Samurai Angel

It's a wonderful thing to have heaven's resources to help get through this life. If you're not taking advantage of as many of them as you can, I know you're failing somewhere. That's not harsh, it's just simple truth.

I was at a local church teaching effective prayer last week had a vision of a samurai warrior angel on a path performing a kata with a sword. At the time I had this vision I was praying in tongues and noted in my journal that it sounded very Asian. There was another path below the one he stood on that crossed beneath him. Roadways, highways, paths, doors, windows, etc. exist in the unseen realm so this isn't unusual. 

I thought it was the same angel I saw June 11, 2015, but when I was recording the vision I realized it was a different angel. Click the photo below to read the post from this summer.

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I'd originally thought the samurai was battling but realized he wasn't moving forward and there was no enemy in front of him. So I looked up the significance of kata. I know what kata is and that that's what he was doing because I took Tae Kwon Do for a couple years when I was young. What I learned recently is the purposes of kata are:

• to preserve and transmit proven techniques and to practice self-defense.
• to develop the ability to execute those techniques in a natural, reflex-like manner as a result of practicing repetitively.
• to internalize the movements and techniques so they can be executed and adapted under different circumstances without thought or hesitation. A novice's action will look uneven and difficult while a master's appear simple and smooth.

This angel was definitely a master. His movements were fluent, excellent and smooth. He was demonstrating that he was in preparation to be sent out to war.

This vision partnered with what I heard as I prayed with a friend the next day. I received instructions that we were to go forward in prayer and business as if we were conducting a military campaign and saw a battlefield being set. That's good stuffs right there. As I've learned and said before God doesn't send us into battle without a guaranteed victory at hand.

I love knowing that what I pray gets heaven's attention. It's quite a faith booster, lemme tell ya. God always confirms His Word with signs and wonders following. You should be experiencing confirmations that your prayers are being assigned to heavenly workers as well. 

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The warrior I saw was all white, none of the colors you see on the one above, but this is the closest match I could find to what I saw. It's hard to capture the glory of heaven in human ways anyway, but if you have eyes that see you're able to form a more-accurate image.

The Ruach haKodesh said to me (and whosoever will):
I will never send you into a battle without releasing the hosts of heaven to go before you. Fight behind Me. That's what you're actually doing when you go into war. You're not up front. My forces are in front of you. I always win.

I pray that as you go forward in God-directed war to take possession of your inheritances that you'll:

1. have eyes to see your battlefield,
   
2. have revelation of heaven's provision available and
   
3. wield the Sword of the Spirit as a master with smooth and simple actions that destroy the forces of hell upon impact.

Grace and peace be multiplied to you and your household in the name and authority of Yeshua ha'Mashiach, The Messiah of Israel.

Copyright © 2015 Zari Banks, M.Ed