JOEL 2 GENERATION

Yesterday was an incredible day. After a mandatory quarantine of 14 days, we were excited to be out, interacting with people freely and to see what God would do.  And the logical place to do that when it is over  110  ° F (or  43.33 ° C ), is to head to one of the large malls. Over the course of a few hours, we were able to once again pray for and minister to many people.  Here is one of those stories. In my morning Bible reading, the Lord highlighted the verse that says Jesus "does what He sees the Father doing" (Jn 5:19).  I felt like the Lord was emphasizing that in our new outreaches, God wants us to rely even more on His prophetic guidance, leading as we go. And He led us  Back in March and April, when we had been out fear extinguishing, our community ministered to hundreds and hundreds of people in cities/towns in this country. And so it wasn't surprising that in one of the first places we felt led to stop, the group working in this restaurant asked us, "Do you

After several months in the West, we are back "on the streets" here in the Middle East engaging in our mandate to be "Fear Extinguishers". I'm entitling this post "101" because along the way we've discovered that there are some basics that we share with others and minister to them with. Here are the "BIG 3" - the basics of for Fear Extinguishing 101: We have... 1. Promises of Protection - whether it is Psalm 91, or any of the dozens and dozens of promises in God's Word, we have been promised by God that He will protect His children.  Even today as I was sharing this with a Filipino man, he was "taking notes" of these truths that we have to remember! Do we believe this? 2. Promises of Healing - Today I shared Matthew 10, but I will more often share the promises in Luke 10. The Old Testament contains promises of healing but our promises under the New Covenant are "better" (Heb. 8:6-8).  Do we really believe that God