JOEL 2 GENERATION

while reading something lately about who we are 'in Christ', I had the distinct impression that I was suppossed to copy that page and send it to a young Arab woman who recently left Islam to follow Jesus. I was able to email her the passage as it has been nearly impossible for us to meet with her of recent. What she told me in the wake of the email was so encouraging. It had been just about a year since she had surrendered to Christ and she hadn't had any suicidal thoughts since her conversion (she had had some before she met Jesus). She was actually thinking about the very issue of whether she had really been changed since becoming a Christian and on that very day, I was prompted to send her a detailed list of verses that answered the exact question she was pondering. A coincidence? Not in the Kingdom - there aren't any!

while sitting with Isaac and Ravished at a restaurant, I asked the Lord for a word for two Egyptian muslim men who were sitting next to us. While looking at one of the men, the Lord gave me word of knowledge for a problem in his nose or sinuses. As I asked for more clarity, the impression that it was a 'deviated septum' came to me. This was the first time I have ever gotten this word. I sat down to see what if the word was accurate, and to my shock the man had a deviated septum. I explained to him that God wanted to heal it. I got another word for him about a shoulder problem, which he also had. It was at this point that I decided to go after the shoulder first to increase faith and then we'd pray for the deviated septum (something I have never seen healed). Isaac and Ravished joined us and Isaac began to give prophetic words the Lord was giving him for these men (which I trust he'll blog about). To make a long story short, we never got to pray for the deviated se...

Last night while getting my computer fixed, I wandered into an office of Indian Muslim men. I wanted to know if the Lord would give me any revelation for them. I then got a word of knowledge for a pain in a certain part of the back. I also got several other words. At this point, Ravished had joined me and we proceeded to ask if they had any of the conditions we felt the Lord wanted to touch. The room was silent. There was that awkward delay when you give a word of knowledge and no one is coming forward. I knew the word I had gotten was clear so I just kept pressing. Another word I had given was for a problem in the left knee, but as I continued to wait for more insight, I sensed it was actually eczema on around the knee. The silence continued, and I kept asking these 4 men. FINALLY one of them said that he had the back problem. I laid my hands on his back and after the first time of prayer it was over 50% better. After praying again, it was about 80% healed. This gave us a...

Sojourner's nephew (JC) and his wife (L) joined us for some of our Christmas celebrations. One evening JC was looking for an ice-pack, complaining of pain in his left knee that had been there for 3 weeks. After a bit of discussion about this, he just said, "Why don't you just pray for my knee?" (great question!!!) So, I said I would LOVE to pray for him. He experienced instant relief from the pain. When I asked him how his knee was the next morning, he said "What knee?!" The knee remained pain free for several days, but on the morning that he was to leave the pain returned. In the airport Sojourner put his hands on his knee and prayed again. He felt a popping in the knee and the knee has remained pain-free since. Several days later we had the opportunity to pray for another woman whose knees were giving her problems. She also experienced relief from pain! We are thrilled to see God's kingdom being expressed here in North America as well!!!

(this entry is a little late as the events occurred mid-December...) Just before Christmas vacation I had the amazing privilege of praying for a lady I had just recently met for the first time. Even more amazing was the fact that one of my non-Christian friends told her that we pray for the sick, and that was enough for her to ask me to pray for her. She is from a Catholic background, so I spent some time sharing with her Jesus' desire to heal and make people whole. Then I prayed for her. She experienced instant pain relief from a pain in her side, said she experienced some relief in her breathing (she has suffered from asthma) and I prayed with her about her kidneys -- which were not filtering properly. M and her daughter, E, then invited me to join them for lunch. While at the restaurant, M returned from the washroom and said, "I just have to tell you -- I had no foaming (in her urine) when I went to the washroom!" She was very excited, and so was I! The followin...

Ok, so I was one of the guys who was out with Isaac that night that nothing happened. After several dead ends, we were so desperate that at 11 PM we decided to head out into the desert and find some Arabs in tents. The desert is literally littered with tents this time of year—it is common for Arab men to spend their evenings with their friends out in the desert, so we were just going to crash in on one uninvited. I kinda decided that we’d drive twenty minutes out into the desert and then turn off the highway and stop at the first place we find. The only thing is that apparently we found the only stretch of the desert were there were no tents what-so-ever. We headed straight for the only visible lights of any kind assuming that it was a camp. It turned out to be the office for a landfill. There were some Asian expats working there and a steady stream of Arab drivers dumping loads of rock and dirt. As Isaac mentioned in his post we (he) gave out several wrong words and basically ...