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Oct 18, 2024 · What Does the Bible Teach about God Answering Prayer? First, we need to see what the Bible says about prayer before we can look at answered prayer. Most comforting are verses that tell us God hears our prayers. 1 John 5:14 says, “This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.”
Jan 4, 2022 · Does God answer prayers? Answer. The short answer to this question is, “Yes!”. God has promised that, when we ask for things that are in accordance with His will for our lives, He will give us what we ask for (1 John 5:14–15). However, there is one caveat to add to this: we may not always like the answer. We pray for a lot of things ...
Verse Concepts. “Surely God will not listen to an empty cry, Nor will the Almighty regard it. 1 Kings 18:24. Verse Concepts. Then you call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the Lord, and the God who answers by fire, He is God.”. And all the people said, “That is a good idea.”. Psalm 10:17.
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What does “according to his will” mean in verse 14? “If we ask anything according to his will he hears us.” There are two possible meanings for “God’s will” found in the Bible. On the one hand, God’s will is what he commands, or what he tells us is right to do. On the other hand, God’s will is whatever God decides will come to pass. We can call the...
The answer is found as we keep reading in verse 16: This concern with “sin that leads to death” and “sin not leading to death” is part of John’s larger concern in this letter. From beginning to end, John is concerned to guard against two opposite errors: (1) treating ongoing sin lightly and (2) despairing that if a believer sins he is lost. Both ar...
So when we come to 1 John 5:16 and read about two kinds of sinning, we should not be surprised. One kind “leads to death.” And the other kind does “not lead to death.” John is not referring to a particular sin. What, then, is he referring to when he says, “there is sin [not asin] that leads to death”? Verse 18 gives the clue. Right after saying, “T...
Now we are in a position to circle back and see how verse 16 (“There is sin that leads to death; I do not say that one should pray for that”) sheds light on the meaning of verse 14 (“If we ask anything according to his will he hears us”). Does verse 14 refer to God’s will of decree, or to his will of command? To answer this, we should ask why John ...
But why does John not come right out and say, “Do notpray for that,” instead of saying, “I do not say that one should pray for that”? It’s because he does not assume we can always know who these people are. To command us not to pray for them would imply we can always recognize them. But we can’t. We can’t always tell when someone has sinned to the ...
A common response to this conclusion is that it seems to make prayer pointless, because answered prayer happens only when God has decreed that something be done. Wouldn’t the decreed event happen anyway? So why pray? But that kind of response does not come from careful biblical thinking. Careful thinking would see that God really does things in res...
Now what about our third question? What does “whatever” mean in 1 John 3:22when it says, “Whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him”? The answer is connected to what we have seen. A different condition is laid down for answered prayer here in 3:22 than was laid down in 5:14. There the condition wa...
Here is my suggestion. The condition of 3:22 includes the condition of 5:14. That is, doing what pleases God includes consciously and gladly submitting to God’s will of decree. This decree will always be the wisest and most loving response to our prayers. John says that whatever we ask we receive, if we “do what pleases [God].” What doesplease God?...
What then is the answer to our third question — the meaning of “whatever” in (1 John 3:22)? “Whateverwe ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.” The meaning of “whatever” is shaped by the all-wise, all-encompassing, loving plan of God for the good of his children and the glory of his name. By “shaped” I me...
Nov 26, 2017 · God will always say Yes when we ask him to do his work through his word. I have found at least six basic prayers God will always answer. 1. Glorify yourself through me. The earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea (Habakkuk 2:14). 2.
His commandments are summed up in these two: 1) believe in the name of Jesus, and 2) love each other. Therefore, God answers prayers for people. who believe in his Son and. who love each other. This could mean two things. 1. It could mean that believing Jesus and loving people is a way to earn answers to prayer. This is not true.
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Oct 12, 2024 · Matthew 21:22. “If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.”. Jesus teaches that our faith plays a crucial role in receiving answers to our prayers. When we truly believe and trust in God’s power and provision, we can expect to receive what we ask for in prayer.
