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Mushrooming and hearing God

And other ramblings and stories

The other day I discovered a book about how God does not speak with us.  The author (a pastor) firmly believes that Christians cannot hear from God directly.  I didn’t read it.  The title itself, and advance knowledge of the general thesis was nauseating enough for me.  Publishing a book like that is kind of like popping a high-five with the devil, celebrating keeping people spiritually deaf.  It’s like a relationship where you get to read The Letter of God all you want, but by no means are you allowed to ever have the audacity to pickup the phone and call Him.  Jesus said “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Matthew 4:4  It’s important to point out what Jesus did not say.  He did not say “…but by every word that proceeded out of the mouth of God.”  He used the word proceedeth which is ongoing.  By no means am I saying that in any way, shape, or form something should be added to the holy canon of scripture.  But the heavenly manna that we all need is the ongoing, continued, every-day word of God proceeding from His mouth!

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My encounter with the Russian mafia

The battle between love and fear

We were all bundled up trying to fend off the cold Russian winter air as we stood waiting for our train that would take us from Moscow, Russia to Kharkov, Ukraine. As the train approached the platform, my dad, and our team started getting the tickets out, and maneuvering along the platform trying to gauge where our wagon would finally stop. Other than the creepy, dark atmosphere of Russian train stations, everything seemed normal, until I noticed the conductor of the train examining our tickets started getting into a heated conversation with my dad, and the translator. After finally finding someone who was willing to inform the only non-Russian-speaking eleven-year-old on our team what was going on, I learned that something was wrong with our tickets, and they weren’t letting us on the train. What could be wrong with our tickets? Something was really fishy, and I had no idea what was really going on, but seconds before the train started moving for departure, my dad made the executive decision that we were getting on, no matter what.

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Kris Vallotton: I don’t think the Coronavirus is the worst thing that’s happening

There's something spreading around the planet, and it's more dangerous than the Coronavirus

There’s something spreading around the planet, and it’s more dangerous than the Coronavirus. This was transcribed from a message by Kris Vallotton called The Obedience of Faith. Kris Vallotton is a prophet, and the senior associate leader of Bethel Church, Redding, CA.  I wholeheartedly agree with this word!  The following is from Kris Vallotton’s message.
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The KGB car chase

A tribute to my dad (true story)

Because of their strong belief in how God speaks to us and God’s guidance through prophetic words, mom and dad knew for a number of years that one day they would be doing ministry beyond the “Iron Curtain” of the Soviet Union. My dad, spending a significant part of his life smuggling drugs, traveling the world, thought “Why not join Brother Andrew and help them smuggle bibles into nations closed to the gospel?” He went on one such a trip in March, 1980.
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How a drinking, brawling atheist became a deliverance, healing evangelist in one day

When he left, it felt like a piece of our planet was broken off, and floated away into space.
Alas, his ship arrived earlier than we expected, and we couldn’t stop it.  Nor were our ropes strong enough to pull it back through the winds of eternity. Reflecting on the joy embracing him as he reached the other shore brings peace. But the mystery ocean that lies between is a burden we have to carry on with.
His face was never on Charisma magazine, and you can’t even find him if you Google him. He was an undercover hero you don’t hear about on the news. And he was a healing evangelist, a pastor of many churches he personally planted, and he liked teasing me by feeding me with bizarre Ukrainian food he knew I didn’t like. He was my father in-law.

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Events unfolding in Ukraine were foretold by John Paul Jackson in 2012

Events in Ukraine

Ukraine is very close to my heart.  How could it not be, after I spent 18 years of my life there.
Here are some events about Ukraine/Russia that John Paul Jackson foretold in Jan. 2012 (exact time not verified, but definitely in 2011 or 2012).  Looks like for the most part they were quite accurate.  Unfortunately.
If you have a problem with the word, please use scriptural guidelines and judge the word, not the person.
Here are a few key points that I find very interesting.
“…you’re going to start seeing Russia take on a whole new nationalism.  And Russia’s going to create a crisis in order to spawn nationalism, because it realizes it’s losing its youth.
…and Russia is going to end up black mailing many of the small satellite nations that used to be part of the Soviet block, and demand that they come into a whole new alliance, and a whole new agreement.
 And Poland will be black mailed.  I hope they don’t succumb.  The Slavik countries, Hungry, Romania, Ukraine, Khazikstan… All these are going to be black mailed by Russia. “If you want our oil, if you want our  gas, you will come back in.  Because if you don’t, we will close the pipeline tomorrow.
 And they’re waiting for the price of gas to get up high enough so they can close the pipeline to those countries and still be able to function economically in their own state.  But they have to wait till the price of gasoline gets high enough before they can cut the pipeline off.”
To see the original video I transcribed this from, just click here.
I would love to hear about other prophesies that you know of that have to do with Ukraine.  Please comment and share below.  And let’s really pray for Ukraine and in general for Gods Kingdom to invade this situation.
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