{"id":14170,"date":"2026-03-10T09:06:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T09:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/do-angels-help-you-pray\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T09:32:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T09:32:37","slug":"do-angels-help-you-pray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/angels-and-miracles\/angels\/do-angels-help-you-pray\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Angels Help You Pray?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prayer can be a lonely business.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, we may pray with others in church or around the dinner table. We may ask friends to pray for us. But much of the time, we pray alone, right? Especially our most desperate prayers, those we might not share with others. But did you know that you never pray alone? The Bible says that even when you don\u2019t know what to pray, the Holy Spirit of God prays with you (Romans 8:26).<\/p>\n<p>But did you know that <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/angels-and-miracles\/angels\/an-angel-comforts-a-grieving-mother\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">angels also play a role in your prayers<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>The eighth chapter of the last book of the Bible begins by describing a lengthy silence in heaven. John, the apostle who wrote the account, doesn\u2019t explain the silence, but I believe it was a silence of anticipation. A silence of expectancy. A silence of eagerness.<\/p>\n<p>Because virtually the next thing John describes in Revelation 8 concerns the prayers of the saints:<\/p>\n<p class=\"rteindent1\">[An] angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, with the prayers of all the saints, on the golden altar before the throne. The smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of the saints, went up before God from the angel&#8217;s hand (Revelation 8:3-4, NIV). <\/p>\n<p>I think that was why heaven fell silent. That is how heaven views prayer, how heaven receives prayer.<\/p>\n<p>Notice that the angel had a golden censer. There was nothing more valuable to the first-century mind than gold, and there is nothing more valuable in the economy of God\u2019s Kingdom than prayer.<\/p>\n<p>Notice also that the angel was given \u201cmuch incense\u201d to offer along with the prayers, purifying them and ensuring their acceptability before the throne of God. The incense that was used in the tabernacle and Temple throughout Israel\u2019s history was expensive stuff. It was compounded from a detailed commandment issued by God himself (Exodus 30:34). Some of the ingredients had to be imported, from Arabia, for example. So the picture of \u201cmuch\u201d heavenly incense\u2014as opposed to the earthly kind\u2014indicates an impressive investment.<\/p>\n<p>There could be another reason the angel was given \u201cmuch incense\u201d to offer. The incense was intended to mingle with \u201cthe prayers of all the saints\u201d\u2014eloquent and upright prayers, as well as imperfect prayers, prayers offered in weakness, and prayers that are incomplete or misguided. My prayers (which must require mounds of incense). And yours.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/faith-prayer-devotions\/stories-of-faith-faith-prayer-devotions\/prayer-as-an-aid-to-mental-health\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Your prayers<\/a>\u2014the good, the bad, and the ugly\u2014are hand-delivered by an angel, offered along with the prayers of preachers and priests, monks and missionaries, children and dying saints, and all of it purified with \u201cmuch\u201d heavenly incense.<\/p>\n<p>Note, finally, that the comingled incense and prayers \u201cwent up before God from the angel\u2019s hand.\u201d We routinely think in terms of God hearing our prayers (and perhaps often imagine that He hasn\u2019t heard). But the picture of Revelation 8:4 involves more than hearing. The smoke and smell of incense mingled with the prayers, so that God received them, saw them, smelled them, heard them, inhaled them.<\/p>\n<p>So, any time you pray, try to remember that you never do so alone\u2014and that your prayers are hand-delivered by an angel, purified with \u201cmuch incense,\u201d to the golden altar before the throne of God. All of them. Perhaps in a more comprehensive way than we have ever been bold enough to imagine.<\/p>\n<p><em>Adapted in part <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/store.acupressbooks.com\/products\/how_to_survive_end_of_world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to Survive the End of the World<\/a><em> by Bob Hostetler (Leafwood Publishers, 2012).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prayer can be a lonely business. Sure, we may pray with others in church or around the dinner table. We may ask friends to pray for us. But much of the time, we pray alone, right? 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