JOEL 2 GENERATION

I and my family recently were able to spend a week in Bethlehem, where Jesus was born. We wanted our time in the "Holy Land" to be a blessing both for us as well as those who we encountered. On our first evening we met the owners of a small grocery store, just a block or so from where we were staying. They spoke passable English. The next day they invited us to their home for a meal. (Their home is literally next to Nativity Church!) We noticed that the wife had a problem with her leg (we weren't able to fully understand the problem because they couldn't explain it well in English). We asked if we could pray for her. Although they belonged to a traditional Christian church, and lived in the town where one of the greatest miracles of all time had occurred - God taking on a human form - the concept of healing seemed a curiousity for them. We prayed a simple prayer over her, then I asked if she felt anything happening in her leg. She just smiled and made a flicking moti...

Definition: to “kingdomize”: to release heaven’s resources (God’s presence, healing, prophecy) so that people are drawn to the King. Last night, my wife, Desert Princess, and I had the chance to ‘kingdomize’ amongst a group of high school students. The Holy Spirit came upon these young people in power – some were shaking and trembling, others were in tears. Several were miraculously healed. I had called out some words of knowledge (stomach problems, headache) which they had initially NOT responded to. Not being discouraged I waited. Eventually one Indian young woman came up to me and said that she was the one with the stomach problems. I got Desert Princess and we began to pray for her. The Spirit came upon her powerfully. Her whole body was shaking. When we asked about the stomach problem, she said it was completely gone. Then another young woman came up to us who was responding to the headache word. The Lord had already been resting powerfully upon her while Dark Horse had...

While walking through a hotel lobby, I spotted a man with a neck brace. Thinking this is a “legal target”(as Bill Johnson calls them), I approached him and inquired about his condition. He was obviously in some pain and he explained what his doctor had said was causing the problem. As we talked a bit more, I discovered that this man in a full-time minister of the Gospel from Lebanon. I asked if I could lay my hands upon him and pray, and he readily agreed. The presence of God began to come and both of us could feel something happening in his neck and shoulders. I took my hands away and asked what he was feeling and to his surprise the healing presence of the Holy Spirit was still moving. He could feel something like ‘surges’ going through the affected areas. I didn’t get the impression that he was accustomed to God moving in healing. He was from a more conservative background. As I sat there watching him laughing in thankfulness and amazement to what God had just done, I was g...

Tonight I discovered that a pastor friend of mine had become afflicted with an eye infection which left the whole area around his eye and nose swollen. He was in excruciating pain. He looked like Rocky at the end of one of his famous fights! Right now there has been alot of attacks coming against Christians - as we are moving in greater unity, contending for God's glory and planning events to faciliate breakthroughs in the area of miracles the enemy isn't happy. I had just come from a joint meeting with other Christian leaders where we had talked about this very thing. From there I went to pray with this pastor friend. I lay hands on his eye and face and just began to come against all spirits of affliction and released the Kingdom of God. As I just released God's peace, the pain began to leave. He said to me during prayer that whenever I moved my hand, he could feel things moving. He felt the healing presence of God coming out of my hand. Needless to say - the enemy...

Sometimes you hear the most interesting expressions from unbelievers being healed. Today was one of those days. I saw a muslim woman I knew limping in great pain. When I asked what happened, she said she had a severe sprain. I had to be a bit cautious how I proceeded to ask if I could prayer as we were in a very public place. Isaac of Ninevah and I were able to get her to sit down with us in an empty room as I had some medical references she was interested in. I then asked if I could look at the ankle and she took of the bandage. I took her foot in my hand (which is quite unacceptable) and then told her I was going to pray and ask God to heal it. She really didn't have any time to say yes/no (which is the way I planned it). I just began to pray. Isaac sat close by and joined me in silent prayer. As I prayed, I began to feel the presence of God moving in and around the ankle and proceeded to take my hands off the foot and asked her what she felt. This is when she exclaimed...

I'm sure there are some people out there reading this blog wondering how in the world we are doing all this stuff we keep posting. To be honest, our last outing was a little disappointing because I personally didn't get to another level in healing and the prophetic. it's funny on one level, though, because if the same things that happened the other night had happened a year ago, I would have been on cloud nine, but at this point in the game, I really want to see more-- more specific words, more deliverance, more healing. I'm not saying that I"m disappointed in God or ungrateful; I just want more Kingdom. Anyway, back to what I was saying before. Getting prophetic words aren't always difficult things that only seers can do. In fact, I believe the Lord prompts us a lot and we miss it because we chalk it up to something else. For example, while we were at the restaurant, one of the guys there looked just like a well known prophetic/seer guy. So, DJ started ...

Last night a few of us headed out to see what God would do. Most ministry seems to happen as we live our normal lives, but there is something special when we head out purely to be used of God. These ‘kingdom nights’ have ranged from great to forgettable, but normally if we keep going, eventually we’ll see God break into the lives of others. Sometimes that doesn’t happen until after 11PM at night though. Before we got going last night, we worshipped for an extended period and wrote down the impressions and prophetic revelation the Lord gave us – this ranged from words of knowledge for people the Lord wanted to heal, locations in the city we should visit, and types/descriptions of people we will meet. As we headed to our first location, nothing much seemed to happen – words we gave to people were wrong, etc. We even chickened out on approaching a guy whose leg was so deformed that we didn’t have faith (being honest here). I was pretty discouraged and yet we pressed on and walked to...

Words of knowledge can be funny. At times when you are really trying to ‘tune in’ and ‘get words’ for people, they don’t come. At other times, when you least expect them, they can come clearer and stronger than ever. That is what happened yesterday. While walking into a restaurant with my daughter, a strong word of knowledge came for a person with pain in the left shoulder going into the neck. There was no one else near us except a Muslim woman with her three children. I usually would have my wife approach her but she wasn’t with us. The whole time I was there I wrestled with the decision to approach them the whole time I was there. The issue of the fear of man is always there. Ultimately, I decided to the take the risk. My daughter and I approached them and I asked “who has the pain/problem in the left shoulder/neck”? The mother said, “I do” and then asked me, “Are you a psychic”? I said no but was able to explain that it was gift from the Lord, that I was a Christian and ...