Thematic Bible: Examples of Prayers answered
Thematic Bible
Prayer » Examples of Prayers answered » Answer promised
Refine them as silver is refined,
And test them as gold is tested.
They will
And I will
I will say, ‘They are
And they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’”
I will be with him in
I will rescue him and
And their tongue is parched with thirst;
I, the Lord,
As the God of Israel I
You will cry, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’
If you
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It will also come to pass that before they call, I will answer; and while they are still speaking, I will hear.
‘Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’
and whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight.
Prayer » Examples of Prayers answered » -ezra
So we fasted and sought our God concerning this matter, and He listened to our entreaty.
But when they cried to You
You heard from heaven, and according to Your great compassion
You
Then the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven;
He gave me instruction and talked with me and said, “O Daniel, I have now come forth to give you insight with understanding.
Then he said to me, “Do not be afraid, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart on understanding this and on humbling yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to your words.
Prayer » Examples of Prayers answered » Jehoshaphat
And the Lord sent an angel who destroyed every mighty warrior, commander and officer in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned in shame to his own land. And when he had entered the temple of his god, some of his own children killed him there with the sword.
When he prayed to Him, He was moved by his entreaty and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord was God.
So when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “It is the king of Israel,” and they turned aside to fight against him. But Jehoshaphat cried out, and the Lord helped him, and God diverted them from him.
Prayer » Examples of Prayers answered » Bowing in
So the people believed; and when they heard that the Lord was concerned about the sons of Israel and that He had seen their affliction, then they bowed low and worshiped.
you shall say, ‘It is a Passover sacrifice to the Lord who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when He smote the Egyptians, but spared our homes.’” And the people bowed low and worshiped.
Moses made haste to bow low toward the earth and worship.
Prayer » Examples of Prayers answered » Elijah
When they came down to him, Elisha prayed to the Lord and said, “Strike this people with blindness, I pray.” So He struck them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.
"Answer me, O LORD, answer me, that this people may know that You, O LORD, are God, and that You have turned their heart back again." Then the fire of the LORD fell and consumed the burnt offering and the wood and the stones and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
Then Jehoahaz entreated the favor of the Lord, and the Lord listened to him; for He saw the oppression of Israel, how the king of Aram oppressed them.
Prayer » Examples of Prayers answered » hezekiah
They were helped against them, and the Hagrites and all who were with them were given into their hand; for they cried out to God in the battle, and He answered their prayers because they trusted in Him.
"Now, O LORD our God, I pray, deliver us from his hand that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, O LORD, are God." Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah saying, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'Because you have prayed to Me about Sennacherib king of Assyria, I have heard you.'
Prayer » Examples of Prayers answered » gideon
Then Gideon said to God, "Do not let Your anger burn against me that I may speak once more; please let me make a test once more with the fleece, let it now be dry only on the fleece, and let there be dew on all the ground." God did so that night; for it was dry only on the fleece, and dew was on all the ground.
God listened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came again to the woman as she was sitting in the field, but Manoah her husband was not with her.
Prayer » Examples of Prayers answered » Solomon
The Lord said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication, which you have made before Me; I have consecrated this house which you have built by putting My name there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.
behold, I have done according to your words. Behold, I have given you a wise and discerning heart, so that there has been no one like you before you, nor shall one like you arise after you.
Prayer » Examples of Prayers answered » samuel
Samuel took a suckling lamb and offered it for a whole burnt offering to the LORD; and Samuel cried to the LORD for Israel and the LORD answered him. Now Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, and the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel. But the LORD thundered with a great thunder on that day against the Philistines and confused them, so that they were routed before Israel.
Prayer » Examples of Prayers answered » moses
So the people grumbled at Moses, saying, "What shall we drink?" Then he cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a tree; and he threw it into the waters, and the waters became sweet There He made for them a statute and regulation, and there He tested them.
Prayer » Examples of Prayers answered » Hannah
Prayer » Examples of Prayers answered » The early church
And when they had prayed, the place where they had gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God with boldness.
Prayer » Examples of Prayers answered » Zacharias
But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zacharias, for your petition has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you will give him the name John.