John 9:31

“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.

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

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.

He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

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

When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

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

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen,” said Yahweh of Armies;

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

If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil.”

For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

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

The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

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

For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”

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.

Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word.

I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, “It is finished.” He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.

For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

Balaam said to Balak, “Build here seven altars for me, and prepare here seven bulls and seven rams for me.”

Yahweh rejected all the offspring of Israel, afflicted them, and delivered them into the hands of raiders, until he had cast them out of his sight.

It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts.” Job did so continually.

You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You will pay your vows.

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

When he is judged, let him come out guilty. Let his prayer be turned into sin.

Then they will call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;

It will happen, when they ask you, ‘Where shall we go out?’ then you shall tell them, ‘Yahweh says: “Such as are for death, to death; such as are for the sword, to the sword; such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for captivity, to captivity.” ’

“I sought for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I would not destroy it; but I found no one.

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.

Jesus answered them, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”

He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”

Even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you.”

I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.

which has come to you, even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth,

Samuel took a suckling lamb, and offered it for a whole burnt offering to Yahweh. Samuel cried to Yahweh for Israel; and Yahweh answered him.

When God helped the Levites who bore the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.

I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

There they cry, but no one answers, because of the pride of evil men.

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

They cried, but there was no one to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them.

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

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

To what purpose does frankincense from Sheba come to me, and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices are not pleasing to me.”

Therefore Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will bring evil on them, which they will not be able to escape; and they will cry to me, but I will not listen to them.

When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and meal offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.”

Then Yahweh said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not turn toward this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go out!

therefore, behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will cast you off, and the city that I gave to you and to your fathers, away from my presence.

Therefore I will also deal in wrath. My eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity. Though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet I will not hear them.”

though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness,” says the Lord Yahweh.

When it was day, he called his disciples, and from them he chose twelve, whom he also named apostles:

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

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

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

The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same things to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

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

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.

When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

Now therefore, restore the man’s wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don’t restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours.”

Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.”

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

Moses and Aaron were among his priests, Samuel was among those who call on his name. They called on Yahweh, and he answered them.

Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn’t destroy them.

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.

Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer. You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;

Should evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.

If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.

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.

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

Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?

When Saul inquired of Yahweh, Yahweh didn’t answer him by dreams, by Urim, or by prophets.

I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”

“Now, please entreat the favor of God, that he may be gracious to us. With this, will he accept any of you?” says Yahweh of Armies.

As he sat in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples.

But he answered, ‘Most certainly I tell you, I don’t know you.’

Behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that he was reclining in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster jar of ointment.

Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.

Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me) to do your will, O God.’ ”