It now get's even crazier. Friday night we go out to the usual stomping grounds. I was following info from a vision and was waiting in a particular spot but the group I was looking for was not there. A kid starts waving to me to come over. I come and sit down and ask, -what's up?- I kid you not but he asks these exact words, -Are you the guy who goes around healing people?- I laugh and say -It's Jesus that does the healing but I do he praying, you found the guy.- He goes on to tell me I've healed a bunch of his friends. Then he tells me, -I'm addicted to alcohol and tobacco, can you pray for me to get free?- At that moment his friend walks over and asks for the same thing. -No problem, we will pray!- We begin to pray the friend gets sick and takes off. While this guy begins to get touched. He had already been drinking and was toasted at this point. I tell him he is about to see the presence of God and we ask to the Lord to reveil his fire. At that moment he screams, -Do you see that!?- -Yes, it's the presence of the Lord.- We release it on him and he falls backward into some bushes, and God begins to work on him and he redicates his life to the Lord. His friend while getting sick meets the Mom of a 16 year old girl that was killed in a drinking accident. She and a friend take the two home. I found this out from a call back from the kid. So God is really beginning to work me on the point of how he wants to save people. And from the way it's feeling, I'd rather have one of these that says, -no I want nothing to do with Jesus,- to -I must have him!- in five minutes by the power of God than 20 blind eyes opened. Trust me I'm not stopping praying for healing, I'm just making a point about how incredible the power rush from God feels when this happens. We get impartion at a Todd Bentley confrence and hit the streets of San Juan Capistrano a week later. We now have an established home Church going for two weeks. It fifteen minutes before we get started and I see a group of kids across the street. We've got to invade the group. So here's what happened: I make the usual approach to no avail and then I start to get words for the kids. One by one I go through them. After several I ask them if they want to meet the Lord. They say no, not interested at all. I keep prophesying over them. Ten of them have to leave, with ten left. I finished giving words to them and accurately getting there age. (I missed it big time trying to get their exact birthdays.) So one age I said fourt---no fifteen and the kids were blown away, it was his birthday that day. I feel in my spirit to release the Manifest Fire(This is a thing I developed in my intimate times with the Lord. It's where I hold my hand out and ask for fire and wait until my hand gets hot. Several people have felt it before) I'm freak out at the thought of it, what if nothing happens. I pray for about a minute and I hear the Lord say do it. I don't tell them anything except you will put your hand about 6 inches above my hand on my word. I hold my hand out and pray silently until I can feel the heat building up. Okay and the kids put their hands above mine. -The say wow it's hot,- and -my hands are tingling!- I tell them this is the presence and reality of God with us right now! One kids say pray for my finger it's cut and hurts. I have everyone lay hands on and wait for the healing fire. Once it lifts he checks it pain is gone and most of the entire cut is gone. The he starts jumping up and down saying my back is healed! Turns out he had a lot of pain in his back he didn't tell us about earlier but it got healed anyway. I gather everyone and say Jesus is here right now. Everyone bring your hand to the center of a circle we are going to receive his presence. We begin to thank him and receive his presence -- all of a sudden the kids hands start burning and going numb and with tingling racing up to their hearts, one of the younger kids says his whole body has gone numb and can't move. I tell them -This is the reality of Jesus, he is here! Who want to know him?- The shout they want to meet him. All ten receive Christ and we pray for the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. 6 of them see closed visions of Jesus. 3 see open visions of angels and several begin to see flashes of light in many colors. It doesn't end here, the follow up come a week later along with some more amazing testimonies and a point about what God is really begining to do with us...

Wow! It's seems like a repeat word everytime I add to the blog. The month of July has left me in a state of amazent. I couldn't imagine how God could top off blind eyes opening up, but he has. It may not sound flashy or as incredible as a dead raising, but the fundamentals of what God has been releasing on us makes the entire idea of signs and wonder seem really simple. Here's how it started off. After Jesus Culture we were made inroads into a Hispanic Neighborhood. First night was amazing with ten healings and a salvation. It was the follow up week that stunned me. The next week opens with several healings right on the streets. We made contact with a house the week before that was dealing with a son into gangs and drugs. The mom was heart broken over her son. We returned the next week to follow up. The dad was there this time. As we walked into the house the mom begins to weep and weep. We pray for the dad and he begins to weep. We comfort them and declare it's time to pray for the son. The dad says ok, and unbeknownst to us the son was there. The dad drags him out to have us pray for him. The son does not seem eager to meet us and has a rather glaring look on his face. Our interpreters immediate begin to say you need to recieve Jesus and get you heart right with God. He says rather crudely back he has no intrest in God and knows the bible better that we do. I watch the dejection build on the face of our translators until the say, --It's no use, we just need to go on.-- I feel the pull just to say, --Okay, let's go.-- Before I say anything, I feel a tap on both shoulders and my back and hear the words --A breaker annointing is on the way!-- This hits me as really odd timing as I think if I push this any further I may turn out really looking like an over-zealous rather than a group leader. I muster the courage and tell everyone what I've just heard. Just as everyone is giving up and beginning to exist, something hits me and I say, --Tell him this: When you were eight years old you had a family member that did something to you that stopped you from receiving love or growing emotionally!-- From seeing his reaction it was obvious that the word struck deep. I found out later from the translator he blurted back, --How did you know that? that's when my mom quit loving me!-- Since the mom was there we asked her if she would be willing to ask for forgiveness for the incident. She agreed to and when she did, everyone broke into tears and years of relation brokeness we heal between the parents and the child. They even open their home to us palnt a church in! This experience left me dumbfound at who the God we serve really is. Minutes before I thought healing was all that(I still do), but discovered there was a greater power that God has for us to walk in. If I could take healings for what I had just seen displayed here I would trade 20 blind eye to see this repeat again. Follow this now; This guy had absolutely no desire to get right with God. He was pleased to live in his sin and had no intention of changing. God releases one simple word and the whole house gets transformed. God was not the perfect gentle man and did not settle for a no in this guys response. More to Come...

I've had quite a memorable weekend.  If you have yet to discover www.fireonthealtar.com, you must try it out.  If you want to get fired up before going out into the streets or even a church service the compilations they have listed will mess you up in a good way.

Friday night I hit the streets with the rest of our team, after getting my brain washed(Romans 12:1-2) listening to these compilations.  First time ever going out that I didn't have a single bit of the fear of man on me.  Went up to a guy in wheelchair and a guy in a cast and started praying for them- nothing instantanouesly happened but they felt the touch of God and were already saved; know what I don't care anymore I want to prayer for them all!  We have to contend for the Kingdom to breakout in our cities, and if we don't get the boldness to pray for his Kingdom to invade we won't see the power released.

The next day a guy that I am discipling was having it pretty rough due to his choices.  Something goes off in me and I explode over him about what God's has already done for him and the incredible things he wants to do through him.  I would descibe it as provoking him with Godly love and jealousy.  I have never heard someone change their tune so quickly. 

Then in our 11pm - 3am prayer time, we find a deep place of conviction and repentence that opens up on of the most powerful prayer times I have every experienced.  All of us in the room are shaken to the core, we were provoked into the utter depths of God's love and compasion through this.  It has made me utterly desire more to hit the streets and any place that I am with the Gospel. 

Heb 10:24

24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
KJV

May you be provoked by the sheer depth of our Daddy's love!

joel