Angels are celestial beings created by God to serve as messengers. There are good angels who serve God and bad angels who followed Satan. The document discusses several examples from the Bible where angels protected and delivered God's people, such as saving Lot and his family from destruction, guiding the Israelites out of Egypt, and announcing Jesus' birth. It also shares two personal testimonies where angels intervened to save lives in dangerous accidents and deliver someone from witchcraft attacks. The overall message is that angels are assigned by God to protect believers and will fight battles on their behalf.
Angels are celestial beings created by God to serve as messengers. There are good angels who serve God and bad angels who followed Satan. The document discusses several examples from the Bible where angels protected and delivered God's people, such as saving Lot and his family from destruction, guiding the Israelites out of Egypt, and announcing Jesus' birth. It also shares two personal testimonies where angels intervened to save lives in dangerous accidents and deliver someone from witchcraft attacks. The overall message is that angels are assigned by God to protect believers and will fight battles on their behalf.
Angels are celestial beings created by God to serve as messengers. There are good angels who serve God and bad angels who followed Satan. The document discusses several examples from the Bible where angels protected and delivered God's people, such as saving Lot and his family from destruction, guiding the Israelites out of Egypt, and announcing Jesus' birth. It also shares two personal testimonies where angels intervened to save lives in dangerous accidents and deliver someone from witchcraft attacks. The overall message is that angels are assigned by God to protect believers and will fight battles on their behalf.
ngels are the messengers of God, and are spoken of in the
epistle to the Hebrews as ministering spirits (Heb. 1:14).
There are good and bad angels. The good Angels are God's A angels while the bad Angels are of Satan who were thrown down to earth from heaven with Lucifer, they lost their place in heaven and came to cause havoc to the church of Christ no wonder Jesus said the gate of hell shall not prevail against the church. In the Catechism of the Catholic Church (ccc329) it defines Angels according to St. Augustine as the name of their nature, they were purposefully created by God to serve as messengers who hearken to his word and who will always do his will. The word Angel is derived from the Greek word Angelos which simply means messenger. They always behold the face of my father who is in heaven; they are the mighty ones who do his word, hearkening to the voice of his word. Angels as depicted by the Bible as messengers of God who serve as mediators between the heavens and the earth. Angels are celestial beings; they are spirits by nature and are immortal. In the Bible, they are pictorially illustrated as two winged creatures dressed in crystal white garments. They are the first in the ascending order of the celestial hierarchy, followed by archangels, principalities, powers, dominions, thrones, Cherubim and Seraphim. Angels have demonstrated their duty as messengers and guardians in many instances in the Bible like the annunciation of the birth of Jesus, Luke 1:30-33, the annunciation of the birth of Samson Judges 13:3-21, led the Israelites out of Egypt Num. 20:16. God is watching over you, he will not allow you to be destroyed by the devil and his agents, remember his promise in Exodus 23:20 and 21-23 where he said I will send my angels ahead of you, to protect you as you travel and to bring you to the place where I have prepared for you. Angels also minister to Churches as we were told in the book of Revelation about the Angel of God sent to the church in Ephesus, Laodicea; etc. In the life of Jesus Christ the Bible says in Col. 1:16 for by him were all things created that are in heaven, and that are on earth, visible and invisible. Be it thrones, or dominions, or principalities or powers, all things were created by him. Angels have been present since creation and throughout the history of Salvation, announcing the news of salvation from far and near, and serving the accomplishment of the divine plan. Remember; they closed the earth's paradise, they protect Lot and his family from the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, saved Hagar and her child from perishing in the desert and did many more things both recorded and unrecorded. Rejoice, you saints of the most high: for there are Angels on assignment empowered by heaven to bless you on earth! Chapter One WHO ARE ANGELS? 1 2
beckon on you brethren to acknowledge the deliverance, .Angels of God have carried out, and are still carrying out and are yet to carry out in our daily lives, for God has put them in I charge of us. The efficacy of soap remains unknown unless you put it to test. It is only when you have used a cream, a new soup condiment or even a newly introduced drugs that you can ascertain its efficacy or effectiveness. In the same way is the ministry of Angels; indeed they are always at your service only when you put them to work. Let's put our Angels to work, Heaven has assigned them to us, it's now your responsibility to tell them what to do for you. How does it sound to your ears, that you have servants in your house and you don't make use of them. It's unfortunate, because they will not be happy with you. Its high time believers begin to put Angels to work in order to reap powerful result and share their testimonies with people as I will be sharing this one with you. Few years back prior to 1996 Christmas I boarded a commercial car traveling from Maiduguri to Jos. It was a 504 s/w car and I was to break the journey in Jos before proceeding to Onitsha for another program. Immediately after we left Darazo in Bauchi State of Nigeria, a private car overtook us and not long after that, it lost control and skidded off the road and headed to the brush and started somersaulting. It was a very terrifying incident as we were the first people to arrive at the scene of the accident. I came to discover to my utmost surprise that I knew the people in the car as we rushed to help them out of the damaged car we discovered that the maid was carrying a nursing baby who was just eight (8) months old. The parents of the baby were still unconscious so we rushed them to the nearest hospital to revive them. Looking at the maid and the baby who were both unhurt, I was moved to inquire how she managed to survive without any scar and she told me that a man dressed in white came and brought her out, gave her the baby and told her to help her aunty and her husband. It was then I knew that God sent an Angel to save the family. Do you know that the man who planed the accident was busy telling people in the village that tragedy will befall this family but unknown to him as he was planning the accident, God was planning a rescue mission powered by Angels. The wicked shall not succeed in your life; and their plans will never work. In Psalm 91:11-12 for he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all they ways they shall bear thee up in their hands least thou dash your foot against a stone. Can you now see how Angel saved this family, he will also save you, the man and the wife survived and today they are living fine to the glory of God. All your enemies will loose every battle in your life and all of them will be disappointed. There is this family friend of mine whom I pray for each time they needed God's intervention in their family. She had been married for seven years but had lost all her four children. She lost two in the womb at the ninth month of pregnancy and the other two died after delivery. When she was to be operated upon at the fourth pregnancy, it was a battle of life and death as she stopped breathing three consecutive times. She was placed in the intensive care unit and was supported for four days with oxygen after she could no longer THE BATTLES ANGELS FIGHT FOR US Chapter Two 3 4
move any part of her body, infact it was a hopeless situation. People were waiting for her to give up, Prayers were offered on her behalf and night vigils were conducted at the end of which she started responding to treatment. She was now able to recognize people and after a few days, she was brought out from the (I.C.U) to the ward. When I want to see her, she called my name and held my hand and was saying thank you I.G. thank you for saving me. I was both surprised and confused at the same time, and then she called me aside and narrated all she went through while unconscious. She said her mother who was an agent of witchcraft appeared to her threatening to kill her. Her mother promised the witches that she will sacrifice all her children that were loyal to her to the witches. But along the line, she gave her life to Christ and this brought about disloyalty making her mother to vow that she will never have a child. Each time she was about to have a baby the mother will go to her in-law's house and tell them that Evelyn will soon deliver, as usual meaning the baby must die. But in this case she decided to kill her. She said her mother took her to a very strange place and at each gate she pays a token to gain entrance, they continued going until they reached the third gate where she started hearing the wailings of people probably imprisoned, then suddenly the gate that was open closed and I (I.G.) appeared immediately and said to her mother take her back. As I was talking with anger, two men came with glory dressed in a garment that looks white, and suddenly her mother disappeared. She opened her eyes to discover she was on oxygen and that was how she came back. Glory be to God. Take note that all these things happened as she was on her sick bed after her operation. Her mother became sick that same day, and the day after she was discharge from the University of Maidugri Teaching Hospital and her mother died. Today this woman has two healthy and spirit filled sons to the glory of God. Did you see how Angels came at the moment of danger, at the zero hour, at the period when all hope were lost, believe it that the angels of God are there for you. At any point, don't question God, the angels are there to see you through. What a terrible experience Evelyn had, and what great deliverance the angel fought for her. Angel will fight for you; stand for you to oppose your enemies too. Amen. In Daniel 6:20 it says when he (King Darius) came near the den he called to Daniel in an anguished voice, Daniel servant of the Most High, is the God whom you serve continually been able to rescue you from the Lions? Daniel replied, O king, live forever! My God sent his angels and he shut the mouths of the lions. They have not hurt me, because I was found innocent in his sight, nor have I done any wrong before you, O king. Dear reader know it that if you are a child of God any secret plans, wicked plans against you, your family, brothers or sisters in your family or in your village. God will send an angel to fight for you. A brother friend of mine in the Charismatic Renewal went home to build a house. He was the only son in a family of four. When he laid the foundation of the house and started the building, on reaching the lintel level, he came back to Maiduguri, only for him to come down with a terrible sickness. The sickness was so serious that people thought he was not going to see the next day. Infact, it was terrible. While in the hospital, a lot of tests were conducted on him but none yielded any significant cause of the sickness. An operation was recommended after his Tommy started enlarging. A lot of people kicked against the idea of an Operation because they thought he will die. Meanwhile I was at Aba, in Abia State where I went for a crusade. There in my Hotel room I had a dream that terrified me, I saw people beating this brother, one of them was using a heavy cane on him, I was shouting stop, stop, it seemed none of them heard my shout, suddenly the man was set to push him into a big erosion pit and I woke up. I was still saying God have 5 6
mercy in my heart when my phone rang. It was a call from Maiduguri telling me about this brother's situation. I called the little children praying with me to go in for midnight battle before I returned. On his sick bed it was battle between evil and good. God's Angel and demonic angels, it was terrible the case was that the master of this my friend belonged to one secret cult that made him rich and before he settled this friend of my he initiated the young man without his knowledge, he told them that whenever the young man began doing something meaningful in life, he will automatically become a member. Later the master died and it was the wife that settled this young man who later became born again. It was based on the agreement his master made with the cult that he is now being hunted not with the aim of dragging him to the cult but to kill him since he has now repented. As soon as I returned, I went straight to the hospital. When I enter, I met people still debating with the doctor some said operation others objected to it so the doctor angrily walked out leaving them with option of either approving for operation or discharge. That night prayers were positioned by all brothers and sisters and I went into another battle with those forces causing the problem, I knew it is not the will of God but that of the devil. I went back to the hospital the next morning only for me to see him seating on his sick bed with some nurses attending to him. He now told me what happened between 1 and 2 am. He saw his master with his fellow cultists dressed in red and black and he called him up and went away, he told me they went into the thick forest where the master told him a story how he initiated him and told him to renounce Jesus and follow them. He never uttered a word so they brought out a sharp object and tried to kill him, he was tied down to be killed but suddenly a light appeared there and all of them fell down, and then someone appeared in the midst of the light and said I am Michael the defender of the saints, you are free. Go, return to your people and family. Instantly he woke up and started coughing, vomiting, urinating, purging and that was how he was healed. Today this brother is living well with his family, serving God and moving in the grace of God. Can you see how Angel fought for him, Oh! How I wish you will learn how to put your Angel at work. How many people are in the grave today because they didn't put their Angels to work? Angels are ministering spirit they are there to minister to you. As you are reading this book they are watching over you, as you are traveling they are there. Do you recognize them following that car you are traveling with? Do you see the angels seating with you in the car, or in the aircraft or even in the ship. I could have been forgotten in this world if not for the Angel's that goes around with me. In the volume 2 of this book you will hear my own experience and encounter. Bishop David Oyedepo of living faith church gave a testimony in one of his tapes. While he was in his Peugeot car with his wife, a trailer truck was coming towards them and out of fear his wife shouted Daddy what is happening he responded to the wife saying good things are to happen always as the truck was about to smash them, it suddenly diverted to another direction. If not for God's Angel, who came and lifted the truck out of the way, a different story would have been told. While I was growing up I remember an incident that happen in the village, which I hardly forget. There was this little baby who was still learning how to crawl, as the baby crawled behind the kitchen, there was a small local pot there, and behind it, there was a big black cobra. After her mum had searched everywhere for her only to find her at the back of the kitchen playing with the Cobra. She was paralyzed with fear at the sight and could not do anything but to raise an alarm after which the Cobra was killed with the baby unharmed. Can you explain why the cobra did not harm the child? It is simply because the Angel of God shut its mouth turning it into a toy. 7 8
The Angels are at work all the time for God's children. Don't neglect the angels, how many times have you called to thank heaven for the help the angels are rendering to you. In (CCC 334) it says, The whole life of the church benefits from the mysterious and powerful help of angels. What are these benefits? It will be discussed in the next volume. A woman once gave me her testimony of how each time she conceives, in her dream she will either see herself holding a flower which is a symbol of fulfilled love, or fruits which is always a symbol of blessings but on each occasion, somebody must come and take it away from her. She had lost about five pregnancies because of this experience. But one day somebody gave her my book titled, THE BATTLE OF MID NIGHT. She reminded me the day she called me to join her in prayers which I did, she said, that same week somebody came to collect guava she was holding in the dream as the person was about to go I appeared and commanded the person to give it back to her, at the same time an angel came, and the man gave it back to her and disappeared. When she woke up in the dream she was afraid and could not, but call her husband and they prayed. She later conceived and had a baby boy who she named after me (I.G.). It was the Angels that killed the first-born sons of Egypt; it was Angels that destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. It was Angels that stopped Pharaoh's horsemen before the red sea. In Num. 22:21 it says and Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the prince of Moab. And God's angel was kindled because he went and the angel of the Lord stood in the way as an adversary for him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants were with him. And the ass saw the angel of the Lord standing on the way, and his sword drawn in his hand; and the ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the field; and Balaam smite the ass, to turn her into the way. But the angel of the lord stood in a path of the vineyards as wall being on this side, and a wall on that side. And when the ass saw the angel of the Lord, she trusts herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall: and he smote her again. And the angel of the Lord went further and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn either to the right or to the left. Note here that Balaam was going against the will of God toward Israel and an angel came and stood against the will of Balaam. Any force, power of kingdom that is against you, the angel of the Lord will go against them. The Lord will send the hosts, armies of angels against the wicked plans of the enemies in your life, your business, your office, your home and project. As the ass crushed the leg of Balaam so shall it be to your enemies, their bones will be broken to pieces. There are many battles the angels have been fighting for you, which you don't know. Do you know what is happens when you are asleep? Do you know there are people who went to bed but could not wake up? But you are awake. Do you know that many people have pass the same road you passed, but never return back, but you pass it and return. There are many that have gone to the same hospital you went but did not return. I remember a young boy that went to the stream with his brother to wash their cloth in the village. The elder one knew how to swim but the younger one didn't know how to swim, when they arrived at the stream after dropping the clothes they were to wash, the elder brother dived into the stream, as he was swimming, he did not know that his younger brother also dived into the stream, the boy started drowning but before he knew it, an Angel came and picked him up and kept him at the bank of the river. It was a man tapping palm wine at the side of the stream who saw the person that rescued the boy but when he arrived at the scene, he did not see the person again. He was the one that narrated the story. Can you just see Angel's at work? Indeed they are ministering spirits and they will minister to you right away in Jesus name. Amen. 9 10