Good Angels More Powerful Than Evil Angels
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We have an Advocate pleading in our behalf. The Holy Ghost is
continually engaged in beholding our course of action. We need now
keen perception, that by our own practical godliness the truth may
be made to appear truth as it is in Jesus. The angelic agencies are
messengers from heaven, actually ascending and descending, keeping
earth in constant connection with the heaven above. These angel
messengers are observing all our course of action. They are ready
to help all in their weakness, guarding all from moral and physical
danger according to the providence of God. And whenever souls yield
to the softening, subduing influence of the Spirit of God under these
angel ministrations, there is joy in heaven; the Lord Himself rejoices
with singing.
Men take altogether too much glory to themselves. It is the work
of heavenly agencies cooperating with human agencies according to
God’s plan that brings the result in the conversion and sanctification of
the human character. We cannot see and could not endure the glory of
angelic ministrations if their glory was not veiled in condescension to
the weakness of our human nature. The blaze of the heavenly glory, as
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seen in the angels of light, would extinguish earthly mortals. Angels
are working upon human minds just as these minds are given to their
charge; they bring precious remembrances fresh before the mind as
they did to the women about the sepulcher.
A created instrumentality is used in heaven’s organized plan for
the renewing of our nature, working in the children of disobedience
obedience unto God. The guardianship of the heavenly host is granted
to all who will work in God’s ways and follow His plans. We may in
earnest, contrite prayer call the heavenly helpers to our side. Invisible
armies of light and power will work with the humble, meek, and lowly
one.—
Letter 116, 1899
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Angels Looking for Cooperation
Satan uses human agents to bring the soul under the power of
temptation, but the angels of God are searching for human agents
through whom they may cooperate to save the tempted ones. Angels
are looking for those who will work in Christ’s lines, who will be
moved by the realization that they belong to Christ. They are looking
for those who will feel that those who fall under temptation, whether