Luke 11:10

For everyone who asks receives, and the one who searches finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

Psalm 31:22

In my alarm I had said,
“I am cut off from Your sight.”
But You heard the sound of my pleading
when I cried to You for help.

Lamentations 3:8

Even when I cry out and plead for help,
He rejects my prayer.

Lamentations 3:18

Then I thought: My future is lost,
as well as my hope from the Lord.

Lamentations 3:54-58

Water flooded over my head,
and I thought: I’m going to die!

Jonah 2:2-8

I called to the Lord in my distress,
and He answered me.
I cried out for help in the belly of Sheol;
You heard my voice.

Luke 18:1

He then told them a parable on the need for them to pray always and not become discouraged:

James 4:3

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

James 5:11

See, we count as blessed those who have endured. You have heard of Job’s endurance and have seen the outcome from the Lord. The Lord is very compassionate and merciful.

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