Ministering Spirits.

 Angels.

We need ministering spirits. Spirits ministering on our behalf. We need God's angels all the time. The thing is, Satan has angels too and Satan uses them against us all the time. This is a spiritual battle. We fool ourselves into believing it's not because the spiritual is unseen. We have no qualms in believing unseen things, we place our faith in other people even though we have no way of knowing if it’s a safe thing to do. Even when other people destroy that faith, we go on to place our faith in others again. We do this with people and yet we know that faith is unseen no matter how often it is tried. How many people believe wrongly in others they can see, touch, love? Yet, they keep on believing in that faith even if they only do so because they meet someone they consider special. At one time, the person who broke their faith was special too. We do this time and again, and know of countless others who do this too, it's a part of being human.  Still, we balk at placing faith in God. 

We cite incident after incident of where we tried to place our faith in God only to not have that faith realized. We believe God has turned His back on us because of all the extreme hardships we go through over and over. We are told by God we will go through hardships, He never lied to us and told us to believe in Him and we will have carefree lives here and now, never. He told us that all things would work together for our good, but what is that good- His good- His eternal promise- His salvation for us. He told us to ask and we would receive if we don't ask amiss, and then we ask in ways we do not think are amiss and we devastated when don't receive what we ask for. The thing is, we are asking our Heavenly Father who knows exactly what we need, and that's Him…Him…. That's being led not into despair by this world's AWFULNESS… even at its worse because we KNOW every single thing is temporary to eternity and as Christ follower after Christ follower has been tortured by extreme measures- daily put in agonies beyond our ability to comprehend- we know it is still temporary to eternity. Our reward isn't here, it isn't now, it's in eternity and we need to believe that our God asks His angels to minister to us so we are kept for HIM for eternity!  

Please, God, please! Send YOUR angels to minister to my sister Elizabeth right now, cover her with your ministering angels giving her all she needs to live for eternity with YOU, please, LORD, please….please… thank You!  Ease her pain, please! Thank You, Lord Jesus, my Savior. Thank you! All glory, honor, and praise to You always! Amen!

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Angels: Their Nature and Ministry

 (Excerpt - for continuing study) Revised by J.H. Waggoner.  1891 by Pacific Press Publishing Co.)

Are they [the angels] not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?-Heb. 1:14.

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the Devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.-1 Peter 5:8.

The enemy of God and the human family has left no means untried by which he could pervert the truth, and draw away men from a knowledge of the true God and of His law. It seems to be his invariable plan to lead men first to forget or disbelieve what God has taught them concerning any truth, and then, as a substitute, to instill into their minds some error which, in its main features, closely resembles the truth, but which is, nevertheless, opposed to it. Thus when he had led men to forget God, Satan turned their minds to worship the sun and the host of heaven. When they had forgotten the word of God, given

through His prophets, he introduced in its stead the pagan oracles and priests. So it is with the truth in regard to the ministration of angels. They are the divinely commissioned messengers sent to minister to those who shall be heirs of salvation. But this glorious Bible truth has been so far lost from sight that many, even of those who call themselves

Christians, have no clear ideas concerning it, and little practical faith in it. Yet the

need of some ministering spirit, some heavenly visitant from the world of light, to

instruct us in the things of God, is widely felt.

Satan sees that this necessity must be met. A substitute must be invented. What shall it be? To answer this we have only to look at the history of those nations who have forgotten God. Ps. 9:17. From the Egyptian priests to the modern spirit mediums, we find them teaching that the spirits of the dead return to minister to their friends in this world. But while the Bible often speaks of the visits of holy angels to our world, to minister to the children of God, it is entirely silent concerning the return of the spirits of the dead for that purpose. Go to the heathen who know nothing about God and His word, and we find them extolling the souls of their dead friends as gods, demi-gods, and protecting spirits. Come

down to the last generation, even in so-called Christian lands, and we find an extensive unbelief in the existence of either good or bad angels, or but vague and indefinite ideas of their character and office. 

Thus far Satan has well succeeded. A vacuum has been formed, which, as both reason and revelation teach, must be filled. As a substitute, he has introduced the supposed souls of the dead, as ministering spirits from the other world. To uphold his counterfeit work he cunningly uses all the arguments, both from the Scriptures and from nature, which prove that there are, or ought to be, messengers to communicate between this and the other world. If he can convince men that they are spirits that communicate, he has gained his point, inasmuch as the people in general have no definite faith in the existence of either

good or evil angels, except as they learn it from this source.

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