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Children’s Prayer Storm – KGS

booklet “Signs and Wonders”). The crowds were large, as was their
enthusiasm.

At first he spent a week each month in Holland, but soon it was the
other way around. He now lived in Holland and only went home to his
family for about a week every month. Nobody can imagine the sacrifice
made by the whole family, his wife, his children and himself. And yet it
occurred quite often that, when he had returned home to his family for
a week, there would again be telephone calls requiring his immediate
presence in Holland, so that he, having just arrived home, straightaway
had to leave again. Although the renunciation grieved everyone, his
wife would say to him: «Do what you have to do.» And this happened
most often. Hardly had he arrived home for a day or two when he was
most urgently requested from Holland again. The Sword-Bishop relates
about it:

«How often then I would shake hands with my dear wife to say good-
bye, and she would smile at me bravely while tears shimmered in her
eyes, and I knew for certain that she would cry with the pain of sepa-
ration after I left; so would our children. They all suffered from the
separation from their beloved father. And yet, they were all willing to
make this sacrifice.»

What happens as a result? The people would look askance at them, or
avoid them altogether. They are despised and insulted! And this even
by people who consider themselves pious. Thus, for example, it was
once said publicly by a priest in Switzerland at a large prayer meeting
for atonement that it was now proven that Nikolaus was seriously men-
tally ill and had been in a lunatic asylum, and so forth, and so on. To
none of those present did it occur to ask for proof. What anguish this
caused his wife and children, who know so well how unselfishly her
husband and their father does everything, and that he had really never
been in an asylum, and was perfectly healthy and normal. GOD alone
will know ...!

Meanwhile in Holland: the KGS was growing so much that every day so
many people attended that the need for a house became obvious.
There was a former retreat house in Spaubeek, built in a castle-like
style, with about 220 rooms and a large church. Nikolaus and the

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