Page 67 - Unseen Hands by Nona Freeman

God's Choice
While Tekle continued his sermon in the conference hall, Erkenesh received complete healing in her room and felt God's presence for the first time in her life. I Peter 3:3 and I Timothy 2:9-10 touched her as she read the Bible the following morning, and she immediately removed her rings, bracelets, necklaces and earrings, putting them all in a give-away pile along with the extremely short dresses she usually wore. Never again would she put on any of those things.
Tekle brought a message on the baptism of the Holy Ghost that night. Though none of the people who respond ed to the invitation to pray received the Spirit, joy filled Erkenesh to learn that God poims out His Spirit on men and women today.
From the time the conference ended and Tekle left Dila to preach in other towns, Erkenesh and four fidends fasted and sought diligently for the Holy Ghost. Her deep hunger for the Spirit moved her with humility to sleep on a mat on the floor rather than on her comfortable bed.
After four months, the church people sent for Tekle. When he came and laid hands on them, Erkenesh and three others received the Holy Spirit. A young teacher in the mission who was praying with them began to scream in a satanic manner. When Tekle rebuked the demon in him, he stood haughtily saying, "I am a Chris tian and do not have an evil spirit." He left the room in anger. Though Erkenesh did not know it, he only attended the prayer meetings because of an infatuation for her.
The griefs and disappointments of her childhoodhad made Erkenesh reserved and distrusting, unable to make friends. Some wrongly thought her conceited, not discern ing that her real problem was a hard, unforgivingheart.
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