JOEL 2 GENERATION

I was asked to come and minister in a friend's house Church. It was a group of radical God seekers who long for His presence more than anything. In fact, with all the different ways people describe churches (i.e. 'purpose driven', 'seeker sensitive', 'Word-based', etc. etc.) there is truly one description that seems to me to be the one every Church should give themselves to - being 'PRESENCE Driven'. I mean His presence! This was truly one of those kinds of churches. The Lord began to speak to me prophetically about the church and also for some individual members. After an extended time of worship, I shared, prophesied and prayed for the sick. What was remarkable in terms of the healings that God did, most of them seemed to be without the laying on of hands. God would give me a word of knowledge and then we would just ask God to do it sovereignly. As one who is passionate about training and equipping others, much of the emphasis in the mini...

Three of us were out to lunch and I felt like I had a word of knowledge for the restaurant host. I called him over and asked if he had a certain problem (pain in wrist) but he did not. Note: I got the word WRONG He asked why I had asked, I explained who I was and about God's Kingdom. He had some other conditions - a head injury and also back problems. I prayed for him twice. The Holy Spirit came upon him and he had an encounter with God. You could see it in his face!! After the 2nd time, I encouraged him to go and do something he couldn't do without pain. As we were walking out, he was sitting down and getting up showing us what he couldn't do without pain before prayer. He was healed and you could tell he was happy! Yet another example of going in on an incorrect word and yet God turns it into a Kingdom moment!

Last night as I was settling into the where I was staying for the night, I walked past a young man and I got a word of knowledge for a right shoulder problem. I wasn't able to follow it up at that time, but this morning at breakfast I asked him, "do you have a problem with your shoulder"? (I further asked if it was the right shoulder). Yes, he did. I explained what it was that God had shown me and what He wanted to do. I prayed for him and the shoulder was healed. He also had a neck problem (related to the shoulder) that was still painful. I then prayed for that and guess what? God healed that too. What a start to the day!!!!

tonight an Indian Catholic couple came to me for prayer. we had prayed before for a problem he had in his neck which caused pain all the way down to his fingers, but the problem returned. he wasn't going to leave tonight with his pain - not on my shift (as Wigglesworth so boldly used to declare). I prayed for him maybe 5 or 6 times and each time we saw improvement. we got to 85-90% pain-free and then I prayed again. finally, we hit the target - NO MORE PAIN! He told me at the beginning that it was about 50%. Jesus got yet another A+ tonight because he left at 100%!

Yesterday, Isaac of Ninevah and I met with a believer who came out of islam. for most of those who were formerly muslims, the biggest challenge they face is fear. Their lives are in danger, and as he was reminding us, even the government will ensure that their citizens who come to Christ will be able to get jobs and will not receive government-provided benefits and services. The enemy's tactics have never changed - fear and intimidation are his most effective tools. I shared with him the sad story of another Gulf arab believer who came to Christ years ago has never grown because she lives in a prison of fear. My heart for my brother is that he will not find himself imprisoned in the same way. Fearlessness is faith.

Tonight we gathered and the Lord really suprised me. There has been a real heaviness over a number of us - lots of transition, uncertainties and some trials facing believers. However, in the midst of what for me was not a great week for connecting personally with God or seeing His fruit manifesting in and through my life, God broke in and surprised me completely tonight. I wasn't that expectant after the kind of week I was having to really sense God or to hear His voice, and yet as we got our focus onto Him, the entire atmosphere changed. God just showed up and began to speak. I received many prophetic words for people. Words of knowledge (some very accurate ones) started to come. I don't really know how to describe what happened other than to say that whereas I felt faithless and distant from the Lord when we started, by the end of the evening I was a totally different person. Passion was restored. We saw healings, prophetic words were flowing like water - but the bigg...

last night Isaac of Ninevah, Tenacious B and Shing Ding Ding headed out to "spill". We waited on the Lord for some prophetic revelation (words of knowledge, locations, people we'll meet) and headed out together. One of the "locations" I got was close by so we headed there first. A name that Isaac and Tenacious B got, "Saif", was the name on one of the shops we saw so we headed towards a tailor shop. While passing another shop, I got a word of knowledge for a neck a condition and went into find a shop full of muslim men from Bangladesh. One of them had the condition and we began to pray. What followed was illustrative of how fun "doing the stuff" can be. One of the guys gets a breakthrough with his neck and one after the other these guys would come forward for prayer. One would have "no problems" when we asked initially, but after seeing his friend's lower back pain leave, he would "volunteer" for our services. No...