Are there any coincidences with God?
But as the Scriptures have said, "What God determines to do, it will be done." And there is... God foreordained it to be that way or it never would've been that way. And there the Scripture says in the 15th chapter of Acts, that there is nothing by chance. God knowed everything. And it just didn't happen to happen that way. It just was that God made it that way.
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This past November we posted an article entitled, “A Bit Of History.” We received this feedback from Brother Vittorio, whose dad was the chef on the Andrea Doria the night it collided with the MS Stockholm.
To me it was a great experience to read "A Bit Of History", understanding what had hindered the boat Andrea Doria to sink during the 11 hours after the violent collision with MS Stockholm. The Lord kept it floating until people had been saved. Few people lost their lives. The Living God heard the prayer of someone aboard the ship, and Brother Branham prayed after the vision.
Vittorio family in 1938
How fantastic God is! Aboard the Andrea Doria was my father, Umberto De Giovanni, who was a chef there. He once told me about the chaos that followed in the moments after the collision. The great marble table that was bolted to the floor was shook loose and smashed into the wall with great momentum. The water started coming in and he ran up the stairs.
Brother Vittorio
I thank God that He spared my father that time. And now I know the Great Secret behind this! In 1976 we received The Precious Message into our hands through an elderly Sister here in Norway. From that time our lives were changed and the Voice is now sounding in the car, in our ears, in the house and wherever we go, also around our children and grandchildren.
Love from Brother Vittorio De Giovanni,
Norway.
It even goes farther than that. Today, Brother Vittorio’s son-in-law, Brother David Forsberg, is the VGR Representative in Norway and translates the Spoken Word into the Norwegian language. With God, there are no coincidences.
Just as the Lord had a plan for the De Giovanni family and bringing the Word to them in Norway, so does He have a plan for each one of our lives.