God's help through His angels

Insights from this prayer by 'Abdu'l-Baha

God can “support” and “help” us with His “angels of holiness” -- they who are His “invisible hosts”, His “heavenly battalions” who “bring down to defeat the massed armies of this nether world.”

We need God’s assistance to do the following tasks

Insights from this prayer by 'Abdu'l-Baha

• to “arise to serve” God and “dedicate” ourselves “to the Kingdom” of His “divinity”;
• to “set” our “faces toward the realm” of God’s Self-Subsistence”;
• to “spread far and wide” God’s “signs”;
• to “be illumined” by God’s “streaming lights”;
• to “unfold” God’s “hidden mysteries”;
• to “guide” God’s “servants unto gentle waters and to the fountain” of God’s “mercy that welleth and leapeth in the midmost heart of the Heaven” of God’s “oneness.”
• to hoist the sail of detachment upon the Ark of Salvation, and move over the seas” of God’s “knowledge”;
• to “spread wide the pinions of unity and by their aid soar upward to the Kingdom” of God’s “singleness to become servants whom the Supreme Concourse will applaud, whose praises the dwellers” in God’s “all-glorious realm will utter”;
• to “hear the heralds of the invisible world as they raise their cry of the Most Great Glad-Tidings”;
• to “invoke and pray unto” Him, in our “longing to meet” God, intoning wondrous orisons at the dawn of light”;
• to shed our “tears at morningtide and even”;
• to yearn to “pass into the shadow” of God’s “mercy that endeth never.”

In our spiritual growth and development we need God’s assistance to:

Insights from this prayer by 'Abdu'l-Baha

• “Flood” our “minds” with His “holy light;”
• “cleanse” our “hearts” with “the grace” of His “assistance;”
• “gladden” our “bosoms with the fragrance of the joys that waft” from His “Company above;”
• “make bright” our “eyes by beholding the signs and tokens” of His “might;”
• “cause” us “to be the ensigns of purity, the banners of sanctity waving high above all creatures on the summits of the earth;”
• “make” our “words to move hearts which are even as solid rock.”

We need to acknowledge our weak constitution as human beings and the fact that we are in desperate need of God’s assistance

Insights from this prayer by 'Abdu'l-Baha

• We “are weak souls standing” at the “door” of God;
• We are “paupers” in God’s “courtyard”;
• We are “desperate” for God’s “grace”;
• We are “in dire need” of God’s “succour”;
• We are “turning” our “faces toward the kingdom” of God’s “oneness, yearning for the bounties” of His “bestowals.”

Qualities and blessings that we need to ask God to bestow upon our fellow believers

Insights from this prayer by 'Abdu'l-Baha

• to “help” His “chosen ones to be faithful”;
• to “assist” His “loved ones to serve” at His “exalted Threshold”;
• to “cause them to gain the victory through the battalions” of His “might that overpowereth all things”;
• to “reinforce them with a great fighting host from out of the Concourse on high.”

I need God’s assistance to orient and strive towards the following areas of spiritual growth and transformation

Insights from this prayer by 'Abdu'l-Baha

• to “sever myself from all else but” God;
• to “lay hold of the hem” of God’s “garment of grandeur”;
• to “consign to oblivion all that is not” God;
• to “be companioned by the sweet breathings that waft during these .. days” of God;
• to “attain unto faithfulness” at God’s “Threshold of Holiness”;
• to “arise to serve” God’s “Cause”;
• to “be humble before” God’s “loved ones”;
• to “be nothingness itself” “in the presence” of God’s “favoured ones”.