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Obedience, Faith, Fruit, and Answered Prayers
In reply Jesus said to the disciples,
"If you only have faith in God--
{23} this is the absolute truth--
you can say to this Mount of Olives,
'Rise up and fall into the Mediterranean,'
and your command will be obeyed.
All that's required is that you really
believe and have no doubt!
{24} Listen to me! You can pray for
anything,
and if you believe, you have it; it's
yours!
{25} But when you are praying,
first forgive anyone you are holding a
grudge against,
so that your Father in heaven will forgive
you your sins too."
Mark 11:22-25 (TLB)
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As Jesus was leaving her home,
two blind men followed along behind,
shouting,
"O Son of King David, have mercy
on us."
{28} They went right into the house where
he was staying,
and Jesus asked them, "Do you believe
I can make you see?"
"Yes, Lord," they told him, "we do."
{29} Then he touched their eyes and said,
"Because of your faith it will happen."
{30} And suddenly they could see!
Jesus sternly warned them not to tell anyone
about it,
{31} but instead they spread his fame
all over the town.
Mat 9:27-31 (TLB)
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"And now about prayer.
When you pray, don't be like the
hypocrites
who pretend piety by praying publicly
on street corners
and in the synagogues where everyone can
see them.
Truly, that is all the reward they will
ever get.
{6} But when you pray, go away by yourself,
all alone,
and shut the door behind you and
pray to your Father secretly,
and your Father, who knows your secrets,
will reward you.
{7} "Don't recite the same prayer
over and over as the heathen do,
who think prayers are answered only by
repeating them again and again.
{8} "Remember, your Father knows
exactly what you need
even before you ask him!
Mat 6:5-8 (TLB)
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"I also tell you this-
-if two of you agree down here on earth
concerning anything you ask for,
my Father in heaven will do it for you.
{20} For where two or three gather together
because they are mine,
I will be right there among them."
Mat 18:19-20 (TLB)
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And so it is with prayer--
keep on asking and you will keep on getting;
keep on looking and you will keep on finding;
knock and the door will be opened.
{10} Everyone who asks, receives;
all who seek, find;
and the door is opened to everyone who
knocks.
Luke 11:9-10 (TLB)
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"In solemn truth I tell you,
anyone believing in me shall do the same
miracles I have done,
and even greater ones, because I am going
to be with the Father.
{13} You can ask him for anything, using
my name, and I will do it,
for this will bring praise to the Father
because of what I, the Son, will do for
you.
{14} Yes, ask anything, using my name,
and I will do it!
John 14:12-14 (TLB)
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Take care to live in me, and let me live
in you.
For a branch can't produce fruit when
severed from the vine.
Nor can you be fruitful apart from
me.
{5} "Yes, I am the Vine; you are the branches.
Whoever lives in me and I in him shall
produce a large crop of fruit.
For apart from me you can't do a
thing.
{6} If anyone separates from me,
he is thrown away like a useless
branch, withers,
and is gathered into a pile with all the
others and burned.
{7} But if you stay in me and obey my commands,
you may ask any request you like,
and it will be granted!
{8} My true disciples produce bountiful
harvests.
This brings great glory to my Father.
John 15:4-8 (TLB)
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I no longer call you slaves,
for a master doesn't confide in
his slaves;
now you are my friends,
proved by the fact that I have told you
everything the Father told me.
{16} "You didn't choose me! I chose
you!
I appointed you to go and produce lovely
fruit always,
so that no matter what you ask for
from the Father, using my name,
He will give it to you.
John 15:15-16 (TLB)
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At that time you won't need to ask me for
anything,
for you can go directly to the Father
and ask him,
and he will give you what you ask
for because you use my name.
{24} You haven't tried this before,
(but begin now).
Ask, using my name, and you will
receive,
and your cup of joy will overflow.
{25} "I have spoken of these matters very
guardedly,
but the time will come when this
will not be necessary
and I will tell you plainly all about
the Father.
{26} Then you will present your petitions
over my signature!
And I won't need to ask the Father to
grant you these requests,
{27} for the Father himself loves
you dearly
because you love me and believe that I
came from the Father.
John 16:23-27 (TLB)
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