Anyone intrested in seeing and learning to move in the power of God you are welcome to join on Friday nights. We go out almost every Friday night to the Santa Monica Promenade. Are set up time is from 8 pm to Midnight. We have sound system on which we sing, and preach from. We're quite rough and unpolished so it won't be difficult to find us if you walk up and down the Promenade. When you come out be prepared... God will unlock gifts in on the spot that you never even knew you had. We are also planning a street conference for the end of October. If you have any other questions send me an email to joel@liverevival.org. See You Soon, Joel

Nutz! It's about all that I can say about the tremedous move of God we saw in Kentucky last week. We saw something near 200 hundred miracles- from the "simple" head-aches and back-pain to broken bones being knit back together, flat feet given arches, hearing aids being tossed out and even metal pins and plates disolving out of a girls arm! I will try to post more details in the coming days. Alton, Scott, DJ, Ben, Amy, Judy, and John you guys are amazing!!!!!! I can't imagine a better crew to minister with. Judy you were the perfect hostess; Shawna and Diana for providing the wonderfull meals that kept us full... and everyone else that said yes to God, stepped up to the plate and stepped into their destiny... I know you guys have been forever changed. You can Live Revival! Joel

We're headed to Kentucky in two days!!! In the mean time God is busting doors wide open on the streets of Santa Monica. Me and my buddy Scott have started a house of prayer on the streets. We go out with a full sound system and set up on the 3rd Street Promenade. Our desire is to release the presence of God through prophetic worship and preaching the Kingdom. We spent our first two hours sing and playing, with a couple encouters with Christians that came out of the Jesus movement. Our second two hours open with prayer for a gentlemen who had such a tremendous amount of pain in his legs he could barely walk and depended up on a cane to get around. We prayed for him and all pain left his legs and he regained full mobility and range of motion. We grabbed his cane and he continued to walk with no issues... After this we had a guy with cerebral palsy come by with his attendant. We talked a while, the Lord show me to sing a prophectic song over him. As we prayed for healing the guy flops over in his wheel, pops up excited and says he going to walk, and almost before anyone is ready, he pops out of his wheel chair and begins to walk, he teters some, and demands he's walking down the Promenade. We repeat the prayer for healing a number of time, until finally he has no pain in his back or his legs which he has had as long as he can remember. We basically see at least a fifty percent improvement on the spot. His attendant is stunned at the fact he is walking and never has been able to do it in the past!!!! Over the evening we see a set of knees healed, numbness go, pain in the feet subside, pain and imobility leave from scolliosis! Jesus is King!!!!! Live Revival, Joel

To everyone who has been following this blog, we have established a new ministry in Southern California. Live Revival Ministries is our new name and our mission is to equip everyone who wants to come along with us and learn how to give away the Kingdom of God. We want to reproduce what you have been reading about on this blog in YOU! We have a team currently consisting of six families that meet weekly irrespective of what church we attend, along with an upcoming outreach/training schedule that will soon be posted on our new website-- www.liverevival.org We will be posting annoucements on meetings and outreaches soon... If you want to get on our email list, shoot us an email to info@liverevival.org and we will add you to our mailing list. Blessings, Joel joel@liverevival.org

I have not been writing much lately because God had been so on the move. In San Juan we have seen over 85 people come to the Lord since July. This has really been an amazing work. We see the people that have come to the Lord week in and week out. We've been able to begin discipling and really coming along side the new converts and draw them deeper into the Lord. Three weeks ago we returned to high school football games. You can search the back to last October for result of our first football game. Needless to say the response and the Glory of God that been released is tremendous. Our buddies back in Atlanta have been experiencing the same thing. Here goes. Three weeks ago we have 3 salvations and 20 healings. Last week we had 7 salvations and 40 healings-one in which we hear back from the school trainer telling us that the broken leg we prayed for was healed. Last night we had 14 salvations and well over 50 healings. We began just to train and release the kids to pray for healing for one another and the all got healed. I was kicked out of the game due to the spectacle it was creating but the rest of out team went unnoticed all through out the game. I am still in a near state shock and what God is doing. Just look back through out this blog and you will see the weakness and fear that we've come out of. I have discover God so want to use us that when we just believe and go for what he is saying to do we will be overwhelmed by his power and soaked in his love. I will post some more in the near future. Joel

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...

We have just finished and amazing weekend in Southern California! The wells of Revival - otherwise known as the "Normal" Christian life has begun to open. Our church host Jesus Culture in Laguna Niguel. This conference is not just about listening to speakers but getting out on the streets and doing the stuff. Blind Eyes Openned: 1. First night one kid that came to the conference that has been blind in his right eye since the age of three began to open Thursday night and by Saturday he could see out of it clearly! 2. We had a team out at out usual stomping grounds and came across a guy born blind and began to pray and he flipped out when he began see light. He made them stop - because he was afraid of seeing! 3. I was in on this one - The day before another team in Laguna Beach came across a guy who lost his sight in an accident twenty years ago. The team invited him to church because Todd Bently would be there and he has seen many blind eyes open. Turns out Todd Bentley canceled but God didn't. When we began to pray all he could see we little sparking lights. After 10 minutes he could see windows in the room. After five minutes he could see people across the room moving around. By the time I left he could see his own hands and recognizes face around him. So much so that he could touch noses and fingers on command! This was simply an amazing week: Over 50 salvations, 50 healings, and 500 kids lit with revival fire to take back to the streets of there home towns! Revival is Here, Joel

God has been pouring out His presence on us as we have been going out to the streets. The testimonies may look the same - but something bigger is going on and we can feel it. Here's some of what I relate to a friend about our outing a week and half ago: ----- We had a soaking conference and God's presence really came. God began to download to me during the service, that the past year we had been on the streets we we're saying yes to what he wants to do. He took it a step further by saying I am with you and want to meet you on the streets, and in the midst of you fears as you step through them to do what I want to do.(Essentially dying to our flesh to obey God) We I grab several other people and say, "We're going on the streets right now!" I can barely stand the presence of God is so strong as we leave. We arrive at the Spectrum and there are 8000+ people there. It's going to be a good night. I get there first and see crutches; what's got me freaked is going it alone and dropping into prophetic mode. A live band was playing to loud to talk so I wait a couple minutes for the last song to finish. Okay I'm going in. Just then the rest of our team gets there - okay - at least I'm not alone. We go in and find out he was running hard plalying frisbee late at night tripped over a curb and took most of the skin off of his knee. That's why it hurt. We've seen all sort of knee injuries healed but never really bad skinned knees. We pray three times with a very slight decrease in pain level. The group of kids claimed to be Christian. All of a sudden I begin to hear in my head how he thinks he doesn't have it together enough to be with God and has just given up. Takes a minute or so to get the guts up to say it, but I do and the kids cracks. We pray over him for a while longer and he says "How did you know that?" We left him still on crutches but healed in the heart with his relationship with God. We continue on and are pray for a shoulder of one of the shop keepers we pastor when we go out, it get healed a second time, just the I here a shout from some girls, "Hey your the guy from the football game! You healed us when you prayed for us!" So I go over leaving the rest of the team with Carlos. I go over and say, "It wasn't me who healed you, it was Jesus!" The girl exclaim "That's right." So I ask them what's going on and the said they were out with their guy friends watching X-men. All of a sudden I get a word o knowledge for a shoulder/neck, one of the girls says that's me, I was in a wreck 2 weeks ago and my neck and shoulder have been bothering me. "Lets pray!" I tell her friend, "you were healed at the football game, help me pray." We bother lay hands on the neck of the other gal and the fire of God gets all over the hands and neck of both girls and all pain leaves. I begin to proclaim that this is the evidence of Jesus standing right here with us right now. I ask the guys what they think. They are quite amazed. I ask them do you know a God that does this today. One says "no I don't," "Do you want to?" "Yes." in reply. I lead him through the prayer to receive Christ then ask for the Holy Spirit to come and he starts rocking and laughing the spirit moving on him. The girls watching this get pretty lit also(They were already Christian). I turn to the other guy and ask, "what about you?" He says "I'm Mormon, I suppose to pray in my heart everyday." I reply to the order, "Sounds like a lot of work, let pray for you and your prayer time will be amazing a lot like right now!" He way backs off and says "I'm good." All the while this is going on I feel the presence of God growing stronger by the second; I'm not talking about the feeling you get with the release of signs and wonders but the manifest presence feeling you get after spend hours with the Lord and he walks in the room. In the middle of the moment another girl comes into the group and begins to confess she has been living with one foot in the world and the other with Christ and she wants to change that! I pray and prophesy over her and she gets rocked. While this is going on I notice that three other groups of 8 plus guys and girls have started to come up to all the people of our group under a Spirit of Conviction wanting prayer to repent before we can even say anything! After it's all over we see 5 or more kids get lit, one get saved and two healed, But the staggering effect is the manifest presence of God that is left upon us. We begin to thank him for what he has just done. As we begin to leave, I walk into what I would describe as a pocket of one strongest presences of God I have ever felt anywhere. In the middle of the Spectrum all five of us begin to manifest under the presence of God(If you know me that is something I try not to do on the streets) I'm simply overwhelmed by his presence. We had a guy come down from Oregon first time on the streets and he is ripping hole in people with the prophetic - a really quiet shy kind of guy - manifesting off the charts shouts to some kids, "come get some of this, it's free!" We are stuck here in the presence of God almost unable to move until the mom of the teenager in group calls looking for him. ------ We had a continuation of God's presence with us on the streets this past week where we saw a woman wracked with pain in a wheelchair from Fibro-Myalgea have all the pain leave! Plus, two legs in hard casts that had all pain leave after prayer from our team. Live Revival, Joel

What a winter! Last blog was created at the end of Febuary, but I discovered I forgot to post it. Up until two weeks ago I have had little time on the streets - but what we have seen on the streets in terms of healing we have watched invade the church. God has also given my family and I a house. We had no finance and horrible credit, but out of a series of dreams God coaxed us ever so gently to check on financing - low and behold (not by my efforts) our credit completely turned around that we qualified for a large number of home loans. Family stepped in with down payments and at the beginning of may we moved into a house in the mountains of Orange County. So comes to last friday night we hit the streets for the first time since January and just like His promises, God shows up. We have pain completely leave to shoulders and a back - with a prophetic word that leads to salvation! I've been playing around with podcasts so in the next few weeks I may post some testimonies of what's happening in the streets. Live Revival, Joel

Last Saturday night I witnessed the power of God move in a way and scale like I have never seen. Back in the summer God gave us a vision to begin to go to sporting events namely professional events and he would release his glory and the amazing signs and wonders would break out. In our discovery of the inheritance of the Kingdom of God we have discovered a process that take us from the small scale to the large scale. We see that in King David's life as a shepard boy facing lions and bears all the way to taking on Goliath one on one. "How should we take on a vision of "invading" professional sporting events?" Well by starting in high school sports events. We received word that the #1 ranked high school football team in California was hosting the the #3 team in the state - the crowd was expected to be 10,000 people. At word of this my mouth starts watering at taking the gosple to so large a crowd. We go out with a team of seven experienced revivalists. Most of the team has been with me all summer and is repesented by all the testimonies that are listed on this blog plus a lot that I haven't time to record here. We arrive at the game in a ten passenger van and spend the next 45 minutes "soaking" and getting filled with the presence of the Lord. We are literally poured out of the van and we ask the Lord to come again and almost everone falls to the ground. We are incredibly eager to get into the stadium. "Standing room only!" is the word told us by the ticket takers. As we walk in all of our experience that we had gained on the streets literally went out the window as we were confronted with a crowd that numbered well over 14,000 people. Intimidation would describe what lay before us. We are confronted immediately by three people in the stands in wheelchairs and one gentleman in an ankle cast. People are literally packed in like sardines, how do we get the people? How will this work. We stay calm and all decided to break up and prayer walk the grounds. During this time we see groups of kids in different areas and think, "Well maybe." The game gets under way and we watch and pray. I can't stand it anymore and approach the gentleman in the cast and he is excited to let us pray yet he is having the cast removed two days later. So we wander and pray and ask for the Lord to come. We spot several other people to pray for and figure half time might be the best time. I start to gets a little discourged thinking that this idea may not be as good as it seemed. I put that thought away and decide,"You know worst case senario, we watch a really good football game." Halfway through the second quarter i feel we should go up to the bathroom and consesion stand area and just start breaking into groups and say, "Jesus is King, his Kingdom is here, and we want to prove it." Four out of the seven of us have linked back up near the bathrooms and as halftime starts we begin to just go for it. We pray for one gentleman who was a Christian already that the Lord would bless him. I notice a group of kids and think that could be a good group. At the same moment Nathan points to the sme group and says, "I see good on that Group," John interjects about having a word of knowledge for a left knee and I see a knee wrapped in that group of kids... "We're invading that group!" We ask the kid what happened to his knee and if we could pray for it. He starts off with, "No, I'm Catholic." We jump on that and begin to teach the works of Jesus, "you beleive that's true, don't you?" "yes," "let us prayer." "No." Then all his friends start goading him to try it. We turn and ask if anyone else in the group has pain in their bodies. On kid says he hurt his shoulder and he lets us pray. The pain immediately goes. The kid with the knee gets jealous and say pray for me now; He gets healed and shows no sign of pain and can move freely without issue. Another kid steps in and asks us to pray for his knee. I lay hands on the knee and I feel the healing power go out and the swelling shrink. I tell him to check it and he says there is no pain now and he has full mobility. We begin to declare, "Jesus is King and his Kingdom is here healing people do you want to know a God who heals hurting people!" And now our first salvation begin to trickle in from our other team members. Another kid with two bad knees comes in and ask for prayer. All pain leaves and he can move with no discomfort. Through the night we see at least nine knees get healed. Two of these occur in the locker room and down on the field unknown to us at the time. One of our team members is an assistant trainer to the football team and he prays for two knees that should have ended their evening of play, yet after the prayer all pain and swelling left their knees and they immediately went back into the game and finished the night. Back up top, we get into the midst of a "riot" of kids grabbing us to have us pray for them. Hearts, backs, shoulders, you name it the kids were in pain there. By the time we could break away and call in the rest of our team we had seen at leat eight healings. When the arrived the crowds kept getting bigger. We felt and heard toes that were deformed from birth crack under our hands and the constant pain they were in completely leave so that the person was for the first time able to stand with weight on her toes. Then came the kids to mock what they were hearing about this healing going on. They watched an made the odd comment here and there. When we asked if there is anything we could prayer for- broken back, broken hip - but the would not let us pray for them. Then another asked if we could pray for his toe. Some how he had hurt it and it was in pain. I said, "Let's pray." He had a "yeah really," smirk on his face. We prayed once and nothing happened. When I prayed again I felt the power go out and he shouted, "What did you do my toe went numb!" "Jesus is healing you!" In utter shock he steps back and says to his friends, "There's no pain at all!" If things weren't wild enough already, it's like the atmosphere completely changes and we as a team step into a whole new level. The mockers with the hip and back immediately beg for prayer. I place my hand near the kids hip feel the power ruch out and he jumps and say, " My God it's gone numb!" I tell walk around and check come back if there even a little bit of pain. He comes back and I find out this was an injury from three years ago and he has never had relief from the pain even while on meds. We pray once more and all the pain completely leaves. I make him check in every way and there is no pain at all. I hold my hand up high and say, "Kick it!" He does and replies, "I should be doubled over in pain right now, this is the first time in three years without it!" All of his friends testify to this being the truth. The other kid with the back says, "pray for me now." We find out he broke it a year and half before and has been in constant pain also. We pray and all pain completely leaves. He goes bezerk! By now we can barely keep up everything happening. Another kid with pain in his lungs is instantly heal and gets quite an amazing word about his destiny. Every team member sees at least 10-15 healings. The ones listed were some of the high lights of what occured. Literally the Heavens opened and descend upon this game. We get a report three days later that friends from the church were watching the game on TV and at half time felt the presence of the Lord come on them while watching the game! The night was amazing conservitively we are say there were at least: 30 healings 5 salvations and 200-1000 people seeing and hearing the Gospel of the Kingdom preached and validated with signs and wonders for over hours! This is reality! Live it! Joel

We have had an amazing end to the summer, with two out reaches a week that has expanded into four we have seen at least 20 salvations since our last posting. Plus two instances in which we had cancer patients in wheelchairs with extreme pain stand up and walk pain free! I am still in a battle with getting my laptop up, that's why the updates are also sparse, it's rare that I have opportunities to update at work-this is one of them. I hope have a laptop up soon and many more details flowing. Live Revival, Joel

Rod and I this past weekend went to Atlanta, Georgia and get the download on what God is doing there. It's off the charts. We had some amazing encounters with Ryan and his team on the street. Instead of going into detail I'll give you the link to his site that states it all. Be sure to look at some of the other fun testimonies they have had - it just a fraction of what they have happening. http://kingdompoweronthestreet.blogspot.com/2005/08/week-in-life-of-normal-christian.html Experience Revival Today, Joel