I went to Germany to a small town near Cologne, which is called Weißenthurm, where I spent a few weeks with my friend Alex, whom I previously met in Prague, when he visited me for one week in the beginning of May. I've known him only online since 2014, we chatted on facebook. He first always talked about finding Jesus, the Living Water, and how to see Jesus in this life. Now I was very interested in that, because I have a deep desire for the spiritual. And of course to see God / Jesus for real, would be fantastic.
And of course Alex is the only person I know of, that has seen Jesus Christ face to face, and in a vision... That being said, I believed him, and I was sure that he really has seen him, because he seems like a nice guy, and that he wasn't lying or making it up.
Since we've known each other online, he oftentimes criticized me for my Heavy Metal, or just Music addiction, or excessive listening to music. Especially when seeking God, he said it is not good to listen to any music at all.
But I must point out that when me and Alex prayed over the internet for Jesus to show me a dream about a certain thing, many times I received a dream, which was relevant to what we have asked for. For instance, we asked if Music in itself is good or bad, and I received a dream wherein was a Rock star, or a Metal musician that I know, and like his music, and he was like a teacher, and he played us a song, and all of a sudden every one in the audience, started to be happy, and cheerful and were joyful like little children, and this was for me a proof that music makes people happy. Then there was some honey issuing out of a briefcase, and after that I felt the bliss. I was not sure what it meant.
The days spent with Alex in Prague were awesome, we talked about so many things, mostly spiritual, and we did have a good time. I showed him a few of my favorite songs. He said he liked it. We also played frisbee in the park, which was fun.
Now back to the trip in July, I flew to Cologne, where Alex picked me up at the airport, we missed the last train and then it was like 2 AM, and we couldn't go anywhere.. Alex said cigarettes keeps you awake, so said why not ? So he got a pack of Lucky Strikes. We smoked a few of them, and waited for the first morning train to the Weißenthurm, where his sick friend Mario lived, who was kind to let me live in his house for free for couple of weeks, and Alex lived with him for a long time, because he was taking care of him, and helping him to find Jesus, and to break away from his Valium addiction.
Now I had many interesting dreams there, mainly about the Spirit of Jesus Christ, and how Alex has it, and we don't.
I went to extremes there, with Alex trying to support me in really finding Jesus, and the Kingdom of God. Now, taking 5 hour walk in the night, until the dawning was really cool, after 4 days without food. And we did that almost every night, just walking around the River, and having interesting conversations. We were also praying for my wife, for her acceptance of me cutting out the pills, which I was taking, because both me and Alex believe that pills are a hindrance in finding Jesus, drugs comes from the greek word for sorcery, which is a bad thing. And also we prayed that my relationship with my wife will get better. Because she was really pissed off at me for some time when I was in Germany.
But the good news is that God answered our Prayer, we prayed hard many times with Alex about this, and now when I am back in Prague my relationship with my wife is enormously better, than even before. So I praise God for that.
Now, after a few weeks, Alex decided to go to Holland, to visit his friend, who is in the mental hospital. And I told him, 'Hey I ain't never been to Holland, could I come with you, man?' and he said, Yes, you can.
So we both set off to Amsterdam, a long ass trip by bus, not a pleasant experience, because I hate travelling by bus.. But we made it. Then from thence we took a train to Alkmaar, 30 minutes by train, a smaller town, where Alex knows a good Hostel.
Now it was very nice there, I just stayed in the Alkmaar town,while Alex went to Castricum, to visit his friend Vincent. I loved the weather there, it was rarely hot there, mostly just cool , around 19 degrees, and always raining.
The first plan was, to just try fasting all the 4 days in the Netherlands, but when we were going there, Alex decided , let's just have some fun, it's good to seek God and fast, pray, when you are alone.
That sounded good to me, I haven't had fun in a long time.
So the first day we stopped at the coffee shop, where they also sell Hash and Marijuana joints. And Alex bought a few of them, and said I should try it too. Now I was a bit excited at first, but then I said why not?
I did smoke little bit only, but I took a few long puffs of Hash, and then it took me into some weird thoughts when we went outside to the park. And I started to have very disturbing thoughts, even questioning Alex, if he's not gonna do anything stupid.. Because he smoked a lot more than me. But that feeling passed. Also I was quite surprised at his decision to buy 40 cigs pack, twice there, plus many joints of weed. But then I said, ok man just wants to have some fun.
Now I cannot relate to this kind of lifestyle much, I pretty much didn't try any drugs in my life, except little bit of weed. And he had tried many of drugs.
He downloaded some good movies on his laptop and I watched some of them and some of them we watched together. One very funny movie Super Troopers, we watched together after having little bit of weed, and I was laughing so much during it, so that was a good feeling.
In the fourth day at midnight Alex left to the airport to fly to Israel, where he is going to be for one month. He said he will fast and just travel along the river or beaches, with only sleeping bag. I hope he is right with the God / Jesus thing. I have never seen Jesus, nor have I had any Heaven feeling in last 9 years... So I am kind of hopeless.
Anyway I just wanted to share this story. This is my first story after a long time, because I thought this trip to visit Alex was signification to my life. I loved spending time with him, and it was cool. But I still wish I can feel Heaven and get the Christs spirit.
Joseph
