JOEL 2 GENERATION

Yesterday, Isaac of Ninevah and I met with a believer who came out of islam. for most of those who were formerly muslims, the biggest challenge they face is fear. Their lives are in danger, and as he was reminding us, even the government will ensure that their citizens who come to Christ will be able to get jobs and will not receive government-provided benefits and services. The enemy's tactics have never changed - fear and intimidation are his most effective tools. I shared with him the sad story of another Gulf arab believer who came to Christ years ago has never grown because she lives in a prison of fear. My heart for my brother is that he will not find himself imprisoned in the same way. Fearlessness is faith.

Tonight we gathered and the Lord really suprised me. There has been a real heaviness over a number of us - lots of transition, uncertainties and some trials facing believers. However, in the midst of what for me was not a great week for connecting personally with God or seeing His fruit manifesting in and through my life, God broke in and surprised me completely tonight. I wasn't that expectant after the kind of week I was having to really sense God or to hear His voice, and yet as we got our focus onto Him, the entire atmosphere changed. God just showed up and began to speak. I received many prophetic words for people. Words of knowledge (some very accurate ones) started to come. I don't really know how to describe what happened other than to say that whereas I felt faithless and distant from the Lord when we started, by the end of the evening I was a totally different person. Passion was restored. We saw healings, prophetic words were flowing like water - but the bigg...

last night Isaac of Ninevah, Tenacious B and Shing Ding Ding headed out to "spill". We waited on the Lord for some prophetic revelation (words of knowledge, locations, people we'll meet) and headed out together. One of the "locations" I got was close by so we headed there first. A name that Isaac and Tenacious B got, "Saif", was the name on one of the shops we saw so we headed towards a tailor shop. While passing another shop, I got a word of knowledge for a neck a condition and went into find a shop full of muslim men from Bangladesh. One of them had the condition and we began to pray. What followed was illustrative of how fun "doing the stuff" can be. One of the guys gets a breakthrough with his neck and one after the other these guys would come forward for prayer. One would have "no problems" when we asked initially, but after seeing his friend's lower back pain leave, he would "volunteer" for our services. No...

Isaac of Ninevah made mention of the service we ministered in already - here are my thoughts. As is ALWAYS the case, whenever God's kids (us) ask an outrageously good Dad (Him) to do miracles, He doesn't disappoint. We don't even know all the healings that He did during the meeting. A few of our team "compared notes" and discovered that a number of the conditions that were prayed for - back problems, ear problems, an eye problem, shoulder pain and even a mystery condition that may have been some kind of blood infection were all touched in the Name of Jesus. Even before we ever got to the laying on of hands, a number were healed after words of knowledge were called out. Some who had conditions didn't end up standing. When they came for prayer later, Papa still healed them! I know that the prophetic ministry was also quite meaningful for people - our team gave a number of prophetic words publically and then privately to individuals. I know that my wife, De...

At a service this past weekend, we saw numerous healings and accurate prophetic words. I was personally able to pray for a woman who had pain in her knee and numbness in her arm/hand. After the first prayer, her knee was good and after two more swings, the numbness was all gone as well! I also prayed for a man who had pain in his right ear and after a couple of prayers, it disappeared, too. If one thing this healing journey has taught me is that you can't stop if you don't see something happen after your first, and, perhaps "best", prayer.

I was with my family at a fast food restaurant. I have two small kids so we were in the play area when this cleaner walks in. I'm thinking, "Well, what kind of pain could he have?" As I was thinking this, my left started to hurt. I went over to him and started some chit chat and then asked about his left hand. He smiled and affirmed that it hurt. I asked if I could pray for him, and he agreed. After I prayed, I asked how it felt and he said that it was good-- all the pain was gone! I told him afterwards that we were Christians and Jesus had just healed him.