In our new teaching series Home Security, we talked about how angels are sort of like trackers in the old Western movies.
The tracker always went out before the rest of the cowboys and the herd, looking for water, finding good places to sleep, making sure no one was waiting to steal the horses, etc. The tracker knew the lay of the land better than anyone else. He could also move around quicker than a bunch of cowboys pushing a herd of cows.
Our angels do the same type of work for us. They go before us each day and they scout out the land. They make sure our path is safe.
In Genesis 24, we read about Abraham and his desire for Isaac to marry a woman from his hometown. Abraham asked the chief servant in charge of his household to go back to his hometown and find a wife for Isaac.
The servant was a little skeptical. He asked, “What if the woman doesn’t want to come back with me?”
Abraham confidently answered him, “The Lord, the God of Heaven, will send his angel before you so that you can get Isaac a wife from my hometown.”
With that the servant got some camels and all sorts of good stuff from Abraham and headed off to find Isaac’s future wife.
After traveling a while the servant and his camels stopped at a well. It just so happened that it was evening (the time when women would go to the well to draw water). The first woman to come to the well happened to be Rebekah. She was beautiful and single–and she was related to Abraham.
The servant watched her closely to see if this was the woman for Isaac. He asked her if there was any room for him and his camels to stay at her father’s house for the night.
Rebekah invited him to stay and when they got to her house, the servant told Rebekah’s parents everything that had led him there and how their daughter was supposed to marry Isaac. Rebekah’s parents answered, “This is from the Lord. Here is Rebekah. Take her and go.”
That’s pretty amazing if you think about it. This stranger who said he was Abraham’s servant came to their house and asked if he could take their daughter to marry another guy that they’d never met in a faraway place. But somehow Rebekah’s parents knew it was right. They knew in their hearts this was from God.
But Rebekah was not going to go for that, right? Surely she wouldn’t get on a camel and head off with a stranger, would she?
But, she did! To make a long story short, Rebekah and Isaac were married. The servant’s mission was accomplished.
This story is full of seeming “coincidences” but they weren’t coincidences at all. Just as Abraham said, God sent an angel out before his servant to prepare the path ahead of him.
The angel got the servant to the well at the perfect time. The angel led Rebekah to the well. The angel prepared Rebekah’s parents’ hearts, and Rebekah’s heart.
The angel was the servant’s tracker. He got everything ready before the servant even got there.
Your angels today work the same way. Send them out before you each and every day. They’ll put you in the right places at the right times. They’ll help you make the right business contacts. They’ll cause you to stop at a yellow light instead of rushing through it to keep you from getting into a car accident. They know what’s ahead.
I encourage you to read this story in Genesis 24 in your quiet time and think about how the angel went ahead of Abraham’s servant and got everything set up perfectly.
Then command your angels to do the same thing for you!
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Ken and Trudi's lives were dramatically transformed in 1971, when Trudi met Jesus Christ and was healed from an incurable eye problem. Her eyes had been crossed and her vision was seriously impaired from an accident she experienced at age 4. As she was prayed for and instantly healed, Trudi was able to throw away her glasses and contact lenses and she received perfect 20/20 vision. This miracle greatly impacted Ken, and he received Christ and was delivered from alcoholism.
Their adventure in ministry began as Ken worked with Willie George on The Gospel Bill Show during the 80's and 90’s. Ken played the character, "Nicodemus" on the program. He acted, wrote and directed episodes, and wrote and performed the music for the show. Ken was one of the first artists to film Christian music videos at that time, and his songs became wildly popular. He was a part of over 200 episodes that were broadcast worldwide, reaching millions of kids with the gospel. These episodes live on in rerun broadcasts today.
During the 90's Ken and Trudi were music directors at Church on the Move in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a church plant that grew to over 8,000 people in weekly attendance while they were there.
In 2002 the Lord directed Ken and Trudi to begin their own ministry with an emphasis on family relationships. Since that time they have traveled extensively to churches around the world preaching, teaching, and training Christians about how to connect in their marriages and raise their children to become champions for Christ.
The Blounts have produced a multitude of resources and teachings, including their monthly CD partner resource, Relative, all of which are available for purchase and download on their website and new smart phone app.
Although family, marriage, and parenting is their ministry focus, Ken hasn't left his original roots and mandate to teach children the Word of God and how to worship Jesus.
With his rich history as a singer and songwriter, Ken is now partnering with his son, Joshua, in their music project for kids called, Love Out Loud (LOL). The vision is to produce relevant, fun music for kids that teaches them to sing and worship Jesus "out loud." Available on CD and DVD, the music has a two-fold application. While being great for home use, the DVDs are also designed to use in a children's classroom for church services. LOL is an ongoing music franchise producing new music that is a tremendous resource for churches around the globe.