God's Angels may have been working in your life BEFORE you knew Him

“Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?” (Heb. 1:14 NIV)

He was there before I knew Him

When I was in Vietnam, I had many close calls. Bullets zipped past my ears without hitting me. A mortar exploded right next to me, knocking me into the air, but I was unhurt. The timing for missing extreme danger was often miraculous; I arrived to places right after they had been attacked, or I left shortly before they were blown up. I wasn’t a believer yet, and I didn’t understand anything about God being involved personally in human lives.

I was prayed for!

Shortly after arriving back home, the young son of a pastor said to me, “Boy am I glad to see you are back from Vietnam! I was sick of hearing my dad pray for you at every meal for a whole year!” I was shocked to hear that the pastor had been praying for me! A few months later I prayed to receive Christ and began to read and study the Bible. I found a verse that said, “Are not angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?” (Heb. 1:14) This verse clearly says that God’s angels are sent to serve those who WILL INHERIT salvation”. God sends His angels to serve those who aren’t saved yet, but who will eventually be! God knew in advance that I would in the future pray to receive Him (inherit salvation). Therefore, He assigned angels to help me BEFORE I had received Him as my savior! Wow! What an amazing, wonderful, all-knowing, sovereign God we serve!

God works out all things because we have obtained an inheritance

“In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will.” (Eph. 1:11 ESV)

Watch out, you may not recognize God’s angels when you see them!

“Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.” (Heb. 13:2 NIV)