A Biblical Perspective Unfolding with Current Events!

By Mari Anne Andersen

There is no question in any of our minds that America is going down the wrong path.  We see it, we hear it, and we read it.  America is stumbling in darkness on many fronts. We have lost our moral and spiritual compass; all kinds of immoral and political corruption is running rampant and along with it is great incompetency in our leadership at the White House.

Never in our history of our great nation has there been such absolute corruption in our government, such as an “Anti-Christ” movement, a “Socialist/Communist Agenda,” a “Corporate Stronghold of Madness” with transsexual ideology, and a strong “Anti-Semitic Movement” growing profusely daily.

It’s as though the the current Administration is under the influence of evil and is allowing the destruction and failure of our nation on every front.  There’s intimidation and injustice against Christians and our beliefs, the raging woke and liberal media, far left cities being burned down, far left drug infested homeless encampments all over on city properties, skyrocketing overdoses on fentanyl on a daily basis, police shot and murdered in the streets being targets of hatred and disgust, and brainwashing of our young children in the Public Schools about transsexual ideology and its deceitful philosophy.

Add to all of that, having a President and his son under the influence of a foreign country, allowing wide open borders where 6.2 million migrants have “Illegally” crossed the southern border since the current administatrion took office with at least 1.5 million “Gotaways” evading law enforcement entirely.  More and more gang members, drug traffickers, sex traffickers, and even individuals are on terrorism watchlists.  Border Patrol agents are exhausted, discouraged, and depleted emotionally and physically as they cannot do their due diligence as patrol agents.

It’s pure madness—pure chaos, crisis, and confusion that swirls all around on a daily basis.  This is not the land of the free but the land of captives and prisoners under the regime of the current Adminis-tration which continually moves further and further into lawlessness and insanity.
The New Testament term “lawless” is used to describe those who knowingly, deliberately, and willfully rebel against the laws of God and man.  They refuse to be under God’s rule and God’s government.  This is the current Administration, and the far left that is intentionally and purposefully going against God’s Holiness and Righteousness.  And when government and society ignore God’s law and the law of the land there is more lawlessness, resulting in ensuring chaos.  Of course, this is Satan’s final attempt to halt God’s work through a massive onslaught of evil and quite frankly he is succeeding on a massive scale!

Psalm 94:16 is now a rising chorus!
Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? 
Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity? (KJV)

Let me say clearly, I do not believe any politician can save America.  The only remedy is a full-blown revival and reformation taking place for the return to righteousness.

Proverbs 10:10 Winking at sin leads to sorrow; bold reproof leads to peace. (TLB) How many of us are winking at sin that is raging all around us and yes, even in some churches?  How many are turning a deaf ear and a blind eye to God’s truth regarding “alternative lifestyles?”  God created only two  genders —male and female.  There is none inbetween.  It’s clear in His Word!  We cannot reinterpret what gender we are to fit the political narrative of the day or the feelings of the day.  He or she is what God designed and created.  Let’s get back to sound doctrine—the truth—and refuse to listen to or apply false doctrine. 

However, one of the many signs of the End Times is lawlessness that will abound in cities, states, and regions that will cast off the rule of law, and anarchy will reign.  Basically, it’s now everyday news from the pandemic to lawlessness, to corruption, and to anarchy that prevails .

Also, we see the world-wide great falling away from the faith and the church as Jesus warned the disciples in Matthew 24:10-12 – “At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people.  Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold.” (NIV)

 Yet, there is good news, too.  People in all nations, people of all tongues, people of all tribes are hearing the gospel and responding in huge numbers in China, Africa, and the Middle East.  So, while the great falling away is happening there is a great outpouring of the Holy Spirit bringing untold millions into the Kingdom.  Matthew 24:14 – “And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.”  (NLV) We live in a world today where the Gospel—the Good News of Jesus the Messiah—is going around all the world via satellite TV, Internet, email, podcasts, YouTube and other video resources and for this we can celebrate and pray.

• https://www.youtube.com/live/B5wfqDTGqfc?si=F2-i9W26rVwALy9j
  • Pastor John Hagee – Signs of the Times
• https://youtu.be/dQjp41RT31c?si=oapzApguLA1QDhgf
  • Rabbi Jonathan Cahn & Pastor John Hagee – How Recent Events Confirm the End Times Prophecy
• https://youtu.be/dNs2tt7auQ4?si=HQa3DxD1l-wTkT5S
  • Pastor Gary Hamrick – Israel, Hamas, and End Times, Ezekiel 38

Freedom House Updates

1. FHM Schools Course 201 & 202 started in September with 20 students and are going well.
2. Tommy and Mari Anne started a Mentorship Program for students who graduated from Courses 201 & 202 to train them up as Prayer Counselors.
3. Tommy received a promotion at his job due to his outstanding performance in the Memory Care Unit.
4. Mari Anne has been invited to several places for teaching and to share on Podcasts.
5. FHM is flooded with many new clients, so thankfully we are training up more prayer counselors who can labor along side of Tommy and me.
6. The pastor from Spirit of God Church asked me to be the main referral source for Prayer Counseling.  This is such an honor!
7. Mari Anne just completed an amazing live event called “From Shame to God’s Hall of Fame” with about 60 women in attendane.
8. Rose Marie’s book, Take Care of Your Heart, is now on
   1. Bookbaby.com: Click here
   2. Amazon: Click here

Your prayers and financial support for Freedom House, for me and Tommy personally, for our counselees, for the FHM School students, and for the Mentorship Program trainees are more important than ever given the distressing signs of the times and the turmoil so many people find themselves in.  It’s your generous financial gifts that undergird what God is doing through Freedom House not only in the US but around the world as we counsel folks near and far.
You can donate today:

OR:

Send a check made out to “Freedom House Ministry” to Freedom House Ministry, c/o The Andersens, 652 THUNDERBIRD TRL, CAROL STREAM IL 60188-9262 

Also, I would love to pray for YOUR MIRACLE!  Please send me your request for YOUR miracle via email, and I will faithfully stand with you to see your miracle come into reality.  

With My Expectant Heart for Your Miracle and My Grateful Heart for Your Donation,

With My Burning Heart of Love & Thankfulness,

Mari Anne Andersen

Director, Freedom House Ministry

Rose Marie Borrelli’s Book-Release Celebration

By Mari Anne Andersen

In honor of my mother, Rose Marie Borrelli, Freedom House Ministry is releasing her book postmortem.  I know if my mom were here, she would be doing cartwheels, if not physically able to do so for sure in her heart, because her dream, desire, and vision has come to pass:  HER BOOK – Take Care of Your Heart

Rose Marie Borrelli is the Gift of Love that keeps on giving.

“We will remember your love, rejoicing and delighting in you, celebrating your every kiss as better than wine.  No wonder righteousness adores you.”
(Songs of Solomon 1:4 – The Passion)

What better way to honor my mom than to unveil her book to you on her day of going home to be with her Savior, August 19, 2019.  It’s been 4 years now, and I can hardly believe that it’s been that long since she is not with us.  Yet when I look around in my heart, in my family, and Freedom House Ministry, I see my mother’s fingerprints everywhere.   And let me say, it’s pure joy!  This book is in the loving memory of one of my heroes on this side of eternity.  And she was—and still is!

Few people leave a lasting impression in your heart, but she was definitely one of them to so many.  Her celestial wisdom, her undeniable quick wit, and her depth of counseling knowledge and compassion were easily exhibited in her library of reference materials which were always at her fingertips and available to whomever sat across from her.  She knew where everything was in her office because everything was categorized and organized.  When she would counsel, she could easily and effectively grab material on the topic and subject at hand.  Her office was a gold-mine, a wealth of information, including DVD’s, CD’s, stacks of notebooks on every topic, documents, and prayers of every kind and for every life situation and feeling.  And yes, even videos.

I know for sure if she were here and holding her book in her hands, she would be crying with great joy.  This book was birthed in her heart and from all the needy and hurting counselees that came through her office and sat across from her over many years.

The messages were something so strong within her about sharing with children the principles of Bitter Root Judgments, the Law of Sowing and Reaping, and Inner Vows, so that they would not be carrying so much baggage into their adult years.  Therefore, they would not need to seek out a counselor over marooned and wrecked marriages, relationships, and families, and lost years due to misconstrued identity.

This book carries my mother’s voice through the pages, because as many of you know, there were certain phrases and sayings she would use in counseling, teaching, and in prayer.  So, as you read through the pages, I’m sure you will be hearing my mother’s voice saying: “Over to you, Lord,” “I fling this to the cross,”  “If you don’t express and confess your anger, you will get a heart of stone,” and  “Take the arrows of hurtful words and aim them at the cross” to remind you of a few of her poignant maxims.

My mother, Rose Marie, always wanted to leave a lasting legacy and that she did—with people, with her family, and with Freedom House Ministry counselees and students, and now through her newly published book Take Care of Your Heart.

Why You Should Buy THIS BOOK
By Tommy Andersen
It is with great joy we celebrate the accomplishment of publishing our first children’s book at Freedom House. What a journey it has been to get it to this release date!

Buy THIS BOOK because it will help you engage in conversations with your children and grandchildren regarding their feelings and give them helpful, practical, and biblical hints in how to handle their emotions.

THIS BOOK’s foundation is that God created us with feelings, and He cares for all of us, including our feelings. God aims to comfort and reassure us, showing us how we can manage our emotions honestly and with wisdom. He wants to show us how to recognize them, name them, develop skills to handle them and how to respond to the people involved. THIS BOOK is designed to provide a strong support for all of this, and more.

THIS BOOK starts very simply with this statement “People can be mean sometimes…” followed with an illustrated page of a sad and lonely boy who has experienced a mean person, with the text: “It can make you feel sad.”

The third page follows up with another question “Do you feel sad and angry when someone makes fun of you?” Then the fourth page beautifully illustrates the sad boy with Jesus right next to him, empathizing with his sadness and loneliness. The text reads: “When you are sad, so is Jesus. He feels with you.”

THIS BOOK and the first 4 pages can be seen by visiting the books website:

https://store.bookbaby.com/book/take-care-of-your-heart

THIS BOOK is made to teach children but can touch adults as well. When you are sad, so is Jesus, because He feels with you. Understanding how we feel matters to God. Yes, it matters to God how we live and how we choose to act in the world based on what has happened to us and the negative feelings that have resulted. Unfortunately, children don’t always know how to understand their feelings and behave in response to difficult situations and those subsequent feelings.  So, this is a book that is encouraging us to help children process their feelings and emotions so they can by learning how to appropriately engage with Jesus. Consequently, they will not end up sowing so many bitter seeds which produce bitter roots and then bitter fruits in their adult years that reap such a bitter harvest.

THIS BOOK will help you, your children, and grandchildren come to a place, where they can learn to work difficult situations and feelings out, making peace with themselves and others, learning to forgive with God’s help.

THIS BOOK, with words and illustrations, captures many truths and principles as it relates to handling our emotions, especially children’s emotions. So please take a look, check it out, discover its secrets, discover its power.

We would love to hear what you, your children, and your grandchildren think of Take Care of Your Heart.

God Bless You!

GET YOUR COPY TODAY of THIS BOOK by using the link below:

https://store.bookbaby.com/book/take-care-of-your-heart

Hello Everyone,

How many of us in this time and season need to be rescued, liberated, or saved from a very intense and painful situation?  Perhaps we need to be rescued from a sickness, from a broken relationship, an addiction, or from a mountain of debt?  We all have situations and circumstances in each of our lives that we need to see Jesus come to the rescue—Jesus running into our seemingly impossible situation to bring redemption, hope, and a miracle. 

Truth be told, I have seen many miracles in these 48 years of my spiritual life.  Some of these miracles have been small and modest, as well as, some miracles that have been monumental and colossal.

I have seen instantaneous healings from broken toes to cancer, from relationships that looked doomed and beyond reconciliation yet God resurrected that marriage, to the totally lost prodigal that came running home to love, serve, and honor God and family.  From the barren women who couldn’t conceive but now has several children.  From no jobs to jobs that took off into their dream career and fulfilled their destiny.   Cars that were given, houses that were given, to diamonds that were generously given.  Court rulings that vindicated and exonerated.  Vacation trips, even cruises taking me to a house fully furnished to the color, design, and furniture of my liking.  Multiplying money in the bank account or in my wallet when in Bible School.  Finding money along side of the road with words written on several fifty-dollar bills: “It’s Your Money. It’s Your Gift from God.”  One day when we needed change for the toll booth, and I had no money or change, right outside of my window was the exact 50 cents that I needed.  God is interested in ALL areas and details of our lives.  He cares!!!

Yes, miracles from a mountain of debt to a mountain of freedom from drugs and complete alcoholic freedom overnight.  Angels coming to rescue me from a very dangerous and deadly confrontational former convict.  Oh, the list can go on and on.  I have often stated in my 48 years of walking with the Lord: “WE SHOULD SEE MIRACLES HAPPENING ON A DAILY BASIS . . . BECAUSE WE HAVE A MIRACLE-WORKING GOD WHO COMES TO OUR RESCUE.”

How can we walk and live in a place of miracles in our lives?  Why does God give us miracles and for what purpose?  Let me first state some very important facts:

All things depend on God, and He depends on nothing outside of Himself—for He is a complete explanation and description of all phenomena and occurrences in life—in heaven and in the earth.  The wonder and awe of God is that God’s existence and power do NOT depend on the laws of operation of the physical realm or the world.  God keeps the universe and the heavens and everything conforming and obeying to Himself.  God is alive—all active and all powerful—and He intervenes in the created order with miracles in which He loves to love us with all kinds of wonder working miracles.  

Miracles are the supernatural works of the true, living, and Almighty God.  Miracles represent God’s revealed love, power, and glory in one’s life.  Miracles are for the “benefit” of man.  True, godly miracles are scientifically inexplicable and physically unfathomable and natural forces alone could NOT produce them.

Miracles are God’s providence for each one of us.  They are one of God’s high priorities for you and for me.  Nothing delights, excites, and thrills the Lord more than when He releases His wonder working miracle in our lives. Miracles help us to see, understand, and walk in more of the revelation of His love, power, and glory.  Miracles are part of the revelation of who God is in our life, in our particular situation and troubling circumstance.  Miracles  teache us different aspects of His character and of His matchless love for us. He releases freedom and liberates truth, justice, and divine glory of His beauty.  Miracles are God’s way of interacting with us daily—repeatedly and constantly in a very significant, important, and intimate way of bringing His kingdom into our human realm.  

When miracles happen, literally it means, “Jesus Came to the Rescue.” Jesus showed up.  He steps out of heaven into our world and makes a special delivery of love bombs into our life. 

Futhermore, miracles can also come in the form of divine wisdom, glorious peace, or the needed release that literally transforms the situation.  Miracles can also look like PEACE that goes beyond comprehension, in which Jevhovah Shalom steps into that situation so that all worry, fear, and dread are melted away, and we stand in a place of His holy hope and fiery faith.  Miracles give us and mankind hope that with God nothing is impossible.  Man cannot outperform, out-maneuver God because miracles are not about man’s power, knowledge, or science.  It’s about the hope of His redemption, resurrection, and His manifestation of power and glory and for the Good News to be seen and heard.  

Finally, with miracles God is personally and powerfully revealing His Kingdom, that everything is completely under His control. It’s how His Kingdom and the spiritual world communicates to us in our world.  

How to Get Ready for YOUR Miracle!

Then Joshua said to the people, “Sanctify yourselves (for His purpose), 

for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders (miracles) among you.” Joshua 3:5 (Amplified)

Quick overview of Joshua 3: The children of Israel had come right to the threshold of their Canaan. They were about to cross over the Jordan River, about to enter their Promised Land, about to possess their inheritance—a land flowing with milk and honey, a land of abundance, a land of great provision and promise, a land of plenty.  In order to get there, they had to cross the River Jordan.  However, in the natural during that time of year the river was in great distress, difficulty, and danger.  It covered a great territory, and it was seemingly impossible for them to get through the River Jordan.  

Remember friends, God does NOT ask us to go where He does not lead.  He knew the timing of the year that the Israelites would be crossing the River Jordan.  He knew how the river was going to be dangerous and impossible in the natural.  He wasn’t surprised or taken aback. He actually was setting them up to receive their miracle at the Jordan River. So, when they entered the Promised Land they would be entering into a ground-breaking miracle right out of the gate and stepping into God’s fiery love bombs. 

There is an old hymn: Got any rivers you think are uncrossable?  Got any mountains, you can’t tunnel through?  God specializes in things tho’t impossible, and He can do what no other power can do.

Got Any Rivers / Carry You by Selah:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St47scoJ5l4 

Dear Father God, 

I pray for each one of my friends with my whole heart that they would know YOUR unmistakable love, Your fiery bombs of grandeur, and Your Holy wonder of miracles as they stand at their river Jordan ready to cross over into YOUR “Promised Land.”  Let each one know, feel, and experience in their soul YOUR celebration of love, wonder, and miracles.

 Instill their hearts with faith, hope, and trust. Heal them from the inside out with Your mighty, fiery love bombs, and crown them with Your love and mercy as You supercharge their faith to see the impossible coming into the possible.  Make things right in their hearts, in their lives, and give them wings to fly high in the sky of Your glory of miracles for them to hear the chorus of Heaven singing—God can do what no other power can do, when the water’s too high.   

In Jesus’ name, Amen.

Updates, Miracles, & News

1. Freedom House Schools 2021-22 April, 2022, Graduation, went very well with 63 students, staff, and guests in attendance. Many said it was one of the best FHM graduation celebrations ever.  A few students performed some fun “skits,” which brought great laughter.  Mark and Maureen Sandford gave an anointed and inspiring teaching and commencement address. We all enjoyed our time together, praising and thanking God for all that He had done in each life.  At the end, forming a “Fire-Tunnel,” everyone went through as the staff, Sandfords, and Andersens prayed over each one.
2. Freedom House Schools 2022-23:  Stay tuned to your email to hear details of the Schools starting in September 2022 and running through April 2023. Applications will be due August 22.
3. Prayer Counseling Ministry has been very special lately, (it usually is) but sometimes when the Holy Spirit shows up instanteously, and we get to participate in the changed life right in front of us, it’s pretty awesome.  We’re counseling more pastors and leaders as their pain and hurts go deep because they need a safe place to be real.  What an honor and priviledge to be that safe harbor for pastors and leaders. Additionaly, I’m now counseling several “teen-agers” who are seeking truth from the inside out.  In these teen-aged sessions, I also get to see reconciliation with their parents.  What a joy!  Finally, it also seems I’m counseling several regarding Co-Dependent issues that God wants to heal.
4. The Prophetic Ministry is also running strong as many are wanting appointments for a prophetic word.  People from all around the US are desiring more of the prophetic. I give the Holy Spirit the glory and honor as He imparts more insight, wisdom, and clear words for each individual.  
5. Good News Coming to FHM:  We hear over and over how lives are being touched through Freedom House and how they can feel, see, and experience a transformed life leading to a transformed family.  Miracles are happening in individual’s lives and couple’s lives.  What an honor to be involved in this type of healing!
6. Zoom Events:  In July, the event on “The Temperments” went great.  It is always so much fun to give this teaching as it is one of my favorite topics.  Another Zoom Event on Co-Dependency is coming up:  What Is It and How to Overcome this “Desease of Niceness.”  Watch for an email. 

Summer times are somewhat challenging in the giving department.  If you feel lead to give, we at Freedom House would be very grateful and thankful for your generosity and kindness.  We serve a great big God, and I believe in great big miracles here at Freedom House.  

You can donate today:

OR:

Send a check made out to “Freedom House Ministry” to Freedom House Ministry, c/o The Andersens, 652 THUNDERBIRD TRL, CAROL STREAM IL 60188-9262 

Also, I would love to pray for YOUR MIRACLE!  Please send me your request for YOUR miracle via email, and I will faithfully stand with you to see your miracle come into reality.  

With My Expectant Heart for Your Miracle and My Grateful Heart for Your Donation,

With My Burning Heart of Love & Thankfulness,

Mari Anne Andersen

Director, Freedom House Ministry