JOEL 2 GENERATION

Today I prayed with some guys that were wanting to be free from the grip of lust and immorality in their lives. At one point in the past, all that I could have done was to sympathize with their stumbling in this area, and to weakly encourage them to try harder to control their desires. But I can humbly (and joyfully) say that though these same chains once bound me for years, God broke them in an instant and now I am experiencing a level of sexual purity that I once thought was simply unattainable. So I was able to pray with these guys with great authority - what a great feeling to command these foul spirits to flee! A wiser man than I once said that "a crisis that isn't followed up by a process will result in an abcess" - so these guys that were set free today must choose to maintain that freedom if it is to last. Still - what a blast!

Last night when the Pizza delivery man approached, the Lord gave me a word of knowledge for a problem in the left arm. I asked the man if he had a pain there and he did. I told him I was a Christian and that I wanted to pray for him. He let me pray for his arm and the Lord healed him. The Lord delivered the delivery man!

A Palestinian woman who was open to the Lord came to join us in worship. We knew the Lord has something special for her – as He always does for any non-Christian visitors! As my wife asked how she could pray for her, she said had a problem in her right arm. I remembered that about 4 days before the Lord had given me a word of knowledge for a problem in exactly the same place, but I found no one at the time to pray for. I shared that with her and we all began to pray for her arm. She said that she felt something happening to her while we prayed (as is often the case when the Lord is healing someone). As she checked her arm out after we prayed, with a very surprised look, she asked in Arabic, “What did you do to me, MAGIC or something”? Her Christian friend explained to her that it was the Holy Spirit, NOT magic, who had healed her arm. At just about that time I got a strong word of knowledge about a problem someone having a problem/pain in the lower left side of their...

Two months ago, Isaac of Ninevah had a dream. As is his habit, he wrote it down and forgot about it. It wasn’t until one of our new Nepali friends had almost exactly the same dream that its significance became clear to us. In Isaac’s dream, he was being chased and was shot by a gun. Our Nepali friend also was being chased in his dream, but escaped unhurt. What makes the Nepali’s dream interesting is that we had prophesied to him that he would have a dream the first night we met them. I had initially said the dream would come to him within a week, but then felt impressed to change that to “within two weeks”. Sure enough, on about the 9 th or 10 th day he had this dream. We met with 3 Nepalis the other night to discuss the significance of his dream. I told him that Isaac represented Jesus, who “took a bullet” and he “was rescued” in his dream and didn’t have to die. This Nepali Hindu has the New Testament in his own language that Isaac gave him. God has ...

On a trip to Malaysia, we saw God move in power on several different occasions. While eating one night in a Chinese restaurant, I walked past a waiter and got a word of knowledge for a jaw. I inquired and the waiter in fact had a problem with his jaw. I prayed for him and he was healed. On another day we were visiting a prayer retreat center and the Lord gave us a number of prophetic words and other words of knowledge for healing while there. While sitting around a table, the Lord just began to give us revelation for the people sitting around us. One word of knowledge was for an upper arm and shoulder problem. One lady had this problem and we prayed for her and she was healed. That night I saw her at a revival meeting and she was waving her hand at me indicating that everything was fine - It is always great to hear that someone stays healed! A couple of other words and prophetic pictures were given around the table that afternoon. After that, as we were touring around the prayer...

Dreams are so important-- both the ones we have at night and the ones that we carry inside of us. I was recently blown away by the revelation that our life in God is as big as we can dream. Most of us have allowed Hollywood to do all of our creative thinking for us. Our imagination is as withered as the cursed fig tree from neglect. If our lives are to be holistically transformed, our imagination must also be redeemed in the process. Jesus only did what He saw the Father doing. That must have taken some imagination. About a month ago, I had a dream where me and another man I didn't know were being chased by a man with a gun. In order to escape, we both ran down a set of stairs. Somehow, the man in front of me got away and disappeared. When I awoke, I was a little distraught and wondered what it was all about. I dutifully wrote the dream down in my journal hoping that the Lord would shed some light on it later. About two weeks ago, I blogged about some men who got heale...

As I am reading a biography about the greatest healing evangelist of the healing revival of the 1950’s, I am challenged to reject two popular positions that Christians hold today. The first, and by far the most common, is for us to think that the days of the Bible were unique and special and that we aren’t to expect the things we read about to happen today in our daily lives and ministries. The second position, which is common in some Charismatic circles is that we will see the Bible days revisited one day (at some point in the future) and even that the miracles in the Book of Acts will be exceeded before Christ returns. Both of these positions effectively leave us either romanticizing about the past, or dreaming about the future all the while leaving us expecting very little today. Then I read about the move of God in the 1940’s and 50’s. The miracles and their frequency was on the same level as what we read in the Gospels and Acts in many meetings. There were meetings i...