The following is a testimony of two incidents where I believe God sent an angel to minister unto me:

In July 1993, I was driving down highway during a blazing hot day. There, beside rode, was an elderly gentleman hitchhiking. He was dressed up in a suit and had a small bag of belongings with him. The Lord spoke, and said, "Pick up this man." At this command, I stopped my old Datsun truck and offered him a ride. He gladly accepted as he pulled out a handkerchief and wiped sweat from his face. I introduced myself and asked him where he was going. He said he was going to Washington, D.C. As he began to talk, I felt presence of Lord. This man was of a swarthy complexion. He said he was an Eskimo and came from Puerto Rico where he had been in seminary. He showed me a military identification card that reflected that he was a retired Colonel, U.S. Marines. He spoke 12 languages fluently. As I pondered this information, this verse of scripture popped into my mind, "Be not forgetful to entertain strangers; for thereby some have entertained angels unawares" (Hebrews 13.2). The Lord spoke to me and told me to take him forty miles to Jesup (Amtrak station), and to give him that $100 I had in my pocket. I obeyed. Out of mouth of this man came answers to some of my prayers I had prayed. One of these prayers was about going to Washington, D.C. I later went on this mission, and Lord used me in a great way.

We are going to look at Greek word pray (prayers, praying and prayed) proseuche and proseuchomai but only in Mystery Epistles of Paul, Ephesians, Colossians and Philippians.

The Greek word proseuche appears in New Testament 37 times in 37 verses and proseuchomai appears 90 times in 82 verses, this is quite an abundance of uses so I want to limit study to just three books of Apostle Paul also know as Prison Epistles.

We must first start our study with some Greek grammar lessons, very basic for now. When words proseuche or proseuchomai are used as verbs, or as nouns verbs that are used with them, are always in present tense. The present tense represents a simple statement of fact or reality viewed as occurring in actual time and in most cases this correspond directly with English present tense.

Another characteristic of these verbs are that they are in middle voice. The middle voice indicates subject performing an action upon himself (reflexive action) or for his own benefit. E.g., "The boy groomed himself." Many verbs which occur only in middle voice forms are translated in English as having an active sense; these are called "deponent" verbs, and do not comply with normal requirements for middle voice. A different way to look at “deponent verbs” is that they occur with passive or middle voice forms but with active voice meaning The Greek middle voice meaning is still applicable, action is done for ones own benefit, this is very apropos to prayer.

The third characteristic of these verbs is mood. These verbs for most part are in participle mood. The Greek participle corresponds for most part to English participle, reflecting "-ing" or "-ed" being suffixed to basic verb form. The participle can be used either like a verb or a noun, as in English, and thus is often termed a "verbal noun."

We must therefore conclude that even when word prayer is used as a noun it is a verbal noun and indicates some action by subject. This being said let us now take a look at verses where these words are used and it will become clear as to how prayer is to be done. Eph. 1:16 Cease not to give thanks for you, making (present tense, middle voice) mention of you in my prayers; proseuche (verbal noun).