What Examples Do We Have of People Who Prayed Until They Had Angelic Visitations While in Prayer?
1) Direct Answer
Yes. The Bible shows men and women who prayed earnestly until an angel appeared and spoke or ministered to them.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- Jacob: He wrestled through the night in prayer. Hosea says he “had power over the angel… he wept, and made supplication” (Hosea 12:3–5; see Genesis 32:24–30). That all-night pleading ended in a divine visitation and a blessing.
- Daniel (first instance): “While I was speaking in prayer… Gabriel… touched me” with understanding of the vision (Daniel 9:20–23).
- Daniel (second instance): He set his face to seek God with fasting; then the angel came and said, “from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand… thy words were heard,” though there was warfare in the unseen (Daniel 10:2–14).
- Zechariah: At the hour of incense, with the people praying, an angel stood at the right side of the altar and said, “Thy prayer is heard” (Luke 1:10–13).
- Mary’s betrothed home received Gabriel’s visit by God’s choosing (Luke 1:26–38). While the text stresses God’s sending rather than her act of prayer, it sits in the same stream of God drawing near to the humble who believe.
- Manoah and his wife: Manoah “entreated the LORD” for direction; God heard his prayer and the angel of God came again and instructed them (Judges 13:8–10, 21).
- Jesus in Gethsemane: In deep agony, “being in an agony he prayed more earnestly,” and “there appeared an angel… strengthening him” (Luke 22:41–44).
- Cornelius: A devout man who “prayed to God alway.” At the ninth hour of prayer he saw an angel in bright clothing who directed him to send for Peter (Acts 10:2–4, 30–32).
- The praying church and Peter: While the church made prayer without ceasing, an angel came into the prison and led Peter out (Acts 12:5–11). The visitation met the need as God’s people prayed.
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
Now notice, the pattern is simple: when hearts are set to seek God in sincerity, God answers. Sometimes He sends His Word by an angelic messenger. We don’t pray to see angels; we pray to meet God. But the Bible shows that fervent, continued prayer often opened the way for angelic ministry—strengthening, instruction, deliverance, and guidance.
Short reinforcing statement
You see, when prayer is real and faith holds steady, God moves—whether by His Spirit speaking to the heart or by sending His angel to minister to the heirs of salvation.
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What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?
Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
The Angel of God
51-0720 §20
Now, sometimes maybe if you're prayed for, you hear the Angel of the Lord speak out and say, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, you'll be well." Don't you doubt that. Remember, if it's malignant, or cancer, or growth, in about seventy-two hours you'll get good and sick. Brother Baxter's probably explained all of that, which he does in a meeting, telling you what it all is. Cause without that, you'll sure miss your healing. You won't understand how to do it. If you don't know how to approach it, you're certainly out. So that's w...
The Angel of the Lord
51-0414 §25
I used to have a little child to stand up and count. And where he stopped, that I would... And then we'd start the prayer line from there. It got so people would put their little children up in front so they could count of it. That was--don't think they'd do it. But it would do it anyhow. So the only thing I knowed to do was to come here at the platform, and say, "God, where shall we start that prayer line?" And start it from right there. Then sometimes we stop, like last night...
Questions and Answers, Part 4
64-0830E §20
I remember one in Phoenix, Arizona. Billy was going down to give out prayer cards. He'd just stand there and give out prayer cards. And them people that's able to run up there and grab the prayer cards... While the well people really had a headache, toothache, or something wrong with their toe, they got the prayer cards, Brother Ruddell. And when they did, then in a prayer line, the only thing I got, somebody with a headache, somebody had something wrong with toe, and something like that. And there was people setti...
The healing of Jairus' daughter
55-0227E §15
That's where that life come out of the animal ... or, not the animal, but out of the Son of God, coming back, witnessing to your heart that He has accepted your faith in glory, and you've got to get well. Now, we're speaking of a miracle that took place in the New Testament, the healing of Jairus' daughter, a little priest at the temple. Wonderful lesson if we just had the time to speak on it awhile. Just previous of this chapter, we find one place there, where the Son of God spent so much time in prayer. And if Je...
God in His people
50-0227 §31
...so forth. Those things are real. Now, for instance, to straighten up one thing, just for a moment, going to start the prayer line within the next five or six minutes. Some people say, "after the Holy Ghost is come, He leads the Church. There is no such a things as Angels appearing after the church," so I know that I'm talking to a bunch of holiness people. Someone told me here a few months ago, said, "Brother Branham, I admire you as a man, but your teaching concerning an Angel coming to you, that's an error." Sai...