WHEN IT SEEMS LIKE GOD ISN'T LISTENING..

Nikolai Andreevich

My son Nick moved to Russia just over a month ago. He’s been there 3 times before and things were really good. This time, his expectations keep getting dashed, and he’s really down in the mouth about it.

Today he was despondent and said to me in a phone call, ‘I don’t understand why I’m not hearing from God; I’m not getting answers to my prayers’. (Sound familiar?)

It was not the time to tell him about how when the Children of Israel finally crossed the Jordan and went into the ‘Promised Land’ - there were giants waiting for them. Or, how David Wilkerson, a great prophet of God, often wrote about ‘what it’s like when ‘Heaven is silent’. I wanted to find something encouraging to tell him...

I did mention the Spiritual battle to him of course. I have never seen it fail, in my nearly half century walk with the Lord, that the things that come easy are suspect; But the things that are challenged are more likely to be ‘on the right track’ with satan typically throwing a monkey wrench in the machinery, and doing everything in his power to dismay and discourage. (That’s when he’s actually helpful- for - as the saying goes - ‘If we’re catching flak we must be ‘over the target’. .

I didn’t even KNOW I had this in my picture files! Haha.

Still, we ended the call without my having done much to convince him. Sigh.

OK.. before I tell you what happened later today, which I have yet to get to tell him, which was GODS answer for the young man (as surprising as it may seem).. I need to give you a bit of background.

ELECTRONIC MIRACLES

Computers and phone lines use electricity; which seems to be used by the spirits. For example, if I’m writing something particularly Godly, (as best I CAN tell).. THATs when my computer will freeze up. So I’ll say to my equipment - ‘I LOOSEN you in the name of Jesus Christ’,.. and 99 times out of 100, it UNfreezes instantly.

That may be the devil in the details, but I have seen GOD USE ELECTRONICS TOO!

VIZ:

In 2012, I was sitting in my dining room in Virginia, writing up a client contract for my art business (www.bfresco.com), and using my phone as a calculator. At one point, I added up a series of numbers that should have come to +/- $600, when I hit the ‘=’.

On my phone only 2 digits showed up - ‘5-0’. Fifty. Nowhere near what I’d calculated. When that sort of thing happens, I know the Lord is up to something. In fact, at that very moment, he also laid a song on my heart. I kept hearing a familiar melody but couldn’t put my finger on what song it was, and was wondering what the ‘FIFTY’ was about.

I even rang up a friend and hummed him a few bars.. Sean said it sounded familiar, but he couldn’t think of the song either.

Then it STRUCK ME like a ton of bricks. It was - ‘The Days of Elijah’..

The chorus in the song is -

‘Behold, He comes, riding on the clouds
Shining like the sun at the trumpet call
Lift your voice, the year of jubilee
And out of Zion's hill, salvation comes.’

THE YEAR OF JUBILEEEE = SALVATION COMES! That’d be JESUS CHRIST.

Here’s a link to what’s become one of my FAVORITE songs! THE DAYS OF ELIJAH!

FIFTY is JUBILEE! Hello!

Do we all know the Lord is coming back in a ‘Year of Jubilee’? That’s God’s year of the ‘Restitution of All Things’. For some reason that day, the Lord chose to bless me with the REMINDER that He was COMING back in a YEAR of JUBILEE! And WHAT JOY filled my heart that day! And still does everytime I hear that song!

OK.. there have been many electronic episodes like this, but these next 2 are my favorites..

In 2017 I had to buy a new cell phone. I went into Cricket in Syracuse and bought one - and uploaded a goofy photo of my son Nick to the homescreen.

A few weeks after buying it, some words appeared on the homescreen.

• I did not put the words there.

• I would not know HOW to put them there.

• I went back to Cricket Store and asked them if they knew how the words could have appeared on the Homescreen: They had NO IDEA!

Here are the words that showed up on my phone, and though the phone is long gone from usefulness (as cellphones are wont to be), and is in a drawer, the words are STILL there to this day …

JESUS the CHRIST.

He signed my phone.! Haha!!

→I’m telling you about the Lord using electronics to send messages - so that you can appreciate what happened today.

The next one is WONDERFUL too!

In 2019, I entered my classic Chevy in the NY State Fair - Classic Car Show - at the Fairgrounds up here.

Victoria’s 1972 Chevy Suburban in my driveway. Isn’t she sweet!?

I was excited about participating in the car show, loving the old car as I did (I’ve since sold it :>{ ); But no one in my little family cared to join me at the Fair. :>{ )

Nick’s dad was uninterested in the Old Cars Show, and his son, in this case, was a chip off the old engine block; So I wound up going to the fair alone.. (again, naturally)

When I got there, it was really exciting! They were playing Oldies over loudspeakers for every Era any car represented.. the 20’s, 30’s, 40’s, 50’s and so on! The Music was a GAS! (ok.. sorry for my puns). And since Nick was a budding film maker, I thought for sure he might come and record the cars and the music and make a film of it.. I even had an extra ticket!.

But Nick didn’t share my enthusiasm. I called him 4 or 5 times on my cell phone, and each time it was - “Thanks, but no thanks mom.”

After the last try, I gave up, and - a touch despondant, drove my Chevy, not to the levy, but to the building housing the restrooms.

• When I got there to the cavernous barn where the bathroom sign was, I got out of my car and was only vaguely aware of the Fair music playing..

• When I went into the large building, I was still vaguely aware of the Fair music playing..

• It was when I went into the Ladies smallish room that I became aware the music was still playing pretty loudly. The thought struck me, that they must have had speakers even inside the bathrooms..

• When I got into the stall, and the music was still playing - even louder, reverberating off the metal walls, it finally dawned on me that my phone was playing music inside my back pocket.

I pulled my phone out of my pocket and looked at it.

• My phone had turned itself on;

• It pulled up Youtube; (Something I rarely use my phone for).

• It pulled up a specific music video that I’d never heard before;

• The video was a song by the ‘Mormon Tablernacle Choir’.. (I had never listened to them before.. You see, this was not a playlist thing; Only God could have done this.)

• The specific song they were singing…. Can you guess? This is what was playing:

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I’m sitting here now crying tears of joy, remembering God doing this for me that particular day. Is He ever not mindful of us? Doesn’t He collect our tears in a bottle?

Doesn’t He ‘collect our tears in a bottle?’

⁸ Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book? Psalm 56:8

OK.. So fast forward to today.

Now it was my son who was despondent. As we talked today, I reminded him of how much God obviously loved and regarded him.

GOD had saved my son’s life miraculously THREE times in his short life; When he was 6 months old, he slipped silently into a pool over his head, and the Lord alerted me; I pulled him up within a few seconds; One night in 2019, when Nick’s speeding car should have landed upside down in the Erie canal in a pitch black place, God’s angels stopped his car at the precipice;

When Nick was lighting an M80- for a WWII re-enactment film he was making - and it blew up in his hand - someone’s else’s ‘hand’ reached in that instant - and sent the blast downwards - away from his face - which was left unscathed.

And on the day He was born the Lord told me, ‘Would I lead you to conceive, and not lead you to deliver? (Isaiah 66:9) Leading to a delivery, where - though I was 2 weeks late and age 42 - went swimmingly. YEARS LATER - it dawned on me that He didn’t just ‘lead me to deliver him’., He also ‘led me to →conceive him!’ Hahah!

So I knew God was not ‘ignoring him’, as Nick thought. But I had no answer just today when we spoke..

After our talk today, Nick & I left it that we’d talk again tomorrow - At 6 hours apart, it was close to midnight his time. Here there was still plenty of light, so I took my dogs out for a last hike of the day, along the Erie canal near my home.. where I daily go to pray. I was going to pray for Nikolai.

When I got to the parking lot by the canal and got out of my car, I heard sounds coming from my purse.

My phone was playing a video.. !¹

I pulled my phone out of my purse and found it playing a 1-minute-long Sid Roth interview! The Lord’s point is at the end around second 46:

If you listened to the end, you heard him say that the girl that was in the room started singing a WORSHIP SONG, and the spirit disappeared through the wall, and - [quote] - The ‘HEAVINESS THAT WAS IN THE ROOM COMPLETELY LIFTED, AND THE DARK ATMOSPHERE WAS TOTALLY GONE’.

A few things to point out.

#1: There is such a thing, as a SPIRIT of heaviness.

The devil can take advantage of our trials to make them even worse, by slipping that demon into the equation.

Just TODAY AOL mail posted a news article about a young man who was driven to commit suicide by the influence of a ‘Tic Toc video’. The article went on to say that Suicide rates among young people in the U.S. increased 67% from 2007 to 2021.. (CDC statistics) and Mental health professionals declare the U.S. to be in the midst of a teen mental health crisis.’

HOW much of what ails anyone considering suicide.. is demonic?

YES - the impetus can appear to be the ‘suggestive’ nature of videos.. or the clear and present crisis of young people today, cast adrift into a present sea of ubiquitous angst and confusion.

But like the young people in that room came to understand, there are malevolent forces at work- that can show up - looking for small cracks in our armor that they use order to slip in and take command of our thought processes.

That crack can come from things like: traumas; repetetive suggestion; psychotropic drugs (such as anti-depressants); sexual abuse; habitual hardship or protracted emotional assaults; loneliness; and in the lowest common denominator - fears.

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#2: The demon disappeared when a young lady in the room started to sing WORSHIP SONGS.

Was she a full chorus? No. Was she a priest or minister? Not that we know of. Was she a good singer? Who knows? What matters is what she used her mouth for… She WORSHIPPED GOD’.

That chased away a SPIRIT OF HEAVINESS! The man said, the ‘Heaviness in the room totally lifted’!

You can bet I already sent the video to my son, though it was after midnight in Russia, and he won’t get it till the morning, but the astute young man will recognize what God did for both of us tonight.

HE DID ANSWER - both of US!

After his many trials and disappointments of late, there was a SPIRIT of heaviness afflicting my son, which was also KEEPING HIM from HEARING FROM GOD.

How many young people in America today are afflicted by the rampant spiritualism that has engulfed the nation? How many young people need to know the armor and weapons that will evict a spirit driving them to despair?

Depressed youth are everywhere..

We pass them in the grocery store, they sit on their phones at their jobs, staring at a screen - impervious to your presence, they spin a laundry of negative thoughts watching negative videos, singing along with songs that celebrate dying and death.. they wear black clothing, and consider darkness to be an old friend - Not wanting to die, yet not seeing a way out of their despair.

Yet the weapons of deliverance are as Paul said - ‘IN OUR MOUTHS’ .. as close as our ‘BREATH’. Can we get the word out to them?

Let them know that the NAME of ‘JESUS the CHRIST’ is enough to chase away a demon.

And if it’s a spirit of heaviness afflicting anyone - show them how SINGING WORSHIP SONGS TO GOD WILL ALSO SERVE TO TOTALLY CHEER YOU UP!

For example: Here’s a song that you cannot listen and sing to, without laughing and crying for joy! ->

‘THE DAYS OF ELIJAH’!

because..

THERE’S NO GOD LIKE JEHOVAH !

Amen?!

1. It needs to be stressed that I don’t use my phone save for calls, texts, and camera. When these ‘video’s come up all by themselves, it has been a miracle each time. The Lord God chose the topics, by way of His ‘answer’ or a ‘blessing’ to me, and engaged the phone to play the videos for me to ‘get the message’.! What can’t He do anyway?!