JOEL 2 GENERATION

Tonight as I went to Church, I went to receive. My cup was empty after a late-night service the previous night. The day didn't go very well. I had a pretty heated argument with my wife in the car before we walked into Church. The last thing I felt like doing was to give and/or minister to anyone. I positioned myself to receive - I spent the entire worship time flat on my face. It was glorious and the Lord was restoring me and filling me. The message 'had my name on it' as I really felt like the Father was speaking directly to me. I was so ready to run forward to receive extra ministry by the prayer team at the end of the service - but that never happened. It simply wasn't to be. My friend who had given the message called me up to help minister to people, especially people who needed physical healing. She even handed me the microphone to call out words of knowledge for healing. I knew it was all just a 'God Alone Matters' type of moment. I wasn't f...

Tonight was a powerful evening for a couple of friends of mine who are facing an insurmountable struggle in the natural. They came with us to Church needing to 'hear from God' and to see the Kingdom break in around their lives. As He so often does, because He is so outrageously GOOD, the Lord 'tailor-made' an evening for my friends. From a time of prophetic ministry before the service, to the message given about "storms", to prophetic words given during the service and ultimately the prophetic ministry that the Lord released to my friends after the service. Some of the prophetic words were so accurate that they were even a bit "spooky" as we say. The fact is God designed an evening for my friends that I never could have - He gets all the glory!!!

Last night during a house group meeting, the Lord released a number of different Kingdom manifestations. Several of us received words of knowledge and prayed for people's healing. One interesting word of knowledge came to me for "finger pain on the right side of the room". I wrote it down in my notebook. A minute or so later, a friend of mine said the Lord just came and took away the pain he was having in his fingers. Nobody laid hands on him. The word of knowledge came to me seemingly at the very same time God was healing my friend. Why? I think the Lord just likes to tell His friends what He is doing sometimes! A real Spirit of Prophecy came and several of the words spoken by the ministry team were incredibly accurate and meaningful. Gifts of the Spirit were also released through impartation. One woman's hands were burning as she was waiting on the Lord. She prayed for a man's back pain and all the pain left. I really believe she received a gift of he...

There is a lot of talk about how God is raising up a generation to war for the Kingdom, etc. I think this puts a lot of older people off. They think that any talk about a new generation means that theirs is out of the picture. I want to go on the record that I don't think the next or current move of God is restricted to chronological generations. I think if you're living, you qualify. What I also think "generation" means in this hour is our heart age, not our driver license's age. If our hearts are tender, we are truly "young." This past week, I got the chance to pray for my 95 year old grandfather's knee and for the redemption of another relative. It was an odd moment for me to stand over this partriarch of my family and my 60 year old relative and pray for healing, restoration, and redemption. I also prayed for vivid dreams and encounters in the night. The next morning, my grandfather said that his knee felt better. Praise God! I want to...

This past Sunday, we ministered in a little church in my hometown. After the service, I had the opportunity to pray for a woman for healing and another woman for her son. Now, before I had a chance to pray for the second woman, a lady on my team told her not to tell me the problem. So, after freaking out a bit and then praying a little, I said, "depression." She said that that was part of the problem. While praying for her, however, I also felt like anger and rebelliousness were also part of the issue. She affirmed that it was. Moreover, I got a word for asthma and that it was a generational thing. She also affirmed that, too. Isn't God amazing? Later that day, I went to pick up my wife from a women's study where she had been sharing. After walking in, one of the women requested prayer, so we all gathered around her. I prayed that her finances would be blessed and that she would become an extravagant giver-- without knowing that a few minutes before my arr...

My family and I were ordering in a Captain D's the other day, and I noticed that the cashier's name was Deborah. Thinking that this was a sign, I proceeded to tell her that she was good at seeing problems clearly and had a gift of discernment. I also felt like the Lord was telling her that the conflict she was in was going to be resolved. She said thanks and I went on to our seats. A few moments later, another employee came by and wanted to shake my hand. He said that shortly after I had spoken with Deborah, she had come back and told him that some guy had just told her her life story. He went on to confirm the word about a conflict he knew of in her life. He, too, was a Christian and was greatly encouraged that someone would take the time to say something to a stranger about her life. Now we all have conflict of some sort in our lives and most of us would own up to a measure of discernment, but before we're quick to judge the word the Lord has given us, we must see...