Isaiah 45:11

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

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

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.

This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

Again, assuredly I tell you, that if two of you will agree on earth concerning anything that they will ask, it will be done for them by my Father who is in heaven.

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

What man is he who fears Yahweh? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose.

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?

This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers won’t be hidden any more, but your eyes will see your teachers;

I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay; that the thing made should say about him who made it, “He didn’t make me;” or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding?”

and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”

“House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter?” says Yahweh. “Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

All your children will be taught by Yahweh; and your children’s peace will be great.

It will happen that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands?’

Will you not from this time cry to me, ‘My Father, you are the guide of my youth?’

Many nations will go and say, “Come! Let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law will go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem;

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who hears from the Father and has learned, comes to me.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?

For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master’s use, prepared for every good work.

This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;

Let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Yahweh says, Israel is my son, my firstborn,

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for Yahweh shall inherit the land.

For such as are blessed by him shall inherit the land. Those who are cursed by him shall be cut off.

Yahweh has made everything for its own end— yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.

“Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face. Should I be inquired of at all by them?

The sun and moon stood still in the sky, at the light of your arrows as they went, at the shining of your glittering spear.

But he answered, “Every plant which my heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted.

But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

In all things be showing yourself an example of good works. In your teaching, be showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.

Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

But now Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel, says: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine.

everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.’ ”

They shall be mine,” says Yahweh of Armies, “my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.

Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.

he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.

But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the middle of him, they will sanctify my name. Yes, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.

Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.

They will come with weeping. I will lead them with petitions. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they won’t stumble; for I am a father to Israel. Ephraim is my firstborn.

Then Joshua spoke to Yahweh in the day when Yahweh delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel. He said in the sight of Israel, “Sun, stand still on Gibeon! You, moon, stop in the valley of Aijalon!”

I am Yahweh, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.”

the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise.

Then your people will all be righteous. They will inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.

“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “For this, moreover, I will be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock.

I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

Lot said to them, “Oh, not so, my lord.

Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.

Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

The man said, “Let me go, for the day breaks.” Jacob said, “I won’t let you go unless you bless me.”

The lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said, “Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.”

because Yahweh of Armies has blessed them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.”

For I am Yahweh your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place.

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

“But I said, ‘How I desire to put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!’ and I said, ‘You shall call me “My Father”, and shall not turn away from following me.’

“At that time,” says Yahweh, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.”

‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’

“ ‘ “I will make my holy name known among my people Israel. I won’t allow my holy name to be profaned any more. Then the nations will know that I am Yahweh, the Holy One in Israel.

that they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his companions would not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can’t be measured or counted; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’

Indeed, he struggled with the angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication to him. He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with us,

When he saw that he didn’t prevail against him, the man touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was strained as he wrestled.