MARTTI'S GUESTS
Welcome to the show.
Each of my guests is different.
We will hear what God has done in the life of my guest of today.
It is God's miracle that he is here today.
Mikko Voutilainen, welcome. - Thank you.
You travelled here from Ostrobothnia.
Yes, but I was born in Heinävesi on 12th of July on 1962.
You have lived in many parts of Finland.
How was your childhood home?
Was it a Christian home?
My granny was a believer.
She read the Bible and a hymn book.
I learnt to read from the old Finnish text.
I was five years old.
Surely it was a seed which -
started to sprout later.
You were in a serious car accident in your twenties.
It happened on the 21st of May 1981.
It changed my life, as I visited the afterlife.
It was a remarkable event. Please tell us more about it.
- What happened was...
I am in transportation business.
I usually drive heavy trucks.
Then I was driving a small car.
I was 18, and inexperienced.
I lost control of the car.
I had bought new bushings for the drive shaft, but not installed them.
The car went off the road.
There was a sand pile by the bridge, -
and the car jumped from the sand pile.
It flew about 20 metres -
and fell into a flooding rapid.
The car was out of my control.
My aunt used to run a Sunday school, -
and I normally went there.
Thus I knew that Jesus is able to help.
There appeared two huge trees in front of the car.
I just let go of the steering wheel.
I took a hold of the seat and prayed:
"Dear Jesus, help me if you are there."
He helped immediately.
My car passed between the two trees.
There was more on the way, -
but I was transferred into a tunnel.
I followed the tunnel, -
and I was told where to go.
I saw a light at the end of the tunnel.
I went there because I was told to.
The place had a high plateau with a fence.
I saw people, who were in bad condition, -
and on the other side people were in a good condition.
I was thinking: "Well, this is the end.
I am going to the bad side."
I knew how I had lived.
But I was told something.
A figure stood beside me -
but things from my life occupied my mind.
I didn't pay attention to the figure, but he said: -
"It's not your time."
"You can go back. You have a chance to repent."
After that, I walked back in the tunnel.
When I saw the light again, I walked on.
I got to the end of the tunnel and reached the light.
The next thing I saw -
was a beautiful, blue stream.
There was green grass on both sides of the stream.
By the stream there was a lush tree.
I looked at it for a while.
Then I saw my life as a film on a wide screen.
It was full size, and the film of my life started.
Interestingly, nothing material was shown.
The film only showed what I had promised or done to others -
or how I had treated others.
After watching the film -
I thought that I actually belonged to the bad side.
Next I saw a windshield coming towards me.
In a still frame you would have seen glass and water.
I was an apprentice for a hardware shop keeper -
and I had the company's t-shirt on.
Yet I don't have scars on my body.
I only have minor scars by the neck and on the cheek.
There were some cuts on my hand.
And the next thing I did -
was to close my eyes.
I started to look for a way out.
I unbuckled my seat belt and swam out.
I hit my head to the river bed, because I dived down.
I looked up and saw some light, and decided to go there.
I reached the river bank and got out of the water.
I dragged myself on a rock and thought: -
"Probably I have some injuries."
"I should get to the hospital."
I have trained Budo techniques -
and learnt also the breathing technique.
I can breath and shout at the same time.
I was just screaming.
The pain was so strong that I have never experienced such.
I tolerate pain better now.
And the two trees, your car went between them?
- That's right.
What was special there? - I got help in a second.
And the gap was too narrow for a car? - Yes, that was the case.
The car had to turn in midair to fit between the trees.
Otherwise it would've crushed. - It would've been the end of it.
Then two buses stopped at the bridge.
People waved at me.
Finally ambulances and fire engines arrived.
The firemen came to the water to get me out of there.
In the first hospital they said that nothing can be done.
They only cut my clothes off.
It's strange how it all went.
It wasn't that I saw my life, -
and decided to repent there and then.
Only at the intensive care I understood that I was half gone.
I was floating by the ceiling of the room.
I was drifting between this world and the other side.
I saw people coming to me, telling things and crying.
Then my father came to visit me and said: -
"I have always loved you, Mikko."
"I wish I had told it earlier, and you could have heard it."
I wanted to tell him that I did hear it.
Only a split second later I was back in my own body.
But everything was confusing, and I couldn't see or hear.
When you are out of your body, -
your senses are a thousand times better.
This body limits all things.
Afterward I told my father what had happened.
He knew the situation, because he had been in the room.
He went pale and fell from his chair.
He received Christ to his life.
It touched him deeply. - It would touch anyone.
I have told this story to quite a few people.
For a time after that, you were paralyzed from waist down.
- Yes. My hip had been broken by the steering wheel.
Maybe I wasn't able to move because of that, -
but I swam to the rock anyhow.
At the hospital I was constantly examined.
and I got to my feet finally.
- Was it long after you had been out of your body?
- Did it take long to regain your health?
I am not completely healthy even now.
I learnt to walk and to ride a bicycle.
I was doing 4 x 25 km in a week.
I was able to move around.
There is another thing, too.
I had received Christ in my life and I knew -
that it pleases Him to give to His own, when they ask.
So something happened to me.
My leg got necrosis.
Doctors and a medical institute recommended an operation to me.
Some wanted to use bone transplants, and such.
That kind of operation would've been expensive.
Once I was walking along a path, -
and I was thinking about it all, and decided to pray: -
"If it's your will to heal my leg, prevent the operation."
Then I went to book an appointment for an orthopedist.
His name was Jussila.
On the first time I went there, -
driving was hard, as I had to operate clutch and gas pedal with one leg.
However, the doctor had fallen ill.
I figured that it can happen even to doctors.
I made a new appointment.
So, the next time came.
What happened, was that...
I was on the way, passing the town of Raisio.
I was driving along, -
using clutch and gas the best I could with one leg.
There were policemen there.
If I am not wrong, the orthopedist's house had burnt.
He wasn't available at the hospital.
I was driving to the hospital, and police asked to be careful.
I went to the hospital.
When I was called up, the receptionist told me, -
that Dr. Jussila isn't available.
So I said: "Yeah, the house burnt down."
And the receptionist replied: -
"How do you know that? We haven't told anyone."
So I went to stand a bit further away.
I was advised to make a new appointment.
I refused, but they said that necrosis is a serious thing.
I stepped aside to pray and said: -
"Lord, I know this is your doing, but make sure I understand it."
I made an appointment and left the hospital.
The next time I went there the receptionist said -
that Dr. Jussila has retired, and I need a new appointment.
- It wouldn't work out.
I realised that it was God's doings.
I wasn't able to drive anymore.
I was sad and unsure if God accepts me.
Is He willing to heal me?
I cried in the bus, and the driver asked if he could help.
Others offered help, too.
I got to the bus stop, and took my familiar shortcut.
I walked about 50 metres.
I was using the walking aids, and I prayed like this: -
"Lord, to you it's not a big deal," -
"a hip or a leg, I mean."
"You even create new limbs."
"Faith as small as mustard seed moves mountains."
Then I felt a warm, vibrating force filling me.
I say that, because it was so strong for me.
There is no question about it, the force is so strong.
I took a step to test it.
I left the walking aids and started to walk.
The first step was painful, but after 25 metres it felt better.
Later I gave the walking aid to my granny.
I didn't loose my leg, and the necrosis on it stopped.
I am still handicapped, but it doesn't prevent me from living.
- You can walk and drive a car and such things.
The restaurant bus I drive has robot transmission.
- You experienced very strongly -
the presence of God's kingdom.
It changed your life.
I've felt that same force other times too.
I can tell an example.
A truck had got stuck at a junction and was on the way.
It blocked the traffic. I had just bought a new car.
I was driving with it, and got behind the truck.
I ran to the truck driver to ask what's wrong.
He said that it just stopped and wouldn't start.
I felt the same vibrating force as before.
I knew that God can do anything to promote the Gospel.
So I said that I know what's wrong with the truck.
I went in the truck, for the first time ever.
I turned the key and said: "Start, in the name of Jesus."
The driver asked: "How on earth can you do that?"
I said: "Believers are like this."
"Read the Bible, first the Gospel of John."
I shut the truck door and left, and the truck drove off.
It was about God, not me.
God spoke to him, and I was the messenger.
It has happened often.
- The poor and orphans are close to your heart.
Tell us, how that came to be, and what it means.
My starting point is not -
a very wealthy family.
And my brother sold everything he had -
and went to India as a missionary.
He has started an orphanage there with the help of sponsors.
I have always wanted to support that.
I have worked in graphic design, and had an ad agency.
I did the layout for his magazine.
I designed the posters and materials for it.
I managed his server and email addresses.
I have 25 years of experience, so the work was familiar to me.
I also prayed to find out if there is something I can do.
I help others, but can God use me directly?
God has given me strength.
I got a revelation about starting a moving church.
How do you start one? There are many Café Buses.
Who pays for running Café Buses? Someone has to pay.
Most people want to go out to the mission field.
But who is going to pay for it?
I got a divine revelation of a Restaurant Bus.
I went to get a bus driving license.
Then I got permits needed for transporting people.
Then I registered the company "Car Restaurants".
I turned it into a franchise business.
I protected it as well as I could and prayed for equipment.
- And now the Restaurant Bus is almost ready.
It needs a bit of work for interiors.
There are already orders, so it can make profit.
- If someone wants to know more about this -
where can they find it?
It's in Facebook.
Just search in Google for -
Facebook and "Autoravintolat".
You have already orders. - Yes.
Associations and corporations are interested.
Many would like to use it, even in politics.
The bus need to be finished. - Yes.
So the idea is to generate profit, -
which will be used for the orphanages in India.
- There is also an association for world wide evangelizing.
I am a vice member in its board.
It is another channel to distribute the profit.
I have received the revelation from God.
The bus is for companies, individuals, and associations -
as a restaurant and a rental coach.
But it also contributes to aiding and evangelizing.
- Our time is almost over, but you have a few minutes, -
to tell the viewers, what God gives you to say.
I have on my heart those people who don't know God -
that they might know Him.
I will pray now.
All of you watching, please join in.
Everyone has relatives, who don't know God.
I pray for them to find You.
I can say out of experience, -
that God has given me a lot.
It cannot be grasped by your understanding.
- Thank you, Mikko, for telling about God's miracles.
I believe that this will encourage the uncertain.
God can really do anything.
Thank you for telling about your mission.
Let's pray for God to lead people who have a calling -
to have the bus prepared and let them join your revelation.
I would like to say, -
that the Bible says, that believing is enough.
Many wonder about it.
The Bible says: "Faith is enough." - Thank you.
Subtitles: Antti Pimiä