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God Answering Prayers
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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 →
If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
It shall happen that, before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.
You didn’t choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.
Pray without ceasing.
In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.
Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart. — read the full passage →
Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, if you have faith, and don’t doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you told this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ it would be done.
No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”
But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.
“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don’t know.
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.
“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you. — read the full passage →
If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it.
Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises. — read the full passage →
Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.
Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. — read the full passage →
if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
And if we know that he listens to us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.
and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.
If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.
I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.
Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
Again, assuredly I tell you, that if two of you will agree on earth concerning anything that they will ask, it will be done for them by my Father who is in heaven.
In praying, don’t use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.
But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.
He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:
Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. — read the full passage →
but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.
I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.
Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son.”
Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
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,
You lust, and don’t have. You kill, covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.
He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.
Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”
Yahweh is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.
In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. — read the full passage →
He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up, — read the full passage →
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.
rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;
Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.
being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.
Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving;
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.
But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.
Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.
casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
At the beginning of your petitions the commandment went out, and I have come to tell you; for you are greatly beloved: therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision.
In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.
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 →
But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed. — read the full passage →
Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil.”
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.
If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death. I don’t say that he should make a request concerning this.
Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord,
Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
“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.
For this child I prayed; and Yahweh has given me my petition which I asked of him.
For everything spoken by God is possible.”
By awesome deeds of righteousness, you answer us, God of our salvation. You who are the hope of all the ends of the earth, of those who are far away on the sea;
“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 →
You heard how I told you, ‘I go away, and I come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I.
In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.
Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.
Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
They shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
Pray without ceasing. — read the full passage →
All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer and supplication, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.
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.
Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.
But he withdrew himself into the desert, and prayed.
You shall make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You shall pay your vows.
Rejoice always. — read the full passage →
We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
“When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward.
I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: — read the full passage →
you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift bestowed on us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on your behalf.
When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.
Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.
Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.
But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.
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