Angels in the Marketplace
For He will command His angels concerning you to guard
you in all your ways; they will lift you up in their hands,
so that you will not strike your foot against a stone. --
Psalm 91:11-12
For years Sergis ran his small retail business from his
store in a local shopping center. Every week a visitor would
drop by to collect a percentage of his sales. The visitor
wasn't his landlord; the mafia had taken control of business
in his small country.
Through the ministry of a marketplace Christian, Sergis came
to faith in Christ, and God began a deep work in his life.
One day Sergis decided he could no longer give God's money
to the mafia.
A few days later his "friends" paid him a visit. They
kidnapped him, blindfolded him, and placed him in a jail
cell located in the middle of a mafia-controlled house.
During the night Sergis sat in the jail cell discouraged.
Two locked doors with guards separated Sergis from his
freedom. Suddenly, in the middle of the night Sergis awoke
to a voice: "Sergis, get up. Follow me." Sergis awakened to
a real, in-the-flesh, angel of God sent to deliver him. The
angel opened the doors while the guards remained asleep.
Sergis and the angel walked quietly past the guards to
freedom. Sergis immediately went to his Christian brothers
to share the miracle that had just taken place.
This true story is living proof that we serve a God who
still does miracles on behalf of His servants. Ask God for
the miracle you need today.
Excerpted with permission from the book TGIF Today God Is First, by Os Hillman, copyright 2000, Destiny Image Publishers, Reprinted by permission. For free daily email subscription to TGIF Today God Is First marketplace meditations, visit www.marketplaceleaders.org (Os Hillman)