Prayer

working for Christ under His commission, to save to the uttermost all who look to
Him and believe in Him.
Heavenly angels are commissioned to watch the sheep of Christ’s pasture. When
Satan with his deceptive snares would deceive if possible the very elect, these angels
set in operation influences that will save the tempted souls if they will take heed to the
Word of the Lord, realize their danger, and say, “No, I will not enter into that scheme
of Satan. I have an Elder Brother on the throne in heaven, who has shown that He has
a tender interest in me, and I will not grieve His heart of love.”
Living amid these opposing forces, we may through the exercise of faith and
prayer, call to our side a retinue of heavenly angels, who will guard us from every
corrupting influence.—(Our High Calling, 23.)
Angels mark our prayers and provide help.—When you rise in the morning, do
you feel your helplessness, and your need of strength from God? and do you humbly,
heartily make known your wants to your heavenly Father? If so, angels mark your
prayers, and if these prayers have not gone forth out of feigned lips, when you are
in danger of unconsciously doing wrong, and exerting an influence which will lead
others to do wrong, your guardian angel will be by your side, prompting you to a
better course, choosing your words for you, and influencing your actions.
If you feel in no danger, and if you offer no prayer for help and strength to resist
temptations, you will be sure to go astray; your neglect of duty will be marked in the
book of God in heaven, and you will be found wanting in the trying day.—(Messages
to Young People, 90.)
God sends reinforcements of angels to our aid in answer to prayer.—If Satan
sees that he is in danger of losing one soul, he will exert himself to the utmost to
keep that one. And when the individual is aroused to his danger, and, with distress
and fervor, looks to Jesus for strength, Satan fears that he will lose a captive, and
he calls a reinforcement of his angels to hedge in the poor soul, and form a wall of
darkness around him, that heaven’s light may not reach him. But if the one in danger
perseveres, and in his helplessness
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