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!