Faith Declaration: God’s Angels Guard Me in All My Ways
A wrong belief: “I wish Jesus would come down from Heaven and walk beside me to keep me safe. I feel so vulnerable down here on earth.”
“no evil shall happen to you, neither shall any plague come near your dwelling. For he will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways. They will bear you up in their hands, so that you won’t dash your foot against a stone. You will tread on the lion and cobra. You will trample the young lion and the serpent underfoot.” (Psalms 91:10-13 WEB)
Today, the Lord brought me back to Psalm 91 to teach me about the part about angels and the assistance that they render to us.
We are not left defenseless here on earth. You are protected from enemies, accidents, and sicknesses “for He will put His angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways”.
Angels (plural; not just one angel) are actively guarding you in your daily walk. Look how attentive they are—they bear you up such that you will not even dash your feet against a stone.
All this fantastic protective service is happening in the realm that is invisible to us. Angels clearing the way for us, assisting in times of trouble, and ministering to us, according to God’s command.
We are precious children of God, and as royalty, we have the most powerful defenders with us every day. They are invisible to us, but they are still around. We walk by faith, not by sight—we must believe God’s word.
How do you tread on the lion and the cobra? This is impossible with God’s intervention because if you approach these animals in the wild, they will attack you.
It can only be because our guardian angels are restraining these beasts, preventing them from harming us.
Think about Daniel who was cast into the lion’s den. An angel of the Lord had shut the lions’ mouths and stood in between so that they would not harm Daniel, even though the powerful beasts were starving.
“Then Daniel said to the king, O king, live forever. My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me; because as before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, I have done no hurt. Then was the king exceeding glad, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no kind of harm was found on him, because he had trusted in his God.” (Daniel 6:21-23 WEB)
Think about the apostle Paul who was bitten by the snake after arriving on the island of Malta, and yet, the poison did not even affect him. Paul simply shook the snake off into the fire, and this became a powerful testimony to the island natives that the Jesus that Paul serves is truly God. Could Paul’s guardian angels have somehow disabled the snake’s venom before it was allowed to bite him?
In both Daniel and Paul’s situations, they were allowed to experience the appearance of danger, but the supernatural protection became powerful testimonies to glorify God.
In Daniel’s case, King Darius witnessed God’s power and wrote a decree which glorified God. In Paul’s case, the natives living on Malta were healed and saved, and the name of Jesus was greatly magnified.
God allows the semblance of danger at times so that He can swoop in at the right time with an amazing deliverance, to bring forth salvations and the furtherance of the Gospel.
God’s angels are assigned to protect His people. One-third of all created angels joined Lucifer in rebelling against God many years ago (Revelation 12:3-4), but the great news is that there are still two-thirds of angels who are on God’s side. There are more holy angels with us than there are demons against us.
Every day, I confess with my family, “Your angels guard us in all our ways.” No matter where you are and what you are doing, be conscious that you are so protected and loved by God!
A new faith declaration: “God’s angels guard me in all my ways. I am so loved and protected. God is for me, so I will tread and trample over all obstacles and enemies.”
I want to end off by sharing a powerful testimony about angelic protection from one of our patrons on Patreon. This is what the photo collage below is about:
“I was in a big accident 2017: a semi truck hit us at fast speed (trucks here are undisciplined), and I was also driving fast but it was a resident area. The truck tumbled (but those guys were ok), our car spun, I blacked out for seconds and when I opened my eyes my car was on the sidewalk. I sustained no wounds at all. My daughter was even in the car. I got dizzy but really no injuries, even though my car was wrecked. I always tell people that God helped because I prayed under my breath when I saw the truck in my face, but now I realized God did send His angels when I blacked out for those seconds…something did happen. Truly Psalm 91 never changes. Indeed, God's angels who are faster than lightning adjusted my car and kept us safe.” - Jema
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The Creation : The Earth is a Witness --- Genesis (創世記) 1 - 2 : 3
創造--來自地球的見證 --- The Author of The Genesis --- Moses (摩西)
Watch "The Creation: The Earth is a Witness," a day-by-day account of the biblical creation week, beginning with darkness before God created light and ending with Moses, the author of the Genesis account of creation, and his son, worshiping God on the seventh-day Sabbath.
「創造--來自地球的見證」,是一部有關上帝創造的影片。在此影片中,創世記的作者摩西向他兒子講述,上帝如何用六天的時間創造萬物,並在第七日安息,定為聖日。
Seventh-day Adventist filmmaker Henry Stober spent four years filming the movie around the world.
此影片由基督復臨安息日會製片人 Henry Stober 歷經四年時間,在世界各地取景拍攝製作。
影片拍攝優美,背景音樂震撼,使觀眾身歷其境地感受到上帝創造的偉大,以及祂對人深切的愛。
Hebrews (希伯來書) 11 : 1
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
信就是所望之事的實底,是未見之事的確據。
Hebrews (希伯來書) 11 : 3
Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
我們因著信,就知道諸世界是藉神話造成的;這樣,所看見的,並不是從顯然之物造出來的。
John (約翰福音) 1 : 1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
太初有道,道與神同在,道就是神。
John (約翰福音) 1 : 2
The same was in the beginning with God.
這道太初與神同在。
John (約翰福音) 1 : 3
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
萬物是藉著他造的;凡被造的,沒有一樣不是藉著他造的。
Genesis (創世記) 1 : 1 - 26
1) In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
起初,神創造天地。
2) And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
地是空虛混沌,淵面黑暗;神的靈運行在水面上。
3) And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
神說:「要有光」,就有了光。
4) And God saw the light, that good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
神看光是好的,就把光暗分開了。
5) And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
神稱光為「晝」,稱暗為「夜」。有晚上,有早晨,這是頭一日。
6) And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
神說:「諸水之間要有空氣,將水分為上下。」
7) And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which under the firmament from the waters which above the firmament: and it was so.
神就造出空氣,將空氣以下的水、空氣以上的水分開了。事就這樣成了。
😎 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
神稱空氣為「天」。有晚上,有早晨,是第二日。
9) And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry appear: and it was so.
神說:「天下的水要聚在一處,使旱地露出來。」事就這樣成了。
10) And God called the dry Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that good.
神稱旱地為「地」,稱水的聚處為「海」。神看著是好的。
11) And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
神說:「地要發生青草和結種子的菜蔬,並結果子的樹木,各從其類,果子都包著核。」事就這樣成了。
12) And the earth brought forth grass, herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed # was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that good.
於是地發生了青草和結種子的菜蔬,各從其類;並結果子的樹木,各從其類;果子都包著核。神看著是好的。
13) And the evening and the morning were the third day.
有晚上,有早晨,是第三日。
14) And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
神說:「天上要有光體,可以分晝夜,作記號,定節令、日子、年歲,
15) And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
並要發光在天空,普照在地上。」事就這樣成了。
16) And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: the stars also.
於是神造了兩個大光,大的管晝,小的管夜,又造眾星,
17) And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
就把這些光擺列在天空,普照在地上,
18) And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that good.
管理晝夜,分別明暗。神看著是好的。
19) And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
有晚上,有早晨,是第四日。
20) And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
神說:「水要多多滋生有生命的物;要有雀鳥飛在地面以上,天空之中。」
21) And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that good.
神就造出大魚和水中所滋生各樣有生命的動物,各從其類;又造出各樣飛鳥,各從其類。神看著是好的。
22) And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
神就賜福給這一切,說:「滋生繁多,充滿海中的水;雀鳥也要多生在地上。」
23) And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
有晚上,有早晨,是第五日。
24) And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
神說:「地要生出活物來,各從其類;牲畜、昆蟲、野獸,各從其類。」事就這樣成了。
25) And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that good.
於是神造出野獸,各從其類;牲畜,各從其類;地上一切昆蟲,各從其類。神看著是好的。
26) And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:
神說:「我們要照著我們的形像、按著我們的樣式造人,
Genesis (創世記) 2 : 7
And the LORD God formed man the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
耶和華 神用地上的塵土造人,將生氣吹在他鼻孔裡,他就成了有靈的活人,
Genesis (創世記) 1 : 26 - 31
26) And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
使他們管理海裡的魚、空中的鳥、地上的牲畜,和全地,並地上所爬的一切昆蟲。」
27) So God created man in his image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
神就照著自己的形像造人,乃是照著他的形像造男造女。
28) And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
神就賜福給他們,又對他們說:「要生養眾多,遍滿地面,治理這地,也要管理海裡的魚、空中的鳥,和地上各樣行動的活物。」
29) And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
神說:「看哪,我將遍地上一切結種子的菜蔬和一切樹上所結有核的果子全賜給你們作食物。
30) And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein life, every green herb for meat: and it was so.
至於地上的走獸和空中的飛鳥,並各樣爬在地上有生命的物,我將青草賜給他們作食物。」事就這樣成了。
31) And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
神看著一切所造的都甚好。有晚上,有早晨,是第六日。
Genesis (創世記) 2 : 1 - 3
1) Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
天地萬物都造齊了。
2) And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
到第七日,神造物的工已經完畢,就在第七日歇了他一切的工,安息了。
3) And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
神賜福給第七日,定為聖日;因為在這日,神歇了他一切創造的工,就安息了。
Exodus (出埃及記) 20 : 8 - 11
😎 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
「當記念安息日,守為聖日。
9) Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
六日要勞碌做你一切的工,
10) But the seventh day the sabbath of the LORD thy God: thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that within thy gates:
但第七日是向耶和華你神當守的安息日。這一日你和你的兒女、僕婢、牲畜,並你城裡寄居的客旅,無論何工都不可做;
11) For six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them , and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
因為六日之內,耶和華造天、地、海,和其中的萬物,第七日便安息,所以耶和華賜福與安息日,定為聖日。
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The Four Living Creatures: Portraits of Jesus Christ
“Before the throne was something like a sea of glass, similar to crystal. In the middle of the throne, and around the throne were four living creatures full of eyes before and behind. The first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face like a man, and the fourth was like a flying eagle. The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within. They have no rest day and night, saying, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come!”” (Revelation 4:6-8 WEB)
The four living creatures before God’s throne were probably created to reflect the four aspects of Jesus Christ.
Lion: Jesus as the King
Calf: Jesus as the Young, Industrious Servant
Man: Jesus as the Perfect Son of Man
Flying Eagle: Jesus as God who came from Above (Heaven)
The living creatures of full of eyes around and within, representing Jesus’ omniscience (all-seeing, all-knowing).
Their six wings represent Jesus’ might and ability to protect those who take shelter in Him.
These living creatures worship God the Father without resting day or night, not because they are forced to, but because they want to. God’s presence inspires reverential, worshipful awe.
Our Lord Jesus also intercedes on our behalf day and night without any rest because He never gets tired, and His heart is to save and deliver as many people as He can.
Later on in the Book of Revelation, we see the four living creatures showing the four horsemen of the Apocalypse to John, using the words “Come and see!”
“I saw that the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying, as with a voice of thunder, “Come and see!”” (Revelation 6:1 WEB)
Today in the world, it will be obvious to a discerning believer that the four horsemen are the spiritual culprits behind the evil things going on.
The pandemic situation, financial turmoil, wars and rumors of wars, as well as false religions and demonic doctrines. These are the works of the four horsemen.
The world is ignorant about this, trying to diagnose natural reasons for the problems, placing blame on each other, but the root of the problems is a spiritual one.
But each living creature exposes the activity of each horseman, and leaves them vulnerable in the light.
In other words, whenever we receive a revelation about each of the four aspects of Jesus, we will experience God exposing the activity of the corresponding horseman in our lives, and the deliverance from it.
Do you want to be protected from sickness, death, financial ruin, wars, strife, and false doctrines? Keep beholding Jesus in His four aspects.
The best places to do this is in the Four Gospels. Each of the Four Gospels corresponds with an aspect of Jesus:
Matthew: Jesus as the King
Mark: Jesus as the Young, Industrious Servant
Luke: Jesus as the Perfect Son of Man
John: Jesus as God who came from Heaven above.
When you receive revelations of Jesus, you experience deliverance from evil. Beholding Him transforms you.
His omniscience is in your favor, His might is used to protect you, and you benefit from His unending intercession before Abba God.
Everything the four living creatures represent, Jesus is, and exceeds!
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