Answers to prayer

God answers the prayers of individuals

God answers the psalmists’ prayers

Psalm 145:18–19 LEB

Yahweh 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 for help, and saves them.

See also Ps 3:4; Ps 6:8–9; Ps 30:2–3; Ps 66:19–20; Ps 116:1–2; Ps 118:5; Ps 138:3

God answers Moses’ prayers

Ex 15:23–25; Ex 17:4–7; Nu 11:10–17

God answers Hannah’s prayer for a son

1 Samuel 1:27 LEB

I prayed for this boy, and Yahweh has given me my request that I asked from him.

See also 1 Sa 1:10–20

God answers the prayers of the prophets

Psalm 99:6 LEB

Moses and Aaron were among his priests; Samuel also was among those who called on his name. They called to Yahweh, and he answered them.

See also 1 Sa 7:9; La 3:55–57; Jon 2:1–2; Jas 5:17–18

God answers the prayers of the kings of Israel

1 Ki 9:3; 2 Ch 18:31

God answers corporate petition

Answered prayer for deliverance from hardship

Deuteronomy 26:7–8 LEB

And we cried to Yahweh, the God of our ancestors, and Yahweh heard our voice and saw our affliction and our toil and our oppression. And Yahweh brought us out from Egypt with a strong hand and an outstretched arm and with great terror and with signs and with wonders.

See also Ex 2:23–25; Ex 3:7–9; Nu 20:16; 1 Sa 12:8; Ps 81:7

Answered prayer for deliverance from enemies

1 Samuel 12:10–11 LEB

So they cried out to Yahweh and said, ‘We have sinned, because we have forsaken Yahweh and have served the Baals and the Ashtoreths. But now deliver us from the hand of our enemies and we will serve you!’ So Yahweh sent Jerub-Baal and Bedan and Jephthah and Samuel. Then he delivered you from the hand of your enemies all around, and you lived in security.

See also Jdg 3:9; Jdg 3:15; 2 Ki 19:19–20; 1 Ch 5:20

God answers the prayer of the oppressed

James 5:4 LEB

Behold, the wages that were held back by you from the workers who reap your fields cry out, and the cries of the reapers have come to the ears of the Lord of hosts.

See also Ex 22:22–23; Job 34:28

God answers prayer for healing

James 5:14–16 LEB

Is anyone among you sick? He should summon the elders of the church and they should pray over him, anointing him with olive 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, so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous person accomplishes much.

See also Nu 12:10–15; 1 Ki 17:21–22; 2 Ki 4:32–35; 2 Ki 20:1–6; Mt 8:2–3; Ac 9:40

God answers prayer for others

Deuteronomy 9:18–19 LEB

And then I lay prostrate before Yahweh, as earlier, forty days and forty nights; I did not eat food and I did not drink water because of all your sins that you committed, by doing evil in the eyes of Yahweh and so provoking him. For I was in dread from being in the presence of the anger and the wrath with which Yahweh was angry with you so as to destroy you, but Yahweh listened to me also at that time.

See also 1 Sa 7:8–9; Ac 12:5–8