JOEL 2 GENERATION

A former Arab Muslim was baptized this past week. It was a powerful time, where we contended for the fullness that should accompany Christian baptism - at Jesus' Baptism, the Holy Spirit came and He entered His ministry "in the power of the Spirit". John the Baptist, looking towards Pentecost, speaks of Jesus who would "baptize with the Holy Spirit". As this believer was baptized, we waited for the Holy Spirit to come and release a vision. Faithfully, the Holy Spirit came and opened up a vision for our precious new family member. The Spirit came in power and for quite a long time this believer was under the heavy weight of God's presence. Should we expect any less during Christian baptism? What we are discovering, is that nearly every time we lay hands upon a believer and ask for God to give them a vision, they are having visions. Whatever else we want to believe Acts 2 is teaching us to expect when the Spirit comes, visions are clearly the most obviou...

We saw many of the works of God in the congregation. Most people (were) filled by the Holy Ghost, healed from many inside and outside problem(s). For example: from depression, headache, deaf spirit, from shoulder injury, closed nose opened and so on. (Our African) fellowship leaders really happy and blessed by them . Also God was glorified in our fellowship. God bless them. Note: this was a service where I saw ministering with one other friend something like 30 healings. They were so expectant for God to move, so hungry and so full of faith.

We have a truly amazing and absolutely awesome God! The weekend of May 10th we had special guests and some very special meetings. Friday morning I took the guest speaker to the church where he was scheduled to minister. About midway through the service I caught glimpses of sparkles on one of my hands. This continued to catch my attention, and by the end of the service most of both hands sparkled and glittered. Our guest friends affirmed that this is what it is like when gold-dust begins to appear. (We hear of silver, diamond and blue sapphire dust showing up on people as well, in other places!) At the Saturday night service our guest speakers (3) were all very much "under the glory cloud" or "annointing"! My 10 yr. old daughter began to notice oil appearing on all 10 of her fingers! And not just a little, but increasing! The guest speaker changed his plans and formed a line for those wanting healing. Then he had my daughter join him and lay hands on each p...

Last night during an evening of worship, we instructed people to either move to one part of the room for prophetic ministry (a prophetic "well") and to another for those who had a need for healing. The one request we made of those coming for healing was that they be sure NOT to tell us what exactly they needed in terms of healing. We wanted the Lord to reveal to us what was wrong and where a person's pain or problem was located. An Indian woman who we had never met before stepped forward for healing and as I waited on the Lord, the revealed 3 things that she wanted healing for. We prayed for each one and she was completely healed. We continued to do this as a group for each of the other people who came forward for prayer and again and again the Lord would reveal by word of knowledge what was wrong and healings followed. There were some words that I and others received that didn't seem to be accurate, but all in all the Lord gave so many words to different people t...

Last night while shopping in a toy store with my kids and the Lord gave me a word of knowledge for someone with a shoulder problem. I noticed a Gulf Arab Muslim man standing nearby and asked the Lord, “Is it for him”? The word of knowledge came again and I took that as confirmation and approached him. He was quite shocked when I asked him if he had a problem in his shoulder because he did. I quickly explained to him that God had revealed his problem to me and that He wanted to heal him. I normally don’t try to pray for people in such a public place unless we can do so inconspicuously so I gave him my phone number to call me for a time to pray. I hope that he will take the risk and call me.

Two of us were taken to a part of the city where the poorest people in this Arab Muslim country resided. Human feces in the middle of the dirt alleyways. Flies everywhere. One room homes made of whatever could be found to throw together a crude shelter. This is EXACTLY the kind of place that Jesus likes to hang out – and it was a powerful time. As we gathered in a small one room home, the presence of the Lord filled the place. We had gone to pray specifically for a woman with a brain tumor. The Lord showed me the location of the tumor through a word of knowledge and we believe this woman was touched. We await medical verification about the tumor, but she received healing in her body of several other ailments. The Lord just revealed to us sickness after sickness through words of knowledge. The Lord began to speak prophetically through the other man who came with me. He was also able to really minister some inner healing to a specific Muslim woman. We saw pain l...

On one morning, two of us went to minister in an African Church . It is always a bit intimidating to minister amongst Africans because they have usually seen more of God’s supernatural activity than I have. The Lord was faithful and we saw several dozen people healed during the service. Some were healed without any specific ministry as we gave words of knowledge in front of the Church. Others were healed during the ministry time when we laid hands on the sick. One of things we also released in this Church was an impartation for them to move in even greater power in that nation. When we asked them how many had personally seen miracles happen when they prayed for people almost all of them raised their hands. I trust that we were able to leave a deposit that will see the anointings they already had increase. Of course time will tell what they received, but some of them were powerfully overcome by God’s Spirit. This was one of the hungriest group of believers I hav...