Answers to prayer (3)

God answers the prayers of individuals

God answers the psalmists’ prayers

Psalm 145:18–19 KJV 1900

The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him, To all that call upon him in truth. He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: He also will hear their cry, and will save 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 KJV 1900

For this child I prayed; and the Lord hath given me my petition which I asked of him:

See also 1 Sa 1:10–20

God answers the prayers of the prophets

Psalm 99:6 KJV 1900

Moses and Aaron among his priests, And Samuel among them that call upon his name; They called upon the Lord, 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 KJV 1900

And when we cried unto the Lord God of our fathers, the Lord heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression: And the Lord brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, 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 KJV 1900

And they cried unto the Lord, and said, We have sinned, because we have forsaken the Lord, and have served Baalim and Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve thee. And the Lord sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and ye dwelled safe.

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 KJV 1900

Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

See also Ex 22:22–23; Job 34:28

God answers prayer for healing

James 5:14–16 KJV 1900

Is any sick among you? 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 shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth 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 KJV 1900

And I fell down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger. For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the Lord was wroth against you to destroy you. But the Lord hearkened unto me at that time also.

See also 1 Sa 7:8–9; Ac 12:5–8