JOEL 2 GENERATION

My family and I have returned to my hometown of 15,000 in the middle of the Bible Belt. I must admit, I was a little nervous about coming home and trying to walk out some of the things the Lord has done in my life over the past year since we were last here. But, He has proven Himself faithful by giving me a great community here and by giving me boldness to do the stuff even here in Nazareth. The other day, I was walking with some friends out of a restaurant and we saw a little boy with a cast on his leg. I took it as a visual word of knowledge and although it made me uncomfortable, I went up to his mother and asked what was wrong with him. She told me that he had broken his growth plate. I told her that we had seen some things like this healed before and I would like to pray for him. She said that would be fine, but didn't have the time right then. I was a little bummed because we didn't get to go after it right there, but I was encouraged that I had the grace to go thro...

While ordering my morning coffee at Starbucks, I got a fairly clear word of knowledge for a problem in the right side of my neck. Since it came at the time when a particular Starbuck employee was taking my order, I thought it must be for him. I walked over to my seat and asked the Lord to give me the right opportunity to approach the man. It is during this time that I am always the most tempted to not give a word - I was thinking, "Was it really a word of knowledge"? "Maybe the guy is too busy right now" (you know what the morning rush-hour traffic at Starbucks can be like). Faith however is always spelled 'RISK' and so I waited for there to be a bit of a lull in the stream of customers and finally had an opportunity. I approached all three of the employees and asked, "Does one of you have a neck problem on the right-side of the neck"? I gave a quick explanation of who I was and what I was doing - to help deal with the surprised look on all of t...