Song of Solomon 4:2

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

“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.

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

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

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

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

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.

“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.

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

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.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

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

For most certainly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and doesn’t doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening; he shall have whatever he says.

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

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

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.

For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and will lift up your face to God.

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

They are more to be desired than gold, yes, than much fine gold, sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.

I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

I have written to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

I know that you are Abraham’s offspring, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you.

Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.

How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.

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

He taught me, and said to me: “Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.

Why should you be like a scared man, as a mighty man who can’t save? Yet you, Yahweh, are in the middle of us, and we are called by your name. Don’t leave us.

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.

You will be blessed above all peoples. There won’t be male or female barren among you, or among your livestock.

but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.

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

He said to me, “Son of man, cause your belly to eat, and fill your bowels with this scroll that I give you.” Then I ate it; and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth.

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

That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn’t despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

You will come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.

Your teeth are like a flock of ewes, which have come up from the washing, of which every one has twins; not one is bereaved among them.

so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.

For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn’t profit them, because it wasn’t mixed with faith by those who heard.

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

but the Lord’s word endures forever.” This is the word of Good News which was preached to you.

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

I went to the angel, telling him to give me the little book. He said to me, “Take it, and eat it. It will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.”

Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don’t miscarry.

I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, as much as in all riches.

I rejoice at your word, as one who finds great plunder.

But you, son of man, hear what I tell you. Don’t be rebellious like that rebellious house. Open your mouth, and eat that which I give you.”

But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”

As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.

but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed by the father.

Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.

This is my comfort in my affliction, for your word has revived me.

so you shall know wisdom to be to your soul. If you have found it, then there will be a reward: Your hope will not be cut off.

“As for the word that you have spoken to us in Yahweh’s name, we will not listen to you.

Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, receive in your heart and hear with your ears all my words that I speak to you.

Shall it be said, O house of Jacob: “Is Yahweh’s Spirit angry? Are these his doings? Don’t my words do good to him who walks blamelessly?”

For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.

He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.

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.

So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.”

Now while the multitude pressed on him and heard the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret.

Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

But he answered them, “My mother and my brothers are these who hear the word of God, and do it.”

for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.

Now when the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them,

A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us. The Lord opened her heart to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.

Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”

In him you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.

because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News

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,

when he comes in that day to be glorified in his saints and to be admired among all those who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.

Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.

Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.

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 this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.