The ministry of angels is a very important, foundational and fundamental part of our Christian faith. The reason is because every single person who believes in the existence of God demonstrates this belief through what we call the art of prayer. This means that we communicate with our creator through prayer in order to get results and answers for situations or issues within our lives. The bible gives an explicit teaching from Genesis to revelation about the involvement of angels in bringing answers to the prayers of God’s people. Every time in the scripture we are shown that when God answers prayers angels carry the answers to the individuals that have offered up the prayers unto God.
When Jesus was to be born, angel Gabriel announced to Mary that she was going to conceive. When Zachariah was going to father John the Baptist, it was an angel that brought the news to him saying your prayers have been answered. When Cornelius was praying in the book of Act and there was going to be the out- pouring of the spirit to the Gentiles, which is what we call the Christian church and the manifestation of the spirit to the Gentiles; it was an angel that came with the answer and said “Cornelius, your prayers and your arms have come as a memorial unto God”. Also in the book of Daniel we see this expressed very clearly when he prayed and fasted about certain things and after 21 days an angel came through and said I have come from the first day which you uttered the prayer unto God and a commandment was issued to give you skill and understanding and to confirm to you that this prayer has been answered by God. The examples above clearly show that angels are messengers that carry heavenly gifts and the intent of God to individuals that have prayed on the earth.
Angels are very important. In the book of psalm 91 it says God has given His angels charge concerning us. This means that it is the operation of angels in the life of a person that will make a thousand fall on their left and ten thousand on their right but only with their eyes shall they behold the reward of the wicked and no evil will come near their dwelling place. The reason is because the individual praying is conscious about the presence of angels and he has prayed for their release into his earthly space in order to activate such happenings. Therefore, in terms of winning souls or the spread of the gospel or the demonstration of the power of God on the earth; know that angelic beings will be assigned on the earth by God to bring about the manifestation of these things. Only those who understand clearly how to release or activate it will see the full benefit of it in the end times.
It is very important you understand the ministry of angels in this end times because demonic power is being unleashed on the earth in an unprecedented way in human history like never before. The spread of certain things that we see today and the validation of certain practices which ten years ago would have been forbidden in the society should tell us that we are dealing with things today on the earth whose origins are demonic. Therefore it is important we understand how to operate in the spirit and how to function with angels because it will go a long way to help us in our spiritual life and in our everyday life as believers.
“Poju Oyemade”