JOEL 2 GENERATION

yesterday my son and a friend headed out to a local mall to do some "power spilling". you never know what will happen, but we knew it was going to be a good time when literally 30 seconds after leaving our car in the parking lot, a word of knowledge comes to me for the guy walking towards us - a Pakstani muslim. we stopped him and asked if he had a neck problem. he did - we prayed for him. it got better. we prayed again. he was healed. I told him as we parted that "Jesus loves you". a few minutes later as we walked into the mall, another word of knowledge came for a back problem. there were two security guards, both Nepali hindus - a man and a woman. I asked which one of them had the problem. language was a problem so I pointed to the exact spot where the Lord has shown me, and it was for the woman. we prayed for her. don't really know what happened because they didn't understand us well enough to tell us what had happened. right after that, I as...

this post is really more of a "how to" than a testimony, however its based on hundreds of encounters praying for and with muslims in many different countries. this week I encouraged a friend to consider praying for a muslim neighbor who was going through a difficult time. the said that the idea was really "scary". i think what makes it so difficult is that we somehow think of how a typical westerner might respond/react if we asked if we could lay hands on them and pray for them. of course, the fact is that most people, even very secular westerners, respond very positively when we pray for them - and many have some encounter that they can't explain. however, muslims are very different. i can say that in hundreds of situations over many years that I can count on one hand the times that a muslim hasn't greatly appreciated it when we prayed for them. obviously there are cultural sensitivity issues that need to be considered - i.e. women laying hands on wom...