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Dream Timeline

I tell this story continually so I thought I would put it down on paper to make it easier on everyone.

For the last couple of years the Lord has been talking to His church, but with the many voices it has been hard to build the continuity of His story.  Every time we get a pause, this is the topic everyone wants to discuss, “I’ve never seen anything like this, what is God saying to His people?”  Here’s what I’ve heard.

October 2018- December 2018

The Lord seldom lays out the full story for me at one time.  In October 2018, I saw the curtain pulled back just a few inches.  It was the beginning of a vision that began a longer discussion that came in small snippets over the next couple of months.  The vision was an event that would be hard for the churches.  However, I saw that when the event was fully over, the churches would fill up.  The dead churches, the living churches and the ones in between.  I asked the Lord what this was.  He called it a catastrophic event that was NOT like 911.  After the event was over people would flood to the churches.  It would save the day.  It seemed like it was a financial save.  If the churches that had been dead or lukewarm would repent of their complacency and let the Holy Spirit run them, they would keep the people that had been sent to them.  If they did not repent and continued in their fleshly ways, the people would not stay.  I saw many churches closing.

I did not know the timing of this event.  When I left my position in January 2019, I had more dreams.  In a dream, I saw a malignancy in the body of Christ.  It had taken on a life of its own.  I saw that God would surgically remove the malignancy and He instructed us (the intercessors) to pray over the malignancy.

In October 2019 I had a dream.  I saw a little girl and she spoke out loud in the dream.  She asked me, “Did you let the darkness come?”  I knew that the dream meant that if we didn’t pray, generations after us would encounter great darkness.

Later in October 2019 I was in a dead sleep when an audible voice spoke and said, “FLOOD THE EARTH!”  I knew that the catastrophic event would be world-wide, not just the United States.

ANOTHER DREAM

Not long after in that same year, I had another dream.

I was standing on a bridge over HWY 67 in the city which I live outside of Dallas.  I was looking toward the direction of the Dallas skyline. (you can’t see it from there in the natural) I knew it was a city but didn’t look like the Dallas skyline.  It could have been any city.  All of a sudden, I saw a mushroom cloud.  The shock wave from the blast knocked me off the bridge and killed me.  The shock of it woke me up.  I fell immediately into a deep sleep again.  I dreamed the identical dream.  This time in the dream, I knew I had dreamed it before.  I knew what was about to happen, but there was no time to plan.  The same shock wave hit me on the bridge with me knowing it was coming.

DECEMBER  2019 VOICE IN MY SLEEP

A voice came to me in my sleep and boomed, “EQUINOX!”  That is all it said.  I had to look up the word.  Equinox happens two times a year.  It is when the light and dark are the equivalent in the earth.  The dates of equinox in 2020 were March 20 and September 22.  I knew the dates were significant but I didn’t know why. COVID was not a “thing” then.   The March 20th date is the week that the nation shut down because of COVID.  September 22 is yet to be seen, but I believe it is a time window with something that is an event where light and darkness seems equivalent.

FASTING AND PRAYING WITH INTERCESSORS

The three ladies that I pray with were to accompany me on a trip to the Apache Nation reservation.  We had initially begun to fast and pray over that trip in February.

DREAM IN FEBRUARY 2020

I had a dream where I saw a group of black people protested, walked out defiantly, and defied authority.  Protest didn’t start until after the May 25th Floyd killing.

FIRST, A CONCEPT SO WE ARE ALL ON THE SAME PAGE

There is a simple rule that needs to be discussed: if you bring into your heart anger, hatred, bitterness, and unforgiveness, you will never have a move of God.

Shall the throne of iniquity, which devises evil by law, have fellowship with You? (Psalms 94:20 NKJV)

If you create laws to disguise evil, like killing babies as they come out of the womb, you will never have a relationship with God.

In the United States there is an entire group of people that are angry, full of hatred, bitterness, and unforgiveness.  We’re going to call them the anti-God crowd, since we need to call them something.

You know there are two kingdoms, a dark one and a light one.  The dark one, Adam’s kingdom, is built on the systems of this world.  It’s where everyone starts out.  Then they meet the Holy Spirit and they get saved.  Suddenly, they are citizens of a new kingdom, the light kingdom.  None of the dark kingdom rules work in the light kingdom.  Since they don’t work in the light kingdom, a smart person would learn the light kingdom rules since they are citizens of that kingdom.

The anti-God crowd has never learned to work with the light kingdom rules and principles.  They still work within the rules of the dark kingdom, because that seems to be all they know.  It is not clear if they are actually citizens of the light kingdom and have never bothered to learn about the kingdom of God or are still citizens of the dark kingdom.  At any rate, they only operate under the dark kingdom rules.

THESE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT THE LORD SPOKE TO ME ABOUT COVID

AS IT KICKED UP IN MARCH

Now we knew it was an official thing.

THE CONVERSATION WITH THE DEVIL

  • The devil had us over a barrel concerning the sins of this nation.
  • He asked for a high death count in COVID, because of the pollution of innocent blood and gay marriage.
  • The Lord told me that He would not give the devil what he asked for because Trump had stayed on mission concerning Israel.
  • I heard the prophets saying, “Passover, God will Passover.” I believed that was the word of the Lord, we began to pray and fast into it.  We met twice a week to pray during COVID.  At the time of Passover, the death toll seemed to drop off.  Then the powers that be fought about the model being wrong.  It was exactly the week after Passover.  Since then many fabrications of numbers but a low death toll.
  • He also told me that four months after the lift of everything, people would feel more normal in a recovery.

THE ECONOMY AND COVID

  • The Lord showed me at the beginning of March 2020 that He was going to give Trump back his economy. I saw the stock market recover the quickest.  It was a good while for the travel industry to recover.  Mom and pop stores in many areas didn’t survive, but the economy and jobs came back.  (I believe this is one of the predestined paths of the election if Trump gets in.)  The stock market dropped to the 18000 mark.  It is currently into the 26,000 –  27,000 range.
  • The other predestined path, if the anti-God crowd gets in, will be crisis in the economy. God is letting us make the decisions in this election.  I’ll talk about that more later.

THE PURPOSE OF GOD IN OR IN SPITE OF COVID

God never wastes anything.  The Lord told me at the beginning of this pandemic that He was going to deal with the gods of this nation.  These are the ones being dealt with.

  • Money/love of it
  • Medicine
  • Media/government
  • Religious church

He said that He was going to deal with the corruption in all these systems and expose it to the roots.

THE CHURCH AND COVID

He mentioned that these were not only the gods of the USA but they had become the gods of the “church” as well.

He took me to the Book of Revelation and talked to me about the priority re-set for the church.  He showed me that in the letters to the churches, Jesus had appeared to commend some of them, rebuke some of them, and some received both rebuke and commendation.  But the one constant in all the seven letters to the churches in Asia was the end of each letter.  Jesus said, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the church.”  Jesus defers each time to the Holy Spirit’s work in the church.  This is the very thing the church at large has rejected.  Jesus told me he was not happy with that so there were things this pandemic would do.  It would not only deal with the nation, but it would deal with the church.

  • This was a hard course correct for the Church
  • She was going to have a chance to get her priorities right
  • The Lord was not happy with the American Church at large
  • He was going to deal with leaders about celebrity Christianity and building their own kingdoms
  • He was going to deal with lay leaders and parishioners as well

COVID AND SALVATION

The Lord showed me that millions of people were being talked to about God in the privacy of their own homes and cars.  That there would be many who would return even if many fell away.  We spent April 2020 corporate prayer time praying into this.

COVID AND FOOD ISSUES

Before anyone was talking about food shortages, the Lord gave me a download in my sleep that I woke up with.  We spent the next Monday corporate night on prayer about shortages on meat and food in general. We broke through for that.  Later that week was the first time ever I couldn’t get a quarter pound hamburger from a McDonalds!  But it was broken through and didn’t last long although that was the following week the media covered it.

MAY 4TH 2020 GOD DEALS WITH JEZEBEL

As I was preparing for a Monday night corporate prayer meeting, I heard the Lord say, “I am going to deal with Jezebel in the American Church”.  He let me know that the demons that control the opposition to the true gospel in the church were going to be exposed.

The Lord talked to me about the life of Uzziah.  He had done pretty well before the Lord until he became strong and pride entered in.  In his pride, Uzziah went into the temple and offered unauthorized incense.  Then Father took me to the unauthorized incense of Korah’s rebellion.  Out of that we ended up in the Book of Jude.  He explained to me that Jude was about Jezebel in the church.  He used many parallels between Jezebel and the examples in the Book of Jude.  Jude 1:4 Certain men crept in unnoticed…

The Jezebel spirit boiled down in the Book of Jude to this:

  1. Lifestyle of pride and latent sin like Cain in Jude 1:11
  2. Belief system trading error for profit like Baalam
  3. No fear of God or respect for true leaders error like Korah exhibited
  4. They hide among the sheep and flatter to gain advantage – Jude 1:16-23
  5. They cause divisions

Jesus also took me to the letters to the churches.

Revelation 2:18-26 The letter to the church in Thyatira

He showed me Jezebel in those passages.

  1. She hid under guise of prophetic ministry
  2. She was teaching the people (word and example)
  3. She refused repentance

So, you can imagine my shock when He said He was going to deal with Jezebel.

FIRST WEEK IN MAY-SHOUTING AND WEEPING

I was in prayer.  God gave me a scripture out of the Book of Ezra.  It was about the laying of the foundation of the temple.  The people had returned from exile.  Many of them had never seen the magnificent temple that Solomon had built.  So it was wonderful to see the new foundation laid.  They shouted for joy!  Yet the old timers that had seen the first temple had a wave of emotion but it wasn’t shouting, it was weeping.

The Lord spoke to me that there was coming in this next season shouting and weeping. He told me that there was about to be a demonstration of the Holy Spirit that would cause the people who witnessed it to shout, but there would be weeping also.  I spent several days asking Him about the weeping.  Finally, I felt I had heard Him.  It was a race war/civil war.  I was floored.  This is before anything but COVID was in the news.  I couldn’t imagine this at the time.

MAY 11TH POWER BROKERS PROPHECY

That Monday, the Lord spoke to me out of 1 Corinthians 1:26-31. He told me that He was about to deal with the power brokers of this nation.  It would not just be in politics, but also in Hollywood, big business and even the church.  He told me that He was going to put power into the hands of the ones the power brokers didn’t deem “worthy” of the power.  I saw humiliation in the process.

JUNE 7, 2020 THE SNAKE AND TIGER CUB DREAM

The riots had just started breaking out.  I was ready to pray back the lawlessness.  In response to my zeal, the Lord gave me a dream.

In the dream, I was standing on a rock ledge that had a massive drop off.  There was a ledge jetted out from the cliff about 20 feet down.  On the ledge were four tiger cubs.  They were cute and cuddly looking.  On the top of the rock cliff with me was this HUGE snake.  It was 3-4 feet in diameter and about 25 ft long.  It looked like a snake that could crush you but it was also poisonous.  In the dream I knew it was about to go after the cubs to kill them.  I saw a person that I love on the cliff with me.  She had a gun and I was yelling for her to kill the snake.  She couldn’t hear me.  Meanwhile the snake slithers its way to the tiger cubs.  I tell her again to kill the snake but she can’t hear me.  The snake kills the tiger cubs and I wake up.

I waited on the Lord about this dream from waking up until a couple days later I had the full interpretation.

The snake was the lawlessness that was breaking out across our nation.  It was evil but it was sent to prevent four years of what would be a “man-eater” if the the anti-God crowd were put in control of the nation.  He let me know this was because men’s hearts were hard.  He was trying to save our nation from ourselves by letting us get a “gut” full of the lawlessness.

JUNE 29TH, I SAW DANA COVERSTONE’S DREAM

At this time, my pastor sent me Dana’s dream. “What do you think?” I said I think his dreams are right. First, there are dreams that warn and then there are dreams that tell you something is coming and that there is nothing you can do about it.

I began to pray over Dana’s dream. This is what I saw: God gave him the dream and showed him COVID. That’s more than what most of the popular prophets saw. He saw COVID, he saw the ventilators, he saw the riots, and that was (how it happened) exactly how he saw it. So why would the next two dreams would be any different, because they’ve all been piled together?

FIST HIT IS ELECTION

There is something that may be confusing to people who haven’t had dreams. This is my take on it (not a thus sayeth the Lord), the very end dream, he’s seeing the UN, money going out the ceiling, and the fist hitting November. The fist that hit November is this election.

TWO PREDETERMINED PATHS

There are two predetermined paths coming out of this election. We think about the sovereignty of God, that there is nothing about God that can be thwarted. Some things can’t be thwarted – time for Jesus to come, etc. But some things having to do with leaders, He gives them some space about it. And He has given some space to the church.

For instance, God says to King Ahab. “You let a man live, (Benhadad) which I predetermined should die”. This cost the Jewish people. Also, another King came to Elisha.  He was to shoot an arrow and beat on the ground to determine his victory over Syria.  Both times, sovereign God let the leader determine the outcome.

VACUUMS CREATED IN CITY CENTERS

Yes, the church remnant will pray. But if the anti-God crowd gets into control of the nation, they are the four tiger cubs. If they get in power, we will see them defund the police. If this should happen it will be exactly like Dana saw. It will create a vacuum in our cities. It’s not going to be the countryside that’s in trouble initially. City centers will have militias coming in to fill the vacuum. Civil war. Antifa, BLM. Already a militant group with 60 of them. It would take the National Guard about 30 minutes to get rid of all of them. The problem is the national leaders of the black community with a liberal agenda, killing babies coming out of the womb, unbelievable things, being perpetuated from the top.

Leaders not standing against militia, the thought process has infiltrated into churches. It has broken the backs of the black community who have not had a move of God but due for one. For 20 years, American prophets have been calling white people to repentance over the racism of the nation and in the church, but it has not changed anything because the black community has not been called to repentance.

FIRST PREDETERMINED PATH THE ANTI-GOD CROWD IN POWER

If the anti-God crowd comes into power, we will have systemic persecution that will begin to immediately break out against the church. Militias will rise up in the city centers and it will be too dangerous to get food in. We already have cities where there are two or three miles with no food stores, known as food deserts. Dallas has the poorest poor community in the nation. It will be militias from both sides of the new civil war.  It will move into the suburbs and make them dangerous as well.

They will defund police and lose control of their cities.  I can see them humiliating the USA by inviting the UN to come and help control the population.  Globalist will get what they have been wanting and planning behind close doors, the destruction of the freedom of the USA.  Deep pockets are funding this path.

Hyper inflation will start with the anti-God crowd.  They want a one world money system.  We have already seen coins going away as Dana’s dream said they would.

SECOND PREDETERMINED PATH

If Trump gets in (this is not about a donkey or elephant) there will be a different path.  Many years ago, the Lord told me I am not to be political. I couldn’t understand why He would say that because my husband was an elected official for many years.  But over time I understood that I must have the attitude of a statesman, not a politician. We are to look out for the good of the people. I was to have His agenda not mine.

Years ago, when Trump was a TV star, we would turn off the television shows he was on.  But before it was even thought of that he would run for president, I sat in my driveway and heard Trump’s voice on the radio. The Holy Spirit said to me, “Trump is my Cyrus”.  I was shocked.  I went in and told my husband what the Lord had just said to me.  I told him, Trump will get the nomination and I think he will get the presidency.  Trump is God’s man, not a perfect man, but God’s man.  He has been hated viscerally because of it.

Trump coming into the second term as president will spark a more intense time of rioting and problems. It won’t last as long and will be a shield to the church for some things, but persecution will be imminent.   So, what Dana saw will eventually come about but it would be delayed.

God has already said He would give Trump back his economy.  This will be seen when the second term fully materializes.  But I also saw that this will not be easy for him or for us.  The anti-God crowd is desperate to remain hidden and Trump will not let them.  Therefore, they will try again to get rid of Trump to save jail time as they are exposed.  There will still be dangers in some of the city centers under democrat control, but things will settle after some months.  This will be a time for the small and large courts to be addressed and judges who cannot be bought to be put in place.

WE ARE NOW CALLING THIS “THE ELECTION VIRUS”

We are calling this the election virus.  It is not that COVID has not killed people.  It has.  But God has thwarted it and now this demon agenda is coming to the forefront.   We have seen it is one of the gods of this nation…medicine.  It is hard to understand medical treatment that can save lives can be withheld. This reveals the corruption in the anti-God crowd of medicine and the globalist desire for a vaccine with control with human chipping.  The doctors who are trying to help cannot freely give drugs discovered to work; nebulizer with steroid and the hydroxychloroquine.   If people ask for those meds, they are told to go somewhere else if they don’t like the treatment. The anti-God crowd wants this virus. We are in this cosmic clash. God showed me flood the world – worldwide.

DANA DIDN’T SEE TRUMP

The reason Dana didn’t see Trump because the end of this dream is determined by the leaders. Whoever this nation puts in place, it’s their decision. God will let them go with it. This is where our prayer comes in, and voting.  It will be a great battle over the election due to corruption.  The anti-God crowd will try to rid themselves of Trump with every scheme they can even before the election.

PROPHETS GAVE NO WARNING

Prophets without platforms were getting snippets. But nobody wants to be accused of being gloom and doom prophets. We are in a crisis but nobody wants to hear it.

THE PROBLEM IS NOT WITH DANA AND HIS DREAMS

The warning and problem is not Dana. The problem is we were a faithless, spineless, unrepentant church. We don’t like anything that says my easy way of living is going to go away. If we have to live in a box, I’m just going to ask God for a really good box. We may have to die for this correction. But if we get a hangnail, we’re ready to ditch God. I hope America does get scared and fall on her face. God gave us time but we don’t want to hear it. God is trying to save our nation. I heard Dana’s dream – and said, finally!!

PROPHETIC POWER BROKERS

Prophetic Power Brokers didn’t see it. God has given a pastor of a small congregation what you did not see and you need to cut him some slack. A prophet friend of mine wrote to the power brokers and asked “Did you contact Dana privately before you evaluated him publicly?” This video didn’t go viral on accident. God did it. That’s why Dana’s dream resonated with me.

DOCTRINE THROUGHOUT CURRENT PROPHETIC MOVEMENT

There’s been this doctrine that’s been perpetuated throughout the nation that Jesus just wants to do everything for us, nothing will keep you from your healing or receiving a blessing. If anything negative is said, the prophet caused it. It’s not scriptural. In fact, if that’s true, Agabus would have caused Paul to be taken to Rome and get put to death. He would have caused the famine that came.  Go to the Bible and get your doctrine. Jesus had the right to demand that people live properly before God. You can’t live this unscriptural doctrine and not pay the price somewhere.

THE SPIRIT BEHIND THE RACIAL DIVIDE

I have seen this spirit before.  It has approached many churches to bring them to the “woke” state of deception they find themselves drowning in.  It has a long game, but it isn’t what you would think.  It isn’t just after churches; it is after freedom.  The racial divide is a distraction for the church.  All of us are reconciled to each other in Christ.  According to Galatians, there is neither male nor female, Jew nor Greek, slave nor free.  The “woke” church is not a kingdom church.

The social justice gospel has overtaken.  Therefore, the culture is running the congregations and distracting from advancing The Kingdom of God.  Paul also made it clear in Galatians that if anyone preach any other gospel but the gospel he preached, “let him be accursed.”

WHAT ABOUT PREPARATIONS FOR THINGS TO COME? 

Isaiah 26:20-21 (NKJV)
20  Come, my people, enter your chambers, And shut your doors behind you; Hide yourself, as it were, for a little moment, Until the indignation is past.
21  For behold, the LORD comes out of His place To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity; The earth will also disclose her blood, And will no more cover her slain.

Isaiah said hide yourself until the tempest is past. These are things that God is dealing with concerning the earth.  The iniquity of innocent blood that cries out.  Therefore, God will deal with our nation in the midst of trouble.

Dana said get food and water. FEMA says everyone should have a month of water and food for any disaster. It’s never wrong to have wisdom. Be in prayer and see what the Holy Spirit is saying.  You should have a way to protect your family if it is needed.

Dana’s dreams have shown us a window of time when we need to pay attention, between September, October, November, and possibly December. Depending on the outcome of the election, it would be longer with one path and shorter with the other.

THE MATTER OF PRAYER AND REPENTANCE

The Lord showed me three areas that the church needs to address in repentance and racism is NOT one of them.

  1. Celebrity Christianity – men took influence that was a gift to them and the people but used it to build their own kingdom.
  2. The sins of the church – He told me that the world and the church have melded. There is sin swept under the rug and not dealt with to the people’s hurt.  It should never be that the ratio of a sin outside the church is the same inside the church.
  3. Leaving the Holy Spirit – He said that He defers to the Holy Spirit concerning the church but His people have abandoned the Holy Spirit’s government, power, and gifts.

For twenty years the national calls to prayer have been for repentance for racism.  Meanwhile the three things above the Lord showed me have become the cancer of the church.  If there is a national prayer meeting may they make the main things the things God says are primary.

WHAT ABOUT THE CALL FOR JUSTICE? 

No one who is a true believer, believes that injustice is ok.  It’s not.  Anyone who is murdered is a victim and the perpetrator must pay the price.  One of the foundational pillars of God’s throne is justice.  However, a great cry has gone out for justice over slavery and racism. I believe, with other believers, that we paid for our participation in human trafficking in the last civil war.  The most lives of any war and bloodshed on our land.  So, what will this cry for justice do in the ears of God?  There will be justice but it is not going to be the justice that everyone thinks it will be.  It will be justice for the innocent babies who are being slaughtered.  60+ million since legalized.  40+ million of those being the babies of the black community. The justice is not going to be pretty nor is it going to be satisfying to a group who is using the pain of a community to further their anti-God agenda.  God is no respecter of persons when it comes to justice.  That is the part we are leaving out.

JULY 19 THE MOST RECENT DREAM – THE ORCHARD

I dreamed that I was tinkering around in a workshop on this beautiful hillside.  I looked across a verdant lush valley.  There was a very large hill will a very large fruit tree.  It was so big that I could see it and its fruit from a very long distance.  There were other trees below it that were almost as large and still very beautiful.

Then the large and highest tree caught on fire.  Many saw the fire but were convinced it would burn itself out.  But it didn’t.  Then the wind changed direction and the other trees were on fire.

I must have fled.  I am in a car.  I stop to look behind me at the black smoke-filled sky with orange flames.  I have a pain in my heart.  I turn the car around and drive extremely fast to try and help.  I only end up back at the workshop.  I can see the terrible scene from a distance.  Then a woman I know who is grieving her grandchild in real life comes running into the workshop and with great cries says, “it is all destruction and loss!”

I believe the hill is CAPITOL HILL.  It was on fire.  Corruption was destroying it.  Many good people thought it would pass.  But it didn’t and now the winds have changed.  The result will be the rest of the trees (the states) have followed suit.

FINAL COMMENTS

Over the last two years, God has been providing the pieces of a story for us.  Look around, look back, and you can see them.  Most of the pieces have not been coming through big name ministries.  But they are there so you may have to look for them.

When you are bringing all the pieces together, they sometimes seem contrary.  But if you understand there are two predetermined paths and you shift the story pieces into the correct pathway now they seem clear, easily understandable.

Wisdom tells you to be prepared for a probable event.  You get to decide how prepared you are or need to be.  When the event passes, if there wasn’t much to it you’ll have food and other things to incorporate back into your budget.  It would be embarrassing to know an event could occur and made no preparation what so ever about it.  God doesn’t want you surprised.

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The Angel of the Lord

We are told in the Bible about “ministering spirits” who minister for the children of God.

Hebrews 1:14 (NKJV)
14 Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those who will inherit salvation?

These are mighty beings that have been around long before the creation of man. God created them. They are innumerable. They come in all sizes and shapes. They are the Lord’s angels.

While they remain cloaked to the naked eye in most cases, every once in a while, we may get an opportunity to see one…we may just not know it,

Hebrews 13:2 (NKJV)
2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels.

There are good angels and there are bad angels who fell into sin along with Satan, who was an angel of God at one time. A third of God’s angels entered a rebellion with Satan and now they are evil. Good news however, there are still two-thirds on our side.

Angels have been under the Lord’s command throughout the Old and New Testament. Some of the angels are named such as Michael and Gabrielle but most remain a mystery. They have carried out very important task for the Lord God though the years. They have borne the news of important births, destroyed the Lord/Israel’s enemies, brought strength to people, aided them in their battles, healed their bodies and a myriad of things I am confident we won’t know about until we get to heaven. It appears that there are guardian angels over people as well.

I WAS STANDING IN MY KITCHEN
I was standing in my kitchen one evening and my husband, Wallace, was sitting in the living room and we were looking at each other talking. All of a sudden the extremely heavy light fixture I was standing under fell. I felt a hand shove me out of the way as the fixture crashed into the floor. My husband said, “Someone just pushed you! You went from totally upright to being moved in a split second!” I knew that! I felt that! I believe an angel protected me from a head injury.

Even though angels are powerful and supernatural, we are told that worship of angels is not allowed.

Colossians 2:18-19 (NKJV)
18 Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, 19 and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, grows with the increase that is from God.

As powerful and wonderful as they may be, it would be being cheated to be in worship of anything that wasn’t Father, Son and Holy Spirit! That lets you know we cannot even comprehend how magnificent THEY are!!!

ANGEL UNAWARES
When I was a youth pastor I had a very strange thing happen. I had a dream one night. In the dream I saw a man who was living under bridges and was on foot down a highway. He was wearing an old hat and his cloths were worn. I heard a voice in the dream that said, “He has been sleeping under bridges and he is hungry, feed him.” I woke up from the dream and told my husband about it. I went to my pantry and found anything that I thought would feed a homeless man just in case I ran into him during that day. I told several people, including our maintenance man Glen, about the dream and that I was on the look-out for this man. I was supposed to feed him. Several months went by. I never saw the man. I carried food around in my trunk but never needed it. I soon dropped it thinking that I had just misunderstood the dream.

One day I was at the church alone in the little office when the back door opened. An old man walked in. He was very soft spoken. He was sweaty and carried a hat in his hands. His cloths were worn and he looked tired. I greeted him and asked him how I could help him. He asked me if there was anything at the church that he could eat. I had all but forgotten about the dream, still I felt a great need to help this man. I took him to the kitchen in this little church and there was not a thing to feed him. I told him we could go across the street and I could let him pick out some food. He said in a soft voice, “Oh, that would be very nice.”

I drove him across the street and we went through the grocery store aisles. He wouldn’t ask for anything, so I would say, “Would you like this? Or this?” He would only answer, “That would be very nice.” I loaded up some things to warm at the church and some things I thought he could carry. We went back to the church and I heated some food and fed him. I asked him about himself but he was vague. Very quietly he told me he had a job. I couldn’t put my finger on what this man stirred in my spirit, but something was unusual. It wasn’t long until our church maintenance guy, Glen, came through. He had the same experience with our unusual guest. Glen offered the man his own bed roll. Then he went and bought him a pair of shoes. Something about this man made you want to give him whatever you had! After he finished eating the man was about to leave. I didn’t want him to leave without me sharing the gospel with him. As Glen and I gathered at the back door to see him out, I asked the man, “Sir, do you know Jesus?” I am not kidding when I say, I looked into the bluest eyes I have ever seen in all my life. They were like deep pools of the bluest ocean. He looked right through me and said, “I know Him very well.” Shivers went up and down me! We all took hands and I prayed over him. I dug all my cash out of my pocket and Glen did the same and we gave it to him. He thanked us and went out the door onto the highway. He put on his hat. OH MY GOODNESS! IT’S HIM! “GLENN, IT’S HIM! IT’S THE MAN IN MY DREAM!” We looked back out the glass door and the man was gone!!!!

To this day, I believe that we entertained an angel. What is the purpose? I really don’t know…but it happened. Glen and I both witnessed him being there and then instantly being gone.

Isn’t it wonderful to know that God has prepared so many good things for us to help us? Hebrews tells us that they minister FOR us…Have you ever ministered with an angel? I believe I have. I’ve had many years in ministry to accumulate the experiences with God and his army of angels.

I was ministering in prayer on a Tuesday night years ago before we started streaming it live. I was leading a song. A holy hush came on everything and everyone. There was total silence in the large auditorium. A wind began to swirl around me on the platform and people began to cry out down on the floor level spontaneously. I believe an angel of the Lord was helping me minister.

I have had them follow me as I paced in prayer leading on Tuesday nights. One night, I saw the shadow of one following me every time I would turn. After prayer that night, a woman from Spain using an interpreter told me that there was an angel following me, when I would turn he would turn, when I would clap my hands he would do the same.

We will probably never know how much help we have received until all knowledge is available to us in our heavenly home. Until then we are going to be encouraged knowing that God is for us and He is keeping His protecting and assisting hand upon us.

Psalm 91:11-12 (NKJV)
11 For He shall give His angels charge over you, To keep you in all your ways. 12 In their hands they shall bear you up, Lest you dash your foot against a stone.

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