Proverbs 15:29

“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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.

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;

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

Many also of those who had believed came, confessing, and declaring their deeds.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

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.”

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.

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

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,

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.

The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to Yahweh, and the fire abated.

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.

“Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

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.

I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.

For Yahweh’s eyes run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. You have done foolishly in this; for from now on you will have wars.”

For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.”

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.”

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.

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination— how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind!

For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

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.”

and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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

Pray without ceasing.

and make straight paths for your feet, so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

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.”

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

Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

“For I, Yahweh, love justice. I hate robbery and iniquity. I will give them their reward in truth and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

“ ‘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.

They were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.

“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

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

for he has looked at the humble state of his servant. For behold, from now on, all generations will call me blessed.

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

For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Surely God will not hear an empty cry, neither will the Almighty regard it.

Take heed, don’t regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction.

You have seen it, Yahweh. Don’t keep silent. Lord, don’t be far from me.

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.

“What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.

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

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

Behold, one came to him and said, “Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?”

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

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

But your iniquities have separated you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.

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.

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

Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far away from the camp, and he called it “The Tent of Meeting.” Everyone who sought Yahweh went out to the Tent of Meeting, which was outside the camp.

For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but he knows the proud from afar.

“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?

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

Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

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

For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.

These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”