Asking Permission

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us. — read the full passage →

Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. — read the full passage →

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →

Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn’t rain on the earth for three years and six months.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

The Lord said, “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat, — read the full passage →

because we wanted to come to you—indeed, I, Paul, once and again—but Satan hindered us.

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

“In that day you will ask me no questions. Most certainly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you. — read the full passage →

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”

who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you. — read the full passage →

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you. — read the full passage →

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

The Lord said, “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat,

but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn’t fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers.”

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

which he promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,

but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. — read the full passage →

Or if he asks for an egg, he won’t give him a scorpion, will he?

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. — read the full passage →