JOEL 2 GENERATION

yesterday my son and a friend headed out to a local mall to do some "power spilling". you never know what will happen, but we knew it was going to be a good time when literally 30 seconds after leaving our car in the parking lot, a word of knowledge comes to me for the guy walking towards us - a Pakstani muslim. we stopped him and asked if he had a neck problem. he did - we prayed for him. it got better. we prayed again. he was healed. I told him as we parted that "Jesus loves you". a few minutes later as we walked into the mall, another word of knowledge came for a back problem. there were two security guards, both Nepali hindus - a man and a woman. I asked which one of them had the problem. language was a problem so I pointed to the exact spot where the Lord has shown me, and it was for the woman. we prayed for her. don't really know what happened because they didn't understand us well enough to tell us what had happened. right after that, I as...

this post is really more of a "how to" than a testimony, however its based on hundreds of encounters praying for and with muslims in many different countries. this week I encouraged a friend to consider praying for a muslim neighbor who was going through a difficult time. the said that the idea was really "scary". i think what makes it so difficult is that we somehow think of how a typical westerner might respond/react if we asked if we could lay hands on them and pray for them. of course, the fact is that most people, even very secular westerners, respond very positively when we pray for them - and many have some encounter that they can't explain. however, muslims are very different. i can say that in hundreds of situations over many years that I can count on one hand the times that a muslim hasn't greatly appreciated it when we prayed for them. obviously there are cultural sensitivity issues that need to be considered - i.e. women laying hands on wom...

while at Church this morning, the Lord gave me a word of knowledge for a wrist problem. I wrote it down and even wrote the date next to it. During the sermon, the pastor had asked anybody who wanted to talk about healing to see my wife and I after the service. So afterwards we had the chance to talk with and pray for several people who needed healing. After such a dismal night of missing words of knowledge, it was so encouraging when a father and mother brought their teenage daughter for prayer who had a WRIST PROBLEM. The word of knowledge was right!! I told you that if you swing the bat, you will eventually get hits! Before I prayed, I pulled out my notebook and to their shock, I showed them what I had written down just about an hour earlier. Needless to say, we all had incredible faith. We prayed and ALL THE PAIN left her wrist. She was shocked. So were her parents. They tested it out really well and it was completely sound and pain-free. There was still a clicking sound...

sometimes we have to be creative in how we pray for people, especially in public places. I try to approach as many people as I can who I see in wheel chairs. It isn't always possible to get a chance to pray at that time, but at least we can offer to pray and give them our phone numbers. In all honesty, I haven't see very many healings of people in wheel chairs (a few over the last 5 years) but if we don't keep praying, we will never see the breakthroughs. last night while in the mall, I saw a group of young men, and one of them was in a wheel chair. they were headed into a sporting goods store and so I followed them in. I casually asked the guy in the chair (first in English) what had happened, and asked if it was a car accident. It was (as it usually is in this country). He didn't speak much English and so I switched into Arabic and asked a few more questions. Then I walked away from them. About 5 minutes later, I walked up again and started to ask a few more d...

last night we headed out with a group of people to see God's miraculous Kingdom break out in a popular mall. i can't say that the words of knowledge were coming very accurately - I think I got about 5 wrong words before getting one right. Desert Princess was gracious in approaching people to discover that I had missed it again. Finally, we were in a watch shop and I got a clear word for a problem in the upper left leg. I thought for sure it was for the muslim woman standing next to us watch shopping. Desert Princess checked it out to discover I had missed it again! (gotta be honest). I then asked the shop manager, a muslim man from Syria, and sure enough the word of knowledge was for him! (the truth is, if we keep swinging the bat, we eventually will get a hit!). I prayed for him and ALL the pain left his leg. The other employee in the shop was a Christian. Instead of answering his questions, I told him that his co-worker would tell him all about what had happened to...

while out to lunch yesterday, I got a word of knowledge for a woman with a stomach problem. I asked our server if it was for her (it wasn't) and asked if she would check with the other staff. I asked her to feel free to check with her manager first. A few minutes later the manager has come up to ask what we wanted/needed. We explained to her about the way God speaks and she asked for prayer. She sat down and my wife began to pray for her. After that she brought another employee, who needed prayer for a foot problem. She was healed. Next she brought a one of the men who works for her to receive prayer. He wanted prayer for his mother (which we prayed for), but the Lord gave me another word of knowledge about a shoulder/arm problem he was having. He had that specific problem. We prayed and the Lord healed him. Finally, the manager brought another employee and she was the one with the stomach problem (the original word of knowledge). She also had a foot problem that she w...

we were asked to come and minister to a woman who personally is fighting for her own life as she battles cancer and also for the life of her prematurely born daughter who is still in the intensive care unit. the timing of our visit was incredible. even as we are finishing a time of ministering healing prayer for the cancer, the phone rings and the woman is being summoned to the hospital because the words of the doctor were that "your baby will die today". Desert Princess and her friend made arrangements to go to the hospital with the woman and all the while we are declaring "your baby will LIVE and NOT DIE". They went and had the chance to pray for a long time for the baby in the hospital. needless to say, it has been a week now and the baby is still alive! So often people hear the pronouncement of a doctor and they treat it like it is a prophetic word from the Lord. I have seen this so many times. At a time when God would have us fight, would have us contend...