Funny thing about testimonials. Those with faith, read and rejoice. Those without, simply doubt.
I’m joyful when I read your testimony.
I once had an exposure to one of a fallen nature. We got into a fistocuffs and I damn near had my head bashed in. I couldn’t believe it, but there was no denying the physical events to me and the perceptions we are given through faith in Him. When I simply appealed for it to be gone, through faith in Christ, scared sh*tless, albeit just a little bit of faith, it disappeared hastily while knocking over objects to get away.
I could care less if others don’t believe it,...they weren’t the ones about to get thumped.
Lots of other angel stories since, but most now from the spiritual domain.
IMHO, what most believers don’t realize is that we today through faith in Christ have more power available to us as believers than in any time in human history and perhaps in eternity future, because today we are indwelt by the Holy Spirit. The task is to remain in fellowship with Him in all things and let His Will prevail.
One of the reasons those who oppose Christ seek to reduce faith in Him to a comparative religion, is that if they can’t keep believers from having faith, then keep them thinking they really aren’t to exercise that faith in all things, so as not to offend. That reduces the spiritual opposition to their intentions in the spiritual domain.
They say we are Marines, 24/7. Even moreso, we are believers through faith in Christ 24/7, for now and all eternity. Thank You Lord!
We got into a fistocuffs and I damn near had my head bashed in.
Well, that reminded me of one situation that was very, very remarkable for me.
As I say, God does send His angels to do His bidding, all the time, all over this world. And, unseen to us, there are angels all around us. We don't always see them. They don't "live" among us or work with us, or have long conversations with us (if they say anything at all) or so on, like is popularized in the movies. No, they're just here to do, very specifically God's exact and precise bidding, which is done fully according to His will and full foreknowledge of all things that happen or will happen.
What your comments reminded me of (and I had forgotten), was the time I worked at a Mission. It was a place that housed recovering drunks and drug addicts and got them back on their feet, but many did not make it through the program for various reasons.
I worked with the Director of the mission with the Men's program (they also had a separate women's program). They all were housed in a three story buidling.
One particular man on the program was violating the conditions for his program and had to be removed. So, I was called into the office, to be there, while the Director delivered the bad news. This guy was really a bad dude, too and full of anger, so we sorta anticipated trouble and that was a reason for having a couple of us there at the time.
Well, sure enough, this guy erupted in anger and literally, without warning "flew" out of his chair and went for the director and bowled him over backwards onto his desk. I came up out of my chair in a flash and was on this guy's back as he had the director on his back, on the desk. This dude was super-strong and he was built and had the muscles. He was probably stronger than the both of us put together (unfortunately for us... LOL!). I was on this guy's back, trying to pull his arms back (around to his back, as he was trying to strangle the director.
The director managed to raise up from the desk and get to his feet, all the while while this dude is trying to choke him, and I'm on his back trying to pull his arms back around to his back. And all three of us are all locked together and we go stumbling around the room and finally, I'm banged up against the wall (to my back) and I managed to pull his arms back enough so that the director escapes from his hold. And then..., he runs out of the room...., ooops! That leaves me there all alone with this guy.
When the director got away, I released my grip off this guy and he got away from me, too. But, I was in the far back end of the office, while this dude was between me and the door. I would have to go through him to get out of the room. And he wasn't looking too kindly to me. He was out after me now and he was serious. And he was out to do some serious damage.
He looked at me, while I stood there wondering what I was going to do, and he looked around the room quickly to see what he could grab to go after me with it. He grabbed one of these trophy type things, with a heavy base and some kind of statue on it. He grabbed that and started swinging it back and forth, very slowly and menacingly at me, heading step by step over in my direction. It was a very slow movement with the trophy-statue, meaning to indicate that he's coming after me and he's showing me what he's going to use.
I backed up, but I didn't have far to go because I was pretty much at the wall in the office anyway. He only had to go a few more steps and then a few really strong and serious swings with it and I would be in big trouble. At that point I thought I had it.
BUT, all of a sudden, as he was very slowly and menacingly moving it back and forth in front of me -- the statue literally flew out of his hand -- like it was hit by a bat or something. I mean, it was literally *knocked out* of his hand. You should have seen the very shocked look on his face. It was pure shock. I must have had that same look on my face, because I couldn't believe the way that thing just flew out of his hand like it had been smacked with a big bat. We were both (for a couple of seconds) just stunned, looking at that and not doing anything, except just looking... LOL!
But,. he recovered pretty quickly. Now, here's another interesting thing about this. When that trophy-statue flew out of his hand, it flew right over the top of the director's desk, bounced and slid across it, and hit the wall that the desk was up against and slid down behind the desk where it was hidden and not accessible.
The dude, after "recovering" from his shock (shortly thereafter), took a few steps over towards the desk looking for where it went, couldn't see it or realized that he couldn't get to it without taking a lot of his attention off me -- so he then quickly looked around the room to see if there was anything else to grab, but saw there was nothing else, then looked at me -- still sort of "incredulous looking" on his face, and turned around and walked out of the room.
I was still stunned and couldn't believe it. I mean that trophy-statue literally flew out of his hand like it was shot from a gun and flew with such force over against that wall and down behind the desk where it couldn't be reached easily.
There was absolutely *no momentum* in anything that this guy did. He was not violently swinging or anything. Things like that just can't fly out of your hand the way this thing did. It's still "unbelieveable" to me -- to this very day, thinking about it and realizing how that thing flew out of his hand. You just can't believe the looks on both of our faces, I'm sure. LOL!
So, I know that something remarkable happened there. Surely it was God looking out for me and I thank Him for sending His angels to do His bidding. He's never surprised at things, always knows what is going to happen, and if it's in His will to do something about it, He will do so and/or send one of His millions of ministering angels to take care of whatever He says.
That day, it was one of His ministering angels who saved me from getting a terrible beating (or..., as this guy was capable of doing), killing me.
From time to time, I'm reminded of these things. You do tend to forget them over a period of time, and then (all of a sudden) something reminds you once again. I had forgotten about this one, for quite a few years, now, until I was just reminded of it once again.
God does intervene, every day, all over this earth, in many ways and according to His will and in working out His divine plan and in bringing things to the conclusion that He has determined for all of us here on this earth.
I would encourage everyone to be cognizant and aware of this, every day and don't forget God is always there and He will send His ministering angels.
Regards,
Star Traveler