When the Russian army occupied my country – Czechoslovakia, I ran away to Sweden so I would not have to live under a communist dictatorship again.
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 the experiment, those scientists would meet in the cafe shop to discuss those experiments and the conclusion that could be made. When I asked them about the reason for some things which were impossible to happen and yet they did happen ( for ex. Particles that had passed an energy barrier which they could not pass). On my question of how could this happen, they answered that there is a spiritual world, and God interacts with the 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 to experience those spiritual worlds too.
Sometimes I went with my mother to church, not because I was a Christian, but because it was a sort of cultural thing, and Czech emigrants would meet each other there and talk after preaching. From my visits to 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 you will see and experience what they talk about.
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 an icy road I had a very complicated fracture of my knee which doctors operated on for two hours, they told me there was nothing more that could be done with it, but I had to avoid some sports and be careful. The problem was that it was getting worse and worse each year.
When I got to the bible school, 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 was wrong with me and prayed in strange languages. I asked Jesus to heal my knee and felt some sort of weak vibration in my whole leg. After this, my knee was healed.
