Encountering Angels
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- The purpose of angels in human form;
- Varieties and types of angels;
- How angels can help transform your life;
- How to position yourself for angelic encounters;
- Their role in God's destiny and plan.
The history of the entire Gospel was shaped through angelic activity. Today it may not be as common to hear about angelic visitations and encounters, but they exist and are happening right in our midst!
Jerame Nelson
Jerame Nelson is the founder of Living at His Feet Ministries, a well-known international conference speaker, and a crusade revivalist to the nations. Jerame and his wife, Miranda, live in San Diego, California and work together in the ministry to change the lives of thousands through the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
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Encountering Angels - Jerame Nelson
1
ANGELS AMONG US
One afternoon, while on our way to a shopping district in downtown Vancouver, from the small city of Abbotsford, British Columbia, my wife and I noticed an unusual man walking down the street—or rather, crutching down the street.
As he reached his crutches forward, he stepped out with one good leg, but dragged the other along the asphalt. He could hardly crutch across the road. It is natural for us to notice those in need of healing and we tuned into the opportunity to see another miracle happen to a total stranger. Our shopping excursion could wait.
We decided to stop and pray for him to get healed, so I pulled our car into a parking space across from where the man was crossing the street. We got out of the car and stood waiting, expectantly. It took quite some time for him to cross the road.
When he finally reached the curb and walked onto the sidewalk, we approached and told him we were Christians, and that we believe that Jesus heals. We then asked if we could pray for him to be healed. He ended up saying yes and told us the problem was with his hip. So we laid hands on the man and started praying for God to heal him.
After we were done we asked the man to do something he could not do before, and check to see if he was healed. In response, the man pulled up his shirt and showed us his hip. Much to my surprise, he had no hip at all. There was just a big, deformed-looking hole where his hip was supposed to be. When I saw this, all of my faith immediately fled out down the sidewalk drains. It’s easy to pray for someone when you are not looking at the natural cause of the disability—when you look at what is unseen rather than what is seen. But it’s much harder when you stare at the problem raw and real, up close and personal.
I believe that honoring the anointing of those who came before us will enable us to receive an impartation of their anointing.
The man shifted the conversation away from his disability and told us a little about his life. I am so blessed that you stopped to pray for me! I am a Christian too, and my great grandfather was the man of God who started the Pentecostal church in Canada,
he said.
When I heard this, I thought, We should be getting this man to lay hands on us, not us laying hands on him. I believe that honoring the anointing of those who came before us will enable us to receive an impartation of their anointing—even if it comes through the prayers of one who is descended from that anointed man or woman of God.
As if he knew my thoughts, this man said to both my wife and me, Can I pray for you guys?
Of course we said yes and stepped closer to him. He placed one hand on each of us and prayed that we would receive an anointing for miracles, signs and wonders, and then went on to prophesy things that only wife, God, and I could know! It was powerful. At the end, he gave us a huge hug and said he needed to go.
So we got into our car and turned around to look back on the road, but much to our surprise the man had vanished into thin air! It had only been 30 seconds tops since we hugged the man and turned around. Yet, this slow-moving man had just simply vanished. I jumped out of the car and looked for him down every street in the intersection, but could not find him. No cars had passed by, and there were no doors into which he could have entered and disappeared.
As I was looking, the Holy Spirit spoke to me saying, You won’t find him. He was an angel. I sent him to test your hearts and activate in you more of the fire of God for the miraculous.
Then the Lord told me to tell the people of God to get ready, because you never know when He might be testing our hearts and entertaining angels who walk among us in many forms. We have to always be living with our spiritual antennas up; God is always looking to see if we really live what we say we believe. When this encounter took place I had been crying out for more of God’s power and authority to see miracles in the streets and our ministry. As a result, I believe God sent the man
to test our hearts. When we stopped to pray for him, I got exactly what I had asked for: a blessing that increased the anointing.
I believe God tests our hearts to see just how obedient we are to His voice. God is looking for friends to whom He can entrust the precious things of His kingdom. Sometimes God will ask you to stop for the one in front of you, even when it is inconvenient. The result of obedience however, will release the kingdom of God in our midst as God rewards those who diligently seek Him and follow His leading.
The day following that encounter with the angel, I prayed about the man and what God had said to me. The encounter awakened a desire in me to search out the role of angels in our lives. While in prayer, the Holy Spirit immediately reminded me of a key principle contained in Hebrews 13:1-2, which reads, Let brotherly love continue. Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels.
Then the Lord drew to mind a story in the Old Testament about how two angels appeared to Lot outside his home in Sodom and Gomorrah. They were visible to everyone in the city; apparently, these angels took the appearance of men.
The men of that city wanted to launch a lascivious attack on the angels, so Lot brought them into his house, rescuing them from the gang outside (see Genesis 19: 1-5). This angry gang of men didn’t recognize that these two visitors were angels, and wanted to have their way with them. Lot intervened, however, and was ultimately rewarded for his efforts.
While researching angels in Scripture, I again heard the voice of God impress upon me to study the presence and role of all of the angels in the Bible. He expressed that if His people began to understand what the Word of God says about angels and their importance in the kingdom, they would experience greater breakthrough in their personal lives, cities, regions, and nations.
After I studied the role of angels, I immediately saw breakthrough in my own life and ministry. Soon after my study of angels in the Scriptures, I traveled to Korea to speak and minister, and experienced an angelic visitation. As I was praying about what to speak on in an upcoming meeting, an angel dressed in traditional Korean clothes appeared to me. The angel revealed that one of the major strongholds of Korea was religious thinking. The angel showed me that many Koreans had not yet renewed their minds to the things of the spirit of God. I told the pastor of the Church I was speaking at about the vision, and she told me that the revelation I received was correct. She emphasized that the biggest stronghold holding Koreans back from knowing God’s love and presence was a religious mindset. That weekend, I focused my messages on the biblical process of renewing one’s mind, opening to the love of God, and entering into the reality of the Holy Spirit.
God emphasized that heaven’s angels have a big part to play in partnering with Him and His people to see glory released and the salvation of millions.
As I ministered, many people were set free from religious mindsets and encountered the presence and power of the Holy Spirit for the first time. As a result of my own angelic visitation, I was able to accurately minister a word in season to the people of the church; it was an enormous blessing to see hundreds of people open up to godly dreams, visions, and His holy power.
The Lord also told me that His glory was about to invade the earth, and that millions of souls were going to come to salvation in the near future. God emphasized that heaven’s angels have a big part to play in partnering with Him and His people to see glory released and the salvation of millions.
My friends, the goal of this book is to demystify the realm of the angelic and bring you into a greater understanding of their role and function in God’s plan of salvation. My prayer is that you will be equipped to do the work of the ministry by partnering with God and His amazing variety of angels, in order to see an awesome end-time harvest of souls.
THE WORD OF THE LORD FOR YOU:
♦ Get ready because you never know when I, the Lord your God might be testing your heart and you might be entertaining angels who walk among you in many forms.
♦ If you begin to understand what my Word says about angels and their importance in the kingdom, you will experience greater breakthrough in your personal life, as well as in your city, region, and nation.
♦ My glory is about to invade earth and millions of souls are going to come to salvation in the near future. The angels of heaven have a big part to play in partnering with me and you to see this glory released and the salvation of millions come to pass.
2
ANGELS TAKE HUMAN FORM
The meeting with the angel on crutches was not my first encounter with the angelic realm. My previous encounters had been confined to angels appearing to me in visions or dreams. Since then, I’ve seen angels and heavenly beings appear in many forms. However, it was that angel on crutches who changed my perspective on just how real and tangible the kingdom of God could become. This was my first encounter with an angel who appeared as a man in the natural world.
Let me tell you about another encounter where another angel appeared to a pastor and told the pastor about me—long before I ever met the pastor.
It happened around two years before interacting with the angel on crutches.
At the time I was home in Grand Junction, Colorado visiting my family for the summer before heading off to Canada on a fall ministry internship. At the time, I would take any invitation that would come my way. I was just getting launched into ministry and received an invitation to speak at a small home group in Montrose, Colorado. So I gladly accepted the invite and drove out to Montrose to meet with the leader of the home group. We had lunch and some hangout time to get to know each other before the evening meeting started.
During lunch, I was shocked as the pastor began to tell me about a friend of his who claimed to have met me on a plane the previous week. He described how I told the man my testimony about giving up baseball to preach, and how I had been wearing a red Boston Red Sox hat and a red sweatshirt on the plane. This was actually my favorite hat and the description of a sweatshirt I often wore at that time.
There was only