JOEL 2 GENERATION

Last night I got a call from a friend who's been a believer for about 1 year. I could tell by her voice that something was wrong. She told me that there was a small lump on her lower back and that she was in a lot of physical pain. This young woman was gripped with fear as well having already convinced herself that it must be cancer. To reassure her, I told her that dealing with this situation was going to be easy. God had already healed her several times before over the phone (see Feb. 2nd blog post, "gulf arab believer healed of a migraine"). I had complete confidence that we would see the breakthrough. I knew it was totally a spiritual problem because it had started out with a sensation as if someone had a hand on her back. From there, a lump developed and the pain increased. All of this happened in the course of a week. I prayed for her and the pain left, but the lump was still there. Next, I instructed her to tell the lump to go and whatever spirit was attached to it...

Isaac of Ninevah and I had a 'bad night' a few nights ago - we waited on the Lord, got some words of knowledge and then for about an hour or so seemed to 'miss it' with just about everyone we approached. We literally saw nothing happen. While out at a park yesterday, I was anxious to 'get back in the saddle'. A group of Indian hindus were having a picnic, but this was obviously a religious group as they were having some sort of 'religious study' (doing Q&A regarding the hindu scriptures). While watching them, I got a word of knowledge for a left arm condition and decided it was time to forget our 'bad night' a few nights before. I approached them and after some explanation, one man with a left shoulder and neck condition (not exactly where I got the word, but 'close enough' I figured) allowed me to pray. I asked him if it was hurting at that very moment, which it was. We prayed once and he said that the pain decreased a little. ...

Today there are numerous Christian ministries who in the name of 'discernment' and correcting 'false doctrine', spend the majority of their time attacking and/or attempting to discredit Christian ministries who are contending for signs, wonders and miracles. All you have to do is to do a "google search" with the name of a ministry and/or minister who is seeing healing miracles and up will pop numerous Christian websites warning you to beware. Tragically, many Christians have been manipulated by these so-called 'discernment ministries' and are crippled spiritually because fear and suspicion have been sown. The 'fear of deception' continues to cripple believers everywhere. The fact is that their devil is way too big and their God, way too small. It is almost as if God isn’t able to keep His Bride from being deceived! Why am I prompted to post a blog about this issue? Because from a New Testament perspective it is in fact the ministries wit...

For years, our lives and ministry wasn't characterized by much power. Theoretically, I always believed in God's power but didn't see much. About 8 years ago I got provoked. I saw something; I saw power demonstrated that I knew I didn't have. It wasn't a healing or a demon being cast out either - it was prophetic power. I saw for the first time the gift of prophecy under a powerful anointing function. It was absolutely stunning. I could have dismissed it, I could have tried to theologically explain it away (or at least reason it was merely a 'sovereign anomoly' and not to be expected as normal). Well that was then and almost 8 years later a Christianity with power has become what we expect today as normal. When we don't see regular miracles today, we think something is wrong. We try to blog the things God is doing, but in addition from time to time I send out a more personalized email update to a group of friends (and/or acquaintances) who through...

While eating last night, our server asked for prayer for a back problem. She was a muslim from Indonesia, but was willing to have me minister to her. I laid my hands on her back and released the Kingdom. I asked her what was happening, and she said that the entire affected area of her back felt like "heat". I explained that this was God's healing touch. After this, we got the chance to pray for another server who saw what the Lord did for her.

This afternoon at lunch, a group of Algerian muslims students came into the restaurant we were eating in. One of the girls was limping with a brace on her ankle. I approached them, offered to pray for her healing (explaining that I was a Christian). She let me lay hands on her ankle and I told her all the pain was going to leave. God released His Kingdom and to her surprise, the pain left her badly sprained ankle (which was only injured an hour before). I left my Desert Princess' phone number for her to call to learn more about the God who just healed her ankle.

This will be my last testimony of our trip. The last few hours we were there, this man came for prayer and the Lord gave me some really specific words for him. The Lord told me the following: 1) His family was involved in politics. (True.) 2) Someone named Osama was significant. (He told us that he had just met someone named Osama two days before and that he had NEVER in his life had a friend by that name.) 3) He had a heart for the poor and for justice. (True.) 4) He was a quiet person and that even in his house he was thought of as a quiet person. 5) I also felt that his father was similarly quiet and that he was close to him. (True.) 6) Finally, I felt the Lord telling me that he had some apprehension about the future because others had cursed him. (True.) I also felt led to proclaim that he would have a dream or a vision in which something would be written down in Arabic. I actually saw a scroll with Arabic on it. A little while later, he told us that he had had a vision and ...