21 Bible Verses about Prayer, God's Promises Concerning
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Ask and it will be given you. Seek and you will find. Knock and it will be opened for you. Everyone who asks receives. Everyone who seeks finds, and everyone who knocks will have it opened. Who among you, who would give his son a stone when he asks him for bread?read more.
Who will give him a serpent when he asks for a fish? Even though you are a sinner, you know how to give good gifts to your children. Think how much more your Father in heaven gives good things to those who ask him!
I say to you: Ask and it will be given you. Seek and you will find. Knock and it will be opened to you. Every one who asks receives. Everyone who seeks will find. It will be opened to everyone who knocks. What father would give his son a stone when he asked for a loaf? What father would give a serpent when his son asked for a fish?read more.
If he asked for an egg would he give a scorpion? If you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?
Whatever you ask in my name, I will do. That way the Father may be glorified because of the Son. If you ask anything in my name, I will do it.
If you remain with me, and my words remain with you, ask whatever you will, and it will be done for you.
You did not choose me. I chose you and appointed you. You should go and bear fruit and your fruit should remain. Whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
You will ask me for nothing then. Truly I say to you, if you ask anything of the Father, he will give it to you in my name. Until now you have not asked a single thing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.
Because you love me, I will rescue you. I will protect you because you know my name. When you call to me, I will answer you. I will be with you when you are in trouble. I will deliver you and honor you. I will satisfy you with a long life. I will show you my salvation.
Bring your thanks to God as a sacrifice, and pay (make good) your vows to the Most High. Call on me in times of trouble. I will rescue you, and you will honor me.
You have heard the desire of humble people, O Jehovah. You encourage them. You incline your ear (pay close attention) to them.
Do not mistreat any widow or orphan. If you do, I, Jehovah, will answer them when they cry out to me for help,
He looked down from his holy height. Jehovah gazed upon the earth from heaven. He heard the groaning of the prisoner, to set free those who were doomed to death.
The poor and needy search for water, but there is none! Their tongues are parched with thirst. But I Jehovah will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
However, if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, search for me, and turn from their evil ways, I will hear their prayer from heaven, forgive their sins, and heal their country.
This is what the Lord Jehovah says: 'I will also let the people of Israel ask me to make them as numerous as sheep.
I will strengthen the house of Judah. I will save the house of Joseph and I will bring them back. I will have mercy upon them; and they will be as though I had not cast them off. For I am Jehovah, their God, and I will hear them!
It will happen in all the land, said Jehovah, two parts will be cut off and die; but the third will be left. I will bring the third part into the fire. I will refine them, as silver is refined, and I will test them as gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say: 'It is my people!' They will say: 'Jehovah is my God!'
Whatever we ask we receive from Him because we obey His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight.
This is the confidence that we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
Again, I say to you, that if two of you are in agreement on earth about anything for which they will make a request, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.
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