CHRISTIAN SINGLES DATING
GUIDE: WORKING WITH ANGELS
Now here is the question. Who initiated the angels? We
could pray and initiate the angels. You don’t pray you
don’t initiate the angels. They don’t work
automatically. People have thought one thousand years ago
the salvation was automatic. People have thought that the
baptism in the Spirit was automatic. People have thought
that healing was automatic. But it is not. You have to
accept the teaching, accept those things to be filled with
the Spirit. It is the same way with the angels. So this is
a real situation where he says He could have done that. If
it is not real He didn’t have the authority. If He didn’t
have the authority He was telling a lie. He could have
actually done that. And He laid the ground rules for the
principles on working with angels that if we pray God
initiate it forth. The angels are there but they are also
dependant on our response and how we work for God to bring
them forth.
When Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane He prayed
until his blood flow out. God sent an angel to strengthen
Him. Question would God have sent an angel to Him if He
had not prayed to that extenT. On the Mount of
Transfiguration we are told that Jesus prophesied that
there will be some who will not see death until they see
the Son of Man coming in His glory. Three days later they
went up to the Mount of Olives and the bible says as He
prayed He was transfigured. Although it was a promise of
God yet it takes obedience to bring it to pass. Same like
prophecy. If you receive a prophecy is it that you don’t
do anything, no. Some prophecies are unconditional but
ninety nine percent of prophecies are all conditional.
There is a part in how we respond to it. How we yield to
it. How we allow our lives to flow along with it.
It is important for us to see here that there is that
initiation that we have in God through our prayers that
brings forth the work of the angels in our lives. God
would not have sent an angel to strengthen Jesus if there
was no Gethsemane prayer. But because He has moved to the
fullest possible way of God's perfect will God added the
angels in. So there was an obedience and response on man's
side.
Now in Matthew 26: 53 the Greek word 'provide'
is a very special word. The Greek word provide is
the word 'paristemi'. Paristemi doesn't mean
send. Some of us got it this way. I will pray to my
Father and He will send me more that twelve legions of
angels. The Greek says I will pray to the Father and He
will provide me more than twelve legions of angels. And
the word provide is the same Greek word used in
Romans 6: 13, 16, 19 as the word yield. And the way
we could translate it in Romans 12: 1 is the word present.
I urge you brethren present your bodies as a living
sacrifice. Now that was the word paristemi
which means that God didn’t just send the angels to do
something. Jesus could have prayed to God and God would
have paristemi the angels. God would have presented
the angels to him. That means the angels will be there
ready to obey his words.
