JOEL 2 GENERATION

We have a truly amazing and absolutely awesome God! The weekend of May 10th we had special guests and some very special meetings. Friday morning I took the guest speaker to the church where he was scheduled to minister. About midway through the service I caught glimpses of sparkles on one of my hands. This continued to catch my attention, and by the end of the service most of both hands sparkled and glittered. Our guest friends affirmed that this is what it is like when gold-dust begins to appear. (We hear of silver, diamond and blue sapphire dust showing up on people as well, in other places!) At the Saturday night service our guest speakers (3) were all very much "under the glory cloud" or "annointing"! My 10 yr. old daughter began to notice oil appearing on all 10 of her fingers! And not just a little, but increasing! The guest speaker changed his plans and formed a line for those wanting healing. Then he had my daughter join him and lay hands on each p...

Last night during an evening of worship, we instructed people to either move to one part of the room for prophetic ministry (a prophetic "well") and to another for those who had a need for healing. The one request we made of those coming for healing was that they be sure NOT to tell us what exactly they needed in terms of healing. We wanted the Lord to reveal to us what was wrong and where a person's pain or problem was located. An Indian woman who we had never met before stepped forward for healing and as I waited on the Lord, the revealed 3 things that she wanted healing for. We prayed for each one and she was completely healed. We continued to do this as a group for each of the other people who came forward for prayer and again and again the Lord would reveal by word of knowledge what was wrong and healings followed. There were some words that I and others received that didn't seem to be accurate, but all in all the Lord gave so many words to different people t...

Last night while shopping in a toy store with my kids and the Lord gave me a word of knowledge for someone with a shoulder problem. I noticed a Gulf Arab Muslim man standing nearby and asked the Lord, “Is it for him”? The word of knowledge came again and I took that as confirmation and approached him. He was quite shocked when I asked him if he had a problem in his shoulder because he did. I quickly explained to him that God had revealed his problem to me and that He wanted to heal him. I normally don’t try to pray for people in such a public place unless we can do so inconspicuously so I gave him my phone number to call me for a time to pray. I hope that he will take the risk and call me.

Two of us were taken to a part of the city where the poorest people in this Arab Muslim country resided. Human feces in the middle of the dirt alleyways. Flies everywhere. One room homes made of whatever could be found to throw together a crude shelter. This is EXACTLY the kind of place that Jesus likes to hang out – and it was a powerful time. As we gathered in a small one room home, the presence of the Lord filled the place. We had gone to pray specifically for a woman with a brain tumor. The Lord showed me the location of the tumor through a word of knowledge and we believe this woman was touched. We await medical verification about the tumor, but she received healing in her body of several other ailments. The Lord just revealed to us sickness after sickness through words of knowledge. The Lord began to speak prophetically through the other man who came with me. He was also able to really minister some inner healing to a specific Muslim woman. We saw pain l...

On one morning, two of us went to minister in an African Church . It is always a bit intimidating to minister amongst Africans because they have usually seen more of God’s supernatural activity than I have. The Lord was faithful and we saw several dozen people healed during the service. Some were healed without any specific ministry as we gave words of knowledge in front of the Church. Others were healed during the ministry time when we laid hands on the sick. One of things we also released in this Church was an impartation for them to move in even greater power in that nation. When we asked them how many had personally seen miracles happen when they prayed for people almost all of them raised their hands. I trust that we were able to leave a deposit that will see the anointings they already had increase. Of course time will tell what they received, but some of them were powerfully overcome by God’s Spirit. This was one of the hungriest group of believers I hav...

This past week a group of us traveled to an Arab Muslim country for the purpose of encouraging Christians who minister there. We not only got meet with foreign Christians but also local believers from a Muslim background. A Gospel of words without demonstrations of power is not only unbiblical, but in Muslim nations isn’t proving fruitful. We went to share about the ways God is moving supernaturally in our lives, as well as to pray for the release and/or strengthening of the gifts of the Holy Spirit in the lives of believers there. Over about a week, we saw God move in many powerful ways. Everywhere the team went, there were opportunities for prophetic ministry. Not only did we prophesy over believers, but we got to prophesy over many Muslims as well. God loves to share His plans and purposes in the lives of non-believers – it will often lead them to salvation. Several Arab Muslims came to Christ during the week, one of them after they were delivered from demonic to...

Yesterday one of my students came into my office. I've written about him before, and he has received healing in various parts of his body. He came to see me to say that he had suddenly developed a very painful case of hemorrhoids that would require surgery. He was sitting very uneasily on the chair, because even that was painful. He said that he would set up an appointment with us so we could pray that the surgery would go well. I asked him if he would like me to pray for him, right there in my office. He seemed surprised, but agreed. Obviously I did not lay hands on the affected area (!), but I did pray a simple prayer of faith. As soon as I finished, he shifted around on the chair, testing his condition, and with great surprise and a big smile he said that there was a great improvement!