{"id":2944,"date":"2018-02-03T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T17:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/woulduconsider.wpcomstaging.com\/?p=2944"},"modified":"2021-05-08T10:54:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T14:54:16","slug":"how-god-answers-prayers-devotional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corneliascottcree.com\/how-god-answers-prayers-devotional\/","title":{"rendered":"How God Answers Prayers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The Communist rebels took over Russia in 1918, deposed a cruel and selfish Czar and then went on to amalgamate the Soviet Union of Eastern Bloc states with other communist nations at the ready to consume the USA . Had it not been for the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe they might have subsumed that as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There were many Christians then as now praying for the release of these nations and their trapped peoples from the mandatory atheism and materialism which is the foundational doctrine of socialist-communist political systems. For 70 long years it appeared those prayers would not be answered. Then finally as the poverty and bankruptcy of communism demolished Russia from within they started on the path of westernization. But what kind of government would replace this system? Would they simply replace one failure with another?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
God would answer that generation of prayers with one man, a hard drinking street fighter of a leader in Boris Yeltsin and the kind of government would occur as a result of a side trip to a grocery store.
It was September 16, 1989 and Yeltsin, then newly elected to the new Soviet parliament and the Supreme Soviet, had just visited Johnson Space Center (Houston, Texas). What followed was …. an unscheduled trip inside a nearby Randall\u2019s grocery store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yeltsin, then 58, roamed the aisles of Randall\u2019s nodding his head in amazement. He told his fellow Russians in his entourage that if their people, who often must wait in line for most goods, saw the conditions of U.S. supermarkets, \u201cthere would be a revolution.\u201d
Shoppers and employees stopped him to shake his hand and say hello. Yeltsin asked customers about what they were buying and how much it cost, later asking the store manager if one needed a special education to manage a store. He marveled at the produce section, the fresh fish market, and the checkout counter. He looked especially excited about frozen pudding pops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEven the Politburo doesn\u2019t have this choice. Not even Mr. Gorbachev,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n