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Understanding the Ministry of Angels

There are angels, right now, assigned to every believer on the planet. They are present and ready, commissioned by God with specific instructions. They are assigned to believers as ministers to help them, yet many remain idle. They are not idle because God hasn’t given them something to do; they are standing idle because we have not yet given them the thing they need to become active in our lives. They are waiting for something they have a right to respond to.

The Believers’ Voice

The thing they are waiting for is not a prayer formula or some special anointing. It’s not a certain level of faith or spiritual maturity reserved for the spiritual elite. The signal they wait for is God’s Word given voice through the believer.

God’s Word coming from our mouth is one of the ways we access Heaven’s help. For many of us, the reason we have not experienced this dimension of supernatural assistance is not that God has withheld it; it is that we have not been taught how to access it.

Let’s dive into the Bible and build a solid foundation for this truth to rest on.

Psalm 103:20-21 Bless the Lord, you His angels, Who excel in strength, who do His word, Heeding the voice of His word. 21 Bless the Lord, all you His hosts, You ministers of His, who do His pleasure.

Angels operate in response to the voice of God’s Word. And when we give voice to the Word of God, angels hear and respond.

We know they exist. We see them throughout the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. Yet many think of angels as figures who only appear to people like Abraham, Daniel, Mary, or Peter, but not active participants in our daily lives.

This kind of wrong thinking and wrong believing can rob the Church of one of the powerful revelations of our covenant inheritance. Scripture depicts angels as active, ongoing servants of God, sent here to minister on our behalf. They are not on vacation, and they have not been decommissioned. They are at work right now, or at least, they should be.

When angels are not working in our lives, it is not a failure on the Lord’s part; it is often a failure of understanding on ours. We have not been taught the Word concerning the ministry of angels. Without this understanding, we can leave an entire host of angels standing idle while we try to fight spiritual battles in our own natural strength.  

We have tremendous power and help available to us if we will just activate that help. God did not send us into the world unarmed. He gave us His Word, His Spirit, His blood. the authority of His name, and His angels.

Angels are activated by words spoken through the lips of the believer. These words must align with God’s Word, or angels have no legal right to help us.

Without the Word of God on our lips, the angels have no instruction to carry out. They are waiting for their marching orders, and those orders come through believers giving voice God’s Word.

As born-again believers, filled with the Spirit, equipped with a Bible, and authorized to speak in the name of Jesus, we become the voice of God’s Word on the Earth. When we open our Bibles and confess, “By His stripes we are healed,” (Isaiah 53:5) that is the voice of God’s Word. When we declare, “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want,” (Psalm 23:1) that is the voice of God’s Word. When we stand against demonic attack and declare, “No weapon that is formed against me shall prosper” (Isaiah 54:17), that is the voice of God’s Word. When angels hear it, they respond.

They respond not because we command them directly, but because they are already commissioned by God Himself to respond to His Word wherever and whenever it is spoken.

Hebrews 1:13-14 But to which of the angels has He ever said: “Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool”? 14 Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those who will inherit salvation?

This describes their assignment with undeniable clarity: “Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?”That is us. We are the heirs of salvation. They have been sent to minister, to serve, to help, as agents commissioned by God.

When we speak the Word of God over our circumstances, we are not only encouraging ourselves, feeding our spirits, and strengthening our faith. We are engaging in a spiritual activity that the angelic realm recognizes and responds to. The angels are not moved by our needs, or our emotions. They are moved by the Word of God given voice from the lips of a believer.

The Word of God must be spoken. It must leave our lips and enter both the natural and the spirit realms as a declared present reality.  

The angel responded to Daniel’s words

Daniel set himself to pray and fast for twenty-one days, seeking understanding from God. On day 21 an angel appeared and said something remarkable.

Daniel 10:12 Then he said to me, “Do not fear, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard; and I have come because of your words. 

Elderly man praying with vision of angel and demon fighting above

Notice what the angel said: “I have come because of your words.” Not for his fasting, not because of his need. He came because of his WORDS. We see from the story that the angel was dispatched on the first day. The delay was not on Heaven’s side. Daniel 10:13 explains that a demonic principality resisted the angel’s efforts to help Daniel. Yet the activation of the holy angel being sent was triggered by Daniel’s words.

This is not an isolated Old Covenant practice; it is a spiritual principle that operates across every dispensation. The angelic realm responds to words. And if that was true for Daniel under the Old Covenant, how much more for us under the New Covenant? 

The Power of the Tongue

There is a sobering side to this truth that we must not overlook. If our words can activate angels when we speak God’s Word, what happens when we speak words that contradict His Word? Words of fear, words of doubt, defeat, complaint, and unbelief? What happens when we give voice to those words? Proverbs 18:21 tells us plainly:

Proverbs 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit.

The same tongue that can commission angelic activity can summon demonic activity. Our Words have profound impact on the spirit realm.

James 3:13-16 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by good conduct that his works are done in the meekness of wisdom. But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your heartsdo not boast and lie against the truth. 15 This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic. 16 For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there.

Pay close attention to this passage. If you have bitterness, envy, or selfishness in your heart, James is instructing us “not to boast and lie against the truth.” In other words, if it’s in your heart, don’t let it come out of your mouth, because if you do, it is demonic, unwise, and confusion and every evil work are then present.

If we are complaining, gossiping, boasting, or lying, we become a landing strip for demonic influence and demonic activity. But it goes much deeper than that. If we speak anything against what God has prepared and provided for us, devils have a right to steal it or hide it from us.

Practically speaking, when we wake up and say, “This is going to be a terrible day,” devils are listening. If we look at a concerning medical report and say, “This is going to kill me,” devils are listening. If we are facing a financial crisis and say, “We will never recover from this,” devils are listening. In those moments we have spoken words that do not agree with God’s Word, and they do not give holy angels clear instruction, but they do give devils a legal right to try and make that come to pass for you. Death and Life are in the power of our tongue.

Jesus Spoke, Then Angels Ministered

We can also see this principle practiced in the life of Jesus. When He was tempted in the wilderness (Matthew 4). He did not argue with the devil, He spoke the Word. Three times the enemy came with temptation, and three times Jesus answered, “It is written.” Then Matthew 4:11 records, “Then the devil left Him, and behold, angels came and ministered to Him.” Notice the order. The Word was spoken and then angels came to minister. The Word was the weapon; the angels were the reinforcement that followed to back up the spoken Word.

Jesus defeated the enemy with the spoken word. If the Son of God relied on the spoken Word as His primary weapon, then the spoken Word is not merely one option among many for us. It is a primary instrument of spiritual warfare, and it is a primary way the angelic realm is mobilized to minister on our behalf.

Speaking in Agreement with Heaven

God is not withholding angelic assistance from us. He has already assigned His angels. He has already given His Word. He has already placed the authority of the name of Jesus on our lips. The whole provision is in place. What is often missing is our voice, our confession, our willingness to speak God’s Word over our lives, our health, our families, our finances, and our future.

Psalm 91:11-12 For He shall give His angels charge over you, To keep you in all your ways. 12 In their hands they shall bear you up, Lest you dash your foot against a stone.

The assignment has been given. And as we walk in covenant with God and speak in agreement with His Word, angels receive clear direction to minister in the ways God intends.

We need to reshape the way we speak. Angels are assigned to us; they are present, powerful, and ready. And they respond to the Word of God spoken by believers. Every time we confess what God says about a situation, we are placing our hearts and our mouths in agreement with Heaven. Every time we give voice to fear, doubt, or defeat, we leave our angels without clear instruction to help us.

We must bridle our tongues. Words are the steering wheel of our lives. They can activate angels, or they can activate devils. They can bring life, or they can bring death.

JESUS IS COMING!

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