JOEL 2 GENERATION

While DJ and I were bringing the Kingdom to a Muslim guy at a food court, out of nowhere comes this Ethiopian lady who says, "Will you pray for me, too?" She also confided that she wasn't even on break, but when she saw us she knew that she had to come over, but didn't really know why. So, she came to us seeking a miracle for her headaches. I prayed for her and put her in touch with an Ethiopian pastor with a heart for miracles. DJ saw the Glory on her face and when I asked her name she said, "Bethlehem." The Kingdom of God suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.

While visiting the frozen north over the holidays I was expectant, waiting for the Lord's direction. I was on my own but knew that He can speak any time and any place. My senses were alert. Nothing. For weeks I heard nothing from him and no opportunities to release His kingdom came my way, until ... I was visiting a friend, who I know is very skeptical about the gifts of the Spirit and the power of God in these days. I had spoken to her quite a bit in the past about signs and wonders, about the power of God and I knew she was done on the subject. At this meeting she was complaining about her back, how she had hurt it a couple of weeks previously and that it was getting worse. Hmm. What to do? She got up from the table to do something and my hand just shot out, with no premeditation on my part, to lay on her back. She stopped cold. I prayed for the Kingdom to come and heal her back, in the name of Jesus! I did it in a whisper - very brave on my part! :) Then we all carr...

Tonight while out, it seemed like we missed almost every prophetic word we tried to give. After the Syrian Muslim man was so powerfully touched in the morning, and the way the Lord led an Ethiopian woman to us asking for prayer (Isaac will blog about it), I figured we would have an incredible night of prophecy and healing. Basically, we took a lot of risks and seemed to get just about everything wrong. Even when we finally would get something right, we had missed so many other words leading up to one that was right, that our credibility wasn't great. One of our last stops was a restaurant, where we began trying to minister to our waiter. He was gracious, but basically we were all enrolled in the class entitled, "Prophetic Humility" wherein one seems to miss just about every word they give and through the process of humiliation hopefully learn some humility. I'm not joking, we were not doing very well. This man, a Syrian Druze, ended up asking us if we could tell h...

This morning, Isaac of Ninevah and myself met with our new Syrian friend who came wanting his right ear to be healed. After sharing some of the principles of God's Kingdom and healing, we began to pray for him. During the prayer time, the Holy Spirit came powerfully upon him. I asked him what was happening, and it was hard for him to express in words what was going on. His entire body was filled with electricity - the power he felt coursing through his legs was so powerful, that he had trouble walking. This experience lasted for over two hours. I spoke to his boss at work later in the day, and he testified how our friend was unable to stand under his own strength. He was then able to go home and get some sleep - during which he slept without nightmares for the first time since he could remember. This was as amazing to him as the encounter he had had with the Holy Spirit. During our prayer time in the morning, I received yet another word of knowledge for his right ear. I kne...

Walked up to the counter at an Arab food restaurant, and the Lord gives me a word of knowledge for a right ear problem. I ask the man who is taking my order, but it wasn't for him. When I asked the group of men working there, they brought forward one of the employees who had the problem in his right ear. I told them that God had given me a word that He wanted to heal the man's ear. I didn't feel it was right to pray for him there. I knew it was a bit conspicuous and he may have felt a bit uncomfortable - as they were all Muslims and it was a public setting. The men were all interested to know, how I knew about the problem. I quickly explained to them that God had indicated to me what He wanted to do for this man. I gave the man my business card to call me to set a time where I could "treat" his ear. I also made it clear that this "treatment" would be free-of-charge. This is an important point to make with Muslims because their Islamic 'heale...

This afternoon, I approached a group of Indian waiters in a restaurant because I had earlier gotten a word of knowledge for a right leg problem below the knee. None of them said they had any problems. I then asked one of them to give me his hand - for some reason he agreed. I just took a moment to turn my thoughts towards heaven and tune into what the Lord would be saying - after a few moments, a word of knowledge came to me that this man had pain in his stomach. When I asked him, somewhat surprised, he said, "Yes I do" and pointed right to the spot where I received the word of knowledge. I then was able to pray for this Hindu man for healing in Jesus' Name. I went in with a wrong word, but in the end, God got it right! What a God we serve!!

Queen Esther will soon be giving her testimony of how the Lord has used visitors, mysterious gifts, dreams, and knock-off shampoo to win for Himself the heart of a woman.