Angels are not just celestial beings singing in heaven. They are ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation, and part of their assignment is to release God’s favor in our lives.

The Bible is clear about the role of angels in our lives. 
Hebrews 1:14
New King James Version
14 Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those who will inherit salvation?

Angels are sent to minister to us. They can work on our behalf. And one of the ways they minister is by facilitating the favor of God in our lives. Let’s look at how this works in Scripture.

One example of this is found in Genesis 24. Abraham needed to find a wife for his son, Isaac, but he didn’t want just any woman. He wanted someone from his own people. So he sent his most trusted servant on this mission, and this is what Abraham told him:

Genesis 24:7
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7 The Lord God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and from the land of my family, and who spoke to me and swore to me, saying, ‘To your descendants I give this land,’ He will send His angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.

Abraham believed that God would send an angel to go before his servant to guide him to the right place to find a wife for Isaac.

Look at what the servant said afterward:
Genesis 24:27
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27 And he said, ‘Blessed be the Lord God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken His mercy and His truth toward my master. As for me, being on the way, the Lord led me to the house of my master’s brethren.’

He recognized that he had been led supernaturally.
This is what angels do. They can, on the instruction of God, guide us into favorable connections, relationships, opportunities, and encounters that position us for blessing.

It can look like that job offer that came out of “nowhere” or that person called you out of the blue but just as an angel can appear to Cornelius and ask him to send for Peter, angels can be sent to plant your name in people’s hearts. Angels are working behind the scenes, aligning circumstances in your favor.

God sent an angel to position Cornelius for a life-changing encounter with Peter. That encounter didn’t just change Cornelius’s life. It changed the entire trajectory of the early church because it opened the door for Gentiles to receive the Holy Spirit.

Angels can facilitate strategic positioning and create divine appointments. And when we’re sensitive to their leading, when we obey even when it doesn’t make natural sense, we step into favor that defies human explanation.

They can also help position us to be in the right place at the right time. We see this clearly in the book of Acts.

Acts 8:26
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26 Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, ‘Arise and go toward the south along the road which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.’ This is desert.

Philip was in the middle of a successful ministry in Samaria. Crowds were getting saved, miracles were happening, and then an angel told him to leave and go to a desert road. Philip obeyed, and on that desert road, he encountered the Ethiopian eunuch, a high-ranking official who was hungry for God. Philip led him to Christ, baptized him, and that encounter opened the door for the Gospel to reach even more people.

One angelic instruction positioned Philip for a divine encounter. Angels can position us for favor by directing us to the right place at the right time. Sometimes, favor comes as supernatural strength to endure what would naturally break us. And angels minister that strength.

We see this with Jesus Himself in the Garden of Gethsemane:
Luke 22:43
New King James Version
43 Then an angel appeared to Him from heaven, strengthening Him.

In His most difficult moment, an angel came to strengthen Him. This is favor. Supernatural grace to endure what should be unbearable. Angels minister strength, and that strength is the favor needed to keep going when everything says quit.

Elijah experienced this same kind of angelic ministry:
1 Kings 19:5-8
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5 Then as he lay and slept under a broom tree, suddenly an angel touched him, and said to him, “Arise and eat.”

6 Then he looked, and there by his head was a cake baked on coals, and a jar of water. So he ate and drank, and lay down again.

7 And the angel of the LORD came back the second time, and touched him, and said, “Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you.”

8 So he arose, and ate and drank; and he went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights as far as Horeb, the mountain of God.

Elijah was depleted, discouraged, and ready to die. But an angel ministered to him and provided supernatural sustenance that carried him forty days. One encounter with an angel gave him strength for the entire journey ahead. That’s favor.

So how do we position ourselves to receive favor through angelic ministry?

First, we must pray with awareness. When Daniel prayed, angels were sent on account of his prayers, and in the same way, our prayers activate angelic assignment and release heaven’s messengers into our circumstances.

Next, stay sensitive to divine direction and be willing to obey. Angels orchestrate divine appointments, but we have to be willing to move when directed, trusting that heaven sees what we cannot.

So, in this season, stay expectant and position yourself to receive the favor that angels are assigned to release in our lives.

Prayer Point
Father, dispatch angels on my behalf. Let them orchestrate divine connections, position me for divine appointments, carry answers to my prayers, and minister strength in my moments of need. In this season and beyond, I receive favor through angelic ministry.