JOEL 2 GENERATION

This morning we gave quite a few words of knowledge and a number of them were never acknowledged. I remember specifically I had given a word about a right wrist problem and even indicated the area where I felt a person had the problem - nobody spoke up. Nobody came up to us during the ministry time either. Probably got that one wrong. However....I also got a word of knowledge for a right knee problem and it came while focusing my attention on two African men, one of the two in particular. When I gave the word, I said I felt it was for one of them and the very man that the Lord had highlighted did have a right knee problem. I prayed two or three times for him and all the pain left the knee. After praying once, I didn't see to much improvement, but due to the accuracy of the way the Lord spoke, I was expectant and kept praying until we saw the breakthrough. Thankfully, I gave the word about the right knee first before I got the word about the right wrist wrong. Had I done it ...

This morning a team of us were invited to come and minister prophetically in a new church about which Isaac already blogged. 4 of us went and a couple of things really "stood out" to me this morning. First of all, I was told we could have about 20 minutes in the service to give prophetic words. In the past, I would have been nervous with a team of 10 to prophesy for that lenghth of time. Today, we couldn't even finish giving the words the Lord had given us - words for the Church corporately, words to individuals and words of knowledge for healing. We've come a long way. The second thing that struck me was the level of confirmation we witnessed this morning. Four of us were asking the Lord for revelation and when it came time to give the words publically the Lord had highlighted a number of the same people and spoke the same things (we hadn't compared notes). The third thing was the way the Lord used us "as a team", not only to give prophetic words b...

This morning, I got the chance to go with some friends to pray for people at a meeting of believers here in our city. As we were worshiping, I started writing down some things I felt the Lord was saying to me about the church and individuals. After the music and the message was over, we were invited up to speak our words out over the people. One of the neat things was that DJ and Desert Princess had many of the same words I had, so I just marked them off my list as we passed around the mic. When it came to my turn, I said some of the words I had had. Here are a few of the accurate ones that landed: 1) Right ear with hearing problem and/or infection: One man had both in his right ear. 2) Sharp pain under the left shoulder that began two weeks ago: This guy left 90% better. 3) Someone carrying burdens he/she shouldn't be carrying. A man came later for prayer and told me that he was worrying about his brothers all the time. And, probably the most encouraging to me personally: I...

There are many people who are not comfortable approaching people on the street and just start talking to them. I, too, am part of this group. Just walking up to a person with a cast on or something else noticeably wrong with them ain't my style, though I do it on occasion. No, I've found something to be more in line with my personality and more natural for me. I hope this "revelation" is freeing to a lot of people out there who think you have to be an extreme extrovert to do "evangelism" (aka, the "E" word). Here's the revelation: Ask people about their physical pains or test prophetic revelation areligiously to people with whom you have a natural reason to converse. So, if walking up to random people is too intimidating, try talking to the people you run into every day: the mailman, the waiter, the checkout lady, the manager, etc. You already have a context to speak to them (to order something, to pay for something) so that gives you a ...

The other night Ravished, DJ, and I met with two Arab men at Starbucks. One of the guys was wearing a neck brace and complained of constant pain. After some prophecy that turned out to be accurate, we started praying for the neck. It's always good to build someone up. We all prayed several times and he left saying it was better than before, but not 100%. Well, all I know is that he walked in wearing a neck brace and walked out carrying. More Lord!

after we finished with our Palestinian friend's neck, Ravished, Isaac of Ninevah and I headed over to a nearby restaurant looking for a person "with a right leg problem". After inquiring with about 10 employees - who all thought us quite 'odd' as we asked about several other physical conditions the Lord was highlighting through words of knowledge. they finally brought us a man with a problem in his right leg (our first word) and after praying for him, we told us all the pain had gone. This opened the door for us to head to another restaurant a few doors down to minister to another man. interestingly, I received a word of knowledge in the 1st restaurant for one Nepali Hindu man who acknowledged the problem but would NOT let us pray - even after seeing the Indian muslim man's right leg healed. it's a free world! finally, we headed over to yet another restaurant and prayed for a man with a severe headache - a Nepali hindu man - the Lord took his pain away...

a man I met over a month ago called me yesterday wanting to get "treatment" for a chronic neck problem - he wore a neck brace and had shooting pain down the arm. we set up a time to meet last night in a coffee shop. he came with a Syrian muslim friend. Ravished, Isaac of Ninevah and I all together and first they began to prophesy over both of these men. I basically explained to these men that my friends "see things and would be willing to share with you what they see". they prophesyed a number of things regarding both of these men (I'll let them blog some of those things). after a while, we moved into a time of healing prayer. we asked him to removed his neck brace and we were able to lay hands on him to begin releasing God's Kingdom. After praying once or twice, the pain decreased about 40% and he had greater mobility. he could sense something happening both in his neck and throughout his entire body. we told him that it was God's presence as H...

While in a neighboring county a group of us went to the mall on a treasure hunt. This is a fun term we use for moving in prophetic evangelism through the means of getting words of knowledge from God and stepping out in signs and wonders. There must have been about 40 of us there for the hunt, so we split up into groups of 4 and divided up into different sections of the mall. Before we went out God showed us pictures in our mind of the different people we would encounter as we walked around, and the different locations we would find them. As my group took off in one direction we bumped into another treasure hunt group. Jokingly I went over to one guy in the group and slapped him on the back and said” what’s wrong with your knee”. I was totally just goofing off in my enthusiasm, but the guy looked at me and told me that there was in fact pain in his knee. “Really”, I said in disbelief. I couldn’t believe that I was right by accident! So I bent down in the mall, laid my hands on his kne...