We Are Not Alone

[Music] rise up in jesus name open eyes and heal the land rise up [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] rise up [Music] it's time to rise good testimonies amen god is amazing the things he does the things he's done it's just amazing so uh a couple of things real quick also we're gonna get into the scriptures uh one of the things that this reminded me of i'm talking about the young men from nigeria uh going to the hospital uh there had a matter of fact just yesterday or day before yesterday i think it was anyway yeah there was a phone call that came in from a couple and they she was born in russia raised in ukraine uh she also is a doctor and uh it was amazing because and actually some of the well it's the same person actually she just got the testimony about i was talking to them on the phone before they sent that testimony in and that it was it's just amazing to hear and talk to her because like she said she had been studying as a set of medical doctors she'd been studying these the uh dht and going through it and then the enemy hit which you know makes sense if you're a devil because that's what he tries to do people get to hold this message especially somebody like a doctor or somebody that has access to people the way they do and she was hit with his cancer and then went through the dht again and kept enforcing it and kept enforcing has been praying for her patients but the doctors around her now recognize what she's doing and it's just amazing to hear what god is doing and it's always good to hear you know different aspects uh the young man that went in nigeria going into the hospital we're seeing this more and more and more where hospitals are recognizing the good that our people can do when they go in and they're giving them offices i mean i hear this all the time they will go in there and pray for people and then they'll say hey why don't you take this room and you can be here and they're generally not paid staff actually one or two have become paid staff but many of them are not but they get a room in an office they're in the hospital years ago when i went to trinidad um it was uh well you know it's kind of sad because it's so much easier to get into hospitals in other countries places like trinidad places like nigeria it is actually easier to get in there and just pray for people because you can literally just kind of walk in the door many times they don't have security and things you can just walk in and just walk through the wards and in many places it's just an open room like this with beds and as you walk in you start praying for somebody and you know they get healed and all of a sudden everybody else wants prayer and we did this actually here at parkland hospital a few years ago we when we were in the old building yeah actually over in mesquite and so uh we would go down to parkland hospital to the emergency room and just go in and there was about five or six of us and we'd go in and the place was packed out and there were people sitting on the floor people laid up against the wall some of them sleeping because they were so sick and we go in and this uh had a friend of mine that was here he said uh can i have your attention we are here to pray for the sick if you need prayer raise your hand and the the receptionist is looking like who are these people who are they they had no clue we didn't ask permission or anything we just went right on in and this and a couple of hands went up like and there was probably 150 people in there and there was probably six hands that went up and so which was good because that's about how many people we had with us so we kind of scattered to all of them started ministering people started getting up moving around doing things recognizing fevers going instantly gone and they started getting happy about these things and all of a sudden the people next to him pray for me pray for me and we ended up praying for everybody i mean literally almost everybody in the hospital there were so many healings that took place and then of course security showed up um that's why it's good to go in and hit all at once like that but they were very good and they you know they just kind of stood there and watched they didn't run us out or anything and so we've done that many many times uh something similar to that here at parkland uh when our teams would go there and but there was also when i went into trinidad there was the place there uh the hospital there they asked me to go pray for one person i went in pray for that one person and we asked anybody else wanted prayer and there was a couple we prayed for like three or four all together and there was probably at least 100 people there in that and they had different wards that you can go into and each ward was for specific diseases or categories so we went in administered people left we had gone in with the pastor next day we were going to go back and check on them we went back they were out they had been dismissed and because they had got well so they released them and we walked back in there and as soon as the people there saw us they knew that we had been there the day before and prayed for this man and he was released so now all of a sudden it's like oh pray for me pray for me everybody we stayed there about three hours just going through and praying for people then we left came back the next day literally the next day all new people the entire ward had been released and but you know people always say why don't y'all just go and clean out the hospitals we do and then you fill them back up again we would have to have somebody on staff there or there to to literally work with everybody that comes in but that happened i was there for about 10 days and that happened uh five six four you know six days out of the ten that i was there we were in the hospital and had some great meetings and just it was it was amazing but i'm telling you this the gospel of jesus christ works why does it work because he's the same yesterday today and forever he's always been a healer he'll always be a healer he's still healing he's already accomplished it now he's just looking at us i was reading something about mother etter as i mentioned earlier and the person that wrote the book about her you know you have to be careful sometimes when you read books about somebody if you read their books that they wrote that's one thing if you're reading books people wrote about them you kind of have to filter it sometimes because they will put their own religious beliefs in there and this person that i was uh reading about mother edward he said that her first husband was not spiritual at all was a matter of fact kind of antagonistic against her call and so she was at home on the farm and that kind of thing and he didn't and this is what this man said that wrote the story about her he said her husband did not realize that he had married a woman who had the gift of evangelism and the gift of preaching i see when i read that i'm like okay first off listen carefully the reason i'm telling you this is because of this right there is no gift of evangelism there is the gift of the evangelist the evangelist is the gift he put gifts in the church the evangelist the apostle prophet evangelist pastor teacher those five full ministries we generally call them they are the gift the person is the gift now they have certain callings giftings uh gifts of the spirit that kind of thing operating in them but when somebody writes that this man didn't know who he had married and he didn't know he married a woman that had the gift of evangelism and the gift of preaching what that does is it nullifies people's will because there is you cannot find in the bible any mention of the gift of preaching or the gift of evangelism why because it is not a gift it is a duty and a responsibility and an obligation it is your job as a believer now you can develop it you can do it you can get better at it and you will get better at it the more you do it but the key is to remember that it is not a gift that drops on you and all of a sudden you're just an evangelist now there are certain characteristics in the five-fold ministry that each usually each gift will possess each each one of the fivefold will possess certain sometimes certain temperaments certain personalities things like that but we have to realize that that's how that god goes into that person and works out through them and it is their personality now sometimes people's personality can change thank god and other times that god will use the personality they were born with it just gets sanctified right so either way the bottom line is and this is what i what i really want to emphasize even smith wigglesworth said this the key is to believe the word of god when you read the word if you read it out loud god has spoken and remember that when you read the word of god and it says that if anyone whosoever saith god just said whosoever sayeth you have to look at that as god speaking amen now we're going to look at this um you know recently i don't know if you have noticed yesterday and actually this was prophesied recently just before this recent rash of things that's happened is that now what was going to start coming out was a whole lot of ufo sightings have you been hearing about that all the different sightings all different kind of things well the reason for that okay because there's a good and a bad side of that all right now here's the thing you have to remember one thing is for sure we are not alone [Applause] [Music] so today we're going to talk about how we're not alone all right now so today i'm going to start what i expect to be somewhat of a short series but we're not alone the bible says that we are encompassed about with a great cloud of witnesses one of the great cloud of witnesses are one part of that and there are several different aspects but one part of that that i want to i'm going to mention i'm going to move into a second part is that great cloud of witnesses includes of course all the people in hebrews 11 because that's where it's actually talking about it hebrews 11 going into 12. but we have to remember smith wigglesworth is in that great cloud of witnesses john lake is in that great cloud of witnesses mother etter is in that great cloud of witnesses amy simple mcpherson uh you know these names of these giants that we know about as people call them or god's generals they are watching us now think about that that we're encompassed about in the spirit realm because the spirit realm is the spirit realm and it's another dimension and it's not here or there it's another dimension along at the same time in other words there could be in another dimension something someone else standing in the exact spot i am where i'm in this dimension they're in that dimension and it wouldn't be a problem right so the thing is that we have to remember is that number one these uh great men and women of god that have impacted so many lives to the point where even though they are now you know in the great cloud of witnesses and no longer with us they are still impacting lives and so we have them watches now imagine because every one of them now obviously some of them admitted that they had giftings and and gifts were given to them but most of them said anybody can do what i did that's what anybody used of god will almost always say that if you hear somebody say i can do this and you can't run from them right they may be of god but run from them why because they have another motive of why they think they're special so when you look at these men and women of god they will always say if i did it you can do it and it comes down to an a matter of the will of you deciding to be like them now now think about this we talk about being like jesus all the time isn't that right but how many of you know that to be like jesus uh you're probably gonna pass wigglesworth on the way right because he's not above jesus so if you're going to get to jesus you're going to have to go through wigglesworth you don't understand what i mean by that in other words you're probably going to walk and talk like wigglesworth and pick up some of his characteristics and other people if you're going to get to be like jesus you're going to have to probably pick up some of mother etter's characteristics now you don't have to study them to do that if you do study them you'll see those things and you'll probably do it faster but you don't have to study them you just move toward jesus and along the way characteristics will come into you and you'll start operating in certain characteristics that somebody else would look at and go well that's what smith wigglesworth used to do do you understand what i'm saying so now if you do study them generally you can incorporate some things into your life on purpose you can choose to change as a matter of fact that's the only way you will change is for you to choose to change amen now but this morning and as i said we're encompassed with a great cloud of witnesses but there are other beings also so when i say we are not alone well we know that the father is watching us we know that jesus watches over us we know the holy spirit is with us and knows what we do amen but we also know that they're angels and we know that there are demonic spirits or which you know as a bible calling demon spirits or you have to look and see what the bible actually what the bible says about it we're going to talk about these beings now today i won't get very far into it that's why i said this will probably be a series but this morning starting i want to talk a little bit about angels and it's going to give you some basic ideas and things and and we'll come back to these things but we want to talk about the ministry of angels now first off they're only and then you might want to take some notes of stuff so some of this is going to be pretty just cut and dried but i want to i want you to start to move in this direction but i want you to do it right because the worst thing you can do is start talking about angelic beings and get on the wrong track and then you start waiting for them and you start looking for them and you start trying to you know hear them and you know you start asking for angelic appearances listen god initiates angelic appearances not man when man initiates angelic appearances it's almost always a demon they will show up because they will take advantage of the fact that you want to see something and so it's never good to ask god to see an angel now if you need it he will show you an angel if it will help you move forward but your idea of helping gods is sometimes two different things and so i'm going to give you a couple things number one these are just some facts we'll start with first off there are angels they are spirits and they have a spirit body now there are only four angels named in scripture only four right all these other names you hear is made up by somebody it's not in the bible the only four that are named in the bible are very simple they are michael which is generally seen as the warring angel there's gabriel which is usually seen as the messenger angel come to bring a message don't don't make this a hard and fast rule all right the third one that's mentioned is lucifer right and then the fourth one actually goes by two names one is abaddon and the other is apollyon but those are the same angel uh they're fallen angels as is the first two are good angels the last two are bad angels amen now when the angels rebelled against god two-thirds stayed with god only one-third fell so that tells us right there we got a mountain number two to one then if you add the believers even more so amen now we also know that the bible says that the number of the company of angels that belong to god and work with god are innumerable so if the angel if two-thirds are innumerable then the other third is numerable that makes sense so all right i mean okay technically if you couldn't number them how would you know two-thirds stayed just say it so it is an illustration of how many were with him now but we're going to look at some scriptures so first go with me yep go with me two second kings second kings if i can get there myself come on there we go yeah second kings chapter six and we're going to look at verse we will look at verse let's start in verse 15. now you know this story this is when the prophet was surrounded and his servant his uh associate was there with him so we'll just we'll just pick it up from there and when the servant of the man of god was risen early and had gone forth behold a host compassed the city both with horses and chariots and his servants said unto him i'll ask my master how shall we do so these were the syrians that had come and surrounded them and he answered fear not that's always a good start right for they that be with us are more than they that be with them and elisha prayed and said lord i pray thee open his eyes that he may see now notice and the lord opened the eyes of the young man and he saw and behold the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about elisha and when they came down to him elisha prayed unto the lord and said smite this people i pray thee with blindness and he smoked them with blindness according to the word of elisha notice that was not the word of god that was the word of elisha okay but now notice those angels appeared now get this the angels were there elijah elisha had already said there's more with us than be against us he already saw him then he said lord open young man's eyes and he did and the young man saw which means they were there before the young man saw them they were already there even though they were unseen that's point number one angels are around even when you don't see them right now the bible says in matthew i believe chapter 18 you're gonna have to turn there but it says that the angels it talks about don't despise these little children because their angels always behold the face of god and so we know that there are according to the inference of scripture that angels are assigned to people and it says that these children have angels and there's nothing in the bible that says you lose your angel when you get big when you grow up so we would assume that there is probably what most people call guardian angels or whatever or an angel assigned they don't get taken away with that and start trying to talk to your guardian angel uh all that kind of stuff he he's like the secret service he don't want to talk just he's just doing his business he's standing guard he's watching just let him do his job amen don't get don't get wrapped up he's not one for small talk okay so now because they really only say generally speaking what god has said right now so now go with me we're gonna go to the next one uh we're gonna look at daniel you can go to daniel and we'll go to daniel chapter 10. daniel chapter 10 and if you look at chapter 10 where are we going to go there he goes um yeah now you know let me get this right here uh 112 yeah because he says here uh this angel shows up and i was trying to go back to where he talks about the angel actually saying it but he said then said he unto me fear not daniel for from the first day that you did set your heart to understand and to chasten thyself before thy god your words were heard and i am come for your words so now notice angels bring answers to prayer they bring the answers to you do you get that now notice too he said from the day now watch this he says fear not for from the first day he did he did not say from the first day you started to pray he said from the first day that you set your heart to understand and to chasten yourself before the thy god your words were heard and notice it doesn't say pray it says when you set yourself set your heart to understand and you decided to chasten yourself in other words to discipline yourself your words were heard from that moment people say well how come my prayers never get answered well maybe you need to set yourself to understand and need to start chastening yourself and discipline yourself amen there's if god if you're not experiencing the benefits and the blessings of god it's not god's fault it's because you're not in a place where he can do it so the key is to get where he can do it right he says here but the prince of the kingdom of persia withstood me one in 20 days 21 days but lo michael one of the chief princes also known as an archangel came to help me and i remained there with the kings of persia now i'm come to make the understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days for yet the vision is for many days and when he had spoken such words unto me i set my faith toward the ground and i became dumb means quiet okay and behold one like the similitude of the sons of men touch my lips then i opened my mouth and spoke and he said unto me that stood before me oh my lord by the vision my my sorrows are turned upon me and i've retained no strength now you'll notice that he actually goes on and he tells the whole story but then when he finishes he says now i had to fight this basically he was saying that there was an angel another angel a fallen angel over persia that he had to fight his way through and couldn't get through until michael the warring angel came and fought with him and apparently opened so that they could get through and then michael stayed there fighting and this angel tells daniel now i got to go back and continue the fight now think about that so there is actual war in the heavenlies as they would say and these angels are fighting over certain certain situations now one thing you can usually see because daniel held a position where it was important that the angel get through to him obviously for what he was praying for and he said i've come to tell you now if you go back and read this daniel had been reading the books of jeremiah and he said i need to understand this and then the angel shows up and says okay you set your heart to understand i'm here to share this with you and i'm going to tell you what shall befall your people in the last days and so the the vision of daniel for the last days which coincides with the book of the revelation of jesus christ those two go together but in daniel it specifically shows this is what will happen to your people the jews in the last days you get that so when you read the book of the revelation you have to realize a lot of that is referring to what is happening to the jews and you can tie that in with the book of daniel right so many things and if you go and look many it tells you exactly where certain things are going to happen all this kind of stuff for instance everybody's always trying to find out who the antichrist is okay and you know it's funny i've talked to somebody the other day and they said well you know you just think you know everything i said that is not true there are many things i don't know i don't know the name of the antichrist i don't know when jesus is returning amen i don't know if you tithe okay there's a lot of things i don't know amen so just let it be stated that i have said that i've stated that for the for the record okay now okay but this angel showed up and started telling him and now and as we're saying a lot of interest i'm just throwing this out there um the the bible calls the antichrist at one time they it calls him that assyrian and that he will come out of assyria now today syria is part of syria used to be a part of assyria in other words uh syria was big and syria is one place in it so it says that he will come out of assyria so he can't be anybody you probably know of at this point if he is alive right i'm not doubting that he is i don't doubt that he's not i don't carry either way he's not going to affect me simple as that right now but everybody thinks that everything is in the in the book here is talking about america and this thing that kind of no no no all of that takes place over the 10 kingdoms in that area you have to go back to that right so when it talks about these things that were happening you have to look at that period it has nothing to do with the united states you understand that has nothing to do with australia has nothing to do with canada has nothing now there were and it's not the revived or yeah the revived roman empire it was oh it's going to be the revived dominant roman empire no no it's the revised roman empire it's a different type of roman empire all right but we'll include some of those countries involved in the roman empire which also included the middle east and those areas so if you want to go back here here's something you could do look at the area assyria used to cover look at the area that the roman empire used to cover and see where they overlap just an idea right so now that's not what we're talking about today so now notice uh this angel come and brought an answer to prayer amen so when you pray many times it's angels that bring your answer and we've had situations uh where when i've been speaking people have seen angels they see him walk through walls and come up behind me and stand there and talk to my ear and i and they said every time that started happening i would go do you know and i would just take off they said they said and they said i was watching this and they would describe different things the way it works so i don't doubt that at all now i don't it doesn't matter to me right i mean i now listen and i really wanted to teach something else this morning i really wanted to and but he kept bringing this up and he said teach this and i'm like okay i will teach it but i'm still gonna get my piece in there and it ties right in here see it's perfect timing but anyway okay so here's i'm being obedient lord i'm obedient so but here's my piece okay people talk about believing god we're gonna believe god okay that's good but you there are times when you need to believe him for something to happen or an event or something like that but people say well we're gonna pray traveling mercies over you i don't need that i don't need traveling mercies prayed over me why because the angel of the lord encamps around about me he goes before me he's my rear guard i expect him i don't believe for protection because somebody prayed it for me i believe in protection by god because the bible said he would protect me now i started believing that i never stopped i i turned it on years ago and it's still on i never decided you know what i think today i'm going to turn off believing that god will protect me no i cannot imagine that i mean no uh i it is a constant thing that is i'm always believing now it's not always in the front forefront of my mind but it's always there that i believe god protects me amen and so it's things like that now like divine health i don't believe every day get up and believe for divine healing for myself or divine health for myself i believe in divine health i believe that by his word now and by by his stripes obviously i have been healed and if i have been i am and why not stay that way and so i just live this way so i expect now there's probably things he's had to fix and heal that i didn't even know about why because as soon as it popped up he just dealt with it why because i expect him to i don't have a time where i go and go okay god is there anything wrong if so tell me if so i'll pray and i believe you'll heal me nope when it it's like i'm a divine bug zapper it comes just gets hit amen so i don't set you know i don't i don't start believing god and then stop believing god i start believing and i never stop amen so be believing don't now there's times when you have to pray and believe and receive i get that there are times for that but not the things that he has promised that is to be operative in your life all the time now i can tell you an example if i get a chance right we'll see so now okay now go with me to daniel chapter nine daniel chapter nine and we'll start in verse 1. and let's see yeah okay in the first year of darius the son of a huserus of the seed of the medes which was made king over the realm of the chaldeans in the first year of his reign i daniel understood by books oh look at that he understood my books okay the number of the years whereof the word of the lord came to jeremiah the prophet that he would accomplish 70 years in the desolations of jerusalem now this obviously the chapter before what we just read so this is what daniel read and he goes oh 70 years wow that's this year so it's time to be free so he set himself to start to pray right and i set my face unto the lord and the lord god to seek by prayer and supplication with fasting and sackcloth and ashes and i prayed unto the lord my god and made my confession and said o lord the great and dreadful god keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him and to them that keep his commandments we have sinned and have committed iniquity and have done wickedly and have rebelled even by departing from your precepts and from your judgments neither have we hearkened unto your servants the prophets which spoke in the name to our in your name to our kings our princes and our fathers and to all the people of the land oh lord righteousness belongs unto you but unto us confusion of faces as at this day in other words he's saying this is the situation we're in he says to the men of judah and to the inhabitants of jerusalem and all unto all israel that are near and that are far off through all the countries whether you have driven them because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you oh lord to us belongs confusion of faith to our kings to our princes to our fathers because we have sinned against thee now i'm not going to tile this in and try to say oh look here's what you know what is happening here in america and we need to go into sackcloth and ashes and we need to do this and why because we're in a little different position than daniel was now i'm not saying we don't need to pray i'm not and matter of fact i will tell you we need to pray we need to be praying for our nation we need to be praying for our leaders we need to be praying that god will reign righteously through our leaders amen and so we need to be praying for him now but i just want to get to a piece here where he says in verse 10 neither have we obeyed the voice of the lord our god to walk in his laws which he set before us by his servants of prophets yea all israel have transgressed our law even by departing that they might not obey thy voice therefore the curse is poured upon us and the oath that is written in the law of moses the servant of god because we have sinned against him and he now notice he was praying and confessing the sin of the nation and saying okay but now notice when he did this he didn't start doing this at the beginning of the 70 years he did it at the end why because it's time to change right then he said and he has confirmed his words which spoke against us and against our judges that judged us by bringing upon us a great evil for unto the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done unto jerusalem as it is written in the law of moses all this evil has come upon us yet maybe not our prayer before the lord our god that we might turn from our iniquities and understand that truth therefore hath the lord watched upon the evil and brought it upon us for the lord our god is righteous in all his works which he does for we obey not his voice now and he goes through all of this list now go with me to verse 18. oh my god incline thine ear and hear open thine eyes and behold our desolations and the city which is called by thy name for we do not present our supplication before thee for our righteousness but for your great mercies oh lord hear oh lord forgive o lord hearken and do defer not for thine own sake o my god for thy city and thy people are called by thy name now drop down to verse well well not the way just go and while i was speaking and praying and confessing my sin and the sin of my people israel and presenting my supplication before the lord my god for the holy mountain of my god yea while i was speaking in prayer even the man now we know this was an angel gabriel so he appears as a man and has a man's form the angel gabriel whom i had seen in the vision at the beginning being caused to fly swiftly so now we know angels fly swiftly touched me about the time of the evening oblation and he informed me and talked with me and said o daniel i am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding the angel came to give skill and understanding when you are praying to god and for something and you don't know how to do it see most people won't pray to god to do something they don't know how to do they only pray to god to help them do something they don't they know how to do but if you need to do something or you desire to do something and don't know how to do it you can pray to god and he will send an angel to bring the skill to you to get you to do it do you get that i can tell you when we started i didn't know anything of what i'm doing god had to teach me and i believe that he used an angel to do it even though i never saw the angel didn't talk to the angel can't say i heard the angel's voice but i knew things right now he says verse 23 at the beginning of your supplications the commandment came forth and i am come to show thee for thou art greatly beloved therefore understand the matter and consider the vision seventy weeks are determined upon your people and upon the holy city so you understand how the angels are functioning here right now genesis in genesis 18 you don't have to go there necessarily but you will if you do go there and check it out at some point you will find out that god at one point said man i'm seeing i'm hearing some bad things coming from sodom and gomorrah and he said i i need to know and so two angels came down and to check things out matter of fact you'll find that often angels go to check things out and he'll say go and see if what i hear is true the thing about god is sending angels to do reconnaissance for him and that's what they did they came into the city the people didn't recognize them as angels but apparently they were very good-looking and the men of the city wanted them right and matter of fact lot even offered his daughters to the men and the men said well we don't want those women we want these men it gives you an idea of what some sodom and gomorrah was like right and look at it now right because they left and it was destroyed okay now but if you do research the reason it was destroyed was because of how sodom and gomorrah treated the poor go read it not because of the sin of the people but that kind of sin anyway but and it is we're generally used to it's a word you don't hear anymore but used to that i mean that's where the word sodomite came from and so but the real reason why sodom and gomorrah was destroyed was because of how they treated the poor you can look it up now next uh in daniel actually we're right there daniel chapter six he goes maybe daniel six then daniel 6 and we're going to start about verse oh let's see oh yeah yeah look at verse 16. now you know the situation with daniel these men didn't like daniel and so they convinced the king to make a law that it was against the law to pray to any god except the king and they they knew that that's how they would get daniel and so they passed that law and daniel went and opened his windows and knelt by the window and prayed loud enough for the people to hear him and he wasn't praying to the king and so now in verse 16 it says verse 15 that then these men assembled under the king and said unto the king know o king that the law the medes and persians is that no decree nor statue which the king established may be changed then the king commanded and they brought daniel and cast him into the den of lions now the king spoke and said unto daniel your god whom you serve continually he will deliver you you hear that the first statement of faith about daniel's situation was spoken by the king and the stone was brought and laid upon the mouth of the den and the king sealed it with his own signet and with the sickness of his lords that the purpose might not be changed concerning daniel then the king went to his palace and passed the night fasting neither were instruments of music brought before him and his sleep went from him so he spent the night up then the king arose very early in the morning and went in haste unto the den of lions when he came to the den he cried with a lamentable voice unto daniel and the king spoke and said to daniel o daniel servant of the living god isn't that amazing is thy god whom you serve continually able to deliver you from the lions then said daniel unto the king o king live forever my god hath sent his angel and has shut the lion's mouths that they have not hurt me for as much as before him innocency was found in me and also before thee o king have i done no hurt then was the king exceedingly glad for him and commanded that they should take daniel up out of the den so daniel was taken up out of the den and no manner of hurt was found upon him because he believed his god and then we know the rest of the story they took those men and cast them in right and so they don't don't worry about the lions they got to eat after all so it was just now i love when i used to hear dr sumrall tell the story about this and how he would go in he said because it was a gift of faith operating in daniel at this point and he would tell the lions now you lay down there and be quiet i got to get some sleep tonight because the king's going to be here early in the morning and i got to be ready for him and so he these lines would be laid out and he said he would go over and he'd lay his hand no no uh here you got to move your paw a little over here it's a better pillow and he would lay his head on the side of the line and he said yeah go ahead and purr like that that'll put me righteously and he said and so you had to kind of picture what it must have been like in that den during that time and the amazing thing is daniel slept all night and the king stayed up worried about him didn't that's something okay well now so what does that mean god sends angels to protect his people amen there are so many stories i've heard about israel in modern times different things going on how god sent angels to protect the people and do different things i don't have time to go into them but i'm sure this will become a series so we'll be talking about those things as we bring them up now now go with me to acts chapter 12. let's go over to the new testament and we'll get some testimonies from there acts chapter 12 and in verse well one through ten you know the situation i'm not going to read it all to you just for the sake of time but it's acts chapter 12 verses 1 through 10. and now notice it says here we'll have to actually have to get there at one point um yeah verse seven now peter has been arrested by herod okay and behold the angel of the lord came upon him and a light shined in the prison and he smoked peter on the side so peter's asleep he's in prison scheduled to be executed next day he's not worried he's sleeping right and the angel comes in the angel lord and kicks him in the side or punches him or does something to wake him up right and raised him up saying arise up quickly and his chains fell off from his hands and notice when the angel shows up things start happening all by themselves chains fall off right and the angel said unto him gird yourself bind on your sandals and so he did and he saith unto him cast your garment about thee and follow me and he went out and followed him and it was not that it was true which was done by the angel in other words he's trying to figure all this he didn't know it was even an angel that was doing it right but thought he saw a vision when they were past the first and second ward they came under the iron gate that leads into the city which opened to them of his own accord the gate opened up without the angel touching it or that anybody touching it and they went out passed on through one street and fourth with the angel departed from him okay he came he set him free got him out and he left and then peter and watch it says when peter was come to himself and said now i know of assurity that the lord has sent his angel and has delivered me out of the hand of herod and from all the expectation of the people of the jews when he had considered the thing he came to the house of mary the mother of john whose surname was mark where many were gathered together praying and that's a key now peter didn't pray he was asleep the people in mary's house prayed you hear that the people started praying and as now watch and as peter knocked at the door of the gate a damsel came to harken named rhoda and when she knew peter's voice she opened not the gate for gladness but ran in and told how peter stood at the gate and they said unto her you're mad but she constantly affirmed that it was even so then said they oh it's his angel now i understand they thought that was his angel standing at the gate right now but she i'm sure she don't know i've i heard peter i heard him she might have even said i saw him it doesn't say she saw him but it says that she heard his voice and recognized his voice so the angel sounded like peter peter's angel sounded like him oh are you thinking have you ever talked to yourself and come up with a really good idea that you think where'd that come from it's cause your angel sounds like you but peter continued knocking and when they had opened the door and saw him they were astonished so there you go so now an angel delivers peter why because angels god sends angels to protect his people amen in matthew chapter 2 we know that the angel told joseph where and how to go to avoid herod's people killing him and killing the boy killing jesus am i right he told him go and take this take the lad into this into egypt basically and so an angel shows up to warn him of this thing and how to get out of town basically and so there's no doubt that the angel had to tell him which road to take which ones were guarded and because yes remember there had to be pandemonium going on at that time when babies are dying right and it says now now let's go further they go with me to psalm and i gotta hurry here psalm 34. psalm 34 now look at verse 7 the angel of the lord encamps round about them that fear him and delivers them do you hear that you might want to write some of these verses down you might need to call on these things at certain times and start believing this right now you can call on and if you get in a bad situation you can call and say lord this scripture you said this scripture and it's true so deliver me or you can decide to believe this today and believe it every day for the rest of your life and whenever you start to get in that situation sometimes that situation won't even materialize because the angel lord will keep you from going that direction and get you out of that situation and or if you do get in that situation you're already believing it so you can rest and know that he's going to deliver you amen the people of god have to learn how to live in peace you have to learn to know that god is trustworthy and he is good and he will keep his word but if you don't know his word he doesn't know what to keep for you amen do you see people blessed why are they blessed and i'm not because they probably believe something you don't just say it you want to be blessed find get more word in you so you can find out what god has promised amen now now go with me to psalm 91. everybody knows psalm 91 amen psalm 91 is kind of like psalm 23. they don't know a lot of them but they know those too psalm 91 and we're going to look at verse yeah look at verse 10 there shall no evil befall thee neither shall any plague come near your dwelling that's timely amen why not for he shall give his angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways they shall bear thee up in their hands lest thou dash thy foot against the stone thou shalt tread upon the lion and the adder the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet because he has set his love upon me therefore will i deliver him how's he going to deliver you with an angel he just said right there that they will he gives his angels charge over you in other words he makes he tells them watch him take care of him protect him amen how many of you can say you know i know there were times in my life that something should have happened and it didn't and i know god protected me amen good i'm preaching to the right crowd amen okay but now notice you believe that he says here there shall no evil befall thee that means he gets you out of trouble before it even happens but if you're not listening and you get into trouble he will still deliver you amen and take care of you now go with me well i can just tell you in acts chapter 8 about verse 26 uh the angel spoke to philip and told him where to go told him to leave out of town in which direction to go so that he would meet up with the ethiopian eunuch now think about that it was an angel that told him that now see we always go now see as christians now this is the book of acts this is our time period we're still living in the book of acts the book of acts is the only book in the bible that does not have an ending amen it's not it wasn't finished right why because we're in acts 29 right now amen and we're writing the last chapter well what's your part right don't be like those that wanted to throw daniel in the lines then you just get eaten up yourself amen but write the part that god has for you and so he told him where to go to meet him and then afterwards of course he was translated in acts chapter 10 this is one that a lot of people know the angel appeared to cornelius remember the roman centurion right and he and he appeared to him and tells him where to find peter now think about that here's a roman centurion and the angel shows up and says listen cornelius uh your prayers have been heard and god has seen your alms the good deeds and the the offerings you give he's seen all that he's heard your prayers and i've come to tell you how to get saved but he didn't tell him how to get saved he had to tell him where to go to find a man that could preach to him and get him saved isn't that something i always thought that was amazing because the angels right there you think he would have just told him but that's against the law for angels to preach the gospel that's been given to us that's why man has to do his part angels now watch you'll see us in just a minute but angels don't preach that gospel now there will be angels that fly in the heavens that preach the everlasting gospel right but that is not the average angels and it's not on a person by person basis right the angels whenever you start praying for loved ones for them to get saved their angels which was assigned to them as a child actually if you're praying correctly gets to work and starts doing things to maneuver that person into a face-to-face confrontation with god either by bringing people they make them you know what right now because remember the angel sounds like you so he'll whisper in your and say you know what i want right now i want this and you know where i'm going to get that i know where to get that and then they'll go there because they know there's going to be a christian that'll witness to them god is playing chess trying to get everybody to work together and trying to get all these things together and so he uses angels to actually coordinate things and create divine encounters we just saw that with philip we just saw it with cornelius and the angel gave cornelius an unsaved person a word of knowledge that said there's a man named simon that is in simon the tanner's house on the street called straight i mean he's telling him everywhere i mean that's that's called a word of knowledge that's pretty detailed for an unsaved person to get most saved people most christians don't even operate at that level of accuracy in a word of knowledge and here's an angel telling it to cornelius right now go with me to hebrews chapter 1. we're just just about done we're making pretty good time here i'm not not too bad hebrews chapter one well y'all get anything out of this so far all right because we're we're going to wrap it up here in just a minute and i'm going to show you why you need to know this okay hebrews chapter 1 and if you look at verse 13 but to which of the angels said he at any time sit on my right hand until i make your enemies my footstool okay the answer is none he's never said that to an angel that's the whole purpose of the book of hebrews is to show that jesus is better than angels that jesus is better than moses and he said this has never happened that's right the jw's that's what they oh jesus says the archangel michael in another form then that means according to jesus then that means that michael and god are the same now okay there's a whole lot more to it now michael does mean the term michael does mean he who is like god uh but it does not mean that he was god and if that were true then he would have been mentioned well again i try not to get too far off from one area but um well you know what that'll probably be a session we'll probably do a session on that because you need to know this because you need to know how to answer people that come up with weird doctrines right um so it says now watch he now he's talking about angels he says but to which of the angels said it at any time sit in my right hand until i make your enemies my footstool are they not all angels ministering spirits sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation notice it doesn't say sent forth to minister to them now do angels minister to us yes jesus said from this time forth you will see angels coming and going and ministering to the son of man and so there were angels that were coming and going and apparently they saw these angels disconnected because jesus said they would there is no record of it in the bible of them seeing that but jesus said it so they probably saw it amen there's a lot of stuff that happened that we don't know about but what we need to know is in the bible so so we know that that angels went back and forth ministering to jesus and here it says that they are sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation so these angels are sent forth to minister for us minister to us yes but this scripture says minister for us now watch i'll show what i mean by that because you can go into this and it's really interesting when you pull it all together okay now before we look at that go with me to first corinthians first corinthians and we're going to chapter 6. first corinthians chapter 6. yeah now in chapter six it starts in well it must start verse one dare any of you having a matter against another go to law before the unjust and not before the saints so their legal system their courts was among the saints they did it in the church they didn't go to the world they did it in church do you not know that the saints shall judge the world the saints shall judge the world you hear that and if the world shall be judged by you are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters know ye not that we saints shall judge angels now you're going to judge angels so you're going to judge the world and you're going to judge angels saints are going to judge angels do you see that in your bible you as a saint are going to judge angels now now watch us how much more things that pertain to this life now what judgments are you going to be presenting for angels well you're going to judge your angel for how well he ministered for you and by what he did for you so you may have something you say well my angel didn't do this or my angel didn't do that you know and i sent him to do that now you're not going to sit around and start telling angels okay go do this go do that go there flippantly all right they won't listen to you right angel you know bring me a latte now he's going to say get him good at yourself you lazy thing that's what he would tell you right so now just just just trying to be real with you all right so go with me to psalm let's see what we're going to judge them and how and what we're going to do let's go with me to psalm 103 psalm 103 and we're going to look psalm 103 is amazing psalm the whole thing but let's go to uh go to go to verse 19. the lord has prepared his throne in the heavens and his kingdom ruleth over all bless the lord you his angels that excel in strength that do his commandments hearkening unto the voice of his word do you hear that they do his commandments they hearken listen to and obey the voice of his word it does not say they do his word why because we're told to do his word be therefore doers in the right don't just be here but be doers of the word amen so we are told to be doers of the word they are doers now watch what they do they hearken to the voice of his word so your job is to voice you get that so you are to voice his word and his word gets voiced when you open your mouth and you say what he has said so when you begin to say what god has said in his word see and until you speak the word of god and i'm not talking about king james and these and vows i'm talking about the the the message itself the words itself he says lay hands on a sick they shall recover that's one thing and so as you speak that you don't have to say you know the exact same words amen you understand that but until you speak what god has said whether you speak it in well like we talked about earlier with wigglesworth with it with a grammar okay depending on how you say it you can say it you know in uh educated tones you can say it eloquently you can say it hillbilly which is a little closer to my area um you know you can say it and there's this hard and fast texan which is right where i'm at and so you can say different words but the angel hears the message he does not hear because otherwise you'd have to speak probably hebrew or greek or something if you're gonna say the exact words so the idea is you speak his word so you begin to speak his word when you until you do your angel just stands there and you're like oh god i want this god why did you make me sick god why did you make this calamity fall on me and they were just standing there god you know help me out of this calamity i mean you put it on me the energy okay no never mind uh you said something wrong there and so the angels are gonna stand there until you start saying you know i just thank you lord that that your angel and cancer around about me he protects me and when you do that then this little demon comes along and the angel goes nope stop right there and just smacks him in the face right and he says nope you ain't going over there why because i'm encamped here around this one why because that believer just said it now i'm activated now i can start to do and you start to speak his word and the angels start functioning for you and so whenever you start praying you pray god's word and the angels get to work until you speak his word they just stand there and then people blame god so all i'm giving you is the chain of command of how it works amen you want to know how things work this is how it works you speak angels here they obey they get it done you speak it to heaven heaven agrees and that's where the angels start to function do you see that they hearken the voice of his word you voice his word heaven agrees with you why because whatever you bind on earth is bound in heaven whatever you loose on earth is loosed in heaven amen the binding loosing starts here so you say it god hears it he agrees the angel goes let's do this and then they go do it amen now every time you speak the word of god angel your angel gets busy you say well i keep mine too busy they're fast they're fast as a matter of fact they are so fast one angel killed 185 000 people in one night now that to do that they had to move quick amen try to kill 185 boy don't try but anyway you do 185 000 people in one night you got to move pretty quick amen now finally okay exodus chapter 23. now this is where it also gets serious because i want you to see this exodus chapter 23. are you getting anything out of this are you going to use it you're going to start functioning it because now you'll know how to use it and you watch things will happen things will start to change exodus 23 verse 20. behold i send an angel before thee to keep thee in the way and to bring thee into the place which i have prepared and i noticed an angel was leading right beware of him and obey his voice right provoke him not for he will not pardon your transgression transgressions for my name is in him now notice don't provoke your angel well how do you provoke your angel well one way to provoke your angel because he doesn't forgive you why because angels now listen they they have joy they rejoice every time somebody gets born again right and they constantly praise god so there they can have emotions but it is amazing because they do their emotions do not control them so if you provoke your angel they will not forgive you it's just they're just straight on nope that's what you did that's what's going to happen right and we have to realize that how do we provoke our angel we provoke our angel the same way we provoke god we disobey god we move from his statutes from his commandments because he's which honestly that means we move away from loving him and from his love because he said if you love me keep my commandments so you have to take the whole bible together you can't piecemeal it out right and so that's where a lot of people fall apart is a piecemeal it and then they preach weird things and so you have to be able to put it all together now last thing i've had personally different encounters there are two that i'm going to tell you about real quick uh the first one happened up in sherman texas uh about when was that about 1987. yeah six eighty seven eighty seven i think it was uh it was actually it was whenever um wilford wright had sent me information a package of information uh from his secretary actually uh saying that i had been named the general overseer um to pick up lake's ministry and to carry it on i'd gone to the p.o box and we had a po box there i realized yesterday the po box we now have i've had 30 years same p.o box 30 years that and that is just a miracle of god in itself even though we've moved different places i always kept my po box here and we i would drive from colorado come down and check the p.o box not every day but anyway but i did but i was in the sherman and i had just gotten this package and i had put it in the car and i was going through it and i was shocked to be honest with you i mean i i know that what they had told me on the phone but when you see it in writing everything's different and so um i parked we had a chrysler cordoba now i don't know if you remember the cordobas but they were amazing cars at the time but their doors were like from here to that wall when when you opened the doors the doors were out i mean they were the longest doors that i've ever seen and so i had pulled up to a curb on a street and i had opened the car door and i was i just put this box of materials into it and when i leaned into it it was a strangest thing because i've never i mean okay listen i have slipped before you know i've fallen down before i've done that this was not that as i had leaned over to the car i was about to come back out and it was like right there at the base of my neck like a hand shoved me into the car and i literally fell into the car and literally right at that second a car came and took that door off if i had not been pushed into the car that car would have got me the car that hit and it bent and it didn't take it off completely but it bent it to where it broke or bent the frame and i could not shut it so now i'm looking around i'm kind of you know and the people stop and you know i'm kind of in shock and i'm looking at this and i'm thinking wow you know and then i realized what had happened that obviously an angel had pushed me into the car and so i'm talking to people and then when i get ready to leave i try to shut my car door and it won't shut so now you got this six foot door right and i'm having to maneuver home i'd pulled it in to where it was only about four foot out but i'm having to maneuver and not hit other cars with it but that was the first time then 19 well actually that was the second time in 1980 uh going back a few years we we had launched out i was living here in wiley and we launched tried to launch out into ministry we i knew that was god's will just didn't know how to do it and thank god it really didn't take off because i had the wrong message that was in 1980 i was just starting to learn some things but i was still preaching things that were that now i preach against i'll put it that way and so we took off to tulsa oklahoma went to a camp meeting there and while we were there during the camp meeting you know we were trying to figure out we had we had nowhere to go we were the camper and everything and we had nowhere else to go nothing to come back to everything was loaded up in this camper and so we were just we were trying to launch out and figure out where to go and it was at at that time the kenneth hagin camp meeting was held at the tulsa convention center civic center downtown and it's where they had the park across the street and where we parked our vehicle and we were feeding the hungry and all that kind of stuff at the time so we were in the meetings and i i got restless and i don't know necessarily why but i decided to go out into the hallway and everybody was in the meetings and so i was really the only person out in the hallway and i was just standing kind of by a refreshment area that was closed during the sessions so i'm just kind of standing there and this man walks up to me and he said excuse me and i said yesterday can i help you and he said he said do you know where you're supposed to go when you leave here and we've been praying about it we've been trying to figure it out and i said no actually i i do not he said well he said you function as a teacher and i said that's true yeah that's which in my heart but i wasn't teaching anyone because no one was asking me to teach so and i said okay and he said well um he said have you ever heard of software louisiana i said i've heard of it i said i've never been there he said well there is a church there that is made up of all youth and they need someone to come there that will teach them the truth and he said you need to go there and i said hmm okay you know and it was kind of like i'll think about it that's in my mind i'm like okay but you know it's the best option we've got so far so it was kind of shoe-in you know and so i'm like okay and so he said now you're here with your family and i said yes he said where are they and our children were in the nursery area and except for my daughter erica because we had erica with us and we kept her with us in the main meeting and i said my wife and my daughter is in the in the in the main area and i turned and then when i turned back around oh well i got to go back a bit because he said when you get there he said uh ask for a man named layman and i thought that would be easy to remember a layman layman you know and and so he said ask for this person named layman and he said uh he's the one that started this church and i said okay so then he's that's when he said uh where's your family and i've turned a point and when i turn back around now we're in a hallway that you can see i mean it's huge he was gone there was nobody there and i'm i'm starting to look around like you know and like i said about mary she pondered those things in her heart you know i'm kind of like because i mean because the building kind of curved but it was long and so i'm walking and looking i mean this guy's gone right there's no way he got away not that quick so then i'm kind of stunned i go back into the meeting tell my wife we're sitting there i can't remember who was preaching at that point but i've turned my wife and i said i think i know where we're going you know and she's where south louisiana she said why i said i don't know but there's a church there that needs us right and that was uh so then after that and i mean i could i could spend another whole session here just talking about how we got there but we got there miraculously maybe i'll tell it sometime but we got there and when we got there we went into town roundabout way finally we ended up working with people that were going on the streets and we went to a particular church but it wasn't the church i was looking for and so i we met these people that were really street oriented and that was our focus and so we started talking to him and i said yeah well i'm looking for a church of young people that was started by a man named layman i can't remember his first name now but i had his first name then too and this woman looked at me and she said layman and she gave me his name and i said yeah and she said uh well there's a i think his name is bob layman i think it's what's his name she said well there was a bob layman that used to work with the youth here and but he's he's dead and i said when did he die and she said well he died like eight or ten years ago and she said but he used to work with the youth and his burden was to get the youth off the street and to get them saved and so i'm like hmm okay so then we ended up working with him and when we left there that church gathered we worked on the street went out on the street witnessed and when we left there that church that was planted there uh was youth all were 21 years old or younger and they had called several other churches to give kind of elders to kind of watch it and yet and the thing is that man i believe his name was bob his first name was bob bob layman he had prayed for years for the youth of that area to be saved and for them to know god and to actually come you know have their own church and so later on i was talking to people about this and and sharing the story with them and they said well that's that's easy i mean that's that's amazing god heard his prayers and answered it even years later by sending you there and so but it was an angel that had talked to me in that convention center now i can give you more stories of situations like that of where we know certain things happened at certain times that had to be an angel now i don't talk about these things a lot because people get off on the sensational type of thing and they want to hear that kind of stuff and then they get into what colossians called will angel worship and what they when they start worshiping angels and the angels every time somebody saw an angel they would always fall on their face and begin to worship and they would say no get up get up don't worship me right because we don't worship angels and so all the only reason i even brought this up because i'm telling you i fought with the lord over this i didn't want to deliver it because i don't like talking about this stuff because people get weird and they start you know everything becomes an angel thing jesus has preeminence he's the one that we look to he's the one that we worship but we also need to know that angels are here for us angels are in this room as are demons i'm sure right and the angels are probably keeping them quiet right because you know demons want to do things but angels stop them and so but they're here they're with you they came in with you and they're hoping you get this so that they can actually go to work for you and actually help protect you and bring the things that god has for you in your life amen just don't get hung up on it it's just just you know speak the word of god but now you should know how speaking the word of god actually causes how the things actually happen amen but know this we're going to judge angels and i believe that part of that judgment has to do with how well they carried out the voice of the word that we speak and so you need to realize what you speak you will also be held accountable and i also believe that that is part of the angel's job is to take down what you say because every idle word you'll be held accountable for amen and so dr sumrall said we've already done this we'll have to worry about it dr dr sumrall used to tell us he said every time we receive an offering whenever the people are walking down the aisles with the buckets he said angels are walking right beside him and the angel knows what's in your pocket he knows what's in your bank account and then he looks at what goes in the offering and he judges your faith by and think about that i mean there's there's scriptural you know evidence to that it said that jesus sat over by the treasury and watched what people put in there's no he's the same yesterday today and forever there's no difference in it he can watch what you put in but your faith is based not on what you put in it's based on what you hold back because what you hold now i'm not telling you empty your wallet please understand i'm not telling you thank god this is after the offering so we don't have to do that now but all i'm saying is that if you hold back because you think that you've got to meet your needs that you're that's where your faith is but if you realize the reason the widow woman was honored by jesus was not because she gave more because she didn't she gave more in percentage that's the key right so god looks at the percentage and why because the percentage does two things it allows him to bless you back percentage-wise but it also shows where your faith is that you trust him to meet your needs because i can tell you you know there's been situations in my life where all i had left literally in my pocket was ten dollars and when you get down to ten dollars how many know ten dollars will not meet your need you might as well give it away yeah i mean because it ain't gonna help you right and so that's what i did and then god met us there so i'm just telling you that just so you know you know you give or don't give you know again we're not gonna do another offering so you're safe but i'm just saying the only reason i tell you this if i did not know it to be a fact if i could tell you just what god has done in the last year i'm i'm telling you you you'd be asking me to put out a thing here so you could give i'm telling you it would why just because you would see what he did in our life miraculously without us having to think about it it's been amazing what he had done for us right and and part of it had to do with a test that we had to pass and based on the outcome i guess we passed you know amen so amen amen but uh so the reason i'm changing this is because you're gonna we're gonna see a lot more that here in the few in the next few months things are gonna start happening we're gonna hear more testimonies of angels and angelic things happening people are gonna see more angels in the meetings they're going to have more things happening by angels it would not surprise me if we don't hear angels i know many many cases where angelic voices were heard during the singing that was totally separate i've got recordings actually of that that happen in other meetings and different things and so all i'm saying is let's believe god's word and believe that what he said happens happens and let's not limit him by saying the wrong things let's release him by saying the right things and let the angels work on our behalf and minister for us amen

Channel: John G. Lake Ministries

Views: 2,827

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Keywords: John G. Lake Ministries, JGLM, Curry Blake, Divine Healing Technician, DHT, New Man Seminar, Life Teams, Jesus Christ, Holy Spirit, Dominion Bible Institute, Diversities of Tongues, God's Son Man's Servant, Renewed Mind, Healing in the Atonement, Killing Sacred Cows, iChurch, JGLM Media

Id: 8S-q0FpZGTI

Length: 76min 43sec (4603 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 17 2021