JOEL 2 GENERATION

As I was praying for an Indian man, the Lord gave me a word of knowledge for a problem in his ear. I asked him if he had a problem there. He did. I prayed for the Kingdom to come and all the pain/discomfort immediately left his ear.

Last night, during our weekly meeting, a visiting brother gave a teaching on the ministry of angels among us. There are so many types of angels - healing angels, deliverance angels, get-out-of-jail angels, worship angels, protection angels, etc. They are sent to minister on behalf of the saints, according to Hebrews 1:14. Later, as we worshipped, the Spirit gave me a picture of an angel that was among us at that very moment. He was a very large warrior angel - so large, in fact, that just his foot completely filled the room where we were. In other words, he would have been towering over the house where we were meeting! Wow. And somehow the prayers and worship of the saints create a space for warrior angels to do battle on our behalf. (Later, for reference, I wondered "how big do angels get?", and I read in Revelation 10:1-3 about a particularly huge and mighty one... so my picture was not necessarily far-fetched!)

Last night Sojourner and I headed out with a few words of knowledge and some impressions about where the Holy Spirit wanted us to go. We eventually found ourselves in the shop of Yemeni man who was quite open to talking with us. While with him, a word of knowledge that I had gotten earlier (as well as Isaac of Ninevah who we had been with earlier) came back for a left shoulder problem. The man had an ongoing problem with his shoulder and let us lay hand on him and pray. Since it wasn't bothering him at that moment, he couldn't tell us if there was a change. We asked if there was anything else and he began to explain a chronic lower back condition that he had suffered from since 1993. Constantly there was numbness and tingling in a particular area that never left. I asked if he wanted it to leave right then and there. He let us pray again for the back problem. During prayer a couple of strange things happened: Sojourner felt something begin to move up his arm from where ...

Last week, I went to visit my Gulf Arab friend near the beginning of Ramadan. When I arrived, my friend told me that her mother wasn’t feeling well and that she was in the hospital the night before for a heart condition. Her mother came in shortly afterwards and told all that was going on with her health. She told me that the heart pain had left, but that there was a feeling of literal heaviness, like something was sitting on her chest. In the past, she has always let me pray for her health problems and so I asked if I could pray for her. She had told me that while she was traveling during the summer out of the country that her health was great. As soon as she got back, she started experiencing heart pain. I was thinking that the issue was probably a demonic one. She agreed to let me pray and I laid my hands on her. During prayer, I commanded the heaviness to leave and I could feel the peace of God flow into her. It was flowing out of me into her. Every time I pray for a Muslim ...

Isaac wrote about the man we visited and prayed for in the hospital. He had had a life threatening heart attack several days before we prayed for him. Already he had received authorization to travel to the the United States for any needed heart surgery and was making plans for travel. That was all BEFORE prayer. After prayer, he said he felt some "tingling" going on in his heart area. We knew he was scheduled for an angiogram to determine the extent of the damage to his heart and the blockage in the wake of the heart attack. We knew however the angiogram would actually show us something else - it would show us how much healing the Holy Spirit had done when we prayed for him. Tonight I went back to the hospital - he had had his angiogram earlier in the day. I asked him what they learned. He then began to explain that the angiogram actually found no damage and only a slight blockage in a minor arterie that would only require mild medication. Definitely not the results he...

As some of you who have been keeping up with this blog already know, we usually went out on Monday nights to do the "Stuff." Well, we're back to going out on Sunday nights now. So, this past Sunday, DJ, I, and another friend went to the hospital to pray for a man recovering from a heart-attack. DJ boldly asked him if he minded if we prayed for him and he eagerly accepted. DJ put his hand on his chest and released heaven. He then asked the patient if he felt heat and the man replied, "No heat, but tingling [in the area around the heart]." I then gave a prophetic word about him as a kid with a kite on the beach and I interpreted that to mean that he'd be carefree again. Not only did I interpret it to mean that, I declared it to be so by the power of the Holy Spirit Who lives in us. The man was curious to know how I knew what the picture meant, so I said, "Well, practice really." He then went on to tell of a book they have in their religion t...

Nothing is as exciting as seeing our own children connect with God and join in His Kingdom work. In a recent house meeting, my pre-teen son got a word of knowledge for a problem someone was having in the neck. When the word was shared, an Indian sister came forward for prayer. My son, and a couple of others prayed for the condition and all the pain left the neck. My son was so excited - so thrilled to share with me what had happened. I couldn't have been a prouder dad. More Lord!!!