God Sent An Angel To Help Me
Story - "God Sent His Angel to Help Me"
This is my true life story. It starts with my being down on my luck in Los Angeles and ending up homeless for 3 1/2 years sleeping in alleyways, the subways, homeless shelters, in abandoned buildings, and just on the sidewalks of Los Angeles.
One frigid night I was trying to sleep in between some office buildings in the city of Toluca Lake, but because I had not eaten in three days, I could not get to sleep. I was suffering so much, and I was so hungry that I said to myself that if I didn't get any food today, I was going to get it over with by killing myself.
An Angel to Help
So I got up around 6 am and hid my sleeping bag in the bushes, and it also was a very foggy day. I remember thinking to myself that if I could just get $3.45, it would allow me to go over to the red building breakfast place on Riverside Blvd. and breakfast to eat, but where and how could I get the money. $3.45 at that time in my life was like trying to get $1,000.
I started walking down the alley in the thick fog, and out of nowhere and an older man with a cane came walking toward me, stopped, and said hello. I speak back to him, and then he turns towards the direction he just came from and tells me that there is some money by the tree in the direction that he just came from by the red bricks on the left side of the alley. He then tells me that he can't get the money because he can't bend down due to his bad back.
Vanished
I was so excited that I started walking pass him about five or six steps, and then remembered that I didn't say thank you, but when I turned back to say thanks, he was gone. I tried my best to find him by going up and down the alley, but he had just vanished. He was walking more slowly than an old Turtle with that cane, so how could he disappear like that.
So I went to the location that he told me about and found the tree in someone's front yard. I walked over to the tree and looked, and looked and nothing was there at all, so I gave up and walked across the street, but a little voice in my head told me to go back to the tree and try again.
So I turned around and went back to the tree and got on both knees. On the ground spread all around the tree were those red woodchucks that people put down, but as I looked again for the money, I saw nothing. That was it, and I had made up my mind, today was the day that I was going to kill myself.
That Small Voice
Weak, tired, cold, and still sleepy, I got up and made my way across the street again. But again that small voice spoke to me and said, go back and try one more time, so I turned in the middle of the street and went back for one last try.
As I made my way back to the tree, I had a quick vision of myself jumping off an office building somewhere or of jumping off the freeway overpass in Burbank.
When I got to the tree again, I got down on both knees and looked but saw nothing. But just then that small voice said to me, why don't you take your hands and move some of the red woodchucks out of the way, and so I did, and to my great surprise, there were some coins.
After quickly grabbing up the coins and heading across the street to count it, and to my happiness, the total amount was $3.45, just enough for my first meal in three days and saving my life!
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Angels Unaware!
Do not neglect hospitality to strangers, for by this some have entertained angels without knowing it. Hebrews 13:2 (NASB2020)
How many of us have found ourselves down and out with nowhere to go and no one to turn to? Most of us can sympathize with the young man of our story. We have all felt the aloneness of a cold night. The long hours of a hot day. The emptiness of our own stomachs. Most of us have at some point in our lives been down and out!
Then, someone comes along who offers a word of comfort or hope and we knew not all was lost. There was still something to live for and our lives could change for the better.
How many times have we encountered complete strangers who had an impact upon our lives and then they were gone, never to be seen again! Could that have been an angel sent from God? The answer to this is yes!
We know the angels are always around us! Scriptures tell us that as God’s children we are always under attack by the enemy. Satan wants to destroy us and God is always protecting us.
Nowhere are we told we have a specific “guardian angel” but rather there are angels all around. Sometimes we may only need one! Then at other times we may need a legion. God provides exactly what we need at any given moment in our lives.
What we can say with confidence is that we are never alone. God is present and He has sent His angels to protect us. This does not mean we will be spared all the hardships in this broken world. Accidents will still happen. Sickness will come and tragedies will impact our lives. What we do know is that Satan cannot have his way with us. The spiritual battle raging around us is in God’s hands and we can rest assured we are protected.
So, when you find yourself struggling and feeling overwhelmed and attacked, take comfort in the truth given to us by God. We are never alone! All the forces of heaven stand ready to defend us from all the devil would seek to do to us. We are free to focus on life here and now. Free to live our lives for God without being taken captive by the enemy.
Just remember your part. Read the Word! Pray! Worship! Serve! These are the means by which we live our spiritual lives in this world and for which the angels of God stand ready to protect us!
Amen!
Blessings on your week,
Pastor Russ
This is my true life story. It starts with my being down on my luck in Los Angeles and ending up homeless for 3 1/2 years sleeping in alleyways, the subways, homeless shelters, in abandoned buildings, and just on the sidewalks of Los Angeles.
One frigid night I was trying to sleep in between some office buildings in the city of Toluca Lake, but because I had not eaten in three days, I could not get to sleep. I was suffering so much, and I was so hungry that I said to myself that if I didn't get any food today, I was going to get it over with by killing myself.
An Angel to Help
So I got up around 6 am and hid my sleeping bag in the bushes, and it also was a very foggy day. I remember thinking to myself that if I could just get $3.45, it would allow me to go over to the red building breakfast place on Riverside Blvd. and breakfast to eat, but where and how could I get the money. $3.45 at that time in my life was like trying to get $1,000.
I started walking down the alley in the thick fog, and out of nowhere and an older man with a cane came walking toward me, stopped, and said hello. I speak back to him, and then he turns towards the direction he just came from and tells me that there is some money by the tree in the direction that he just came from by the red bricks on the left side of the alley. He then tells me that he can't get the money because he can't bend down due to his bad back.
Vanished
I was so excited that I started walking pass him about five or six steps, and then remembered that I didn't say thank you, but when I turned back to say thanks, he was gone. I tried my best to find him by going up and down the alley, but he had just vanished. He was walking more slowly than an old Turtle with that cane, so how could he disappear like that.
So I went to the location that he told me about and found the tree in someone's front yard. I walked over to the tree and looked, and looked and nothing was there at all, so I gave up and walked across the street, but a little voice in my head told me to go back to the tree and try again.
So I turned around and went back to the tree and got on both knees. On the ground spread all around the tree were those red woodchucks that people put down, but as I looked again for the money, I saw nothing. That was it, and I had made up my mind, today was the day that I was going to kill myself.
That Small Voice
Weak, tired, cold, and still sleepy, I got up and made my way across the street again. But again that small voice spoke to me and said, go back and try one more time, so I turned in the middle of the street and went back for one last try.
As I made my way back to the tree, I had a quick vision of myself jumping off an office building somewhere or of jumping off the freeway overpass in Burbank.
When I got to the tree again, I got down on both knees and looked but saw nothing. But just then that small voice said to me, why don't you take your hands and move some of the red woodchucks out of the way, and so I did, and to my great surprise, there were some coins.
After quickly grabbing up the coins and heading across the street to count it, and to my happiness, the total amount was $3.45, just enough for my first meal in three days and saving my life!
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Angels Unaware!
Do not neglect hospitality to strangers, for by this some have entertained angels without knowing it. Hebrews 13:2 (NASB2020)
How many of us have found ourselves down and out with nowhere to go and no one to turn to? Most of us can sympathize with the young man of our story. We have all felt the aloneness of a cold night. The long hours of a hot day. The emptiness of our own stomachs. Most of us have at some point in our lives been down and out!
Then, someone comes along who offers a word of comfort or hope and we knew not all was lost. There was still something to live for and our lives could change for the better.
How many times have we encountered complete strangers who had an impact upon our lives and then they were gone, never to be seen again! Could that have been an angel sent from God? The answer to this is yes!
We know the angels are always around us! Scriptures tell us that as God’s children we are always under attack by the enemy. Satan wants to destroy us and God is always protecting us.
Nowhere are we told we have a specific “guardian angel” but rather there are angels all around. Sometimes we may only need one! Then at other times we may need a legion. God provides exactly what we need at any given moment in our lives.
What we can say with confidence is that we are never alone. God is present and He has sent His angels to protect us. This does not mean we will be spared all the hardships in this broken world. Accidents will still happen. Sickness will come and tragedies will impact our lives. What we do know is that Satan cannot have his way with us. The spiritual battle raging around us is in God’s hands and we can rest assured we are protected.
So, when you find yourself struggling and feeling overwhelmed and attacked, take comfort in the truth given to us by God. We are never alone! All the forces of heaven stand ready to defend us from all the devil would seek to do to us. We are free to focus on life here and now. Free to live our lives for God without being taken captive by the enemy.
Just remember your part. Read the Word! Pray! Worship! Serve! These are the means by which we live our spiritual lives in this world and for which the angels of God stand ready to protect us!
Amen!
Blessings on your week,
Pastor Russ
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