'COINCIDENCES'.. Are they Godly 'hints' in our lives?

I don’t know what to make of coincidences.

The man of God that I first learned to study the Bible from in the 70’s had a saying -

‘There are very few coincidences and no such thing as an accident’.

Well for years I’ve focused on the truth about accidents. If sin will make you sick, (It will) the occult will sooner or later - cause an accident. If you know anyone who is accident prone, or had an accident, that is a RED FLAG that the occult is operating somewhere in their life - with their permission - if not their knowlege. I could give you 10,000 examples, but that’s not what this post is about.. it’s about ‘coincidences’.

The Bible teacher said there are very few true coincidences.

OK. So what about when there are MANY?

My head spins with coincidences, they happen to me so often. My jury is out on just what they mean, but let’s see what you think..

A few days ago, I wrote about how my LG high capacity clothes washer was on the fritz, of course.. JUST when I needed to do a ton of laundry after a full weekend at my Bed & Breakfast.

I did NOT want to pay LG $400 to fix it. Nor did I want to pay $100 for a diagnostic and then be subject on top of that - to whatever a visiting repair man claimed it needed. So, I sat down with my son, and asked God to have an angel repair my washing machine.

No kidding.

OK. This is not wacky or extraBiblical.

Angels are sent to MINISTER to us, the heirs of salvation. Though, granted, for many years I thought they were only assigned to ‘come to our rescue - in danger’ - Just as 2 did for me on a NYC subway car at 1 o’clock in the morning one time in Brooklyn...

I love this story.. briefly,

I was HOLLERING at a man who was mugging an old man at the other end of what was mostly an empty car. I was at the north end of the car, heading into Manhattan where I had served as a cater waitress for ‘Martha Stewart Catering’.

The mugger came in on the south end of the car and took to striking an old man again and again until the man lost his grip on the pole, and fell. From my end of the car, I stood myself up and told the mugger what for! To “get off the train”. To “leave the guy alone”.. you “ANIMAL”.. etc. Very loudly!

So he took my advice., and left the guy alone and started for me. I stood my ground.

About 6 paces away from me in the rocking car.. he stopped dead in his tracks and changed races. His bloodless face was gripped with astonishment and he was no longer looking at me.

I turned around slightly myself, to see what he the heck was looking at.

2 very serious looking angels stood behind me with their hands on their hips, as if just waiting for him to take one more step.

It was like ‘WOW! THE CALVARY IS HERE!’

That’s what I always thought angels were about. That and to bring messages. ALA Gabriel & Joshua, later Gideon.. later Mary.. etc..

But I admit to learning a LOT MORE about angels from pastor Thurmond Scrivner. The wonderful man of God, had a deliverance ministry and a ranch in Texas. One time, as he told the story, when he couldn’t get a HUGE BULL into the paddock, he called upon the name of the Lord, and asked for angelic assistance.

As Scrivner told it, suddenly the bull’s huge head popped UP From the grasses he was guzzling, he looked to the RIGHT at the paddock, and proceeded to march through the gates at once, as if prodded by an unseen cattle prod.

It doesn’t take me long to catch on to a good idea, and I’ve had angelic help for repairs and other such things ever since!

OK.. SO I asked the Lord to send an angel mechanic to my washer.

That meant I had TO BELIEVE my own prayer! Because, what if I did a wash load and the drum wouldn’t spin? It would be full of water - and the repair man would be unable to remove the drum to take out the obstruction.

In fact, the load washed quietly and drained perfectly!. No more obstructions! (which I figured was a bobby pin, since it had happened once before - same noise, same problem.)

And SURE ENOUGH.. not ONLY was it a bobbi pin again, it was TWO bobbi pins, and a SAFETY PIN~!

How did I find out? Look what the angel did... HE kept the bobby pins from going down the sink drain in the gushing release water, and set them side by side in the sink for me to see! This is the photo of how I found them!

And the safety pin was hooked in the drain.

.OK.. so what does this have to do with coincidences?

Well, a few days later, I went to Macy’s with my son, who had asked me to join him. He needed some clothing for summer. So I went, and visited the cosmetic counter for some face powder.. The fella who served me, had tattoos.. What are the odds?…

Now for the short list of coincidences in my life of late..

The local phone code for Fayetteville NY, (where I moved 7 years ago), is 637’. The county code is 315, but the town code is 637.

For example, the village clerk’s # is 315 637-9864.

What’s the coincidence? The toll free business number that I’ve had for 28 years is: 888 637-3726.

44

The number 44 has figured in my life for decades, though I only figured it out in 2018 - when I ran a Bible class for 2 disabled gentlemen up here.

I had to pick them up and drop them off at their separate homes 3 times a week for the class. I also took them to Church meetings from time to time.. Finally we all noticed that every time I dropped them off somewhere, SOMETHING on my dashboard said ‘44’.. either the time of day ended with a ‘44’ or the miles traveled did, or the ‘range of miles left to travel’ based on gas - did.. Without fail.

In one case, I dropped off one fellow and the ‘range’ of miles left in the gas tank, was posted as ‘144’ miles.

When I drove 7 miles to the other fellow’s house, the ‘range’ was still ‘144’ miles.

How could that be? The ‘Miles per gallon’ had ‘upped’ between the 2 houses so precisely, that after we drove the 7 miles, the dashboard said I could do another ‘144’ miles.

Why does that story matter?

Well, it put the number ‘44’ on my radar.. and I started to see it all over the place. For example:

• I live in a Historic House, in a village built in 1844.

• My house is one of 44 historic houses in the Village of Fayetteville NY.

• My address in Virginia was 6442 Overlook Drive, Alexandria..

• My mortgage here in NY for 7 years (I just paid it off) was $344.69

• When I’d buy a $1.75 PO money order to pay the mortgage the total was $346.44

• When my son flew to Belarus in 2020, to go to school (They had no lockdowns and did not pretend there was a pandemic).. I took him to JFK Airport... We were supposed to arrive at 3pm for his 5pm flight. He was also concerned that his suitcase was over the 50lb limit, so he asked me to wait in the airport in case he had to give me stuff out of the suitcase. …The traffic on the highway was very heavy. We arived in front of Turkish Airlines at 3:44. His suitcase weighed 44 lbs.

• My son and I went on a trip to Texas in November of 2022. Every single detail of the trip was earmarked by a ‘44’. We were supposed to arrive in Dallas at 10:15 am. The flight board in Chicago updated our arrival to ‘10:44 am’. My son’s bording pass # .. 44, the distance we were to drive between our hotel and our destination.. pn the GPS - 44 miles, the time on the dashboard when we started the engine of the rental car 11:44 am, A man sitting in the airport, had a 44 on his shirt! The post outside the window was ‘Bus Stop - #44’! ..The MILES already on the rental car when we picked it up..1,544 , miles..

• I can’t tell you how many times I’ll be on the phone with someone and when we close the call, my phone tells me we spoke for 30 minutes and 44 seconds..

• When I leave my house - the FIRST car in front of me at the light will have a 44,

• If I happen to look at a license plate at any time- it will have a 44.

• Here’s the bridge at the corner of my block.. the plates on ALL THREE CARS IN FRONT OF ME END WITH 44.

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If I don’t have time to watch a whole video, (people often send me videos to watch).. I’ll click on the time line asking the Lord to show me the ‘salient information’, and INVARIABLY I land on a minute.. 12:44, 50:44, 1.67.44.

I don’t do this on purpose. I couldn’t.

I’ll cook something on the stove, when the buzzer rings, I turn off the flame, then turn off the timer - and the stove clock returns - and it’s 11:44am!

One time I brought my groceries to the checkout at Wegmans, .. they totaled an unusally even number.. no pennies. $44. I reached for my cash. I had exactly 2 twenties and 4 singles on me. $44.

Huh!

I don’t LOOK for 44s..

In fact, if I LOOK for them, I never see them. It reminds me of the ‘string theory’ in physics, where if you LOOK for something - it stays out of sight. (Something like that,.. I read about it decades ago).

But is this a ‘coincidence’ as often as this happens?

Or what is it?

THIS episode may offer a clue…

Before we moved up here to Fayetteville NY, while I was still living in Virginia, in 2016, I got a phone call from a woman who asked if I would “draw caricatures at their special event.”

I thought that was amazing because, though I’d not done them in years, I used to draw caricatures for a living in the 1980s. I’d draw at parties for over $100 per hour! It was called ‘Party Art’.

Here’s a caricature I drew in 1991.. at the White Plains Mall, where I was invited by the Mall to entertain their customers. When no one was in my chair, I’d just draw people from the newspapers, to pass the time. This is a caricature of then Russian president - Boris Yeltsin..

The thing is, this was LONG BEFORE I knew I would one day learn to Speak Russian and serve in the US Army on a Russian task force.

You can see my caricatures by Googling ‘Caricature Classics by Victoria BIngham

Is this another coincidence? Are coincidences a Godly hint of His ‘plans’ for us?

I don’t know..

But when I asked the caller where the event was .. she said - ‘Syracuse NY’.

I said - ‘Wow! I’m moving up to Syracuse NY next month.. did you know that?’

She said - ‘No, I found you online’.

I asked her - ‘Where will your event be held?’

She said - ‘At a shopping mall.’

I asked her - ‘What’s the name of the Mall?”

She answered - “Destiny’.