This week on Tues21 I will be ministering in Pensacola, FL at the great Brownsville Assembly. Their annual youth conf “Branded by Fire” will be held this week from Sunday to Thur. I encourage anyone in that area to come and be blessed as much as possible. There is a deep well-spring of God’s precious Spirit that flows in that house and I can’t wait to be a part of it!
There is something very powerful and violent breaking forth in my spirit this week. The message of faith and the overflow of God’s divine Spirit are coming together to produce a dominion like I have never felt or imagined. The Lord keeps showing me a rocket on the launching pad and the countdown and smoke everywhere as it is poised to go out of this atmosphere. Something is going to break loose SOON that is going to be a deluge of answered prayer. So many have interceded and prayed for me from Dr Cho in Korea (who prays for me everyday for 15 years) to Dr. Oral Roberts, and most importantly the saints of God who call out my name before the Lord night and day. SOMETHING INCREDIBLE is going to happen! Such excitement is growing in my spirit it feels like a volcano!
In all of this, Jesus will be lifted HIGH! My life will be a vessel for Him to use for His purposes until I die of old age, martyrdom, or go up in the rapture. Anyone of these 3 is fine with me! I leave you with this Scripture from my heart Jn. 12:32:
And when I am lifted up from the earth, I WILL draw everyone to Myself.
Ps. Tues night at 7Central I will be preaching at Brownsville Assembly. Come and be blessed!

Thank God for His supernatural grace and divine favor on my life! Without it, where would i be? I know, headed to hell with no hope of redemption!! After 6 weeks of “babysitting” (while dad and mom were gone) here in BR, my schedule has picked up again in regards to traveling the nation and speaking to youth pastors (my heroes) and young people (my passion). Already this week I have been in Dallas for the Collision conf hosted by Heartland Church (Past. Steve HIll & YP Daniel Norris) and tom morning I’m off to El Paso TX for another great youth conf where I will be speaking to both youth pastors and then a large group of young people. God is moving in this generation and raising up radical warriors like never before.
Last night as I was ministering to some leaders prophetically (in Dallas) I was overwhelmed with the warrior-like nature that was upon these leaders. Over and over again the Lord kept showing me mighty men and women of God who would be apart of shaking the largest generation in the history of the world. Apostles and prophets are erupting on the scene of the church in an unprecedented way. God is up to something and I know it is all about the harvest and His Bride!
Please cover me in prayer and keep me before the Lord as I travel. Balancing treatments and my health with traveling is very interesting at the least. Pray that God would give me the strength to deliver His Word with unction and boldness. Pray that God would use me to prophetically activate key gifts in the Body of Christ possessed by young leaders and disciples. Pray that apostolic authority, faith, and wisdom would surround my life and be in constant operation. Thank you soooo much for all your prayers! I NEED THEM!
Acts 4:29-30 (look it up!)

Update: Listen to “Land of the Free, Home of the Saved”

This week the Lord spoke to me early Thur. morning concerning this weekend and the message that I was to deliver on Sunday morning at Bethany North. He spoke 2 different things to me and for the first you will have to be there, get the tape, or watch on the internet. The second part of what He showed me consisted of 3 words that describe our great nation prophetically and the 3 conditions that line up with each.

1. Promise- America is the land of promise. It has been since its conception and has grown in world wide prominence as a place that anything is possible for anyone. Very much like when a person gets saved and the Lord releases them into the great promises of His Word, America is a place of endless possibilities.
-condition: the strict adherence and honor of the Word of God. All promise comes from the Word of God and if we continue to ignore and blatantly disobey His precious Word then we will cease to be a land of desire and will become a land of disaster.

2. Power- America is the most powerful nation in the world. Our military might and technological advantage have given us the position of sole world superpower. This power was given to us by God because of our honor to Him. We must recognize that it is the Lord that lifts one up and puts another down. Our power cannot be taken for granted for it can end in a moment.
-condition: humility before God and recognition of our responsibility in the global arena to use our power for good and not ambition, freedom not tyranny, and righteousness over wickedness. Pride will always come before a fall and if we are lifted up in a pride that ceases to rely and depend on Almighty God then we will be humbled and stripped of power. Ex. Dan. 4 when God struck Nebuchadnezzar and he ate grass for 7 years!

3. Purpose- there is no doubt that God has laid His divine hand of purpose on our great nation for centuries because of our stand for Him. As “one nation under God” we have defeated Hitler, communism, and stood by like a guardian angel for the nation of Israel (which is the apple of God’s eye). The way the Lord has used America for His purposes is undeniable and makes me proud to be an American.
-condition: PRAYER!!! If we want to continue our role as being used for righteous purposes and not positioned for judgment we must continue to pray for our great nation and ask God to begin a fresh awakening that starts in our hearts and moves to the highest seats of power and the lowest haunts of wickedness. Let us not be so caught up in our own lives and prosperity that we forget to lift up the land that has given us the privilege of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in Christ Jesus.

Matt. 24:6-8 And you will hear of wars and threats of wars, but don’t panic. Yes, these things must take place, but the end wont’ follow immediately. Nation will go to war against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in many parts of the world. But all of this is only the first of the birth pains with more to come.

You know it is always amusing and aggravating at the same time whenever I mention that someone has possibly entered hell. The religious hate it, the grace-mongers who don’t really believe that God would send anyone to hell, and anyone whose conscious is pricked by the awful reality all feel like they need to write in comments to correct and rebuke “mean ol Joel”. (That has a nice ring to it doesn’t it?) It doesn’t matter if I predicate my assumption with a disclaimer like “yet without some supernatural intervention not known by the world” that clearly says it was possible that someone ministered the truth to him and he received without us knowing it publicly, people read what they want and assume that I have acted with God-like authority and doomed him to hell. All I can do is what Jesus said to do and look at the fruit of his life and learn from what could have been.

Is constant suspicion of homosexuality and pedophilia a fruit of righteousness? Is allowing people to worship you and receive glory from man a work of the Cross? Is living in sin and blatant blaspheme of the Lord Jesus a sign of a person redeemed? Let’s get even simpler…is someone who did not profess Jesus as His Lord & Savior and the Bible the Word of God a believer going to heaven? Is a man who is known for his breakout video (Thriller) that portrays him as a demon possessed maniac from hell someone who Jesus was waiting for at the gates of heaven? I not only think not, I KNOW not!

Don’t get me wrong, if he repented and called on the name of Jesus at any time the Lord would be faithful and just to forgive him. I don’t think you can do anything in this earth but NOT call on Jesus that would keep you from the loving arms of God. But you know what? I can say these statements of faith and Biblical foundation all day and people just can’t handle the truth and reality that people are dying and going to hell by the thousands and millions every week and yet many (not everyone) are more passionate about correcting me on a silly blog than going out and saving the lost from that awful reality of hell.

Like it or not, the whole hell thing was God’s idea and not mine. He promised it in His Book, not mine. We need to make sure that we don’t go there and do all we can to reach out to others headed there. And assuming all are not going there just means we shirk our responsibility of reaching out and helping them avoid that terrible place.
My purpose in this blog as a whole and this article is to be a prophetic voice of warning to young people who could easily be deceived or drawn into the cesspool of sin without clear direction and warning from a trumpet being sounded of righteousness and standard. I leave you with a verse from Jesus, the Judge of all mankind.

Matt. 24:9-14- Then you will be arrested, persecuted, and killed. You will be HATED all over the world because you are My followers. And many will turn away from Me and betray and hate each other. And many false prophets will appear and will DECEIVE many people. SIN WILL BE RAMPANT everywhere, and the love of many will grow cold. But the one who ENDURES to the end will be saved. And the Good News about the Kingdom WILL BE PREACHED throughout the whole world, so that all nations WILL hear it: and then the END will come.