JOEL 2 GENERATION

The other night we got together and prayed and asked the Lord to show us His treasure in this city. One of the words that I received was a right sprained wrist. I dutifully wrote it down and put it in my pocket as we headed out. Once we arrived at our destination, we walked around the area for long time-- remembering our old adage: Nothing good happens until after 11. So, it was a little after 11 when we were standing in line to check out and Sojourner looks at me and says, "I'm getting a word in my right hand." I replied, "Well, maybe that means that there is someone nearby with a problem in the hand." And, the words were no more out of my mouth when over Sojourner's shoudler I saw a man with a wrap on his wrist-- the right one. I said, "Well, there he is." Now at this point, our readers may wonder how you approach someone of a different language and culture with the crazy idea that the Creator of the Universe told you hours before that so...

At a meeting last Friday morning the children were ministering to one another, affirming each others value and praying for healing. Our son, who has had difficulty "tuning in" to hear the whisperings of the Holy Spirit (or "see" pictures) was praying for a young girls' injured finger. While doing so, he saw 5 pictures for this young girl! Some related to her value in God (i.e. a jewel) and others he related specifically to the pain being removed from her finger. Then at the evening meeting the children were again praying for each other, and they saw the young girls' finger completely healed so that she took off the bandage that had been on her finger. The children gleefully reported to us that everyone they had prayed for received healing! Oh the joy to see our children ministering with the annointing of God, and to delight in them seeing the manifest power of our great King!

As I went up to pay for our breakfast, I got a word of knowledge for the lower part of the arm. I asked 3 of the restaurant employees and one man said he had pain in the both of his arms there. He came and sat down with me, I laid hands on him and God healed him.

Last week we posted two testimonies about a Pakistani woman who was touched by the Lord. She had turned to an occult healer before and received a measure of healing when we prayed for her last week. At a meeting last night, she was brought by her son for more prayer. The Lord again showed Himself strong to this Muslim woman and left the meeting with little to no pain in both her knees and ankles. I saw her walk out of the meeting much differently than she walked in. What became clear as she was being prayed for is that the direct source of her pain is demonic. Desert Princess shared boldly with her about having a friendship with Jesus. She explained how His Death and Resurrection made that friendship possible. We heard back today that some of the pain is again returning to her body that was all but gone last night. Unless this woman really turns to Christ and is filled with the Holy Spirit, we will not see her problems leave and not come back.

In a renewal meeting a few nights ago, I was praying for the sick and a man came to me - as he was approaching I got a word of knowledge for a neck problem. He was rather surprised because that was why he was coming forward. His neck had been bothering him for quite some time. We prayed and God completely healed his neck. A woman came to me after that who had pain in both of her knees. I prayed once and we saw about 30% improvement. I explained that 30% didn't meet "Kingdom Standards" and so we prayed again. After the 2nd prayer time, all the pain was gone. We had reached God's standard!! Finally, a man battling with homosexuality approached me for prayer - he wanted deliverance and to be free from that lifestyle. As I prayed, the Holy Spirit began to shake him from within - he testified to something deep within him being shaken. Even after I took my hands off of him, the shaking continued. I don't know what it looks like (or feels like) when God sets a ...

Sojourner related this story in some detail, but I wanted to share my own thoughts as well about this encounter. I was initially quite amazed that a Gulf Arab Muslim wanted to come and join in our time of worship as Christians. I knew God must have something very special for this man. Right in the middle of a teaching time, Sojourner asked if I could come into the kitchen to answer some questions that this Muslim man had. Basically his questions were related to the much bigger problem of evil in the world – a philosophical question that Islam has a very poor answer for. While we were talking, I received a word of knowledge for a problem in the lower right abdomen. I knew he had some health problems, but I didn’t really know what they were. He looked rather surprised because that was exactly where he had had a couple of surgeries and had even seen an Islamic folk healer who had performed a horrendous treatment wherein he was badly burned and scarred. A bit later, I al...

A few days ago Isaac of N. and I were meeting with a young new Gulf Arab believer from a Muslim background. We were talking about God’s power and the miraculous things that the Holy Spirit does. He had really only ‘heard’ about such things, but hadn’t seen it personally. While discussing these matters, he told us that his family had given him a ‘nickname’. Isaac and I threw out a couple of guesses, but then I said, “Why don’t we ask the Holy Spirit and see if He will tell us”? I bowed my head for a moment and I turned my thoughts towards the Lord and a name popped into my mind. When I uttered the name, a look of shock came over the new believer’s face. The Lord had revealed the name and this young disciple got to see God’s power instead of hearing about.