JOEL 2 GENERATION

A week ago Friday night the leader spoke about understanding some views on healing, and how we can see healing in ourselves, and others. At the end of his presentation he asked all those who were unwell in one form or another to sit in specific places and then all the others present were to go to each person and pray for them, for healing and also for prophetic words. At least 3 people present were having problems with their backs, and none of these 3 have chronic back conditions. Desert Princess’s back was healed (and she reports no more pain to date), a guest received healing for pain in the back, across the shoulders and in her knees (as of today – 4 days later – she reports cont inued health in all of the areas, being able to climb stairs without support, which previously was not possible), and received healing for lower back pain that had begun 3 days previously. After I was prayed for, we went to a bedroom to “check it out”, as I hadn’t been able to turn over from one side ...

I had the chance to follow-up with the Chinese woman that DJ had received a word of knowledge for the night before. The following day, I met with this woman and she had never heard about healing today and was was really afraid. Muslims come all the time trying to convert her to Islam and somehow she had us in the same category. She asked if God would heal her if she didn't change her religion. I told her that God wanted to show her that He loved her and that she was important to her. She couldn't really grasp that concept. We talked for a while and I explained how Jesus is more concerned about our internal condition that merely the outer appearances. She liked that He was mostly focused upon love - upon us loving others. It seemed to disarm her. The fact that I didn't want anything from her was shocking. When she realized that all I wanted to do was to give her a gift, she allowed me to pray for her. We were in her restaurant so I didn't have a lot of time to pr...

In this blog, we seek to portray miraculous encounters between people and God. But the greatest miracle is still when a person gets a revelation of who God really is. Six days ago I did a very risky thing - I gave away an Arabic New Testament to someone in my care, right in my office. Today he tells me that he and his wife have already finished reading it! (I know he got to the end because he told me about the part where it says that curses will come to the one who adds words to or removes words from this book). He had never laid hands on this book before, and he could barely put it down. He had so many comments and questions for me today, such as: “If this book describes what it truly means to be a Christian, then there are very few Christians in the world today.” (Ouch!) “Why are there differences in some stories between how the Quran tells it and how the Bible tells it?” (e.g. events surrounding the birth of Jesus, and how the Quran says that Jesus could speak even as a baby). I sai...

About two months ago, while walking to Church in a neighboring country, I noticed a Yemeni Muslim man walking with a walking stick/crutch and stopped to pray for him. He allowed me to pray right then and was healed. This opened the door for a couple of missionaries to visit the family and minister more healing to the family as well as to boldly share the Gospel. I was encouraged to hear that two months later, the problem he had had has never come back. As encouraged as I am when someone is healed, I am even more encouraged when I see them (or hear about them) weeks or months later and they are still healed!

As we were about to leave a restaurant, I received a very strong/distinct word of knowledge for a neck/throat problem as I was looking towards the woman who is the manager of the restaurant. I approach her and asked her, "what is wrong with your throat right here"?(and pointed to the area on my neck). She gives me one of the most astonished looks I've seen - a mixture of fear and surprise. She asks me if I saw her doing something to her neck. I explained that I saw nothing but that God showed me she had the problem and wanted to heal her. I asked what her faith was and she said she was a Buddhist. I asked her to come and sit down at our table for a moment so I could explain more. She agreed. As she came, you could tell she was quite nervous. As I spoke about the word of knowledge and how I had gotten it, she said that I must have 'heard' her speaking to someone about her problem. Isaac assured her that we hadn't heard anything from her. (Interesting ...

Last night, through some prophetic pictures the Lord led us to several places where there were 'pyramid-shaped' architecture in our city. Also, He had given us several words of knowledge that we were asking people about. At the first location, as I was walking past an Palestinian Muslim man I got a word about his right knee. He had the problem but would not let us pray for him. Also at that place we were able to pray for a Filipino Christian man and the Lord gave Isaac of Ninevah and myself a couple of prophetic words for him. We also talked with Gulf Arab Muslim man that had both of the problems, an eye problem and an ear problem, that the Lord had shown me. He was very interested in how I "knew". I trust I will have a chance to meet him again. Finally as we left we prayed for a Syrian Muslim man who had a problem with his left leg - which was a word that Isaac had gotten earlier. After a couple of other stops, we ended up in a small shopping mall with video r...

One of the biggest blocks to the widespread release of power in the church is the lack of a widespread release of power in the church. Before dismissing this statement as a meaningless tautology, wait. Until the people of God realize they are the "you" of the New Testament, the power seen in the New Testament (and beyond) will, in my opinion, be unmatched. Lots of people want to receive healing and even a gift of healing, but how many people actually give it away? It is the laity/clergy dichotomy that has hindered even the free-est of churches throughout time. In these last days it will be imperative for the lowliest of church members to walk in apostolic power. We are training an army and we better get started now. These thoughts have been wandering around my head for a long time but have been brought to the forefront after a teaching/training session we had last week. In this meeting, I saw 10 year olds getting prophetic words and physical words of knowledge for hea...

As I left the Himalayas, I was struck by the fact that basically 3 false religions dominate the landscape - Buddhism, Islam and Hinduism. Christianity is almost nowhere to be found in the regions that I was visiting. When I met people and demonstrated God's power - by a prophetic word, by bringing healing or some other supernatural act, the hunger and desperation I saw was incredible. I didn't bring a Gospel of words alone, but a Gospel of demonstrating God's Kingdom authority - it was then that they wanted to hear what I had to say, it was then that they wanted an explanation for what had just happened. As I flew out of the region, I was struck once again by the sad fact that the only religion in the world where God's power is being manifest, has all-too-often attempted to penetrate regions like these with no demonstration of God's miraculous power whatsoever. No wonder we haven't seen the breakthroughs! How we ever came to the conclusion that words were e...

In the last hotel I staying at, I was able to pray for the owner for his chest pain, and like most of the others he felt God’s presence. He asked me about his wife who had Parkinson’s disease. I gave him a short message about the Kingdom of God and the fact that there is NO SICKNESS there. I asked him to give me his hands and I then prayed that this Muslim man would carry a gift of healing to release in his wife when he saw her. He wanted to know exactly what he should say. I told him that God doesn’t work via formulas. Formulas are the realm of magic and satan’s kingdom of darkness. God’s Kingdom works on the basis of relationship. I only explained to him he should ‘wait’ until the Holy Spirit comes upon his wife. He will contact me to tell me what happened. Before leaving, he brought one of his employees who needed healing and I got to pray for him. Since he wasn’t currently feeling pain where the injury was, he wasn’t able to tell me what had happened. I simply cannot beli...

I knew that this one particular man, who had experienced several healings, wanted to get me alone. I also knew something was very special about him because he hugged me as I left the ski lodge after our time together. Later in the day, as we skied to the bottom of the ski resort, he asked my ski guide, another Muslim, to ride on a different ski lift, so that we could ride alone and talk openly. He told me that he perceived I had a close relationship with God, and that he wanted me to pray for him because he said he had always been a “loser” and nothing he did ever succeeded. He had demonstrated the most refreshing openness I’ve seen in a long time in a Muslim man. He of his own admission had not been a very religious Muslim, but he was a man who said he was “a lover of my God”. This had opened up a powerful discussion about our motivation for obeying God – was it fear or love? Islam seems to use fear of punishment almost exclusively. This man had a deeper revelation, interesting...

After about an hour, I came back into the same lodge where all the healing had occurred and the man who was deaf in one ear asked me for prayer. We sat down and began to pray. As I prayed, he felt intense heat in his ear and God began to open his completely deaf left ear. We would test it and then pray again. A small crowd of Muslim men had gathered and watched as he testified to his healing in stages. Each time there was improvement. By the time I left he was hearing from that ear fairly well, although not yet 100%. The presence of God remained in his ear even as I was leaving. I told him to let me know the following day if it was completely normal, and if not, we would pray again. On my final day, this man came to find me at the ski lodge requesting further prayer. His ear had opened from being totally deaf, but his hearing was still not 100%. I was able to pray yet again for him and again he felt God touching his ear. I don’t know why healings are sometimes progressive, b...

While skiing high in Himalaya Mountains, I found myself waiting for the weather to clear in the mid station lodge, I began to speak about miracles of healing with about 8 Muslim men. I figured if I couldn’t ski, then I should get about “My Father’s Business”. I told them that instead of them telling me what their problems were, that I would ask God to show me what they were. This is what happened. My first volunteer sat in front of me and as I held his hand, God gave me several words of knowledge about areas in his body where he needed healing. The first two words were for his left elbow and right ear – both of which needed healing. He was shocked, as were the others – they didn’t know how I could have known these things. God’s Kingdom was breaking in. I prayed for his elbow first and then his ear in which he had hearing loss for over 35 years. The Holy Spirit began to touch him and he felt God’s presence. In his ear, which had about 70% hearing loss, he felt tingling and we s...

I had one of the hotel guys who gives massages come and work on my legs a bit after a hard day of skiing. He had skied that day and told me he had two physical problems that affected his ability to ski without pain. The first problem was his lower right leg, which was causing him considerable pain at that moment. I laid hands on his leg, prayed and it was 50% better after the first prayer. After praying again, all the pain left his leg. Next I prayed for his right elbow and shoulder and all the pain left after prayer.

As I was at breakfast this morning, the word had gotten around about the healings of the other night, and the Muslim hotel manager asked if we could meet tonight for another healing service. When I got back from dinner, the hotel manager asked if I could help one of the employees who had a lower back problem and also pain in the center of his chest. I laid hands on his back and asked the Holy Spirit to come. He began to feel heat and the Lord took away all the pain. The same thing happened when I prayed for his chest. After seeing his employee healed of two things, the manager wanted me to pray for his lower back too. All the pain left as I prayed. He also asked me to pray for his heart and the fear he had of having a heart attack. On my final day in the Himalayas, I was asked 6 or 7 more times for healing prayer. The word had spread about the healings in the hotel and the healings at a ski area restaurant. The presence of the Lord was felt by most of the people who received p...

While waiting to send emails in the room where the hotel had internet access, I asked a few Kashmiri Muslim men if they needed healing or a miracle and they all said, “No, we are all fine” (a common response when I ask people that question). After a while, I got a fairly specific word of knowledge in my lower right back – I stood up and asked the room, “OK, who has the pain in this part of their back”. The man whose office it was said he had a pain in that exact spot. I laid hands on him and prayed for the back and it was healed. He was actually quite surprised. I had also gotten a word for the left shin and this was for another man, who also happened to have a back problem in the lower back. The man whose back was healed testified to this man about his healing and I got to pray for this man. I began to pray for his shin. I prayed once and most of the pain left, and then I prayed again and ALL pain left. After that, he asked me if I could pray for his right leg – the knee and ...

I asked if the owner needed a miracle in his body and he said he had pain in his stomach (seemed like a problem with an internal organ). He let me pray for him and the pain decreased slightly (he said 10%). I prayed again and we got a 20% improvement (not very encouraging). While I was praying, I got a word of knowledge for his lower back, and he had a problem. I prayed and the pain left completely - praise God. I also got a word of knowledge for an older Kashmiri man (right-hand side of the neck). He told me that he would like prayer so that the problem would go away and yet he didn’t give me a chance. I of course wasn’t satisfied with 20% improvement, and so I told him that maybe the Lord would give one of us a dream tonight to reveal more of what is the problem. I went back twice to see him, but wasn't able to reconnect before leaving the city.