One boy with a father in the Gulf said there was a kind of invisible
shield. You can't see it, but it's over there protecting my father.
That's what we're talking about is Operation Prayer Shield. We're praying
for people.
Now, the Lord has said that if we make Him our refuge, that we'll abide
under the shadow of the Almighty, we read in the 91st Psalm. And here's
something very significant, because He says that He's going to order
His angels to protect you wherever you go. Now, He will order angels
to protect you.
What are angels? Angels are powerful, spiritual beings. One angel was
able to kill 185,000 troops of the Assyrian army, 185,000 in one night.
An angel is very, very powerful, and the Bible says that they are -
well, we use the term "guardian" - guardian angels. But the
concept is that they're ministering angels to look after the heirs of
salvation, and He said the angels will protect you in all your ways.
And I might emphasize in all your ways.
The devil came to Jesus and misquoted this, and he said, "Jump
off the building and the angels will catch you," because it says
in the next verse. "They'll hold you up with their hands and keep
you from striking your foot on a stone." But he misquoted it, because
it says they will protect you in all your ways. And your ways are those
ways given you by God that would not include jumping off high buildings
and trying to be dramatic and asking the angels to come down and pick
you up.
But our men and women are in service, and we want to pray that the
angels of the Lord will watch over them and keep them in the way. Some
of them are volunteering but mostly they're being ordered into combat
by the United States government to take out a tyrant, and they're willing
to go and risk their lives. But at the same time, we need to pray for
that covering of the Lord, and it says He will order his angels to protect
you and we need the protecting power of the angels of God.
