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1. No African country names begin with the letters F, H, I, J, O, P, Q, V, W, X, or Y.

2. Africa is surrounded by water but by definition Africa is not an island because Africa is a continent.

3. The Republic of the Congo is one of the most urbanized countries in Africa.

Ancestors are Guardian Angels

Ancestors are Guardian Angels

Ancestors are Guardian Angels who are celestial spirits helping in many ways.

Ancestral Guardian Angels protect us to help make powerful connections.

Everyone has a guardian angel also known as an Ancestor who attaches itself to the spirit from the moment conception.

Ancestors are helpful divine spirits that watch over and protect an individual.

Guardian Angels in the form of Ancestors are all around us. Everyone is a spiritual being with an inner need to honor ancestors both known and unknown.

Ancestors are Guardian Angels
Ancestors are Guardian Angels

Open your spiritual eyes and you can see all the Ancestors being Guardian angels.

You can spiritually feel the ancestors and they are more powerful than you think, they are angels.

How do you know if the Ancestors are guarding you?

Do you ever think about angels being your ancestors? When it comes to Ancestors being Guardian angels know that they are powerful. We live in a physical and spiritual world, the physical world we can see, hear, smell, touch and feel but it is not our real reality, the spiritual world directs our seen and unseen world presence.

Ancestors are real angelic beings; they are not ideas or are they simply spiritual presences. They surround us and have a physical impact. You might not be able to touch them yet the Ancestors touch people every day. Most people of Africa worship the spirits of their ancestors a worship for which their minds are prepared by the veneration that they pay to their living elders.

Listen to your Ancestral Guardian Angel words and feel safe in their knowledge.

The Ancestors, Guardian angels, have never been known to fail, nothing can rise against you that match the strength of Ancestors, and they form the most effective bodyguards against curses and evil spirits. The wisdom and intellect of invisible angels for this time we live in is an essential and vital part of life.

Ancestors are very intelligent, full of wisdom and reassurance. It is very possible that you might have talked to your Guardian Angel Ancestor and not even know it. Ancestors have moral reasoning and can make moral decisions about what is right and wrong; this makes Ancestors morality fundamental to the human situation.

The Ancestors and your spirit will always connect and communicate.

Only God is present everywhere, he is omnipresent; He is not the God of the dead but of the living. Ancestors being Guardian angels are celestial spirits who help in many different ways. Even everyday people in our lives who have our best interests at heart can be guardian angels.

To find out if your Ancestral Guardian Angel is trying to communicate with you, take some quiet time to reflect on the issue at hand. Allow your mind to wander. Think about what you might be trying to avoid.

Try to keep an open mind. Be especially curious if you start feeling defensive, stop talking and start listening to the Ancestors. To a fight, one does not bring a knife that cuts but a needle that sews.

It can easily be understood how reverence paid to the ancestors would develop into the respect of Guardian Angel spirits. The people of Africa believe that the spirit of ancestors influence life and fortunes.

Most Africans lives are in constant communion and understanding with the spirit-world that the seen and unseen world are interconnected. The ancestors may come to him in dreams, and the sounds and sights. Ancestral communication may come in dreams and visions. Spirituality means something different to each person. Spirituality is an internal journey that connects you to occurrences outside yourself. Never close your mind, stay open to seen and unseen Ancestral Guardian Angels.

Guardian Angel Names in Africa
Beskerm engel.
Mala'ikan Guardian.
Mngelo Woteteza.
Almalak Alharis
Onye nche Angel.
Anjely Mpiambina.
Anjo da guarda.
Lengeloi la Mohlokomeli.
Ange gardien.
Ngirozi.
Ilaaliyaha .
Ángel guardian.
Malaikat Wali.
Malaika Mlezi.
Ingelosi yokukhokhela.
Angeli olutoju.
Ingelosi enguMgcini.


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Africa is surrounded by water but is not an island, here are a few African Island facts.

Madagascar is the 4th large island in the world and is located in the Indian Ocean supporting a unique biology, about 90% of its plants and animals are found nowhere else on earth.

Composed of 155 islands, Seychelles is Africa's smallest country. By far the largest island is Mahe, home to about 90% of the population and the site of its capital city of Victoria.

Cabo Verde has a strategic location 310 miles or 500 km from the west coast of Africa near major north-south sea routes; important communications station; important sea and air refueling site.

Africa is surrounded by water but by definition Africa is not an island because Africa is a continent. Continents can not be considered islands because of their size and also by historic definition since many people who study geography define islands and continents as two different things.

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