Thursday, January 25, 2007

Angels and Prophets

Ron MacKinzie of Blessed Economist wrote this last night. It blessed me. It's so true. I hope it blesses you. Be bold, be strong for the Lord thy God is with YOU!

Angels are ministering spirits sent to serve God's children (Heb 1:14). They are sent by God. They serve God's people.

The LORD has established His throne in heaven,
And His kingdom rules over all.
Bless the LORD, you His angels,
Who excel in strength,
who do His word,
Heeding the voice of His word.
Bless the LORD, all you His hosts,
You ministers of His,
who do His pleasure. (Psalm 103:19-21).

Angels are created for obedience. They do not have the friendship with God that is opened up to us through the presence of the Holy Spirit. Angels often do not know as much about what is on the Father's heart as we do. They often "excel in strength", far more than they excel in wisdom and decision making.

Angels move between heaven and earth. When they are in heaven, they know what God is doing, because his Kingdom is established there. When they are on earth, they are dependent on other messengers from heaven to keep them up-to-date with what God is doing.

Angels are sent to earth to serve us, but as events change develop, they often do not know what to do next. They sometimes have to wait for our prophetic declarations before they know what to do. When they hear the Holy Spirit's word through us, they do it. They recognise his voice and obey it. They listen to a prophetic word and work to accomplish it. That is one reason why God does nothing without first revealing his plan to his servants the prophets (Amos 3:7).

Speaking in the language of angels is good (1 Cor 13:1), because it helps the angels to hear what the Holy Spirit is saying.

I believe if I read my Bible correctly, that would be the Gift of Tounges.

You can check me out on that.

2 comments:

Aaron said...

Didn't realize your read Ron. Maybe it's a small blogworld after all.

Gene said...

What makes it an even smaller blogworld after all is that I read YOU every day. You are on my RSS feed of favorites along with Ron. I think I got to you via a comment from Ron. So, isn't that something?

Thanks for dropping in.