INTRODUCTION
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.
Psalm 91:11
LESSON
Introducing the Archangels and Angels into your Life
1. Make room in your life for angels
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.
2. Pray aloud
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.
3. Use the name of God
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.
Gebhard Fugel [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
When God spoke to Moses out of the burning bush, he revealed both his name—I AM THAT I AM—and the true nature of man. You are the bush and the fire is your divine spark, God’s fire that he gives to you as his son or daughter. It is the power to create in God’s name—and to command the angels.
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.
4. Give your prayers and decrees daily
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.
5. Ask for help
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.
EXERCISE
Start to create your personal connection with the Archangel
Set up your angels altar
Create your quiet space
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.
Set up your angels altar
Try saying the name of God
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!
Set up your angels altar
Remember the Angels’ rules
1. They help you do God’s will.
2. What you pray for always has to be helpful to you and others.
3. It must be the right time.
LESSON
The Hidden Power of Archangels
6. Repeat decrees and prayers
Prayers and decrees are more powerful when you repeat them.
Many Protestants avoid saying prayers more than once, seeing it as the vain repetition that Jesus advised against (Matt. 6:7). “After all,” they say, “why should I have to ask God for something more than one time?”
However, the Catholic and the Eastern Orthodox Churches practice repetition of the Our Father, Hail Mary and other prayers.
Jewish mystics repeated the names of God. For some mystics, repetition truly becomes prayer “without ceasing” (I Thess. 5:17).
The reason it is more effective to repeat a prayer is that each time you say it, you are giving more light-energy to God and the angels.
The angels can use that energy as a seed, adding more light-energy as they go about answering your request.
7. Send your prayer to the right address
If you want your pipes fixed, you call a plumber. If you want to be rescued from a mugger, you call to the angels of protection. If you want a relationship fixed, you call to the angels of love.
Angels have different jobs. And they use energies of different frequencies (corresponding to different colors) to accomplish those jobs.
In the following lessons you will meet seven kinds of angels, along with the seven archangels who supervise them. You will also learn which angels to call to for which tasks.
Lesson 1
Archangel Michael and Faith
Archangel Jophiel and Christine
Archangel Chamuel and Charity
Archangel Gabriel and Hope
Archangel Raphael and Mother Mary
Archangel Uriel and Aurora
Archangel Zadkiel and Holy Amethyst
The idea of seven archangels isn’t new. Neither is the association of angels with colors or with spiritual fire.
As early as the third century B.C., the Jewish tradition wrote about seven archangels. And they believed that the angels were surrounded by spiritual flames and appeared in a variety of colors.
You can become more closely connected with the angels when you call to the archangel whose angels specialize in handling what you want done.
8. Be specific
Angels answer your calls with precision, and they take pride in doing so. The more specific the request, the more specific the answer will be.
As long as you are living your life in harmony with the universal Source and devoting your energy to helping others, the angelic hosts will help you with the smallest details of your life.
One inspiring example is the penniless woman who turned over to God a grocery list during World War II.
She asked God specifically for the exact items she needed for her family’s weekend meals. Within a few hours, a man knocked on her door carrying a basket with everything she had asked for, right down to the veal, potatoes and pastry flour.
Here is how another woman worked with the angels to draw to herself the kind of truck she wanted.
Danette was looking for a used Toyota 4Runner but knew that she couldn’t afford the steep prices they cost. So she decided to leave it to the angels.
She wrote down the year, make, color, engine size, price range, mileage and type of rims and tires she wanted.
She also listed that she wanted a mechanically sound car with power steering, power brakes, power windows, power locks, air conditioning and cruise control.
She cut out a picture of the kind of truck she was looking for and carried it around in her wallet. Every day, she gave decrees and fiats to the angels for fifteen to forty-five minutes while looking at her list and picture.
After weeks of scanning the classifieds, Danette was a little concerned but didn’t give up. “I knew the angels were working on it…. I wouldn’t settle for less,” she said.
Finally, she decided to continue her search in another city, twelve hours away. Her friends there had told her that a 4Runner in her price range just wasn’t to be found.
But when she looked in the paper, there it was— “a 1990 Toyota 4Runner for $3,000 less than any other I had seen!” she said. The owner had just placed the ad that day and the car fit every one of her specifications, right down to the cruise control.
Her bank approved the loan and she drove home in her new 4Runner—thanking the angels all the way.
The more detailed your requests, the more satisfied you will be with the results.
9. Visualize what you want to happen
You can increase the power of your prayer by maintaining a strong mental picture of what you want to have happen.
In addition, visualize brilliant light surrounding the problem or situation.
Sometimes concentrating on a picture, as Danette did, can help too. Here is another example of how visualization works.
A group of students were driving home after attending a spiritual seminar when their car began to overheat. Since none of them had any extra money to spend on car repairs, they decided to ask the angels for help.
“Each time the needle started creeping up hotter and hotter, I would make fiery calls to the angels,” said Kevin, the driver.
“I told the people in the car to hold the visualization of snow, of crystal clear, cold mountain streams and ice all around the whole engine. Then we would watch the needle immediately go right back down as the temperature dropped to normal.”
The group made it home safely, thanks to the angels—and an effective visualization technique! Of course, it is better to combine angelic assistance with professional help when possible.
10. Expect to be surprised
The question occurs to just about anyone who has ever thought about angels: Why do the angels answer some prayers and not others?
Why does one person pray for ten years without getting what he wants while another gets it immediately?
Why are some houses destroyed by fire or flood while others are left untouched? Surely the angels hear everyone’s prayers.
One reason is that the angels’ ability to respond to our prayers is based upon the cumulative effects of our past actions—our good and bad deeds from this and previous lifetimes, also known as karma.
The angels are neither genies nor Santa Claus. They must play by the rules of karma.
When we pray and give devotion to the angels, they can sometimes eliminate the effects of karma, but often they can only reduce them.
The angels hear all of your prayers. But in order for your requests to be granted, they must fulfill three conditions:
1: they may not interfere with God’s plan for your soul (or with your karma)
2: they must not be harmful to you or anyone else
3: the timing must be right.
You could pray for years to win the lottery and not win. But you might get something you didn’t expect, like a higher-paying job that leads you in new directions.
Perhaps the angels couldn’t answer your prayer to win the lottery because your soul needs to learn the lesson of earning a living. But they did answer in the way that was best for you.
If you follow the steps in these lessons and still find that you don’t get an answer, the angels may be trying to tell you something.
It might be time to revise your prayer and try again. Keep praying, and know that the angels will give you the best answer that they can based on your soul’s needs. (See “A Call Is Answered.”) Prayer always bears fruit. You just have to know where to look.
A Call Is Answered
When she was sixteen, Lucy Krasowski had a premonition that she would die a violent death at age thirty. The feeling didn’t go away with adolescence. At twenty-five, she began asking God to keep her from the death she felt was fated.
In the meantime, she had become a Montreal police officer. Although violence against police officers is rarer in Canada than in America, Lucy felt that she was in danger and asked God to lead her to prayers for protection. She had heard that Archangel Michael was the patron of police officers and so she was looking for prayers to him.
She was thirty when she first attended a Summit Lighthouse Study Group meeting. There she learned decrees and prayers to Archangel Michael as well as the fiat “Archangel Michael, Help me! Help me! Help me!” She quickly memorized the decrees and began giving them on her way to and from work and during breaks. “I was in almost constant communion [with the angels],” she recalled.
On May 22, 1993, Lucy gave two hours of decrees to Archangel Michael before going to work at 8 p.m. That night, she and her partner were searching for an assault suspect. They pulled up to a man and asked him if he had seen anything. He leveled a 9 mm pistol at them and demanded their weapons. When they hesitated, he shot them both—Lucy in the head, face and leg and her partner in the head.
Lucy opened her door and fell out, trying to take cover under the car. “Lord Michael! Help me! Help me! Help me!” she called aloud. Her call frightened the gunman, who ran away, thinking she was radioing for help. This gave her the time to actually get to the radio. (The gunman was later caught and convicted.)
Although Lucy had been seriously wounded, the bullets missed her spinal cord and major blood vessels. “She…was probably within millimeters of having something tragic happen,” said her surgeon, Dr. Philip Dahan.
She attributes the near misses as well as her swift recovery to Archangel Michael. She never went into shock and was walking around two days after the shooting. Ten days after that, she left the hospital. Although her hearing was impaired and some of her facial muscles were paralyzed, she was able to hear in the low normal range. Lucy called her recovery “awesome,” especially since the doctors originally told her that she would never again hear out of her right ear.
Why didn’t Archangel Michael keep her from being shot in the first place? She believed that her karma—the cumulative effect of her past actions—prevented him from stopping the bullets. But she thought her prayers enabled him to redirect them so that she was not killed. Although her karma may have destined her to die at age thirty, her determination to live and her choice to pray changed her “fate.”
“My karma didn’t allow the bullets to be stopped, but what Archangel Michael did was just as good. He saved my life,” she said. “God doesn’t always answer our prayers the way we expect him to.”
EXERCISE
Start to create your personal connection with the Archangel
Set up your angels altar
Start a journal
Start your personal journal to connect with the Seven Archangels.
Try to answer some questions that can help you to improve your life with the help of the Archangels.
What would you like to gain from this lessons?
How would you like to have the archangels help you?
Are there certain areas of your life that could be going better? Relationships? Work? Health?
Set up your angels altar
Personal prayer request for anytime
In the name of the I AM THAT I AM, I call to the seven archangels and their legions of light, I call to beloved Archangel ___________ and the angels of ___________. I ask you to [insert request].
I ask that my call be multiplied and used for the assistance of all souls on this planet who are in need. I thank you and I accept it done this hour in full power, according to the will of God.
Set up your angels altar
The power of sound
Scientists are now researching sound’s impact on the brain and we all know of it’s impact on the heart.
Certain kinds of classical music, like Bach, Mozart and Beethoven, have a range of positive effects, including temporarily raising IQ, expanding memory and speed learning.
Try to meditate on the archangels while listening to these composers. You may feel the presence of the Archangels.
Source:
https://www.archangellessons.com/lessons/7-archangels-what-is-1/
https://www.archangellessons.com/lessons/archangel-names-definition-2
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