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"He will call upon me, and
I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him
and honor him." (Psalm 91:15 NIV)
"Before they call I will answer; while they are still speaking I
will hear." (Isaiah 65:24 NIV)
"Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and
unsearchable things you do not know." (Jeremiah 33:3 NIV)
"So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will
find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who
asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door
will be opened." (Luke 11:9-10 NIV)
"You may ask me (Jesus) for anything in my name, and I will do it."
(John 14:14 NIV)
"You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and
bear fruit — fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you
whatever you ask in my name." (John 15:16 NIV)
"In that day you will no longer ask me (Jesus) anything. I tell you
the truth, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.
Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you
will receive, and your joy will be complete." (John 16:23-24 NIV)
(Italics added)
"Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence
before God and receive from him anything we ask, because we obey his
commands and do what pleases him." (1 John 3:21-22 NIV)
Luke 15:11-32 (KJV) Parable of the Prodigal Son Then
He said: "A certain man had two sons. And the younger of them said
to his father, 'Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to
me.' So he divided to them his livelihood. And not many days after,
the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country,
and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living. But when he
had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land, and he
began to be in want. Then he went and joined himself to a citizen of
that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. And he
would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the swine
ate, and no one gave him anything. "But when he came to himself, he
said, 'How many of my father's hired servants have bread enough and
to spare, and I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my
father, and will say to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven
and before you, and I am no longer worthy to be called your son.
Make me like one of your hired servants."' "And he arose and came to
his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw
him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.
And the son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and
in your sight, and am no longer worthy to be called your son.' "But
the father said to his servants,'Bring out the best robe and put it
on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet. And
bring the fatted calf here and kill it, and let us eat and be merry;
for this my son was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is
found.' And they began to be merry. "Now his older son was in the
field. And as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and
dancing. So he called one of the servants and asked what these
things meant. And he said to him, 'Your brother has come, and
because he has received him safe and sound, your father has killed
the fatted calf.' "But he was angry and would not go in. Therefore
his father came out and pleaded with him. So he answered and said to
his father, 'Lo, these many years I have been serving you; I never
transgressed your commandment at any time; and yet you never gave me
a young goat, that I might make merry with my friends. But as soon
as this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with
harlots, you killed the fatted calf for him.' "And he said to him,
'Son, you are always with me, and all that I have is yours. It was
right that we should make merry and be glad, for your brother was
dead and is alive again, and was lost and is found.'"
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