In the realm of the spirit, invisible forces contend over the will of God for your life, but you are not alone in this fight. Warrior angels—servants of fire–have been sent to minister to you as an heir of salvation.
Joseph Z, Bible teacher and prophetic seer, reveals the role of God's angelic warriors who carry out the Word of God on your behalf.
Servants of Fire delivers sound biblical instruction to unveil the realm of the spirit and bring to pass the will, plans, and purposes of God on the earth. You will learn to…
Activate and cooperate with angelic forcesUnderstand ranks of angels and how they functionDemystify angelic encounters in the BiblePut angels to work with your wordsExperience breakthroughs in prayer
Understand how to partner with these servants of fire so you can experience the maximum impact of a victorious life in God!
I loved this book. I’ve gone through it three times and took tons of notes. This gives us all the insight we need during these times to activate angels or the “Servants of Fire” that are all around us in the spiritual realm.
Using the Word of God as we pray allows angels to work with us in numerous ways and knowing they are there, just waiting to go into action based on our Scriptural prayers means so much. Imagine activating all that unseen power through your prayers?!
I have read through the Bible many times but sometimes you need a nudge in the right direction to really see what is being said about a subject. For me, this book on angels was a definite nudge. I knew they were there; and yet I didn’t fully understand why.
Joseph Z helps us bring all the details into focus and I appreciate that the Scriptures takes precedence in everything he teaches. I was also really interested to read about The Book of Enoch and what we can take from it - not as part of Scripture but as a writing from that time period. So interesting. I enjoyed learning that there is good information to be found in part of that book even though it is not part of the Bible. It is referred to in the Bible several times.
I’m trying to write this without giving away anything so I guess my main point is this, if you have a prayer life and want to take it deeper “Servants of Fire” will show you how to pray and effectively activate the angels. To do that with confidence, read this book.
At the end of the book is a detailed guide to pray so we are able to properly activate God’s angels around us. The book is worth the price for those pages alone.
Don’t read through this quickly - take your time and read the Scriptures, read the portions of Enoch that Joseph Z included and understand these “Servants of Fire” like never before. I am thankful I read this!!
-Goodreads giveaway winner- I enjoyed this book. The writing is good and the message is well thought out. It's written where it's easy to understand the Biblical topics. I've never really thought much about what makes the Angel's intervene and this book has me thinking now. That's always a sign of a good book...when it makes you work your mind!
I won this in a Goodreads giveaway. There were quite a few parts that made me want to rate this 2-stars (1 if I didn’t finish) and other parts that were inching beyond the 3.5-star range. I’ll give this a 3-star rating even though overall I feel like it’s a 2.5.
This isn’t the book I expected. I was about 25% through before I wanted to put down the book. There are too many emphases and I felt like there were more than enough exclamation points that made me feel like I was being shouted to and intensely ministered to. I was also uncomfortable that, at first, Joseph Z made it sound like if something wasn’t in the Bible then it wasn’t authentic. In chapter 10, he states that nothing can be added to the actual canon of Scripture, though what is canon differs between denominations. I was also frustrated that there is a lot more about general prayer and then the spiritual realm as a whole and not angels for the first half of the book.
But, since I felt the book was tolerable and I did win it, I kept moving on.
I like the ways in which the author continuously brings everything back to the need for prayer, though am not fond of the phrase “activate these servants of fire.” It makes it sound like angels are at our beck and call; which may be true in some ways, but they serve us all and, as Joseph Z says in the preface, they are “empowered by the voice of God;” and later, that they are part of God’s DNA, created from His presence. While I didn’t later change my mind about this, I was glad that in chapter 14 the author gives Biblical reasons for his words. I also like that Joseph Z discusses intercessions, and how they are go-between prayers that involve a conflict that must be resolved spiritually. As a Catholic, I am a big believer of intercessory prayer, and it’s nice to see it explained in a non-Catholic book.
In the first part (which goes until just over 50%), Joseph Z brings up a lot about deception. What intrigued me is how he related deception to stories we want to believe over the truth, and how certain paranormal or conspiracy activities might actually manifest from the spiritual realm and aren’t actually aliens.
“The worst thing is when foolish people try to communicate with the unseen realm, and like brute beasts become conduits for these dark celestial beings, allowing them permission and access to society. There is only one prescribed way we are to access the realm of the spirit and that is through the blood of Jesus Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit.” –This quote from chapter 7 is my favorite in the book. It embodies all that I believe as a Catholic Christian. I have friends who claim they are mediums and it terrifies me, because they purposely open themselves up to spiritual attack and possibly possession. And I believe that I receive Jesus every week in Holy Communion, giving me continual reminders and the strength to fend off spiritual attack.
In the second part, we finally get a lot more about angels, though there isn’t terribly much that is KNOWN. I appreciate that Joseph Z discusses the work from theologians like Dionysius and St. Thomas Aquinas as well as what is known from science (and there is a chapter devoted to Enoch) because again I kept getting some sense that he was of the mindset that anything not from the Bible can’t be trusted, though I also felt like that was not his intent. He seemed too open minded at times even before part 2. Anyway, while a lot of non-Biblical information is mainly speculative (both religious and in particle physics), we can gather evidence from the Bible to support notions like celestial hierarchies and dimensions of the world.
I really like that in chapter 11 he notes that we can’t individually interpret the Bible. I know a lot of Christians who do that (and just people taking things out of context).
I have never read the apocryphal gospels nor anything beyond snippets from the Qumran fragments, and it was indeed interesting to read about the book of Enoch. Joseph Z was very repetitive in his descriptions in that chapter (10) which was yet another frustrating thing.
There are some interesting explanations about Hell, taken from Biblical passages. I like how Joseph Z notes that we outrank evil spirits and fallen angels. The penultimate chapter though is more about Satan’s desire to rule the world than about angels as a whole.
The last chapter contains generic prayers for angels (and Biblical reasons as to why he and his wife use those prayers).
Based on some reviews and the fact that he calls himself a prophetic seer - a questionable flag for me (1 John 4:1; 1 Thessalonians 5:20-21) - I wasn't sure if I should read this book so I decided to dig around to find more information. A quick look at his website didn't provide much in the way of answers, so I started looking at some of his sermons.
I chose Soul Prosperity: Unlocking Your Inner Wealth on YouTube.
Within the first couple of minutes of the video, specifically the 1:06 mark, it says that "Joseph Z is known for accurate prophecy delivered with integrity." That stood out to me for a couple of reasons - it sounds like he's selling himself (personal opinion, not scriptural) and God cannot lie (Numbers 23:19; Titus 1:2; Hebrews 6:18) so why does Joseph need to add 'with integrity' if he's truly sharing a prophetic word?
Between 11:37 - 12:08 on the video, Joseph Z says "to the level that you believe what God says is true about you in this Word is the level you will prosper and be in health." That gave me immediate pause. Yes, there are some verses that talk about his children/followers/sheep/etc. but the entirety of Scripture talks about God, the nature of God and points to Jesus. So, why would we be believing in what it says about 'us' versus what it says about God and Jesus to gain prosperity and health? Also, scripture never says we will prosper and be in health and it certainly doesn't say that our level of faith makes us more prosperous. We can see an example of that in Philippians 4:11-13. In fact, the Bible tells us to expect persecution, which is the exact opposite of prosperity and health (2 Timothy 3:11-12; 1 Peter 4:12-14).
So, since his sermon didn't line up with the Bible's teaching, I will pass on his books.
Before going into this I do just want to say that I am coming out of two Bible schools, and told myself I would never read a book again except for the Bible haha. Unfortunately the books there were pretty generic, copy and paste, and also written by people spiritually dead as a door nail. The flip side to that though was that the programs were cheap and relatively easy. I didn't learn anything though (literally) and lost my taste for reading by the very end. Most of the books there as you can imagine, were written by overly "edumacated" people as Joseph would say, and just stretched out their content to see how far they could make the book last.
Well, that isn't the same here (at all). And what a refreshing and rejuvenating feeling it is to actually learn from someone who is a real life Holy Spirit warrior. Reading Joseph's book is very easy to understand, and is making me excited about God and His Word to new levels. It is so practical and straightforward also, and never is tiring to read.
All that to say, that this book is excellent and unbelievable value spiritually. I can't believe how in depth and practical it is, with no shortcuts or abrupt endings either. I am actually going to re-read the sections again, as it encourages studying and asking yourself questions at the end of the chapters. Once I get through this, I'm going to read Demistifying the Prophetic and Breaking Hell's Economy too lol. Onward and upward!
This is a troubling book, be wary for the “fiction” the author tries to push as Biblical truth. One person’s opinion that cannot be verified Biblically should be challenged and don’t let that sway you. On the same page the author says we can never go beyond what is written in the Bible, followed by …the following information will fill in the blanks of the narrative in Genesis 6. No, that is so troubling and I am so disappointed in this writer. That had many important Biblically sound theological discussions, but so much of the work was pure fiction. Also unsubstantiated Biblical references, some missing the chapter and verse, some missing the verse. Understanding the time of when events occurred is troubling that further negates the validity of this writer.
If you read this book, please pull out only what can be Biblically substantiated. Those points that are based in a factionalized narrative, recognize that part as, ok, maybe… but unproven in the cannon. If I could have known how poor this book is, for Biblical study I never would have read it. However, since I did read it, maybe my review will help another person that wants to learn more about who Angels are, and how they work, for God the Father through our conduit of praying the scriptures.
Wow, so informative, and every fact is referenced. My favorite part is the suggested prayers for angelic assistance at the end. I've carried this book around everywhere with me, and I'm reading it again & again!
I'e bought three more of these for friends & family! So great! (Nobody gets mine! Ha)
This covers the purpose and actions of angels well. This will be especially helpful to readers because of the day in which we live. We need to know we have help and how to access that help.
This book explains how to use the word to and how to get more from your prayers. I’ve definitely changed the way I pray a bit after reading this. It’s a very powerful book. I will definitely read it again and again.
Western Christianity seems to have forgotten that demons and angels exist, and they're quite close; in some cases, right next to us. It was refreshing to read a book that speaks of them and their reality with authority...and I'm not even a Pentecostal!
This book opened my eyes to Angels as a Christian I loved the way it was written for us to understand and the great resources Joseph gives at the end I believed in angels but now I understand angels such a great book
Really enjoyed the book. It was very informative and I learned things that were helpful. Every night I couldn’t wait to read another chapter. Highly recommend this one.