An important spiritual mission
About in 1974, at a meeting of believers, I met a young man named Sami, a graduate of Strömberg's engineering school a year later than I. He and his wife had come to faith a little later than I, and had not yet been filled with the Holy Spirit.
Sami asked me to help him attain the fullness of the Holy Spirit. He said he had thirst to receive the Holy Spirit, but he didn't know how to get Him. Sami was a quiet and humble electrical fine mechanic who, with his wife, belonged to the Free Church in Helsinki. I liked him for his modesty, for his quiet and his humble nature.
He was my dear friend. I promised to help him with that. We agreed that I would pray and fast first for him, and then on the third day of fasting we would go to the Siion Congregation in Helsinki and there to the prayer altar, where I promised to pray for him until he should be filled with the Holy Spirit!
I prayed and fasted for Sami for 2.5 days without eating or drinking because I appreciated our friendship very much.
It was a really tough and difficult fasting I went through for my friend Sami. I did it because I remembered how intense the spiritual struggle I had to fight to obtain for myself the fullness of the Holy Spirit in 1972.
When I went to see him at the Pajamäki in Helsinki after that fasting, I saw the Bible opened on his bed with the very verse that Adonai had given me that fasting task. So I did not fast by my own choice. It was summer time and I experienced a powerful anointing of the Holy Spirit. I and Sami walked through the small park to the bus stop.
We were approached along the path by a woman who was walking with her normal-sized dog. The Holy Spirit said about 30 meters before they came, "There is a demon in the dog."
When they were very near to us, the the dog started rage and tried to attack, it started howling and jump up and down, trying to took loose itself off the leash. I saw green foam coming out of its mouth. The woman was really puzzled and wondered what strange had gone in her dog(?)
After we left them behind I told Sami what had happened to that dog. When we arrived at the aforementioned church, and after gospel spreaching meeting, I went to the prayer altar with Sami, I told a couple of elder brothers why I brought Sami to the altar and we began to pray for him.
About 5 minutes later, those older brothers ended their prayers saying, "If the Holy Spirit is to come, he would have come already." Then they left us there and went away.
I had already decided in my heart to fight for Sami's victory and therefore continued to pray until everyone had left the temple except the janitor, Sami and myself. I asked janitor Hätinen if we could stay with Sami to continue the prayer?
We got permission, and I promised to inspect the entire temple that no anyone will stay overnight there, to turn off the lights when we left, and also check that the front door was properly locked. We prayed with Sami for about another 30 min without a prayer answer.
Then I asked in the Spirit from the Lord how to continue prayer? I got the words in my heart, "Ask Sami to stand, grab his hands, and lift them up with your own hands, and continue worshiping the Lord, praising and thanking for receiving the Holy Spirit."
I told it to Sami and he got up from the prayer altar and we did as I had been instructed in the Spirit. We continued prayer and the worship for about 30 min and I was completely soaked in sweat as the prayer fight was really hard.
It was really worth praying
Finally it happened that I heard a clear blast from above Sami's head and at the same time Sami was filled with the Holy Spirit and he immediately began to pray with the new tongues.
Wow, how we rejoiced and praised both our Savior Jesus and our Heavenly Father with the new tongues for about an hour. Sami did not know in advance that he would stay so late in the temple.
Since it was late in the evening and Sami's wife might already have been worried about Sami being late and there were no cell phones to call her, we decided to go home with Sami. At that time I lived in Konala, which is near Pajamäki.
First we had to take the tram. We sat in the back part of it. It was late at night. Sami said he felt weak and near fainted. I touched and kept with my left hand on his forehead and lifted my right hand up, praying for the power of the Spirit to strengthen Sami.
Soon the Holy Spirit's force began to flow from top to bottom along my right arm, through my heart and continued flowing through my left arm to Sami. He said he felt a new power and said that he was beginning to recover, the nausea and the feeling of fainting were already gone. HalleluYah!
We switched from a tram to a bus and sat in the back seat there and were almost the only passengers. After traveling about a kilometer, Sami again said that he felt weak and nearly fainted. Immediately I placed my right hand on his forehead and my left hand around his shoulders and silently prayed in the Spirit for strength as I had done on the tram.
Tunsin jälleen Pyhän Hengen voiman virtaavan käsieni kautta Samiin ja hän elpyi. Hän sanoi vahvistuneensa ja jatkoimme matkaa kotiin asti.
What did that incident teach me?
1) Do not be discouraged in prayer, but endure it!
2) When you pray, pray worshiping and thanking Him who will and can help you.
3) After the person being prayed is filled with the Holy Spirit, make sure you take care of him long enough for the spiritual baby to be sufficiently strengthened by the refreshing effect of the Holy Spirit, for the world around him is under the power of evil spirits.
Do not leave him / her alone that day or evening, but protect and strengthen him / her with prayers like mother and father want do their children!
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