Everyone has heard angel stories. Angels pull people back from the edges of cliffs and out of the paths of oncoming trains. They warn people to avoid dangerous situations. They guide those facing tough decisions. They comfort, enlighten and heal.
But how can you get the angels to help you?
You are about to learn how to develop a relationship with the angels so that when you call, they answer.
You’ll read how people have used specific techniques to receive angelic guidance and inspiration. And how the angels go to work for them, handling everything from the mundane details of life to miracle cures to highway rescue.
Take Alex, who lost control of his car on an icy road. As he slid toward a precipice, he called to Archangel Michael. His car immediately moved back into the middle of the road—“almost as if it had been pushed by hand.”
Then there was Verlene, who got angelic assistance when she went blank while taking a test.
The first thing to consider is: What are angels and why do they answer our prayers?
Angels are to God what sunbeams are to the sun. God created the angels to serve and minister to us. Answering our prayers is their reason for being.
Although we live in the material world, we have a special link to God through his angels. And we each have a part of God, a divine spark, within us that allows us to ask the angels for help—and to expect results!
As long as what you are asking them to do is positive and will not hurt others or interfere with your life plan, the angels will answer your call.
Not only can you ask them to help you personally but you can also direct them—even command them—to perform larger tasks, like stopping crime and saving children from violence and drugs.
The angels are literally waiting for you to give them assignments.
For there is one rule they seldom break. They don’t intervene in our world unless we ask them to. Keep that in mind as you study this ten-point plan for getting the angels to work for you.
For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
The angels live in the world of Spirit, the heaven-world, and we live in the world of matter. Angels naturally gravitate toward their home.
So if you want the angels to feel comfortable with you, you need to make your world—your thoughts, feelings and surroundings—more like theirs. To paraphrase the Epistle of James: Draw near to the angels and they will draw near to you.
The angels are comfortable with thoughts of peace and love, not with irritation and aggression. You may not be able to put out of your mind the rude driver who cut in front of you on your way home. But you can free yourself from the irritation, starting by communing with the angels for just a few minutes a day.
First, separate yourself from distractions.
Turn off the radio and TV, go into a room by yourself or to your favorite nature spot, imagine an angel in your mind (it helps to have a picture of your favorite angel nearby) and commune with the angels.
Simply talk to the angels about your problems. Talk as if you were talking to your best friend. And then listen. Be silent and wait for the thoughts that the angels will put into your mind.
You may want to use some of the techniques in this lessons to increase the flow of positive energy from the angels.
Before long, your relationship with the angels will turn into an upward spiral: the angels will help you to feel more positive. And feeling positive will bring you closer to the angels.
The angels have answered many an unspoken prayer or intense wish of the heart.
You don’t have to speak in order to get their attention, especially if you’re in a place where it would be awkward, like a business meeting or on the subway. But you will get a more powerful response when you speak to them out loud.
There is power in your voice: the power to create or to destroy. God used this power when he said, “Let there be light.”
By using your gift of speech, you can create changes in your life.
Spoken prayer comes in different forms: songs and hymns, which have traditionally been used to summon the angels; structured prayer, like the Our Father; and unstructured prayer, in which you speak the deepest longings of your soul.
You can combine all of these with ‘decrees’ and ‘fiats,’ the new prayer forms you will learn about during the lessons.
Decrees allow man and God to work together for constructive change. They are spoken prayers that enable you to direct God’s energy into the world. Fiats Are short, powerful affirmations like “Archangel Michael, Help me! Help me! Help me!” which are effective in summoning angelic help.
God is inside of you. And when you use the energy of God that is in you to direct the angels, they can answer you with all of the power of the universe.
Jesus used God’s name when he said “I AM the resurrection and the life.”
Every time you say “I AM…,” you are really saying “God in me is…” and thus drawing to yourself whatever follows.
When you say “I AM illumination,” you are saying that God in you is attracting to you more of the quality of illumination that you already possess.
Many of the decrees and fiats in this lessons use the name of God, I AM THAT I AM. Try it—and experience the increased power of your prayers.
The angels are always there. But we don’t always know how to reach them.
The best way to make sure that the angels answer when you call them is to create a well-traveled pathway from your heart to theirs by communing with them every day.
And the best way to commune with them is to schedule a daily session of prayers and devotions. It doesn’t have to be long—five minutes is a great start.
Michael, a mechanic, says the angels help him all the time and that giving daily decrees helps him to stay on the same wavelength as the angels. “On my end, I’m attuned to them more,” he says.
When he decrees every day, he knows the angels will answer right away each time he asks for help. He says they usually show him where to find missing parts within fifteen seconds and regularly help diagnose car problems.
Even after you have established your relationship with the angels, you still need to remember to ask for help at the time you need it.
The angels respect your free will. On rare occasions, they will intercede without your speaking up. But most often, they politely wait to be called.
Michael (the mechanic) says that he sometimes struggles over a problem for a long time before he finally remembers to call for help. It often happens when he is trying to screw in a bolt in a place he can’t see.
“I can spend fifteen minutes trying and then I’ll say, ‘Angels, please help me do this,’ and boom! the thing starts,” he says.
Find a special place in your home where you can put your favorite picture of an angel.
You might put it on a clean cloth and have a candle, some flowers and a favorite rock or seashell by the picture.
You can say the name God told Moses about in a short prayer we call a fiat.
Try this one:
I AM that I AM!
I AM that I AM!
I AM that I AM!
