Prologue
It was night outside. I got out of bed and kneeled down in front of my dark window. "God ... if You are really there, I can't do this anymore...," and my body convulsed with painful tears. I cried until I couldn't. Sometime later, sitting in a numb silence, I heard a voice speak. It said one word to me - "Time".
A few months later, struggling to escape the economic meltdown of 2009 in America, I accepted a job offer even though I would reluctantly have to return to France for the 3rd time in my life. It was a very demanding work environment, and in the evenings I would walk across the city of Lyon to the top of the hill overlooking the city. There, stands a beautiful church, Notre Dame de Fourvière. One evening, no sooner had I entered the Basilica, than a priest came forward who invited me to sit with some people for a prayer event. I had no clue what it was, I had never talked to a priest before. I wasn't yet a believer, I just like quiet places. But I accepted.
There were barely any people, just a few older ladies who were singing quietly together. Then from a room off to the side, the Priest brought out an incredible object - it looked like a sun, made of pure gold. I didn't know what it was.
That night, as I was about to fall asleep, I heard a voice behind me, in my bedroom. Someone was speaking to me, giving me instructions - "Do not, under any circumstance, turn around." This person repeated again to me, "Do not turn around." I was laying on my right side, and then I began to feel the most exquisite warmth radiate throughout my back. That was the year I began having excruciating back pain, making my office job a very tormenting experience. I didn't know what was happening, or who was there, but I could tell something very ... unique was happening.
When I got up the next morning, the pain was completely gone. I was beyond elated. Until the pain came back later that day....
My increased longing for the Truth led me down interesting avenues, and the devil snared me in many New Age dead-ends ; punishing and confusing experiences. Five years would go by, and then ... Jesus broke through. People were sharing testimonies online, saying they had died and came back to life, but in that interim they had met Jesus in Heaven. I knew, I had finally been led to the truth... What can I say, to describe my thoughts at that time? Words fall short. I got on my knees and asked the Lord to save me, through many tears and heart-wrenching cries.
I walked away from a wedding engagement and a business partnership in which I was heavily invested. Not long after returning to America, I was baptized in a Presbyterian church on December 11, 2016. Within months, I was looking for more. God asked me - "why don't you think about the priesthood ?" I made it my life's purpose to become a priest. I was confirmed in the Catholic Church on April 8, 2018, but after discerning every possible way to become a priest and finding only dead-ends, I gave up on the calling.
That's when Kevin Zadai's prophecy over me happened. He said - "By the end of this weekend, you'll know where the Lord is guiding you." And it happened ! I received an invitation to join a Franciscan prayer community in New Mexico on Palm Sunday of 2020. I departed during the very beginnings of the Covid pandemic.
What awaited me there upon arrival blew my mind. The founders of the community were in fact (unbeknownst to me) ordained priests in the Old Catholic denomination, and they ordained me a priest on June 20, 2020. I was in awe ... and could never expect, that my journey had just begun. You see, the priest who ordained me also had been assigned a bishopric in the Western Rite Russian Orthodox church, and he ordained me a bishop as well, before leaving for Europe with my wife as missionaries.
I know - it's absurd. Have you ever heard of anyone becoming Evangelical, Catholic, and Orthodox ? Most people, well, I think everyone, will call me a fool. I am the Lord's fool. And now let me tell you, the most foolish thing of all. The Lord just took all my denominations away from me, and what is left will absolutely amaze you. Yes - you.
