Post 3 The Promise of Angels

Post 3 The Promise of Angels

Hebrews 13:2 NLT

2 Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for some who have done this have entertained angels without realising it!

Hebrews 13:2 NKJV

2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels.

Many might look at this verse and shrug it off as something that is in the Bible but not for them. This could be a very typical response as many people might think meeting angels is simply for people that are special. But promises are in the Bible for a reason, and a verse like this should encourage us to look out for strangers and show hospitality. Of course, our love for Jesus and strangers should inspire us in all our actions but if we are fortunate we might have a story to tell.

One day I was driving a taxi and I picked up what looked to be a businessman from the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. When he got in my taxi I greeted him and we settled in to talk. He was going to the airport so we had about a forty minute trip ahead of us. I asked him how his day had been and he told me that he'd had a nice day so far, but rather than talking about him and his life we were going to talk about my life on the trip.

He started asking me about my life. I had been been separated from my wife and I was going through a messy divorce and it wasn't long before I was getting emotional. Every time I told him something, he said "the Bible says this about that…" Each thing I brought up, he had a Bible verse and an explanation for each of my issues I was going through. The forty minutes passed quite quickly and I got him to the airport. He signed a cabcharge cheque and I shook his hand and he said goodbye. I got back in my taxi, pulled off from the curb and shook my head. I thought, "That must have been an angel." I parked my taxi and ran back into the airport and looked all over. He had disappeared! I asked Jesus if he had been and angel and Jesus said yes he was.

I was in a country town in New South Wales once and my friend Tama and I befriended a homeless drinker and used to chat to him as often as we saw him. Both Tama and I had been homeless and we had an affinity with them. One day we asked the homeless man if he wanted some pizza. He sat down with us and ate some pizza. He went into a kind of trance and right away started to speak to us in the voice of Jesus. Tama started to cry which was a sign of the Holy Spirit that used to come on Him when God was doing something. Jesus spoke to us that day through this stranger that we had befriended. He spoke some very comforting words to us to let us know we were right on track with what He wanted us to do,

Another time I was in a church and Jesus was telling me that He didn't want me attending that church. I told Jesus, "I am not going to leave this church unless I see you come into the church and I see them kick you out." Right then a homeless lady we knew from the town came into the church with all her worldly possessions in a shopping cart. She started to sing to the worship and started to dance and run around the church. The people of the church kicked her out. This was amazing.

The next day my friend and I saw her in town and told her we were sorry she got kicked out of the church the day before. She told us she didn't come to our church. We insisted that she had, and she insisted that she hadn't. She then said, "See those stars in the sky Matthew?  My friend started to cry as we heard Jesus speaking through her. "My Father made those stars. When are you going to listen to me Matthew? I want to tell you things and simply have you obey. That church was not right for you and I wanted you to leave. Why didn't you just listen to me? She looked at my friend Tama, picked up a porcelain  angel from her shopping trolley and said, "Your mother gave this to me to give to you." My friend started to weep as he took the angel. She came out of her trance and said asked us, "Have you got any money for some smokes. Tama gave her twenty dollars. Tama told me after that experience that the angel was special to him because his birth mother was dead and in Heaven.

As you can see these two strangers manifested Jesus to us. If we were not kind to strangers then these events would not have happened to us.

I have met many angels in spirit form and they are constantly with me. I have three angels that I know by name that are always with me. One time in a prophecy God said to me that he loves the way that I treat his angels. I have a great relationship with God and He is always showing up in different ways for me.

It is not impossible to meet an angel. 

A book on angels that I really enjoyed that was not New Age was called "Angels are for real" by Judith MacNutt.

Prayer

I pray that my story and this post encourages more readers to be kind to the poor and the strangers in life. I pray that they too might have an encounter and be able to share with others and increase other people's faith. I pray that the reader my grow in their senses and be able to "feel" their angels with them. In Jesus name I ask this. Amen