John 16:24

“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.

You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you. Light will shine on your ways.

“Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for you.

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

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves.

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

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

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

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

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

Moreover he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Moses hid his face because he was afraid to look at God.

Then the king asked her, “What would you like, queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be given you even to the half of the kingdom.”

May he grant you your heart’s desire, and fulfill all your counsel.

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”

I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am Yahweh,” says the Lord Yahweh, “when I am proven holy in you before their eyes.

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

In him we have boldness and access in confidence through our faith in him.

Let’s rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let’s give the glory to him. For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.”

When midday was past, they prophesied until the time of the evening offering; but there was no voice, no answer, and nobody paid attention.

You are Yahweh, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all. The army of heaven worships you.

A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come on him.

Yahweh is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

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.

Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

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

He swore to her, “Whatever you shall ask of me, I will give you, up to half of my kingdom.”

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

There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the covenant, all that I command you for the children of Israel.

Then she said, “Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, because you have comforted me, and because you have spoken kindly to your servant, though I am not as one of your servants.”

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

The king said to Esther the queen, “The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in the citadel of Susa, including the ten sons of Haman; what then have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces! Now what is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your further request? It shall be done.”

For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me.

But there is a spirit in man, and the Spirit of the Almighty gives them understanding.

The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.

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

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears on them; because when I called, no one answered; when I spoke, they didn’t listen; but they did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn’t delight.”

You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

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

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.

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

Be diligent to come to me soon,

but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

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.

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,

Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

And if we know that he listens to us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.

I had many things to write to you, but I am unwilling to write to you with ink and pen;

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished.

Esau said, “Let me now leave with you some of the people who are with me.” He said, “Why? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.”

Yahweh your God will make you prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, for good; for Yahweh will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers,

But Samson’s wife was given to his companion, who had been his friend.

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.”

Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?

“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Go your way—eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.

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

yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening offering.

Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.

He said to them, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them?

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

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

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.

“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.

“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.

He said, “You have asked a hard thing. If you see me when I am taken from you, it will be so for you; but if not, it will not be so.”

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

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

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.

“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.

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.

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.