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Sunday, March 24, 2019

DGS DHINAKARAN OF INDIA 9

HEAVEN VISITATIONS 9

Why exactly were angelic beings created?

If you read Revelation 19:10, there the apostle John the Divine was so much moved by whatever the angel of God revealed to him and he was about to fall at his feet and worship him, then he said, "Don't do that. I am only a servant just like you. I am a servant."

Rev 19:10 And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

If you read Psalm 103:20, the Bible says the angels of God are the servants of the Most High God.

Psalm 103:20 Bless the LORD, you His angels, Mighty in strength, who perform His word, Obeying the voice of His word!

Psalm 104:4 Who maketh His angels spirits; His ministers a flaming fire.

If you read Hebrews 1: 7 and 14, both these verses tell us very clearly what is the real motive for which God created them.

Heb 1:7 And of the angels he saith, Who maketh His angels spirits, and His ministers a flame of fire.

Heb 1:14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?

So they are ministers to God, ministers to those who are going to inherit salvation and eternal life, to you and me and also to the Almighty God.

If you read Psalm 18:10 the Bible says He was being carried by His cherub. That means carried by his angels.

Psa 18:10 And He rode upon a cherub and did fly: yea, He did fly upon the wings of the wind.

If you read the Bible in Exodus 25:20 and also in the book of Ezekiel, you read over there how the Almighty God kept these angels of God to cover and overshadow His throne.

Exo 25:20 And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be.

Eze 28:14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.

So it's a very interesting thing the day God decided to call creation into existence. If you read John 5:26 God has life within Himself.

John 5:26 For as the Father hath life in Himself; so hath He given to the Son to have life in Himself.

He said, "I am the first, I am the last."

Isaiah 44:6 Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me, there is no God.

Rev 22:13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

We do not know when He created the angels but they were created so that they can minister to Him. They are ministers of the Almighty God and they ministered to you all. That's the greatest thing not only to God but those who have been adopted by God as His own children.

The Bible says in John 1:12 and Galatians 4:4-7 and in Romans 8:15, and Ephesians 1:5, you read over there how we have the spirit of adoption. God adopts us to become His children and they become the servants not only to the Master but also those who belong to the Master, even the smallest thing they come and minister to you.

John 1:12 But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name.

Gal 4:4-7 But when the fulness of the time has come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

Rom 8:15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

Gal 4:5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

Eph 1:5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will.

I still remember two major events when the angels of God came to help me. As I have been telling, again and again, I am a man who works 18 hours a day for God. Even today as a full-time minister, I do that. That time when I was working in the bank, I also was doing that.

So one day I went to the bank, worked very hard and then I had to go and pray for so many people in need and desperate need. I came back home probably around midnight at twelve o'clock so tired. I had something to eat and I allowed my wife and my little son Paul to go to sleep. That time I was not so rich and could not afford any luxurious things. We had only very ordinary bed. And as I was lying on the bed, I had great chest pain, unbearable pain. It is not the heart attack but I knew that because of the exhaustion I had so much pain and I didn't know what to do. I didn't want to wake up my poor wife who went to sleep just then.

Lying down there on my bed I cried, "Lord, for Your sake only I've been working all this evening and if I get a pain, Lord what shall I do? Please help me."

And the Holy Spirit came and then opened my eyes. I saw an angel of God descending from heaven. He came sat by my side and I heard something like harp, an instrument which I had never seen. It was an instrument with many strings probably 20 or 30 strings. Then he began to sing with the help of this harp. It was so melodious, so beautiful, so enchanting.

He began to sing, "2,000 years ago in the land of Palestine there appeared God, the God who was not controlled by time, came into this world as a person controlled by time and He lived to the age of 33..." and so on. Whoa, he sang the life story of Jesus

As I was listening and listening and listening, I went to sleep and my chest pain disappeared. It is with this theme and music in mind we compose that song "Palestina" (in Tamil). I sang and taught my son and he sang and we recorded the song. It's so amazing. The angels come and play this wonderful music. In heaven also you see some of them playing in marvelous instruments and so on.

On another occasion which I remember is when I was in real mental agony. Like that, I came back one day very late and my wife asked me a simple question, "Do you know what day is tomorrow?" I said, "It's Sunday." "Tomorrow is Sunday but tomorrow is Easter day and every other child who will come to the church will wear a new dress but we don't have a new dress for our only one child." Oh, I felt so miserable. Well, at first I thought I will try to catch hold of some of my friends, borrow some money and buy some clothes for my little son. At least that was a time when God allowed me to go through the part of financial problems.

The Bible says in Job 23:10 But He knoweth the way that I take: when He hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

If God is going to use a person, if God is going to give a person a great ministry, if God is going to entrust a man with public money, God will, first of all, put him to test, just put him into trial and see how he responds.

So nearly six years I went through poverty though I was working in the bank, though I was receiving a decent salary yet this salary will come exactly for three weeks. The fourth week will be a week of agony. We were always asking the establishment clerk, "Hey, when are you going to pay this month's salary?" It was mysterious somehow the expenses will come and you won't have money and this was the fourth week.

I didn't know what to do but I felt very miserable. "Lord, if I don't have a new dress, if my wife doesn't have a new dress, it doesn't matter but I have neglected to buy something for my own little son. Only one son You have given and I've not cared for him."

I very much felt the pain in my heart and I wept bitterly. Again, I asked my wife to go to sleep. I said I'll do something tomorrow and I knelt down. We had one bed. My son and wife will sleep on the floor on a mat and I used to sleep on the bed. I knelt down and literally cried and then suddenly I felt someone was standing by my side and I saw a mighty angel of God with both the wings up.

He said, "Get up, go and open your box." I told him, "I know what that box contains. It contains only some old clothes." He said, "That does not matter. You come with me." So I went to the other room and then it is opened. That box was full of used clothes, clothes with no value, even if we give them to someone they will not accept it. So much were worn out and torn.

I looked at him, "I told you." He said, "Take the first layer away." I took the first layer away. And lo and behold, there were beautiful brand-new currency notes. I was thrilled. He said, "Take it. Use it. Have a nice Easter." And he disappeared.

Oh my God. I looked around. I wanted to be very sure that it is not a dream but I was so much taken by that. I looked up the electric light was burning. I'd only switched on that light and I saw my wife sleeping. I woke her up. I asked her, "Did you keep any money in this box?" She said, "No, you never gave me any money to keep like that." I told her the story. Oh, we were thrilled. The next day early morning we went out purchased not just one little trouser and shirt for my son but purchased so many things and we had the best Easter.

Oh, I can never forget. The angels of God are there to minister to us. This we should never forget. Be of good cheer, they're always around you. That is why the Lord Jesus said in John 1:51, "From now on, you will see the angels of God ascending and descending, taking away your prayer requests, bringing down the answers from God."

John 1:51 And He saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.

What an amazing truth this is, to know that we are not alone, we are never alone, we have angels commanded from God with a mission to protect us and be with us, comfort us and minister unto us.

Are the angels that have been actively bringing miracles and enabling the saints in the Old Testament continue to do so in the New Testament?

Yes if you read the Acts 5:19-20 the apostles were arrested and the king wanted to kill them but the angel of God came and their chains just fell like that and said, "Come." They walked out and there was great confusion and then they found out that both these people were released despite the guards still outside the prison.

Act 5:19-20 But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth, and said, Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.

In Acts of the Apostles 10:3-6, you read about a centurion called Cornelius, the man who is given up to prayer and giving out alms to the poor and the Bible says one day an angel of God appeared and talked to him, "Please call Simon Peter. He will tell you what point to do."

Act 10:3-6 He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius. And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God. And now send men to Joppa, and call for one Simon, whose surname is Peter: He lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea side: he shall tell thee what thou oughtest to do.

In Acts 8:26-29 you read about Philip the Evangelist in a desert. The angel of the Lord took him to the desert to minister to a minister of another country but then the Spirit said, "Go and join the chariot."

Act 8:26-29 And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert. And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure and had come to Jerusalem for to worship, was returning and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet. Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot.

Again if you read Acts 27:18-24 when Paul was alone in the ship, everyone else not knowing who is Christ and there was a crisis in the ship in which he was sailing was about to sink. He said the angel of God appeared and told him, "Paul, don't worry, nothing will happen because you are here, God is going to save everybody in this ship."

Act 27:18-24 And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship; And the third day we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship. And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away. But after long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss. And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of any man's life among you, but of the ship. For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve, Saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Caesar: and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.

By so many miracles, He was guiding the apostles of God.

I always remember one particular incident that happened in Guntur in South India. I went to this small church one day and after the meeting, I was praying for the people and a lady brought a girl. It was a very disturbing sight to see this girl. From head to foot her whole body was full of blisters. It was a very agonizing sight. The mother told me the story. She said, "One day my daughter had a very high fever so I took her to a doctor and the doctor gave me some pills to bring down the fever. But he never realized that she was having chickenpox or smallpox coming up. He could not identify it and the medicines acted in the other way. The whole body was full of blisters. We tried all over the world and finally, the doctors in London said, 'Sorry, madam, nothing can be done. She will have to learn to live with these blisters. So I didn't know what to do. Sir, she's only one daughter I have. She is nine years old and it's an abominable sight for others and we cry every day. Please help us."

As I was about to pray, suddenly an angel of God appeared. He said, "Ask her husband to bring a bottle of oil tomorrow. Bless the oil and give it to him. When they apply this oil on these blisters, it will disappear."

So I asked her, "Where is your husband?" She said, "He doesn't believe in all these things. He's standing outside the church."

So I said, "Tell him to bring the oil and I'll pray and give it to you. When you apply, she'll be alright."

The next day he came and he had an amazing story. He said, "Sir, I never believed in any of these things, supernatural things and I was watching you praying for the people and when you laid your hands upon a particular girl, an illiterate girl, a girl who is working in a tobacco company. Her sari was torn, she was so poor but when you laid your hands upon her she began to break forth in another heavenly language and she began to praise God and nobody could control her. Do you know, Sir, what she spoke?"

I said, "I do not know."

He said, "Sir, she spoke beautiful Latin praising God. I was in Italy. I did a little bit of Latin. Oh, it was amazing and I'm convinced that God is alive and it is God who spoke through that girl and that message was only for me."

1 Cor 14:24-25 But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all. And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest, and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.

Anyway, I asked God to bless the oil and gave it to them. Years past I had never had an occasion to meet them. After 16 full years, I met them as a family in another city and I saw this girl, fully grown up, ready to be married, so wonderful to look at and I asked him, "What happened to those blisters?"

He said, "When you blessed that oil and gave us, we very faithfully applied that oil and all the blisters went away in a remarkable way. I had resigned my job, my wife has resigned her job. As a family today we are serving God."

Thank God for the mighty angel who came and gave me the counsel of God that I should anoint the oil and pray. Secondly to call her husband. Yes, he knew the problem is with the husband. So through this incident, he was made a believer and the entire family have started working for God. They are in a city called Hyderabad.

The counsel of an angel can make an eternal difference in the lives of people by bringing them to Christ. Whenever God calls someone, do the Angels have a part in taking this calling of God and delivering it to the people?

When God places a calling upon someone's lives, it is like this. You see, for example, this Gideon and Joshua, all these people had a visitation from an angel of God and the angel of God told Gideon, "God is with you. Go and He is going to come."

Jdg 6:11-16 And there came an angel of the LORD and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites. And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and said unto him, The LORD is with thee, thou mighty man of valor. And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all His miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites. And the LORD looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee? And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house. And the LORD said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man.

So there are certain times when God really sends a holy angel to talk to them but the greatest danger here, is as far as your calling is concerned, if you read the call of Moses, the call of Jeremiah, the call of Paul, it's a direct call. God called them very definitely and He confirmed it again and again and again so that there will be no doubt.

So sometimes as I have been always telling, you have a spirit of man within you in Proverbs 18:14, Proverbs 20:27 your spirit of man.

Proverbs 18:14 The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity, but a wounded spirit who can bear?

Proverbs 20:27 The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.

So many times you imagine that the angel of God has come. So I will tell you a very funny thing. When I was a young fellow I used to listen to stories of the devil, ghost stories. As I was reared up in the village, so every night we'll all gather around the grandmothers and they will tell us, "Oh the devil came and it happened like this."

So I thought they were real. So one evening, I went to my friend's house and I took a look inside. Unfortunately, nobody was in the house but I saw a head moving round and round. Yes, I was horrified so I ran and told all my friends, "There's a devil in that in that house."

So they said, "We'll all come and help you." They picked up all the rods possible, iron rods and this rod and that rod. "We will beat it up today."

We went and I showed them, "Look at that head." "Yes," they said, "We will today break it open." When we went in, lo and behold, it was the servant-maid grinding the rice flour and she was turning her head round and round. I could see this head from one side, not knowing it was the servant maid's head.

So many people go by imagination, saying, "An angel of God came," and many will say, "Jesus came and spoke..." People get all kinds of imagination.

So it is very difficult to believe people unless as I said when the angel of God comes, all the whole room is filled with a mighty Spirit of God, rather the presence of God, the anointing of God and you become a totally different person. Especially before I go for the evening meeting to preach.

Normally from the morning, I pray. I don't believe in going and blabbering something at the last minute, saying, "God told me that..." I don't believe that. I believe in solid preparation. For one full week, I fast and pray and prepare. Then the whole day I am in prayer. If anybody comes in and disturbs me even for something genuine, I cry.

Then most of the time the Holy Spirit comes but sometimes the angel of God comes and brings the anointing of God and you are not able to bear that. Then you know that you have seen the angel of God and the anointing comes upon you and the joy of the Lord comes and fills you and amazing boldness comes on you. Then you know that it is the voice of God sent through the angel.

Otherwise, the greatest danger is to imagine that there is an angel when there is no accompaniment of the anointing, the joy and the boldness of the Lord and also the physical appearance of the angel here. Otherwise, it's possible only to imagine something without all this.

As you read in 2nd Corinthians 11:14, And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

So these things are very risky. I won't take a risk.

Has there been any situations where the devil was masquerading as an angel of light?

I will come to that now. I'll come to what the devil can do. Now if you read the Bible in Isaiah 14:12-17 and Ezekiel 28:12-19, if you read these two portions both these portions talk about the fallen angel called Lucifer.

Isa 14:12-17 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms. That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?

Eze 28:12-19 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. By the multitude of thy merchandise, they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.

And if you read Revelation 12: 9-10 the devil is called "that old serpent."

Rev 12:9-10 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.

Yes, Satan and the devil is also from the beginning. The day God made the angels, Lucifer was one of the Archangels. That's why the Bible says in Ezekiel 28:14 and 15 he was made to cover the throne of God and he was a person of extraordinary beauty filled with extraordinary heavenly wisdom, all the time dwelling in the marvelous light into which no man can enter the great light

Eze 28:14-15 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.

Now the Bible says in Eze 28:15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.

What is that iniquity? 1st Timothy 3:6 says "Pride."

1 Timothy 3:6 Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he falls into the condemnation of the devil.

Lucifer said, "Why not I climb into the throne of God? Why not I sit like God?"

So the moment that the pride came the Bible says God pushed him aside. Not only pushed him aside, in Jude 6 and 2nd Peter 2:4 the Bible says, God, bound him and all the other angels who sided with him and who fell with him. He bound them with chains of darkness and eternal chains of darkness, nobody can break the chains except the eternal God.

Jude 1:6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, He hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

2 Peter 2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment.

One day when the Lord Jesus Christ took me to heaven and after spending a lot of time with me, He called an angel of God and He said, "On the way back home, show him hell."

So the angel of God said, "Come." So we went to another place. On the way back home, exactly as heaven is a great planet, I saw another planet not so big but there it was a separate place and as I entered, the angel has so much mighty power, the moment he went, every door was open and nobody knew why the door was opening. He just took me in.

First of all, he took me straight to the throne of Satan. Till then, I used to imagine that Satan will be a horrible monster and he'll be horrible to look at. His two hands and his face will be gruff and so on but when I saw him I was thunderstruck that his beauty is majestic.

Exactly as the throne of Jesus Christ is in heaven so also he has a beautiful throne exactly. And exactly as there are cherubim and seraphim and mighty angels of God, he has a replica of the whole hierarchy of angels and I mean senior angel advisors talking and so on.

But one thing struck me when you see heaven, you see light everywhere, from dim light to bright light to dazzling light. As you go higher and higher, you see the dazzling light everywhere. Even there the place where you first enter heaven is full of light. It has nothing to do with darkness at all.

But here in hell, you see all the time the evening dusk, the setting sun, that all the time it's there. It is dull, neither bright nor dark. It is very disgusting, very disgusting and God has said, "Bind this fellow with chains of darkness. Wherever he may go, his chains follow him. The Devil cannot shut them away. You see his face full of sadness, no joy. I looked at the faces of the angels around him who are supposed to be his advisors, they are full of sadness.

The angel said to me, "Come near and listen to what they speak."

As I was listening, they were not planning about taking over the little fellow, catching hold of one fellow here and that lady there. No, they were planning to take over kingdoms and every country has some very wicked people, very independent people who will not listen to anyone but who will have tremendous worldly wisdom and authority and a silver tongue and they were saying, "Oh, in such a country we have these fellows. These fellows we can easily catch and through them, we can take that nation."

Amazing. Then as they were discussing how to take all nations and how they were fully aware of the evil people, the wicked people. In between, they mentioned the names of some mighty servants of God, servants of God who are being used mightily. That was the only time I saw Satan smiling, "Is it so-and-so? Don't be worried about him. He has this weakness. Strike him dead, he's finished."

I was horrified when he mentioned about certain people and names. I was horrified. It happened exactly so.

So that was the time I knew that exactly as the Lord Jesus Christ is watching us from heaven, the devil also is watching us. He is not worried about the sinful people but those who are being marvelously used by God, those on whom the mighty anointing of God rest, he carefully watches them. He knows which temptation that man will fall, in which temptation that woman will fall, they know.

So their target is not all the time the ordinary man. Well, that really horrified me and I remembered the words of Saint Paul in Acts 24:16, And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offense toward God, and toward men.

Again who can guard us, only He can guard us. That is why the Bible says in Ephesians 5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit.

Be filled with the Spirit continuously. When the Holy Spirit is in you the Bible says in Isaiah 59: 19 When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.

And in 1st John 4:4 greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world.

But we must be sure that He is there in us. We cannot grieve Him. That's the greatest mistake. That's why the Bible says in Ephesians 4:30 And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

Unfortunately Judges 16:20 and again in 1st Sam 16:14 how the Holy Spirit was grieved by Saul and grieved by Samson and pushed away.

Jdg 16:20 And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed from him.

1 Sam 16:14 But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him.

Oh, that should never happen. So that day I learned a lesson that I am NOT alone in this world. Dhinakaran, the more he is used by God the more he will be watched by the devil - where he will slip, where he will fall, here can I catch him? That is the fact.

Then the angel said, "Come along." Then I went and I was horrified to find millions and millions and millions of evil spirits, not just one million. They are not human spirits but are demonic angels.

If you read Revelation 5:11, And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands.

In the presence of God, there are ten thousand times ten thousand angels of God.

Here in the same way when Satan fell here, a portion of the angelic forces also fell with him and they are there.

So apart from this, if you read Psalms 55:23, But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in thee.

And of course in so many other places, a man who really shed the blood, the innocent blood and so on, sometimes God says, "Cut his life off. Cut his life." Supposed a man was to live to the age of 80, probably at the age of 40, that man would have died

If you read Psalm 7:11, it says God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.

He is angry with the wicked every day.

That is why if you read Matthew 12:43 and 44, When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.

Some demonic powers are being thrown out and come back because they had no place to go.

During these 40 years, they roam about until the day appointed by God. They are neither in heaven nor in hell. They can't go anywhere else.

What do they do roaming about? They join the forces of evil because they can't go anywhere else. They join these evil forces and try to do as much harm as possible to the living people especially the children of God.

These spirits that are roaming neither in hell or in heaven are causing a demonic problem in people here.

Black magic and witchcraft come from the demonic realm that I will tell you later. But these spirits also join them. For example near Coimbatore, in one home one boy gave his heart to the Lord and he became very pious and so on but his father though he was a Christian, he was a very worldly man and his life was pursuing money, money, money.

This boy used to come and attend our meetings. One day while we were going to some place to some prayer meeting, he came next to me. He was a very wonderful boy. Suddenly I turned and told him, "Brother, God is going to use you mightily but be very careful with your life. Nothing should separate you from God. You should never do anything in haste."

I never knew why I said that. Now within a short while, one day he went to the city to purchase some provisions from the shop and that day there was a revival meeting somewhere. He attended the revival meeting and the friend said, "Why go back in the night? Stay here, go back tomorrow." He went the next day and his father scolded him very much.

His name is Das. He scolded him very much. He couldn't bear it. He said, "Why don't you go and kill yourself somewhere?" He took it to heart. He went to a well full of water and people saw him praying and praying near that well and crying, "Lord, take away my life." And he purposely held both his hands at the back. He jumped into the well, drowned himself and now the news came to us.

We were all feeling very sad and so on. After a month or so, a pastor and his wife went to conduct a prayer meeting there. And as they were conducting the prayer meeting, suddenly one lady cried and screamed. So the pastor went, laid his hands upon her and said, "You devil, come out," and she began to cry and she began to speak in the voice of a man. He said, "Pastor, don't you recognize me? I am Das. I'm sorry I killed myself and I'm just roaming about like this. I'm not able to face God. I'm not able to go to hell. I don't want to go to hell. Please permit me to stay in this woman's body and merge with her spirit." Nevertheless, the pastor said, "Get out."

But what I am trying to say this happens and I was in a small town. I was there for four years and every Wednesday evening in a small church they used to have a Bible study. So I also used to go there and sit there and in due course, the elder of the church very much requested me, "Sir, we would like you to do the preaching." When I began to preach, I began to talk especially about the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Tremendous crowds began to come every Wednesday evening. All the rounding villagers would be pouring in the bullock carts and their bulldozers, this that. It seems to be a festive day gathering where people came without any difference of caste, creed, and religion. People just come because I used to speak with great love and great compassion and finally pray for the people to get healed.

And thank God everyone who came to be healed would be healed and every demon will be cast out and we worked as a team.

But one day after I left that place, one day that time I used to speak in radio Sri Lanka exactly in the evening at 5:00 to 5.30 for half an hour.

One day in a home they were having this radio program on and suddenly one of the listeners began to scream and we were wondering what happened.

Then somebody said, "Devil, get out." There that man began to speak in a woman's voice and she said, "I am so-and-so and I used to come and listen to Brother Dhinakaran's sermons every Wednesday. I loved it. Because of the problems at home, I hanged myself to death and I'm wondering before the sun sets, please, I beg of you, please allow me to listen to the sermon. Long time since I heard it. Let me listen to the sermon then I will surely go."

They didn't know what to do and my sermon went on and finally, when I prayed the mass prayer, I said, "In the name of Christ, devil, leave this home." She left after crying so much.

So it is from this I learned how much these people who commit suicide, how much their spirits roam about in a restless way.

I went to a place near the border of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. One evening I preached there. The very first evening, I preached about God's love. I preached only about God's love and suddenly I found a big commotion everywhere and everywhere people who were possessed with evil spirits they would come running to the tent and the greatest thing is they would fall one above the other, one above the other and I'd allow them to pile up and accumulate and tell them, "Keep quiet." And they'll keep quiet and finally after everything, after giving a time for the people to get reconciled with God and finally when I say, "Now in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, you come out." Then they begin to manifest and most of them were possessed with spirits who either burnt themselves, or have committed suicide, or drank poison, or hanged themselves and so on. So it is a very, very sad thing and because they can neither go to God nor hell, they roam about on earth. This is what the Bible says in Matthew 12:43 and 44. It's very sad.


DGS DHINAKARAN OF INDIA 8

HEAVEN VISITATIONS 8

As a bondservant, He gives you that spirit of reverence for God and you always live in the fear of God. Your faith is always an imparted faith. He gives you faith at that time. Faith cannot be stored. Your past experiences are not going to bring faith to you. That brings only arrogance. You cannot produce faith, you cannot store faith.

So anyway, I was in agony. I didn't know what to do. I actually wanted to call the nurse, I couldn't. I wanted to call my wife to wake her up, nothing, no voice was coming out of my mouth and I didn't know what to do, I was so helpless and the devil was walking up and down, telling me again and again and again, "Tomorrow you'll be sick again."

Suddenly a mighty presence came and I saw a mighty angel of God. First time I saw him. He was seven feet tall with this wings spread and he came and told me, "Dhinakaran, this is Michael. Dhinakaran, this is Michael. The Almighty God told me you are in trouble and He asked me to go and help you."

Oh, when he came, the whole thing changed but the devil was very reluctant to go, very reluctant, so if on the left side Michael stands, right side, the devil will come, "Tomorrow, you are going to be sick again."

And Michael will say, "Dhinakaran, this is Michael. That kidney is a gift from the Almighty God. It's not borrowed. It's not a loan to you. The gift God will protect. I am Michael. Don't be worried."

It was going on for some time and his wings were spread over the entire room and me and finally, the devil said that he could not do anything and he had to leave.

But for some time there was a real tussle. If you read Jude 9 when God was about to bury the body of Moses, on one side came the devil and on the other side came Michael and he argued with Michael. I don't know what he argued. Probably he argued that this body should be given to him but Michael said, "Let God rebuke you."

Jude 1:9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.

That's the end of the whole thing. He spoke a word of authority and then the most amazing thing happened. Right above my head, I saw the same fire which is burning on the throne of God in heaven, that fire that came upon Mount Sinai in Exodus 19, I saw the fire.

Exo 19:18 And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.

From there the Almighty God spoke, "My son, I am the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I will protect you, I will protect you, I will bless you." And He told me so many things which are going to happen to me in the future. He said, "Go to sleep, son. Michael will guard you." I felt like a little boy to sleep, like a little baby I slept. The whole night he was guarding me, whole night he was there and then he told me, "Lifelong, I will protect you, lifelong I will protect you."

Anytime I am worried about my kidney, any time I worry about my heart which was touched and an operation was held here for nine blocked arteries, there he will appear, he will say, "I am Michael, don't be worried. I will guard you." What a relief. So it is he who has that sword on the left side hanging and it's a mostly ornamental and majestic but thank God for the angels of God who come to protect you.

When you are preaching in campaigns before thousands of people, have you ever seen angels around you, beside you and operating in the people among the crowd?

Well, when I signed the contract with the Lord Jesus Christ in heaven, He agreed that wherever I go, He will come and whenever I stand up to preach, He will come and stand. So 99.9% there He is. Normally I do not start any meeting without singing a chorus. This chorus is not to enchant the people but that's the time I give for the Almighty God to come. Understand this yeah this is a secret nobody knows of course. That song is so melodious and I don't sing those jumpy songs and sometimes I tell my son, "Only you and God knows why you're singing that song."

When I am in the car, sometimes some people give us some music, "Please brother, listen to this cassette." That's the only time I put a resistance. So sometimes they put such songs, so I tell my son, "If you play it more I feel like opening the door jumping and dancing in the street." That is one way of singing. So I don't sing such songs. Sorry, I don't have an ear for that but when I sing, I sing thinking of Him, "Master, come." If you can recollect the songs that we sing in the campaigns, every song will be an invitation for Him to come.

What a Friend we have in Jesus
All our sins and griefs to bear
And what a privilege to carry
Everything to God in prayer

Nearer, my God to Thee, nearer to Thee!
Even though it be a cross that raises me
Still, all my song shall be
Nearer, my God, to Thee

If I don't feel His presence, I sing one more chorus. And then He comes and stands by my side and my voice will become different. Till then I speak in a very nice way, very slowly and lowly but when He comes then you can know the difference. The anointing when He comes, the Holy Spirit comes, the anointing which is upon Him it comes and I become a totally different person.

So what I say, I see Him so there is no necessity for the angels of God to come and stand by my side to encourage me but there are times when I've seen them.

Now, for example, I went to a place called in Andhra some years ago and I came from the office and one church had an important service I had to go. It was an open-air meeting and so I prayed earnestly and the Holy Spirit gave me a message and my wife and myself were rushed to that meeting.

And as I was praying there, when the singing was going on, when the pastor was saying something, I was oblivious of my surroundings. Suddenly I saw an angel of God. The angel said, "Just now God told me to change your sermon. You speak about Zacchaeus or the blind Bartimaeus." I forgot now. I think it's Zacchaeus. So I asked him, "You see, when I prayed at home, this is the message given to me by the Holy Spirit. Are you sure that I should preach and change?" He said, "Wait a minute, I'll go and ask Him and come back." And he came back in one minute. He went and he came back in less than a minute. He came and said, "No. God says you preach a new sermon." Then I said, "I am totally unprepared; what am I going to preach?" Then he said, "Wait a minute." Then he came and told me, "1, 2, 3, these are the points and this is what you should say." I said, "Very good." Then I preached that night and later on, they told me why I had to preach that sermon because they said this pastor had problems in having meetings in that particular place. There were a group of people who were against him personally and they used to create problems, they will come and break the drums, break the lights and so on. So out of curiosity as usual they came and when they saw a new man, they said, "Who is he? Let us hear what this new fellow has to say."

So when I preached the new message, they trembled for no reason, they ran far away from the place, fell down, broke their legs. They had to be carried to the hospital.

So the angels of God come again. When I prayed the mass prayer, there will be nights when the Lord Jesus will say, "I want to answer every prayer of every man and I have sent millions of My angels, they are going to record every prayer." Oh, it's marvelous and that time you see millions of angels of God and that's a time I will say also openly, "Tonight we are not alone. There are millions of angels to carry your burden to God so don't be worried."

So what exactly will these millions and millions of angels come and do among the crowd when you're praying now?

If you read Luke 22: 43 and 44, they came and was trying to encourage Jesus strengthening Him.

Luk 22:43-44 And there appeared an angel unto Him from heaven, strengthening Him. And being in an agony He prayed more earnestly: and His sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

So these angels of God will come and bring cheer and hope and above all the presence of God.

There is a beautiful Church in the United States of America, the Lakewood Church. It is found by a great man of God, John Osteen. One day I was sitting there in the meeting and they used to have a practice. They will announce about the various prayer requests of the people and they will ask them to come forward and then they will pray. One day as I was sitting there when the sick people used to come, I saw the angels of God also coming with them and then taking them back and the Lord Jesus said, "Of all the things these people do here, this is the closest to My heart."

So the angels of God come and bring these sick people, get them prayed for and take them back. I am sure that moment, that particular sick person would have received a great consolation, great comfort and a divine faith in his heart that the Lord has touched them.

So in this mass campaigns, the angels of God come to bring the people to the healing power of God, to the presence of God encouraging them to go forward and give their lives to God. I'm sure they must be doing that.

Can you tell us something more about the power with which these angels are operating?

Yes as I said in the book of Isaiah 37 when the great king Hezekiah cried to God, "I have no strength, Lord to face these people," God sends just one angel and he destroyed 185,000 people over the night for His sake and David's sake.

Isa 37:35-36 For I will defend this city to save it for Mine own sake, and for My servant David's sake. Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

And if you read Acts of the Apostles 12:21-24 the Bible says Herod sat on his throne and he gave a beautiful speech and everybody glorified him and the Bible says the angel of God struck him because he never magnified God and he died.

Act 12:21-24 And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne and made an oration unto them. And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man. And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost. But the word of God grew and multiplied.

And again if you read Luke 1:19 and 20 when Zechariah with all his faithfulness and piety before God and obedience to His commandments, when he refused to believe, rather I would say when he hesitated to believe that at this advanced age he is going to have a child, Gabriel got upset. He said, "You will be dumb until this happens." It happened.

Luk 1:19-20 And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, that stands in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and to shew thee these glad tidings. And, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because thou believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.

Did the Angel tell it out of his own anger or did God ever told him?

It was his own anger. Sometimes these angels lose their anger and Gabriel said, "You'll be a dumb fellow."

And the mighty power of God they have in protecting the people and especially if you read in the book of Acts chapter 5 when the apostles were arrested and put behind the bars, the angel of God came, simply opened it. The moment the gates saw him, they opened on their own.

Act 5:17-20 Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation, And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison. But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth, and said, Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.

Again in Acts 12 when Peter was in the prison, the angel came and woke him up and said, "Peter, come on, follow me," and they both walked. All these fellows were there, the guards didn't notice. He has such power to see that they go to sleep. I don't know what he did but the moment he entered the chains fell down on their own and the gates opened on their own and he walked before him and this man.

Act 12:6-11 And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison. And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands. And the angel said unto him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals. And so he did. And he saith unto him, Cast thy garment about thee and follow me. And he went out, and followed him, and wist not that it was true which was done by the angel, but thought he saw a vision. When they were past the first and the second ward, they came unto the iron gate that leadeth unto the city; which opened to them of his own accord: and they went out, and passed on through one street, and forthwith the angel departed from him. And when Peter has come to himself, he said, Now I know of a surety, that the Lord hath sent his angel, and hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews.

Nothing could prevent the angels. They have mighty power. They do have the power of God because they are always in the presence of the Almighty God and God has said in Jeremiah 32:27 Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there anything too hard for Me?

Again in Psalm 62:11 God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God.

And these angels, as I said, they have been with Him from the beginning.

Psalm 8: 5 says, For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor.

So the man was created later. The angels were there from the beginning so they have the power and authority of the Almighty God. There is no doubt about it. So the only question is, how do they use it? Only there is an emergency they use it. For example in Acts 12:23 when that angel struck Herod down, I don't think God would have told him to do so. God would have said let that fellow keep on babbling or something but not this angel, he cannot bear Herod not giving the glory to God.

So they do have mighty power. Now as I said, the people of God are protected with angels of God. For example, if you read Psalm 34:7 the Bible says the angel of the Lord encamps around His people and protects them. Just one angel, he protects the whole camp of God's people.

Psa 34:7 The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear Him, and delivereth them.

And the moment especially when these demonic powers and others confront you, just one angel will come and stand there, the demonic powers shall flee.

For example, when one day after a long time I spent in heaven, the Lord Jesus called one angel and said, "On the way show him hell." So the angel of God said, "We will go to hell," and when he went by his mighty power, he could conceal himself, he could conceal me. There are millions of demons in hell but nobody could see us. We went around and saw everybody. Wherever he went, every gate just opened, that's all.

So an angel of God has mighty power, there is no second opinion on that and the main thing is, they come to tell you what you should do. That's the greatest thing to give you, advice and the counsel of God. They bring the counsel of God to you.

Have you practically been at some crossroads where you found it difficult to decide on some things and you had an angel bring the counsel of God and help you?

Well, many, many, many times, almost every day because I have to make a decision not only for myself but for everyone. One particular instance I will tell you. It is very interesting. When my son Paul finished his BSc in physics, he wanted to do MSc in physics. Then brother Gert, our family friend he said no he must go for something else, then somebody else said another thing. So there was big confusion. I didn't know what to do. Then my dad said, "Why don't you pray?" That's the last thing we always do.

So I went and prayed and I was amazed to see an angel of God. Many will not accept what I say but that doesn't matter, I'm saying the truth. I say what I saw and correctly said and I know what the angel said has happened.

So this angel of God said, "Daddy." I was shocked. This is this first time an angel of God calling me a daddy. I looked at him. He said, "Dad, you know me." Again I was perplexed. Then he said, "I am your first son who died in April 1961."

On the 1st April 1961, my first son was born and he died. When my wife gave birth, he died so I was very heartbroken. My parents were heartbroken because I am the only son, they were expecting a child. My parents, parents-in-law were heartbroken because my wife was the last daughter and they wanted to see a child and then they wanted to feel that they have done their best for everybody. So they were broken.

Even on the day when my wife was laboring to give birth to this boy, I was sitting in the bank and working. I had no leave but my heart was breaking. I lost my child when he was born and he died.

So just before burying the child my mother brought the child and said, "Would you like to have a look at your son?" I said, "Yes."

So they showed me his face and I was taken aback. I have seen so many dead children but this child's face was smiling, so full of smile. I see for the child had remained with us for five years and then died. It was amazing and without my knowledge, I said, "Son, you are going to heaven first. Your dad promises you today that he will live a holy life and come and see you in heaven."

Without my knowledge, I said that and they took him away and buried him. Even today I do not know where they buried him. They purposely hid the whole thing from me, not to make me sad. 1st April 1961 and this was happening almost 20 years later and he said, "Dad, you know me."

I looked at his face, then I recognized this is my son whom I lost twenty years ago and he said, "Dad, I died and the Holy Angels educated me in heaven and God said, 'You'll be my angel.'"

So you may remember that I used to tell you that the small children who died are made to grow up and then afterward what happens, they'll be made to serve God as angels. They can never become the children of God without the blood of Christ. Without Jesus Christ, nobody can enter Heaven. Flesh and blood shall not inherit the kingdom of God.


Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption. (1 Cor 15:50)

So this little children grow in heaven and then the best position, the highest position they can reach us is to become angels of God.

He said, "Dad, you know me." Then I looked at his face and said, "Yes, this is the face I saw before he was buried by my father." I was so happy and he said, "Dad, God chose me specially to go and convey this message to you because you're worried about my brother."

He said, "Dad, don't be worried about him. Today he is so tiny, he'll grow very tall. Send him to an MBA, then he will go for a Ph.D. and then he will be a man of great wisdom. God is going to give him great wisdom. So don't be worried. This is God's counsel." And he disappeared.

So I came out and told my dad. Everybody was thrilled and he asked for an MBA and it was so difficult that time to get an MBA. It's not like now anybody can get the MBA. Even distance education can get an MBA. At that time it was very selective.

So I just went and told my friends this is what has happened and I would love my son to join MBA. Then they all cried and thank God for the grace He has given in the eyes of the public.

A family friend of ours, he took my son and then to see the Vice-Chancellor. The Vice-Chancellor stood up and said, "Sir, no more pressure but he said, thank God, Paul has stood number 2 in the selection examination, he is accepted. That makes my job very easy." So he got into MBA.

Then the question of Ph.D. came. Then his own department chief, he himself was not an MBA or Ph.D. Not only that, he somehow hated Paul. You know people, this world is a world of jealousy. We didn't know what to do. Then the Commerce Department people heard about it. They said, "We will take him," and that's how he got his Ph.D.

So many miracles happened. So when he finished Ph.D. in the Commerce Department of the Madras University, they told him, "Paul, after 20 years, we have produced a Ph.D. in our department." After 20 years, that's amazing yes and he finished it at a very young age probably he was, say, 28. We thank God for that.

What I'm trying to say, the angels of God, they bring you the counsels of God when you are at the crossroads of life.

Sometimes I pray for people who are very dear to me especially the servants of God. So one day a servant of God spoke to me and he said he's going to a certain place and there are so many difficulties to confront to be able to go there." He was very upset and he said, "Why don't you pray for me?" I said, "Surely I'll pray." When I say I will pray, I will pray. So I knelt down and I prayed and Holy Spirit took me to heaven and I saw the Lord Jesus on His throne and He didn't speak to me. He called an angel of God and said, "So-and-so is going to such-and-such a place, so you go with him and you arrange everything for him. He should have no trouble." And the angel of God bowed and later on my friend told me, "Oh, I had absolutely no problem. Everything was nice and it looked as if an angel of God accompanied me and did everything." I said within my heart, "Yes, an angel of God has accompanied you."

So there are experiences when the angel of God has been sent especially by the Lord to help you.

Have any angels of God physically lifted you up or moved you from one place to the other?

Well, not very much but once and that was long ago when I was in a certain district in the city of Madras. At that time, that district was not a place to live in. It was a remote place as far as Madras was concerned. Now it is the heart of the city but that time it was a very remote area. I was working in the bank and then I had some very good friends who will take me to preach and so on especially the late Pastor G Sundaram who had great love.

So sometimes when I go to see him in the evening he'll be standing outside and he'll be there. The moment he sees me, he would say, "Brother, you take care of the evening service." He'd be just waiting outside for somebody to come so he will say, "You take charge of the evening meeting and you do whatever God has asked you to do." He loved me so much.

So like that sometimes I used to come home very late. Then certain times some of my friends would take me to pray for people at home, in the hospital and so on. One day it was very, very late. It was a night at twelve o'clock. That time there never had so many city buses going that way so I got into a mini-bus. I got down from the bus at the main junction and I was so happy because another man got down, so I thought I had a companion so I can go with him. To my horror, I found that man went so fast and suddenly he disappeared. He walked so fast and he disappeared. It was pitch dark at that time. There was no electricity, nothing and as I was walking, I went into a heap of stones that were left behind to put a new pathway, a new road and so on.

In that darkness I didn't notice it, so without my knowledge, I stumbled and I was about to fall. Had I fallen, my whole body would have been pierced by the sharp ends of these sharp stones. So as I was about to fall, a hand caught me and lifted me. I saw him, he was an angel of God and he said, "Come, I will take you home."

Suddenly I saw on the other side the Lord Jesus Christ. Oh, when I saw Him I forgot myself and then He began to talk to me about so many important things. So that time I was so hale and hearty and young so I could walk for nearly two furlongs. I walked and on one side was the angel of God and on the other side was the Son of God. The Son of God was telling me about so many important things to be done and then there suddenly I saw the house coming near.

And then the angel said, "Your house has come." Then the Lord Jesus said, "I'm always with you, I'm always with you, don't be worried." They both disappeared.

When I went home, my mother-in-law was with my wife. She opened the door. She saw my face. My face was shiny and glowing and she was perplexed. Then she ran and I said, "Dhinakaran has come, Dhinakaran has come."

My wife waited so patiently for me and little Paul was so small. She tried to make him sleep and she also slept. So she got up, she thought something has gone wrong but normally if my mother lies awake she will take care of me and she will serve me food, this and that.

My wife got up and murmuring, she came. When she saw my face, she had a shock and said, "What happened to you?" "Nothing happened." "No, no, your face is shining." Then I told them how the angel came and how the Lord came.

So the angel of God surely comes to rescue you when you are in agony.

When the angel of God caught me as I was falling, I felt a strong hand holding me. It was like a human hand, very strong hand holding me.

When people write to you for guidance in making decisions, do angels have any part in helping you or giving you counsel from God?

It is mostly the Holy Spirit, mostly the Holy Spirit. He comes and fills you and then He begins to impart the word of knowledge, in the word of wisdom but there are times when the angel of God comes and helps you.

For example, there is a very divine lady, Dr. Elisha, a real woman of God who sacrificed her life for running a hospital called the Kugler Hospital. I was sitting by her side and she had so many discouragements in life and so many problems in the hospital and so on. Suddenly I said, "Sister, I see an angel of God standing behind you and this is what he says..." and when I said that, she was so happy.

So certain times the angel of God comes and he tells you what God wants you to tell other people.