Why You Don't Need to Be Afraid of Seeing Angels Doug Addison

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Why You Don't Need to Be Afraid of Seeing Angels
Doug Addison [Episode 69]
October 17, 2018

Hey everybody, welcome to another Spirit Connection podcast. Doug Addison here. Do
you need to hear God today? Maybe you need a boost of encouragement. Well, you’ve
tuned into the right broadcast, because I specialize both in hearing God and
encouragement. This is because the apostle Paul said prophecy is for strengthening,
encouragement and comfort.

So I release a lot of prophetic words. Well, sometimes too many prophetic words. You
know, I have the Daily Prophetic [#dailyprophetic]. I put out weekly blogs and Facebook
Live and YouTube videos, and also the monthly words. And I put them all together in a
book once a year as well. So, I’m a “revelation machine” sometimes.

You know, as I’m doing this I hear people. I interact with so many people on social
media, live, and I hear this same theme right now: “What is God doing this year?” Also
people ask me, “What is the plan of the enemy right now?” Well, you know what? Once
you understand God’s will, you really don’t need to know the plan of the enemy,
because God out-does the enemy every single time.

So, I want to talk about some of these things in this episode. And I want to help you get
through some things that might be holding you back from your greater calling, your
greater destiny, and also how to align you right now for the season that we’re in. I want
to help bring you into a perfect alignment so you can step into this new season with less
effort. Entering into God’s rest is what I call it.

Lord, we pray right now, open up the heavens so that we can hear Your voice. I pray for
that burst and boost of encouragement that those need who are discouraged or are
going through a lot. We pray too, Lord, that You would open up the heavens to hear
Your voice on a greater level, in Jesus’ name. Amen.

All right. Well, do you know what? I used to be afraid of the supernatural. Now, I was
afraid of seeing evil things, demons. And I was also equally afraid of seeing angels for
some strange reason. Maybe it was the frightening things that happened to me when I
was young. Maybe … I watched a lot of weird TV. But I also had nightmares and things

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like that, so some of it was a legitimate fear. But do you know what? I found that many
people have shut themselves off from the supernatural side of God. And this is a plan of
the enemy right now, bringing an attack to cut us off from God—from the supernatural
part, angels and wonderful things—early in our lives.

So like me, maybe you had nightmares when you were growing up and it got you afraid
of everything supernatural, good or bad. You kicked the baby out with the bathwater.
You know, for me, I had to break through this years ago. Now I help people get a
breakthrough as well. So, I believe that’s a plan of the enemy right now: Shut us down
early, then you will grow up being afraid of it. But I want to give you a strategy on how
you can break through this.

Now first of all, here’s some good news about God. Many people think that God is mad
at them or maybe judging the world. That’s far from the truth. The Bible says, “God is
love.” Jesus tells us in Matthew 7:9, He says,

“Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for
a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give
good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good
gifts to those who ask Him!” Matthew 7:9–11 NIV

Now, this is revelation right here. You can camp out on that. I believe people need to
get that in their spirit. I did. You know, I grew up not knowing that God was a loving
God. I thought He was trying to nuke everybody. And, you know, and there’s judgmental
stuff. But, again, the plan of the enemy is to get you to think the bad things that are
happening in the world is God punishing us. It’s not true at all—it’s Satan causing the
bad things, then blaming it on God.

So, it’s important to get this in your spirit right now. This is what I talk about, aligning for
the new season. God loves you. He has good intentions for you. God is a giver of good
gifts. God is not angry at you or trying to kill you. You’d be surprised how many people
have that in the back of their mind and not even realize it.

Let’s talk a little bit about some things of the supernatural. Let’s start with angels and
demons. You know, I was saying that I was afraid of the presence of seeing an angel,
and I was afraid of seeing demons for a long time. And I’ve become aware of the
presence of angels. Now, I used to be focused so much on demons, that’s all I saw. But
something shifted in my life. And at the end of this broadcast, I’m going to give you
some steps and a prayer that I’m going to pray over you that I believe is going to shift
you into seeing and then sensing angels.

You know, when I first started seeing them—and I was speaking at churches and things
like that—you know, I’d start talking about the angels in a church, and a great deal of
unbelief about angels would rise up. I tell you, nearly 100 percent of the room would
believe me if I told them there was a demon in the room. But when I start talking about

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angels, they all start getting freaked out. They think I’m New Age. They think I’m weird
or whacked out. Folks, it’s a bad day in the Church when demons are more popular and
more accepted than angels. That’s because we need a shift in our focus.

Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit
salvation? Hebrews 1:14 NIV

That’s you. Angels were so common in the Bible. You know, angels showed up at the
birth of Jesus to announce Him. And there were also two angels in the tomb during the
death of Jesus, when He had resurrected from the dead. In John 20, there was an angel
sitting at the foot and the head where He was previously. Angels helped Peter get out of
jail in Acts 12. They showed up with messages. You know, it was so common at that
time, different than now.

I want to point this out to you. Notice this. You can study this for yourself in Acts 12.
There was a prayer meeting going on to get Peter out of jail. Then angels show up, get
him out of jail—and he even thought he was seeing a vision, and it was really
happening. Then he goes over to the house where they’re having a prayer meeting,
knocks on the door, the girl who answered the door came back and said, “Peter’s at the
door.” They said, “Nonsense, it’s his angel.”

Now, listen. If angels weren’t common back then, they would have run to the door and
said, “Oh, my goodness, it’s an angel!” Do you know what I’m saying? This tells us that
people in the New Testament time interacted with angels so commonly that it was not a
surprise as it is today, or there was not doubt as there is today. That’s why you don’t
see a lot of teaching on angels in the Bible, because it was already accepted. The same
with dream interpretation. We kicked some of this out a long time ago and got into
unbelief, but we need to get back.

Now, when I first started talking about angels, my Christian friends really kind of warned
me. I remember this. “Colossians 2:18, brother, it says don’t worship angels.” “Dude, I’m
not worshiping angels. I’m worshiping the Lord, and an angel showed up. I’m just trying
to tell you the story.” So, there are so many angel encounters I’ve had, I can’t even … I
think I’ve lost count of them, whereas I used to have demon encounters.

Now, you can hear God through the Holy Spirit or through an angel. You know, when I
start talking about hearing the voice of God, “You need to learn to discern the difference
between God, yourself, and the devil,” right? You ever hear that? I train a lot of people.
I have webinars, I go through things. In fact, if you want to read it in my book, it’s in my
book, God Spoke, Now What: Activating Your Prophetic Word, and it’s one of my
messages on how to learn to discern.

So, God is moving all the time. And sometimes you can hear through the Holy Spirit,
and other times it’s through an angel. This is in the Bible. You can look it up. In Acts 8,
Philip was told by an angel to go to a certain place. Now when he goes there, then the

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Holy Spirit tells him further instructions, you know, to go up to the Ethiopian man, and
he led him to Jesus. So, it’s interesting that this encounter starts out with hearing an
angel, then the Holy Spirit. So he was interacting between both.

So, I train my students in my schools, my online webinars, the Hearing the Voice of God
365, to take this a step further. You know, you can learn. I help people to learn. You can
do this. You can know the difference between God, yourself and an angel, like I just
said, but then you want to go deeper. You can learn to discern when it’s the Holy Spirit,
or when it’s an angel or a demon. I call this the deep end of ministry.

You know, sadly what has cut this off from people is a four-letter word that starts with
“f.” Did I just say that? Fear. Fear is ruling the world, and it’s inside the Church. You
know, there’s not just an emotion behind fear. This is a high-level demonic attack. And
you’ll see it in 1 John 4:18.

Perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment.

Now, read that in the New King James Version. I want to invite you. Write this down.
1 John 4:18. This was the key to my healing in my life. This was the key, right here,
when I got this.

If you live in chronic fear, it’s possible to have tormentors assigned to you. I did, and I
didn’t even realize it. I didn’t know I was living in chronic fear. I had fear from childhood
and things that had happened. And then the enemy can sneak in there, and he can get
a hold of you and even get you in a place like I was, where I was sick.

So, one of the biggest fears that I see with Christians today is the fear of being
deceived. It’s so great—fear—that it shuts down supernatural encounters. It shuts down
your ability to hear the Lord. Remember, Jesus couldn’t do miracles around unbelief.
Well, the spirit of fear can cause us to operate in unbelief. So, when unbelief gets a hold
of agreement with fear—where two agree together it will be done, that’s a spiritual
principle. When unbelief and fear come together, especially over a person, over a
region … Wow, that’s when things get closed off. Now remember, Jesus said all things
are possible for those who believe. Mark 9:23.

Once I understood these principles about the spirit of fear and unbelief, I was able to get
a major healing in my life. I had a four-year chronic illness, and I had not realized that
my fear had opened a door to tormentors in my life. And once I cast out the spirit of fear,
once I got rid of it, I could hear the Lord clearly. I broke the afflictions off my life. I was
healed of Lyme disease, I got healed of an acute case of multiple chemical sensitivity.
And I started out by casting out the spirit of fear. And that’s when I learned about the
Angels & Demons: Blessings and Curses message that I’m bringing you right now. This
is from the trenches. I had to walk through this myself. And I know the Lord does that to
me. I’m kind of like a prototype. I go through things, and that’s how I release my
prophetic words. I actually live these things out.

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So, since the biggest fear that I see as I’m training people all over the world to hear the
voice of God, one of the biggest fears that I hear is the fear of being deceived. It’s so
bad, people don’t do anything at all. They’re so afraid of making a mistake or being
deceived, that they will not do anything at all. Now, that’s even worse.

So I found the solution. It’s in Hebrews 5:14.

But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves
to distinguish good from evil. NIV

Well, if you want to know how to discern good from evil, then you just need to constantly
use your gift of discernment. In other words, we need to practice. We need to put on our
Holy Spirit training wheels. We need to learn to discern the difference, and this is why I
talk about this all the time.

Now, let me talk a minute about discerning an angel from a demon. Now, for sure, there
are some demons that masquerade as angels of light, as the Bible said. But do you
know what? If you practice learning to discern God’s voice, if you take some steps, you
will be able to know the difference. I tell you, you will because the demonic cannot
imitate peace. And there are some certain things ... I always just say … a quick test
right now, and you can cut through years of maturity right now.

You can go back to the last time you remember God speaking to you clearly. And I want
you to study that and figure out how it came to you. And as you do that, that’s kind of
like a ground work for you in the future. Now if you’ve never heard God, ask Him to
speak to you. Or maybe go back to the last time that you know that He answered a
prayer and study how it sounded, how it felt. This is what’s going to help you.

So, here’s the next step for you if you want to take this even further. You’ve been
around my messages long enough, you’ve heard my teachings and stories about how
God changed my understanding about blessings over curses. And this is how I’m able
to get the Daily Prophetic Words. This is how I’m able to give prophetic words by the
month, and how I’m able to hear God way, way more clearly than ever before. Do you
know what it is?

I stepped away from cursing, and I stepped into blessing. The result was astounding.
The heavens opened over me and my ministry. You know, I still have to practice. And,
you know, I do it on a regular basis, especially these days. The heavens are closed over
a lot of people, over cities, places. There is a lot of complaining and cursing, and it
closes things down. Do you ever get around a person who has chronic complaining?
Usually they’re complaining about everything, and everything’s going wrong. You know,
the traffic jams and everything’s going wrong for them.

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Do you know, what? I used to have that. In 2004, I had an angelic encounter. And the
Lord told me that if I would step away from complaining and start blessing, my life would
change. And that’s what happened to me.

Now, I want to talk about this a little bit further, because I want to go deep here into this
area. Because I’m talking about getting out of the curses and getting into blessings,
because it’s not all automatic. You know, when I say this, it sounds easy. But, you
know, when I started dealing with these things, I really did have to get rid of some
demonic curses that were going on.

Because I came out of extreme darkness (that was back in the occult practices back in
the 70s and 80s), I had to do a lot of cleanup work when I became a Christian again. I
always joke. I say, “When I first came to Jesus for the third time in 1988 …” I had been
backsliding over and over and over, until I learned about breaking generational curses
of backsliding. And there was something that I was missing.

Instead of focusing on the curse of the Lord, which I was doing over and over in my life.
I kept focusing on these negative things that were happening to me. And I started
focusing more on the blessings. I started asking the Lord to allow me to see angels over
demons. Now, it took a little bit of time, but it shifted for me.

Now, the Bible talks about generational sin—it can be passed down from generation to
generation—in Exodus 34 and Deuteronomy 5. It is possible for an ancestor of ours to
commit a sin, and it can separate us from God or open the door to the enemy and make
it repeat, similar to Genesis 26, when Abraham had lied about his wife, and we see his
son Isaac doing the same thing. That’s just a quick, general example.

The overlooked part of generational sin is that the generational ties are actually blocking
the generational blessings. If we start looking at the sin and the demons too much and
specializing in that, you know, in looking at the curses—that’s all you’re going to see.
And that’s the same with the teaching that I do about flipping the spiritual atmosphere. I
tell you, you know, it’s like buying a new car or buying a certain color car. If you buy a
new red Honda Civic, that’s all you’re going to see, right? It’s the same thing. It’s called
by science, they call it the “reticular activating system.”

Now, let me share how God spoke to me about the generational curses that changed
my life. Now, I had a dream in 2002. And in the dream, I was a rich doctor driving a red
Maserati car parked outside of my rich doctor office. But everyone kept calling me
“the witch doctor” and not “the rich doctor” in the dream. So, I went in my office and
there were all these really weird, bloody scalps. You know, they were Indian scalps.
That’s what they were on the wall. And when I left my office, outside a man came up to
me and started pulling my teeth, and I was bleeding all over the place, and he looked
like a Native American.

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So, as I was waking up from this dream, I mean, this was startling. I had an open vision
over my bed of a woman dead, lying in a morgue. Like whoa. Now, that’s a heavy
dream. And I had no idea until I did some internet research that it was actually an
ancestor who was a Cherokee Indian. I had heard my mom say that we had Cherokee
blood. I just knew one name, Abigail. We just knew that there was someone by the
name of Abigail in our heritage and ... I had no idea.

But as I started doing research, I went out and Googled it in 2002, and up pops my
mom’s family tree that was done by someone I didn’t even realize had done it. In fact,
there were so many deaths in my mom’s side of the family, there was no heritage, but
there was something preserved. Okay, once I did the research, I realized I had on my
mom’s side of the family, which was Cherokee, there was an ancestor of mine—I don’t
know how many grandfathers ago, but there were a few—who was, they called him “the
witch doctor.” He bled people and he pulled teeth for a living. Now, wow, that was the
guy in my dream. I did further research and found out that my grandmother in that same
line—she was not Cherokee, but she had married into it—had died mysteriously. She
was murdered in the 1940s and actually died in the morgue.

Now, these two curses were revealed to me in a dream. First of all, I had a calling to be
a “rich doctor.” You know, that’s not literal, but there had been a poverty spirit over my
life and family. And I knew that the root of it was somewhere in this dream. So there
was also a spirit of death that hit my family. My goodness, we had Huntington’s disease
that nearly wiped out my entire family through my grandmother, who was the one lying
dead in the morgue. It was that side of the family. So, that dream showed me there was
a spirit of death.

So, after doing some research, you know, I went even further back to the witch doctor
guy who bled people and pulled teeth. His father was a wealthy Christian Cherokee land
owner in North Carolina, just before the Trail of Tears. They took his land away and his
son, the witch doctor, got bitter and poverty hit. So, are you seeing this pattern here?
There were amazing blessings over the curses. Up above, high up in the tree there,
there were some amazing blessings. I know this sounds like a movie, but it’s true.

I remember that day in 2002. My wife, Linda, and I prayed a simple prayer to break the
generational curses of poverty, witchcraft, murder and death. And we prayed to break
those and then bring in the blessings. Now, the Holy Spirit spoke to me immediately.
This was a Saturday afternoon. And He said, “You need to go up to the store right now
and buy thank you cards for what’s about to happen to you.”

So, we drove to the store, and we bought the thank you cards. We also bought a
cordless drill, because I was going to put together a desk to write my first book back in
2002. The cordless drill rang up for under $3 and the lady said, “Oh, my goodness, it’s
our mistake. You can actually keep it for that price.” So then we go over to the office
supply store to buy a desk, and it was like over $100, I remember. And it rang up for
$39. Now, I tell you the truth, all this happened within 2 hours of breaking the

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generational curses and pulling forward the generational blessings. I can’t say that
suddenly a lump sum came in, you know, we got the payment. But things shifted after
that.

In fact, I remember at one point our brakes didn’t wear out on our car. We had bought
this Honda CRV and we had driven ... I tell you, we had been part of six cross-country
moves, three church plants. And this car was going, and probably would still be going,
but it finally wore out—but the brakes wouldn’t wear out. I mean, everything shifted
over, over our lives. It wasn’t like a big lump sum came in but, I tell you, something
shifted that day.

And now the spirit of death has been broken. I have the diagnosis of Huntington’s
disease. I am 59 years old, but it has not hit my family. They put me in a study because
it’s not, it has not happened, it’s not normal. Also, the spirit of death was broken over my
family. My daughter and our grandkids are absolutely free from Huntington’s disease. It
will never show up. The spirit of poverty was broken over my life with that simple prayer
that day. I’m just saying, this is powerful. This is a missing piece to deliverance.

Yes, we want to, you know, get delivered out of the generational curses and ties. But we
have to remember to bring forward the angels and the blessings. Angels are greater
than demons. Blessings are greater than curses, the last I checked. So now, I help
people discover their calling based on some of these things. I call it “the attacks of the
past.” That’s how I knew my calling.

Then the Lord told me about the plots [and plans that the enemy was] making
against me. Jeremiah 11:18 NLT

So, the Lord can give you a heads-up. Satan often attacks us in the area of our future
strength, or our calling, or the generational destiny that we have. And there have been
assignments, so you can get clues about your destiny by noticing where the enemy hits
you often. Once you recognize these repeated attacks, then you can redeem it for the
good.

My attacks ... Here were my clues. Okay, here I am. I’m a prophet now, but I wasn’t
born that way. Believe me. I was born prophetic, but I had to move into the office of a
prophet. And I had to get rid of a lot of these curses, I tell you, and here were some of
my repeated attacks. As I sat down to look at this, my repeated attacks were in the area
of people not believing me, especially as a kid. Also, I started noticing the attacks in my
body. Even from childhood, I had a poor sense of smell, I had bad eyesight (until I got
Lasix surgery, of course), and I have had a very difficult time hearing all my life. But now
I’m a prophetic seer and I move in spiritual seeing, hearing, sensing. My discernment
level is super high, but the attack on my body was trying to show that. I’m just giving you
a clue.

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Like, my 7-year-old grandson is walking—he doesn’t know it yet—but I can see my gift
on him as a seer. Do you know what happened to him? I think he must have been 2 or 3
years old when he had to have eye surgery. And I said, wow, look at that, that same
attack. I began to pray for him. I said that’s the same attack I had. So, I also had some
generational attacks. So, go back and look at some of these in your life.

In my life, in the generational curses, I saw these things: sexual sin, divorce, affairs. But
do you know what? If that’s where the enemy is attacking—because he attacks in the
area of your calling—then you have a call to have a solid family, a marriage, and help
others. You have a call to holiness and purity. So, the redemptive gift is intimacy, being
a father or a mother to many. A pastoral calling—that’s what’s in that, if you want to get
in there and redeem it.

I also had a generational curse. I saw this over and over. When I looked back in my
family line, I have alcoholism and drug abuse. That’s the counterfeit of the true high.
God is called the Most High. I don’t know if you realize that. The word pharmakeia is the
Greek word for witchcraft. So, drug abuse can actually be blocking you from moving in
the Holy Spirit gifts, which is the opposite of witchcraft. So, the redemptive of drug
abuse can be heavenly encounters, intimacy with the Lord.

The other thing I saw in my family was occult and New Age. That’s the counterfeit of the
true prophetic gifts moving in the Spirit. So, the redeemed gift of prophecy, being able to
be a prophet or hear God for others, is in your line. If you see that, you can redeem
those things. It doesn’t mean you’re going to become a prophet, but you can hear God
more clearly.

Here was the fourth thing: poverty, debt, bankruptcy and financial ruin. It was all
throughout my family line. The redeemed gift of the Kingdom blessings is in here. What
we need to become is we need to be the lender and not the borrower. And we need to
have freedom to do what God calls us to do, when He calls us to do it. That’s what I do.
We need to redeem this gift. It’s called the Joseph anointing, Genesis 41. We’ll see
Joseph releasing the prophetic words and shifting finances, and world leaders
changing. All that, because poverty, debt, bankruptcy and financial ruin could be in your
family line.

So, I had to battle through these things, these generational sins and curses. I’m not
saying it’s easy, but I can show you some shortcuts. I’ve learned these shortcuts, and I
release them to people all the time. That’s how I do this. When I learned to write a book,
I wrote a book and a course on how to write a book, because I want to help people not
have to go through the suffering. And I’m doing this right now to release this, to help you
bring these curses from the callings of your ancestors and bring in the blessings of the
Kingdom of God.

Now, here were some of my ancestors. As I went back, I remember doing some
research on Ancestry.com. You know, I did my family tree and stuff, and I started

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noticing we had wealthy landowners. You know what? Previously, I thought we were all
in poverty. My father had been a coal miner from Virginia, my mother was from West
Virginia. There is nothing wrong with those areas, but there was a spirit of poverty. We
saw bankruptcy and poverty. It was just terrible. So, I didn’t think that there was
something greater until I did my family tree. I started going back and saw that, wow, we
were actually wealthy landowners that had turned to poverty because of generational
curses.

In my Cherokee line, I did this research and found out I’m a descendant of the
Cherokee Chief Attakullakulla. He was an influential Cherokee leader, and he was the
tribe’s First Beloved Man. That’s now an award given. This was right around the 1760–
75, somewhere in there. But this was one of my grandfathers, and this was a blessing.
He was the one who went over to England and tried to strike up a peace treaty, but that
was a bad thing to do. You know, when he came back home with the frontiersmen, you
know, that’s why he got killed. But he was a man of peace.

Then his son, Chief Dragging Canoe—this is true, you can Google this—was a man of
war. So, he cut off and brought death and violence into the generational line, which
should have been peace. Wow. And you know who Abigail was? Abigail was Chief
Dragging Canoe’s daughter, and she was the one who was a direct line from me. And I
said that we only knew Abigail. I Googled it one day and up came all this stuff on
Wikipedia. I’m like, dude, I had no idea. So, I had to go back then and break the spirit of
death and violence and call forward that spirit of peace into my generational line.

So, right now, God is assigning angels to us. This is so cool. I can’t tell you how many
times I’ve been around angels. They’ve been around saving my life. Sometimes they’re
there in a spiritual form or light. Other times they show up as people. It’s amazing. I’ve
had so many stories about this. I’ve had many encounters where God has saved me, so
many times.

And this is a season in which God wants to bring angels back into popularity so that
when we say, “Hey, look, there’s an angel over there,” people are not going to believe
us, right? They would believe it was a demon. Oh, no. This is the time God wants to
make angels and blessings to be more normal than demons and curses. This is my
message. This is the training that I bring, and all it takes is just shifting our focus. I used
to see and hear demons all the time over angels, and I began asking the Lord to open
my eyes.

If you want a shift—I’m going to give you some verses—you can begin to pray or decree
these verses.

The first one is 2 Kings 6:17.

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