What a wonderful day! What a blessed start to our mission to Fosen!

We have had a wonderful weekend with the covenant community in Trondheim, together with Ruth and Matthew Ling from England and many brothers and sisters from Norway. It was a great blessing to spend some time even with our son Karl Enok. 

After leaving Karl Enok at the railway station we drove towards Flakk to take the ferry across the broad Trondheim Fjord. We easily found our hotel in Åfjord, Fosen Fjordhotell after a nice drive through this beautiful area. We were praying together in the car and our hearts were full of expectation to the Lord.

After some rest and a delicious dinner, we decided to go to a village called Roan. I was preaching the gospel there for nearly 64 years ago, and I stayed with a family and they had a small church building just across the road from their farmhouse. In my memory I still had some idea about the place and how to find it. On the way from Trondheim we had some heavy rain but as we were approaching Roan the weather was very nice with even some sunshine.

A few days before we left home in Stavanger, God gave my dear wife a vision of a house, and as we approached Roan she expectantly was looking for the house.

I had some memory of the road, and I saw a farmhouse and a building across the road that reminded me of the place I visited, but I was not fully convinced about it. But Solveig shouted: “This is the house I saw!” 

An elderly man was walking with his dog on the road, so I stopped the car and spoke to him. He was very kind and friendly as I introduced myself and asked about the people at the farm and the house I thought might have been the church building. He confirmed everything. The house Solveig saw in the vision was the house I stayed in and the building across the road had been a church building, but was now turned into an ordinary family home. 

We thanked him and blessed him, as well as witnessing for him. I only remembered Nikolai, the name of the old grandfather living with his son and his family who was running the farm, but this man knew the names of the entire family and could tell us the name of the one daughter of the family that was still alive.

I told him about one incident that I will never forget from that church building. I had been fasting for a couple of days. In the afternoon I had held a devotion at the old people’s home. As I walked back to the house I was very tired, but had no time to rest, for I had to minister in a meeting. After a few songs I was called forward to preach. As I stood up, I nearly fainted, but was able to hold on to the pulpit. Then suddenly the power of God came upon me. My tiredness was wiped away in a second and the fresh anointing of the Spirit moved me to speak. It was like a rushing river. I invited people for prayer and several people had a powerful encounter with God through the laying on of hands.

After the meeting, Nikolai told me that he had seen two tall angels standing, one at each side of me supporting me. I never saw the angels, but definitely I was strengthened by them. I will never forget that experience.

The man at the road was very moved when we told him about the goodness of God and we were very blessed on our first day in the Fosen peninsula.

Solveig found the house she had seen, I found the farmhouse and the church building where I preached the Good News. But the best part was witnessing to the elderly man.