JOEL 2 GENERATION

Last week, I went to visit my Gulf Arab friend near the beginning of Ramadan. When I arrived, my friend told me that her mother wasn’t feeling well and that she was in the hospital the night before for a heart condition. Her mother came in shortly afterwards and told all that was going on with her health. She told me that the heart pain had left, but that there was a feeling of literal heaviness, like something was sitting on her chest. In the past, she has always let me pray for her health problems and so I asked if I could pray for her. She had told me that while she was traveling during the summer out of the country that her health was great. As soon as she got back, she started experiencing heart pain. I was thinking that the issue was probably a demonic one. She agreed to let me pray and I laid my hands on her. During prayer, I commanded the heaviness to leave and I could feel the peace of God flow into her. It was flowing out of me into her. Every time I pray for a Muslim ...

Isaac wrote about the man we visited and prayed for in the hospital. He had had a life threatening heart attack several days before we prayed for him. Already he had received authorization to travel to the the United States for any needed heart surgery and was making plans for travel. That was all BEFORE prayer. After prayer, he said he felt some "tingling" going on in his heart area. We knew he was scheduled for an angiogram to determine the extent of the damage to his heart and the blockage in the wake of the heart attack. We knew however the angiogram would actually show us something else - it would show us how much healing the Holy Spirit had done when we prayed for him. Tonight I went back to the hospital - he had had his angiogram earlier in the day. I asked him what they learned. He then began to explain that the angiogram actually found no damage and only a slight blockage in a minor arterie that would only require mild medication. Definitely not the results he...

As some of you who have been keeping up with this blog already know, we usually went out on Monday nights to do the "Stuff." Well, we're back to going out on Sunday nights now. So, this past Sunday, DJ, I, and another friend went to the hospital to pray for a man recovering from a heart-attack. DJ boldly asked him if he minded if we prayed for him and he eagerly accepted. DJ put his hand on his chest and released heaven. He then asked the patient if he felt heat and the man replied, "No heat, but tingling [in the area around the heart]." I then gave a prophetic word about him as a kid with a kite on the beach and I interpreted that to mean that he'd be carefree again. Not only did I interpret it to mean that, I declared it to be so by the power of the Holy Spirit Who lives in us. The man was curious to know how I knew what the picture meant, so I said, "Well, practice really." He then went on to tell of a book they have in their religion t...

Nothing is as exciting as seeing our own children connect with God and join in His Kingdom work. In a recent house meeting, my pre-teen son got a word of knowledge for a problem someone was having in the neck. When the word was shared, an Indian sister came forward for prayer. My son, and a couple of others prayed for the condition and all the pain left the neck. My son was so excited - so thrilled to share with me what had happened. I couldn't have been a prouder dad. More Lord!!!

the other night, Ravished and I were walking together when a man walked by us and sort of turned back towards us, as if he noticed something about us (what that was, we will never know). Both of us thought that the Lord was in some way 'highlighting' him to us, and then I got a word of knowledge for a problem in the throat. We worked hard to catch up to him and were able to stop him. I asked him if he had a problem in his throat, and he said he had a throat infection. I quickly explained that God had revealed it to us and that He wanted to heal him. He seemed a bit confused and so I explained a bit more that we were Christians and that God wanted to heal him. We learned that he was a Muslim from India. He outright refused our offer and walked away. God is far more grieved in a situation like that than we were - and we were sad. God longed to touch this man with His healing touch, to demonstrate His unconditional love and concern and one of His creatures refused His offer....

It is very rare that we're able to post about a healing AND a follow-up--especially months later. The past few days, I've been a little bummed and I just whispered to the Lord that I needed some encouragement this morning. He is always faithful to provide it one way or another and this time it was through my friend, Sojourner. Sojo called me this afternoon and told me that he had run into a friend who we had visited about six or seven months ago. During that visit, we had prayed for his uncle and some things the Lord had shown us about him. One of the words we had received had to do with his knee. He confirmed that it had been bothering him when he ran, but wasn't hurting at the time. We prayed for it nonetheless. He told us that he would check it out the next day. So, later that week (6-7 months ago now), he confirmed that his knee was no longer a problem when he ran. Now Sojo called me this afternoon (9/14) and told me that yesterday he ran into this same guy an...

A few nights ago I was out with a couple of the Joel 2 Generation ministry team in a restaurant. While sitting there, I look over at a group of men and as I focus on one of them, the Lord gives me a word of knowledge that the man has a problem/condition in his lower left back. I got up enough nerve to go for it and broke into his group with the revelation. At first he denied he had the condition, but then he suddenly remembered that he had a growth in that are that had only appeared within the past 4 months. I explained what God wanted to do, gave him my business card and told him to call me if he wanted prayer for healing. I knew he would call - his curiosity and interest in how I knew about his condition got the best of him and he called me first thing the following morning. Sojourner and I met with him the that night and as we prayed, the Lord's presence began to touch the affected area. While praying, the Lord gave me 3 other words of knowledge for conditions he had - one...