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Answered Prayer
Mark 11:24 ESV / 493 helpful votes
Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
1 John 5:14-15 ESV / 363 helpful votes
And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.
John 15:7 ESV / 312 helpful votes
If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
Matthew 7:7 ESV / 238 helpful votes
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 175 helpful votes
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
John 15:16 ESV / 173 helpful votes
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
James 5:16 ESV / 152 helpful votes
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
Jeremiah 33:3 ESV / 152 helpful votes
Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.
1 John 3:22 ESV / 143 helpful votes
And whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.
Isaiah 65:24 ESV / 134 helpful votes
Before they call I will answer; while they are yet speaking I will hear.
1 Thessalonians 5:17 ESV / 125 helpful votes
Pray without ceasing,
Psalm 37:4 ESV / 124 helpful votes
Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Jeremiah 29:12 ESV / 113 helpful votes
Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you.
Matthew 21:22 ESV / 110 helpful votes
And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.”
2 Chronicles 7:14 ESV / 103 helpful votes
If my people who are called by my name 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 heal their land.
Luke 18:1 ESV / 100 helpful votes
And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.
Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 97 helpful votes
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
1 John 1:9 ESV / 87 helpful votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Ephesians 6:18 ESV / 83 helpful votes
Praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints,
1 John 5:14 ESV / 78 helpful votes
And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.
John 16:23-24 ESV / 78 helpful votes
In that day you will ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you. Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.
Matthew 18:19 ESV / 76 helpful votes
Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.
Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 53 helpful votes
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
1 Timothy 2:8 ESV / 53 helpful votes
I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling;
Romans 15:13 ESV / 52 helpful votes
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
Psalm 91:15 ESV / 51 helpful votes
When he calls to me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue him and honor him.
Psalm 40:1 ESV / 50 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the Lord; he inclined to me and heard my cry.
Isaiah 59:2 ESV / 49 helpful votes
But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
2 Corinthians 1:3-11 ESV / 43 helpful votes
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too. If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer. Our hope for you is unshaken, for we know that as you share in our sufferings, you will also share in our comfort. …
Jeremiah 1:12 ESV / 39 helpful votes
Then the Lord said to me, “You have seen well, for I am watching over my word to perform it.”
Job 1:1-22 ESV / 33 helpful votes
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil. There were born to him seven sons and three daughters. He possessed 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys, and very many servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the east. His sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one on his day, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually. …
James 4:3 ESV / 32 helpful votes
You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
Acts 10:30-31 ESV / 32 helpful votes
And Cornelius said, “Four days ago, about this hour, I was praying in my house at the ninth hour, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your alms have been remembered before God.
Psalm 138:3 ESV / 32 helpful votes
On the day I called, you answered me; my strength of soul you increased.
Psalm 66:18 ESV / 31 helpful votes
If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.
Romans 8:31 ESV / 30 helpful votes
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
1 Samuel 1:11 ESV / 28 helpful votes
And she vowed a vow and said, “O Lord of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your servant and remember me and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a son, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall touch his head.”
Psalm 145:18 ESV / 27 helpful votes
The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.
James 4:2 ESV / 25 helpful votes
You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.
Philippians 1:6 ESV / 25 helpful votes
And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
John 14:6-14 ESV / 25 helpful votes
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.” Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works. …
Acts 22:16 ESV / 24 helpful votes
And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name.’
Isaiah 1:18 ESV / 24 helpful votes
“Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.
Acts 13:1-3 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Now there were in the church at Antioch prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen a member of the court of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” Then after fasting and praying they laid their hands on them and sent them off.
Proverbs 28:9 ESV / 23 helpful votes
If one turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.
Hebrews 4:16 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
Ephesians 3:20 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us,
1 John 5:16 ESV / 20 helpful votes
If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life—to those who commit sins that do not lead to death. There is sin that leads to death; I do not say that one should pray for that.
1 Timothy 2:8-15 ESV / 20 helpful votes
I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling; likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, but with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works. Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet. …
Matthew 6:7 ESV / 20 helpful votes
“And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words.
Matthew 6:6 ESV / 20 helpful votes
But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!
Acts 1:14 ESV / 19 helpful votes
All these with one accord were devoting themselves to prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.
John 14:13-14 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.
Matthew 26:41 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Job 22:27 ESV / 19 helpful votes
You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you, and you will pay your vows.
Matthew 9:29 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Then he touched their eyes, saying, “According to your faith be it done to you.”
Matthew 7:7-8 ESV / 18 helpful votes
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.
Matthew 6:9-13 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Luke 1:37 ESV / 17 helpful votes
For nothing will be impossible with God.”
1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.
Colossians 4:2 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.
Romans 10:12 ESV / 16 helpful votes
For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him.
Philippians 4:19-1 Thessalonians 1:10 ESV / 15 helpful votes
And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. To our God and Father be glory forever and ever. Amen. Greet every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers who are with me greet you. All the saints greet you, especially those of Caesar’s household. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. …
John 9:31 ESV / 15 helpful votes
We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him.
Psalm 6:9 ESV / 15 helpful votes
The Lord has heard my plea; the Lord accepts my prayer.
1 Samuel 1:27 ESV / 15 helpful votes
For this child I prayed, and the Lord has granted me my petition that I made to him.
1 Peter 4:7 ESV / 14 helpful votes
The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers.
James 1:5-18 ESV / 14 helpful votes
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. Let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation, …
1 Timothy 2:1-2 ESV / 14 helpful votes
First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way.
1 Thessalonians 5:17-18 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
Philippians 1:9-13 ESV / 14 helpful votes
And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel, so that it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard and to all the rest that my imprisonment is for Christ.
Mark 1:35 ESV / 14 helpful votes
And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed.
Psalm 18:6 ESV / 14 helpful votes
In my distress I called upon the Lord; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears.
James 5:14 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.
Philippians 4:6 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
2 Corinthians 1:11 ESV / 13 helpful votes
You also must help us by prayer, so that many will give thanks on our behalf for the blessing granted us through the prayers of many.
1 Corinthians 1:4 ESV / 13 helpful votes
I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus,
Romans 12:12 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
Romans 12:2 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Romans 8:26 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.
Acts 16:25 ESV / 13 helpful votes
About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them,
Luke 6:27-28 ESV / 13 helpful votes
“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.
Luke 6:12 ESV / 13 helpful votes
In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God.
Matthew 18:20 ESV / 13 helpful votes
For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”
Matthew 7:11 ESV / 13 helpful votes
If you then, who are 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!
Zechariah 13:9 ESV / 13 helpful votes
And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call upon my name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are my people’; and they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’”
Psalm 116:1 ESV / 13 helpful votes
I love the Lord, because he has heard my voice and my pleas for mercy.
Psalm 66:17-19 ESV / 13 helpful votes
I cried to him with my mouth, and high praise was on my tongue. If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened. But truly God has listened; he has attended to the voice of my prayer.
Daniel 10:3-12 ESV / 12 helpful votes
I ate no delicacies, no meat or wine entered my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, for the full three weeks. On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was standing on the bank of the great river (that is, the Tigris) I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, a man clothed in linen, with a belt of fine gold from Uphaz around his waist. His body was like beryl, his face like the appearance of lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of burnished bronze, and the sound of his words like the sound of a multitude. And I, Daniel, alone saw the vision, for the men who were with me did not see the vision, but a great trembling fell upon them, and they fled to hide themselves. …
Psalm 141:2 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Let my prayer be counted as incense before you, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice!
1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
John 15:6-16 ESV / 11 helpful votes
If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. …
Isaiah 65:23-66:9 ESV / 11 helpful votes
They shall not labor in vain or bear children for calamity, for they shall be the offspring of the blessed of the Lord, and their descendants with them. Before they call I will answer; while they are yet speaking I will hear. The wolf and the lamb shall graze together; the lion shall eat straw like the ox, and dust shall be the serpent’s food. They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain,” says the Lord. Thus says the Lord: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; what is the house that you would build for me, and what is the place of my rest? All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the Lord. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word. …
Proverbs 21:13 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered.
Proverbs 15:29-16:20 ESV / 11 helpful votes
The Lord is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous. The light of the eyes rejoices the heart, and good news refreshes the bones. The ear that listens to life-giving reproof will dwell among the wise. Whoever ignores instruction despises himself, but he who listens to reproof gains intelligence. The fear of the Lord is instruction in wisdom, and humility comes before honor. …
Psalm 122:6 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! “May they be secure who love you!
Genesis 24:1-67 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years. And the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things. And Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his household, who had charge of all that he had, “Put your hand under my thigh, that I may make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell, but will go to my country and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac.” The servant said to him, “Perhaps the woman may not be willing to follow me to this land. Must I then take your son back to the land from which you came?” …
Psalm 118:25 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Save us, we pray, O Lord! O Lord, we pray, give us success!
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