to call out a few words of knowledge and lay hands on the sick. Dark Horse gave a powerful prophetic word that led to a dramatic healing - but I'll let her share that testimony! We saw a number of healings as we prayed for people. the first woman we prayed for was healed of a problem in her right knee and lower leg. We had the pastor come to confirm in Amharic (their language) that all the pain was gone. It was! A man came with severe lower back pain - we prayed for him and he was healed. I had given a word of knowledge about someone with chest pain all across the chest - a woman came forward, Desert Princes

I have discovered in some Middle Eastern countries that when you ask to pray for someone (especially Christian locals), they feel indebted to you for showing love. My wife and I were in a taxi last night, and the moment I stepped into the car I could feel the Holy Spirit tugging at my heart. I could feel the love of God for the taxi driver, and quite frankly it was quite overwhelming. I tried pushing it aside thinking it was nothing, but the Lord kept tugging on my heart. I then felt the Lord say to me that he wanted me to bless the man double of what the taxi ride was worth (which seriously was not much). This too I tried to explain away as my own thoughts; but I could not escape it. It was the Lord, and who am I to argue with Him. I turned to my wife and told her how I was feeling. To my surprise, she felt the same way, feeling strongly that we were to bless the man. So after chatting with the cabby we found out that he had a Christian name, and was therefore a Christian. He felt ve

We had the chance to meet with a muslim government official who we knew was very open to the supernatural. Several years ago, while visiting this man, the Lord gave me a word of knowledge about a problem in his arm and he was subsequently healed. After a really good time of sharing stories of healings and the supernatural with him, I got another word of knowledge for him. I reminded him of the previous time he was healed, which he vividly recalled. The guest who came with us to visit him then lay hands upon him and the Lord healed him a 2nd time (this time it was his shoulder). He also prayed that God would visit Him in his dreams and reveal more of His Kingdom to him. From the highest of government officials to the lowest in society, this Kingdom penetrates every sphere and touches every person.