JOEL 2 GENERATION

i met a Turkish muslim man the other day at his workplace.  I got a word of knowledge for a neck problem on the right side.  he told me he had a problem there and that it was actually bothering him at that very time.  he let me pray for him. after praying quickly, he told me he felt something "strange" - heat.  he began to check it out and all pain had gone.  he goes on to tell me that he had another American friend who had prayed for him before and he had felt strange heat in his hand.  I love it when I discover that I am part of a process where God has been working in a muslim's life.  another "Kingdom Link" in a divine chain of activity. I gave this man my phone number and told him that I would like to help bring healing to any of his friends or family.  

i was back down in the Industrial area again of our Arab city and was able to follow up with one of the muslim men whose shoulder was healed.  he told me that his right shoulder was 100% fine but that his left shoulder had gone back to about 1/2 of the pain.  we prayed again AND it was the same as the other shoulder.  I asked him about 1 hour later if it was the same and it was. his boss is a former muslim and able to follow up with him directing him towards the healer Himself!

today while in the Industrial area of our city, I was able to pray for a few people and see them healed. one man had a shoulder problem and I prayed for him and he told me all the pain left.  that led to another man with a foot condition - I prayed and all the pain left.  I was with a former Iranian muslim who knew these guys and so he was also explaining to them the Kingdom of God. a while later I was able to pray for another man's shoulders that were injured in a motorcycle accident.  pain left and he could move with more flexibility. finally I prayed for an Iranian muslim who was blind in one eye - since his childhood.  I laid hands on his eyes and began to pray for him.  He worked in the shop next to my Iranian Christian friend.  After prayer, I saw no difference in the eye, but I had broken off the shock and trauma from the accident and told him that I was praying an angel would visit him and complete the miracle.  pray with me about this.

as I was walking back to our hotel, I noticed a couple of muslim men walking towards me (from Pakistan), and one of them had a wrist brace on.  I stopped them and asked what happened.  I asked him if he would like to see the pain disappear.  He was intrigued by the question.  At first I said I would lightly put my hand on his wrist and ask God to heal him.  He was hesitant thinking I might somehow grab it and hurt it.  So I backtracked a bit and told him that he could put his own hand on his wrist and I wouldn't touch him.  (Don't know what I was thinking - I normally don't ask to put my hand on someone in public anymore).  He did, I prayed a quick prayer breaking off the shock and trauma from the injury and releasing God's Kingdom in Jesus' Name. The moment of truth came.  I asked him to check it out.  He started to move his fingers.  He looks at his friend saying nothing (always a good thing).  Next he takes off the wrist ...

while walking through an area of restaurants in Dubai, while we passed a table with 2 Emirati muslim women, I got a word of knowledge for a neck problem on the left side.  I told my wife about it and she approached the woman as I walked on. when I do this I am always thrilled when Desert Princess gets "delayed".  if my wife rejoins me quickly, that usually means nothing happens (the word is wrong, they aren't interested, ect.).  sure enough she is delayed and doesn't rejoin us for about 5 minutes. the woman had the condition and was again most surprised that God would "reveal" something so specific.  she was healed after Desert Princess prayed but kept asking "How did your husband know?" In that brief interaction, my wife was able to share with these muslim women about the Kingdom and the power that Jesus has given His followers to know things and to heal the sick in His Name. They didn't ask for my wife's number so she just left it...

my wife and I have been working with a group of teenagers at Church for a couple of months.  much of what we have emphasized has been fundamental stuff - Lordship, Love and the Kingdom of God.  we've been teaching them what the Kingdom looks like - when there are sick, it looks like healing.  when there are the demonized, it looks like them getting set free.  it looks like God speaking prophetically.  it looks like those who are rejected, being loved. we've done some praying for the sick and also we've shared a number of testimonies throughout the weeks of people being healed.  today was a golden opportunity to "swing the bat" as one of our youth limped in and could barely walk.  a bad collision in his basketball game had left his knee swollen, painful and unable to be bent. one of the youth join me and we began to pray.  after the first prayer, he said it felt "cold" (not the thing that happens when people are laying hands on you in a warm r...

this morning I'm thinking of how GLORIOUS it is that God has made our assignment so incredibly simple.  the Jews had counted up 613 commandments from the OT.  How absolutely confusing!  (of course, Paul tells us later what the purpose of all those laws was, "tutors to lead us to Christ").  Jesus comes along and boils 613 down to 2 - nice Kingdom math!  "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength AND Love your neighbor as yourself".  Paul thinks about it and decides some years later - "still too complicated"!  He boils it down to 1 single commandment in Galatians 5 - LOVE OTHERS.  That's it.  Just go and LOVE and as we love others with the Love of God, we are in fact LOVING GOD with all our heart, soul, mind and strength.  I used to hate math, but I love this Kingdom math.  1 simple equation - Go and Love and in doing that we are fulfilling EVERYTHING God requires.