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in 2013 by Patrik
When I was at high school in Göteborg (Sweden) I did not
believe in God, but my god was science in which I believed.
There, I had a friend who worked as a scientist in a group
investigating elementary particles.
Sometimes he took me with him, so I could see how they do
experiments. After those experiments, those scientists would meet in a cafe to
discuss those experiments and conclusions that could be done. When I asked them
about the reason for some things which were impossible to happen and yet they
did happen ( for eg., particle that had passed energy barrier which they cannot
pass). On my questioning how could this happen, they answered that there is a
spiritual world, and God interacting with physical universe. I was surprised to
hear they believe in God, and since I always loved adventure, diving,
travelling - learning and experiencing new things, I thought it would be great
to be able experience those spiritual worlds too.
Sometimes I went with my mother to Catholic Church, not
because I was a Christian, but because it was a sort of a cultural thing. From
my visits of Church, I got an impression that Christians only talk about those
spiritual things but that they experience nothing and they said after you are
dead first than you will see and experience that they talk about.
That was not anything for me.
However, when some Indian guru arrived to our town promising
that he can show us God, and that we will hear God and experience His presence,
that was something different! I went for this meeting and let myself to be
initiated. I did see some supernatural light and heard some noise, which they
said was God. Even if there was no evidence that this should be God, yet at least
I experienced something supernatural there while all Christians I met with
before were only talking and there was no supernatural sign at all that they
would be connected with supernatural God.
While all disciples of Jesus did experience and perform supernatural
acts, I thought that I am on a right way to God but Christians are not.
After some 10 years, I could see some negative changes on my
friends with whom we did those Hindu or Buddhist meditations.
Some of them started to be a sort of apathetic and some
started to be on contrary explosive angry for even smallest things their girlfriends
or wives would say. Soon some of them ended up with meditation psychosis in
mental hospital, one girl committed suicide.
A girl whom I brought myself to this meditation was sitting
one day in her kitchen when she saw how walls and ceiling were coming on her to
crash her and heard voice of guru talking to her.
She was clever enough to understand that “meditation
psychoses“ is a spiritual thing which needs a spiritual cure, so she run to the
ecumenical Bible school in our town Göteborg and after Christians prayed to
Jesus and laid hands on her she got completely free.
When I met her, she told me she had seen how Jesus was
healing sick people who would come there on crutches and many other miracles. I
went to this Bible school to check it out.
My biggest need was that I was longing for God and wanted to
have some encounter with Him. The second need was that after an encounter with
a car on icy road, I had very complicated fracture of knee, which doctors
operated for two hours, they told me there is nothing more that can be done
with it, but I had to avoid some sports and be careful. Problem was that it was
getting worse and worse each year.
When I got to the Bible school, the preacher said that Jesus
died to take on Himself our sins and also our sicknesses so those of us who
were sick or had pain should go forward so they will lay hands on us and pray
to Jesus so He will heal us. I went forward and they laid hands on me without
asking what is wrong with me and prayed with strange languages. I asked Jesus
to heal my knee and felt some sort of weak vibration in whole leg. After this,
my knee was healed. This was a proof that our guru did not have so much insight
in spiritual world as he pretended, since he was saying to us that Jesus is
dead and therefore He can not help us any more.
However, here I have asked Jesus silently to heal my knee ( so even this
Swedish pastor who prayed for me did not know what my need was ) and Jesus
answered by healing me.
Even if I found out that not only is Jesus alive but there
is a way to experience His power and presence, I still did not want to give up
meditation.
The director of the Bible school told me that meditation is
from devil, which I did not believe, but he said also that those two powers, which
I experienced in meditation and in Bible school are of opposite nature. That
was something I had to think about, since when I tried to do meditation after
Jesus healed my knee, I did experience some sort of conflict. Since I decided
that I will get everything what those Christians have and experienced , either
everything or nothing ( to come only once in week to church say some prayer and
not experiencing anything, have no power of God only theology was not for me).
I decided I will had better to check whether they are not right by
stopping meditation for 20 days, then starting again and see if there will be
any difference.
After 12 days of no meditation, I did not want to wait
longer any more, did meditation and got out of my body to some sort of world
where big balls of light were trying to crash me and I felt terrible presence
of evil. I wanted to get out of there, but I could not, and in this moment, I
remembered an article from daily newspaper written by a doctor from a mental
hospital who was describing meditation psychoses. He wrote that apart of those
meditation psychoses that my friends had, there are also such, when a patient
is laying as dead for months and years and does not respond any more. I
understood this will happen to me, and that my body will end up in some mental
hospital, but I would stay in this horrible place. So I started to shout Jesus,
Jesus take me out of here. After a second, I was sort of sucked back to my body
and after this I did not touch meditation any more.
Later on I met a Satan worshipper who needed to be free, and
Jesus set him free, who told me that those meditation techniques and opening
of the third eye is also what devil is teaching, to get them possessed by
demons . Esoteric masters
from New Age are doing this and are also planning to give power to a dictator
who will rule in whole world, perform miracles and force all people to take a
mark on the right hand or forehead without which no one will be allowed to sell
or buy, just as Bible says in Revelation described as the Antichrist. (The New
Age also say that money should be cancelled, thus promoting microchips injected
under the skin on hand, which already exist and can be used instead of money as
credit cards).
I wanted to help the people the way those pastors do, who
prayed for me with power from Jesus, so I asked how they got this power. They
told me it was when they were baptized with Holy Spirit. So whenever some
preacher said he will pray for those who want to be baptized in Holy Spirit , I
run forward, they prayed for me and nothing would happen. First after several
months and many prayers, one servant prayed for me and I felt as if some ball
of fear was coming up from my stomach to my mouth and she said "Now you
got it!" The reason why it was so
difficult for me to be baptized was that all the dirt from meditation had to
get out of me first.
Already next day when I prayed for my friends Jesus was
healing them.
I started to go to this ecumenical bible school and at Church,
we had a pastor whom God has used even for healing cancer. After each preaching,
he would call those who were sick, or needed any prayer forward and prayed for
them. With youth pastor from our Church and also some youth from other Churches
we started to go among criminals and drug addicts in places where drugs were
sold, and Jesus was there doing miracles, and healing, saving them. Those
people were not interested to listen to us in the beginning, they were even
aggressive, but when they started seeing God's power in action, it was quite
different. Prostitutes who were beating our girls in the beginning were later
on almost fighting between each other, because each wanted us to pray for her
first.
They have seen that our God is living God by those healings
He did among them.
Then I took my 21 foot sailing boat and sailed to Canary
Islands to preach among hippies who lived there in caves and were deep in New
Age, occult and drugs. Soon the group of saved people was formed since Jesus
showed them with His Power (not only my words) that He is really alive.
After about one year, I run out of money so I went home to
Sweden, to earn some more, so I could serve God again among those hippies. At
this time communism fell in Czechoslovakia, so I sold my boat on Canary Island,
and with that money, I went to Prague to serve God there.
In Prague I met people from Harvest International who were
traveling around in old buses with circus tent preaching and praying for sick,
so I went with them for some years. We have seen thousands and thousands of
people to come to Jesus and to be healed. God's power was so strong there, that
when I saw some person who could not walk properly or move hands, I was glad
that people in tent will see Gods healing power in action, since majority of
those people Jesus healed completely or they got considerably better. ( In the west
only few people were healed, not a majority) Than some business men paid me to
go with them to Thailand, to do business. I stayed there for several months and
could do evangelization with local pastors or preach in the church, since
business took only few hours in week.
Then I got invitation to be a pastor and also invitation by
US missionary to work with him with boat ministry which I preferred most. I
told them I would need a wife to live in Thailand permanently so I went back to
Czech Republic to get one!
When I came to Prague, I asked God to send me a wife to
Methodist Church, which I planed to visit on Sunday. On Sunday, I went to
Church and at the tram station, I saw a nice girl with beautiful eyes. So I told God I would like a girl like that,
and also to give me courage to talk to her. He gave me courage so I gave her
Christian tract and invited her to that Methodist Church behind the corner where
I was on way to. She told me, she is also going to that Church, she is only
waiting for her father. She came to Church, gave me her address, 3 days later I
asked her if she would mind living on sailing boat or in the simple hut in
jungle, and she said she would love it, therefore, I asked her to marry me and
she said yes.
Three weeks after I met her, we got married when my pastor
friend and mentor Gösta Öman come from Sweden to Prague. I think it is normally
much better when people know each other longer time before they get married,
but I wanted to get back to Thailand soon. First, a long time after that, she
admitted that she was praying to God the same week as I did, telling Him that
she does not want to be alone any more, asking Him to send her a husband who is
older than she and who likes adventure a lot, to that Methodist Church, ( where
she normally does not go – and neither did I) that Sunday.
Back in Thailand, we were happy to see how God was doing His
miracles and saving people.
Once we were for example asked to pray for an old man who
fell from a high mango tree and broke his back so he could not walk and doctors
said they cannot do anything for him anymore. We prayed to Jesus for whom there
are no hopeless cases, and next day he told his daughter that in the dream he
heard a voice telling him he is healed now and can go to WC by himself, but he
was arguing that he cannot walk. When he woke up, he went to WC by himself and
his daughter said he is not so much surprised that Jesus healed him, but what
surprised him very much was that God of foreigners can speak so perfectly Thai
language!!!!
I praise Jesus, He gave me a new life and filled my deep vacuum
and hunger for the spiritual life! Amen.
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