During our recent visit to the covenant communities in Tromsø, Trondheim and Oslo we were told a very encouraging story. In the springtime a New Age fair or exhibition kind of arrangement for occult and alternative medicine and world-views and practices was held in the city. Some people from the covenant community decided to attend the fair to offer healing through the laying on of hands in the name of Jesus to the visitor.
A lot of prayer and intercession were done for this endeavour. They arranged a so called prophetic day when the covenant community came together to pray and seek the Lord for specific direction for their outreach at the Alternative Fair. During that day God spoke to them and gave them many specific prophetic words, with names of the people they would meet, problems and sufferings, the time when the people would come etc. They wrote down all the prophetic promises in order. Most of those words of knowledge and the prophetic words were fulfilled at the fair.
One day when a lady was at the stand to offer prayer and share the good news of the Kingdom with the people visiting the “religious market” she was told by God that between 1200 and 1300 she would meet a couple with a child that had sleeping problems, and she was to offer them a visit to their home for a spiritual house cleaning. She had no idea what the spiritual house cleaning was all about as she had never heard this expression before and didn’t know what she would have to do. However, she wrote down everything God had told her and expected God to lead her to the right people.
As she was standing at the fair and looking at all the people who were coming and going, she became aware of a couple with two children. She approached them and started to talk to them, eventually asking them if the child slept well. Yes that child slept very well, she was told, and she was a little bit perplexed. But then she also asked about the baby in the pram if the baby slept well. No the baby did not sleep well at all, but was very at unrest during the night, even causing problems for the parents.
When asked them for the time she was told that the time was 1230. Then she told them that she was a believer in Jesus Christ and that God had told her that between 1200 and 1300 she would meet a couple with a child with sleeping problems and that she should offer them a visit for a spiritual house cleaning. Then she showed them the piece of paper where she had written down what God had told her. The couple were utterly amazed. The wife’s sister had just told them that perhaps they needed a spiritual house cleaning to get rid of the spirits who disturbed the baby’s sleep. That was why they had come to this fair of alternative treatments to find someone who could help them with this matter. And now they met this lady from the covenant community who knew about their problem even before they had told anything!
They exchanged their address and telephone number and they agreed to that the lady and her husband, should visit them to perform a spiritual house cleaning (even though they had no idea what to do in that respect). Somehow the first appointment didn’t work out. But the believing couple didn’t give up but they kept in touch with the couple with the troubled child through the telephone.
While we were visiting the covenant community the lady and her husband had an appointment to see the couple to perform the spiritual house cleaning. After putting their children to sleep and having the babysitters in place, they took an evangelistic friend with them to visit the couple. We were with another couple watching TV and praying for our friends.
When the friend who came with the couple returned to the family we stayed with late at night he could bring a wonderful report. They had had a very good time with the couple who committed their lives to Jesus Christ! Hallelujah! After the couple came to Christ and accepted him as their Lord and Saviour, there was no need for any further spiritual house cleaning! The next day the husband brought their children to a gathering with the covenant community. The wife had to go to work that morning, otherwise she also would have come.
I am so grateful to God for the young lady and her husband who have shown such obedience to the Lord and perseverance in their follow up of this couple. They are only twenty eight years old, but are true elders among the community of young believers in that city. What a wonderful way God confirmed their eldership by enabling them to bring this couple to Christ on the day of their ordination. God is so good!
