Angels and Prayer?

This site is about God, Prayer and Angels, three very important subjects in the life of any person who follows most religious beliefs. Angels are messengers of God and their sole purpose is to do his will. By emulating Angels, being messengers of God and doing his will, we ascend to a higher understanding of our own purpose.

This site is dedicated to the memory of Zelda Siedeman, a woman that I only knew during the last year of her life, however, a woman that had a profound effect on my life. Zelda taught me the true power of Angels and Prayer. It is my hope that Zelda's belief in the power of Prayer will live on in this virtual medium.

In a written Memorial to his mother, Joel Seideman wrote the following concerning her life and her accomplishments.

"My mother loved, indeed, my mother lived to help people. She counseled numerous people on making claims for veteran's entitlements, medical benefits, public assistance, and educational aid. She promoted several marriages, both Jewish and Gentile. She aided new immigrants, comforted the sick, assuaged the mentally ill, visited the aged and consoled the bereaved. She held many a hand, wiped many a tear, mopped many a fevered brow, for complete strangers, as well as family and friends.

My mother was fervently charitable. In the months prior to her death, when I collected her mail, she received solicitations from over 100 charities, to each of which she had contributed at lease once. She donated money to medical, social, religious, educational, and political causes. She went door-to-door as a United Way collector. She worked as a Muscular Dystrophy Telethon volunteer. She stood on sidewalks with coin boxes, soliciting charity for Jewish institutions. She gave her blood to the Red Cross.

My Mother was an insatiable volunteer. In her latter years, her numerous forays into volunteerism for the Senior Center, the State Police, and the Veterans Administration, gained her induction into the Maryland Senior Citizens Hall Of Fame.

My Mother was intensely patriotic. During W.W.II, she was an employee of Lend-Lease, a volunteer at Union Memorial Hospital, and a hostess at the local USO. She married a soldier. She later worked for the US Army for 20 years. Every July Fourth, she displayed the flag. Every Memorial day, she tended my father's grave."

(Proverbs, 3.1) "give her due credit for her achievements, and let her works praise her."

Jay Jones
Angels Prayer

One of my favorite verise of scripture concerning Angels is HEB 13:2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for therby some have entertained angels unawares.

We like to romanticize angels, which over the years have allowed angels to become many things to many people. I urge you to check the bible on the facts about angels and to stick with the facts. This much I can tell you, you can't trust all angles, remember that the devil was once an angel. According to the bible, with the possible exception of one debatable passage in Zechariah 5:9, angels always appear as males rather than females (Mark 16:5).

In Genesis 18, Abraham welcomed three angelic guests who appeared at first to be nothing more than some travellers. Angels in the Bible never appear as cute, chubby infants with wings! They are always full-grown adults. When people in the Bible saw an angel, their typical response was to fall on their faces in fear and awe. The one thing the bible teaches us is that Angels are servents of God and that God uses Angels for various thing. This does not mean that we should pray to angels, it means that we should ask God to send Angels to help and protect us.

How Did Angels Originate?

The Scripture speaks about the creation of angels, therefore, it is clear that they have not existed from all eternity (Nehemiah 9:6; Psalm 148:2,5). Colossians 1:16-17 explains: “For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities - all things have been created by Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.”

The time of their creation is never definitely specified, but it is most probable that it occurred in connection with the creation of the heavens in Genesis 1:1. It may be that God created the angels immediately after He had created the heavens and before He created the earth—for according to Job 38:4-7, “the sons of God shouted for joy” when He laid the foundations of the earth.

How Does God Use Angels?

God often uses angels as His means of answering the prayers of His people (Daniel 9:20-24; 10:10-12; Acts 12:1-17). God has used angels to provide physical needs such as food for Hagar (Genesis 21:17-20), Elijah (1 Kings 19:6), and Christ after His temptation (Matthew 4:11). Angels also serve as messengers to communicate God's will to men. They helped reveal the law to Moses (Acts 7:52-53), and served as the carriers of much of the material in Daniel, and Revelation.

Author: Dr. Paul Eymann.