--This is a note that Sis. Kelli Orange wrote on Facebook a couple of years ago. The Lord has really been dealing with my heart about the importance of our hair and the protection of the angels that we have through not cutting it, and I remembered this note! Sis. Kelli graciously let us use it for a guest blog, and I know that it will touch your heart! I think one of the main reasons that I have been thinking about this subject so much recently is the fact that there has been so much sickness in our church...especially the children. Now, I know that this is supposed to be for "young" ladies (un-married, no children, etc.), but I think it's important for YOU to understand that the consequences of your actions TODAY can either harm or protect your future children! But even more than that, it's YOUR protection every day. Also, I know that several mothers read our blog as well, and I pray that this is an encouragement and inspiration to you as well!
--Natalie
April 16, 2009
By: Kelli Orange
WOW!!! I didn't know that a simple status update would lead to this! However, I LOVE to share my testimony, and never even thought about doing it with all of my Facebook friends. I would like to say that this is MY conviction, MY belief, and MY interpretation of the Word of God. If you don't believe it, that is fine by me. However, please have the decency to withold all negative criticisms since this is really my heartbeat!
A few years ago, I had a knot in my hair that took my mother over four hours to get out. I decided right then and there that I needed to know WHY I didn't cut my hair! I knew it was "my glory", but I was thinking right about then that maybe I didn't need all that glory! ;-) I began to do an in depth study on hair to understand why the Lord would ask this of us. I went to a hair conference that was very enlightening! Proverbs 29:13 says, "Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint; but blessed is he who keeps the law." Many people discard so many of our beliefs because they do not have the revelation. I did not have one at this time! I began to pray for one!
Ezekiel 28 talks about a war being waged in the spirit realm about holiness. Lucifer had a very special place of anointed ministry, and his primary function was being a covering cherub. The cherubim, seem to be particularly assigned to the responsibility of guarding the glory of God. Lucifer, being the anointed cherub, was set forth as the chief guardian of the glory of God. Ezekiel 28:14 says that God put him in this place of delegated authority. He was honored above all of the other angels, so what could have been the root of his rebellion? Ezekiel 28:17 declares. “Thine heart was lifted up because of thine beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness…” Vanity caused him to become so proud of his outward magnificence that it began to overshadow his relationship with his Maker. When Lucifer was cast out, he lost his covering. God delegated Lucifer’s guardianship of the glory of God to the woman. I Corinthians 11:10 and 15 says “For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels. But if a woman have long hair, it is a GLORY to her: for her hair is given her for a COVERING.” So to this day, Satan tempts mankind, especially women over and over to tamper with the covering because it symbolizes to him everything he lost.
A woman’s hair signals to the spirit world whether she is in rebellion or in submission. The angels can tell by looking at her. That is why it is so important for us not to even trim our hair. The purpose is not to have long hair, it is to be in submission to the word of God by not cutting your hair… at all. What is one of the first thing a woman does when she backslides? She cuts her hair, losing her glory just like Lucifer did when he was cast out. She is now separated from God just like he is.
The only other place that you see the covering, the angels, and the glory mentioned together is in the Ark of the Covenant. The mercy seat covered the law. The cherubim, (the angels) were assigned to guard the glory, covered the mercy seat and were actually attached to it. Dwelling in the midst of the cherubim was the glory of God. If ever the covering, the mercy seat was removed from the Ark, the angels were removed with it. They were attached to the covering. The glory, mercy, and presence of God were removed as well, leaving only naked law, no mercy. To forfeit the covering was to forfeit divine protection! The woman, as God created her, is a picture of the Church – the Law on the inside; the covering of her submission to that law on the outside; the mercy and the angels covering her; and the glory and the presence of God dwelling over, around, and in the midst of her! The woman’s uncut hair is a part of what makes her visible and recognizable as the covered bride of Jesus Christ.
The protection is not only for the woman, but also for her family! Ezekiel 10 indicates that wherever the glory was the cherubim was as well. In verses 18 and 19, when the glory of the Lord departed from the house or the temple, the cherubim lifted up their wings and departed also. They were committed to the glory! We are the temple of the Holy Ghost and we have the glory as long as we are in submission through obedience with uncut hair. When a woman cuts her hair, she actually severs the glory of God from her life. The angels will lift and depart, for they are committed to the glory. Where there is no glory, the angels are absent, leaving only harsh judgment. Have you ever noticed that the armor of God does not make a provision for the back? Isaiah 58:8 says that the glory of the Lord shall be our rearguard! Titus 2:5 says that women are to be “keepers at home”. This phrase in the Greek language has a much deeper meaning than simply housekeeping, cooking, cleaning, etc. It also means “a guard, to beware”. Ladies, your job description involves more than housekeeping. You are to be a guard that will beware of any evil that would try to come into your homes.
We can actually open up our homes for evil spirits to come in if we are in rebellion. Your uncut hair brings protection to the entire family. The devil is the ultimate liar. So, before you cut your hair, ask yourself, “Why am I doing this?” and “How will this affect my family?” Do you dare forfeit divine protection for the sake of vanity? Sometimes in the darkest trials of your life, you will feel the urge to cut your hair. During the hardest trial that I have ever been through I was on my floor in the bathroom sobbing for hours. I felt the strongest urge to cut my hair, not to get it styled, but whacked off. There was a spirit fighting HARD for me to "just shock everyone, just cut it!" Thank God that I did not give in because if the devil can just get you to cut your hair, he has stripped away your army of angels that were protecting you.
What a comfort it is to know that the angels of the Lord are encamping around about our families, diligently on guard against any intrusion of the enemy forces. I cannot always be with my husband or my children 24 hours a day, but each day as I watch him leave for work and as I send them off to school, I can plead the blood of Jesus over them, pray the armor of God on them, and ask for the angels of the Lord to encamp around about them. We can ask this with confidence if we are in obedience to God’s Word and have not severed the glory in our lives. Only eternity will reveal how many times your family was protected because of this promise of power on your head.
There was a Holy-Ghost-filled woman that claimed this promise at a very desperate time in her life. This lady’s son was in a very serious car accident. When he was brought into the emergency room, the doctors did not even work on him because the said he was too far gone. They left to go work on other patients that they thought had a better chance of survival. Somehow, this frantic mother managed to get into her son’s room along with her husband. As she stood at his bedside, she began to pray. She reminded God of how a scissors had never touched her hair. She prayed the promise of I Corinthians 11:10 and claimed the power that was available to her because of the angels. God heard that prayer, and immediately things began to happen. The doctors came back, expecting to see a young man who possibly was dead. Instead, they found that he had regained consciousness and was responding. Within a matter of days, this young man was out of the hospital. His mother had guarded the glory, and she had power on her head because of the angels! Upon hearing this story from Penny Watkins years before I read it again in Ruth Rieder’s book, I began to pray for my son, Skyler. He had the most severe form of asthma. He took six breathing treatments that lasted about ten – fifteen minutes each treatment. Phillip and I were literally afraid to sleep at night fearing that, that would be the night he wouldn’t be able to catch his breath and we wouldn’t know. Anytime he would do something active, such as jump on the trampoline he would just start throwing up, and he couldn’t stop or breathe. Now, here I was expecting LaMarq, and I remember thinking now God is going to have to help us. I didn’t know how I would physically take the stress of staying up with an infant on top of all this with Skyler. So, when I heard this story, I went home, I let my hair down, and I began to pray the same prayer that this lady had. I began to plead the blood over Skyler. He was miraculously healed. A couple of weeks without any treatments, and no attacks, I testified in church of the miracle God had done. That night Skyler had the worst attack that he had ever had. The doctor told us that there was nothing else he could do, any more medicine would mess Skyler up. He told us that we would just have to start taking him to the ER every time we saw one coming on. So, I was thinking, “ Ok, God. I know that you healed him.” So, I did the same thing, I prayed again the same prayer. Again Skyler was miraculously healed, and I do mean all the way. So I waited about a month, when I was sure, and I testified again. Again THAT NIGHT Skyler had another attack. It hit me like a ton of bricks that this was an all out war with the devil. He was scared to death of me getting a hold of this revelation. This happened 3 more times. I mean the very night I would testify, Skyler would just get a horrible attack. Phillip told me to stop testifying or Skyler was going to die. So, one night I just started rebuking the devil in JESUS name, and I told him that it didn’t matter how many times we had to do this, that it was too late, I already knew the power that I had in my hair, and that he might as well leave me alone, and He did. Skyler has not had one more attack to this day.
God has miraculously healed LaMarq, too. He had begun to start breaking out in horrible whelps all over his body. We couldn’t figure out what was happening. When we discovered it was latex, the doctor told us that his reactions were so severe that an inhalation (like a balloon) could be fatal. Ok, right. How was I going to keep my three year old away from balloons or make him understand that he could die if he tried to blow one up? So, I have to say… I’m not afraid to ask my heavenly father for anything! He has never ever ever let me down!!! So I did the same thing I layed my hair over LaMarq’s little body and prayed. Since then, not one break out!!!! We have power through our uncut hair!
Women, isn’t there something in your life you would like to have the victory over? Let your hair down… walk around your house… lay your hair over your children!!! When your unsaved husband is sleeping, lay your glory over that man and use that power you have with the angels!!! If your body is in pain…. if your finances are in trouble, if your marriage is on the rocks, if your children are straying from this truth… WHATEVER you need WE HAVE THE POWER!!!!
Skyler is old enough to understand, and when I talk to him about it he becomes very emotional. He’s not embarrassed of my hair, he knows that because I was submissive to the Word of God and didn’t cut my hair he can have a normal childhood without six breathing treatments a day… no drugs in his little body. Ladies… WE HAVE THE POWER!!!!!!!!! Whatever your need is, whatever your problem is!!!
There is a story that Bro. Stoneking tells about a woman who heard a scream, she ran to the window and looked down, and her child was standing in the grass beside a woman trembling. The lady said, “ You left you window open and your child climbed onto the ledge. He fell down two stories, but there was a man standing there who caught him. The man disappeared; I don’t know where he went.” This mother had power on her head because of the angels. There are times when this power is at work on our behalf when we are not even aware of it. Our hair is our covering, just think of it like an umbrella. Oh, yes, we are going to walk through storms, but we are protected!!!!!!!!!! I just want to thank the Lord for this huge responsibility and awesome privilege! WE’RE COMING AFTER WHAT BELONGS TO US!!! WE HAVE THE POWER!!!
This was not meant to condemn, judge, or offend anyone that has cut or cuts their hair. This was meant as encouragment to all of my Pentecostal ladies/friends who do not cut their hair. I love you all!!!
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