Invisible Protection

It's difficult to have your entire faith based on something that you can't see. Lots of people argue that they can't see God so He must not exist. Most churches end up turning to preaching about love and forgiveness since those are attributes of Christ that can be lived out through us today. I do believe that we can love in a way, that is only like Christ, by the power of His Holy Spirit living inside of us. That same power also gives us the ability to forgive in a way that not many people of other faiths understand. We turn to the things that make more sense to help us understand what we can't see. 

We also seem to shy away from those things that we can't make sense of in our modern society. When's the last time you knew an angel or a demonic spirit was at work? How often are they but we attribute it to something else? What if we thought about attacks on our health, finances, relationships, etc. as potentially from a force that Christ has already beaten?

I love reading and thinking about angels. Multiple times Jesus mentions that angels were protecting or helping Him along. Sometimes when I'm worshiping I try to close my eyes and imagine angels in every open space dancing and praising God, holding nothing back. I want to think more about how angels might be present with me in my every day life, and I want to understand the power they have so that I can fully utilize it in ministry, but they're invisible and the outcome of angels or demons being involved in something is often attributed to luck -good or bad, coincidence, fortune, etc. so it is often overlooked.

In Matthew 26:53 Jesus says "Do you think that I cannot now pray to My Father, and He will provide Me with more than twelve legions of angels?"

A Roman legion was composed of 6,000 soldiers, so Jesus is saying that all He has to do is ask and God will provide Him with 72,000 angels! The notes in my Bible point me toward 2 Kings 19:35 where one angel kills 185,000 men in one night. If one angel can accomplish more than any number of men could ever hope to accomplish, think about 72,000....

My point is that I want to know angels are here with me and available to me when I need them. I don't want to talk too much about it now, because I hope to talk more about it when I read this portion of Scripture but Jesus is also visited by angels after He goes through a very difficult time. They minister to Him and help Him recover spiritually. Another time Elijah is surrounded by angels as a sign of protection. So we already know that angels are in the business of protecting and healing. I want to change my prayers to more specifically ask God to provide me with angels to heal my wounds, beat my temptations, etc. 

If angels are available to us to help fight what we can't see should we pretend we're not getting spiritually attacked because we can't see it, or should we ask our Father to hook us up with some of His angel army to defeat this stuff?! God has given us the weapons we need to make the disciples He's asked us to make - we just need to trust that the weapons are working. Don't hesitate to pull the trigger because you aren't sure you loaded the gun. Don't not turn the key because you aren't sure if the car has gas. Pull the trigger. Turn the key.