Quotes

God is all-powerful and all-knowing. He is more powerful and way more wiser than all your enemies combined. There is absolutely nothing that happens in the entire universe that is beyond the control of God. The same power that controls the universe also sustains your life. There is nothing that the devil can do in this world and in your life without God's approval.

Therefore, accept anything that happens to you as coming directly from the hand of God, and realize that it is for a divine purpose. Know and understand that when God chooses not to stop the evil plans of the enemy, He has plans to turn the evil plans to His glory or to your advantage.

You can be sure that whatever you are going through right now has been allowed by God for His glory and for your eventual good, and to fulfill divine plans and purposes for the greater good of the Kingdom of God. God is too wise to allow His children to experience pointless pain or face trivial trials.

God has a purpose for your pain, and He sees a triumphant story in your trials. Embrace what God is doing in your life, knowing that He never makes a mistake and His grace is sufficient in your circumstances.

Let your prayer be, "Lord I may not understand why I am going through what I am going through, but I choose to trust you anyway. Have your way in my life and let your will be done. Amen!"

"In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths." (Proverbs 3:6)

God will never let you face anything that doesn’t glorify His name, advance His Kingdom or benefit you eventually.

It Doesn't Really Matter What People Think About You: Only God knows your full potential.

To Jacob Joseph was just a teenager son with an attitude.

To his brothers Joseph was an excessively ambitious day dreamer.

To the merchants Joseph was profitable merchandise. To Mrs Potiphar Joseph was a handsome slave worthy exploiting.

To the jailers Joseph was just an illegal immigrant with bad criminal record.

But only God knew what Joseph would become. "Any fool can count the seeds in an apple but only God knows all the apples in one seed." Don't count yourself out yet. God is not finished with you. Whatever you're going through right now is preparing you for better days that are coming. People may count you out. Opportunities may seem to bypass you. People may write you off. But trust God and Believe that it's not over until God says it is over. The Lord says "For! am about to do something new. See, i have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. i will create rivers in the dry wasteland.“ (lsaiah 43:19)

You are about to step onto the road when something pulls you back just in time to avoid being hit by a speeding car. You are shocked. When you come to your senses, you ask yourself, “Could it be that an angel just saved me from a fatal accident?”

I believe that angels walk with us. The verse tells us that God has given His angels charge over us to keep us in all our ways. This means that they go ahead of you to protect you from the snares of the enemy.

But we may not know it when we encounter an angel (see Hebrews 13:2).

The Holy Spirit leaves responsibility for wrestling with the spiritua| power of evil to the holy angels. Humans speak and remove the authority of the spiritual powers of evil. The holy angels force them to obey the words spoken in obedience to Jesus.

God tells us that we have an innumerable company of angels (see Hebrews 12:22).

And He has given them charge over us to protect us from accidents and other dangers. So don’t live fearful and limit your life. Believe that God loves you and that His angels walk with you and watch over you!

God created the heavens and the earth. All things on earth are part of His design. Adam and Eve (mankind) were the last and best of God’s new creation.

With His infinite power and creativity, He unleashed an ever-expanding universe that continues to expand even now. He did all of His creative activity (unlike us) with nothing at all to work with. Everything that exists came to be out of nothing, and with only His will, He created everything.

The word “create” signifies the very first creative work of God to bring into existence the bare matter of creation. By this work, God brought into existence all the particles that make up atoms and molecules, the building blocks of all the things in the earthly creation. God made all the 92 elements of the Periodic Table of the Elements, such as, hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, gold, copper, silver.

The Father planned the work of creation, the Son did the work (“all things were made by Him”—John 1:3), and the Spirit energized it (“the Spirit of God moved”). The Triune God created and now sustains our universe!

"God made earth by his power;

He founded the world by his wisdom;

and stretched out the heavens by his understanding"

~ ( Jeremiah 10:12)

" The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands"

~( Psalms 19:1)

" Behold, to the Lord your God belong heaven and the highest heavens, the earth and all that is in it".

~ ( Deuteronomy 10:14)

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" The earth is the Lord’s, and all it contains, The world, and those who dwell in it ".

~ ( Psalms 24:1)

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" In whose hand are the depths of the earth,

The peaks of the mountains are His also.

The sea is His, for it was He who made it,

And His hands formed the dry land".

~ ( Psalm 95:4-5)

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"The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours;

The world and all it contains, You have founded them".

~ ( Psalms 89:11)

WHY JESUS HAD TO DIE?

A particular evil that is a problem form modern people is the cross. They cannot understand why Jesus had to die. Why could God just not forgive those who have sinned, without the need for Jesus to die. Many People and even the so-called Born Again do not understand this mystery.

The shift in authority on earth is also the reason why Jesus had to die on the cross. He might be able to forgive those who have sinned, but he also had to deal with the powers of evil. God had given them a place in his creation, but they had rebelled against him and chosen to work for evil. Human sin gave them authority on earth, and they have played it for all that it is worth.

The powers of evil demand the same penalty for all who have sinned. Because God is just, he must treat all his creatures consistently. He cannot forgive and forget the powers of evil, or they would live on to mess up the future world that God has planned. They have to be destroyed at the end of the age, so their evil is finally ended, but they demand a similar penalty for all who have sinned, especially humans. Satan is the accuser of all humans prosecuting them before God. He points out every sin and demands that because God is just, they must die for their sins.

God could have chosen to ignore the requirements ofjustice, but that would be against his nature, so he came to earth as a man to pay the penalty himself. Jesus handed himself over to the forces of evil to inflict the penalty that they wanted to impose on all sinful humans. His death satisfied their warped form of justice, but it won salvation for everyone who puts their trust in him. God then defeated the plans of evil by raising Jesus from death and lifting him up to his throne in heaven. The accuser was thrown out (Rev 1217-11) and the Lord of Lords took his place.

Jesus died to satisfy God's justice, but he also died to satisfy the powers of evil who claimed ownership of all sinful people on earth.

The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many (Mark 10:44).

Jesus gave his life to buy back the lives of the people who had been kidnapped by the evil one.

"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations" (Jeremiah 1:5, NKJV).

God knows everything that is worth knowing. By His omniscience He knows all men before their conception and birth. He knows those that are His and those that are not His. God is not bound by time. Before Jeremiah was born, He appointed Jeremiah to the prophetic office and appointed him to be God's envoy to the people. The Apostle Paul had the same call to preach the Gospel to the Gentiles

(Galatians 1:15-16).

This verse cannot involve predestination because that would make the whole dialogue between God and the prophet pointless. Jeremiah is told that God has had His eye on him for a long time, even before he was born, when he was just a thought in the mind of God. Jeremiah's ordination took place in the mind of God before Jeremiah was born.

There is a difference between personal predestination and professional predestination. Professional predestination is in view in this passage. The predestination here has nothing to do with salvation. Some of the other examples of professional predestination are Samson (Judges 13:2-5), Isaiah (Isaiah 49:1,5), John the Baptist (Luke 1:15), and the Apostle Paul (Galatians 1:15-16).

When we have Christ, says Paul, we have everything. That being true, it doesn’t really matter if we’re rich or poor, successful or defeated, starving or full, naked or clothed, homeless or sheltered.

This is the revolutionary perspective that stands behind the apostle’s assertion in verse 13:

“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”

He is not saying that Christians will never go hungry or suffer want. Nor is he claiming that God will protect the believer from every danger.

Paul had personally experienced all these hardships many times, serving the Lord “in weariness and toil, in sleeplessness, often in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness”

(II Corinthians 11:27).

What he is asserting is that, if you belong to Christ, God will enable you to bear the burden whatever your situation in life may be. Perhaps you can see that this is something very different from a guarantee of limitless wealth and success.

"This is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us. "

— (1 John 4)

You might pass through waters or rivers. You might even walk through fire. But God says He is with you through it! He is with you! He will not let you be consumed. He is the Lord your God. You can slowly let those fingers loosen the grasp you have on your life and your future, resting in the fact that whatever comes, God is with you. He will not leave your side.

No tongue can fully express the infinitude of God’s love, or any mind comprehend it: it “passeth knowledge”

(Eph 3:19).

The most extensive ideas that a finite mind can frame about divine love, are infinitely below its true nature. The heaven is not so far above the earth as the goodness of God is beyond the most raised conceptions which we are able to form of it. It is an ocean which swells higher than all the mountains of opposition in such as are the objects of it. It is a fountain from which flows all necessary good to all those who are interested in it

God is bigger than any problem you may face and He is wiser than any enemy you may encounter. Your most challenging problem is not a challenge to God. Your most powerful enemy cannot stand against God and prevail. Therefore leave every problem and surrender every enemy in God's able hands. Fear not, you are under the protection of invincible, and unshakable, divine power. Nothing can stand against you and prevail unless God allows it. Keep trusting God. Keep believing His word. Keep claiming His promises. Keep expecting divine deliverance. Keep walking and talking like a victor, not a victim.

Fear Not, Be Still, Christ is in The Crisis: Sometimes we face life circumstances that have no earthly solutions. Some news come so sudden; it feels like a lightning ball zapping down your spine. Some crisis often breakout so random and hit like a tornado at midnight, leaving life turned upside down and inside out. Some trials hit like a major earthquake at sea, sending angry tsunami waves into the future knocking down all the castles we have built in the air. Whatever is happening in your life today, refuse to fear, be still and let Christ speak to the crisis. "Then Jesus arose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace, be still!" and the wind ceased and there was a great calm." Mark 4:39. When the storms of life rage, and the billows roll, find a place of refuge in the hollow of His hand. Earth has no sorrow that heaven can't heal. God says to you today, "Be still, and know that I am God" (Psalm 46:10)

No Weapons Formed Against You Will Prosper: if God's hand, His anointing and His favor are on your life, no person of power or position, no earthly authority, and no Devil in hell can stand in the way of God's plans for your life.

Anything that is intended to break you will eventually bless you. Anyone who mistreats you, is essentially elevating you. Joseph's brothers tried everything in their power to devise ways to stop Joseph from fulfilling his dreams. But the evil plans and the wicked strategies that they devised to bring Joseph down, actually ended up elevating him.

Do not worry or fear when people plan evil against you. Your God will use the evil plans of your enemies to bless you and bring you into a position of honor. Just remain faithful to God's revealed truth. Fight the urge to take matters into your own hands. Never repay evil with evil or celebrate your enemy's downfall.

God says, "I will take revenge; I will pay them back. In due time their feet will slip. Their day of disaster will arrive, and their destiny will overtake them.’ (Deuteronomy 32:35)

Your response is to, "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you," (Mat 5:44) and treat them with dignity and respect. Your God will elevate you to a place of honor so high that your enemies will boil with rage and envy. Fear not. Anything that is intended to harm you, will heal you. Anything that is intended to break you, will bless you.

Bible verses of Comfort.

"Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will hold you up with my victorious right hand"

(Isaiah 41:10)

" I will never leave you or forsake you".

(Hebrews 13:5)

"Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.”

(Psalm 23:4)

"Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.”

(Matthew 5:4)

"Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.”

(Psalm 55:22)

"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble"

(Psalm 46:1)

“He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.”

(Psalm 147:3)

“Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting consolation and good hope by grace, comfort your hearts and establish you in every good word and work.”

(Thessalonians 2:16-17)

" Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they"

~(mathew 6:26)

Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing" .

~(Matt 6:25).

God cares for His creation and His creatures and all created things; the plants, birds, creeping , animals, mammals, and the fish in the sea.

Son, the second person of the Holy Trinity - Jesus Christ, who is the Word incarnate. ...

The true definition of the Son is that he is the Fathers WORD, not a creation.

To elaborate on this; everything originates from the Father, the Father knows all things by knowing himself. God, the source of all wisdom, never started knowing, no one came and taught Him and gave him an exterior knowledge. He eternally knows, and his knowledge of himself, his WORD is without beginning. And what He knows is no less than Himself, it is equal to Himself. The only thing equal to God is God. So His Son, His WORD is God.

God eternally speaks his one single WORD of knowledge that contains everything that exists and all existence.

So St. John’s Gospel begins with the words:

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” In this sense Jesus, the WORD made flesh, is the very intellect of God.

But the Father isn’t just a know-it-all, he’s also a love-it-all. So to know the good is to love the good and the Father sees and judges everything in his Son. That is he sees the total good in his Son, His entire plan for life and love, and affirms it by loving the Son.

“JESUS CHRIST IS THE REASON, THE GOAL THE AIM, THE INTENT, THE POINT, THE PURPOSE, THE END THE TERMINUS, THE CONSUMMATION AND CULMINATION OF EVERY MOLECULE THAT MOVES.”

Christians believe in one living and true God who is the Creator of heaven and earth; who is eternal, almighty, unchangeable, infinitely powerful, wise, just and holy.

The one God eternally exists in three Persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; and that these three are one God, co-equal and co-eternal, having precisely the same nature and attributes, and worthy of precisely the same worship, confidence, and obedience.

Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God, but they are not three gods but only one God. The Father is not the Son, the Son is not the Spirit, the Spirit is not the Father, but each is God individually and yet they are together the one true God of the Bible.

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one

~ ( Deuteronomy 6:4)

For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

~ ( 1John 5:7)

We live in a three-dimensional world. All physical objects have a certain height, width, and depth. One person can look like someone else, or behave like someone else, or even sound like someone else. But a person cannot actually be the same as another person. They are distinct individuals.

God, however, lives without the limitations of a three-dimensional universe. He is spirit. And he is infinitely more complex than we are.

That is why Jesus the Son can be different from the Father. And, yet the same.

Some have tried to give human illustrations for the Trinity, such as H2O being water, ice and steam (all different forms, but all are H2O). Another illustration would be the sun. From it we receive light, heat and radiation. Three distinct aspects, but only one sun.

No illustration is going to be perfect.

But from the very beginning we see God as a Trinity. In the book of Genesis, the first book in the Bible, God says, "Let us make man in our image…male and female he created them.. You see here a mixture of plural and singular pronouns.

For all of eternity, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit have always been in relationship and communication with each other, yet not as three gods…as one God.

• • “WHO SHALL not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy”

  • (Rev 15:4).

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    The Sum of all MORAL EXCELLENCY is found in Him. He is absolute Purity, unsullied even by the shadow of sin.
    
    “God is light, and in him is no darkness at all”
    (1Jo 1:5).
    
    “ You are of PURER EYES to look on evil, and you cannot tolerate iniquity”
    (Hab 1:13).
    
    "Power is GOD's hand,
    Omnuscience His Eye,
    Mercy His Bowels,
    But HOLINESS is his Beauty"............ ~S.Charnock
    
    This perfection is celebrated before the Throne of Heaven, the seraphim crying,
    "HOLY, HOLY, HOLY is the LORD of Hosts"
    (Isaiah 6:3)
    
    God swears by His “holiness” because that is a fuller expression of Himself than any thing else.
    “Once have I sworn by My holiness”
    (Psa 89:35).
    
    ' The Manifestation Of GOD's HOLINESS '
    
    "God’s holiness is manifested in His works."
    “The LORD is righteous in all His ways, and holy in all His works”
    (Psa 145:17).
    
    Nothing but that which is excellent can proceed from Him. Holiness is the rule of all His actions. At the beginning He pronounced all that He made
    “very good” (Gen 1:31), which He could not have done had there been anything imperfect or unholy in them. Man was made “upright” (Ecc 7:29), in the image and likeness of his Creator.
    The angels that fell were created holy,
    
    "God’s holiness is manifested in His Law."
    That Law forbids sin in all of its modifications: in its most refined as well as its grossest forms, the intent of the mind as well as the pollution of the body, the secret desire as well as the overt act.
    Therefore do we read, “The law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good”
    (Rom 7:12)
    
    " God’s holiness is manifested at the cross."
    Wondrously and yet most solemnly does the atonement display God’s infinite holiness and abhorrence of sin. How hateful sin must be to God for Him to punish it to its utmost deserts when it was imputed to His Son!
    
    Because GOD is HOLY, he hates all SIN!
    God will forgive sinners but he never forgives sin.
    The sinner is only forgiven on the ground of another having borne his punishment.
    
    "Be he holy, for I am holy"
    (1Peter 1:16)
    
    This is the prime way of honoring GOD!

The Cross is a demonstration of God’s hatred of sin, as the wrath of God let loose upon His Son. Never did divine holiness appear more beautiful and lovely than at the time our Savior’s countenance was most marred in the midst of His dying groans. This He Himself acknowledges in Psalm 22. When God had turned His smiling face from Him, and thrust His sharp knife into His heart, which forced that terrible cry from Him, “My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken Me?” He adores this perfection—“Thou art holy”........................... (S. Charnock).

LIFE BEFORE NOAH'S FLOOD

God told Satan that one day a woman would give birth to a male child – the Messiah, who would redeem humanity and destroy him. In order to prevent this child’s birth, Satan instigated a fallen angelic rebellion. A group of angels broke off their allegiance to the Lord and entered the earthly realm to corrupt the human gene pool and prevent the Savior’s birth.

These fallen angels took human wives and had children with them. Their offspring – hybrid half-human, half-angelic beings, were superhuman giants known as the Nephilim. (Genesis 6)

It should be noted the reason for why the fallen angels mated with the women.. They did so, so as to purposely corrupt the DNA bloodline of mankind. They did this detestable act so as to prevent the future Messiah from being born into man redeeming mankind for his sins. They knew that God‘s Spirit would not be able to inhabit the fleshly body of a man who's DNA was an abomination as it consisted of human & angelic DNA.

The LORD saw how great the wickedness of human beings was on earth, and how every desire that their heart conceived was always nothing but evil.

In the days of Noah, God said that His Spirit will not dwell with mankind forever. That is bcuz at this time in history, satan’s plan to corrupt mankind's DNA to prevent the birth of Christ was working out. The earth was consumed by these giants. That is what God meant when He said that Noah was perfect in his ways. Noah & his family, were the only ones left to have not had their DNA corrupted. This is why God told Noah to build the ark, then flooded the earth. To wipe out these giants that had overtaken the earth from man. God had to press the reset button.

“Tears are a language God understands." Never underestimate the power of tears in your journey of faith. It is in our weakest moments that we are strongest. "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me."

2 Corinthians 12:9.

The journey of a true Christian is marked by tear drops and sweat drops. The foundation of our faith is built on the sweat, tears and blood of martyrs. The One we follow, Christ Jesus, shed sweat drop of blood to secure our salvation. Therefore if you identify with Christ, your personal journey of faith will be through much sufferings, tears, sweat and pain.

Jesus said ”In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; l have overcome the world."

John 16:33.

Tears buds and tears where not created after the fall of man. God in His infinite wisdom knew that some emotional pains are unexplainably deep to be expressed in words.

Whatever cannot be expressed by words, tears will eloquently express. One of the greatest lies ever told

to man is that "man don't cry." Tears are not a sign of weakness. Tears are prayers in liquid form.

Remember "Jesus wept."

John 11:35.

Therefore, cry if you have to, and allow others the freedom to cry and release every emotion that cannot be expressed by words. Tears are a language God understands.

The Powerful Blood

The Bible tells us many powerful things that the blood of Jesus does when applied.

When you apply the blood, it:

Provides forgiveness of your sins.

“The law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.” (Hebrews 9:22, NIV)

Gives you life.

“Then Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you.” (John 6:53)

Brings you close to God.

“But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.” (Ephesians 2:13)

Cleanses your conscience.

“How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God.” (Hebrews 9:14)

Gives you boldness to approach God.

“Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus…” (Hebrews 10:19)

Sanctifies you.

“Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered outside the gate.” (Hebrews 13:12)

Cleanses you.

“But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.” (1 John 1:7)

Heals you.

“He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by His wounds you have been healed.” (1 Peter 2:24, NIV)

Enables you to overcome the devil and his works. “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony…” (Revelation 12:11, NIV)

Without the blood of Jesus, we are defenseless against the devil and his works. Yes, it’s good to have zeal and do good works. It’s good to have a high degree of morality and a strong devotional life. But none of those things alone can cleanse, heal, or protect you. When it comes to your forgiveness and cleansing, your healing, protection, and deliverance, God is still looking at the blood!

All of the weapons in our arsenal such as the blood of Jesus, we apply or use by faith and by a declaration

or by speaking or commanding what we desire to happen.To "apply” the blood of Jesus, this is what you should do. First, being aware of the signiflcance of His blood and the power that it holds, you make a declaration or a prayer along these lines...

In Jesus' name, apply the blood of Jesus over so and so's body. ( or life or desires or work or situation) I declare that the blood of Jesus cleanses them now. I declare that the blood of Jesus is a hedge around them that the enemy cannot penetrate.

Your natural blood supplies lifegiving oxygen and nutrients to every cell in your body. If the flow of blood were to be cut off from an area of your body, that part would begin to die. Spiritually speaking, any part of your life that is cut off from the blood of Jesus is dead or dying.

Your blood also carries away wastes and toxins from your cells. Spiritually, without the blood of Jesus, your life would be filled with filth just like the Pharisees in Matthew 23:27. Thank God for the blood of Jesus that removes the dirt of sin from our daily lives!

THE UNSEEN HAND!!!

God sometimes uses foolish things to confound the wise. For example, an unpleasant situation can serve to keep us for a new level in life. If Joseph had not been in the prison, he would not have met the link that saw him to the throne (Genesis 41:9-39).

To the wise, imprisonment is a foolish thing but God used it to accomplish His purpose in the life of Joseph in particular, and the nation of Israel in general.

If Hannah had had a baby earlier, she may not have had any reason to stay close to God. The Bible says, she was a woman of prayer (1 Samuel 1:1-17).

If the circumstances surrounding the birth of Moses were normal, he may not have had a cause to go to Egypt where he finally became a blessing to his nation, Israel. He would have stayed and grown up with his biological parents and that would have changed the course of history (Exodus 2:1-10).

If Daniel had not been thrown into the lion’s den, he would not have had the opportunity to prove his God; his God would not have been known (Daniel 6:25-27).

If Meshach, Shadrach and Abed-Nego had not encountered the great trial in the blazing furnace, their God would not have been a state God (Daniel 3:28-29).

If Peter had had the desired catch of fish at the seaside, he may not have encountered Jesus – the Redeemer. His disappointment at the seaside served to move him to a higher level in life – ‘A fisher of men’ (Luke 5:1-11).

What the eye could not see in all these examples was the unseen hand, the divine driver of our fortunes. There is God’s appointed time for everything under the sun - a time to be happy, a time to be sad, a time to grow and a time to die (Ecclesiastes 3:1-8). Take note, there is an unseen hand, an unseen plan of God in the affairs of men. When something happens, whether positive or negative, it would be too soon to despair, complain or jubilate without finding out what God says about it because there is an unseen hand in everything that happens under the sun.

A different kind of spiritual interaction occurred when Jesus was crossing the lake in a boat. When they were in the middle of the lake, a terrible storm struck. This was not an ordinary. Mark describes it as a "great storm of wind" (Mark 4:37). Matthew says a great shaking occurred in the sea. (Matt 8:24). The men in the boat were experienced sailors, but they were fIlled with terror, because they realized they could be destroyed.

This was not just another storm. Most storms are caused by strong wind. This was caused by something stirring the sea. The forces of darkness understood that Jesus was a risk to them. Now he had started his ministry the risk was becoming clear.

He was casting out demons, and they were powerless. He was healing the people they had infiicted with sickness. They knew that they had to deal with him, before he really got going. So they stirred up the sea and the wind in an effort to kill Jesus.

When the disciples woke Jesus, he understood what was happening. He rebuked wind in the same way as he rebuked evil spirits that he was casting out. He spoke to the said to the waves, "Quiet! Be still"

(Mark 4:39)!

Speaking to an "act of nature" is a pointless waste of time, but Jesus knew the storm was demonic. He seemed to be speaking to the wind and the waves, but he was actually speaking to the evil spirits who were at work in both.

The disciples just saw a storm. Jesus realized that in the spiritual realms, a host of evil spirits had stirred up the wind and the sea in an effort to destroy him.

There were other boats on the Sea of Galilee that night (Mk 4:36), but the spirits focused the attack on his boat. Jesus understood his authority, so he rebuked the evil spirits. When he spoke, a host of powerful angels forced the evil spirits off the lake. That is why the wind and the waves instantly calmed.

Unlike a natural storm, this storm came without warning and ended suddenly. Much is made of the unpredictability of storms on the Galilee, but Jesus disciples knew how to read the weather signs (Luke 12:54) and would not have gone out if a storm was brewing. This storm ended as quickly as it started, because its source was demonic.

• To do God's will on earth, we must understand what is being done in heaven. We do not need to indulge in occult practices to get this understanding. That would place us in bondage. We learn about events in the spiritual realms by listening to the Holy Spirit.

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• He sees and hears everything spoken in the spiritual realms. When he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. All that belongs to the Father is mine... The Spirit will receive from me what he will make known to you (John 16:13,15)
  
  The Spirit knows everything that is happening in the spiritual realms. An important part of his role is telling us what Jesus and the Father are saying and doing. Jesus promised that he would reveal it Gods will to us. Once we know his will, we can declare it and pray it into being. Hearing the truth proclaimed in the spiritual realms is essential. For God's will to be done on earth, he needs humans living on the earth to give him authority to do his will here. Paul explains how the Holy Spirit teaches us God's will. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who knows a person's thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
  
  What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us (1 Cor 2:10-13).
  
  God declares his will in the spiritual realms. if we listen to his Spirit, he will tell us all that we need to know. The next verse is a key. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirittaught words (1 Cor 2:13). This verse is important. Human wisdom misses half of what is happening in this universe. True wisdom results from being taught by the Spirit. He explains spiritual realities to us in Spirit-taught words. The Holy Spirits speaks, and tells us what God is saying (John 14:25). He also shows what is happening in the spiritual realms (John 16:14).

The Holy Spirits speaks, and tells us what God is saying

(John 14:25). He also shows what is happening in the spiritual realms (John 16:14). People who reject the Holy Spirit's calling cannot understand the importance of the spiritual realms. The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit (1 Cor 2:14).

They cannot be seen through human eyes. This is why the rulers of the world are blind to what is really happening. None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory (1 Cor 2:8). Herod and Pilate thought they were getting rid of a minor political nuisance. in fact, they were bringing about a massive victory in the spiritual realms that would change the direction of history. They were releasing the Kingdom of God, which would sweep away their kingdoms and continue forever. Paul's concludes this bit of teaching by saying that we have the "mind of Christ" (1 Cor 2:16).

Angels are living forces, that is to say spirits, of supernatural energy that were created by God in heaven as their permanent home and environment. They are supernaturally intelligent, emotional and powerful. They can also transfom themselves by thought and effort whether into another invisible form or into a physical form, like a human. Angels can only be harmed by supernatural things or someone who is supernatural. As long as an angel is loyal to God they will never die but live as long as the Eternal God does. Angels defend God’s sovereignty, stand up for God’s name, bring messages of hope and warning, guard the innocent of God and execute enemies of God. Angels are supernatural deputies of God’s universe.

There are nine choirs of angels, the Seraphim are the very highest.

Nine Choirs of Angels

1. Seraphim

2. Cherubim

3. Thrones

4. Dominations

5. Virtues

6. Powers

7. Principalities

8. Archangels

9. Angels

Angels in Scripture are so powerful, they can totally PROTECT or totally WIPE out humanity. But they operate ONLY under God's command. There are also fallen angels that operate demonically under the command of Satan.

A single angel killed 185,000 soldiers of the Assyrian army

Angels can apparently travel at tremendous speeds, exceeding the limits of the physical world. When Daniel was praying, God dispatched an angel to answer his prayer; and the angel arrived within moments, before the prayer was concluded.

—(Daniel 9:20-23)

God’s faithful angels rejoice at the repentance of even a single sinner, they participate in the public preaching activity of Christians.

Angels are so powerful that they can over power any physical event in the cosmos, including an exploding star or the pull of gravity around a black hole. This is because they are made of, not natural but, supernatural energy and forces. They were created to guard and protect all existence, including the entire cosmos. But they can also destroy anything that is in opposition to God. God does not actually have to do anything, his sons will. Since he has been resting since the creation of Eve almost all things God has done since then has actually been through angels as his representative.