JOEL 2 GENERATION

Before we slept on New Year’s Eve a large group of us gathered for praise and worship to welcome in the new year. I had wanted to head out on the streets immediately to see our first healings of the new year, but it was raining. We stayed inside and God didn’t disappoint. A brand new Christian woman was healed of two conditions and we contended for a long-term chronic eye pain condition for another young lady – she was healed too! I love it that we saw 3 healing miracles BEFORE 5AM on New Year’s Day 2011 – may it foreshadow the kind of year we will have. There were other miraculous things that occurred at our New Year’s Eve gathering – much prophetic ministry and also a manifestation of the presence of angels that many people could physically sense! It was just one of those meetings when you end up scratching your head saying ,“What just happened here?” That’s all I can recall now – as the others record their stories, dozens of other testimonies will come in. My wife

People shocked and healed after words of knowledge – we entered into this cigar shop and the Lord began to reveal things about one of the women who worked there. It was the left elbow – she wanted to know “how we knew”. We explained to this Christian woman that the Lord was revealing things that He intended to heal. She let us pray and the Holy Spirit came onto the arm and she was feeling God’s power. We also prayed for her knees after two of us got words of knowledge about a knee problem. The Lord touched her knees. Next we got her to lay hands on her muslim co-workers stomach as she was complaining about pain. The Holy Spirit came and healed the muslim woman. The Christian woman was shocked about what she was feeling in her hands. Needless to say there was a massive interest to know more and we gave her the number of one of the Lebanese women leaders we were working with. Next we headed to the American University. We met up with an Iranian muslim that one of

Words of knowledge on the way – as we left the marketplace, we got a word of knowledge for a group of woman who happened to be Christians. We got to minister to them for probably 20 minutes. The first condition was healed, other emotional pain was revealed and they let us pray for that as well. The most encouraging things was the way God’s Holy Spirit came upon each of them as they felt His manifest presence. Then I see a group of fishermen and a word of knowledge comes for a right knee condition. One of them has the problem, let’s me pray and is healed on the spot. He tested it out and testified to all of his friends. They were Christians too, so we just wished them a Merry Christmas and moved on. When the Holy Spirit invites you into a house – the most significant experience that afternoon in the south was when we got invited into the home of a Christian family. We offered healing and I don’t remember if we had a word of knowledge or not. The next thing we know

Muslims prayed for in the marketplace - When in the far south of the country we split into 3 groups and healed out to declare the Kingdom message and to demonstrate its power. I headed to a market place with a small team. I entered a silver shop and began to ask the muslim shopkeeper if he needed healing in his body (sometimes there is no need for a word of knowledge). He needed prayer for a chronic breathing problem. He showed us how hard it was to breath and it made a wheezing noise. After prayer, it was gone. He was very grateful. Next we got pray for a man who had lost most of his eyesight because of diabetes. He wasn’t healed, but let us pray and minister to him multiple times. His friend’s leg was healed however, and we got to share many things with these shi’ite muslim men. The Lebanese woman with us got to minister healing to a muslim woman who wanted prayer to conceive a child. We had approached her with an accurate word of knowledge, but she didn’t wan

Muslim manger of Burger King – we’ve learned that if you can get to the manager, you can normally minister to the rest of the staff (either at a store or restaurant). That was my thinking when I asked to speak with the manager of Burger King. Sure enough he had some problems (neck and back) that needed prayer. He joined us an let us pray for him a number of times. The back was healed, the neck improved dramatically and we were invited to go and visit his family to minister healing to his sister. We didn’t get to the rest of the staff, but because the Kingdom came to his back, he heard many things about Jesus and invited us to minister healing at his home. Can’t wait to see what will happen as we go there! Muslims and Christians touched by the seaside - A group of us decided to hike down a hill next to the sea to minister to fisherman and whoever else we would find. As we approached an outdoor coffee shop/restaurant, I got a word of knowledge for a neck condition. It

The next couple of blog posts are going to be an attempt to capture some of the miracles we saw God perform as we traveled around the country of Lebanon this past week. Since I didn’t record the events daily, I will only be giving an overall impression of what we saw highlighting some of the more memorable healings and/or prophetic encounters. Lebanon is an interesting country with a mixture of different religions and ethnic groups. We found ourselves during the week ministering to muslims (both shi’ite and sunni) as well as Christians from all major branches of the Church. It was a real privilege to join hands with local Lebanese believers and hit the streets together. We saw the Kingdom come in malls, coffee shops, the street, refugee camps, outdoor markets and on the seaside. Healings also took place in Christian meetings and people’s homes. We would often get words of knowledge for different conditions that people needed healing for and they would most often let us