Angel Ministry Today
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lift up the standard, lift it up, and be not fainthearted or discouraged.—
Testimonies for the Church 8:175
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Angels Help Us Do Right
Learn to trust in God. Learn to go to Him who is mighty to save....
Tell the dear Saviour just what you need. He that said, “Suffer little
children to come unto me, and forbid them not,” will not reject your
prayer. But He will send His angels to guard you and protect you from
the evil angels, and will make it easy for you to do right. Then it will
be much easier than if you should try in your own strength. You may
ever feel like this: “I have asked God to help me, and He will do it. I
will do right in His strength. I will not grieve the dear angels that God
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has appointed to watch over me. I will never take a course to drive
them from me.”—
An Appeal to the Youth, 55, 56
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If you will try to suppress every evil thought through the day, then
the angels of God will come and dwell with you. These angels are
beings that excel in strength. You remember how the angel came to the
sepulcher, and the Roman soldiers fell like dead men before the glory
of his countenance; and if one angel could work with such power, how
would it have been if all the angels that are with us here, had been
present? The angels are with us every day, to guard and protect us
from the assaults of the enemy.
You are not alone in the warfare against wrong. Could the curtain
be rolled back, you would see heavenly angels fighting with you.
This they must do; it is their work to guard the youth. “Are they not
all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be
heirs of salvation?” Ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands
of thousands of angels minister to the youth.—
The Youth’s Instructor,
January 1, 1903
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I am very thankful that I could visit your school [now Oakwood
College]. For years I have done what I could to help the colored people,
and I have never found the work so well begun in any place as I find it
here at the present time. In all your experiences, remember that angels
of God are beside you. They know what you do; they are present to
guard you. Do not do anything to displease them. As you work and
they work, this school will become consecrated ground. I shall want
to hear how you succeed. All heaven is interested in the moves you
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