Revival Fire In Uppsala, Sweden
February 26, 2002
By Carolin Lennartsson
I want to tell you what is happening in Sweden right now, in Uppsala, among the youth in Word of Life! This is real!! This is actually happening!! "What is happening?", you say, I'll tell you. We have got the taste of revival!!
Last Friday in the youth meeting a girl, 14 or 15 years old, went up and told what had happened to her that week. She was one of those who went to some youth meetings and so on, but didn't have a living relationship with God, she wasn't living with God. As she stood there in her kitchen doing the dishes, she said to God "If you really love me you have to show me that". As she said that a flood of God's presence entered the kitchen! It totally overwhelmed her! She ran to the bathroom and started to pray, scream and cry. She prayed and prayed like never before, prayed and cried. GOD had shown up!!
After on hour she finally came out and were just to try to explain to her parents what was going on (as they of course wondered), but then a second wave came over her and she couldn't talk and had to run back into the bathroom and there she prayed an other hour! God spoke to her and said that he was going to start something among the youth. Then she saw a vision. She saw in front of her the map of Sweden and small needles (small red once) one for each school in Sweden. She started to do this sound with her fingers (kn”ppte med fingrarna) and she didn't know why, but as she did that she saw every needle, one for each sound, put on fire, and finally all needles were on fire and when they were, suddenly all the map was on fire, all of Sweden! Wow!! God told her he wanted to start revival on the schools and that he was going to use her in it. She saw herself and a lot of other young people standing praying and praying for these schools.
As she then came out her friend called (she didn't either walked with God). She had a question about math for school, but this girl just said, "no, we will not talk about math now, we will talk about God!" Then she told her friend what just happened and the friend started to cry on the phone. She asked this girl, "can I come over to your place and pray for you?" And of course she could! So she cycled as fast as she could to her friend and got to pray the prayer of salvation with her that night!! This is happening here, here in Uppsala!!
As she told this on the youth meeting God started to work! Joakim (our youth pastor) told all youth that was in her age to come forward and they started to pray! GOD CAME! These young people, most of them 14-16 years old was laying on the floor crying for there friends to get saved, for God to take away sin in their lives, and for God to fill them with his fire! They were doing this for hours!!! Some parents came to pick there children up at about 23:00 and there youth came out and meet them with tears running down there face saying "I can't go home yet, we are praying, I can't stop! Come back later, our I get home by myself somehow, I have to go and pray!" and then went in and continued! Finally the people locking the church had to make them leave some time after midnight.
Then on the Saturday, the day after, many young people just called each other and got together and prayed! One group of about 13 young people had a 8 hour long prayer meeting!! They had to move from place to place, coz they started in some apartment, but after a while the parents thought they were making too much noise and took up the whole apartment, but they couldn't stop, so they just called some other parents, went there and continued, prayed and cried and called out to God!! And like that it continued, for 8 hours! This is still Uppsala, Sweden! :-)
On Monday in school the people going in 7th and 8th grade had there usual morning prayer together before the lessons start. But that day the lessons had to wait. God showed up so strong and many of them met God as never before. It was impossible to stop praying, so they had to cancel the first lesson. Many of them got it right with God and were totally FILLED with his fire!! One guy had gone up to a youth leader. He's eyes were filled with tears and with a weak voice he said "I see my old class in my old school, I see them as real as if they were here. They are not saved. I have to go to them. I have to go to them".
Then on Tuesday it happened again at the morning prayer time! Lessons had to be canceled coz GOD came! The same on Wednesday! Then it was the little older youth, 17-19 years old. As their morning prayer finally finished they still couldn't stop, so they gathered in the corridor praising God! One of the pastors in the church entered the corridor not knowing what was going on there, and he was nearly knocked to the floor by God's presence as he entered the corridor!! God was there so strongly with his presents!! This is real! This is happening!!
Our youth pastor Joakim went to Norway on the Thursday to meet some youth leaders there. As they were to start there talk around a table (they had all in order, paper, pens, bibles and so on, ready to sit and discuss and talk about different things) and they said as we usually do "let us just start with a prayer and give this talk and day over to God", and they planned for a 2 min prayer. But God had other plans!! As they started to pray God came so strongly they had to get down on the floor and pray, and they couldn't stop! They prayed for 2 hours! And one of the persons from Norway suddenly said he had a word from God, and then he started to prophecy nearly exactly the same prophecy that came throw Pastor Ulf Ekman in February last year about the young generation (it's long so I wont write it here). Then an other guy suddenly said "I see a map of Sweden! And I see small needles that marks every school in Sweden!" And then suddenly he started there in the room to make this sound with his fingers, exactly like the girl!!, and said "I see that every time I do this these needles get on fire!" God had spoken and shown exactly the same things again!!!
Joakim told how now today as he came back from Norway and went into his office, someone had put a BIG plastic sack there, and there was a little note on it saying "this is only a little of what we have got rid of". He opened it and in it was broken cd:s, crashed video tapes, torn papers and so on. He also told how many of the youth had come to him this last week and confessed sins they had done. Parents had called Joakim and told him how there children had became different persons! This thing that God is doing is not something cool and something on the surface, there is A LOT of repentance, the true fruit of revival! Hundreds of youth have meet God and are now totally filled with him! They are praying like never before and are prophesying over each other and even over Joakim! They are filled with God!!
Tonight at the youth meeting Joakim just told all this to the ones that maybe hadn't heard, as all this has happened only in this week! Then he invited those young people forward who wanted to get it right with God, and put things behind them and go with what God is now doing, this mighty outpouring! Many, many young people went forward and we started to cry out to God! Wow! I have never been in anything like this before! I have got a taste of revival throw tapes and books and others stories, but this, to be able to see it and be in it, was fantastic! It's like you can't believe it is happening!! I had to leave early as I had to follow a friend who had to catch the train to Stockholm, but I guess they are still praying as I'm sitting here writing. I will finish now and pray too. I want to be a part of this and get a hold of what God is doing and be filled with it myself so that I can be empowered to go out and win the lost!!
This is happening here!, in Uppsala! Wow! And is it happening here, it can happen where you are too!!
Location: Uppsala, Sweden
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