It’s nearly 10 am on Friday, and we leave from Jyväskylä at 10:30. Tonight I will be preaching in a pentecostal church in Åbo and it will be such an honor to get to visit my friends there.
The first two evenings of
this Finland crusade have been fantastic. We started on Wednesday in Seinäjoki.
It’s a city with a population of about 50,000, but on Wednesday evenings they need
parking guards because so many people come to church! The pastors’ team and the
entire church are truly role models for all of us. What Jesus did in Seinäjoki
he can do in other countries as well!
The church was packed on
Wednesday, a line of people came forward for the altar call and several hundred
people wanted prayer. Many were set free and many testified of how they had
been healed.
Then yesterday we arrived
in Jyväskylä. It was actually supposed to be a youth meeting, but there were
people of all ages there. The church had 300 seats and it was filled to
overflowing. People were standing in the aisles and in the foyer. Even though
the ages were mixed there was a youthful atmosphere.
More than 30 people came
forward during the altar call, and many of them were baptized in the Holy
Spirit and spoke in tongues for the first time in their lives. Praying for
people after the meeting took over an hour and a half.
Without exaggerating,
Finland has a level of hunger and devotion that I have never encountered in
Sweden. It is such grace to get to visit and minister to the churches here. Let
us pray that the fire that is burning in Finland will also spread to the rest
of Scandinavia.
