JOEL 2 GENERATION

Just in case anyone gets the wrong idea: JESUS is the Healer. JESUS is alive and loves us enough to work through us--imperfect as we are. All glory is His. The guys in the sheesha place did not have any doubts about whose Name we prayed in. Also, less than 24 hours later, my firstborn son had a fever of 102 out of nowhere and was complaining of a headache and stomach-ache. We prayed for Daddy to intercede on our behalf and fight for us and He proved Himself to be a very present help in time of trouble. My son is now sleeping quietly. If there's any confusion out there as to where sickness comes from: isn't it more than passing strange that we had been preaching the Gospel the night before?

Last night the Kingdom broke out. I say that because this might be the longest post yet from Isaac of Ninevah and I wanted to start it off with a good catchy sentence like most good books do. From the beginning. . . I wrote a few posts ago that we followed a guy into a sheesha place (the hubbly-bubbly pipes so famous here in the Middle East) who was on crutches. I also noted that we didn’t see a lot of power released that night, but we got to share some of the Kingdom with a few guys. Unfortunately, we left that night without getting any numbers so we weren’t able to do any follow-up. The one guy I gave my number to, didn’t call. Fast forward to a couple of days: Sojourner is at a wedding and M. from the sheesha place is there and walks up to him and says, “I remember you.” Sojourner asks from where and M. tells him that he remembered him from the sheesha place. M. then proceeded to tell Sojourner that he had been talking with a friend at work about what had happened Sunday...

An Egyptian friend of mine injured his back recently. It was getting worse and worse. I noticed yesterday that he had a massive bandage on his lower back and was in severe pain. Since I was "on duty" (Wigglesworth used to say "not on my shift", in reference to people not receiving their miracle of healing), I explained to my muslim friend what I was going to do - I just boldly said, "the pain is going to leave". During prayer I just began to pray for the establishment of a "pain-free Kingdom zone" in his lower back. As I began to pray, the Presence of Lord began to come. I knew something was happening. During prayer, a word of knowledge came to me about a problem in his left ribs. I asked and he confirmed that he had in fact broken one of those ribs. I shifted my prayer focus for the moment to the rib area and God took away the sharp pain in the very spot I had spoken of. I explained to my friend that God did that to really release our f...

One evening late in September, DJ and I went to a hospital in the city where we live (in the Middle East), at the request of one of my Muslims students. I have previously written about this student, as he has experienced supernatural healings in response to our prayers on 3 separate occasions. His father has cancer, a very rare type that is very difficult to deal with surgically due to the location of the tumor. The family are traditional Bedouins. When I walked into the hospital room, I sensed an atmosphere of fear and despair and hopelessness. It turns out that my student didn’t want us to pray for his dad – just to look at medical reports and comment on what treatment they should pursue. (He said, “I know God can heal, but we need something more scientific this time.”) We were able to give them some advice, but during a moment when others left the room, I spoke words of hope and faith to the dad. I held his arm as we talked, and I prayed quietly for him, speaking life and health int...

Last night, we were out looking for people to pray for. Prior to going out, we get together and pray and ask the Lord to show us who to look for. So, I made a list of some people I saw and one of them included a man on crutches. Later that night, it was getting late, and I hadn't seen anyone on the list. . . until this guy comes down where we were sitting on crutches. He passd us and went inside the smoke-filled sitting area while we remained outside. Remember we had a man on crutches on our list, I asked one of my friends with me to go in and break things open. We went on inside and did the pleasantries and then cut to the chase: "God told us to pray for your leg to get healed." Well, as it turned out, the man had broken it and had metal plates inside of it. This past summer, however, I had been there when someone prayed for a lady with metal plates in her arms and afterward, she couldn't feel them anymore. I told the man this testimony, but I don't thin...

Tonight as I got the opportunity to pray for a muslim man to be healed and offered to pray for several others, I was wondering what would happen if Christians REALLY believed they had been given authority to heal the sick and would take risks to pray for people in public. I live in a muslim country, and yet thousands of Christians live and work here. What would happen if say 10,000 of these Christians (there must be over 100,000 Christians overall) - so what if 10% of the Christians who lived here prayed for 1 muslim a week. that would mean that in a given week, 10,000 muslims would receive prayer for healing per week. How many would God heal?? who knows, but let's just say that 30% were healed (that would be close to what one of the leading Christian healing ministries says are healed when their teams minister). Let's do the math - that means that in this unreached Muslim country that 3000 miracles of healing would take place each week. 156,000 miraculous healings would ...

I got a word of knowledge about a foot problem on the top of the foot (I thought it was the left foot). I broke into a group of about 5 Arab muslim men (Syrians, Palestinians and one Gulf Arab). I explained what I was looking for (a foot problem) and why (because God wanted to heal it). this led to a lengthy discussion about healing, demons, God's power working through men, etc. It was quite interesting as most of these guys were quite skeptical. Finally one of them with a serious acid reflux problem and pain every time he eats allowed me to lay hands on him. He couldn't test it out at that moment, but I told him to call me in morning with the report. Actually, I told him to call me if he was healed and to rip up my business card and forget me if he wasn't. either this stuff is real or it isn't and we have to be willing 'put up or shut up' as the expression goes. I also found out who had the foot problem, one of the Syrians. It came intermittedly and so ...

Dark Horse, Desert Princess and I went to visit an Ethiopian church that a friend of ours pastors. We knew that God was doing something special in this congregation, and we just wanted to go and experience His presence with them. We weren't disappointed. At the end of the service, I asked if we could pray for the sick. The pastor agreed and the 3 of us headed up front to call out a few words of knowledge and lay hands on the sick. Dark Horse gave a powerful prophetic word that led to a dramatic healing - but I'll let her share that testimony! We saw a number of healings as we prayed for people. the first woman we prayed for was healed of a problem in her right knee and lower leg. We had the pastor come to confirm in Amharic (their language) that all the pain was gone. It was! A man came with severe lower back pain - we prayed for him and he was healed. I had given a word of knowledge about someone with chest pain all across the chest - a woman came forward, Desert Princes...

I have discovered in some Middle Eastern countries that when you ask to pray for someone (especially Christian locals), they feel indebted to you for showing love. My wife and I were in a taxi last night, and the moment I stepped into the car I could feel the Holy Spirit tugging at my heart. I could feel the love of God for the taxi driver, and quite frankly it was quite overwhelming. I tried pushing it aside thinking it was nothing, but the Lord kept tugging on my heart. I then felt the Lord say to me that he wanted me to bless the man double of what the taxi ride was worth (which seriously was not much). This too I tried to explain away as my own thoughts; but I could not escape it. It was the Lord, and who am I to argue with Him. I turned to my wife and told her how I was feeling. To my surprise, she felt the same way, feeling strongly that we were to bless the man. So after chatting with the cabby we found out that he had a Christian name, and was therefore a Christian. He felt ve...