22ND JULY, 2023
PASTOR OLUBI JOHNSON
THE MINISTRY OF ANGELS
Hebrews 1:14 KJVS
Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?
Angels are spiritual servants created by God to serve God and we who are heirs of the salvation in Christ Jesus.
They are authorized by the words we speak and empowered by the power we release in prayer.
Psalm 103:20 KJVS
Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.
The angels serve us in:
1. Giving us skill and understanding through our thoughts (Dan. 9:22-23).
2. Strengthening and protecting our physical bodies (Daniel 10:8-11; Gen. 19:10-11).
3. Providing for us financially and materially by supernaturally causing men to give to and serve us (Exo. 12:36; Psa. 34:7-10).
It is vital to note that we are NOT to pray to angels, nor seek to see them physically. Doing this can lead us to being deceived by Satan or fallen angels (2Cor. 11:14).
So it is as we speak God’s Word and pray in the Spirit with all kinds of prayer (Eph. 6:18) including travail, like the Lord Jesus did (Heb. 5:7), that our angels will be authorized and empowered to serve us optimally as God intends.
Note that the ministry of angels is intricately interwoven with our prayers (Rev. 5:8; 8:3-5).
Observe that the elders before God’s throne have golden bowls full of incense: prayers of the saints (Rev. 5.8); furthermore, these prayers of the saints are given to angels who further mix them with the prayers of ALL saints on the golden altar in front of God’s throne (Rev. 8:3).
Then the angel takes some of these mixed prayers and ‘throws’ them into the earth (Rev. 8:4-5) to produce ‘thunderings, lightings and an earthquake’: the prayers avail much (Jam. 5.16) on the earth!
Practically, what do these things symbolize?
They symbolize that when we pray here on earth, our prayers are joined TOGETHER (1Cor. 5:4) in agreement in the Spirit to and through the spirits of elders who, though still alive and ON EARTH, have grown spiritually enough to sit on God’s throne (Rev. 3.21).
These prayers that joined TOGETHER in the Spirit through the spirit of the elder are greatly amplified in power (Josh. 23:10; Deut. 32:30).
These amplified prayers are AGAIN FURTHER AMPLIFIED by the mercy of God through the ministry of angels at God’s throne, mixing them with the prayers for ALL saints stored up in heaven (Heb. 4:16).
It is these TWICE AMPLIFIED prayers that are then released into the earth through the ministry of angels to avail much!
Matthew 18:19 NKJV
“Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. For where two or three are GATHERED together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.”
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