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Is it investment legal or 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:00.560 types of boks? 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:01.200 Hi? 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:04.000 This is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to our 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:07.319 podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you enjoy 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:09.960 today's message, why don't you be a blessing and share 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:12.480 it with a friend. We appreciate you and pray for 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:26.520 God's very best in your life. Oh God bless you. 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:29.480 It is always a joy to come into your homes. 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:32.280 We come with good news. We know God loves you. 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:35.119 He's on your side. If you're ever in our area, 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:37.400 I hope you'll stop by and see us. We'd love 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:39.560 to have you be a part of one of our services. 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:42.600 So thanks for tuning in today, but stop by whenever 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:45.240 you can. I'd like to start with something funny. Each 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:49.120 week I heard about this groom during the wedding rehearsal. 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:51.760 He said to the pastor, I'll make a deal with you. 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:55.280 If you'll change my wedding vows and leave out all 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:58.000 the love, honor and obey stuff, I'll give you a 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:01.720 hundred dollars. He pressed on hun dollars into the minister's hands, 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:04.800 and he walked away with a smile. The next day, 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:08.440 During the ceremony, the minister said, do you promise to 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:11.679 bow down before your wife to take her breakfast in 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:15.520 bed every day to fulfill her every wish? He gulped 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:18.359 in astonishment. Finally, in a weak voice, he said I do. 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:20.840 Then he leaned forward and said, hey, I thought we 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:23.760 had a deal. The minister handed him his money back 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:26.440 and said, your wife made me a much better offer. 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:32.040 All right, hold up your bible. Say it like you 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:35.440 mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:38.040 says I am. I have what it says I have. 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:41.400 I can do what it says I can do. Today 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:45.040 I will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess. 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:49.359 My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:53.280 never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:57.040 I want to talk to you today about divine protection 0:02:57.520 --> 0:03:00.760 and not living in fear. We hear so much about 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:04.200 the terror threats and violence in our schools and how 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:07.079 our cities are becoming less safe. If you watch the 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:13.359 news very long, you'll see all kinds of troubling things shootings, accidents, kidnappings, 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:17.040 And it's so easy to go around in fear rather 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:21.000 than faith, worried about our children, worried about driving on 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:25.239 the freeways, worried about our protection. One reason we worry, 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:28.600 one reason we give into fear, is we have forgotten 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:32.240 that we are not alone. The moment you were born, 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:35.720 God assigned an angel to watch over you. He has 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:39.720 signed one of his powerful warriors to guard you, to 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:43.800 protect you, to defend you. You have a secret agent 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:46.880 with you wherever you go. That's what it says in 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:50.680 Psalm ninety one. If we dwell in the secret place 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:53.880 of the Most High, then we can rest under the 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:57.720 shadow of the Almighty. That means if we keep God 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:01.720 first place, if we do ours to please him, then 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:06.280 we will always have his supernatural protection. Verse eleven goes 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:09.920 on to say he will command his angels to watch 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:14.480 over us. One translation says to a company to preserve 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:18.080 and to defend in all of our ways. We are 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:22.800 not alone. We have angels around us everywhere we go. Well, 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:27.240 what angels do? They are called messengers of God. All 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:30.720 through the Bible, we see how an angel appeared and 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:34.400 gave a person wisdom, gave them instruction, told them what 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:37.880 to do. We see how they delivered people from danger, 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:43.160 closed the mouths of lions, opened up prison doors. Angels 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:46.520 are the ones that carry out God's commands. In the 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:50.200 Book of Daniel, it says when he prayed, God immediately 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:54.400 dispatched the angel with the answer to his prayer. And 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:57.760 if we could see into the unseen realm, we'd see 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:02.920 all these powerful war angels at work on our behalf. 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:06.760 I'm convinced if we really understood what was going on 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:09.720 around us, we'd have a lot more peace. We wouldn't 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:12.880 worry so much. A lot of times in pictures we 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:17.800 see angels as these little, chubby, dainty creatures floating through 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:21.320 the air, little wings playing the heart. But really that's 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:24.479 not what the angels look like. If you study the scriptures, 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:30.920 it describes them as incredibly strong, powerful warriors. In fact, 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:33.800 almost every time they appeared to someone in the Bible, 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:37.320 first thing they said was hey, don't be afraid. They 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:40.360 had to calm the person down. It's because they are 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:45.520 an intimidating sight. They are majestic looking, clothed in armor. 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:48.479 They got their sword drawn, they got their shield. They 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:53.320 are constantly on guard, carrying out God's commands. You think 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:57.120 about a president, a world leader. They have the secret service. 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:00.719 They're like hawks. They watch him everyone where he goes, 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:04.880 everything he does, They're constantly making sure that he's okay. 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:08.840 He's got the Secret Service protecting him, But you and 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:14.839 I have secret agents assigned by Almighty God. These angels 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:18.840 not only do they protect and defend, but they are 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:23.520 here to assist us as well. Sometimes angels can appear 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:26.240 and we don't realize it. They can show up in 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:29.120 the form of a person. I heard one man say, 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:32.320 I'm married to an angel. She's always up in the 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:37.560 air about something. The scripture tells us we can entertain 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:41.279 angels without even realizing it. In other words, they can 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:45.640 look just like another person. Now I'm convinced we've gotten 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:48.600 breaks before. People have gone out of their way to 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:51.360 help us. Things have changed in our favor. We didn't 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:54.720 even realize it was the angel of the Lord. I 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:59.280 heard a fascinating story about a well respected neurologist. This 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:02.479 was years and one night, after a long day at 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:05.080 the office, he had gone to bed. A few minutes 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:07.760 there was a knock on his door. He opened it 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:11.400 and there was a small girl. She was upset and crying, 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:14.840 and she told how her mother was very ill and 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:18.440 desperately needed his help. And although it was a cold, 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:22.040 snowy night. He was very tired. He couldn't turn her down. 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:25.600 He followed the young lady home. He discovered that her 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:29.320 mother had a serious case of pneumonia. He made arrangements 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:31.720 to get her to the hospital and have her treated. 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:35.520 As the mother was leaving, he complimented her on her 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:40.080 daughter's intelligence, her daughter's determination, and the lady looked at 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:43.000 him very strangely and said, what are you talking about. 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:47.280 My daughter passed away over a month ago. The doctor 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:51.200 was totally confused. The lady added, you can check the closet, 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:54.720 her shoes, her coat, It's still in there. The doctor 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:57.800 opened the closet up and he found the exact pair 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:01.080 of shoes, the exact coat the little girl had been wearing. 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:04.600 Not only that, it was perfectly dry, didn't have any snow, 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:08.240 any rain. Well, what was that? I believe that could 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:11.160 have been the angel of the Lord dressed as her daughter. 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:15.240 That was God dispatching an angel to take care of 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:18.960 one of his children. God is watching over you. He 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:22.400 has commanded his angels to take care of you, to 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:26.240 guard you, to assist you. How many times have things 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:28.880 gone our way? We didn't even realize it was the 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:31.440 hand of God. It was the angel of the Lord. 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:34.880 In the early nineteen nineties, Victoria and I were building 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:38.559 a home. We were contracting it ourselves. We didn't have 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:41.520 a builder, so we were totally responsible. We'd go by 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:45.040 and check on it real often. One Sunday afternoon, around five, 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:48.240 we decided to run by. In driving down the street, 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:51.679 we could see smoke coming from the house. Men. We 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:54.559 were alarmed and we pulled in there quickly, and we 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:58.640 saw our neighbor inside putting out a fire. Evidently an 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:01.559 extension cord had shorted out and caught fire, and the 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:05.000 house was in the framing stage. All that lumber, you 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:08.079 can imagine how quickly it would have burned up. And 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:10.720 we didn't know our neighbor very well, but we asked 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:13.760 him what happened. He said he was at home and 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:16.079 a man knocked on the door and said there's a 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:18.880 fire next door. He ran over to put it out, 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:21.719 but he said when I went back to talk to him, 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:23.760 I went back to thank him, just a minute or 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:27.000 two later, he was nowhere to be found. He said, 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:29.720 it was the strangest thing. He was here one moment 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:32.920 and gone the next, And I know that could have 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:35.880 been just somebody driving down the road that God caused 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:37.600 to be at the right place at the right time. 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:41.199 But it also could have been the angel of the 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:44.400 Lord keeping us from a whole lot of heartache and pain. 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:49.400 My point is today is that God is watching over you. 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:54.080 Don't live in fear. Don't go around worried about your children, 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:58.640 worried about your safety. Be wise, use common sense, and 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:02.400 then just believe. When you drive to work, Father, thank 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:05.280 you that your angels are going before me, making the 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:08.920 crooked places straight. Father, thank you that your angels are 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:13.280 protecting my children at school today, learn to stay in faith, 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:17.160 not in fear. When we get afraid and we start worrying, 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:21.960 start complaining. All this does is limit God from really working. 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:25.320 And this is why many people are not seeing God's 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:28.920 blessings in favor and even God's protection like they should. 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:33.839 The scripture says the angels hearken unto the voice of 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:38.640 the Lord. That means they respond to God's word. And 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:41.320 when you go around saying Father, thank you that your 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:46.119 angels are protecting me, you just gave those angels permission 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:49.679 to defend you. And I know growing up, we never 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:52.640 left the house without my mother praying Psalm ninety one 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:55.640 over us, Father, thank you that your angels are watching 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:59.040 over my children. Every morning before we went to school, 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:04.360 even said, Father, thank you that my children will never 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:08.319 break a bone. And do you know she raised five children. 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:11.280 We were all very active. We all played sports, and 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:16.920 only my brother Paul, just kidding, not one of us, 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:20.480 even to this day have we ever broken a bone 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:23.079 in our body. And I believe it was in part 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:27.160 because my mother got her words lined up with God's word. 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:31.120 That's when God dispatches the angels to bring it to pass. 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:36.319 No telling how many times I was playing football or 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:40.120 playing baseball and my angel moved somebody out of the way, 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:43.520 Thank God, especially if they were bigger than me. My 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:47.440 angel softened a hard fall, kept me from getting hurt. 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:50.319 That's what happens when we believe. Remember one time, when 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:52.520 I was nine or ten years old, I fell down 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:55.680 real hard playing football, and I bent my little finger 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:57.160 over right here at the knuckle. 0:11:57.280 --> 0:11:58.240 It was going just like that. 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:00.319 Now I got up and looked at it. Taught me 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:03.000 and that's weird. Now I took this hen in a 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:06.440 puppet right back into place. I never missed a beat, 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:10.000 went right back on playing, never broken a bone, but 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:13.839 my finger is a little crooked. The scripture says, the 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:17.880 Angel of the Lord camps round about those that fear him. 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:20.520 We need to get in a habit of thanking God 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:23.840 every day for his protection. When you send your children 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:28.040 to school tomorrow. In your imagination, just picture these huge, 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:32.240 powerful warriors standing right beside them, going with them everywhere 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:35.960 they go. When you go to bed at night, Father, 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:38.800 thank you that your angels are watching over us while 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:42.200 we sleep. That'll help you to rest in peace. Even 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:45.920 driving on the freeway, just like the President has those 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:49.839 F sixteen fighter jets wherever he goes, Just picture a 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:54.400 couple of huge angels going before you, guarding you, slowing 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:57.400 down another car, moving you a little here, moving you there, 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:00.199 keeping you safe and sound. Some of you by the 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:02.640 way you drive, your angels having to work over time. 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:07.079 It's like that minister I told you about. He was 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:10.360 driving down the road and he looked down. He veered off, 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:13.200 went through a ditch and crashed into a telephone pole. 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:15.360 The man behind him pulled over and ran up to 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:17.959 him and said, sir, you okay. The minister said, yes, 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:20.400 I'm fine. The Angel of the Lord is with me. 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:22.920 The man shook his head and said, you better let 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:26.719 him ride with me. You're about to kill him, but 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:31.000 learn to thank God for his protection. I remember my 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:34.720 little sister April, when she first got her driver's license. 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:37.640 She was stopped at a stop sign and there was 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:40.679 a big truck next tour. They were on the feeder road. 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:43.280 They were both going this way and they were waiting 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:45.640 for the cars to clear out. They had to ride away, 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:49.240 and this truck next tour pulled forward, and when he did, 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:51.080 April thought, well, if he's going, I can go because 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:53.720 he's kind of blocking me. The problem is the truck 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:56.720 slammed on its brakes. He didn't see a big dump 0:13:56.840 --> 0:14:00.120 truck coming. Well, April didn't have time to stop. She 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:03.160 kept going and that dump truck hit her little car 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:07.400 right behind the driver's seat and smashed it to pieces. 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:10.679 Had she been a split second later, it would have 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:13.360 crushed her as well. Another foot or two and she 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:17.439 probably wouldn't be here today. I know that wasn't a coincidence. 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:21.320 That was the Angel of the Lord guarding her, protecting her, 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:24.560 rescuing her. Well, you say, Joel, if that was an angel, 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:28.080 why didn't he stop the dump truck altogether. Why didn't 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:30.960 he keep the accident from happening at all. Now, God 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:35.040 is not going to deliver us from every adversity. I'm 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:37.160 not saying we're going to have a trouble free life 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:40.600 and never have anything to deal with. But I am saying, 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:43.520 if you will stay in faith, God will put a 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:47.240 shield around you. He'll put a hedge of protection, and 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:50.280 he'll make sure you don't leave this earth. He'll make 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:53.040 sure you don't go home until it's your time to 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:56.600 go home. And I know people that have gone to 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:58.720 be with the Lord sooner than I would have liked. 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:01.120 You probably know pe people that have been taken away 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:04.600 in accidents. But I still believe this God is in 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:07.560 complete control, and if he wants you to be here, 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:10.440 you're going to be here. If your time is not up, 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:14.320 all the forces of darkness cannot take you away. Stay 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:18.680 in faith, stay in courage. Thank God every day that 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:21.240 he has you in the palm of his hand. Thank 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:24.320 him every day that no weapon formed against you will 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:28.040 ever prosper. Thank Him that those angels are guarding and 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:32.320 protecting you and your family. See, when you belong to Christ, 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:36.520 there is a bloodline that the enemy cannot cross. In 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:39.720 the Old Testament, they put the blood over the doorpost. 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:42.360 The death angel had to pass on by. He had 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:45.920 no power. But today, when you put the blood over 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:49.520 you and your family, the forces of darkness have no 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:53.040 power over you. Those that are for you are greater 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:56.440 than those that are against you. One angel in the 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:59.360 Old Testament killed one hundred and eighty five thousand of 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:02.680 the enemies God. Now all over this building, right now, 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:08.720 there are thousands of these powerful angelic beings guarding, protecting, 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:12.400 assisting you and I Why don't you get your peace back? 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:15.480 Why don't you quit worrying about your future and worrying 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:19.560 about your children. God has commanded his angels to watch 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:23.920 over you. In Hebrews one fourteen, it says that angels 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:28.320 are ministering spirits. That simply means they're here to assist us, 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:31.960 to help us, even in small things. I remember my 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:35.160 grandmother told how one day she was carrying a couple 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:38.840 bags of groceries into her house. She was older in life, 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:41.440 not quite as strong as she used to be, and 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:44.200 she couldn't get the back door opened. It was a 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:47.320 screen door with one of those automatic closures, and she 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:50.760 was struggling and struggling trying not to drop the groceries, 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:53.760 and finally she got her elbow in the door and 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:56.440 had it opened maybe three or four inches, And she said, 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:59.520 all of a sudden, the door opened up on its own. 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:02.520 She thought one of her neighbors had come up behind 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:04.800 her and opened it for her. So she went to 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:08.320 the kitchen table, quickly set the groceries down, and came 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:10.960 right back out to thank that person. Not ten or 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:14.399 fifteen seconds later, she told my father John, it was 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:17.439 the strangest thing. I looked up and down the street. 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:21.919 Nobody was around, But I'm telling you that door opened 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:24.920 up on its own, and I realized that could have 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:28.440 been a coincidence. It could have been something odd with 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:32.280 the closing mechanism up top. But I'm also bold enough 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:34.960 to believe it could have been the angel of the 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:41.000 Lord assisting her. God is concerned about smaller things. Well, Joel, 0:17:41.080 --> 0:17:43.440 that was just a coincidence. I'm sure the wind just 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:46.040 caught the door just right. Well, it may have been, 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:49.520 but I like what somebody said. I never had any 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:53.720 coincidences until I started believing. In other words, if you'll 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:56.280 be a believer and not a doubter, you'll have a 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:59.680 whole lot more quote coincidences. Now, I don't know about you, 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:03.000 but I will believe God's watching over me. I will 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:06.480 believe God is guarding me. I will believe that he's 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:11.359 protecting me, that he's assisting me. That's what the angels 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:14.200 have been a sign to do. And of course we 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:18.399 don't pray to angels. We certainly don't worship angels. They 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:21.879 are simply messengers to carry out God's will. We should 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:25.399 always give all praise and glory to God alone. But 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:29.560 angels hearken to the voice of the Lord. That means 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:33.680 they listen and obey what God says. When you're in 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:37.879 a tough situation, learn to speak God's word. When you 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:42.119 speak his word, you activate those angels. That's what they 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:46.159 respond to. Maybe you're about to make a big presentation 0:18:46.560 --> 0:18:50.159 to some clients at the office. You need God's favor. Well, 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:53.080 don't go around saying I'm so nervous. These people are 0:18:53.119 --> 0:18:55.120 probably not going to like me. I'm not a very 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:58.280 good speaker. No, when you need God's favor, just learn 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:01.280 to say, Father, you promise that you would surround me 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:04.360 with favor like a shield. You said, no good thing, 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:07.120 would you withhold. When I walk up rightly. You said 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:09.920 I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me. 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:12.840 So I thank you right now that you are opening 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:15.920 up doors that no man can shut. When you do that, 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:20.440 the angels go to work. They respond to God's word. 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:23.480 When you speak it, it's just like God speaking it 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:27.960 sending your children to school. You want to activate those angels. Father, 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:31.440 you promised when we stayed under the shadow of the Almighty, 0:19:31.920 --> 0:19:34.440 we wouldn't even dash our foot against a stone. So 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:38.280 I thank you for protecting my children today. That activates 0:19:38.359 --> 0:19:41.520 the angels. That's what they respond to. God's word. This 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:44.719 is why it's so important to not go around speaking 0:19:44.880 --> 0:19:48.679 negative things over you and your family. You can cancel 0:19:48.760 --> 0:19:51.640 out what God's trying to do. Well, Joel, I never 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:54.080 get any good breaks. And I had a friend that 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:56.399 prayed for protection. He got run over by a truck. 0:19:56.960 --> 0:20:00.560 Just my luck, it'll probably happen to me. Change what 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:05.560 you're saying, your negative thing. Do you realize the angels 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:08.480 are listening to you. When they hear that kind of talk, 0:20:08.640 --> 0:20:11.240 they go sit in there, lazy boy, they go take 0:20:11.280 --> 0:20:15.480 a break. The only thing they respond to is God's word. 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:18.280 That's why all through the day. We should be saying, Father, 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:21.400 thank you that you are a shield unto me. Thank 0:20:21.480 --> 0:20:24.480 you that you are fighting my battles for me. Thank 0:20:24.520 --> 0:20:26.879 you that I am blessed and I cannot be cursed. 0:20:26.920 --> 0:20:30.280 I'm above only I'll never be beneath. You talk like that, 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:34.160 and the angels perk up. It gets their attention. They say, Hey, 0:20:34.600 --> 0:20:37.720 do you hear God's word. We've been commanded to protect, 0:20:38.200 --> 0:20:41.760 to assist, to rescue. Let's go to work. See God's 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:45.720 word coming out of our mouth releases supernatural power. Don't 0:20:45.760 --> 0:20:48.320 fall into that old trap. Well, I'm so concerned about 0:20:48.359 --> 0:20:51.200 my children, so much going on at school. I just 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:54.080 hope they don't fall into the wrong crowd. Now, when 0:20:54.080 --> 0:20:56.760 you do that, you're activating the negative. The way to 0:20:56.800 --> 0:21:00.680 activate God's power is to say, God, I declar as 0:21:00.760 --> 0:21:02.760 for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. 0:21:03.359 --> 0:21:05.640 You said the seed of the righteous would be mighty 0:21:05.720 --> 0:21:07.959 on the earth. So I thank you that my children 0:21:08.000 --> 0:21:11.200 are blessed. I think that they'll choose good friends and 0:21:11.320 --> 0:21:14.639 that they will fulfill their destiny. When you talk like that, 0:21:14.880 --> 0:21:18.720 the angels go to work. That activates God's power. I 0:21:18.800 --> 0:21:21.000 can imagine God saying to them, do you hear what 0:21:21.080 --> 0:21:24.240 they're saying, make sure their child doesn't run with the 0:21:24.320 --> 0:21:27.040 wrong crowd. I've got to back up my word. So 0:21:27.200 --> 0:21:30.640 those angels go to work guarding your child. A bad 0:21:30.760 --> 0:21:33.760 influence is coming down the hallway at school, the angel says, hey, 0:21:33.840 --> 0:21:36.320 let's move him over here, speed him up here, slow 0:21:36.400 --> 0:21:41.520 him down over there, constantly at work guarding, protecting, assisting. Now, 0:21:41.560 --> 0:21:45.120 I believe one of the reasons we don't see more 0:21:45.240 --> 0:21:48.640 of this is we're talking the wrong way. Well, Joel, 0:21:48.680 --> 0:21:50.800 I got some loved ones over in Iraq. It's so 0:21:51.119 --> 0:21:54.080 dangerous over there. I'm just so worried they're not gonna 0:21:54.080 --> 0:21:56.280 make it back home. Now, you got to quit talking 0:21:56.440 --> 0:21:59.679 like that, Quit thinking like that. When you're tempted to worry, 0:22:00.040 --> 0:22:02.560 when you're tempted to be negative, learn to just turn 0:22:02.640 --> 0:22:05.720 it around. Father, thank you that you have my loved 0:22:05.760 --> 0:22:08.400 one in the palm of your hand, and you said 0:22:08.840 --> 0:22:11.720 no man can snatch him away. You said you would 0:22:11.760 --> 0:22:15.720 be our shield, our fortress, our tower of safety. You 0:22:15.920 --> 0:22:19.720 said the number of our days you would fulfill. So, Father, 0:22:20.200 --> 0:22:23.639 my trust, my confidence, my hope, it's in you, the 0:22:23.800 --> 0:22:26.520 true and the Living God. When you do that, the 0:22:26.640 --> 0:22:28.840 angels go to work, and I want you to have 0:22:28.920 --> 0:22:31.600 a greater peace today. I want you to quit worrying 0:22:31.640 --> 0:22:35.000 about everything and just learn to relax and really enjoy 0:22:35.119 --> 0:22:38.359 your life. I had a mother tell me last week, Joel, 0:22:38.400 --> 0:22:41.240 I'm almost too afraid to send my children to school. 0:22:41.840 --> 0:22:44.359 But we have to get out of that fearful mindset. 0:22:44.800 --> 0:22:49.040 God is in control, His angels are watching over your children. 0:22:49.520 --> 0:22:52.119 And it's good to use common sense. It's good to 0:22:52.200 --> 0:22:54.680 do what you can, but at some point we have 0:22:54.840 --> 0:22:57.600 to trust God to do what we can, and our 0:22:57.640 --> 0:23:01.600 attitude should be God, my life is in your hands now. 0:23:01.600 --> 0:23:04.560 I believe, because I'm under the shadow of the Almighty, 0:23:04.920 --> 0:23:08.359 that you are protecting and guarding our family everywhere we 0:23:08.480 --> 0:23:11.760 go today. That's all we can do, commit our lives 0:23:11.880 --> 0:23:14.840 into God's hands, and then go out in faith, knowing 0:23:14.920 --> 0:23:17.480 that God is in control, knowing that He will do 0:23:18.080 --> 0:23:21.119 what we can't do. I heard a story about a 0:23:21.200 --> 0:23:24.920 young lady late at night. She was leaving class and 0:23:25.040 --> 0:23:28.360 walking through the parking lot to her car. Was very 0:23:28.480 --> 0:23:31.439 dark and not many people around, and all of a sudden, 0:23:31.840 --> 0:23:35.000 these three men stepped out. They had been hiding behind 0:23:35.080 --> 0:23:38.000 some cars. They were about forty or fifty feet away, 0:23:38.440 --> 0:23:41.560 and her heart just froze. She didn't know what to do. 0:23:41.760 --> 0:23:44.240 She wanted to turn and run, but she knew she 0:23:44.320 --> 0:23:46.720 didn't have a chance, and so she just stood there 0:23:47.160 --> 0:23:51.080 and prayed underneath her breath. The men continued coming toward her, 0:23:51.640 --> 0:23:54.720 and even though in the natural she was afraid, she 0:23:54.920 --> 0:23:58.119 told how deep down on the inside she had this 0:23:58.359 --> 0:24:02.560 overwhelming peace. Something kept telling her everything is going to 0:24:02.600 --> 0:24:05.639 be okay. And when those men got just ten or 0:24:05.720 --> 0:24:10.280 fifteen feet away, suddenly they stopped. Their eyes got real 0:24:10.400 --> 0:24:14.320 big terror came across their face. They started backing up 0:24:14.520 --> 0:24:18.280 very slowly, very carefully. Finally they turned around and took 0:24:18.359 --> 0:24:22.080 off running. She knew that God had supernaturally protected her, 0:24:22.520 --> 0:24:25.080 but she didn't really know what had happened. In a 0:24:25.160 --> 0:24:27.879 few days, they caught one of those men and he 0:24:28.000 --> 0:24:30.479 admitted that they were going to harm her, they were 0:24:30.520 --> 0:24:33.119 going to assault her. But when they got up close 0:24:33.200 --> 0:24:38.320 to her, he said, this huge warrior appeared. I'll never forget. 0:24:38.440 --> 0:24:41.560 He used the word warrior, and he went on to 0:24:41.680 --> 0:24:45.960 describe it. He said it stood over ten feet tall, 0:24:46.480 --> 0:24:49.520 and he talked about its physique and how its arms 0:24:49.600 --> 0:24:53.120 and legs and chests were rippling with muscles, and how 0:24:53.160 --> 0:24:56.320 its face was radiating with so much light you could 0:24:56.359 --> 0:24:59.359 hardly even look at it. He described how its sword 0:24:59.560 --> 0:25:02.320 was drawn looked to be over six feet in length. 0:25:02.680 --> 0:25:05.119 He had a sword here, a shield here, And he 0:25:05.280 --> 0:25:08.239 was standing right over that young lady. She only came 0:25:08.320 --> 0:25:10.600 up to his waist. But it was like the angel 0:25:10.720 --> 0:25:13.800 was saying, come on, make my day. I dare you 0:25:13.920 --> 0:25:17.040 to touch her. I dare you to lay a finger 0:25:17.119 --> 0:25:21.680 on her. Friends, you are not alone. You too have 0:25:21.840 --> 0:25:27.320 these powerful warring angels surrounding you everywhere you go. And 0:25:27.440 --> 0:25:30.000 in our times of danger, when we don't know what 0:25:30.240 --> 0:25:33.000 to do, we can stay in peace, knowing that we 0:25:33.119 --> 0:25:37.040 have God's supernatural protection. About a month ago, there was 0:25:37.080 --> 0:25:40.320 a story on the news about a teenage girl. She 0:25:40.440 --> 0:25:43.119 had driven her car into some high water on a 0:25:43.200 --> 0:25:45.880 flooded street. It was during one of the real bad 0:25:46.040 --> 0:25:49.320 rains in another city, and she ended up stranded in 0:25:49.400 --> 0:25:52.159 the car and the water was rising so fast in 0:25:52.320 --> 0:25:54.159 just a few minutes, it was at the top of 0:25:54.280 --> 0:25:57.119 her hood. Now she couldn't open the door, the pressure 0:25:57.200 --> 0:25:59.840 was too much. She had not rolled the windows down 0:26:00.320 --> 0:26:02.920 they were electric. Now she couldn't get them down. And 0:26:03.040 --> 0:26:05.159 on top of this, she didn't know how to swim. 0:26:05.760 --> 0:26:08.080 It was heartbreaking to watch. They were showing it on 0:26:08.160 --> 0:26:10.840 the news. And this one man swam out there and 0:26:11.119 --> 0:26:13.400 he did his best. He tried and tried to break 0:26:13.480 --> 0:26:16.720 that window open, struggled and struggled, but the current was 0:26:16.800 --> 0:26:19.240 just too strong. He couldn't do it. And the car 0:26:19.480 --> 0:26:22.560 was just slowly floating down the road. And in just 0:26:22.960 --> 0:26:26.200 a few seconds, it seemed like slow motion, the front 0:26:26.359 --> 0:26:29.400 of the car tilted forward and then the whole thing 0:26:29.480 --> 0:26:32.119 went underwater, and my heart sunk. I thought, man, this 0:26:32.280 --> 0:26:35.040 young lady is not going to make it. About that time, 0:26:35.280 --> 0:26:38.440 another man jumped in the water and swam over there 0:26:38.640 --> 0:26:42.480 like he was superman. Somehow he found the car underwater 0:26:42.640 --> 0:26:45.560 and he went to work. Ten or fifteen seconds later, 0:26:45.760 --> 0:26:48.680 you could see the young girl's arm coming up out 0:26:48.720 --> 0:26:51.639 of the water, and I thought to myself, being the 0:26:51.720 --> 0:26:54.399 great man of faith that I am, how in the 0:26:54.520 --> 0:26:58.200 world did he get that window open? It a few 0:26:58.280 --> 0:27:01.719 seconds later he pulled her whole body out, helped her 0:27:01.760 --> 0:27:04.840 to the shore, and she was perfectly fine, walked off 0:27:04.960 --> 0:27:08.000 on her own two feet. And if that wasn't amazing enough. 0:27:08.320 --> 0:27:10.960 A few minutes later, a wrecker pulled the car out 0:27:11.000 --> 0:27:14.360 of the water, and much to their surprise, they discover 0:27:14.920 --> 0:27:17.960 that the window was not rolled down, none of the 0:27:18.080 --> 0:27:21.080 other windows were broken, the doors had not been open. 0:27:21.440 --> 0:27:24.200 The newscaster was sitting there dumbfounded. He said, I don't 0:27:24.240 --> 0:27:26.560 know you figure that one out. I can tell you 0:27:26.640 --> 0:27:28.720 what it was. It was the angel of the Lord 0:27:28.920 --> 0:27:34.520 rescuing her, guarding her, protecting her. If God warns you out, 0:27:35.000 --> 0:27:37.359 he will get you out. He doesn't have to have 0:27:37.480 --> 0:27:40.320 an open window. He can part a red sea, he 0:27:40.359 --> 0:27:42.879 can close the mouths of lines. He'll be with you 0:27:43.000 --> 0:27:47.320 in that fiery furnace. Friends, those that are for us 0:27:47.640 --> 0:27:50.399 are greater than those that are against us. When the 0:27:50.560 --> 0:27:52.760 enemy comes in like a flood, God will raise up 0:27:52.760 --> 0:27:55.520 a barrier. Now, I want your faith to be started. 0:27:55.560 --> 0:27:58.920 You are not alone. You've got these powerful warriors all 0:27:59.000 --> 0:28:03.000 around you. Don't live in fear. Don't activate the negative 0:28:03.080 --> 0:28:07.359 by speaking negative, thinking negative. Activate those angels by speaking 0:28:07.400 --> 0:28:10.280 God's word. Thank him every day that he's got you 0:28:10.400 --> 0:28:12.680 in the palm of his hand. Thank him that he 0:28:12.760 --> 0:28:15.760 is watching over you and your children. If you do this, 0:28:16.280 --> 0:28:18.879 God promises you won't even dash your foot against the 0:28:18.960 --> 0:28:22.640 stone because you're under the shadow of the Almighty. You'll 0:28:22.680 --> 0:28:25.800 have his supernatural protection. His angels will watch over you, 0:28:26.000 --> 0:28:28.320 and I know you'll live the life of victory. God 0:28:28.400 --> 0:28:30.639 has in story. 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