Turn over to Psalms 1 of 103, verses 20 and 21.
We're going to talk about being sent to serve tonight and how
many enjoyed Sunday. Man, Sunday's got some things
stirred up. And you know, we'll continue to
capitalize on those in the future, I'm sure.
But there's some things that God's placed in my heart because
this is the year of the reigning church.
Do you believe that? Do you believe that His church
will reign forever? His church is going to be
stronger and stronger and stronger as the world gets
darker and darker and darker, OK.
And the latter rain is going to be poured out to the church.
That just makes us even more strong because we have the
greater one. We have the Holy Ghost.
Come on, we have the Holy Spirit, you know, and the Bible
says, you know, what can man do to you when you have the Spirit
of God? And so, you know, I'm excited
about that. But we also have the Kingdom,
and this is really important, you know, because I'm thankful
that God has revealed to us by His Spirit that the things that
are within his, the Word of God is more than just where are you
going to go when you die. But it is destiny now.
It is who you are in Christ today.
It's who God wants you to be as a child while you're in the
earth. And he's not withholding heaven
from earth. He'll actually bring heaven to
earth through you. So there are benefits that come
not because we know where we go when we die.
It's because the benefits of the Kingdom exists today and so the
Kingdom functions in the earth. If it could not function in the
earth, then Jesus would be a liar.
Leave that verse up. The reason why is because Jesus
said when you pray, pray this way.
Our Father, Whose father? Come on, whose father?
So he's your father, and he's my father, and he's Jesus's father.
So our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be your name,
your Kingdom, your will be on as it is.
So God has full expectation that heaven's will can manifest in
the earth even now. And the works that Jesus did
were the works of his Father's, and they were miraculous, and
they were heaven, heaven's realm being made manifest in the
earth, period. And we can have that today, no
problem, because we are children of God.
Amen. And so the Bible is actually
about a king, his Kingdom and his royal offspring, of which we
are his royal offspring. And in his Kingdom are not
subjects. But there are kings He's the
king of. Who are those kings?
When are we those kings? Right now, now we may not feel
like we're sitting on a throne and we may not feel like we're
we're reigning in life, but in the spirit we are reigning in
life. And one day we will reign
naturally with Him when He returns with us to rule and
reign over the earth. Amen.
So, but we can exercise that authority today because we are
in a Kingdom. But the Kingdom of God or the
Kingdom of light, the realm of heaven, is not limited to God
alone. God is the one who's in supreme,
who's in supreme power, correct? God is the one that we worship
and we worship Him only. However, God has other created
spirits that assist him and they are called angels.
So it says, bless the Lord, you, his angels, mighty and strength,
who perform His word. So what do angels do?
They perform His word, obeying the voice of His word.
Bless the Lord all you, His host, you who serve Him, doing
His will. What do the angels do now?
They do His will. Now.
There was a time that a rebellion occurred with an
anointed cherub and others that God evicted them from his
heavens realm where he exists. Well the Bible would consider
the 3rd heaven. And why do we call it the 3rd
heaven? Because Paul said I knew a man
whether in body or out of body I do not know, called up to the
3rd heaven. That's where God lives.
He evicted that rebellion and he did it in a moment.
Jesus said I saw Satan fall like what lightning?
How fast is lightning? So you understand this was not
some long drawn out minute the the Almighty sovereign creator
of all things got involved at a word he's gone, he's evicted OK.
And so but the ones that have remained loyal to the Lord, they
serve him. They are there and they not only
serve him, there's others that they serve.
And so in Daniel Chapter 7 verse 10, Speaking of the Angel realms
just so we can get a basis here to understand that angels exist.
It says a river of fire was flowing and coming out from
before him. Thousands upon thousands were
attending him, and a myriad upon myriad were standing before him,
and the court sat and the books were open.
Now, before the Lord, there are so many angels that they're
considered not able to count. All right, so here they are, and
they are in. They are before the court of
God. Again, courts are in kingdoms,
not in religion, that's why. And Thrones are in kingdoms, not
in religion. The Bible's about Thrones, it's
about courts. It's about these things.
OK, Because this Bible is not a religious book.
All right, So the angels are in God's court in heaven, and they
are continually before his face. Are you hearing me?
How do we know this? Matthew chapter 18 verse 10 Look
what it says here. It says, see that you do not
despise one of these little ones.
For I say to you that there that there angels in heaven
continually see the face of my Father who is in heaven.
Meaning they are looking at the Father for direction concerning
the one that they are assigned to.
The one that they are assigned to are angels assigned to
people. Yes they are.
I said yes they are. OK, look what it says in Psalms
34 seven. It says the angels of the Lord
encamps around those who fear Him and rescues them.
Do you walk in the fear of the Lord?
Now, who fear him is not Oh, I'm afraid of God.
I'm always afraid of Him. And if he showed up, I'd be
running and hiding. I'm so scared.
God is a scary person. That's not what we're talking
about. Who fear Him.
These are people who honor Him with reverence, Meaning I would
never want to do anything that would ever be displeasing to my
Father. That is the fear of the Lord.
So everything I'm doing, I'm taking in account.
Does this please my father? Because my father sees
everything I'm doing? There's nowhere in the world.
There's no time, there's no room that escapes his notice.
There's not an idle word that he doesn't hear.
I just know no matter where you're at, God's in the room.
I said God's in the room. No matter where you're at.
Now, when you know that, then what that does for you, it puts
you in a position where you'll continue to make the choices
that are pleasing and honoring to him.
But angels in camp around those who fear him, and they will
rescue them. Hallelujah.
Now look at what it says in Psalms 91.
Psalms 91 verse 11 and 12 it says For he will give his angels
charge concerning you to guard you in all your ways.
They will bear you up in their hands and you will not strike
your foot against the stone. Well did not the devil use that
verse on Jesus? Cause the devil knows if you are
the Son of God and he knows the realm of the spirit.
He knows that God the Father's not the only one out there and
that he's not only having to contend with him.
I mean, when he goes into territories, there are another
side of spirits that can get involved in territories.
Are you hearing me? We know this in the book of
Daniel. Daniel had a prayer.
He was seeking the Lord and he's doing this for 21 days.
And finally an Angel by the name of Gabriel comes through and
Gabriel lets him know I came on the first day you've sought the
Lord. In essence, my face was before
the Father. And he said go give this message
to Daniel. But in route I hit some
turbulence. Now I'm not saying that when you
hit actual turbulence, you're hitting spirits in the air.
I am not saying that. I am not saying that.
OK? So please do not.
We just hit some spirits. You're not doing that when
you're flying. I'm just saying he encountered a
Prince of power, a principality, A demonic force that was in the
air and wrestled with that spirit that was from the domain
of darkness in the the Kingdom of darkness that is submitted or
yielded to Satan, who at that time is the God of this world
and who actually has the dominion that Adam once
possessed, wrestled and could not prevail, was not strong
enough to be able to overcome. So he calls back to the
Archangel Michael. Michael, who is strong enough,
comes and holds that spirit he was wrestling with, and he goes
on down and stands before Daniel and receives a message from the
Lord concerning the things he was seeking.
Are you hearing what I'm saying? So the devil in his temptation
of Christ knew that there's something else around.
In essence, he might have been. Well, let's see if they're here.
Who am I contending with besides you in the temptation?
Now you understand Jesus didn't fall to that, you know, He just
gave him the word. He didn't use one Angel at all
in the temptation. He only used the word.
However, at the end of the temptation, Matthew 411 says
this. Then the devil left him and
behold what happened. Angels came and began to
minister to who? To Jesus.
Now they did not come to minister Jesus solely because He
is God. They're coming to minister to
him because he is the Son of man as much as he is the Son of God.
Because angels do not minister just to God, they also minister
to another, we could say species of being.
All right, we understand this, that Jesus understood that
angels were in his arsenal of weaponry.
They were because of the Kingdom at his disposal.
In Matthew chapter 26 verse 53, Jesus said this in the garden on
the night he was being betrayed. When Peter pulls out his sword
and cuts off a slave of the high priest's ear and Jesus like, put
your sword up, heals the guy. He says this or do you not think
that I cannot appeal to my Father and he will at what once
put at my disposal more than 12 legions of angels, not just one,
but 12 legions now a legion and in in the Roman time were either
2000. Some have said it 6, most say
22000. So let's go with the lower
number. That's 24,000 angels and let's
just stay with a low number. Why am I staying with a low
number? Because there was a an event
that occurred in the old covenant in our history books
where a nation called the Midianites had come, you know,
to besiege Israel. And the Lord sent 1 Angel, did
this with the Assyrian army as well, One Angel, just one went
through the camp and that one Angel killed 185,000 people.
So you do the math 24,000 * 185,000 how many people are
dying just at that equation? That's your homework assignment,
All right, And bring it to me next Wednesday.
All right, So you understand, He's like, don't you see what I
have at my disposal? In essence, Jesus says I'm in
the earth, but I'm in the Kingdom.
My Father cares for me, but there are others that are with
us. Elijah the prophet I believe was
Elijah was Elijah. I believe it was Elijah always.
You know, these guys, they're so close together.
Was it Elijah that the that they came to try to Yes, it was it
was Elijah. They came to grab him 50 people
in an army and he said, if I am a man of God, may fire come and
consume you, right? But was it Elijah that was it
was Elijah at a different time when someone came out after him,
he looked at his servant. He said don't worry about it,
we're good. He said, you see how many people
are out there. He said, Lord, open the boy's
eye please, so that he can see or discern what I know to be
true. And all of a sudden the eyes of
that serpent servant, eyes, his eyes open, meaning spiritual
eyes. He saw beyond the natural, and
he saw on the top of the mountain that day, because they
were in the valley, that they were angels.
Chariots of fire, flaming sores, completely encamped around the
why? Because the scripture says that
angels encamped around those who fear him.
And he said there are more with us than there are of them.
And again, I don't know what that number was, but only one
had to come down. Technically only one had to say
I got this right and moved on, those men.
So the point is, is do you know that you have angels?
Do you know this? Now, again, I want to say the
Bible's very clear. We do not worship angels,
period. And you are not to you are not
to worship them. You are not there to be begging
them to do something for for you.
In the sense that I need a leading from an Angel, No, Paul
said. We are led by the Spirit.
Now, however, if God chooses to allow an Angel to manifest and
you're aware of that, fine, as long as it bears witness with
your spirit, the Holy Spirit in you that that's what that is.
Because even the devil will come as a an Angel of light so it can
look, oh wow, look how gorgeous and beautiful and shiny it must
be from God. But it's a counterfeit.
And, and how will you know? Because of what they will say.
Because the enemy is a liar and he does not speak truth.
So he will not rightly divide truth.
Even if he uses scripture. The very scripture we just read
he used on Jesus. But he had it out of context.
He wanted Jesus to use it as self-serving selfish ambition.
Prove yourself and Jesus like I don't have to prove nothing to
you. I know who I am and I know what
I'm going to do to you, and I'm not doing it your way.
I'm staying with the Father. It is written.
I said it is written. Amen.
Hebrews chapter 1 or Hebrews 13, two, says this.
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by
this some have entertained angels without knowledge.
Now we've taken some time, I believe it was last year, where
we conversed a little bit about the realm of angels and we
talked about the seraphim and the cherubim.
You know, we, you know, have some conversations about them
that there's not just, you know, one type and with that and then
there's archangels. But when people, people try to
pretend they're spiritual and that they have some maturity on
you, when they would say, I, oh, I see an Angel in the room right
now and they're this tall and they're there and then you're
like, I don't see them. Well, obviously they're they're
in another realm. And unless a veil's pulled,
you're not. How many believe angels are in
the room right now? They're absolutely in the room.
Absolutely, and we don't have to see that to know what we know
based upon Scripture that they're encamped around those
who fear him. However, angels have this
appearance as a man that you can entertain one and and be unaware
that you have. I know in one particular case in
my life, I did not see them, but I obviously had a conversation
with one because when I purchased my first home ever
here, I did something I've never done before by the spirit.
I'd end up picking up the Saint Augustine record And there was
this ad about getting financed for a particular house.
And I would never do this, but I just like, I'm making this call.
And it was really more of an impression.
Well, I got a person on the other end.
I talked to them about this and they were super nice to me and
they were talking and they, what do you do?
And I was telling them what I did and they're all, you know,
my father was a pastor or minister, you know, and just
talk like this, you know, and I'm like, OK, we're going to get
this for you. And I it was the easiest thing
ever. I mean, it's like I I barely had
to do anything. And yes, you know, we were
applying, you know, I had some places that deny did not, you
know, what's it going to finance for those letters showed up at
the house that we were not. But I would call and say, Hey, I
got don't worry about it. We've got this.
And sure enough, I got it and I got the house And they were so
easy to work with. They were so amazing, you know,
and happens to be that their father was a minister.
So I told someone that was with us at the time that was looking
to buy, said you need to call them.
These people were amazing. This, this person was awesome.
Well, they called asked for by name and they said no one has
ever worked here by that name. Now I can't explain it beyond
that. I'm just telling you, I was most
likely entertaining someone whose dad happens to be a
minister. Are you hearing me now?
I'm going to be honest with you. I can't prove it.
But you can't not prove it. That I'm sure there's times that
you came this close to an accident and it's most likely
your Angel. Stop that car stood there,
pulled some. I literally watched a lady in
our church, I used to have a a podium that had it was like
anchors, you know, it was crafted and it had points on the
ends and it was down here on the floor and we were praying for a
woman who had cancer and she under the power God fell.
Well, the ushers were not around and this was all concrete down
here. I mean, they're like gone.
Well, their head was going right to the point of that anchor.
I mean, right. And I'm telling you, I mean, I'm
like, you know how it's like slow motion.
You're like, you want to move, but you're it's over.
It's like it's going so fast, but it's going so slow at the
same time. And I'm watching it, you know,
and you're like screaming on the inside, right?
You know, because you're like, gosh, doing something.
Now they're head. Now we have to pray for their
head and pray that their brains don't bleed out, you know,
whatever. But I literally within when they
got about two inches, watched their head do this and it was
like they were on a pillow. I was blown away.
And I now could have been the Holy Ghost.
It could have just as easily been their Angel, could have
just as easily been their Angel. So the question is though, why
would we maybe entertain an Angel unaware?
And I'm going to answer that question tonight.
In Hebrews chapter 1, verses 13 to 14, it says this.
But to which of the angels has he ever said, sit at my right
hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.
Now we know that's Jesus, not an Angel.
He's never said that to an Angel.
The Father, however, he says this in verse 14.
Are they not all ministering spirits?
Because in this part of Hebrews that we're talking about, Jesus
is not an Angel. That's a different scenario.
And he says, are they not all ministering spirits?
That's angels sent out to render service for, say, for, say, for
that's purpose. So this is their purpose.
They're sent out for. They're sent out to render
service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation.
Do angels inherit salvation? No, they do not.
Angels have no salvation. Because when Lucifer was lifted
up in pride, the King James calls him that.
You know when Satan, all Bibles call him that or the devil, OK.
When he was lifted up in pride as anointed cherub, salvation
was not for him or any of the other ones, the ones that left
their proper domain that we read about in Jude, those who
rebelled with him, none of those have the ability to be saved
ever. So salvation is not for angels.
In fact, I think it's Peter that talks about the things that we
are receiving. They long to look at, but they
are not a created being that has the ability of having salvation.
So they have to stay true, but their assignment is to render
service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation.
Now this may make sense. Now look at Luke chapter 15
verse 10. In the same way I will tell you,
talking about a parable of a lost coin, there is joy in the
presence of the angels of God over 1 Sinner who repents.
Why do you think they're rejoicing?
Because they have another person they can serve another one.
Because they're here to render service to those who are heirs
of salvation. They're not here to render
service to the lost. Can they impact the lost?
Yes. But when they're impacting the
lost, it's not good for the lost.
If an angels engage in the lost, it's it's not favorable.
Usually someone's dying and it's not the Angel.
Are you hearing me? OK, but they render service for
those who are heirs of salvation.
So This is why such joy takes place, because angels are not
idle. They are always active.
They're active, They're not sleeping.
In fact, they will do assignments while you sleep.
One of the reason why you can sleep.
Not only do you know that your father cares for you and that he
will take care of anything he has for you.
Well, you know one reason why? Because he can deploy others on
your behalf as well as you can deploy others on your behalf.
Amen. So the word sent here is a Greek
word that means to send out on a mission.
It actually, if you read it, it's like Apollo, Apollo's
tello. I think it's how you say it.
It's very close to the word apostle.
It's not the same Greek word, but it has a similar meaning
because the apostle was a sent out one to be sent out and, and,
and this particular Greek word, they are sent to render service
means they are sent out on a mission there.
They have something that has been a directive and now they're
out. Gabriel was sent to go to
Daniel. He was sent and he is going to
accomplish that mission. So they're always active.
They're not idle and, and in their service.
They're unselfish because they're there to accomplish what
the Lord has spoken. You understand, Gabriel didn't
quit day one. What we would consider a day, 24
hours. You know, the Bible says with
the Lord a day is like 1000 years and 1000 years is like a
day. So I'm not telling you that
Gabriel was conscientious of time, but the OR conscious of
time. But the reality is, is that he
was wrestling and when he was not prevailing, he didn't say,
well flip, I tried. He didn't go back to the throne
and say I tried that. That guy was tough.
I couldn't get through. You got another way you want to
do this? He was resilient.
Well, if we could be resilient like that, even though, and the
Bible tells us that we should like the one woman, pray, just
keep praying. Just be persistent, be
persistent. These angels are persistent.
They will get it done. And when he could not prevail,
he would not let the mission go. He called for backup.
I know a guy. I know a guy.
I'm done with this. You know, I know a guy.
OK, so they're unselfish and they're unobtrusive, meaning,
you know, they're not going to force their way on you per SE.
They are in a mission. They're doing what they're
called to do. And they will do this in ways
that, again, you'll entertain them and will not even be aware
you are. Now, that doesn't mean you can't
be aware because we understand that Daniel was aware and we'll
see some others that people were very much aware.
That was not the Holy Ghost. That was not God the Father,
That was not Jesus Christ reincarnated.
This is an Angel. OK.
So the aim of their mission is to help the Saints to make their
calling and election sure. They are here to make sure what
you're called to do, you will accomplish.
So not only do you have the Holy Ghost in you as a child of God
to bear witness that you are His child, and then have His power
come upon you so that you are extremely mighty and the gifts
of the Spirit can flow through you.
Glory to God, but then He has a myriad of angels at your
disposal. How in the world could you not
accomplish your purpose? Hallelujah.
Now again, if Jesus is just religion to you, then all you're
thinking about is where am I going to go when I die?
But when he's the Kingdom, you're like, who's in our army
so that we can get the job done. Hallelujah.
Because you know what? If I'm hitting a particular
wall, well, we need to enact some others to get in involved
in this situation because from the domain of light, we never
lose. We only win.
I said we only win. So here's some characteristics
of their ministry as found in Scripture.
Angels will be instructors in Matthew chapter one, verse 20.
Look at this and Angel came and said, but when he had considered
this, behold, an Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream
saying, Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as
your wife, for the child who has been conceived in her is of the
Holy Spirit. Now Joseph has been away from
Mary and it has come to his attention while he's preparing a
place for her to bring her home and be the the marriage is
completely finished and consummated.
Then he finds out she's with child.
Joseph's like, wow, now, according to the law, she should
be killed, period. But he didn't want to do that,
so he's going to divorce her and send her away quietly.
That's his intent. Well, we're not doing this, so
that means the man's hurt. Oh, man, you understand the
thoughts going through his mind, and you understand the devil was
definitely probably bringing some thoughts anyway.
Now, I don't, you know, I don't, I don't, I'm not telling you
that the devil knows that. He obviously went after him at
some juncture. He obviously went after him, you
know, at a young age. The devil's like, just in case,
let's kill this kid, right? That's why they had to run to
Egypt. So if he is aware at the time
and he's like, something's going on with his married chick, you
know, so he's like in Joseph's head.
She's been whoring around on you, bro.
You get rid of that one. Get rid of that.
You should, Stoner. You know what?
The law. But see, he didn't want to do
that, so now he's looking at options.
Well, you understand Joseph's not born again, so you know how
well God wants him to know. He sends an Angel now.
The angels in a dream though, so he's asleep and while he's
dreaming, this Angel comes in and he's aware that even though
he's dreaming, this is an Angel from God and he tells him very
specific instructions. Taker, Now you know what this
means for Joseph. We don't talk about this a whole
lot, but that means Joseph and Mary were looked at their whole
life a certain way because do not think that Israel thought
they were like uh huh. And they walked it anyway
because they knew what was truth.
Are you hearing me? So he heard from an Angel.
It solidified in him that the child she has is of God.
And you know, Mary ends up telling him, this is what
happened. An Angel showed up at my house
and communicated to me and that's the only reason he said,
you know, an Angel talked to me too.
So gave him instruction. Here's another one in Acts
chapter 10 starting in verse 3 says this.
It says now on the 9th hour. Now this is this is after the
death, burial and resurrection of Jesus.
Now after the 9th hour of the day, he he clearly saw in a
vision an Angel of God who had just come in and said to him,
Cornelius. So Cornelius is in prayer.
He's a Gentile, he's not from Israel, he's not the nation of
Israel. In essence, he's a heathen,
right Gentile. And but yet he is honoring God
the best way he knows. And he's giving alms and his
alms, his financial giving has made it to the ears of the Lord.
And the Lord sends an Angel in order to give him instruction on
how he can be born again and get into his Kingdom.
So this Angel shows up and says Cornelius.
And then jump down to verse 5. It says this.
He says now dispatch some men to Joppa send for a man named Simon
who was also called Peter. He is staying with a Tanner
named Simon whose house is by the sea.
Now I see this Angel give gave him very specific instructions.
The Lord has heard has has received the the prayers of your
and the and your alms that you give to the poor.
He's recognizing that that you're doing all you can based
upon what you know. And the Angel now is not
authorized to preach this gospel, not in this
dispensation. So he has to go to the one
authorized, which is a man and he says go find this guy named
Peter. This is where he's at.
And you know, the minute that Angel left, he grabbed some
guys, said I want you to go to Joppa.
I want you to go to this guy. There's a guy that lives there.
Find out who he is, the name Simon.
He's a Tanner and apparently he lives by the sea.
So go to the coast and get to the house, find Peter and ask
him to come come back. Now you understand all the wild
God in a different vision, not with an Angel, but it's talking
to Peter and says some guys are coming for you, go with him.
So when he comes to Cornelius's house and he begins to share
with him the way of salvation through Jesus Christ as Lord,
how does he know that Cornelius and his house gets it?
They all begin to start speaking in other tongues and he's like,
wow, the same thing that was poured out on us on the day of
Pentecost has hit a bunch of Gentiles.
So God obviously is broadening this beyond Israel.
Can I get an Amen? So you could.
You don't have to. I'm just saying I'm not asking
an Angel to come to give me instruction.
I asked the Lord. However, if the Lord wanted an
Angel to to reveal that information that then would be
quickened in my spirit by the Holy Ghost, then we could
receive it that way. And let me tell you, it doesn't
make you more spiritual. I'm going to hammer that for
quite some time. Having an Angel talk to you is
no sign of spiritual maturity. Cornelius is lost.
There's no spiritual maturity about him.
He's seeking. OK, All right.
It's amazing. In these last days, people are
going to act like they're hearing from angels to get you
off. Now notice these angels are
talking to these people directly.
Just running through scripture right now in my spirit.
I'm not seeing any and I'll have to study this.
I'm it just popped up in my spirit now I'm seeking I'm just
not seeing 1 today right now, but I can verify I'm not seeing
any occasion where an Angel was spoken to one person to go talk
to someone else on behalf of the Angel.
The angel's instruction was always for the individual.
It doesn't mean Peter, but Peter got instruction from the Holy
Ghost. They didn't say an Angel said
for you to come. The guys just said, hey,
Cornelius asked for you to come and he was coming because he got
a word from God, not from an Angel.
But most of the other occasions the angels are talking to the
individual. So when someone says an Angel
came to talk to me about you, that's called red flag.
That's a foul. That's right there.
You'd be like, ho, hold the horses, say no more, say no
more. I'm full of the Holy Ghost.
Don't need an Angel to talk to you about me to deliver a
message to me. Are you hearing me OK?
The second characteristic of their ministry is they are
deliverers. They will deliver you.
Look at Daniel chapter 6 verse 22.
It says this. My God sent an Angel and shut
the my a lion's mouths, and they have not harmed me in so much as
I was found innocent before him. And also towards you O king, I
have committed no crime. Now, this is an interesting
little twist here because technically Daniel had committed
a crime in the context that the people that were under him were
so jealous of him, they tricked the king to make a law that
would put him in a position. What Daniel was saying is he is
that people manipulated and made law to try to have me go against
the law of my my Lord and his always supersedes.
And my heart was never to be against you or to go against
your decrees, but I cannot go against my God.
And they were using that. Are you hearing me?
But God knew that, and he vindicated him.
Hallelujah. And how did he vindicate him?
He sent angels, which tells us the lions were hungry all night.
First of all, they were already hungry, and they were hungry
more. Now, if I'm not around the
kitchen when I'm hungry, I'm I can usually be all right.
But the minute I start smelling food, now this is the problem
when you're hungry because then your stomach starts talking
besides your mind knowing you haven't eaten yet and it will
talk and it will cause pain. So you understand, those lions
smelled Daniel all night and could not open their mouths and
it made them mad. How do we know 'cause when the
others got dropped in that morning, they didn't even get it
get to the floor before they were devoured by the lie.
They're like, man, we've been waiting all night.
So the Lord did not 'cause the lions to not be hungry he had to
send angels to hold their mouths.
Now I don't know what that looks like.
I know what it looks like in the natural when I would hold my
dog's, you know, mouth. You know, my foot have to give
Tybee something. He hold her mouth, you know make
sure she swallows it. You know they those things could
have been shaking all night long trying to get their mouth open,
you know and try and they could have been fighting the whole
night. Daniel's like, this is crazy,
I'm going to go to sleep. There's obviously some piece
that came on him because he slept.
I think we imagine that he's laid up on all the lions and
they're just like, oh, I don't know that it was the case.
I think they were mad. And the angels are like, we got
it, we got it, Daniel, we got it, it.
It's OK, we got it. It's OK.
You think you got something I got you and all night long.
And Daniel's like you got it, OK.
Who's that? Oh, King, I'm good, right?
OK, they delivered the next one's in Acts chapter 519.
This happened to Peter twice in Acts 519, it says, but during
the night an Angel, the Lord opened the gates of the prison
and taking them all out ends up saying I go and preach
somewhere. So they've been arrested, but an
Angel breaks them out. It happens again in Acts chapter
12 verse 7. This time Peter has fallen
asleep and an Angel Lord appears and a light shows up in the cell
and he strikes Peter's side, wakes him up saying get up
quickly and his chains fall off of his hands.
Now I know a lot of prison people that would love for this
to take place today. I get it.
Could it? Yes it could.
I'm not saying it cannot, but you understand Peter's
incarceration, you know, it's a little different than others
incarcerations. All right.
And so they fell off and this happened.
Would now we have no account of angels with Paul and his prison
cell opening. But could angels have been
involved in the earthquake? I don't know.
But in these two cases, angels are actively involved in the
realm of deliverance. Amen.
All right. The next thing is, is they are
comforters. They'll comfort you.
An Angel can show up to comfort you.
Now, they are not the comforter, but they can give a word of
comfort because again, they are ministering spirits that are
sent out to render service to us who are heirs of salvation.
This is why you may sit by someone one day and they
encourage you and you're like, man, I just feel real better.
I'm glad. And that could have been an
Angel the whole time and you didn't even know it.
This is why you always want to show hospitality, because
sometimes God may have sent that Angel to do this very bidding
and you're unaware of that. Or maybe you engage one because
they've been sent for someone else that's coming and you've
entertained them, and although they're not directly for you,
they're for someone else. Could be all right, but they are
there. They're there to help comfort.
Look at Luke chapter 2, verses 9 to 14.
It says an Angel of the Lord suddenly stood before them, and
the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were
terribly frightened. But the Angel said to them, do
not be afraid. For behold, I bring you good
news of great joy with which you will be for all the people for
today. Come on, say today, today in the
city of David there has been born for you as Savior, who is
Christ the Lord. This will be assigned to you,
and you'll find a baby wrapped in clothes, lying in a Manger,
right? And suddenly there appeared with
the Angel a multitude of heavenly hosts praising God and
saying glory to God in the highest on earth, peace among
men with whom he is pleased. Hallelujah.
So we see here they brought comfort to the shepherds.
How about Acts chapter 27, last Scripture, Acts 2723 to 24 says
this. For this very night an Angel of
the Lord, to whom I belong and whom I serve, stood before me.
Now he doesn't serve the Angel, he serves God.
So he's saying the very night, an Angel of the Lord to whom I
belong, I belong to God, and that God I serve.
He sent an Angel saying, what did the Angel say?
Do not be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar.
And behold, God has granted you all those who are selling with
you. So Paul's doing two things in
his prayer during this time on the ship that's about to go
down. He is #1 reminding God of His
word concerning himself. And he said, now you said I
would stand before Caesar. So I cannot die out here.
I'm reminding you of your word. You are God that does not lie.
You do what you say. So I cannot die here.
And everything tells me we going to to die, but I do not believe
I tried to not get out here in the 1st place.
They did not listen. I'm a prisoner that's why I'm
here. But now that I'm here and it's
going just like you warned us, I'm letting you know I cannot
die out here because you said I would be before Caesar.
So the angels telling him you must stand before Caesar.
You are correct. But Paul's also saying now,
Lord, I warned them, I'm asking you to be merciful.
I know you're going to save me. You have to.
But I don't want to be the only one.
And I know that you want all of us saved.
I know that you desire that none perish.
Lord, give them an opportunity. I'm asking for their lives.
And what did you say? God has what granted, which
means he was requesting granted all you, all those who are
selling with you. That's why later on when a
couple of them wanted to jump ship and go out on their own,
Paul, one translator says I cannot guarantee your life
unless you stay with a ship. If you go out on your own, then
you're on your own. But if you stay with us, I'm
telling you, you're going to make it.
Why? Because I have a word from God
and that word from God came through an Angel.
Although Paul is the one who said we are to be led by the
Spirit now, this Angel only confirmed what he's having in
his spirit then period. He understands that, but yet in
this situation is in the chaos there in God is for whatever
reason needed him to know a little more emphatically than
just an inward witness. This is going to occur.
Are you hearing me? And I'll just tell you this, you
know, a lot of times people want these like supernatural
expressions. Kenneth Y Hagin said this
concerning the times that he was either through a dream or a
vision, either had a conversation with an Angel or
with the Lord Jesus himself. He said when those occurred, I
knew that it would be more difficult, that what was going
to come was going to be more difficult.
That's why he manifested. I'm going to say that again.
When those manifestations, life became more difficult and
because he had seen it strengthen him to go through
that. Had he not had that, he's not
sure he would have finished that course.
So in essence, he wasn't wanting because he knew there's going to
be great resistance now. But now I know for me who was,
you know, raised in a denominational church that did
not minister on the power of the Holy Ghost and the baptism of
the Holy Spirit at all, just about how to be saved, where
you're going to go when you die. Honestly, I didn't know how to
be led by the Spirit at all. But I was seeking the Lord and,
and when I was in Atlanta, GA heading to work, praying and I
had an open vision and I saw myself standing and in front of
a sea of people, I could not count them, but I knew I was
preaching. But I'm going to tell you I've
had plenty of opportunities to quit, but that vision compels
me. I cannot let it go.
It was that real. I can still see it right now in
my spirit, but it had great opposite.
It's had great opposition to it. OK, now I think in part it was
because I wasn't baptized in the Holy Ghost and I didn't know.
I'm not saying so. My point is, is that being led
by an inward witness is amazing and you should just stick with
that. However, if something else
occurs, know that it could be that there would be more
persecution associated with a visitation.
I'm just trying to give you a little legwork because there's a
lot of people who are pretending they're seeing and some may
actually be seeing, but it's another realm disguised and
light and they so want that. But the evidence of these
particular cause what what did here?
I'll give you one more. Thank you, Holy Ghost.
The Lord said what did Elijah tell Elijah?
He said what do you want? He said I want a double portion.
He says you've asked for a hard thing.
However, how will he receive it? You're going to have to see me
go. You're going to be able to have
that discernment in the realm of the Spirit.
And he did that then was confirmed where is the God of
Elijah? And he hid it.
But man, did he have some challenges, right?
So a lot of times people want to be the Elijah of their
generation, but they don't want the persecution that comes with
those types of mantels. Just telling you right now, just
be what God's called you to be, because if you're lusting for
that anyway, you're already in trouble.
Which means if you're lusting for Angel visitations, you're
already in trouble. But I do want you to know angels
are here for us. Glory to God, and we should be
excited. And if I never see the angels
that are encamped around me, I do know this.
They are working on my behalf. They are rendering service for
me. They are being deployed, They
are influencing people to sow financially towards the vision
God has here. They are speaking to people to
open up favor so that I receive favor in different business
dealings or just different countries I may need to get or
other of ways of escape of situation.
I mean, angels are orchestrating things that I probably will not
know this side of how they stood in places that safeguarded my
life and kept me from harm's way, but I acknowledge that
they're there and in there's in those moments where I like I'm
like, thank you, father, that you have angels and camped
around me and Lord, if one just helped me today.
I just want to give you honor and glory.
I don't, I don't worship the Angel that I worship God.
Thank you, Lord, if you use one of the angels today to help me
in this situation, that situation, to bring this in to
open that door. Thank you Lord, because when
there's situation I like, we need some angels involved then
we can release them and they are waiting for us to do so.