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.

Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing? — read the full passage →

Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

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 →

Again Yahweh’s anger was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, “Go, number Israel and Judah.”

Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, “There shall not any of us give his daughter to Benjamin as wife.”

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

Ask of Yahweh rain in the spring time, Yahweh who makes storm clouds, and he gives rain showers to everyone for the plants in the field.

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.

If a man finds a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, grabs her, and lies with her, and they are found; — read the full passage →

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 →

The sons of the prophets who were at Bethel came out to Elisha, and said to him, “Do you know that Yahweh will take away your master from your head today?” He said, “Yes, I know it; hold your peace.”

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 →

The matter is not so. But a man of the hill country of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has lifted up his hand against the king, even against David. Deliver him only, and I will depart from the city.” The woman said to Joab, “Behold, his head shall be thrown to you over the wall.”

Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount Gilboa.

There was a trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all the people; the garrison, and the raiders, they also trembled; and the earth quaked: so there was an exceeding great trembling.

Now Boaz went up to the gate, and sat down there. Behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by; to whom he said, “Come over here, friend, and sit down!” He turned aside, and sat down.

He told her all his heart, and said to her, “No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me, and I will become weak, and be like any other man.”

Yahweh said to the children of Israel, “Didn’t I save you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?

She lived under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.

“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.

Plans are established by advice; by wise guidance you wage war!

Yahweh is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness. — read the full passage →

In the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it around it.

So she went from him, and shut the door on her and on her sons; they brought the containers to her, and she poured out.

They continued three years without war between Syria and Israel.

The king of Israel went out, and struck the horses and chariots, and killed the Syrians with a great slaughter. — read the full passage →

At the time of the offering of the offering, Elijah the prophet came near, and said, “Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word. — read the full passage →

Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel to Mount Carmel, and four hundred fifty of the prophets of Baal, and four hundred of the prophets of the Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table.”

Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.

For Yahweh will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking Yahweh to anger.

The king answered the people roughly, and abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him,

The navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees and precious stones.

There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets which Moses put there at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

The house, when it was in building, was built of stone prepared at the quarry; and there was neither hammer nor ax nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.

and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; and Zabud the son of Nathan was chief minister, the king’s friend;

and keep the instruction of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, his commandments, his ordinances, and his testimonies, according to that which is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do, and wherever you turn yourself.

For all his ordinances were before me. As for his statutes, I did not depart from them. — read the full passage →

Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, “Let me now run, and bear the king news, how that Yahweh has avenged him of his enemies.”

Absalom said to Hushai, “Is this your kindness to your friend? Why didn’t you go with your friend?”

Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and your handmaid said, ‘I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.’

David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against Yahweh.” Nathan said to David, “Yahweh also has put away your sin. You will not die.

He said, “If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the children of Ammon are too strong for you, then I will come and help you.

When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had struck all the army of Hadadezer,

Yahweh’s anger was kindled against Uzzah; and God struck him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.

The sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, as he took his rest at noon.

David brought up his men who were with him, every man with his household. They lived in the cities of Hebron.

and to those who were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men used to stay.

Stay with me, don’t be afraid; for he who seeks my life seeks your life. For with me you shall be in safeguard.”

Behold, I will send the boy, saying, ‘Go, find the arrows!’ If I tell the boy, ‘Behold, the arrows are on this side of you. Take them;’ then come; for there is peace to you and no hurt, as Yahweh lives.

But at the time when Merab, Saul’s daughter, should have been given to David, she was given to Adriel the Meholathite as wife.

Saul said to his servants, “Provide me now a man who can play well, and bring him to me.”

Now therefore see the king whom you have chosen, and whom you have asked for: and behold, Yahweh has set a king over you.

When all who knew him before saw that, behold, he prophesied with the prophets, then the people said one to another, “What is this that has come to the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?”

Now therefore listen to their voice: however you shall protest solemnly to them, and shall show them the way of the king who shall reign over them.”

“Now therefore take and prepare yourselves a new cart, and two milk cows, on which there has come no yoke; and tie the cows to the cart, and bring their calves home from them;

When the ark of the covenant of Yahweh came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang again.

“Talk no more so exceeding proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, For Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.

She went, and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and she happened to come to the portion of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech. — read the full passage →

The children of Benjamin came out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites on that day twenty-two thousand men.

They said to him, “Hold your peace, put your hand on your mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?”

On the seventh day, they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you called us to impoverish us? Is it not so?”

After him Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel.

He spoke also to the men of Penuel, saying, “When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.”

When the children of Israel cried to Yahweh because of Midian,

In Gibeon Yahweh appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, “Ask what I shall give you.” — read the full passage →

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 →

Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.”