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Prayer: Answered Job 34:28
They caused the cry of the poor to come before Him, and He heard the outcry of the afflicted.
Open passagePrayer: Answered Psalm 3:4
To the LORD I cry aloud, and He answers me from His holy mountain. Selah
Open passagePrayer: Answered Psalm 4:1
For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. A Psalm of David. Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have relieved my distress; show me grace and hear my prayer.
Open passagePrayer: Answered Psalm 6:8, 9
Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for the LORD has heard my weeping. / The LORD has heard my cry for mercy; the LORD accepts my prayer.
Open passagePrayer: Answered Psalm 18:6
In my distress I called upon the LORD; I cried to my God for help. From His temple He heard my voice, and my cry for His help reached His ears.
Open passagePrayer: Answered Psalm 21:2, 4
You have granted his heart’s desire and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah / He asked You for life, and You granted it—length of days, forever and ever.
Open passagePrayer: Answered Psalm 22:4, 5, 24
In You our fathers trusted; they trusted and You delivered them. / They cried out to You and were set free; they trusted in You and were not disappointed. / For He has not despised or detested the torment of the afflicted. He has not hidden His face from him, but has attended to his cry for help.
Open passagePrayer: Answered Psalm 28:6
Blessed be the LORD, for He has heard my cry for mercy.
Open passagePrayer: Answered Psalm 30:2, 3
O LORD my God, I cried to You for help, and You healed me. / O LORD, You pulled me up from Sheol; You spared me from descending into the Pit.
Open passagePrayer: Answered Psalm 31:22
In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from Your sight!” But You heard my plea for mercy when I called to You for help.
Open passagePrayer: Answered Psalm 34:4–6
I sought the LORD, and He answered me; He delivered me from all my fears. / Those who look to Him are radiant with joy; their faces shall never be ashamed. / This poor man called out, and the LORD heard him; He saved him from all his troubles.
Open passagePrayer: Answered Psalm 40:1
For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the LORD; He inclined to me and heard my cry.
Open passagePrayer: Answered Psalm 66:19, 20
But God has surely heard; He has attended to the sound of my prayer. / Blessed be God, who has not rejected my prayer or withheld from me His loving devotion!
Open passagePrayer: Answered Psalm 77:1, 2
For the choirmaster. According to Jeduthun. A Psalm of Asaph. I cried out to God; I cried aloud to God to hear me. / In the day of trouble I sought the Lord; through the night my outstretched hands did not grow weary; my soul refused to be comforted.
Open passagePrayer: Answered Psalm 81:7
You called out in distress, and I rescued you; I answered you from the cloud of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah
Open passagePrayer: Answered Psalm 99:6–8
Moses and Aaron were among His priests; Samuel was among those who called on His name. They called to the LORD and He answered. / He spoke to them from the pillar of cloud; they kept His decrees and the statutes He gave them. / O LORD our God, You answered them. You were a forgiving God to them, yet an avenger of their misdeeds.
Open passagePrayer: Answered Psalm 106:44
Nevertheless He heard their cry; He took note of their distress.
Open passagePrayer: Answered Psalm 107:6, 7, 13–20
Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He delivered them from their distress. / He led them on a straight path to reach a city where they could live. / Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He saved them from their distress.
Open passagePrayer: Answered Psalm 116:1, 2
I love the LORD, for He has heard my voice—my appeal for mercy. / Because He has inclined His ear to me, I will call on Him as long as I live.
Open passagePrayer: Answered Psalm 118:5, 21
In my distress I called to the LORD, and He answered and set me free. / I will give You thanks, for You have answered me, and You have become my salvation.
Open passagePrayer: Answered Psalm 119:26
I recounted my ways, and You answered me; teach me Your statutes.
Open passagePrayer: Answered Psalm 120:1
A song of ascents. In my distress I cried to the LORD, and He answered me.
Open passagePrayer: Answered Psalm 138:3
On the day I called, You answered me; You emboldened me and strengthened my soul.
Open passagePrayer: Answered Lamentations 3:57, 58
You drew near when I called on You; You said, “Do not be afraid.” / You defend my cause, O Lord; You redeem my life.
Open passagePrayer: Answered Hosea 12:4
Yes, he struggled with the angel and prevailed; he wept and sought His favor; he found Him at Bethel and spoke with Him there—
Open passagePrayer: Answered Jonah 2:1, 2, 7
From inside the fish, Jonah prayed to the LORD his God, / saying: “In my distress I called to the LORD, and He answered me. From the belly of Sheol I called for help, and You heard my voice. / As my life was fading away, I remembered the LORD. My prayer went up to You, to Your holy temple.
Open passagePrayer: Answered Luke 23:42, 43
Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when You come into Your kingdom!” / And Jesus said to him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.”
Open passagePrayer: Answered Acts 4:31
After they had prayed, their meeting place was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.
Open passagePrayer: Answered 2 Corinthians 12:8, 9
Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. / But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me.
Open passagePrayer: Answered James 5:17, 18
Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. / Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth yielded its crops.
Open passagePrayer: Answered for Abimelech Genesis 20:17
Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maidservants, so that they could again bear children—
Open passagePrayer: Answered for God's Favor Under the Reproofs of Azariah 2 Chronicles 15:1–15
Now the Spirit of God came upon Azariah son of Oded. / So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you. / For many years Israel has been without the true God, without a priest to instruct them, and without the law.
Open passagePrayer: Answered for Ishmael Genesis 17:20
As for Ishmael, I have heard you, and I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He will become the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.
Open passagePrayer: Answered for Sodom Genesis 18:23–33
Abraham stepped forward and said, “Will You really sweep away the righteous with the wicked? / What if there are fifty righteous ones in the city? Will You really sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous ones who are there? / Far be it from You to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Will not the Judge of all the earth do what is right?”
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Abijah, for Victory Over Jeroboam 2 Chronicles 13:14–18
When Judah turned and discovered that the battle was both before and behind them, they cried out to the LORD. Then the priests blew the trumpets, / and the men of Judah raised the battle cry. And when they raised the cry, God routed Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah. / So the Israelites fled before Judah, and God delivered them into their hands.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Abraham, for a Son Genesis 15:1
After these events, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward.”
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Abraham's Servant, for Guidance Genesis 24:12–52
“O LORD, God of my master Abraham,” he prayed, “please grant me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham. / Here I am, standing beside the spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water. / Now may it happen that the girl to whom I say, ‘Please let down your jar that I may drink,’ and who responds, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels as well’—let her be the one You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. By this I will know that You have shown kindness to my master.”
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Ammon Judges 10:6–18
And again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD. They served the Baals, the Ashtoreths, the gods of Aram, Sidon, and Moab, and the gods of the Ammonites and Philistines. Thus they forsook the LORD and did not serve Him. / So the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He sold them into the hands of the Philistines and Ammonites, / who that very year harassed and oppressed the Israelites, and did so for eighteen years to all the Israelites on the other side of the Jordan in Gilead, the land of the Amorites.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Ammon Judges 11:1–33
Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor; he was the son of a prostitute, and Gilead was his father. / And Gilead’s wife bore him sons who grew up, drove Jephthah out, and said to him, “You shall have no inheritance in our father’s house, because you are the son of another woman.” / So Jephthah fled from his brothers and settled in the land of Tob, where worthless men gathered around him and traveled with him.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Asa, for Victory Over Zerah 2 Chronicles 14:11–15
Then Asa cried out to the LORD his God: “O LORD, there is no one besides You to help the powerless against the mighty. Help us, O LORD our God, for we rely on You, and in Your name we have come against this multitude. O LORD, You are our God. Do not let a mere mortal prevail against You.” / So the LORD struck down the Cushites before Asa and Judah, and the Cushites fled. / Then Asa and his army pursued them as far as Gerar. The Cushites fell and could not recover, for they were crushed before the LORD and His army. So the people of Judah carried off a great amount of plunder
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Cain Genesis 4:13–15
But Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is greater than I can bear. / Behold, this day You have driven me from the face of the earth, and from Your face I will be hidden; I will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.” / “Not so!” replied the LORD. “If anyone slays Cain, then Cain will be avenged sevenfold.” And the LORD placed a mark on Cain, so that no one who found him would kill him.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Centurion, for his Servant Matthew 8:5–13
When Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came and pleaded with Him, / “Lord, my servant lies at home, paralyzed and in terrible agony.” / “I will go and heal him,” Jesus replied.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Centurion, for his Servant Luke 7:3–10
When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to ask Him to come and heal his servant. / They came to Jesus and pleaded with Him earnestly, “This man is worthy to have You grant this, / for he loves our nation and has built our synagogue.”
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Centurion, for his Servant John 4:50, 51
“Go,” said Jesus. “Your son will live.” The man took Jesus at His word and departed. / And while he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was alive.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Daniel, for the Interpretation of Nebuchadnezzars Dream Daniel 2:19–23
During the night, the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision, and he blessed the God of heaven / and declared: “Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, for wisdom and power belong to Him. / He changes the times and seasons; He removes kings and establishes them. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Daniel, in a Vision Daniel 10:12
“Do not be afraid, Daniel,” he said, “for from the first day that you purposed to understand and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to them.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Daniel, Interceding for the People Daniel 9:20–23
While I was speaking, praying, confessing my sin and that of my people Israel, and presenting my petition before the LORD my God concerning His holy mountain— / while I was still praying, Gabriel, the man I had seen in the earlier vision, came to me in swift flight about the time of the evening sacrifice. / He instructed me and spoke with me, saying: “O Daniel, I have come now to give you insight and understanding.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: David, Asking About Ziklag 1 Samuel 30:8
and David inquired of the LORD: “Should I pursue these raiders? Will I overtake them?” “Pursue them,” the LORD replied, “for you will surely overtake them and rescue the captives.”
Open passagePrayer: Answered: David, Asking Whether he should Go Into Judah After Saul's Death 2 Samuel 2:1
Some time later, David inquired of the LORD, “Should I go up to one of the towns of Judah?” “Go up,” the LORD answered. Then David asked, “Where should I go?” “To Hebron,” replied the LORD.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: David, Asking Whether he should Go to War Against the Philistines 2 Samuel 5:19–25
So David inquired of the LORD, “Should I go up against the Philistines? Will You deliver them into my hand?” “Go,” replied the LORD, “for I will surely deliver the Philistines into your hand.” / So David went to Baal-perazim, where he defeated the Philistines and said, “Like a bursting flood, the LORD has burst out against my enemies before me.” So he called that place Baal-perazim. / There the Philistines abandoned their idols, and David and his men carried them away.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: David, Asking Whether Keilah Would be Delivered Into his Hands 1 Samuel 23:10–12
And David said, “O LORD, God of Israel, Your servant has heard that Saul intends to come to Keilah and destroy the city on my account. / Will the citizens of Keilah surrender me into his hand? Will Saul come down, as Your servant has heard? O LORD, God of Israel, please tell Your servant.” “He will,” said the LORD. / So David asked, “Will the citizens of Keilah surrender me and my men into the hand of Saul?” “They will,” said the LORD.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: David, in Adversity Psalm 118:5
In my distress I called to the LORD, and He answered and set me free.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: David, in Adversity Psalm 138:3
On the day I called, You answered me; You emboldened me and strengthened my soul.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Elijah, Asking for Rain 1 Kings 17:1
Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD lives—the God of Israel before whom I stand—there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Elijah, Asking for Rain 1 Kings 18:1, 42–45
After a long time, in the third year of the drought, the word of the LORD came to Elijah: “Go and present yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain upon the face of the earth.” / So Ahab went up to eat and drink. But Elijah climbed to the summit of Carmel, bent down on the ground, and put his face between his knees. / Meanwhile, the sky grew dark with clouds and wind, and a heavy rain began to fall. So Ahab rode away and went to Jezreel.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Elijah, Asking for Rain James 5:17
Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Elijah, Calling for Fire to Come Down Upon his Sacrifice 1 Kings 18:36–38
At the time of the evening sacrifice, Elijah the prophet approached the altar and said, “O LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that You are God in Israel and that I am Your servant and have done all these things at Your command. / Answer me, O LORD! Answer me, so that this people will know that You, the LORD, are God, and that You have turned their hearts back again.” / Then the fire of the LORD fell and consumed the sacrifice, the wood, the stones, and the dust, and it licked up the water in the trench.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Elijah, Raising the Widow's Son 1 Kings 17:22
And the LORD listened to the voice of Elijah, and the child’s life returned to him, and he lived.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Elisha, Leading the Syrian Army 2 Kings 6:17–20
Then Elisha prayed, “O LORD, please open his eyes that he may see.” And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw that the hills were full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha. / As the Arameans came down against him, Elisha prayed to the LORD, “Please strike these people with blindness.” So He struck them with blindness, according to the word of Elisha. / And Elisha told them, “This is not the way, and this is not the city. Follow me, and I will take you to the man you are seeking.” And he led them to Samaria.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Ezekiel, to Have the Baking of his Bread of Affliction Changed Ezekiel 4:12–15
And you shall eat the food as you would a barley cake, after you bake it over dried human excrement in the sight of the people.” / Then the LORD said, “This is how the Israelites will eat their defiled bread among the nations to which I will banish them.” / “Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth.”
Open passagePrayer: Answered: from Babylonian Bondage Nehemiah 9:27
So You delivered them into the hands of enemies who oppressed them, and in their time of distress they cried out to You. From heaven You heard them, and in Your great compassion You gave them deliverers who saved them from the hands of their enemies.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: from Bondage Exodus 2:23–25
After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God. / So God heard their groaning, and He remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. / God saw the Israelites and took notice.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: from Bondage Exodus 3:7–10
The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings. / I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. / And now the cry of the Israelites has reached Me, and I have seen how severely the Egyptians are oppressing them.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: from Bondage Acts 7:34
I have indeed seen the oppression of My people in Egypt. I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you back to Egypt.’
Open passagePrayer: Answered: from Pharaoh's Army Exodus 14:10–30
As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up and saw the Egyptians marching after them, and they were terrified and cried out to the LORD. / They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us into the wilderness to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt? / Did we not say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone so that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”
Open passagePrayer: Answered: from the King of Mesopotamia Judges 3:9, 15
But when the Israelites cried out to the LORD, He raised up Othniel son of Caleb’s younger brother Kenaz as a deliverer to save them. / And again they cried out to the LORD, and He raised up Ehud son of Gera, a left-handed Benjamite, as their deliverer. So they sent him with tribute to Eglon king of Moab.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Gideon, Asking for the Token of Dew Judges 6:36–40
Then Gideon said to God, “If You are going to save Israel by my hand, as You have said, / then behold, I will place a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew only on the fleece and all the ground is dry, then I will know that You are going to save Israel by my hand, as You have said.” / And that is what happened. When Gideon arose the next morning, he squeezed the fleece and wrung out the dew—a bowlful of water.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Hagar, for Deliverance Genesis 16:7–13
Now the angel of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert—the spring along the road to Shur. / “Hagar, servant of Sarai,” he said, “where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I am running away from my mistress Sarai,” she replied. / So the angel of the LORD told her, “Return to your mistress and submit to her authority.”
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Hannah, Asking to Give Birth to a Child 1 Samuel 1:10–17, 19, 20
In her bitter distress, Hannah prayed to the LORD and wept with many tears. / And she made a vow, pleading, “O LORD of Hosts, if only You will look upon the affliction of Your maidservant and remember me, not forgetting Your maidservant but giving her a son, then I will dedicate him to the LORD all the days of his life, and no razor shall ever come over his head.” / As Hannah kept on praying before the LORD, Eli watched her mouth.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Hezekiah and Isaiah, for Deliverance from Sennacherib 2 Kings 19:14–20
So Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers, read it, and went up to the house of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD. / And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD: “O LORD, God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth. / Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see. Listen to the words that Sennacherib has sent to defy the living God.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Hezekiah and Isaiah, for Deliverance from Sennacherib 2 Chronicles 32:20–23
In response, King Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz cried out to heaven in prayer, / and the LORD sent an angel who annihilated every mighty man of valor and every leader and commander in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he withdrew to his own land in disgrace. And when he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons struck him down with the sword. / So the LORD saved Hezekiah and the people of Jerusalem from the hands of King Sennacherib of Assyria and all the others, and He gave them rest on every side.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Jabez, Asking for Prosperity 1 Chronicles 4:10
And Jabez called out to the God of Israel, “If only You would bless me and enlarge my territory! May Your hand be with me and keep me from harm, so that I will be free from pain.” And God granted the request of Jabez.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Jacob, for Deliverance from Esau Genesis 32:9–32
Then Jacob declared, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, the LORD who told me, ‘Go back to your country and to your kindred, and I will make you prosper,’ / I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness You have shown Your servant. Indeed, with only my staff I came across the Jordan, but now I have become two camps. / Please deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid that he may come and attack me and the mothers and children with me.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Jacob, for Deliverance from Esau Genesis 33:1–17
Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming toward him with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two maidservants. / He put the maidservants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear. / But Jacob himself went on ahead and bowed to the ground seven times as he approached his brother.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Jehoahaz, for Victory Over Hazael 2 Kings 13:4
Then Jehoahaz sought the favor of the LORD, and the LORD listened to him because He saw the oppression that the king of Aram had inflicted on Israel.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Jehoshaphat, for Victory Over the Canaanites 2 Chronicles 18:31
When the chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “This is the king of Israel!” So they turned to fight against him, but Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD helped him. God drew them away from him.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Jehoshaphat, for Victory Over the Canaanites 2 Chronicles 20:6–27
and said, “O LORD, God of our fathers, are You not the God who is in heaven, and do You not rule over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in Your hand, and no one can stand against You. / Our God, did You not drive out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham Your friend? / They have lived in the land and have built in it a sanctuary for Your Name, saying,
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Manasseh, for Deliverance from the King of Babylon 2 Chronicles 33:13, 19
And when he prayed to Him, the LORD received his plea and heard his petition; so He brought him back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD is God. / His prayer and how God received his plea, as well as all his sin and unfaithfulness, and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself, they are indeed written in the Records of the Seers.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Manoah, Asking About Samson Judges 13:8, 9
Then Manoah prayed to the LORD, “Please, O Lord, let the man of God You sent us come to us again to teach us how to raise the boy who is to be born.” / And God listened to the voice of Manoah, and the angel of God returned to the woman as she was sitting in the field; but her husband Manoah was not with her.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Moses, Aaron, and Samuel Psalm 99:6
Moses and Aaron were among His priests; Samuel was among those who called on His name. They called to the LORD and He answered.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Moses, at Mount Horeb Exodus 17:4–6
Then Moses cried out to the LORD, “What should I do with these people? A little more and they will stone me!” / And the LORD said to Moses, “Walk on ahead of the people and take some of the elders of Israel with you. Take along in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. / Behold, I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. And when you strike the rock, water will come out of it for the people to drink.” So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Moses, at the Waters of Marah Exodus 15:25
And Moses cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a log. And when he cast it into the waters, they were sweetened. There the LORD made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there He tested them,
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Moses, Concerning the Complaint of the Israelites for Meat Numbers 11:11–35
So Moses asked the LORD, “Why have You brought this trouble on Your servant? Why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid upon me the burden of all these people? / Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth, so that You should tell me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries an infant,’ to the land that You swore to give their fathers? / Where can I get meat for all these people? For they keep crying out to me, ‘Give us meat to eat!’
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Moses, for Help at the Red Sea Exodus 14:15, 16
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to Me? Tell the Israelites to go forward. / And as for you, lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Moses, in the Battle with the Amalekites Exodus 17:8–14
After this, the Amalekites came and attacked the Israelites at Rephidim. / So Moses said to Joshua, “Choose some of our men and go out to fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on the hilltop with the staff of God in my hand.” / Joshua did as Moses had instructed him and fought against the Amalekites, while Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Moses, on Behalf of Miriam's Leprosy Numbers 12:13–15
So Moses cried out to the LORD, “O God, please heal her!” / But the LORD answered Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, would she not have been in disgrace for seven days? Let her be confined outside the camp for seven days; after that she may be brought back in.” / So Miriam was confined outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on until she was brought in again.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Paul, to be Restored to Health 2 Corinthians 1:9–11
Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead. / He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and He will deliver us. In Him we have placed our hope that He will yet again deliver us, / as you help us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the favor shown us in answer to their prayers.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Peter, Asking That Tabitha (Dorcas) be Restored to Life Acts 9:40
Then Peter sent them all out of the room. He knelt down and prayed, and turning toward her body, he said, “Tabitha, get up!” She opened her eyes, and seeing Peter, she sat up.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Priests and Levites, when Blessing the People 2 Chronicles 30:27
Then the priests and the Levites stood to bless the people, and God heard their voice, and their prayer came into His holy dwelling place in heaven.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Rebecca, Concerning Her Pains in Pregnancy Genesis 25:22, 23
But the children inside her struggled with each other, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?” So Rebekah went to inquire of the LORD, / and He declared to her: “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Samson, Asking for Strength Judges 16:28–30
Then Samson called out to the LORD: “O Lord GOD, please remember me. Strengthen me, O God, just once more, so that with one vengeful blow I may pay back the Philistines for my two eyes.” / And Samson reached out for the two central pillars supporting the temple. Bracing himself against them with his right hand on one pillar and his left hand on the other, / Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines.” Then he pushed with all his might, and the temple fell on the lords and all the people in it. So in his death he killed more than he had killed in his life.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Sisera Judges 4:3, 23, 24
Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, because Jabin had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he had harshly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years. / On that day God subdued Jabin king of Canaan before the Israelites. / And the hand of the Israelites grew stronger and stronger against Jabin king of Canaan until they destroyed him.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Sisera 1 Samuel 12:9–11
But they forgot the LORD their God, and He sold them into the hand of Sisera the commander of the army of Hazor, and into the hands of the Philistines and the king of Moab, who fought against them. / Then they cried out to the LORD and said, ‘We have sinned, for we have forsaken the LORD and served the Baals and Ashtoreths. Now deliver us from the hands of our enemies, that we may serve You.’ / So the LORD sent Jerubbaal, Barak, Jephthah, and Samuel, and He delivered you from the hands of your enemies on every side, and you dwelt securely.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Solomon, Asking for Wisdom 1 Kings 3:1–13
Later, Solomon formed an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt by marrying his daughter. Solomon brought her to the City of David until he had finished building his palace and the house of the LORD, as well as the wall around Jerusalem. / The people, however, were still sacrificing on the high places because a house for the Name of the LORD had not yet been built. / And Solomon loved the LORD and walked in the statutes of his father David, except that he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: Solomon, Asking for Wisdom 1 Kings 9:2, 3
the LORD appeared to him a second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon. / And the LORD said to him: “I have heard your prayer and petition before Me. I have consecrated this temple you have built by putting My Name there forever; My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: The Disciples, for Peter Acts 12:5–17
So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was fervently praying to God for him. / On the night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, with sentries standing guard at the entrance to the prison. / Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He tapped Peter on the side and woke him up, saying, “Get up quickly.” And the chains fell off his wrists.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: The Jews, Returning from the Captivity Ezra 8:21, 23
And there by the Ahava Canal I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask Him for a safe journey for us and our children, with all our possessions. / So we fasted and petitioned our God about this, and He granted our request.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: The Leper, for Healing Matthew 8:2, 3
Suddenly a leper came and knelt before Him, saying, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.” / Jesus reached out His hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” He said. “Be clean!” And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: The Leper, for Healing Mark 1:40–43
Then a leper came to Jesus, begging on his knees: “If You are willing, You can make me clean.” / Moved with compassion, Jesus reached out His hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” He said. “Be clean!” / And immediately the leprosy left him, and the man was cleansed.
Open passagePrayer: Answered: The Leper, for Healing Luke 5:12, 13
While Jesus was in one of the towns, a man came along who was covered with leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he fell facedown and begged Him, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.” / Jesus reached out His hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” He said. “Be clean!” And immediately the leprosy left him.
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