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After I moved to Colorado in February, 2019, we set up my sound equipment and could not get it to work. Should I buy a new processor? I asked God.
Also we switched to Direct TV and the picture quality was lacking.
Question to God: Maybe I should buy an Anthem which in past has had a superior video processor which should up grade the TV picture.
Years ago I had an Anthem pre-amp and it produced the best video processor I've ever seen, but the sound on the Anthem was very lacking. The unit cost about $2000 at that time, a lower level product in this area.
Pam called the Anthem dealer for me and found they have a processor in the range of $3000 and a better one that is now about $9500. The dealer said
He could get the processors from the Anthem representative and bring them to my house. I was very interested in what they would do in reproducing both picture and sound especially at the upper level.
But I was also concerned, knowing that if there was significant difference in picture and the sound was acceptable, I would likely buy the unit.
So I turned again strongly to God asking Him for help!
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In the meantime, we kept working with the TV connections and I tuned our TV's with the TV remote and finally we got an excellent TV picture. (Correcting loose connections and rebooting seemed to fix the problem)
With this, there was no need for video processor!
Then the Anthem dealer called to tell us they have stopped making the $9500 processor at Anthem.
I felt every door close ... and thanked God for this.
I have a Classe processor which has not been hooked up at this location and we have arranged for the sound company men to come to the house and do that on May 9. I own the processor and it will cost about $100 to connect it to my equipment.
I felt God answered my prayer. I had confessed to God my great weakness when it comes to sound equipment and had asked Him for help. He helped in a totally unexpected way. The company no longer makes the unit in which I had interest. That ended the temptation!
It reminds me of the story told by Pam Padgett and how God helped her in a very difficult situation.
Pam Padgett ... member of the body of Christ
My older sister had been at college two years when I started attending the same school. She dated a man who was a member of a fraternity, and she had become a member of the fraternity's "women's auxiliary", assisting with fraternity social functions. She was very excited for me to join the social circles she was in, and especially wanted me to meet members of the fraternity.
The first week of school my sister invited me to go to a student bar where many of the fraternity guys gathered on Thursday nights. I went, but found what was going on there to be so bad (lewdness, drunkenness) that I was unable to stay and I walked back to the dormitory.
A week or so later my sister asked if I'd go to an outdoor luau with one of the freshmen "pledges" at the fraternity. The luau site was about 20 miles away near a river, and there would be a campfire. The setting was very appealing to me, plus I was excited about having a date, and I agreed to go.
Then, a few days before the luau, my sister told me that arrangements had been made for one of the other fraternity guys to take me to the luau because "my date" would be spending the day at the luau site building a hut for us ... a young man I had never even met was building a hut "for us"!
Suddenly the reality of this luau became very clear to me. This was not going to be people sitting around a campfire roasting marshmallows. The lewdness and drunkenness I had seen at the student bar was probably mild compared to what would be going on at this luau ... and I wouldn't be able to walk home.
I told my sister that I couldn't go along with this and did not want to go, but she kept insisting that it was too late for me to back out, that it was too late for this guy to find another date.
I turned very strongly to God, asking Him to somehow get me out of this situation. There seemed no way out.
(At one point I asked God to let me have appendicitis, preferring to be in a hospital having surgery than to go to this luau.)
The morning of the luau I woke up and checked to see if I might have any pain that would indicate appendicitis, and was disappointed that I felt fine. I kept praying for God to somehow work this out. Time was really running out! When I looked outside, it was raining a little, but not much. However, the rain became heavier and heavier as the day went on.
Around 2 pm I received a call from the fraternity guy who planned to take me to the luau site. He told me how sorry he was to have to tell me this, but the luau had to be cancelled.
The luau site had been totally flooded, washing away all the huts that had been built, which would include the hut my date had built for us.
He told me how long the luau had been held at this same site (many years) and, although there had been rain at times in the past, nothing like this had ever happened before, flooding and causing the luau to be cancelled.
I rejoiced, knowing that God had delivered me.
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