The word angel ccomes from the Greek word angelos, which means messenger. In the Bible we read of messengers sent by God (Michael and Gabriel, etc.) who brought messages from God to people. Messengers may be divine or human.
Friends are always with you throughout the time you spend on earth. Friends are around when you are struggling in life. Some will pray for you even when you do not know that they are doing so. Those who pray may or may not tell you that they are praying for you. Some may also not pray for you. Some will care and some may not care. But be assured that the ones that God added for you will always care and pray for you even if they are not able to support you physically or financially.
And surely, God will always select some of your friends as angels for you. They are sensitive to God’s promptings and guidance. God uses them as channels to bless you when He provides or grants the answers to your requests. So, do not disregard any of your friends. God may use any to provide His blessings upon you.
Some will want to help but may not have the capacity. And so, not every friend will be able to assist you as you expect. But God will surely make a way for assistance to be available at His appointed time.
You may be the one choosing your friends. But some of them will include the ones whose spirits align with God’s Spirit towards you in areas of your dealings with God. These are the ones God will use when granting your needs in the form of answered prayers. For God does not send assistance (or the answers to our prayer requests) direct from heaven to us. He uses friends (and sometimes, strangers) when granting answers. So, do not lose hope. Do not disregard your friends. And have faith in God.
Some friends feel urged by the Holy Spirit to pray for you. Some will encourage you to continue moving forward when you are overwhelmed by challenges.
Friends are the angels that God uses when He answers our prayers or when He grants our prayer requests. They carry God’s gifts or answers to us.
Friends are with you throughout the years of your struggles. Some share your sadness, sorrows, pains, and also your joys and happiness. They celebrate with you when you achieve your goals. They feel the pains that you feel, and they feel the joy and the happiness you feel.
Every good friend that comes into our lives is chosen by God for good reasons and good purposes.
Friends contributed to what you have been able to achieve. They are the channels or the instruments that God used to help you reach your goal in life. Therefore, we must be grateful for the friends we have. And we must pray for them.
Do not forsake your friend and your father’s friend, and do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother who is far away, (Proverbs 27:10; ESV).
Human friends who stay with you during challenging times are the angels that God, in His wisdom, selected and added to the friends you were making.
While you were getting acquainted with people and making some of them your friends, God was also choosing those He would be using as special channels or as His angels. They are the ones who are always there with you when you do not know how to deal with a situation. They are the ones who are sensitive to God’s promptings and miraculously respond to your needs even when you do not tell them directly to do that. They always respond to the promptings of the Holy Spirit.
My friends have walked with me throughout the years of my struggles in the ministry. They stayed with me in trying times, prayed with me, supported and encouraged me to continue moving forward whenever I was overwhelmed by challenges.
These friends are the angels that God added to the group of friends I made. I cannot, and will not, forsake them.
Without my friends I would not have achieved most of my goals. Therefore, I see them as the angels that God sends to me whenever He answers my prayers.
God does not come down Himself to help us. God helps us through people. And mostly through our friends, though He sometimes uses strangers.
As I look back, I see how God has granted my prayer requests by using friends. Sometimes, when the situation looked so gloomy or frightening that I could not see how I could climb out of the pit, then a friend would stretch forth a helping hand and pull me out of the pit.
Ninety (90) per cent of these assistances happen spontaneously without me telling them myself. God somehow speaks to their hearts, and they know in that instant that I need assistance.
Friends like that are chosen by God for us, and we must do well to keep them very close.