THE BIBLE PRAYER LINE – Bible Questions Answered
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Bible Questions Answered:
“I do not believe my prayers do any good...”
Adit/ Bengaluru, Karnataka India
Bible Answer:
Bible Texts:
If you are a Christian, better believe The Bible! And if you are a Christian, better be living close to The Lord!
James 5:16 KJV
"... The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much."
James 5:16 NLT
"...The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results."
James 5:16 ERV
"...Anyone who lives the way God wants can pray, and great things will happen."
Prayers Not Answered:
James 4:1-10 NLT (Drawing Close to God)
1 What is causing the quarrels and fights among you? Don’t they come from the evil desires at war within you?
2 You want what you don’t have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous of what others have, but you can’t get it, so you fight and wage war to take it away from them. Yet you don’t have what you want because you don’t ask God for it.
3 And even when you ask, you don’t get it because your motives are all wrong—you want only what will give you pleasure.
4 You adulterers! Don’t you realize that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God? I say it again: If you want to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God.
5 Do you think The Scriptures have no meaning? They say that God is passionate that The Spirit He has placed within us should be faithful to Him.
6 And He gives grace generously. As The Scriptures say, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
7 So humble yourselves before God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8 Come close to God, and God will come close to you. Wash your hands, you sinners; purify your hearts, for your loyalty is divided between God and the world.
9 Let there be tears for what you have done. Let there be sorrow and deep grief. Let there be sadness instead of laughter, and gloom instead of joy.
10 Humble yourselves before The Lord, and He will lift you up in honor.
Does God Answer Prayer?
Psalm 91:15 KJV
He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honor him.
Psalm 145:18 KJV
The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon Him, to all that call upon Him in Truth.
Psalm 165:2 KJV
O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.
Zechariah 13:9 KJV
And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on My name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is My people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.
Matthew 7:7,8,11 KJV
7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask Him?
Matthew 21:22 KJV
And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
John 14:13,14 KJV
13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in My name, that will I do, that The Father may be glorified in The Son.
14 If ye shall ask any thing in My name, I will do it.
John 15:7,16 KJV
7 If ye abide in Me, and My Words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
16 Ye have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of The Father in My name, He may give it you.
John 16:24 KJV
Hitherto have ye asked nothing in My name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
Romans 10:12 NLT
Jew and Gentile are the same in this respect. They have the same Lord, who gives generously to all who call on Him.
Ephesians 3:20 KJV
Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
I John 5:14 KJV
And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that, if we ask any thing according to His will, He heareth us:
Prayer:
James 5:16 KJV
"... The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much."
