Angels of Humility: A Novel

Thanks to Ronda Ranalli and the awesome team at Destiny Image. Thanks to my two friends and grammar consultants, Lori Garcia and Myrna Holmquist. I guess my strategy of using a comma after every twelfth word didn’t work. To my writing buddy Jacalyn Mcleod. If I’d met you six months ago, this book would have been even better. To my wonderful friend Kathy Burris, to satisfy her desire to see her name in a book.

You are going to love this book because you can apply these biblical, life-changing principles in your everyday life. Using real-life illustrations in a story form, Jackie Macgirvin brings to life a viable, easily understood example on the importance of intercession, humility, and living for the eternal realm. You cannot walk victoriously without observing these foundational truths.

Bobby Connor
Eagles View Ministries

Jackie Macgirvin’s book
Angels of Humility
surpasses excellence. It is a glimpse beyond the veil into the realities of the spiritual realm. This excellent fiction makes your heart thrill and your hair stand on end as it explores the hardships of having faith while living in this world and the ecstasy waiting in the world beyond for those who have trusted Christ. Each page reverberates with the witness of the Spirit.
Angels of Humility
is for people of all ages who can read or be read to and who hope, believe, or dread that there is Someone or something more out there! Run, do not walk, to get yours and one for the people you care about.

Bonnie Chavda
Author,
Hidden Power of a Woman

If you’re an intercessor or have a desire to be one, this book is for you. There are many excellent teaching books on intercession, humility, fervency, and eternal rewards; however, I am not aware of any fictional book that embraces these issues.

Through following the lives of two very different Christians,
Angels of Humility
gives an understanding of what one person, even a weak and unlikely one, can achieve for God. You’ll understand the importance of your prayers and actions, now and in eternity.

The author’s main goal is not to only entertain readers, but to impact their lifestyle in the following three areas:

1. The only way to be exalted is through the low door called humility. Anyone can be great in God’s Kingdom—do small acts of kindness on a daily basis as unto Him. Unfortunately, dedicated Christians in the western Church are striving for prominence and position, the total opposite of Jesus’ example and commands.

2. You really can pray without ceasing, even if you aren’t called to be a full-time intercessor. Your prayers make a bigger impact than you can even imagine.

3. The only thing that matters about your life is the evaluation you receive from the Lord when you die. There are two kingdoms; the visible and the invisible—don’t invest in the wrong one. You don’t want to experience regret when your life is evaluated.

We know these things, but we are too easily distracted. As you read it will become clear that you do not want to suffer loss on that day! This book will strengthen your resolve to live a life wholly abandoned to Him.

This book is full of ideas for praying as you go, applicable for any person in any walk of life. With the nudging of her angels, Sarah, who is newly converted at age 71, discovers prayer walking, prayer driving, and praying for people who are pictured on billboards, magazine covers, or television. She prays for whoever is on the receiving end of any siren she hears. When she is waiting for a train, she prays for each of the drifters who painted the graffiti on the railway cars. She discovers that if she’s not eating or talking, she can be praying in tongues and makes it her goal to do that constantly. She also prays everyday for the people who are going to die in the next 24 hours. Whew! If you implement half the intercessory ideas from this book, your prayer life will be radically impacted.

I recommend
Angels of Humility
to those who are hungry to grow in urgency, who want to be more disciplined in prayer, who want to increase in their understanding of how their daily choices make an eternal difference, and who want to begin or continue the life-long quest to be like our beautiful Savior who humbled Himself to take the form of a man, came to earth, and died on a cross.

Mike Bickle
Director, International House of Prayer
Kansas City, MO

Angels of Humility
is a call to radical commitment now. There will be a first time when our eyes will meet Jesus’ as we stand before Him. I do not want my immediate response to be glancing at the ground in shame over the way I’ve lived. I do not want to waste the gifts and talents He has given me.

This story vividly portrays how the Lord values humility and prayer and how diligence can result in standing before His judgment throne and hearing Him say, “Well done, good and faithful servant.” Surprisingly, this is within reach of every believer.

To be great in the sight of the world, one needs wealth, beauty, talent, a family name, and so forth. This excludes 99 percent of us. But God’s Kingdom is the only kingdom where everyone can be great; one need only to be the servant of all, which is attainable by all.

I used to work in a medical complex where the office numbering system was quite confusing. Each morning as I went to get the mail, I would check for people who looked confused. Then I would help them find their way. I did this as a way of serving the Lord. According to Scripture, the Lord will reward me for each of these simple actions. I jokingly tell people that I think the Lord will give me a hot tub connected to my heavenly mansion for these
miniscule actions and if I hadn’t bragged about it here, He probably would have filled it with water, too!

People spend more time planning their earthly retirement than they do their spiritual eternity. Please don’t let this happen to you. The blood of Jesus cleanses us from that which would keep us out of Heaven, but it does not eliminate our life’s evaluation.

Whatever we build on that foundation will be tested by fire on the day of judgment. Then everyone will find out if we have used gold, silver, and precious stones, or wood, hay, and straw. We will be rewarded if our building is left standing. But if it is destroyed by the fire, we will lose everything. Yet we ourselves will be saved, like someone escaping from flames
(1 Corinthians 3:12–15 CEV).

By examining the lives of Sarah and Pastor Paul, we see what can cause us to suffer loss or what can bring us incredible joy on that day. Please learn from them how to live well while you still have time. These 75 years are just the womb of life, but they affect how we spend eternity. Eternity is an incalculable concept for a finite brain, but it’s a long, long time.

To him who overcomes, I will give the right to sit with Me on My throne, just as I overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne
(Revelation 3:21).

So we make it our goal to please Him…
(2 Corinthians 5:9).

The servant…said, “Sir, you gave me five thousand coins, and I have earned five thousand more.” “Wonderful!” his master replied. “You are a good and faithful servant. I left you in charge of only a little, but now I will put you in charge of much more. Come and share in my happiness”
(Matthew 25:20–21 CEV).

Suppose someone gives even a cup of cold water to a little one…. What I’m about to tell you is true. That one will certainly be rewarded
(Matthew 10:42 NIRV).