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God is Working in Russia
« on: January 13, 2012, 05:33:23 PM »
It is a great blessing to find this in the current issue of Adventist World.



Tension filled the conference room in Moscow. Around the long table sat the Russian prime minister and other top government officials. It was summer 2008, and the cabinet of ministers had gathered to consider spending cuts amid the global recession.
 
The ministers concurred that plans to increase pension payments must be canceled. But one ministry official disagreed.
 
“I’m a believer,” said the official, Oksana Sergiyenko. “I don’t know how we will be able to do this. But if we decide today not to freeze pensions and to at the very least adjust them for inflation, God will bless our country.”
 
Then an amazing thing happened. The ministers unanimously agreed to adjust pensions for inflation annually.
 
After that, God came through, said Oksana’s brother, Alexei Sergiyenko, who related the story about the cabinet session.
 
“God blessed us in such a way that the price of oil nearly tripled in value between late 2008 and 2011,” said Alexei, a stock market analyst with Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank. “The budget line for pension payments has always been met.”
 
And that’s not all. Just weeks after Oksana spoke up, the prime minister promoted her to the post of deputy finance minister.
 


For a Sabbath blessing read the rest of the story at Adventist World
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