A Finn

[JussiOlavi]

EDIT. Now in year 2013 - Please pay attention - there are going to be several writings in this chain according to my real life with Christ.

EDIT: The happening, that is written underneath, happened during 1998 autumn.


Hi,

I like to tell a true story how I got healed by God. I was operated in a hospital that is situated in the city of Jyvaskyla in Finland. Afterwards when the stitches were taken off from my angle one of the wounds opened because there was hospital bacteria. It's a kind of bacteria that there is no medicine against it. It kills the fresh growing tissue of muscle. It may kill the one that is infected.
I was taken care in a clinic one month by cutting the dead flesh away (without anesthetize) and by giving hard penicillin. Well no signs that I was going to be healed.

One evening, when I was coming from this awful treatment, I met a believer that I knew. He asked me to come into a prayer meeting that was held in that same evening. There in the meeting was a pastor from Africa and he prayed for all the sick people. He said to me "In the name of Jesus I proclaim you are healed". After that evening my angle started to heal. I took a phone call to my dad telling I am healed. He said "Do not believe every man that tells you something. Beware it will take at least year to be healed from such a bacteria and it may even take several years" So after few weeks when I was visiting my dad he said to me "Take your sock away I want to see if it is true what you told to me" And he saw the miracle that was done by Jesus.

I have got healed after that from several smaller diseases. Nowadays I use this healing system

"Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him." (James 5:14-15)

Great is the Lord!

 

[MrMasino]

Great testimony, I love the quote you found, and you're very bold to share your experience.

 

[JussiOlavi]

Thanks for commenting and reading. It gives me courage to write to this forum.

Reason for writing this testimony was to encourage Christians to take the promises in the Bible seriously.

I am Bible believing Christian and with it I mean I take seriously everything that is written in the Bible.

Be blessed!

 

[JussiOlavi]

A story from the beginning of my believers life.

I had been a believer three weeks and wanted to visit a Saarijarvi Pentecostal church. The year was 1998. I was looking a spiritual home. I belonged those days to Saarijarvi Lutheran Church and felt that, that is not my place (for several reasons). So I walked to see their meeting and saw no parking place there for the cars. Only a little one in front of the front door. Later I got to know that there is big parking area on the lower yard behind the building. I was so filled with the Holy Spirit that I thought the people being so Holy that they arrive to the meeting by walk.

You know I had graduated in engineering of mechanized woodworking industry and woodtechnology after four years studying 1989. I had been working in several jobs and I had quite good experience of life. So the only reason for being like a little boy in my thoughts was living in the clouds because of the Holy Spirit.

I remember having very childish thoughts of many things. I became a believer during Christmas vacation. I was having a post of woodwork teacher teaching boys and girls age of twelve to sixteen years. So after the vacation I came back to school and was looking the old tools and equipment and thinking ”how wonderful things have been given for use to pupils”. Everything that I had been rebuking with my colleague thinking being trash and need to be made modern, appeared to me like very miraculous things. The world looked to me very wonderful place.

This sustained like half of that year, 1998, and my heart got healed from many things. I also got very uplifting experience of God's world that has carried me up to here waiting Jesus to come more real(Jesus is really real) all over the world and revival to start all over the world.

So Heaven's ”cloudy seasons” to every soul in the name of Jesus! God's Power to your life!!

Be blessed!!

Happy becoming year 2013!!

 

[Jeshu]

Thanks for sharing this uplifting testimony brother

To God all the praise!

 

[JussiOlavi]

Thanks for sharing this uplifting testimony brother

To God all the praise!

More to come in the becoming days.

 

[Tigger45]

Thank you for your testimony I think it was great! The only thing I don't understand is why the doctors didn't use anesthesia when they cut the infected flesh away? God's blessings!

 

[JussiOlavi]

Thank you for your testimony I think it was great! The only thing I don't understand is why the doctors didn't use anesthesia when they cut the infected flesh away? God's blessings!

Hi,

it was because - that what I was told - when the living tissue comes so I had to feel it and tell them. They used surgeon's knife and finally in the end of the treatment they used cotton swab. The treatment was done twice during every week. It was painful. Did you read the other story about cloudy time in my life that is written to this same chain?

 

[JussiOlavi]

One day, maybe the year was 2001, I was visiting a center that was used for taking care of people who have became marginalized – long unemployment, health reasons etc. They preached gospel there every now and then and gave people a resting and care taking moment to their lives. So I went to have a cub of coffee. A young lady, maybe age of 20 – 25, came to ask permission to sit same table with me. The lady was shaking and seemed to me being weak and scared.

After few minutes she said some words about weather and atmosphere in the place and I got in my mind ”this lady is very upset of something”. We had some short conversations and I got to conclusion that something is very wrong in her life. Finally she opened asking me if I'm a believer(I had been praying all the time asking Jesus to come to this situation – in my mind). When she got to know that I'm pentecostalist she started tell me story of a meeting she had been. There had been people saying that inside her is a bad spirit or a demon. They had put their hands on her commanding the evil spirit to go away. She was very afraid of evil spirit being inside her.

I asked if she believed in Jesus and when she admitted I kept asking several questions from her.
Finally I said to her ”Dear sister in Christ.There is no bad spirit in you and has not been ever since you accepted Jesus to be your Lord and Saviour. According to what you have answered and told to me you are God's child.” And I continued ”If you ever go to their meeting again and they do the same to you push them a little bit. Say to them during their quackery - you should try harder, shout louder – maybe your god is sleeping.” After that she began laughing and I saw fear dissappear and calmness and peace to settle in her. I said ” You have only been quackered and psychically pressured by those unwise people.” I prayed for her and after I left the center she was like totally another person.

Some Christians without satisfactory teaching and not really knowing God's power and word sometimes do wrong things. Right now to my mind comes this Scripture while I'm writing this.

And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
And it came to pass, when midday was past, and they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded.
And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD that was broken down.
And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the LORD came, saying, Israel shall be thy name:
And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD: and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed. And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid him on the wood, and said, Fill four barrels with water, and pour it on the burnt sacrifice, and on the wood.
And he said, Do it the second time. And they did it the second time. And he said, Do it the third time. And they did it the third time.
And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.
And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word.
Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the LORD God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.

Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he is the God. (1. Kin. 18:27 -39)

Thank God we have now forgiving Jesus between us and Himself.!

 

[JussiOlavi]

CELL PHONE STORY


I had been a believer few months. It was spring 1998. I was teaching woodworking to the adults in the evenings and to the children during day time. Also I gave lessons in electric organ playing once a week. There was one woodworking course for women that had started in September 1997. You know I got to know Jesus in December 1997.

So there was a lady on that woodworking course who was eager in getting her easel ready. The students got their works ready and left the course. So finally the course was under 6 people and the principal game to say to me that the course must end due to rules of adult education centre. When I told this to the students they were angry because they had paid for the course(that is the strangest rule they have in that adult education centre – of course they save the wage of the teacher).
Specially this lady who was making her easel was very angry since she had came to course just in the beginning of spring.

We agreed that I will help her to get her easel ready. Because I was teaching children in the same place in woodworking, I had keys to the doors and could come to place during evenings. I also did maintenance to the woodworking machines during evenings. So we agreed also that when ever she has time I come to open doors and we continue her easel project. I was very eager to testify and so I was waiting the right time to tell about Jesus to her. So weeks went by and I was praying for the rigth moment to come. Finally I thought it is not me who is going to tell her about Jesus and I kind of gave up.

Happy day. I had been teaching children and was heading to fethc my daughter from a private daycare. I was standing on the door and my cellphone rang. I took it to my hand and in the screen was blinking text ”Important call”(of course in finnish ”Tärkeä puhelu&#8221. Because it was very strange to see kind of text blinking I answered to the phone – otherwise I would have just closed the phone because I was going to take my daughter with me and I was already in front of open door. The caller was the lady. She asked me to come now this evening to help her to get the easel ready. So I agreed and after the call I asked from daycare if this childminder could keep my daughter some extra hours. That was also ok.

So I was in the woodworking class waiting for the lady to come and finally she came. After we had finished the easel so that it only needed some varnish on it and she was ready to take it away, I remembered the strange behaviour of my phone ”Important call” and immediately I understood this is the day. I asked if she has now time because I have something to tell her and she had. So I told her that I had been helping her all the time without any wage and I'm not asking it from her or anywhere else. I told her thet I had found Jesus that I believe in Him and that Jesus is alive. I told her several other things what Jesus did to me and how good He had been to me during these months I had been a believer. After I had came in to end with my testimony tears were flowing on her cheeks. She asked forgivness because she had been misbehaving against me. Naturally I forgave her. She was still not ready to accept Jesus and I did not want to force her.

Never before or after my cellphone has done such a thing blinking ”Important call”. God is amazing!

 

[Jeshu]

God sure works in mysterious ways

 

[JussiOlavi]

It was year 2001.

My father died in September about two weeks after wtc towers tragedy. I was allowed to see my father in coffin. His face was totally grey. It was first time and hopefully last for me to see a human who has been dead for two weeks.

Well in that year our church had done mission work to the Karelia in Russia side. We traveled there once every month. So it was about one month after my father had died I was doing mission work with my church mission group. We had been having meetings in small village of Louhi region. In one evening we got invitation to one of the homes in that village. When we arrived there was old lady meeting us. She asked us if we could pray for her husband. Her husband had been robbed and the robbers had striken him to his head. So the man had been in hospital and was sent to home to die because they could not give any help in hospital and his brains were damaged of necrosis.

We acreed and went inside. When we stepped inside to the room where this man was lying on the bed, I saw him being totally grey like my father in coffin and only bone and skin. Only his eyes moved. Her wife was feeding him and the neighbour lady lifted him up to give him food. The man's wife told us that he had been three months already in bed and was getting worse every day. I only got a thought he certainly is going to die. Our group leader kneeled down beside his bed. We prayed asking Jesus to heal him. We also gave a Russian Bible to the lady and our group leader asked her to read the John from the Bible every evening to her husband. We left the place and I was thinking ” Poor lady she is going to be widow soon”.

After a month we went to this village again. We were invited to this dying man's home. I had a thought ”yeah the man is more in bad condition and we only see him dying”. When we stepped inside the room and I saw the man my first thought was ”This is not the man.This man is looking too good”. There was good looking round cheeks. His face was healthy looking. They just had brought food to him and he could lift himself up and eat by himself. The man's wife told us that after three days we had been praying there his arms began to work and he lifted himself up. Later we got to know that the man had been healed totally and was able to walk, speak and work.

God is real!

 

[JussiOlavi]

Lost and found

The year was 1999 late springtime. My daughter, Anna, had a good friend in her class. So it was quite normal day. Only that we had agreed to do some shopping after school in neighbour town(there was a special shop my wife was going to make some shopping). Anna had asked me in the morning if she can visit her classmate's home and I promised not remembering the promise I had given to my wife about shopping.

So I came home after school(I was a woodworking teacher). My wife came home from her work and said to me let's go. I repeated ”Let's go?”. She asked if I had forgotten my promise about shopping. I had to agree and I said that Anna is with her friend at her friends home. I knew the girl her first name and the area where her family was living but I did only remembered her first name and I also knew what her parents looked like because we had met in school in parents meeting several times. So my wife said ”There we have a GOOD father letting his daughter to go places and not taking the addresses and phone numbers...” I was ashamed. We was already in hurry.

So we all went to our car and I started to drive towards the area I knew the girls family was living. My wife was angry and we were not in a very good mood. So I started to pray ”Dear Jesus – You know exactly the place where Anna is. Please lead me to the place and show me the home”. And I got feeling every time I came to road crossing where I should turn. Finally I was in front of a rowhouse. I got a feeling I have to stop here. I stepped out of the car and started to walk towards one door. When I was only three meters away from front door the door opened. There was the girl's mother standing and we greeted each other. I asked if Anna was there and she said yes and at the same time Anna came to the door. We managed to do our shopping in time.

This kind of leading I have needed few times in my believers life from Jesus. He has always helped and never been misleading and in all those cases I have been in very need of guidance. Once my friend lost his car keys to the beach. He had group of friends with him and they looked the keys from the sand not finding them. He kneeled and asked Jesus to lead him to the keys. Walking straight to place where they had been on the beach he saw suddenly something glittering in the sun. There was the car keys they had been searching several hours.

So be it – God with you!

 

[Jeshu]

We serve an awesome God who looks after His children that much is for sure.

Be blessed.

 

[JussiOlavi]

Diesel oil

We were having a mission in Karelia on the Russian side. We already had been having few meetings and we had accommodation in a nice place. The family were believers and they took care of us very well though their living was hard in the end of 1990s. Few people had accepted Jesus to their lives in the meetings. Allways during the meetings we went to check the place where the next meeting was to be held and also checked that the agreements we had done with the place owners, were still in the same order(sometimes the owners changed their mind and said they don't take us to their place). If we got negative feedback we tried to find another place to have meeting instead.

So we had agreed to have meeting in a very small village and our accommodation owners son, day before the meeting, offered to sell some diesel oil so that there was no need for us to drive some extra to find diesel oil for our van. During night the temperature lowered so it was – 22 °C (-7,6 Fahrenheit). In the morning we got a very good breakfast and after that backed our things for the meeting.

We were driving to the meeting place when suddenly our van's engine started to fidget. Our driver said that the diesel is not running to engine and we may not get to the meeting place. Driver said that the diesel oil we got last day might have been summer quality(during winter the diesel must be winter quality otherwise it will happen that diesel freezes). There was just a little time to get to the place and our driver said if there is not going to be a miracle we will not reach the place. Our van stopped totally. We began to pray and during prayers someone prayed that if there is souls to come to Jesus we are not able to get to the place if Jesus is not going to help us in anyway and – after that in five minutes the weather changed so that it went all the way plus 1 – 3 in celcius. Snow started to fall from the trees after changing to be very wet and it was in five minutes. Driver tried to start the engine and it started. We got to the meeting place to this very little village(maybe 100 people living there) and fourteen people gave their lives to Jesus in that meeting.

The weather stayed well on the plus side so we were able to use the whole diesel and fill the tank next time at service station with winter quality diesel. Later we all discussed about what happened to the weather and no one of us had never experienced a such climate change in a such short time. So we agreed it sure was fast answer to our prayers.

Jesus is real!

 

[JussiOlavi]

Season

For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:
a time to be born, and a time to die.(Ecclesiastes 3:1-2)

I was living quite happy time during September 2001. everything was well in our church and we all in my family were well. So this dramatic day came, September 11, and was very schoking to see in the news what happened to the WTC towers. I and all of my friends, all the people in our church were not able to fully understand what really happened in the planes and to the towers. It was so cruel especially when the news told that it was a terrorist attack.

But lets go a little further back to the history. My first wife found a new man and left me 1993. I was living together with my two year old daughter. We were living in a house that I builded. I tried to run my own firm, pay all the loans and take care of everyday life with my daughter. So finally I was in a situation where I could not handle everything. I started to use alcohol to ease my depression. In the end of 1996 bank sent me order to pay whole loan in other words bank recall the loan I had taken to build my house. The house was mortgaged so I lost my house. There was also a loan I had taken to pay partly the bigger loan. So in the end I had three loans left that I had to pay back and no house because bank took the house. The bank gave me half a year time to pay the loan or live the house.

I was emptying the house and I called my father to come to help me(I'm the only child of my parents). It was April 1997 we had fire on our yard where we burned some old papers and broken furniture. My father brought spirit with him and a neighbour that lived about half a kilometer away brought also a bottle of vodka. I was quite drunk but still remember what happened. In a moment to my mind came things that my father had done wrong against my mother(for example having affair with another woman, which I got to know in the age of 19). I began to accuse my father and it ended up to fight. I managed to push my father to the ground. Strange thing is that right that moment my mind went totally upside down and I gave up feeling I was doing wrong. My father stood up and said he has no son anymore and although he was drunk he drew home(250km = 155mile) leaving me standing there on the light of fire on the ruins of my life. Later, after few days, I took a phone call asking forgivness and we agreed. You know my father was born 1926 and he had been good in sports in his youht like wrestling and he was still tough guy in the age of 70(his resting heart rate 40 times per one minute).

In 1997 December during Christmas I got to know Jesus – I became a true believer. I had to forgive to many people because I used to be long remembering unforgiving – so I forgave also to my father and I began to feel love towards him after 16 years coldness. We had had some kind of relationship always during years and I visited my home every now and then but there was this coldness that came out in that terrible night. So I prayed God to save my father. When I visited my home after Christmas 1997 I had always news to tell about what Jesus had done in my life.

And now 2001 schoking WTC tower attack. After two weeks second more schoking moment to me. 25th September I got a phone call. There was police with some bad news. My father had died during hunting trip. His best friends found him from forest when he did not came back to their meeting place. My mother was taken to nursing home because she could not manage on her self(different ilnesses and dementia). After the phone call I took my car and drove to my parents home(250km = 155mile).

During my drive I shouted to the Lord why, why, why. I had not got any testimony from my fathers mouth if he was a believer. There was a lot of pain in my heart. When I got at the destination and saw all the things at their home and memories started to flow in to my mind I collapsed. I tried to sleep but I was not able to sleep. I prayed ”dear Jesus – I am not going to be able to arrange all the things funeral and everything else because – as you see – I have collapsed mentally.” Somehow I fell asleep. I woke up at two o'clock am – so it was night. I felt like someone was heating my feet with a hairdryer. The warmnes started to move step by step towards my knees. Then it continued moving towards my thighs and went finally through my upper body and in the head. I was feeling totally calm like if I had taken some kind of medicin. In the morning I was full of energy and could start to arrange things according to my parents. Now I understand that Holy Spirit did that to me. All the pain and sorrow was taken away.

Praise the Lord!

 

[JussiOlavi]

Torque wrench


During 4th October 1996 untill 31st May 2001 I worked as a handwork teacher teaching boys and girls in woodworking techniques. They were ages 12 to 16 year old kids. I had the responsibility to make all the courses what I teach and how I teach the techniques of woodworking. I also teached electronics as extra courses where we made and studied electronics through making small electronic equipments. Also during those years I was three years as a form master.


I had to take care of safety in woodworking rooms because there was big machines and not all the machines was allowed to use by the pupils. I also serviced these big machines and so I had special tools for it. I do not know how it is with other schools but in that school pupils used to take accessories and tools without permission – so to say steal. Especially some boys were quite affective to my nerves. Every now and then I found out that for example screwdriver tips that were used in cordless drills disappeared from tool boxes. Once whole roll of abrasive paper was lost – though fortunately later found from one pupil's schoolbag. Sometimes the pupils had fights against eachother and sometimes they tried to challenge me.


I was quite tired one spring. There had been several bad things happening in our school and quite many discipline troubles. Also during woodworking classes the pupils had been very challenging. I had bought a torque wrench to tighten the bolts of steel blades in a big planer(the four blades were attached to a cylinder which took 6 000 rounds per minute). This special 20 cm long torque wrench was very expensive. I had it on the corner of my teachers table and it was just two weeks ago I had bought it. So the first two morning classes had passed and I sat down aside my table. Something was wrong – something was missing. It got in to my mind ”torque wrench”. I had no idea who had taken it nor where the pupils had went to have their next lesson. I went red and angry. I did something special. I started to pray ”Jesus you can see I'm very angry now. And now I'm going to stand up so lead me to the boy who took it. I'm not going hurt him anyway I just go and ask him to give back the torque wrench”. I stood up and went on walking out the building where my classrooms were through a corridor to another building and up the stairs to a second floor and there were some of the boys from morning classes sitting on floor waiting to teacher to come. I walked straight to a boy and said with angry voice(and I was very angry) ”give me back what you took”. The boy opened his schoolbag and gave me the torque wrench. When he had given it to me I heard someone saying to him ”You fool. It was impossible to teacher to know you took it” . I was walking away and thought ”Boy you are right but God knew”. That was one of the great miracles of God's guidance I experienced during the days I was working as a teacher(more to come).


God is all-knowing and almighty. So be brave and you can experience as well God's guidance.

 

[JussiOlavi]

”Snot”


In the end of 90's the school I was teaching at, meeted the biggest pupil quantities. Classrooms were full of school desks. I was also taking care about the maintenance of the audiovisual equipment. I cleaned up every month all the projectors, checked the tv sets, changed the lamps of overhead projectors etc. Some of the classrooms were hard to walk through being full of school desks. Nowadays I wonder how did the lanquage teachers, maths teachers etc. found energy to keep classes.


Because of the big quantities of pupils also groups in woodworking rooms were big. It was not easy to keep the pupils silent and calm during lessons. So I had also some trouble makers with my pupils. Boys – specially boys – tend to be childish even though they are growing to be men in the age of 13 – 16. Once all the bolts that were ment to keep a big sanding machine in the floor, were taken off. The machine was running and swaying in a all growing reconance and then some of the pupils shouted to me ”teacher, teacher - there is a machine that is going to fall”. I looked at the direction and what I saw schoked me. I ran to a emergency stopper switch to stop the machine. I was in the last minutes. I tried to interrogate all the boys to find out who did this absurd thing but without success. Only thing I could do was trying to impact to their sence not to do such thing anymore.


In one group year after the sanding machine trick I had three mischievous boy. Now there was again a moment to ”breach” to them. So I took them in to my cabin to stand in a row. I just then remembered I had promised to call to a supplier. I told to boys to wait untill I finish the call. While I was calling my back towards the boys and speaking to make order I felt something came to the back of my neck. I touched it with my other hand and felt ”snot”. I looked my hand and saw saliva there. I ended the phone call. Before I turned I prayed in my mind Jesus to show the boy who did it.


I turned and said ”someone of you just snotted me and I'm sure I can figure out who did it”. All the three boys looked the same so there was no possibility to say out of their face who was it. I trusted God so I felt I take one of them with me. I ordered one of them to come with me. I took two other boy out of my teachers cabin. Shwitched down power in the classes and locked my cabin door. Then we went to lumber storage and I locked all the doors behind us. Then I testified to the boy how I had become a believer and what good Jesus had done to me and how he had showed up and how he is really living. When I ended the boy started to cry. He said he was sorry about what he did and that he did not know why he did what he did. I forgave the boy and he promised to try behave better in th future. He kept his promise.

Yahweh looks from heaven. He sees all the sons of men.
From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth, he who fashions all of their hearts; and he considers all of their works. (Psalms 33:13-15)

 

[Jeshu]

Yes God looks after us and helps us in time of need.

All praise belongs to our God.

 

[sea oat]

Season

For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:
a time to be born, and a time to die.(Ecclesiastes 3:1-2)

I was living quite happy time during September 2001. everything was well in our church and we all in my family were well. So this dramatic day came, September 11, and was very schoking to see in the news what happened to the WTC towers. I and all of my friends, all the people in our church were not able to fully understand what really happened in the planes and to the towers. It was so cruel especially when the news told that it was a terrorist attack.

But lets go a little further back to the history. My first wife found a new man and left me 1993. I was living together with my two year old daughter. We were living in a house that I builded. I tried to run my own firm, pay all the loans and take care of everyday life with my daughter. So finally I was in a situation where I could not handle everything. I started to use alcohol to ease my depression. In the end of 1996 bank sent me order to pay whole loan in other words bank recall the loan I had taken to build my house. The house was mortgaged so I lost my house. There was also a loan I had taken to pay partly the bigger loan. So in the end I had three loans left that I had to pay back and no house because bank took the house. The bank gave me half a year time to pay the loan or live the house.

I was emptying the house and I called my father to come to help me(I'm the only child of my parents). It was April 1997 we had fire on our yard where we burned some old papers and broken furniture. My father brought spirit with him and a neighbour that lived about half a kilometer away brought also a bottle of vodka. I was quite drunk but still remember what happened. In a moment to my mind came things that my father had done wrong against my mother(for example having affair with another woman, which I got to know in the age of 19). I began to accuse my father and it ended up to fight. I managed to push my father to the ground. Strange thing is that right that moment my mind went totally upside down and I gave up feeling I was doing wrong. My father stood up and said he has no son anymore and although he was drunk he drew home(250km = 155mile) leaving me standing there on the light of fire on the ruins of my life. Later, after few days, I took a phone call asking forgivness and we agreed. You know my father was born 1926 and he had been good in sports in his youht like wrestling and he was still tough guy in the age of 70(his resting heart rate 40 times per one minute).

In 1997 December during Christmas I got to know Jesus – I became a true believer. I had to forgive to many people because I used to be long remembering unforgiving – so I forgave also to my father and I began to feel love towards him after 16 years coldness. We had had some kind of relationship always during years and I visited my home every now and then but there was this coldness that came out in that terrible night. So I prayed God to save my father. When I visited my home after Christmas 1997 I had always news to tell about what Jesus had done in my life.

And now 2001 schoking WTC tower attack. After two weeks second more schoking moment to me. 25th September I got a phone call. There was police with some bad news. My father had died during hunting trip. His best friends found him from forest when he did not came back to their meeting place. My mother was taken to nursing home because she could not manage on her self(different ilnesses and dementia). After the phone call I took my car and drove to my parents home(250km = 155mile).

During my drive I shouted to the Lord why, why, why. I had not got any testimony from my fathers mouth if he was a believer. There was a lot of pain in my heart. When I got at the destination and saw all the things at their home and memories started to flow in to my mind I collapsed. I tried to sleep but I was not able to sleep. I prayed ”dear Jesus – I am not going to be able to arrange all the things funeral and everything else because – as you see – I have collapsed mentally.” Somehow I fell asleep. I woke up at two o'clock am – so it was night. I felt like someone was heating my feet with a hairdryer. The warmnes started to move step by step towards my knees. Then it continued moving towards my thighs and went finally through my upper body and in the head. I was feeling totally calm like if I had taken some kind of medicin. In the morning I was full of energy and could start to arrange things according to my parents. Now I understand that Holy Spirit did that to me. All the pain and sorrow was taken away.

Praise the Lord!

This is a wonderful story; thanks for sharing it.