Bible Questions Answered:
“Does God use angels to answer our
prayers...”
Dorthy/ San Diego, California U.S.A.
Bible Answer:
Bible Texts:
God may answer our
prayers directly or use angels.
God Answering Our
Prayers:
I Chronicles 5:18-20 NLT
18 There were 44,760 capable
warriors in the armies of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of
Manasseh. They were all skilled in combat and armed with shields,
swords, and bows.
19 They waged war against the
Hagrites, the Jeturites, the Naphishites, and the Nodabites. 20 They
cried out to God during the battle, and He answered their prayer
because they trusted in Him. So the Hagrites and all their allies
were defeated.
Psalm 4:3 KJV
But know that The Lord hath set
apart him that is Godly for Himself: The Lord will hear when I call
unto Him.
Psalm 18:6 KJV
In my distress I called upon The
Lord, and cried unto my God: He heard my voice out of His temple, and
my cry came before Him, even into His ears.
Psalm 34:15,17 KJV
15 The eyes of The Lord are upon the
righteous, and His ears are open unto their cry.
17 The righteous cry, and The Lord
heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.
Psalm 94:9 KJV
He that planted the ear, shall He
not hear? He that formed the eye, shall He not see?
Proverb 15:29 KJV
The Lord is far from the wicked: but
He heareth the prayer of the righteous.
Isaiah 59:1 KJV
Behold, The Lord's hand is not
shortened, that it cannot save; neither His ear heavy, that it cannot
hear:
Micah 7:7 KJV
Therefore I will Look unto The Lord;
I will wait for The God Of My salvation: my God will hear me.
I Peter 3:12 KJV
For the eyes of The Lord are over
the righteous, and His ears are open unto their prayers: but the face
of The Lord is against them that do evil.
God,
Using Angels, In Answer To Our Prayers:
Acts 12:1-19 NLT
(James Is Killed and Peter Is Imprisoned)
1 About that time King Herod
Agrippa began to persecute some believers in the church.
2 He had the apostle James (John’s
brother) killed with a sword.
3 When Herod saw how much this
pleased the Jewish people, he also arrested Peter. (This took place
during the Passover celebration.)
4 Then he imprisoned him, placing
him under the guard of four squads of four soldiers each. Herod
intended to bring Peter out for public trial after the Passover.
5 But while Peter was in prison, the
church prayed very earnestly for him.
(Peter’s
Miraculous Escape from Prison)
6 The night before Peter was to be
placed on trial, he was asleep, fastened with two chains between two
soldiers. Others stood guard at the prison gate.
7 Suddenly, there was a bright light
in the cell, and an angel of The Lord stood before Peter. The angel
struck him on the side to awaken him and said, “Quick! Get up!”
And the chains fell off his wrists.
8 Then the angel told him, “Get
dressed and put on your sandals.” And he did. “Now put on your
coat and follow me,” the angel ordered.
9 So Peter left the cell, following
the angel. But all the time he thought it was a vision. He didn’t
realize it was actually happening.
10 They passed the first and second
guard posts and came to the iron gate leading to the city, and this
opened for them all by itself. So they passed through and started
walking down the street, and then the angel suddenly left him.
11 Peter finally came to his senses.
“It’s really true!” he said. “The Lord has sent His angel and
saved me from Herod and from what the Jewish leaders had planned to
do to me!”
12 When he realized this, he went to
the home of Mary, the mother of John Mark, where many were gathered
for prayer.
13 He knocked at the door in the
gate, and a servant girl named Rhoda came to open it.
14 When she recognized Peter’s
voice, she was so overjoyed that, instead of opening the door, she
ran back inside and told everyone, “Peter is standing at the door!”
15 “You’re out of your mind!”
they said. When she insisted, they decided, “It must be his angel.”
16 Meanwhile, Peter continued
knocking. When they finally opened the door and saw him, they were
amazed.
17 He motioned for them to quiet
down and told them how The Lord had led him out of prison. “Tell
James and the other brothers what happened,” he said. And then he
went to another place.
18 At dawn there was a great
commotion among the soldiers about what had happened to Peter.
19 Herod Agrippa ordered a thorough
search for him. When he couldn’t be found, Herod interrogated the
guards and sentenced them to death. Afterward Herod left Judea to
stay in Caesarea for a while.
Then there is the
Old Testament story of Daniel, and that God sent an angel to him, in
answer to his prayers, but sinister forces held the angel fast.
Daniel 10:12-14
NLT (Be sure to read the whole
chapter.)
12 Then he (An angel of The Lord)
said, “Don’t be afraid, Daniel. Since the first day you began to
pray for understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your
request has been heard in heaven. I have come in answer to your
prayer.
13 But for twenty-one days the
spirit prince of the kingdom of Persia blocked my way. Then Michael,
one of the archangels, came to help me, and I left him there with the
spirit prince of the kingdom of Persia.
14 Now I am here..."
This real event,
proves to us, there is real spiritual opposition to answers in
prayer. This is why our Lord taught us to be persistent in praying!
Luke 18:1-8 NLT
(Parable of the Persistent Widow)
18 One day Jesus told His disciples
a story to show that they should always pray and never give up.
2 “There was a judge in a certain
city,” he said, “who neither feared God nor cared about people.
3 A widow of that city came to him
repeatedly, saying, ‘Give me justice in this dispute with my
enemy.’
4 The judge ignored her for a while,
but finally he said to himself, ‘I don’t fear God or care about
people,
5 but this woman is driving me
crazy. I’m going to see that she gets justice, because she is
wearing me out with her constant requests!’”
6 Then The Lord said, “Learn a
lesson from this unjust judge.
7 Even he rendered a just decision
in the end. So don’t you think God will surely give justice to His
chosen people who cry out to Him day and night? Will He keep putting
them off?
8 I tell you, He will grant justice
to them quickly! But when The Son Of Man returns, how many will He
find on the earth who have faith?”
Prayer:
Acts 2:21 KJV
“And it shall come to pass, that
whosoever shall call on the name of The Lord shall be saved.”
Acts 4:12 KJV
“Neither is there salvation in any
other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men,
whereby we must be saved.”
Whisper
A Prayer
Whisper a prayer in
the morning,
Whisper a prayer at
noon;
Whisper a prayer in
the ev’ning,
To keep your heart
in tune.
God answers prayer
in the morning,
God answers prayer
at noon;
God answers prayer
in the ev’ning,
So keep your heart
in tune.
Jesus may come in
the morning,
Jesus may come at
noon;
Jesus may come in
the ev’ning,
So keep your heart
in tune.
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