JOEL 2 GENERATION

After our special trip to Lebanon, it just seems that the miracles are increasing. Today I met three Lebanese women (one muslim, two druze) who were on their break from work. I told them about the miracles we saw in Lebanon the previous week and asked them if they wanted to see a miracle right then. One of them had foot pain. I had another one put her hand on the foot and I prayed. The Lord healed her on the spot. It was time to get Desert Princess involved. I called her on the mobile and she came. Next another woman's back was hurting. God healed it. Then my wife went into their store and continued praying for healing and saw several other muslim women healed. What a shopping trip! I also got a word of knowledge for a woman's neck and shoulder in a shoe store - she was healed. I got another word of knowledge for an Indian's man elbow in the Sketcher store and he was healed to. Just had a number of opportunities to demonstrate the Gospel of the Kingdom and then ...

yesterday we went out to breakfast - a couple of words of knowledge were shared (one from me and one from Desert Princess). A muslim man's foot was healed. Then the manager came out with a clicking, damaged thumb. We prayed a couple of times (because there is no clicking in God's Kingdom) and his thumb was healed. Then a man came who needed his eyes prayed for. The Lord touched him (he had irritated, red eyes). The Lord also touched a Filipino woman who worked there and she was crying as the Holy Spirit touched her. In the end, I get a call late that night from another employee who "heard" about he miracles that the Lord had done at breakfast. He wants to come and meet me.

I never do this, but I am going to "summarize" an 8 day trip in one short blog post. Why? Because we completely lost count of all the miracles that God did. In discussing the topic with the guy who traveled with me, we decided that it was close to "150" miracles (mostly healings) that we saw. A group of us descended upon Lebanon to ski/snowboard and see miracles happen. The miracles far outweighed the riding, even though we had two of the greatest days I've had in skiing powder in Lebanon. We saw Christians, muslims and druze healed. We saw the old and the young, male and female. I will try to capture some of what we saw now. We saw many people healed after we approached them with words of knowledge - backs, necks, feet, headaches, legs and arms. We saw a number healed over the phone as we prayed and released the Kingdom. Often the words of knowledge that came were for people who weren't there so we called and God visited them. We saw a muslim "...

this morning a woman came for prayer who'd responded to a word of knowledge for a knee condition. she couldn't do deep knee bends - she said it would be impossible. after prayer however, that all changed! we prayed a few times and by the end of it, she was doing deep knee bends. there was still some "soreness", but God was on that as well. when prayer was over almost all the pain was gone too!

Why is it so strange for so many Christians when we offer to pray for healing. Even though we are in a Church that embraces the miraculous, many who attend think it unusual. This morning after calling out many different words of knowledge, about a dozen people stood for prayer by those around them. I was able to speak with several of those who were healed after the service - a left shoulder was healed after a 10 year chronic problem. A right ear was significantly better (which was called out) and also the woman's entire right side was healed. Looking forward to hearing from some of the others who I didn't get to catch up with.

Last night I was on a date with my daughter (Desert Princess is out of the country). We found out that our server had a headache. We told her (Filipino Christian) that God wanted to heal her. I had my daughter lay hands on her and we prayed together - 2x. The headache left completely. We asked her several times and she said it was all gone. We had had our desert - so we passed on the milk shakes.

I was out with my 13 year-old daughter in a small store. I got a word of knowledge for a hindu man's lower back. He let me pray and was healed. Another hindu woman let us pray for her after that. She had a neck problem. The Lord touched her. Then she says, "even though I am hindu, I go to Church". Gotta love that. May she now commit herself to the one who is her Healer.