JOEL 2 GENERATION

Last night I received a detailed report about some of the things that are happening in the wake of our visit back in January to a neighboring Arab Muslim country. The very thing we pray for and the reason we believe God wants us to take these kinds of trips is with the goal of seeing some kind of "snowball effect" wherein people living there have their vision for the miraculous expanded, receive something of an impartation and then go and do it themselves. This is not only happening, it is happening amongst the local believers who are all former Muslims. Tears welled up in my eyes as I listened to what God was doing with these precious brothers and sisters who have risked everything by following Jesus. One of the Muslim-background believing couple's had brought her father whose knee was healed after we prayed (we blogged this back in January). During that same prayer time, the husband (a believer) had received prayer for his elbow which had not enabled him to work in...

We had a meeting the other night with a group of pastors. Our time was mostly an information meeting and a time to plan for an upcoming series of Renewal Meetings. Going into the meeting, I was thinking that "why can't we see the miraculous break out in a business/planning meeting"? I thought I received a word about an elbow problem and threw that out at one point - nothing. At the end of the meeting, I got a clear word about a left-shoulder problem. One of the pastors had this very problem and had hoped someone would get something for him. We all gathered around him, prayed for the Kingdom to come and the shoulder was healed! One or two others asked for prayer after that. kingdom math: normal meeting + healing miracle = much better meeting

Last night, as we walked into a hotel, I got a word of knowledge about someone with a left knee problem. The first people I noticed were the two security guards at the door, both Egyptian Muslims. One of them had the problem (and it was bothering him right then) and I prayed for him. I told him that God was going to touch his knee and when we left I would check to see how it was. When we left about 20 minutes later, he testified that both his knees felt considerably better. In a restaurant, we got to minister to some Nepali men (mostly Hindus). We tried to approach a group with a couple of words of knowledge that weren’t on, but then I got a strong word of knowledge for our waiter in my wrist. He had a wrist problem and we prayed and all the pain left – he said he was healed. He came back for another condition in his right arm (above the elbow). We prayed twice and all the pain left his arm too. Another Nepali, who was translating for us, happened to be a backslidden Christian...

Last night I experienced arguably the most unusual leading of the Holy Spirit in my life. As we prepared to go out, the Lord really came upon me strongly – both of my arms and hands were tingling with a strong sense of the Holy Spirit’s anointing. One of the words of knowledge the Lord gave was about a left ear problem. As we headed out, Sojourner, an Ethiopian brother and myself teamed up and started heading to a hotel but started heading there in an indirect way. As we were driving past a large, empty, undeveloped dirt area the word of knowledge comes again for the left ear and I say to Sojourner, “turn off into this area because somebody is out there who has the problem with the left ear”. As we began to pull off into the darkness, we saw two cars parked next to each other – I said to the others, “the person must be there”. What happened next is probably the strangest God appointment I’ve ever had! Two Gulf Arab Muslim men were talking (each in their own car) and I approached t...