Partner With Angels: 5 Ways to Dispatch Angelic Activity
Angels have always played a major role in the eternal purpose of God, and their activity is more needed today than ever.
The need for angelic partnership and angelic activity will increase as prophetic activity increases to accomplish the will and purposes of God. Angels act as messengers to the prophets. They take care of people. They record everything a person does, and this information is used on the Day of Judgment.
I will share some foundational knowledge of angels to broaden our perspective, but my goal is to show that God has sent us to partner with His unseen messengers to manifest the reality of Heaven. God’s heavenly messengers are working on your behalf.
In Scripture, we are told that angels have many roles. A few of them include being God’s messengers and holy warriors, watching history unfold, praising and worshipping God, and being guardian angels, protecting and directing people on God’s behalf. The Bible tells us that God’s angels are delivering messages, accompanying the lonely, granting protection, and even fighting His battles. Angels who were sent to deliver messages began by saying, “Do not be afraid,” or “Do not fear,” according to Luke 2:10. There are times or an urgency in which an angel of the Lord would appear or manifest to someone in natural form, which would bring awe, reverence, worship, and typically fear. The reaction or appearance of angels was a frightening encounter. The phrase “Do not fear” appears in the Bible about 58 times throughout both Old and New Testaments.
God’s angels operate discretely and don’t draw attention to themselves as they carry out the assignment given by God. While God has called His heavenly messengers to work on His behalf, He has also called angels to work in our lives.
The following are five basic roles and functions of angels partnering and working with us:
1. Angels provide angelic guardianship and protection.
They are sent to guard and protect us. The Bible tells us, “For He will order His angels to protect you wherever you go. They will hold you up with their hands so you won’t even hurt your foot on a stone” (Psalm 91:11-12 NLT). Angels can be regarded as our invisible and unseen bodyguards protecting us from things seen and unseen. Prophets are guarded and protected by angelic guardianship. We will see further in this chapter how this invisible agency works in relationship with God’s prophetic spokespeople. Angels are also one of the unseen powers or phenomena behind the prophetic. Prophets have experienced the guardship of angels in the Bible. They protect as a duty to each believer in Christ as what we commonly call a “guardian angel.”
For Daniel’s protection, God sent His angel and shut the mouths of lions from killing His prophet. Divine protection accompanies the prophetic mantle. This is part of the angelic partnership that God initiates on behalf of His servants, the prophets.
My God sent His angel and shut the lions’ mouths, so that they have not hurt me, because I was found innocent before Him; and also, O king, I have done no wrong before you (Daniel 6:22 NKJV).
Angels are given charge over us as ministers of defense according to Psalm 91:11 (AMP): “For He will command His angels in regard to you, to protect and defend and guard you in all your ways [of obedience and service].” This translates literally to mean that God will instruct His angels to watch over individuals. God will give each of His angels a purpose: to guard His children. Those who are faithful will be under the constant care of His angels. Because of this specific role in our lives, they can warn and protect us from harm as part of their angelic duties (see Psalm 34:7; Matthew 18:10; Exodus 23:20).
For it is written, “He will command His angels concerning you to guard you carefully” (Luke 4:10 NIV).
In Luke chapter 4, satan challenged Jesus to throw Himself off the highest point of the temple by citing that God would protect Jesus with His angels. However when citing Psalm 91:11, satan purposefully omitted “in all your ways” thus changing the meaning. The reality is that God sends His angels to protect those who have committed themselves to His loving care, not to those who want to put Him to the test.
2. Angels are messengers of God that communicate His message to people and His prophets.
Angels are communicators of God’s message to us. Angels are one of God’s ways He speaks to prophets, along with dreams and visions (Luke 1:19). Prophets and angels are partners in the communicative realm of the Kingdom of God. He will speak by way of angels or by prophets (or prophetic voices). Angels can speak to us in dreams (see Matthew 1:18-25). Angels in the ancient biblical text spoke directly to prophets in dreams (Daniel 8:15-26; 9:21-27). An angel warned Joseph in a dream regarding baby Jesus (see Matthew 2:12-23).
Moses received his prophetic calling directly from God through one of His angelic agents, an angel:
Old Testament: “There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. So Moses thought, ‘I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.’ When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, ‘Moses! Moses!’ And Moses said, ‘Here I am’” (Exodus 3:2-4 NIV).
New Testament: “And when forty years had passed, an Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire in a bush, in the wilderness of Mount Sinai” (Acts 7:30 NKJV).
The angel of the Lord appears to Moses in a flame in Exodus 3:2, and God speaks to Moses from the flame in Exodus 3:4, both instances referring to Himself in the first person as the Person calling him. A message from the angel of the Lord is a direct message from God. The same can be said about a message from God’s prophets, that it is a message from the mouth of God since prophets are commonly known as “mouthpieces” or the “mouth of God.”
3. Angels observe and watch over us through angelic observation and surveillance.
One of the duties of angels is to provide unseen surveillance and observation over us. This close observation is key in providing protection and watching for and against any diabolical, demonic, satanic, and harmful human activities or attacks against us. The Scripture declares to us, “…We have been made a spectacle to the whole universe, and to angels as well as to human beings” (1 Corinthians 4:9 NIV).
According to Scripture, many eyes are upon us, including the eyes of angels. But the implication is even greater than that. The Greek word in this passage translated as spectacle means “theater” or “public assembly.” Angels gain pertinent knowledge through long observation, monitoring, and surveilling human activities. Unlike humans, angels do not have to study the past; they have experienced it. Therefore, they know how others have acted and reacted in crit- ical situations and can predict with a great degree of accuracy how we may act in similar circumstances through historical observations.
4. Angels are ministers (ministering spirits) to us.
Angels are sent to minister to and minister with believers. Prophets in particular were ministered to and received divine assistants. They are charged to tend to our care and welfare. Angels are actively involved in the lives of God’s people. They have clear and specific functions; God sends them to respond in our specific times of need. One way God comes to our aide is through the ministry of angels. They are on earth right now, having been sent to minister to our needs as we are heirs of salvation. Prophets minister with angels in their prophetic ministries (Hebrews 1:14).
The following are Old and New Testament biblical references of angels as ministering spirits to believers:
Psalm 104:4 (NASB), “He makes the winds His messengers, flaming fire His ministers.”
Hebrews 1:7 (NASB), “And of the angels He says, ‘Who makes His angels winds, and His ministers a flame of fire.’”
Hebrews 1:14 (AMP), “Are not all the angels ministering spirits sent out [by God] to serve (accompany, protect) those who will inherit salvation? [Of course they are!]”
The word ministering in the Greek is the word leitourgikos, meaning “the performance of service” according to Strong’s Concordance. Ministering means employed in ministering. It comes from the root meaning to do a service or perform a work. Essentially, angels are employed to minister to us and to serve us. Angels are invisible ministers, attendants, and servants to believers and prophets. This is one of the functions of angels. God employs and deploys angels as a ministering agency. There is a ministry of angels according to the mentioned Scripture references.
Jesus, being hungry from fasting for forty days and forty nights, was ministered and attended to by angels after He was tempted continually by the devil in the wilderness: “Then the devil left Him, and behold, angels came and were ministering to Him” (Matthew 4:11 NKJV).
5. Angels are dispatched at the voice of God.
Angelic dispatchment is activated with the command and prophetic release of the voice of God. Prophets are regarded as the voice of God on earth who speaks His word. They declare the word of God with their voice. Angels stand at attention, listening carefully for the voice of God. The word is what angels carry out. They do the Lord’s bidding. Therefore, angels minister alongside prophets and prophetic voices to obey the voice of the Commander in Chief, who is Jesus Christ. Angels operate in rank and order under command. Angels are under the command of God and superior angelic officers.
Angels are dispatched by voice activations of the word of God. Therefore, because prophets of God are messengers of God on earth and are the voices that carry God’s word or commands, angels are dispatched and deployed when prophets release divine utterances. Angels also obey the voice of the prophets who release the word of the Lord: “Bless the Lord, O you his angels, you mighty ones who do his word, obeying the voice of his word!” (Psalm 103:20 ESV).
Consider Daniel 10:12 (NKJV) where the angel responds to the words of Daniel the prophet saying: “…Your words were heard; and I have come because of your words.” We can see that Daniel’s words put the angel to work for him. Too many of our angels are unemployed because we do not pray, activate the word of God, or prophesy as the Spirit gives us divine utterances.