[Background] The Lord sent this angel to strengthen me because I had received a report that my prayer partner, with whom I have prayed nightly for 40 years, suddenly had been taken to the hospital with a stroke. Many people think that because someone can visit heaven or talk face to face with Jesus that nothing bad or sad can happen to them. Not true. This angel was sent to say: “Look to Jesus and stay on the course.”
VISION – JULY 2017
An angel appeared – electric with God’s power and purpose. He was clothed in white armor that looked like metal – but I think it was a fabric.
The angel stood as still as a statue. He held a broad sword. His eyes were piercing. He stared forward, but nothing that was going on was going to deter him. As he stared ahead, he remained alert. I thought to myself that to wield such a sword would take great strength and stamina.
The angel spoke: “I am here, Anna. I am Resolute.”
“I am in great need of your help,” I acknowledged. “I thank the Lord for sending you.”
He lowered his head in acceptance, then he began to tell me why the Lord had sent him:
“Anna, in the days to come the enemy’s attacks will increase upon all that is decent and loving and beautiful – all that is of Christ. This is just the beginning of birth pangs.”
His piercing eyes burned into mine.
“Now is not the time to wilt,” he spoke like a general. “Lift up your head and your voice to the Great One: God Almighty.”
He continued: “Has your life been like a pebble skipped across the water – or have you plunged deep, feeling the rivulets of cold water coming from deep springs within the earth? Are you Christ’s or are you just for show?”
If you are Christ’s you will reach into deep wells within and He will strengthen you. If you are but a glossy patina, you are about to be scorched by the heat of coming trials. Such trials will test all mankind.”
[I think I was expecting comfort or reassurance. But as I thought about it, the angel was not named Comfort or Reassurance but Resolute.]
I drew my mind back to the angel before me:
“There is nothing in me to pass such tests. What I do have is Jesus. He passed the tests before and we – the children of the Living God – will call upon Him in the time of testing to pass them again.
“I am here for Him,” I said. “I want to stand strong for His sake. He alone called me. He alone commands me – and I stand only in His strength.
“But because you have been sent to me, I ask you to help me to be true to Him and to whatever task He gives to me.
“Help me to be resolute.”
Most of us know what “resolute” means. But I do not believe I have ever looked it up in the dictionary. My most recent memory was of the Resolute Desk in the oval office of the White House. Therefore, I looked it up immediately after the angel brought this word.
Resolute:
having or showing a fixed, firm purpose; determined; bold; firm; steady; resolved; unwavering – unshaken.
Patina:
1. a film or incrustation produced by oxidation on the surface of old bronze and often esteemed as being of ornamental value.
2. a surface calcification of implements, usually indicating great age.
Glossy:
1. having a shiny or lustrous surface.
2. having a false or deceptive appearance or air, especially of experience or sophistication.
3. slick.
AFTER – (THE REPORT)
My prayer partner is out of the hospital and into rehab. As soon as she regained her voice she wanted to continue our nightly prayer sessions. She didn’t want the enemy to stop her from praying daily for you. Right now, I am doing most of the praying because it is difficult for her. She is adding “amens” in agreement. But last night she insisted on calling out the names of those who are ill – names she knows by heart.
An angel Resolute must have been sent to her also.
