JOEL 2 GENERATION

so after the 7 healings, we headed to a "healing service". I spoke for a while about God's will and healing (which is a confusing topic for way too many Christians) - we shared about the 7 healings we just saw (and the like 15-20 healings we'd seen in the morning with the military guys and general). Nothing like a few testimonies to lead into a time of praying for the sick. I have no idea how many people were healed - but I know that we saw a number of back and neck problems healed. A shoulder problem. Migraine headaches. Knees. I'm just trying to remember. There were even some demons that decided to show up - we got to minister deliverance too! It was just a great day yesterday - I estimated that we saw something like 50 healings (not that we needed to count, or even should be counting). Many heard the Gospel and saw God's power released.

I took out some teenagers to heal the sick and told them before we went - pick a number between 5 and 10. They chose 7 - I said, "Great, we'll believe God that we'll see 7 people miraculously healed before we go to the meeting". They reluctantly agreed. We had basically 45 minutes and we started out - we saw one man's neck healed, another muslim man's back. Then we entered a shop and saw another neck healed, a back healed (after a word of knowledge). A word of knowledge came for another customer in the shop and we prayed for her (we counted it as one of the 7 because the Lord so accurately spoke for this particular person). Then we also prayed for a man's shoulder - who was healed. There was one other that I forgot - and so we said, "we've got our 7" - and then we went to the meeting. We got to pray for even more than that and many saw the healing power of Christ as we proclaimed His goodness and demonstrated his power - btw, the musli...

when a group of soldiers start getting healed, eventually news reaches their commander - who happened to the a GENERAL! This is how it started - one solider (a Christian) had a neck brace, we prayed and he was healed. A 5 year chronic neck condition healed, the neck brace became the "flag we waved" then others came for healing! One notable healing is all it took and then literally we were swamped with requests for prayer. His muslim commander also had a neck problem - I had the guy who healed lay hands on his boss. We prayed. The boss was healed. At this point, it all gets a bit fuzzy - there were just so many people getting healed (and only 3 of us ministering) that I don't remember what came next. The Lord started giving words of knowledge and we just prayed for one after another after another - they kept bringing their friends. A couple of knees, headaches, wrist pain, back and shoulder pain. Then a man comes with chronic pain in his jaw - he was physically in...

as I am reflecting upon the last week, it is remarkable all the things that God has been doing miraculously. not only what I've seen personally, but just around the lives of all who we are running with. truly the Father is ALWAYS WORKING and will release His Kingdom I believe far more than we normally would expect. The days we are living in are days of acceleration. As Randy Clark once said, "This is the worst time in history to be backslidden". I think I agree.

while standing in line to pay my phone bill, I got a strong word of knowledge for the muslim man who was behind the counter. I asked him what was wrong with his left shoulder. He began to tell me about an injury he had lifting weights. I asked him after a minute, "Do you know how I knew you had a shoulder problem"? He said, "No, how?". I shared with him that God reveals what he want to heal. I then prayed a quick prayer for his shoulder. He couldn't tell if there was a difference, but took my phone number. I told him I would love to meet him again to tell him more about healing.

Tonight I took a group out to "spill". My personal rule is "I don't go home until I see a miracle". For me personally, the night was pretty slow. It seems most of the words of knowledge I was getting were wrong. We got to pray for a couple of people, but no real clear breakthrough. I was encouraged to get an accurate word of knowledge for an Indian Buddhist man who had a back problem - but we couldn't check if he was healed as it wasn't hurting at that time. As everyone else was heading home, I took off with a couple (first time on the streets with us) to go see something miraculous. God just NEVER disappoints us - sometimes it is at the end of the night (as it was tonight), but He always does the miraculous! We are literally 100 yards from our cars - and as we are walking by a couple of Lebanese muslim men, I get a word of knowledge for a back problem. I inquire and one of them has the problem. That got their attention. Then I start talking to ...

Kingdom living was/is/should be all about multiplication - Not one 'anointed' individual entertaining crowds of other believers. As I am watching a group of wild Kingdom citizens taking the Gospel of power to the streets, to hospitals, to restaurants, to their places of employment, etc. I am thinking - "Why haven't we seen this before"? I know there are exceptions, but basically the Church has defaulted into lifting up superstars rather than expect the entire Body to really get equipped and do the stuff. The message of Jesus and what He modeled was all about multiplication. When it started to get too much about "the Apostles" in the Book of Acts, God puts His Spirit on the Stephen, Philip and the other 'non-Apostles' and they modeled yet again God's intention - to put His Spirit ON HIS PEOPLE rather than a few 'select' individuals. There may have never been a time (since the earliest days of the Church) that more people are expecti...

a couple of nights ago, when that unique healing anointing was present, many were healed. One 6 year-old girl with a chronic tonsil condition came for prayer as she was definitely on the road to a a new severe infection. She was in significant pain. Her parents had been inquiring about pain medication that we had in our home (which we didn't). Then the Lord began to release a special healing presence. She came for prayer. We prayed a couple of times and all the pain left. The report this morning - 3 days later - from the mother is that she was/is completely healed! It was the first time that they had seen breakthrough with this chronic tonsillitis. The lack of results with healing prayer had been having a negative impact on the faith of this young girl. She has now "tasted and seen that the Lord is good".