Bible Dictionary: Prayer: Answer To, Promise

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Exodus 6:5
And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.
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Exodus 22:23,27
If you afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;
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Exodus 33:17-20
And the LORD said to Moses, I will do this thing also that you have spoken: for you have found grace in my sight, and I know you by name.
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Deuteronomy 4:7,29-31
For what nation is there so great, who has God so near to them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call on him for?
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1 Kings 8:22,53
And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven:
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1 Chronicles 28:9
And you, Solomon my son, know you the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts: if you seek him, he will be found of you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off for ever.
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2 Chronicles 7:13-15
If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
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Job 8:5,6
If you would seek to God betimes, and make your supplication to the Almighty;
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Job 12:4
I am as one mocked of his neighbor, who calls on God, and he answers him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
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Job 22:27
You shall make your prayer to him, and he shall hear you, and you shall pay your vows.
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Job 33:26
He shall pray to God, and he will be favorable to him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render to man his righteousness.
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Psalm 9:10,12
And they that know your name will put their trust in you: for you, LORD, have not forsaken them that seek you.
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Psalm 10:17
LORD, you have heard the desire of the humble: you will prepare their heart, you will cause your ear to hear:
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Psalm 18:3
I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from my enemies.
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Psalm 32:6
For this shall every one that is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come near to him.
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Psalm 34:15,17
The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their cry.
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Psalm 37:4,5
Delight yourself also in the LORD: and he shall give you the desires of your heart.
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Psalm 38:15
For in you, O LORD, do I hope: you will hear, O Lord my God.
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Psalm 50:14,15
Offer to God thanksgiving; and pay your vows to the most High:
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Psalm 55:16,17
As for me, I will call on God; and the LORD shall save me.
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Psalm 56:9
When I cry to you, then shall my enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.
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Psalm 65:2,5
O you that hear prayer, to you shall all flesh come.
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Psalm 69:33
For the LORD hears the poor, and despises not his prisoners.
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Psalm 81:10
I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt: open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
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Psalm 86:5-7
For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy to all them that call on you.
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Psalm 91:15
He shall 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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Psalm 102:17-20
He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.
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Psalm 145:18,19
The LORD is near to all them that call on him, to all that call on him in truth.
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Proverbs 2:3,5
Yes, if you cry after knowledge, and lift up your voice for understanding;
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Proverbs 3:6
In all your ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct your paths.
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Proverbs 10:24
The fear of the wicked, it shall come on him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.
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Proverbs 15:8,29
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
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Proverbs 16:1
The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.
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Isaiah 19:20
And it shall be for a sign and for a witness to the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry to the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a savior, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.
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Isaiah 30:19
For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: you shall weep no more: he will be very gracious to you at the voice of your cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer you.
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Isaiah 55:6
Seek you the LORD while he may be found, call you on him while he is near:
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Isaiah 58:9
Then shall you call, and the LORD shall answer; you shall cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If you take away from the middle of you the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;
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Isaiah 65:24
And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
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Jeremiah 29:12,13
Then shall you call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
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Jeremiah 31:9
They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
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Jeremiah 33:3
Call to me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you know not.
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Lamentations 3:25
The LORD is good to them that wait for him, to the soul that seeks him.
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Ezekiel 36:37
Thus said the Lord GOD; I will yet for this be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock.
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Joel 2:18,19,32
Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people.
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Amos 5:4-6
For thus said the LORD to the house of Israel, Seek you me, and you shall live:
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Zephaniah 2:3
Seek you the LORD, all you meek of the earth, which have worked his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be you shall be hid in the day of the LORD's anger.
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Zechariah 10:1,6
Ask you of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.
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Zechariah 13:9
And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
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Matthew 6:5-13
And when you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.
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Matthew 7:7-11
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you:
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Matthew 18:19,20
Again I say to you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.
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Matthew 21:22
And all things, whatever you shall ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive.
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Mark 11:24,25
Therefore I say to you, What things soever you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them.
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Luke 11:5-13
And he said to them, Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go to him at midnight, and say to him, Friend, lend me three loaves;
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Luke 18:1-8
And he spoke a parable to them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;
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Luke 21:36
Watch you therefore, and pray always, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
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John 4:10,23,24
Jesus answered and said to her, If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that said to you, Give me to drink; you would have asked of him, and he would have given you living water.
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John 9:31
Now we know that God hears not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and does his will, him he hears.
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John 14:13,14
And whatever you shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
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John 15:7,16
If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done to you.
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John 16:23,24,26,27
And in that day you shall ask me nothing. Truly, truly, I say to you, Whatever you shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.
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Acts 7:34
I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you into Egypt.
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Acts 22:16
And now why tarry you? arise, and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.
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Romans 8:26
Likewise the Spirit also helps our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
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Romans 10:12,13
For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich to all that call on him.
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Ephesians 2:18
For through him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.
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Ephesians 3:20
Now to him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
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Hebrews 4:16
Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
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Hebrews 10:22,23
Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
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Hebrews 11:6
But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
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James 1:5-7
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that gives to all men liberally, and upbraides not; and it shall be given him.
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James 4:8,10
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double minded.
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James 5:16
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.
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1 John 3:22
And whatever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
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1 John 5:14,15
And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he hears us:
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The Mediator's Threefold Prayer
... We have the intercessor's prayer for the people, with the answer (vs.15-17). If
the promise of verse 14 is taken as referring to the people, there is nothing ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture k/the mediators threefold prayer.htm

God Has Everything to do with Prayer
... The possibilities of prayer are found in the illimitable promise, the willingness
and the power of God to answer prayer, to answer all prayer, to answer every ...
/.../bounds/the reality of prayer/iv god has everything to.htm

Of Prayer
... Answer confirmed by a noble passage of Augustine. ... not so rigidly exacted, as that
every prayer deficient in ... divine majesty, and the precept and promise of God ...
/.../calvin/of prayer--a perpetual exercise of faith/of prayer.htm

Twelfth Lesson. Have Faith in God;'
... THE promise of answer to prayer which formed our yesterday's lesson is one
of the most wonderful in all Scripture. In how many hearts ...
/.../murray/with christ in the school of prayer/twelfth lesson have faith in.htm

The Secret of Effectual Prayer
... His teaching on prayer as a definite promise of what ... with that, the faith that carries
the prayer to God ... that faith, the acceptance of God's answer; then comes ...
/.../murray/the ministry of intercession/chapter ix the secret of.htm

A Manifestation of God in Answer to Prayer
... lifted up their voice with one accord in prayer to God. The answer they received
enabled them to cope with the ... God gave us a certified promise when He said, "I ...
/.../anderson/prayer availeth much/chapter 7 a manifestation of.htm

Prayer --The Forerunner of Mercy
... We have enquired about the promise, and then we go and enquire again, until we get
an answer that the promised gift has arrived and is ours. So with prayer. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 3 1857/prayerthe forerunner of mercy.htm

Our Requests Made Known unto God
... This assuring promise discloses the resources God made available to His people
in answer to prayer. In the clear light of this certified ...
/.../anderson/prayer availeth much/chapter 2 our requests made.htm

Fifteenth Lesson. If Two Agree
... to this unity by Thy precious promise given to united prayer. It is when we are
one in love and desire that our faith has Thy presence and the Father's answer. ...
/.../murray/with christ in the school of prayer/fifteenth lesson if two agree.htm

Sixteenth Lesson. Speedily, Though Bearing Long;'
... word and knows that it has the answer, and the ... fuller, riper faith that obtains the
promise as a ... not unbelieving, but confident and praising prayer, that the ...
/.../sixteenth lesson speedily though bearing.htm

Subtopics

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Answers To Prayer: Abraham

Answers To Prayer: Abraham's Servant

Answers To Prayer: Apostles

Answers To Prayer: Asa

Answers To Prayer: Blind Man

Answers To Prayer: Christ Gives

Answers To Prayer: Christ Received

Answers To Prayer: Cornelius

Answers To Prayer: Daniel

Answers To Prayer: David