Praise the Lord!
It's so good to talk to you again!
The angelic realm has been activated in this time and season!
Now, before I start preaching,
before I release God's words in this time and season,
the Lord just want you to be aware and be conscious of
the existence of His angels
who are being sent to work with you
and to work for you
in this time and season!
So, I just want to declare that the angelic realm
has been activated in your life!
So, if you look at this slide here,
be it in the end-time harvest of souls,
in the expansion of God's kingdom,
in the preaching of God's Word,
even in every area of your life
(which includes your career, business, vocation, family, health, or even finance).
Now, the LORD can use angels to bring healing!
Hallelujah!
The LORD can use angels to pave the way for you in your career
(very much like the traffic police clearing the way for you)!
The LORD can even use angels to bring provision for you
in this time of lack or scarcity on earth!
So, people of God,
I'm excited for you!
Because in your life, in your family,
even in your career, business, vocation, ministry,
angelic realm has been activated in you!
Hallelujah!
Last week, the Lord was talking about divine appointments being set up.
More and more divine appointments are being set up for God's people.
Now, this week, the Lord says further.
The Lord is saying that the angelic realm has been activated in and around your life!
Receive this by faith!
So, let's go straight to the slide right now.
Who are the angels?
So, before we see how angels were at work in the days of the early church,
and how they will be at work in our current times,
let's answer this question first.
Who are the angels?
Angels are created beings.
You can check it out in Psalm 148:2-5.
So, they are being created by God.
Angels are spirit beings.
Psalm 104:1-4.
So, they are spiritual beings.
Angels are worshipers of the LORD.
Now, you can see that in Revelation 4:8-11.
Next, angels are sent forth to minister to us.
In other words, angels are being sent forth by God,
specializing to work for you,
to minister to you who are the believers of the Lord Jesus Christ!
You can see that in Hebrews 1:13-14.
I'm going to talk about this more later on.
Now, the Hebrew word for angel is 'malak'. It simply means a 'messenger'.
So, angels are messengers that are being sent forth to you,
to minister to you, to serve you. Amen!
Let's go to the next slide right now.
As I've said just now, angels are ministering spirits.
In Hebrews 1:14 (New King James Version), it's written this way:
Are they (the angels) not all ministering spirits
sent forth to minister
for those who will inherit salvation?
Now, the word 'ministering' here is 'leitourgikos' in Greek.
It means, are they not all serving spirits,
spirits that will benefit those who will inherit salvation?
Now, people of God,
who are those who inherit salvation?
You and me, the believers of the Lord Jesus Christ!
And the Bible says here that,
angels are ministering spirits
that have been sent forth to serve you,
and to benefit you!
You see, you are not alone!
So, people of God,
wherever you may be at the moment,
know this,
the Lord wants you to be assured that
you're not alone in doing all that God has put in your heart to do,
whether in your career,
in your business
that God has opened the way for you,
or even in ministry,
in your family,
the Lord is saying this to you right now,
He is sending His angels!
You are not alone. Amen!
Right now, I want to just share with you some examples
how angels were working even in the early church!
You see, you don't have to go all the way to the Old Testament to see angels at work.
You just need to go back to the book of Acts,
the early church, after the day of Pentecost (the Holy Spirit came down),
and you'll see angels played a huge part,
huge role in the lives of the early believers
and in the lives of the apostles those days.
Angel's work in early church.
Now, in Acts 12:1-4,
New King James Version, I'm reading here,
Now about that time
Herod the king stretched out his hand to harass some from the church.
It means the people of God those days.
Then he killed James the brother of John with the sword.
And because he saw that it pleased the Jews,
he proceeded further to seize Peter also...
So when he had arrested him, he put him in prison...
Acts 12:5-8. New King James Version.
I continue here.
Peter was therefore kept in prison,
but constant prayer was offered to God for him by the church, i.e. the people of God those days.
And when Herod was about to bring Peter out,
that night,
Peter was sleeping,
bound with two chains between two soldiers;
and the guards before the door were keeping the prison.
Now, that was a very tight security.
Now behold,
an angel of the Lord stood by Peter,
and a light shone in the prison;
and he struck Peter on the side
and raised him up, saying, "Arise quickly!"
And his chains fell off his hands...
And that was how, people of God,
Peter escaped from the prison!
And the angel later on disappeared.
And Peter shared this to the believers who were praying for him!
You see, angel at work!
Angel opened the door of prison!
The Lord is saying this to you right now, people of God,
whatever 'prison doors' that the enemy has put against you, has confined you,
the Lord is sending angels to set you free,
to open that prison door,
to open the door for your life!
Amen!
Acts 12:21-24.
Now, what happened to Herod?
The one who attempted to kill all these apostles those days.
So, on a set day
Herod, arrayed in royal apparel,
sat on his throne and gave an oration to the people, to his audience.
And the people, they were shouting,
"The voice of a god and not of a man!"
And Herod was of course, so happy. And Herod was feeling so good about that.
But, people of God, watch here.
Then immediately an angel of the Lord struck Herod,
because he did not give glory to God.
And he was eaten by worms and died.
But the word of God grew and multiplied.
You see, angels played a huge part in paving the way for the expansion of God's work!
And of God's word, yeah!
Angels can pave the way for you too, in spite of what comes against you!
Initially, Herod attempted to harass the early apostles.
Those who stood on the Word of God, those who were for Jesus!
But, you know what?
For those who come against God's people,
God will know how to sends His angel to strike those who come against you!
In Acts 5:16-20.
Now, this was another occasion of angel at work in early church!
Now, I want you to know this.
If angels were so active in the early church,
what makes us think that angels are passive in these last days, in His church, in God's church?
When I said God's church means among God's people, working among God's people.
Angels will still be just as active, if not even more, in these last days,
in these challenging times.
So, people of God, be rest assured
that angels are at work those days! Angels are at work today!
Acts 5:16-20.
...a multitude gathered from the surrounding cities to Jerusalem,
bringing sick people and those who were tormented by unclean spirits,
and they were all healed, through His disciples, apostles of the Lord Jesus Christ those days.
So, it was good! But what happened?
Then the high priest rose up,
and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees),
and they were filled with indignation. They were not happy.
They were feeling very threatened!
And so, they laid their hands on the apostles and put them in the common prison.
But I tell you what, you see, angel at work again!
But at night an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and brought them out,
and said, "Go, stand in the temple and speak to the people all the words of this life."
So, you see, angels can open prison door for you.
Angels are sent by the Lord to open up any door for you, as you walk
according to God's blueprint and God's instructions in your life.
So, people of God,
that was how these apostles were set free,
and nothing could stop them from preaching the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ those days!
So they went to the temple.
You must know that temple those days were not church!
Temple those days were the synagogue where the Jewish went to worship God.
So, it was like a place where everybody converged together.
It was like a marketplace.
So, they went there and they were preaching, they were teaching those Jewish people
about the Messiah, about the Lord Jesus Christ.
Acts 8:26-30.
Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip,
saying, "Arise and go toward the south along the road which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza."
This is desert.
So he arose and went.
You see, the angel this time gave instruction, gave revelation, gave guidance to Philip.
And there, true enough, Philip met this man, a man of Ethiopia,
a eunuch of great authority under Candace the queen of the Ethiopians,
who had charge of all her treasury,
and had come to Jerusalem to worship.
And he was returning.
And sitting in his chariot, he was reading Isaiah the prophet, reading the book of Isaiah.
Then the Spirit said to Philip,
"Go near and overtake this chariot."
So Philip ran to him, and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah,
and said, "Do you understand what you are reading?"
Now, people of God, the rest is history.
Philip eventually explained to the eunuch regarding that part of the Scripture.
And later on, Philip water baptized the eunuch when they saw a patch of water nearby.
Praise the name of Jesus!
So, there was a divine appointment
upon the instruction and the guidance of an angel who spoke to Philip.
Acts 10:1-6
'There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius,
a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment,
a devout man and one who feared God with all his household'.
Now, I want you to mark the word 'fear God' here.
Because later on, I'm going to share the keys for angels to camp around you.
And one key is being God-fearing, revering God.
'Who gave alms generously to the people and prayed to God always.
About the ninth hour of the day (i.e. 3pm)
he saw clearly in a vision,
what? An angel,
an angel of God coming in and saying to him, "Cornelius!"
And when he observed him, he was afraid, and said, "What is it, lord?"
So he said to him,
"Your prayers and your alms have come up for a memorial before God."
It means God has remembered all that he has done.
"Now send men to Joppa, and send for Simon whose surname is Peter."
"He is lodging with Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the sea."
"He will tell you what you must do..."'
You see, angels can even show you the way what to do and how to go about.
Now, people of God, I don't have to elaborate on this particular passage here because
last week I've taught about divine appointments using this passage as well.
So, you know what happened?
Eventually, Cornelius met up with Simon Peter.
Peter came over to his house.
He (Cornelius) was getting ready his home,
getting all his relatives and close friends to hear what Peter had to say.
And they were saved. They were water baptized.
People of God,
time and again, time and again,
I can go on and on, all throughout the whole New Testament, all the way until the book of Revelation,
angels were so active at work even in the early church!
That's why I said what makes us think angels are not at work, or not active in these last days, in the latter days of the church!
Of course, angels are just as active, if not more!
In fact, right now, the Lord is saying the angelic realm has been activated in your life!
Amen?
So, time and again,
angels played a huge part in the early church.
And in this end-time, the LORD is sending His angels to do the same for His people too!
So, you aren't alone!
You have multitudes of angels, ministering around you!
Hallelujah!
So, angels can open doors for you!
Angels can pave the way for you!
Angels can bring timely revelations and guidance to you, like you've seen just now in the Bible.
Angels can come against the enemy for you! Just as that particular angel that did it against king Herod.
Angels can give you the right directions!
Angels can touch you with healing!
Angels can even act as your 'bodyguards'!
Praise the name of Jesus!
So, people of God,
are you excited that angels are being activated around you, in your life,
in your household, in your career, in your business,
of course in the ministry that God has given to you, whatever that you are doing.
Yeah, Pastor Sharon and I, we have had
our encounters and experiences with angels as well.
And it's amazing!
Yeah, there was one time I was driving on a rainy day,
it was slippery, it was so dark in that area,
and I just knew that there's one hand just taking over my steering,
and I was avoided from being involved in a terrible accident at that time.
I thank the Lord for the existence of God's angels. I thank the Lord
for angels who have been ministering, who have been my 'bodyguards'.
I thank the Lord for sending His angels to guard over my life,
to be like a hedge and shield.
I thank the Lord for angelic realm.
I thank the Lord for the angels
that are being sent forth to minister to my life through the years.
And I know that as I'm preaching here right now, angels are with me,
angels are ministering together,
and I know wherever I go in ministry,
to meet people, to preach,
to pray for people, to counsel people, I know I'm not alone.
Angels are there together with me.
So, what are the keys for angels to camp around you?
Now, actually you can see all the keys, but there's one main key, i.e. to fear the Lord.
You can see all the keys here actually, the Lord was speaking to me, I was asking what are the keys
for angels to encamp around God's people?
And the Lord just showed me Psalm 34, just read verse 1 to verse 7.
So I'm underlining some of these keys.
So, Psalm 34 verse 1 to 7, 'I will bless the Lord at all times'. See, I underline the word 'bless' here.
So, begin to bless the Lord at all times!
'His praise shall continually be in my mouth'.
So I underline the word 'praise'.
Praise the Lord! Praise the name of Jesus!
Oh yes, I can feel the presence of the Lord.
Yeah, people of God, as you look at me right now,
let the presence of the Lord fill you right now as you bless the Lord, as you praise the name of Jesus.
As you praise Him, He becomes King, and He's going to send His angels
right now to encamp around you,
to be there to set up camp
around you.
How can you fail?
Let's continue.
'My soul shall make its boast in the Lord'.
'The humble shall hear of it and be glad'.
I underline the word 'humble'.
Humility! By humility and the fear of the Lord,
are honor, riches, and life.
'Oh, magnify the Lord with me'.
I underline the word 'magnify'. So magnify the Lord
no matter what your problems may be, people of God,
no matter what your problems may be, no matter how the enemy tries to magnify your problem,
you do not buy in what the enemy says.
But instead you magnify the Lord!
When He is being magnified in your life,
all the works of the enemy will have to shrink!
'And let us exalt His name together'.
Yeah, exalt His name together! Lift up His name on high!
And that's how angels are being sent,
angels are being activated.
'I sought the Lord'.
The next one, I underline here, is to seek the Lord!
Seek the Lord, and you will be found!
And He will know how to activate His angels
to make things happen for you!
People of God, I'm telling you many secrets on how you can work with angels!
This is a very important time
when angels are being sent to work with you, to work for you!
Amen!
Let's continue.
So, 'I sought the Lord and He heard me, and delivered me from all my fears'.
'They looked to Him'. So keep looking to the Lord!
'And were radiant, and their faces were not ashamed'.
So, you see, people of God, as you look to the Lord, and not look to the left or not look to the right,
not look to all the 'shakings' in the world, not look at all the 'choppy waters' around you,
God will see to it that He will
ensure that you will not be put to shame!
And He has His angels to ensure that as well!
'This poor man cried out'.
I underline the words 'cried out'.
Cry out to the Lord!
The other day, Pastor Sharon was teaching about 'crying out to the Lord'.
'And the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles'.
'The angel of the Lord encamps all around
those who fear Him (it means those who revere Him, give reverence to the Lord), and delivers them.
Delivers them from all their troubles, and their situations or problems.
Now, if you look at the Hebrew word 'encamp' here, it's 'chanah' in Hebrew.
It means the angels dwell around those who fear the Lord!
The angels incline towards those who fear the Lord!
The angels (now this is great!) set up camp,
like a military camp being set up around you!
People of God, a military camp being set up around you!
It means these angels are also warrior angels!
You see, some angels are warrior angels,
some angels are revelation angels,
some angels are healing angels,
different functions according to different angels!
But I want to tell you something.
This is good! God is sending angels to set up camp,
like a military camp, warriors around you
to fight for you!
Amen!
So, if you look back at the slide here,
'encamp'! Remember this word, 'encamp'!
That's why the Lord has been speaking even from the very onset of this preaching,
be aware and be conscious of the existence of angels
who are being sent to work with you and to work for you in this time and season.
The Lord is causing the angels to encamp around you!
You see, like Cornelius (that you have read in the Book of Acts just now),
he was a devout man who feared the Lord,
and therefore angels appeared before Cornelius,
and to give him guidance that really gave Cornelius and the whole household
a great breakthrough and occasion for celebration later on.
So, people of God,
I can go on and on, and on and on, talking and teaching about angels,
I used to teach a full-day class about angels
in Bible school those days.
The names of angels in detail, the functions of angels in detail,
the characteristics of angels, the personality of angels, so on and so forth,
but I'd better stop now.
I know how real angels are,
and I want to believe
that you are going to also experience how real angelic presence are in your life!
Maybe some of you, you have your experience with angels before. Praise the Lord!
Let there be more!
O Lord, I pray for everyone here who's watching,
O Lord, send forth Your angels,
send forth Your angels to minister for them!
Send forth Your angels to even bring healing!
Send forth Your angels to bring guidance!
Send forth Your angels to be their 'bodyguards'!
Send forth Your angels to pave the way and clear the way
like the traffic police clearing the way for God's people
who are the VIPs
on the road, yes, on this earth!
Yes, people of God, you are the VIPs in Christ!
You are very important people!
You are very important people in these last days,
yeah, when many people fall away
when many people turn away from God,
you are the VIP, you are the very important people that God is going to use
to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ,
that God is going to use to advance His kingdom!
You are that faithful remnant
in this endtime! Amen!
So, before I end this preaching,
I want to pray this prayer for you.
A simple prayer for you who are watching. "O Lord,
send forth Your angels to Your beloved here!
In every area of their life and ministry!
In their household! In all their travels!
In their going out and coming in! Wherever they are!
In the name of Jesus.
Amen!
