Jesus is the “way” into our Heavenly Father’s family. He is also the door through which we enter into a deeper life in Christ.
Our Father is bestowing His blessings upon the land on which He desires to build a chapel. But starting in June of 2006, our Father began to bring angels that would help His children grow in Christ. In other words, He was not just adding to the land; He began adding to His people.
OBEDIENCE, PERSEVERANCE AND GODLY ZEAL
In this revelation, our Father is not only establishing the angels Obedience, Perseverance, and godly Zeal, He is teaching. Land cannot be obedient, nor can it persevere, nor can it have zeal. These attributes are held by humankind and by the angels.
These particular angels have been called to abide on Prayer Mountain for the training of His children.
VISION: June 16th, 2006: Friday
The Father began speaking to me:
“OBEDIENCE is better than sacrifice.”
“OBEDIENCE places the key into the lock. PERSEVERANCE turns it. ZEAL, birthed from a love of the Godhead, pushes the door open: godly zeal.”
“These are not rules, Anna. They are clues. At each step, there is a clue and a reward.”
“Spiritual clues are not formulas. They are streams of life which are prompted by the Holy Spirit – no rules – no formulas … life. My kingdom is a kingdom of life, Anna.”
ABOUT THE ANGELS
Here is the Angel of Obedience. An angel of this choir was assigned to me on Simhat Torah (the opening of the Torah in 1995). I am including that revelation because (even though it was a personal experience) it will tell you a great deal about this spiritual being. That introduction took place above in Heaven.
This revelation was given on Simhat Torah (the opening of the Torah) 1995 – 25 years ago. I am hoping that through this interchange, you will gain a greater understanding of this particular angel.
As I hastened, I heard the voice of Jesus say very clearly, “Obedience, Anna.”
I stopped in my tracks.
He continued, “I delight to show you your heavenly home, but for your safety, you must be trained in obedience. There are grave dangers. All doors to the enemy must be shut.”
As I stood in wonder at the gravity of what He had said, an angel appeared on the path beside me.
The angel began talking to me as though he were continuing some conversation we had already begun, gesturing with his hand toward God’s park. “All of this is for the children of God, but you, Anna, have chosen to eat from the hand of God. You must love your Father enough to choose obedience rather than gratifications on earth. Choose Him minute by minute. You are careless with His gifts, and you are careless with His love for you.”
His overfamiliarity stunned me, as well as his knowledge of a decision I had only recently made, but yes, I was careless. As the Lord had drawn me into a deeper walk with Him, those things permissible a year or even a month ago were now no longer allowable. Somehow, I could no longer get by with them, but I still lapsed into many of these faults.
THE THOUGHT LIFE
Elusive sins caused me to pay a high price in my relationship with the Lord. I thought to myself, “Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts”. I had moved from the “way” category to the “thoughts.” My mind did not focus on unforgiveness or covetousness or such obvious sins. My sins now were in engaging my mind in some area where I was not called, or in letting my mind dwell on the past or making a judgement that was out of my boundary of responsibility.
My life had become very constrained, indeed. If I walked without turning to the right or the left, I remained in the flow of God’s grace. Any thoughts that were “vain in their imaginations” caused my mind to run in grooves around a track. Such thoughts were driven by tormentors, it seemed. But I found that I could stop them by repeatedly catching myself and halting the train of thought as I began to think on such vain thoughts.
Of course, these thoughts would tiptoe back in, needing to be run out time and time again. Therefore I was halting them and throwing them out, standing against them with my will, as if my shoulder were against the door of access.
Still, I was careless, as he had said, and was mentally running around many tracks in torment and weariness until each thought was taken captive to Christ. Earlier in my life with Christ, my mind could usually do as it pleased, but not now. Narrow and narrower was the way, but in this obedience to His Word was life.
THE ANGEL SHAMA
Without missing a beat, the angel on the path beside me said, “I am Shama.”
I saw no reason to give my name, for he seemed to know almost as much about me as I did myself.
“Shall we walk?” he continued.
Almost stumbling, I moved forward.
He had long, straight, silver hair that was caught at the base of his head and hung down on his back. He was very muscular, and although his hair was silver, he looked perhaps forty. He wore a full-length white robe, which looked as though it had been stained with blood or the juice of red grapes. This stain was on the hem of the robe and the long sleeves’ cuffs, discoloring the garment to the knees and elbows.
“You delight in God,” he continued. “I have watched you and have seen that you desire nearness to Him. However, do you not know that disobedience creates a wall between you and Him? It is a wall of your own making because you cannot curb your natural desires. He will replace with Himself every delight you push away, Anna.”
(… I removed a small section of the text because it did not add to the reason for the angel Obedience disclosure. However, the exclusion of the material does make for a bumpy transition in this explanation.)
He continued, “There is a type of suffering in obedience, but the rewards far outweigh the pain.”
“Do you have hair?” I asked him.
“It looks like hair,” he said. “We are creatures of light. We are spirit, Anna. We are not flesh and blood as humans are. Some of us in service to the King look like humans, but some do not.”
We returned to the path and continued to walk. “We can change our appearance,” the angel said, “whereas you cannot. We are known by the essence of what we are, not by the outward appearance. On earth this is often reversed, is it not? Humans often dwell upon appearances.”
“You seem to know me,” I queried.
“I know you better than you know me,” the angel laughed.
THE STAINED ROBE
“Why is your robe stained on the bottom and the sleeves?”
“I am called to assist in child training – the kind that squeezes the child-like being in a wine press. These,” he looked down at the stains, “are visible signs of the child’s development. The more stains, the greater the work has progressed within the child. Obedience is not learned easily, Anna. Some on earth never learn it.”
“Are you an angel assigned to help train me?” I asked.
“I am assigned to you.”
“Helping to train people in obedience cannot be a pleasant job.”
The angel replied, “It is of great significance to the Father and absolutely necessary. By this time in your life, my robe should be entirely stained, and my face and hands dripping, but there are only stains on the hem and sleeves. So may I suggest that you are hindering your growth through known disobedience. Immediate gratification can never replace serving the Lord with a whole heart. Such obedience releases joys untold.”
REPENTANCE
I looked out over the landscape (in Paradise), letting the truths he was sharing work within me. “I have sinned,” I said quietly. I did not wish to seem glib, but I did wish to show a willingness to repent promptly. “I ask the Lord to forgive me.”
He put his arm around my shoulder and jostled me, as a coach might a football player. “And you know He does. This is a good day for new beginnings,” he smiled. Then he removed his arm and looked ahead solemnly.
“I thank you for your patience and for helping me. I can see you are a powerful angel. If you were a human, I would say you ‘worked out.’”
“We do ‘work out,’” he laughed heartily, “but our workout comes from wrestling with humans. I look as I do because you have given me so much resistance through your flesh. So,” he laughed, “you might say I do ‘work out.’ I would suggest that you turn this very day so that my work out is less strenuous. Delight yourself in God, Anna, and reduce my exercise program,” he smiled.
Then he sobered rapidly. “Nothing, no one can compare to Him,” he said. “Speaking for those of us who are assigned to you,” he continued haltingly, almost as if he was going to reveal something deeply personal, “we would like to get a little closer to God.” He almost stammered, “If it were only us, we would; but much depends upon you concerning that.” He seemed so embarrassed by what he had said that he vanished.
SIDE NOTES TO THIS SECTION
The natural or earthly self is the greatest hindrance to following the Lord; therefore, it must be set aside (Matt. 16:24).
The enemy has erected his fortress in our natural minds in the form of man-centered attitudes, speculations, and beliefs (2 Cor. 10:4-5). From these citadels, his demons can deceive and torment the believer, as happened to the slave with the unforgiving attitude in Jesus’ parable (Matt. 18:33-35).
The name Shama is a Hebrew word meaning “to hear with the intent to be obedient.”
Jesus, in His human nature, “learned obedience from the things which He suffered” (Heb. 5:8). Faith was perfected in Him as He endured the rejection and betrayal of those He came to save.
Celestial beings have bodies of spirit instead of physical matter; therefore, they are able to appear or disappear (Judg. 6:12, 21) or change their outward appearance (Exod. 3:2) as needed.
The heavenly host is watching how we believers on earth run the course of obedience in Christ Jesus (Heb. 12:1).
THE ANGEL PERSEVERANCE
This was my first encounter with the angel Perseverance. We did not communicate. Therefore, we will need to take Him at “face value.”
THE ANGEL OF ZEAL
The Angel of Zeal was assigned to me soon after I became a Christian in October 1974. Now, an angel of this choir has been assigned to Prayer Mountain.
As soon as the Lord saved me, I began to hear His voice. I did not “see,” but I could “hear.” It was wonderful. I could hear and talk to God – and I knew it was God. But such a leap of faith to hear and obey what I heard, needed angelic help, I am sure.
Almost immediately, the Lord told me that He had set me aside to be the wife of a minister in the small town I was visiting. What? I was a new Christian, and to tell you the truth, neither the minister nor I were even vaguely interested in one another – I mean – not the least flicker of interest: zero. But because the Lord had said it to me, I thought: “Well, I may have been too blind to see it – but this must be the one for me.”
How exciting. How amazing. But I needed to say that I would, indeed, marry him. God requires no one to accept something against his or her free will. Now, there were huge considerations to take into account: my screenwriting career was taking off in a big way, I had been given the lead in a show (for which I was already doing backers’ auditions) that was to open in New York in the Spring, I had the best literary agent in New York, I had an unbelievable parlor floor apartment on West 11th street in the Village, I had tons of friends – all in the film industry or on Broadway. I traveled the world and lived a life most people only dreamed of living. I would need to give up all of that to be married to a minister who lived in a town of 2,400 people and a church with a congregation of 15. Hummmm – what to do?
Well, really, there was never a contest. I chose God, the minister, the small town, and the church – and never regretted it. I walked away from the other life.
When I decided to follow the Lord, however, and wherever He led me, He assigned to me two angels. I did not see them or hear them, but the Lord told me their names and their particular strengths. One was called Cerise, and he was an angel of ZEAL. “Was not cerise a color?” I asked myself. But there were so many new events in my life at that time that I did not pursue finding out. That was in 1975 … the year I married my husband.
I did not really think about the angel of Zeal in the years after that. I never saw him, nor heard him, so now let us zoom forward from 1995 to 20 years later. Right before we moved to Florida, the heavens opened, and I began to see into the spiritual realm. Now I was seeing angels and Jesus and our heavenly Father and our home above. At that time, the Lord graciously revealed to me the angel that had been assigned to me so many years ago: CERISE.
I am including a paint chip from a store in Panama City. I asked them to show me the color cerise. Here is what they sent me. [I include the paint chip – but the color did not translate through the copy machine. The angel is wearing the true color.]
The angel looked young. He had fire coming from his hands and feet – and left fire wherever he walked. Looking at the fire radiating from him, one would surmise that he was zealous. Cerise was of great help in the twenty years after I married my husband, and his assistance is doubly needed as we head into the future. It has now been 45 years since he was assigned to me. His influence, instead of waning, is increasing. Why? Because of that which is facing the body of Christ in the years ahead, we will need zeal for the Lord.
We are fortunate, for we know that since there is a whole choir of angels that assist us in acquiring zeal, we may ask the Lord for an increase. Our Father will send the Holy Spirit, as well as our dear Lord Jesus and choirs of angels to give us more godly zeal. He will set us aflame with His love and passion – even as the angel of zeal appears to burn with fiery love and singleness of purpose for our Lord and for accomplishing His will.
These three important angels are assigned to Prayer Mountain now and are there to assist the Lord’s children in the future.
They are here for you who visit Prayer Mountain.
