77 Bible Verses about Answered Promises
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For every one of God’s promises is “Yes” in Him. Therefore, the “Amen” is also spoken through Him by us for God’s glory.
When he calls out to Me, I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble.
I will rescue him and give him honor.
The poor and the needy seek water, but there is none;
their tongues are parched with thirst.
I, Yahweh, will answer them;
I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
At that time, when you call, the Lord will answer;
when you cry out, He will say, ‘Here I am.’
If you get rid of the yoke among you,
the finger-pointing and malicious speaking,
Call to Me and I will answer you and tell you great and incomprehensible things you do not know.
I will put this third through the fire;
I will refine them as silver is refined
and test them as gold is tested.
They will call on My name,
and I will answer them.
I will say: They are My people,
and they will say: Yahweh is our God.”
“So I say to you, keep asking, and it will be given to you. Keep searching, and you will find. Keep knocking, and the door will be opened to you.
If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.
If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you want and it will be done for you.
and can receive whatever we ask from Him because we keep His commands and do what is pleasing in His sight.
Furthermore, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are forcing to work as slaves, and I have remembered My covenant.
I have observed the oppression of My people in Egypt; I have heard their groaning and have come down to rescue them. And now, come, I will send you to Egypt.
If you do mistreat them, they will no doubt cry to Me, and I will certainly hear their cry.
The Lord answered Moses, “I will do this very thing you have asked, for you have found favor in My sight, and I know you by name.” Then Moses said, “Please, let me see Your glory.” He said, “I will cause all My goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim the name Yahweh before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.” read more.
But He answered, “You cannot see My face, for no one can see Me and live.”
For what great nation is there that has a god near to it as the Lord our God is to us whenever we call to Him?
“As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a whole heart and a willing mind, for the Lord searches every heart and understands the intention of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.
I am a laughingstock to my friends,
by calling on God, who answers me.
The righteous and upright man is a laughingstock.
He will pray to God, and God will delight in him.
That man will see His face with a shout of joy,
and God will restore his righteousness to him.
Those who know Your name trust in You
because You have not abandoned
those who seek You, Yahweh.
Lord, You have heard the desire of the humble;
You will strengthen their hearts.
You will listen carefully,
Therefore let everyone who is faithful pray to You
at a time that You may be found.
When great floodwaters come,
they will not reach him.
I put my hope in You, Lord;
You will answer, Lord my God.
Then my enemies will retreat on the day when I call.
This I know: God is for me.
For the Lord listens to the needy
and does not despise
His own who are prisoners.
I am Yahweh your God,
who brought you up from the land of Egypt.
Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
For You, Lord, are kind and ready to forgive,
rich in faithful love to all who call on You.
Lord, hear my prayer;
listen to my plea for mercy.
I call on You in the day of my distress,
for You will answer me.
He will pay attention to the prayer of the destitute
and will not despise their prayer. This will be written for a later generation,
and a newly created people will praise the Lord:
He looked down from His holy heights—
the Lord gazed out from heaven to earth—
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to hear a prisoner’s groaning,
to set free those condemned to die,
furthermore, if you call out to insight
and lift your voice to understanding,
What the wicked dreads will come to him,
but what the righteous desire will be given to them.
The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the Lord,
but the prayer of the upright is His delight.
The reflections of the heart belong to man,
but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.
It will be a sign and witness to the Lord of Hosts in the land of Egypt. When they cry out to the Lord because of their oppressors, He will send them a savior and leader, and he will rescue them.
For you people will live on Zion in Jerusalem and will never cry again. He will show favor to you at the sound of your cry; when He hears, He will answer you.
You will call to Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.
They will come weeping,
but I will bring them back with consolation.
I will lead them to wadis filled with water
by a smooth way where they will not stumble,
for I am Israel’s Father,
and Ephraim is My firstborn.
“This is what the Lord God says: I will respond to the house of Israel and do this for them: I will multiply them in number like a flock.
Then the Lord became jealous for His land and spared His people.
For the Lord says to the house of Israel:
Seek Me and live!
Do not seek Bethel
or go to Gilgal
or journey to Beer-sheba,
for Gilgal will certainly go into exile,
and Bethel will come to nothing.
Seek Yahweh and live,
or He will spread like fire
throughout the house of Joseph;
it will consume everything,
with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.
Seek the Lord, all you humble of the earth,
who carry out what He commands.
Seek righteousness, seek humility;
perhaps you will be concealed
on the day of the Lord’s anger.
Ask the Lord for rain
in the season of spring rain.
The Lord makes the rain clouds,
and He will give them showers of rain
and crops in the field for everyone.
“Whenever you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by people. I assure you: They’ve got their reward! But when you pray, go into your private room, shut your door, and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. When you pray, don’t babble like the idolaters, since they imagine they’ll be heard for their many words. read more.
Don’t be like them, because your Father knows the things you need before you ask Him. “Therefore, you should pray like this:
Our Father in heaven,
Your name be honored as holy.
“Keep asking, and it will be given to you. Keep searching, and you will find. Keep knocking, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who searches finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. What man among you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? read more.
Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!
Again, I assure you: If two of you on earth agree about any matter that you pray for, it will be done for you by My Father in heaven.
Therefore I tell you, all the things you pray and ask for—believe that you have received them, and you will have them.
If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?”
Then the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says. Will not God grant justice to His elect who cry out to Him day and night? Will He delay to help them? I tell you that He will swiftly grant them justice. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He find that faith on earth?”
But be alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place and to stand before the Son of Man.”
Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God, and who is saying to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would ask Him, and He would give you living water.”
We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is God-fearing and does His will, He listens to him.
Whatever you ask in My name, I will do it so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
In that day you will not ask Me anything.
“I assure you: Anything you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.
And now, why delay? Get up and be baptized, and wash away your sins by calling on His name.’
In the same way the Spirit also joins to help in our weakness, because we do not know what to pray for as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with unspoken groanings.
for there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, since the same Lord of all is rich to all who call on Him.
For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.
Now to Him who is able to do above and beyond all that we ask or think according to the power that works in us—
Therefore let us approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us at the proper time.
let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water.
Now without faith it is impossible to please God, for the one who draws near to Him must believe that He exists and rewards those who seek Him.
Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives to all generously and without criticizing, and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith without doubting. For the doubter is like the surging sea, driven and tossed by the wind. That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord.
Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, and purify your hearts, double-minded people!
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The urgent request of a righteous person is very powerful in its effect.
Now this is the confidence we have before Him: Whenever we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears whatever we ask, we know that we have what we have asked Him for.
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