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 and His commission
47-1102 §16
And I had on a watch, and I took hold of a woman there first that had a tumor, and the tumor stopped... The vibrations stopped my watch. I can't pray for people with a watch on. I can show it to you this afternoon. It'll stop it every time, vibrations over that brand new Longines watch. It'll--it'll stop; the vibration would stop it. And I showed a minister from... He's in here the audience this afternoon somewhere. And he... It--it stopped. The vibration stopped it. Then Sunday night, when I was over to have just...
Prayer Line
53-1127 §1
...will. [Gap in the audio] About seven years ago, on May the 7th, 1946, Green's Mill, Indiana, there was an Angel come into the room where I was at, a Man walking. He didn't have wings; He was just a big man, had a white garment down to His feet. And He said that I was born to pray for sick people. And I told Him I was uneducated, illiterate, and I wasn't able to go. He said I'd be praying for kings and monarchs and, message around the world, a message that would bring the second coming of Christ was near. And I tol...
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 4:E-108
Pentecostal theologians admit that they have no Scripture setting forth that people speak with tongues when baptized by the Holy Ghost. They admit that they infer it from the experiences set forth in the Book of Acts wherein three out of five times the people spoke with tongues. And they also say without any Scripture that there are two kinds of tongues. One is the tongue you speak in while receiving the Holy Ghost and it is the 'evidence', while later on if you believe, you can receive the gift of tongues whereby...
Obey the voice of the Angel
50-0713 §10
Now, many people has said, because that I testify of this gift... Now remember, I am not the gift. The one that you'll see in performance here tonight, which is here visibly--invisibly now, He's the gift. He's the One that God sent down. I just speak when He speaks through me. I can say nothing unless He says it to me first. But He promised me that I would be able to do this, to--for the faith of the people, to get them to believe that He sent me to pray for the sick; not to heal the sick, to pray for the sick. "An...
The Angel of God
51-0720 §22
Said, "While I was standing there," said, "the sweetest feeling come over me I ever felt in my life." She said, "All the burning let up. The swelling, without belching," she said, "left me." She said, "I reached over and got a piece of orange; it usually just upset me terribly, on the table and begin to eat it." Said, "When it went down it didn't burn." She said, "I finished my bowl of oats, poured some coffee that I hadn't drink in a long time, drank it, and it was well." She said, "I run over to my neighbor to te...