In yesterday's daily meditation, we talked about an invisible realm that converges with the earth. Elisha had to pray for his servant to have his eyes opened to the reality of heavenly angelic beings sent to help them. If you are a Christian, you are a servant of the Living God and have angelic hosts in that unseen realm that God directs to help you:
Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation? (Hebrews 1:14).
How much do we use or value heavenly help when in need? God sends angels to serve us even before we believe in Christ. The Scripture is in the future tense. Angels are sent to help and protect those who will inherit salvation. That means that God is working ahead of time on behalf of those who choose to follow Him. Even when we were babies, Scripture indicates that we had an unseen protector, an angel that watched over us:
See that you do not look down on one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven (Matthew 18:10).
We do not reach out to the angels in prayer for their help. No, our prayer is directed to the Father in whom we place our trust. Angelic beings take their direction and orders from the Father. It is faith in God that connects us to this unseen realm, just as it is faith in God that opened the servant's eyes in the passage of Scripture we looked at yesterday. Every believer in Christ has an angel watching over them (Acts 12:15), sent to serve the heirs of salvation (Hebrews 1:14).
Many Christians are like Elisha's servant, unaware of God's power and supernatural resources. The majority of Christians in the West have no room for the supernatural. For the most part, we are oblivious to angelic beings and demonic spirits in the unseen realm. How often do we miss seeing God's power displayed and Satan's kingdom displaced because we do not seek God for divine resources and intervention? Although God is sovereign and all-powerful, He chooses to partner with His people through prayer and faith in God.
Brian, an old friend of mine from Harwich in Essex, England, used to be involved in spiritual things of an occult nature before he came to Christ. He was ignorant of the dangers that he invited into his home. His family began to hear voices and see spirits in their home after playing a few times with an Ouija board (something dark and hazardous to one's soul). His children became accustomed to seeing disembodied spirits who deceived them into thinking they were spirit guides. The family knew the spirits by name and were duped into believing that "white magic" was harmless. The situation changed one night when all hell broke loose, and demons began manifesting to them. They were terrified and realized that they were involved with something very dark and not at all harmless. The things they saw and heard in their home horrified all of them.
These manifestations continued all day until Brian looked up the address of the local evangelical church pastor, Harry Hughes, and started walking to his house for help. On the way, he heard audible voices telling him, "If you go to his house, we will kill you all." Concerned for his family's safety, Brian ignored the threatening voices and went and saw Harry Hughes. Harry came and cleansed his house, praying, taking authority over every evil spirit in their home, and removing every occult token. He then led the family in prayers of repentance and renunciation of every evil hold that dark evil spirits had on his family. They finished their time of the dedication of their home by worshiping God. When Brian and his family committed their lives to Christ and repented, renounced, and abandoned all involvement in the occult, God wholly renewed their lives. No demonic activity occurred in their house from that moment. The unseen world is very real, and we are deceived only by thinking about the physical world. Keith Thomas
This meditation is a shortened version of the more in-depth study: The Unseen Realm.
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