I was thinking today about someone in my life — someone who has been overlooked, misunderstood, and spiritually unseen for most of their life. Most people write them off because of their arrogance, they’re ignored, or we just roll our eyes and let them talk, knowing it’s easier to just let em “have it” than try to reach what’s really going on underneath.

For a long time, I only prayed for protection from this person. I asked God to guard my heart, my peace, and my space…but I never once asked Him to change my heart toward them. I couldn’t see deeper — not because there wasn’t more to see, but because I wasn’t spiritually awake enough yet.

But then God interrupted my thinking with a truth I didn’t expect.
He didn’t just reveal their brokenness — He exposed my blindness.

And I realized… I might be one of the first people who has truly prayed for this person with spiritual understanding.

Then this Scripture rose in my spirit:

“For He will give His angels charge over you, to guard you in all your ways.” (Ps. 91:11)

We often hear that verse and picture angels keeping us from danger — and yes, that’s true. But today, I saw something deeper.

Sometimes, when God assigns angels to someone, they don’t just protect them from outside attacks…
They begin to war against the internal battles too.

Pride.
Rejection.
Insecurity.
Fear.
Lies we’ve believed our whole lives.
The walls we built just to survive.

We think angelic protection means “no harm will touch me.”
But sometimes heaven’s protection looks like inner shaking.

Sometimes spiritual protection means your soul gets stirred, stretched, and confronted so your spirit can be set free.

Because how heaven delivers us and how we experience it in the natural can look like polar opposites.

You may be protected spiritually…
Yet feel the sting of rejection in the process.
You may be surrounded by angels…
Yet feel like people are distancing themselves from you.

Not because God is hurting you —
But because He’s fighting for parts of you you didn’t even know were in bondage.

And suddenly I knew how to pray for this person:

Lord, give Your angels charge over him.
Fight the pride, the rejection, the insecurity.
Go after whatever keeps his heart from You.
Guard his journey into truth and identity.
Even if the process feels uncomfortable — let heaven win.

Sometimes we think we’re just thinking about someone.
But heaven is actually assigning us to intercede for them.

So if God has put someone on your heart that others overlook — pray for them.
You may be the first person in their life standing in agreement with heaven’s plan for them instead of earth’s opinion of them.

Heaven sees what man ignores.
And when God decides to rescue someone, He sends angels…
and He stirs an intercessor.

Lord, give Your angels charge over them —
even if the path to freedom feels like fire before it feels like peace.