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

February, 2022

Dear Freedom House Family,

The Father is equipping and preparing each of us for “A New View for YOU in 2022.”  What does that really mean?  The act of seeing or examining, inspecting, surveying, prospecting the near future, lookout, outlook, panorama, and perspective.  Much too often we are looking through our own lenses, and we get blinded with blurry vision that can lead to misinterpretation.

This year the Father is inviting us to look through His lenses and to see what He sees.  My friends, this year will be a NEW VIEW for YOU . . . IF you look through His lenses.

The Father said this is the year and season for the Zechariahs to arise and shine, for the shakings that will LEAD to awakenings. This is the Hebraic Year of 5782 which means “awaken.” Awaken into the new view.  Awaken into His promises of revival, reformation, and reorganization. This is also the year for the hidden things to be made manifest, the secret things to be exposed, the “real” agenda to be revealed and the move from visitation to habitation.  It’s having a new view, a new outlook for our new year—peering into what the Father sees in the supernatural down the way and not just seeing what is happening in the natural.

Who Was Zechariah?

Zechariah was a young man, a priest, and a prophet who emphasized great encouragement, hope, and reassurance to God’s people, the Israelites. The times that Zechariah was living in were very similar to our times right now!  God’s people were living in a place of fear and hopelessness, and in a sense of being forgotten and neglected by God’s promises.  Like the days of Zechariah, God’s people found themselves in a world of division, confusion, and devastation all around and where sin was so blatant, corruption so visible, and hatred so noticeable.

Henceforth, Zechariah comes with a great and wonderful message of hope, of encouragement, and of reminders of God’s promises. He also urges and exhorts a call to repentance and states very clearly what God spoke for his people to do  . . . “Return to me, and I will return to you.”

Beloved, I believe this is what God is calling each one of us to do in this year, in this season and in this hour—return to Him, return to His ways, return to His precepts.  For God’s ways are right and radiant, giving light to the eyes of our understanding and for right living so that we can see A New View for You in 2022.

Zechariah and the Promises of God

1. Return to me, declares the Lord Almighty and I will return to you. (1:3) – God is wooing us all to return back to Him and to be a light to the lost world all around us.  To be a people who can see from His perspective, from His watch tower and not to live in a place of fear and hopelessness, to separate ourselves unto God to be a holy people.

2. I will return to Jerusalem with mercy, and there my house will be rebuilt. (1:16) – God’s promise to restore us with great mercy and to rebuild the ruins within us and all around us.  His Presence will be manifested.

3. I myself will be a wall of fire around it – and I will be its glory within. (2:5) – His great protection will be a wall of fire – Yahweh Himself would provide security and His protection as well as His Presence.  The wall of fire will be released as His Shekinah Glory of the Lord.

4. Whoever touches you touches the apple of his eye. (2:8) – To know we are the “main” focus of God’s attention, the center of His universe for His love protects us, and to know we are in His watchful care.

5. Shout and be glad, O Daughter of Zion. For I am coming, and I will live among you.  Be still before the Lord, all mankind because he has roused himself from his holy Dwelling.  (2:10-13) – Let’s begin to sing and rejoice because God is good and He will show His goodness along with His redemption, His restoration of His people.  We have been in captivity long enough.  Now is the time to shout to give Him glory.  For He comes to release execution and judge your adversaries in order to complete His deliverance and salvation.

6. Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit. (4:6) – The providence, authority, power, and energy of the Most High will be our true source.  No secular army, no human policy, and no government will get us out of trouble or hardship.  Our true source of guidance, our wisdom, and our assurance will only be by His Sovereign Spirit.

7. I will return to Zion and dwell in Jerusalem. The Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of the Lord Almighty will be called the Holy Mountain.  (8:3) – God’s people will be transformed by the Presence of our Lord.  His Jerusalem and His people will be transformed into a place of truth and holiness.  His Presence will be so real that reformation will happen and take hold.

This is the Word of the Lord for 2022

A New View for You in 2022 means you will be looking at things from My perspective, My advantage point.  For I will arise, I will conquer, and I will defeat!  For My name will be heard throughout the land.  My name will be like hot coals upon their lips.  So, keep in prayer, and keep watch.  For I will suddenly arise in lightning speed.  For it only takes a second to change everything.  For I go by My standards, My timetable.  Mostly, I go by what I see down the road because I know the end from the beginning.

Rest assured and rest in My promise:  I have your back and have your best interest in My heart.  This year will be, “A New View for You in 2022” for I will walk with you every step of the way, and you will abide and dwell in the shelter of My heart.  I will release wings of safety and you will take flight in and of My Spirit to witness, to attest, and to certify that this year will be, “A New View for You” as you observe from My outlook center.

You will enter into and step into a new level of My Spirt and Glory for it will be, A New View for You:  new waves of My Heavenly sounds.  Sounds of Heaven will be heard far and wide, and many will be led by My Sounds of truth, love, and freedom.

This year will be a year of victory in Me and will look differently than victory in the world.  Be at rest in Me and continue to do your best, and I will absolutely do the rest.  Stay in My Presence of TRUST and do not let go of TRUST.  Don’t allow TRUST to slip away, no matter what you hear or what you see.

Trust, believe, and stand to know I AM—the Great I AM.  The Great I AM is releasing upon My people, upon My Church, and upon My nation for My Name’s Sake, which is—the Light of the World, the Bread of Life, The Good Shepherd, the Captain of Salvation, the Lord of Armies, The Great Deliver, and the Mighty and Just God.

Arise up all Zechariah’s and release My encouragement, My hope, and My Promises for I will rebuild, I will restore, and I will release My people back to a place of hope, life, and freedom.  There is revival in the air—breathe, believe, and see it for the sounds of My love flow from My house to your house.  For this year will be a new year that will set in new ways.  For your tents will be enlarged, your spheres of influence will be greater, and your ladders will go higher to touch My Presence.

You will have easier access to My Spirit.  Your ears will be sharpened to hear the piercing sound of My Spirit to walk in this new way, ways that point you to greater hope and greater triumph.  I will ROCK YOUR WORLD with showers of meteorites of love and shooting stars will rest upon you from My kingdom, for they will be My fireballs of love.  Bright, bold, and beautiful will be these fireballs of love resting upon you to light up your ways and to give you newer and deeper ways of My truth and revelation.

For your ears, eyes, and mouth will hear, see, and speak new words of My Spirit.  Lost artifacts will be released into your vision; things that seemed so buried and forgotten will be discovered and uncovered.  I am calling for great unity within My family, unity and harmony with husbands and wives to both be in step with Me, like riding a tandem bike, for speed and motion will all be in sync.  For I am calling the children, siblings, and neighbors and co-workers to walk in unity, harmony, and in one accord to love, honor, and respect one another.  This is the time to usher in great unity—to be in agreement with one another because Jesus Christ, My Son, is your common denominator.  Do not squabble and bicker over things that will cause division and dissension.  Stay in My Presence of love for My love is large and incredibly patient.  Remember My love will never traffic in shame and dishonor for My love is a safe place of shelter.  So, shelter in Me, My people, for My love is perfect.

God’s love is meteoric, His loyalty astronomic, His purposes titanic, his verdicts oceanic.  Yet in His largeness nothing gets lost; Not a man, not a mouse, slips through the cracks.

Psalm 36:5-6 (The Message)

 

Pray With Me,

Father, I desire to rise up and be counted among the Zechariahs at this time and season of my life, my family’s life, and for the times of our nation.  Help me, Lord, to release Your words, as I hear and see Your heart.  Help me, Lord, to stand in the gap for our families, for our churches, and for our nation. Lord, give me the gift of encouragement, Your gift of hope, and the sweet gift of trust.  Sweeten my words to those who are discouraged, disheartened, and dismayed and release those prophetic messages of Your promises here and now. Father, forgive me in any way that I have turned my back on You.  I want to return to You completely and entirely in all ways so that You can return to me in this hour, and we can see Your ”fireballs” of love bombing our lives and nation.

In Jesus’ name.  Amen and Amen!

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!

I always feel supported knowing that you are praying for Freedom House, for me and Tommy personally, for our counselees, and for the FHM School students.  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.  We couldn’t do this ministry without you behind us with your faithful donations and prayers.  We are eternally grateful.

YOU CAN DONATE NOW:

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 

With My Burning Heart of Love & Thankfulness,

Mari Anne Andersen

Director, Freedom House Ministry