Answers to prayer (2)

God answers the prayers of individuals

God answers the psalmists’ prayers

Psalm 145:18–19 ESV

The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. He fulfills the desire of those who fear him; he also hears their cry and saves them.

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God answers Moses’ prayers

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God answers Hannah’s prayer for a son

1 Samuel 1:27 ESV

For this child I prayed, and the Lord has granted me my petition that I made to him.

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God answers the prayers of the prophets

Psalm 99:6 ESV

Moses and Aaron were among his priests, Samuel also was among those who called upon his name. They called to the Lord, and he answered them.

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God answers the prayers of the kings of Israel

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God answers corporate petition

Answered prayer for deliverance from hardship

Deuteronomy 26:7–8 ESV

Then we cried to the Lord, the God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression. And the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great deeds of terror, with signs and wonders.

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Answered prayer for deliverance from enemies

1 Samuel 12:10–11 ESV

And they cried out to the Lord and said, ‘We have sinned, because we have forsaken the Lord and have served the Baals and the Ashtaroth. But now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, that we may serve you.’ And the Lord sent Jerubbaal and Barak and Jephthah and Samuel and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and you lived in safety.

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God answers the prayer of the oppressed

James 5:4 ESV

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.

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God answers prayer for healing

James 5:14–16 ESV

Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

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God answers prayer for others

Deuteronomy 9:18–19 ESV

Then I lay prostrate before the Lord as before, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all the sin that you had committed, in doing what was evil in the sight of the Lord to provoke him to anger. For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure that the Lord bore against you, so that he was ready to destroy you. But the Lord listened to me that time also.

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