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It Came to Pass
a full-time evangelist from the North who has nothing but the Lord and His W ord."
She waited apprehensively, hoping for their approval. Her mother finally agreed without enthusiasm, but her father's face pictured sadness as he said, "Daughter, I cannot say God did not speak to you, for I have also heard His voice. I am distiirbed by this strange testimony that you have received the Holy Spirit and that you plan to give up teaching and give up going to the university in order to marry a destitute evangelist. He receives no sup port from any organization, nor is he affiliated with any church."
He stared long into space, then asked, "What will your life be like married to him? This is a difficult matter to decide. I can neither say yes nor no now. Let me pray about it."
Disappointed not to have her father's sanction, Erkenesh returned to Dila. Her father went to S.I.M. mis sionaries to learn about the baptism of the Holy Ghost. The missionaries denied flatly that speaking in other tongues happens today and that it is a sign of receiving the Holy Ghost. They assured him that every believer receives the Spirit from the moment he accepts the Lord as his personal Savior.
Encouraged by her brother Tamru's declaration that Erkenesh had lost her reason; was altogether insane, and should be put in an asylum, her father rejected her testimony as a delusion. Most of her relatives agreed and turned against her, which is a disaster in a strong family- oriented society.
Erkenesh thought that when one had been reconciled to God by His Spirit that all would be peaceful. Crushed
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