JOEL 2 GENERATION

the other day a Gulf Arab muslim woman contacted us for prayer. one of her relatives had been healed several months ago - he testified to his healing and referred her to us! when she arrived, she actually wanted my wife and her Lebanese friend to "discern her condition by revelation"! Since her relative had told her that we got his conditions by word of knowledge, she expected the same. Talk about raising the bar a little. After more than an hour of ministry, where she heard the Gospel clearly and really had a powerful encounter with the Lord, she asked if she could come and attend our weekly prayer/encounter meetings! This is a totally covered Gulf Arab muslim woman - I guess she's hungry for more!

last night my wife made a phone call to an unknown muslim woman. 5 months ago a few muslim men were healed one night. one of them, a Gulf Arab muslim, proceeded to set up another prayer appointment with a female relative of his. this man obviously is still giving out our phone number, because last night this new woman is asking when it would be possible to meet for prayer. this is beginning to happen more and more. we see someone healed in public, and then they decide to give our number to a friend who needs a miracle. while at the market last night, another muslim woman took my wife's number as she spoke with her about healing. I also received a call this week from another man who wanted to meet because his relative was touched by God's healing touch. it's happening! May the Nicodemus' continue contact us in the night!!!

my Gulf Arab muslim friend has shown a tremendous openness to the Gospel for some time now (he's gone to healing services with me at a Church, he's come to an Encounter God meeting in my home for prayer AND he asked for an Arabic Bible which he reads regularly). Today he told me that his father had been a Christian! He really poured out his heart today and the many concerns he is struggling with - I showed him one of Paul's Apostolic prayers from Ephesian and told him that he needed to be praying it - he agreed. It is clearly time to lead this man BACK to his roots - pray that he is receptive when we meet again to clearly invite Christ into his life and return to the faith of his father, grandfather, etc.

I posted about a Gulf Arab muslim man whose hip was touched by the Lord when we prayed. I told him that I wanted him to contact me the following day to tell me what had happened. Sure he enough, he called! He told me that he was now able to walk up and down stairs - something he couldn't do before. His family was shocked - so much so that another family member contacted me and wants to meet. I love it when the Kingdom comes!

after leaving the man whose hip God had just touched powerfully, we were approached by a man doing a survey (an Indian muslim man). I agreed to do the survey, if he agreed to give us some time afterwards:) I asked him if he had any physical conditions and initially he said no. Then he looked at our "treasure map" of clues and noticed that there was one for "headache in the front of the head". He had one and let us pray. He was healed thanking us because it is "always good to receive prayer". Note another muslim happy to receive ministry. He has my phone number. As we walked away, our team noticed that we had been standing next to an exhibit with 4 mannequins wearing bright yellow shirts - one of our clues was simply the word "yellow". A week earlier I had been in a shop where I prayed for a muslim man whose knee was healed and also had a Filipino Christian woman pray for a Filipino muslim woman (I think she converted) who was quite hesitan...

last night a group of us decided to go on a "treasure hunt" (see Kevin Dedmon's The Ultimate Treasure Hunt) . We gathered to ask the Lord for "prophetic clues" (conditions, places, people, etc.) and headed for the largest mall in the country breaking into 4 teams. We had a group of 6 youth with us too. I can't speak for the other 3 teams, but will summarize what we saw in about an hour of 'power spilling'. One of our clues was a word of knowledge for a knee condition -as we headed into an Apple store, the word of knowledge came back to me and the first person I spoke with (an employee) had the knee condition! He was Lebanese and I was able to pray for him. He testified to there being a difference although it was hard to test out at that point. Then another word of knowledge came for another employee - a Gulf Arab muslim. He let me also pray for him. These guys have my number. All of the "time" we spent in the Apple store, led into o...

while waiting for my family to finish riding jet skis, I got a word of knowledge for a back condition. I asked the two muslim men sitting near me (one from India, the other from Bangladesh) if either of them had a back problem. One had a lower back condition (my word was for the upper back) and so I prayed for him and the Lord healed him. I was able to share a bit more about my Christianity with them. After about 15 minutes, I checked in again and there was still no pain.