Mnēmē TheouContemplations on the Divine Mysteries

Activating Angelic Ministries

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

1 Corinthians 13:1 (NKJV)

We use language to communicate our thoughts and express our feelings. It is what human beings hold in common, even though dialects differ around the world. The Spirit, through Paul, informs us that angels have dialects which humans can speak, since it was Paul, a man, who wrote this. Humans once had the ability to communicate with angels in their own dialect, but this ability was lost after the fall of man. Since then, every encounter man has had with angels has been carried out in a language man could understand.

After the Day of Pentecost this ability was restored. Today every Christian can speak with angels in angelic dialect. To some this may sound heretical, but it is a logical conclusion, considering that after we received the Holy Spirit we began speaking in tongues unknown to our understanding, tongues the Bible describes as the language of our recreated spirits. We also know from experience that one Christian speaks a different dialect in the Spirit from another. These tongues often include the angelic dialects that the Holy Spirit enables us to speak, in order to give instructions to the angels concerning our supplications, or concerning matters of the will of God for His Kingdom and for the nations.

In prayer, therefore, we should always be conscious of this ministry of the angels to us, and of the times when the Spirit may give the unction to command the angels for our benefit and for the benefit of mankind. Remember that most of what the Lord will do in or for our lives He will do through us, and prayer is the best place to cooperate and partner with Him to enforce the changes that we, together with Him, desire. The angels are sensitive to that.

The next time you pray with your spirit, in the Spirit, remember that there are angels with you, waiting to receive commands from the Holy Spirit in you; and by faith, speak with the tongues of angels to establish matters in the Spirit.

Enoch B. Mnisi, DD

Theologian, teacher and preacher; founder of Holy Spirit's Tabernacle in South Africa. This reading comes from his early devotional writings, 2019.