JOEL 2 GENERATION

I was at a physical therapy center when I noticed the muslim woman responsible for scheduling appointments was limping.  I asked her what was wrong and she said her ankle was hurting so badly that she couldn't walk without a lot of pain.  It was a bit crowded so I asked if I could speak with her for a moment.  I told her that when I ask God to heal people He does and asked if I could ask God to heal her ankle.  She said, "Of course!"  She let me put my hand on her ankle.  I then commanded the pain to go and released the peace of God praying clearly in the Name of Jesus.  Immediately the pain left and she could move it around while she was still sitting.  She was so shocked and so excited about what had just happened.  She knew she was completely healed even before getting up and walking on it.  She got up and began walking around saying "Oh, my God. The pain is gone. There is no pain.  Thank you. Thank you."  It was clear she ...

The other day as we were leaving a building, I got a word of knowledge for the right shoulder for the Indian muslim man working at the reception.  He had pain in the right side of his neck/shoulder and I prayed for him.  He didn't have strong English so my Indian friend spoke with him in Hindi about what had happened.  He was healed and it had been hurting right before I prayed.  He was pain free.  My friend who spoke with him is a pastor whose Church meets IN THAT BUILDING.  Can't wait to hear about the follow-up.

I was having a bad day a few days ago.  Car problems - a dead battery and then a related electrical problem because of the dead battery.  I was frustrated, and getting in a worse mood after every passing minute.  So I finally get to the restaurant where my family was with some friends.  I wasn't a happy camper.  At that point, I am just like, "O.K., I need to see a healing right now!"  I call the manager over and sure enough he has back pain.  We prayed two times and after the 2nd time he had "that look" on his face, which said, "What did you just do to me?" - it was all that it took to get me out of my funk. Here's the motto - "A miracle a day, keeps frustration away".  Who knew?

This past week's testimony of the Christian university student who had wrongly thought that somehow God was behind/responsible for all the crap that had happened in her life, really brought home the need to continue to trumpet His goodness and to emphasize yet again that so much that the "Sovereignty Crowd" is saying about God's meticulous control over each and every matter leads to people believing lies about God.   In the wake of posting Part 2 of the girl's testimony, I made this comment "It is amazing the FREEDOM from bondage and lies that results when people realize that God is truly good and has NOTHING TO DO with things that well-meaning (although theologically misguided) Christians can and do ascribe to Him. I continue to aspire entertain the idea of writing the book, "Escape from Augustinianism" but then again, Greg Boyd's "Is God to Blame?" (summarizing "God at War" and "Satan and the...

Here is part of the email from the Professor who forwarded me what the student had sent: On the day that...DJ came to speak to the class I was already wanting to build a stronger relationship with the Lord.  My life's been really hard especially for the last four years and my faith faltered greatly and for the last couple years I've kind of just been doing what I had to in order to be considered a Christian, but I haven't really been on fire for the Lord since I was about 7 or 8...When he came to speak to our Old Testament class, I was kind of listening, but he really caught my attention when he said that the bad things that happen to us were not because God was punishing us .  As soon as he said that, he had all of my attention. So many of the things that he said were the things that I had been needing to hear.  After the class I went up to...[you] and told [you] that I really needed prayer in my relationship with the Lord which was when [you] told me [y...

One of the student's whose knees were healed this past week was touched in a far deeper way. Wednesday was completely life-changing for her. She said it was the first time she understood that all the bad things that have happened in her life were not from God. Because of that realization that bad stuff didn't come from God, she was willing to open her heart and stick around for the healing to see what would happen, even though she didn't really believe it could be true. When another student had the word for knee pain, she was hesitant to admit she had the knee problem because she didn't feel comfortable having people touch her. But right then you said, "No, let's do it without touching. Put your hand on your own knee." You were doing it to practice healing without touching, but to her, it was a word from the Lord that this was safe. Now, she wants to tell everyone about what Jesus has done for her. She says she has a joy and desire to share about the Lo...

I was having a bit of a bad day - lots of things going wrong and my peace was being stolen at ever turn.  After arriving at the restaurant where I was to meet my family and some friends, I just decided enough was enough.  I wanted to know who on the staff needed to see a miracle - in other words, the enemy was about to pay. the manager came and had back pain.  he was more than willing to let us pray.  we prayed one one and some of the pain in his back left - maybe 50%.  we prayed again and got to see the look we all have grown to love so much - the look that asks with amazement, "Did what I think just happen REALLY happen"?  He was all good and immediately brought another sick employee for us to pray for. And when the sick are healed, "the Lamb receives part of the reward of His suffering"