JOEL 2 GENERATION

last night I had a dream in which the Lord clearly was encouraging me to be more explicit in my invitations to people I meet to surrender their lives to the Lord AT THAT TIME.  I guess He will be bringing people to me who are more prepared and ready to make that commitment.  I'm excited to see what this week will bring.  I also guess that since it is the "old men [who] will dream dreams" (Joel 2/Acts 2) that I am getting to be more in that category now than in "young men will see visions" one. we have been seeing that as soon as people are ready to be free from the demonic forces that are tormenting them (and believe me, many are being tormented even in the West regardless of the whether the Christians who are ministering to them believe that is the case!) they are ready to invite the Lord to come into and take control of their lives. it is a new day - I really believe the Lord's dream to me last night was a reminder to cast the net and bring it in at t...

could God's Word be CLEARER and yet God's people in general be more UNCLEAR than the commission to heal the sick as Christians (meaning "Little Christs/Anointed Ones). Jesus sends the UNNAMED 70 in Luke chapter 10 with the commission to bring the Kingdom: Where? in WHATEVER city you enter. To do what?  To heal THE SICK who are there.  How many of the sick?  THE SICK.  In what cities, WHATEVER cities.  And what if the people don't have faith?  Jesus didn't mention that as being a barrier - so nor should we.  Our faith/expectation might be a barrier, but we aren't ever to put that on the people we are praying for. Is this being preached/emphasized in your Church?  Is this the way your pastor is admonishing you to live every day. I'm not trying to be negative - it's not entirely his/her fault.  He didn't go to a Church that taught or expected that Jesus meant what He said on this occasion for us today.  It hasn't been his pe...

yesterday we did some "spilling" here in the Middle East.  prayed for an African muslim man who had tooth pain.  He said all the pain left and wanted to get together with us again.  in the evening, I got a word of knowledge walking by an optician shop.  I walk in and there is a Filipino optometrist, an Iranian shi'ite woman and an Egyptian (presumably muslim) working there.  I ask who had the pain in the wrist and hand.  It was the Iranian woman.  So my ministry team became the Catholic Filipino woman.  She took the wrist of the woman, and I prayed for healing in Arabic.  She starts feeling tingling in the wrist.  By the time we were done (we prayed twice), she said she was healed.  I told her my wife was an exorcist and healing that if she needed any further ministry, she could contact her.  then the Egyptian guy asks to talk to me privately.  We step outside and he ends up being a Coptic Orthodox Christian.  He ask...

starting this morning at Church where the Lord highlighted a number of things prophetically and then we got to pray for people who responded to the words.  while leaving Church, the Lord gives me a word of knowledge (right shoulder) for a man walking in front of me.  when I asked him about it, he said his wife had encouraged him to go for prayer during the service, but he declined.  God got him on the way out - and his shoulder was healed! tonight's meeting in my home got even better.  the Lord healed several different conditions (a right ankle, a right knee), and spoke prophetically to all the first time visitors.  their testimonies were quite similar - basically they said, "everything that was prophesied was accurate" and also that the very things that they were thinking about or that was on their hearts was revealed. the accuracy of some of the words could only have been the Lord - while looking at a person, the Lord highlighted several times a condition...

an Indian woman from a high caste Hindu background came to Christ last spring after we prayed for her to be healed. immediately she began to have "encounters" - dreams, visions, OPEN visions, audible voice, etc. we'll it hasn't stopped and this past Friday there was a new one. she hasn't been to our "Encountering God" meetings that we hold on Fridays but this last week her husband agreed and she was all set to come. the enemy countered and her husband went to sleep at 4:30pm and couldn't be woken up. like a spirit of slumber came on him. she was so discouraged and went into her bedroom to read the Scriptures and pray. she was taken into a vision and was somehow "at our meeting". I was totally dumbfounded as my wife and I listened to her describe our meeting exactly! she knew where people were sitting, she was confused when she saw certain people laughing. Actually the laughter broke out in a strong way this past week and she doubt...

Jesus sends out the "nameless and faceless" Seventy in Luke 10 and there is just so much relevant "glory" on this passage for us to consider today and to live by.  As I've argued in other places, the excuse that some theologians and Bible commentators have given that the commandments given to the Apostles don't apply to ordinary believers (then or today) has been handled by Luke in this passage. I don't want to be too critical, but the reality is that Matthew 28 actually destroys the "those commandments were only for the Apostles" argument because Jesus Himself commands the 12 Apostles to teach others (which includes us today) to obey ALL of what he commanded them!  Not SOME of what He commanded, but ALL - which would include chapter 10:8 - "heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons and raise the dead". However, the Luke 10 passage comes in as a strong counter-punch.  Surely the Holy Spirit anticipated that believers in ...

as a group of us scattered all over the world during the summer and are regathering back into the Middle East, I am beginning to hear stories/testimonies that are blowing my mind.  it seems that this outrageous Kingdom just can't be contained. stories out of London where God's glory would manifest with gold on people through one of our Lebanese sisters EVERY TIME she prayed for someone.  I often don't understand why God does what He does and the gold dust phenomenon often seems to offend Christians (who seem to have God all figured out/what He will do and will not do) but if the Lord sovereignly chooses to cover people supernaturally in gold dust when a believer prays for people in Jesus' Name is free to do so as far as I am concerned.  if this offends someone you know, ask if you can pray for them and see what the Father will do!! stories out of South Africa were equally as remarkable - healings, people coming back to Christ repenting as they listened to the testi...