2 Kings 2:10

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.

For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”

Now Elisha became sick with the illness of which he died; and Joash the king of Israel came down to him, and wept over him, and said, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”

He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.

You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.

The king said again to Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, “What is your petition, queen Esther? It shall be granted you. What is your request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.”

And we write these things to you, that our joy may be fulfilled.

His servants came near, and spoke to him, and said, “My father, if the prophet had asked you do some great thing, wouldn’t you have done it? How much rather then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean?’ ”

The king of Israel said to Elisha, when he saw them, “My father, shall I strike them? Shall I strike them?”

What the wicked fear, will overtake them, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.

Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.

Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.

“In that day you will ask me no questions. Most certainly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

“Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you, and Aaron your brother, and speak to the rock before their eyes, that it pour out its water. You shall bring water to them out of the rock; so you shall give the congregation and their livestock drink.”

She said, “Let your servant find favor in your sight.” So the woman went her way and ate; and her facial expression wasn’t sad any more.

How the mighty have fallen, and the weapons of war have perished!”

Elisha saw it, and he cried, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!” He saw him no more. Then he took hold of his own clothes, and tore them in two pieces.

This is an easy thing in Yahweh’s sight. He will also deliver the Moabites into your hand.

Then he said, “Go, borrow empty containers from all your neighbors. Don’t borrow just a few containers.

The king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of; and he saved himself there, not once or twice.

Hezekiah answered, “It is a light thing for the shadow to go forward ten steps. No, but let the shadow return backward ten steps.”

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’

He will even deliver him who is not innocent. Yes, he will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.”

I love Yahweh, because he listens to my voice, and my cries for mercy.

I will also clothe her priests with salvation. Her saints will shout aloud for joy.

By the blessing of the upright, the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in his garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son’s name, if you know?

Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.

It may be Yahweh your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’ ”

Hezekiah prayed to Yahweh, saying,

Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Yahweh, the God of Israel says, ‘Because you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria,

Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel. I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”

“Now therefore, our God, listen to the prayer of your servant, and to his petitions, and cause your face to shine on your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake.

So then the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

When the angels went away from them into the sky, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem, now, and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.”

While he blessed them, he withdrew from them, and was carried up into heaven.

No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.

Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father.

Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight.

Devout men buried Stephen and lamented greatly over him.

saying, ‘Don’t be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’

For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven,

For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened, not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

Therefore he says, “When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to people.”

that your rejoicing may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my presence with you again.

longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy;

Having many things to write to you, I don’t want to do so with paper and ink, but I hope to come to you, and to speak face to face, that our joy may be made full.

I heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here!” They went up into heaven in the cloud, and their enemies saw them.

At the time of the evening offering, Elijah the prophet came near, and said, “Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.

Hezekiah prayed before Yahweh, and said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, who are enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.

You who dwell in the gardens, with friends in attendance, let me hear your voice!

“When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward.

He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full.