JOEL 2 GENERATION

On the recent trip that DJ has already written about, one day I accompanied three other brothers on a prearranged visit to a nearby village to pray for two demonized individuals. In the first home, we were led to a room where a young Muslim man was kept. When we entered the young man was very still, and looked very serious. Then he began to speak rapidly and agitatedly, but his speech made no sense. We asked him (by way of translation) if he wanted us to pray for his condition, and he understood us enough to say "yes". So one brother (JM) put his hands on the young man’s head and just began to wait on God to show him what the problem was; he received a word of knowledge that a spirit of insanity had entered the young man while he was yet a child, through a wound of rejection. JM then began to pray, commanding this spirit to leave the young man. At one point JM said “I feel something like a poison entering my hand and going up my arm”. Before this could be translated into the ...

On the recent trip that DJ has already written about, i n one meeting, after I’d finished praying for some people, I wandered over to see what another brother (JM) was doing. He was in the middle of praying for a young Muslim man with a withered, shriveled arm and a claw-like hand. The arm had just hung limply before. I had missed the first part of the miracle, but before my eyes the arm was growing fuller until it was the same thickness of the normal hand – in other words, bone and muscle were being created in real time! Soon the man was able to stretch out his hand and move his fingers, something he had not been able to do previously. All the while JM kept stroking the arm gently, thanking God for what He was doing, and saying to the young man things like "There! Did you feel that?". The man receiving the miracle was beside himself with excitement – he was smiling and trying out his new arm like a child with a new prese...

On the recent trip that DJ has already written about, I feel that I was lifted up to a whole new level of my experience in God. I had been afraid to go, because I felt so inadequate in my giftings and because I was afraid I’d “fail”, yet at the same time I was drawn because I was so desperate to start seeing more of the supernatural in my own life. I thought that I’d go along as a spectator, but God had much more on His mind! To His glory, I saw and experienced things for the first time, including: Along with another brother, I was invited to pray for a young man with terminal cancer. He had huge tumors on his neck. It was an intimidating place to be, but I felt great boldness that refused to be intimidated by this disease. I experienced the Lord giving me prophetic words for him, even praying that he’d live to see his grandchildren. The man was experiencing “heat” in his neck as we prayed! We believe that something was set into motion that day. At one point, I was receiving prayer fro...

Isaac of Ninevah already wrote a bit about this, but I wanted to add my two cents. The other night the Lord led us to a specific place. A couple of Palestinian Muslim men worked there. While we were talking to them, I got a word of knowledge for a 'left knee'. There were two Muslim women customers in the shop - I asked them if the mother had a problem with her that knee. Surprised a bit, she acknowledged that she did. I gave her a quick teaching about the Kingdom of God and how God speaks to and uses Christians to minister healing. I gave her my wife's phone number. I told her that Isaac was a "seer" and sort of put him on the spot, by asking if he had a word for her. The Lord showed him that she was burdened about something and that it was related to some kind of problem with her son. It turned out to be the absolute word of the Lord. She is from Egypt and her son has major physical problems - I got the impression he wasn't sane. We now had her und...

On one morning, while returning to the hotel from coffee, two young Muslim men began to speak with me and ask me if I had read the Qur'an and if I knew about Islam. I pulled an Arabic New Testament from my coat pocket (just 'happened' to have one:). I said to them boldly, "If you read this book, you will NEVER read the Qur'an again". We exchanged email addresses and I assured this young man that I would send him the Arabic Gospels via email. The next morning I was walking in the same place back to the hotel after coffee. This time one of the men (the one I exchanged emails with) is alone and walks up beside me. I greeted him and told him that I would be sure to send him what I had promised when I returned to the country we live in. So what does he say? "I want to enter your religion"!! Day 1 - read the Qur'an/learn about Islam Day 2 - I want to become a Christian What happened in that 24-hour period? At this point, I have NO IDEA. I inte...

In a meeting we had where people brought their friends who were in need of healing, I saw a woman, who I assumed was a Muslim due to the way she was dressed. We were standing in the front ministering prophetically to the group, and I when I saw this woman the word in Arabic for “Princess” came into my mind. I just felt like the Lord wanted to give this woman a word and so I called her out and began to prophesy how the Lord said that she was a princess who had complete access to the King’s palace, that she was a beloved daughter and that she could enter the King’s presence at any time because she was an heiress with an inheritance that included every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies. As I was speaking, she began to cry continued to cry more and more as I gave the word. I could tell it was a "good cry" so I felt right about continuing. I knew nothing of her background, but I later discovered that she was a new believer. From the way she was dressed, I had ‘assume...

I had the privilege last week of meeting with a number of local believers who have all left Islam to follow Jesus. Because of the supernatural things we are learning and experiencing both personally and in our ministry to Muslims, each time I would meet with them I was asked to spend some time teaching them and sharing with them about the power of the Holy Spirit and the miraculous. On one occasion, a Christian couple was brought to me – both of whom are discipling 8-10 other Muslim-background believers in Jesus. The man had brought his father with him, who was still a Muslim but needed healing in his right knee. He came in with a cane and his knee was abnormally large. After I told them stories about God healing people and bringing Muslims to Christ in different Arab countries, I began to pray for the father’s healing. At that time, I saw no indication that he had been healed – but not all healings are instantaneous. The next day we received a phone call that the man w...

Recently on a trip to a poor neighboring country we had opportunity after opportunity to pray for the sick and minister prophetically. A medical doctor who serves the poorest of the poor, took us to the neighborhood where these people live. The place is rampant with sickness – people die from simple diseases that are easily treatable. On our way into the neighborhood I got a word of knowledge for a back problem. We approached two Muslim men and one of them had the problem I described. We laid hands upon him and all the pain left his body. He had another problem in a different part of his back – we prayed for that and the Lord touched that problem too. I got another word for a finger problem and by this time a group of children had gathered around us. One of them came forward and we prayed for him. He was healed. We ended up praying for three other children with hand and finger problems and the Lord healed all of them. We then were taken to a man’s home to ...

I had to use this baseball expression because hitters get into slumps – so do those who pray for healing. It has been a loooooong time since I personally saw a deaf ear open. I don’t even want to tell you when it was. Some of you remember reading the blog post – “An Apology to My Muslim friend who wasn’t healed”. He was deaf and we didn’t see the miracle. A few weeks ago on a ministry trip to a neighboring country, I “thought” I got a hit. A young man who was both deaf and mute (since birth) claimed that his ears opened. I asked a pastor friend to get verification and it turns out that he wasn’t healed. Don’t know what happened there. This past week I finally got a hit! An Indian man who was (emphasis on “was”) deaf in his right ear since birth, was healed after I prayed for him. He felt heat in the ear and testified that he could hear for the first time ever from that ear. I FINALLY came out of my “deaf ear opening” hitting slump and am 1 or 1 in 2007! Gues...

As our custom on Monday nights, we got together and asked the Lord what He wanted to do that night. We all have set aside this night specifically to destroy the works of the devil. So, after some worship, we compared words and one of us, "Firewood," said that the Lord gave him a picture of a plow breaking new ground and an area of town. I said that the Lord had shown me a restaurant with a certain name and a fountain. Firewood answered, "Yeah, there's a restaurant by that name in the area of town that the Lord showed me and it also has a fountain." He also said that he saw an image of someone who was really swollen. We headed out. Once at the restaurant and seated between two fountains, we were informed by the wait staff that there was minimum amount one had to pay to eat there. We just wanted snacks, so we thanked them and headed to a coffee and nut dealer a stone's throw (or should I say a nut's throw?) from the restaurant's front door. DJ ...

In the coming days, I will be posting stories of miracles that we saw on a trip to one of the poorest Arab Muslim countries. We spent a week ministering many of God's special servants there - mean and women who have truly forsaken all to live in one of the most challenging nations on earth. Why do they live there? To bring the Gospel to a nation where the light of the Gospel into a very dark Islamic place. We also got to minister to many Arab Muslim men and women - we saw miracles of healing in their midst, we saw demons leave, we prophesied over them and saw the Holy Spirit come upon a number in other manifestations of power - maybe the most thrilling thing of all was for my wife to see a young 13 year-old Muslim girl give her life to Jesus with her Muslim father sitting with her in full approval. Her story is amazing because of the dreams God sent her to prepare the way - more on that in the coming posts. For me personally, the most special thing of all was to meet with a num...