Many believe that we have a guardian angel. What do you think? What does the Bible says?
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It is not reliable to let people tell you what the bible says. Many people will make up stuff because they don't know what it says, and many will make up stuff because they wish it would not say what it says. You just have to read it for yourself. There are many bibles online such as www.biblegateway.com/ where you can look up every occurrence of a word in the bible. You can read those verses and know exactly as much as anybody else who has read them.
There are many instances recorded in the Bible where God used angels to help or communicate with people, for one reason or another. Example, God used an angel to direct the Christian evangelizer Philip to help an Ethiopian official who was looking for spiritual guidance.—Acts 8:26-31. Another, the angel Gaʹbri·el, was sent from God, to a virgin promised in marriage to a man named Joseph. This virgin was Mary, the soon to be the mother of Jesus. Luke 1:26,27
Although there is a lot of truth in the fact that angels have in the past and still in the present, continue to assist people in many ways, The Bible shows that they do so only under the direction of their creator God, based on Psalms 103:20 , which says, "Praise Jehovah, all you his angels, mighty in power, Who carry out his word, obeying his voice".
They would , there for promote people to work in harmony with the positive attitudes the Bible says would please God as stated in The Bible at Galatians 5:22-26 22 On the other hand, the fruitage of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, mildness, self-control. Against such things there is no law. Moreover, those who belong to Christ Jesus have nailed to the stake the flesh together with its passions and desires. If we are living by spirit, let us also go on walking orderly by spirit. Let us not become egotistical, stirring up competition with one another, envying one another.
If everyone learned the same positive attitude, and promoted it in their life, would this not make the angels rejoice and our lives happier as well as easier to live.
The Scriptures do not teach that each person on earth has a guardian angel. We pray in confidence that “no matter what it is that we ask according to his will, [God] hears us.” (1 John 5:14) Of course, Jehovah could send an angel to assist us, but help may come in a different manner. Fellow Christians may be motivated to provide help and comfort. God may give us the wisdom and inner strength needed to cope with “a thorn in the flesh” that afflicts us as if we were being slapped by “an angel of Satan.”—2 Cor. 12:7-10; 1 Thess. 5:14.
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