angels

I am back…. little summer solitude.

”For He will give His angels charge concerning you, to guard you in all your ways.“ Psalm 91:11

When translated, this means that God instructs His angels to watch over individuals. Each angel has a purpose and God has them guard his children and care for them. Satan even used this verse when he was tempting Jesus.

I have many miracle stories, angel stories and answered prayer stories.

Years ago, I was in a ski accident, left alone on the side of a mountain bleeding internally. After hours of calling for help, praying, crying out in pain, God sent an angel to that mountainside and I was rescued. You see, months after I got out of the hospital I went in search of that man. No one had heard of him and they told me no one by that name worked at the resort. An angel.

Just last week I heard a story about the pastor of a church in Barrie, Ontario who felt the need to go to the church and pray for protection for his community. Little did he know that within hours there was a devastating tornado that ripped through the community. Not one life was lost and even though roofs were torn off houses, not one shingle of the church was touched.

Another story occured in Africa to a young missionary man who was serving in a small field hospital. He was home to the United States on furlong and was visiting a local church in Michigan. He told the congregation his story.

Apparently he would travel by bicycle through the jungle every two weeks to the city to buy supplies. It took about two days, so he would camp overnight. On one occasion in the city, he saw two men fighting and after the brawl, he treated one of the men’s injuries and shared the story of Jesus with him. Two weeks later, he was met by the young man he had treated who told him that he and his friends knew that the missionary carried money and medicine and they had followed him planning to kill him and rob him. Just as they were about to do so, he said they saw the 26 armed guards surrounding the camp. The missionary laughed. “I was all alone that night.”

“But I saw them and so did my friends. We even counted them and we were afraid for our lives and left you alone,” replied the young man.

At that point in the story, one of the men in the church jumped up and asked, “Do you remember the date this happened?” The missionary told him and then another story was told.

When you were sleeping in your camp on the other side of the world, I was getting ready to go golfing. You suddenly came to mind and I felt the need to pray for you. In fact, he said, I called some of the men in the church and they met me here to pray as well.

“Can all those men who prayed with me please stand up?”

The missionary didn’t know who they were, but he counted 26 of them standing in the santuary that morning.

God works in mysterious ways. When we feel the power of the Holy Spirit moving in us, we need to follow that prod and pray. We never know whose life we might be saving. May His angels watch over you.