JOEL 2 GENERATION

today is known in the islamic world as Ashoura . it is the day that Shi'ite muslims remember the death of Hussein (their prophet's grandson). they speak of his death a martrydom, but in reality, to them it is much, much more. if they are honest, they will tell you that they believe his death was a type of atonement for their sins. i have muslim friends who would jump up and deny this emphatically, but I remember a number of years ago to test my hypothesis (i.e. that they believe Hussein's death was a sacrificial atonement), I had a Shi'ite friend of mine read Isaiah 53 - speaking prophetically about the sacrifice that Christ would come to offer and the resulting benefits of His sacrifice. I DID NOT tell him who the passage was speaking of. He was sure it was speaking of Hussein. With great sadness this morning, I was listening to hundreds and hundreds of Shi'ite muslims crying out with great passion - in my neighborhood. Looking towards Hussein - whose death a

while out yesterday with my kids, we were practicing getting some words of knowledge - after a some limited success in a restaurant, we found ourselves in a mall. While in a sporting goods store, I got a word of knowledge for a knee problem. There were two men working in the shop so I asked the one closest to me. He had a knee problem. I prayed for his knee and after he tested it out declared, "there is no more pain". Funny thing was he said that he had undergone "touch therapy" before. I guess God wanted to do His own "Holy Ghost touch therapy"