Since this past Sunday was Saint Patrick’s Day, I looked up my old message about St. Patrick, the movie produced by CBN. I saw it when CBN offered it for free for a short time. You can get it in streaming if you want to watch it. It was a very good movie about his real life of faith. I had no idea that Patrick was a slave in Ireland before he fled to Britain for freedom. What’s unbelievable was that he later went back to Ireland as a missionary and spread Christianity! https://www.cbn.com/giving/special/IAmPatrickDVD.aspx
It was also nice to read my old writing about angels and demons. I pray for God’s angels to be released in many places, situations and people. It’s becoming increasingly important to ask for supernatural help that is available to us.
I just realized that fasting and prayer for the three religions – Islam, Judaism and Christianity are all happening together in this month. Please read this good article about fasting and prayer. It’s a very powerful combination when I incorporate fasting into my prayers. I notice that I hear God’s voice better to pray according to His will and word during corporate prayers. With such faith then I know that I receive what I’ve prayed for. Please read this article and I hope that you also will try fasting and prayer in this month. This article gives us important dos and don’ts of biblical fasting.
https://www.oneforisrael.org/bible-based-teaching-from-israel/why-does-fasting-work/
(This old message was shared to my prayer groups on March 17, 2021.)
1. If anyone is interested, CBN made a movie about Saint Patrick of Ireland. I knew almost nothing about him and even a few things I knew I was wrong. He wasn’t even Irish. Lol. Here is CBN’s facts vs myths about him, and their movie information.
https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2020/march/separating-fact-from-myth-and-legend-to-uncover-the-true-story-of-saint-patrick
2. End-time biblical prophecies, angels and demons – This past Sunday’s message at Harvest church in CA was about end-time biblical prophecies. Pastor Greg Laurie also talked a little about angels and demons. In the last five months, I have been studying end-time biblical prophecies and hearing various interpretations by scholars and pastors who teach it. Therefore I can safely inform you that pastor Greg Laurie is teaching you an interpretation that is a popular consensus by biblical scholars. If you want to hear more about end-time biblical prophecies in the book of Revelation, please listen to his past Sunday sermons. They are all available on his church website. They are a broad overview, and if you want to study more in-depth then please reach out to me for some guidance.
Pastor Greg Laurie also shared a little bit about angels and demons. He again shared popular biblical interpretations about angels and demons. Billy Graham taught about angels and demons in his crusade sermon that was excellent and a good broad overview. He also wrote a book on this topic for those who want to learn more.
God’s angels are the most submissive creatures, because they always do the will of God and obey God completely. From my studies of angels, rank and order is very important to God’s angels. They are ministering fellow servants and must never be worshipped by us. Perhaps this is why we rarely see them because they appear pretty magnificent in biblical accounts and eye-witnesses. Whenever I pray especially corporately, I believe the angels are carefully listening to our prayers. As long as our prayers are aligned to God’s will revealed in the Bible, and my personal relationships are in the right place and in proper submission in rank and order, then I believe that God’s angels can answer my requests immediately. This is my personal conclusion and I’d be happy to support my conclusion scripturally too; if you want to hear more please reach out to me.
Please carefully consider your relationships in the church, family, work/volunteer places, and with government authorities. There are many times we must be submissive to the authorities that are placed over us to bring honor to Jesus Christ. Whenever it gets very hard for me to be submissive, I remember that I am a prayer intercessor for our country, community, church, schools, my family and children. And I need the fullest help and cooperation of God’s powerful angels. This thought makes it easier for me to be submissive. Whenever we have an opportunity, we should also teach our children and grandchildren proper biblical submission so that they will always receive God’s blessings, protection and favors. Please teach and remind them of Commandment #5 – Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you. – Exodus 20:12
There have been few instances that I was called to obey God’s will over human authority. In those few times of resistance and battling, I had no doubt that I was in the will of God, scripturally and consciously. If you are ever confused about biblical submission or your situation, please reach out to me for counsel and prayers.
Also if you see me not aligned properly in biblical submission, please call me out too. There would be little or no power in my prayers if I am out of alignment, and also I can come out of God’s blessings and protection too. I welcome your rebuke and prayers.
Please remember to pray for me. I really do my best everyday to honor God with my actions, behaviors and words; more so because I am assigned as a leader. This is one reason why I still wake up before dawn to pray and seek God’s counsel and comfort. I hear Him best at this time and so I submit myself to meet God at this time daily. Thank you so much for your prayers and support! With love and much prayers, Sasha.
Ephesians 5:21 (NIV) – Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
Greg Laurie’s sermon on end-times:
https://youtu.be/a_T7zK5hkhQ?si=LjwJ3-DFCsNkrrS3
Billy Graham’s sermon on angels:
This message was recently shared at Cornerstone church and it’s about one of the names of God – Yahweh Saboath (Lord of Hosts). I didn’t realize that this name of God is mentioned so much in the Bible. As the God of heavenly hosts of angels, He has no bounds to His powers.
https://www.gotquestions.org/Lord-of-hosts.html
(This is a follow up once I realized the old link to Greg Laurie no longer worked. I also shared about my experience with an angel.)
Hi everyone. I just realized that the old link to Pastor Greg Laurie’s message no longer works. I’m not sure if this was exactly same one but here is one of his message about the end-times biblical timeline. He does an amazing job summing it in just 45 minutes. https://youtu.be/a_T7zK5hkhQ
It is a very broad birds-eye view of biblical prophecy timeline. If you want to do an in-depth Bible study, I have about 7 Bible teachers for you and I have used every one of them and feel safe about sharing them with you. I used many resources because of the sensitive nature of the Book of Revelation. I wanted to be absolutely certain about the interpretations by Bible scholars and teachers of this book.
As I was thinking about God’s angels I am reminded about this little elderly Asian lady that I met at my church. I believe that she was a ministering angel who was sent by God just for me. Right after my “burning bush” encounter with God’s Spirit at a Target store, and now I was looking for a home church to get plugged into. In my first visit to my church, it was overwhelming since it was a very big church. Then this elderly Asian lady turned around and looked up at me with the most friendliest smile. I sat down next to her. Something about her presence just made me weep during worship. She never said anything. She didn’t look like she spoke English and so I never said anything to her other than hi and bye. Whenever I came to the church, I could always rely on her to be there so I don’t have to sit alone. The last time I saw her, she was fumbling with the translator device. I thought to myself that was strange that she never used one before. By that time, I knew that God wanted me to plant myself at this church. I saw in their weekly bulletin paper that they have a moms-in-prayer group on Thursday mornings when my son was in preschool. And so I decided to attend that small group to get plugged in. (My college church drilled in me the importance of being in a small group.) I never saw this elderly Asian lady again although I would scan the sanctuary looking for her and I still do sometimes. I believe she was a ministering angel sent by God to help me in my first few weeks back in church. The angel was playing with the translator device on the last day. 🙂
If you believe in God’s angels like I do, then you should believe that there are Satan and his demons too. I don’t watch horror movies because I know that demons are for real. I’ve had enough demonic attacks and encounters to know that they are for real and are very evil. When demons come to attack me, I cannot have their horrific images blown up in my mind from watching a horror movie. Instead I need to be in the fight back mode and being afraid of them will cause defeat. Horror movies prep your mind for defeat.
We do not have to suffer so needlessly by demons. We must learn to recognize them when they attack us and fight back immediately. They are nasty and evil and will take over as much as we allow them to if we don’t fight back. Please do listen to Billy Graham’s message shared below about God’s angels and he also talked about demons too. He has a very good book about God’s angels if you want to learn more.
I left the church in my mid-20s in order to save my sanity because no one was acknowledging demons and teaching me how to combat demon attacks. Today it is encouraging to see that there are many pastors and churches who acknowledge the spiritual warfare happening around us and teaching the believers how to fight back and win. Praise the Lord Jesus Christ!
Then the seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your name.” And He said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven.” – Luke 10:17-20(NKJV)
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+10&version=VOICE
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