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Genesis 19:27 — Now Abraham arose early in the morning {and went} to the place where he had stood before the LORD;
Joshua 1:8 — "This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have success.
1 Samuel 1:17-20 — Then Eli answered and said, "Go in peace; and may the God of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of Him."
She said, "Let your maidservant find favor in your sight." So the woman went her way and ate, and her face was no longer {sad.}
Then they arose early in the morning and worshiped before the LORD, and returned again to their house in Ramah. And Elkanah had relations with Hannah his wife, and the LORD remembered her.
It came about in due time, after Hannah had conceived, that she gave birth to a son; and she named him Samuel, {saying,} "Because I have asked him of the LORD."
Job 11:13-15 — "If you would direct your heart right And spread out your hand to Him,
If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, And do not let wickedness dwell in your tents;
"Then, indeed, you could lift up your face without {moral} defect, And you would be steadfast and not fear.
Job 23:3-5 — "Oh that I knew where I might find Him, That I might come to His seat!
"I would present {my} case before Him And fill my mouth with arguments.
"I would learn the words {which} He would answer, And perceive what He would say to me.
Psalms 4:4 — Tremble, and do not sin; Meditate in your heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
Psalms 63:1 — O God, You are my God; I shall seek You (Lit {early}) earnestly; My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You, In a dry and weary land where there is no water.
Psalms 77:6 — I will remember my song in the night; I will meditate with my heart, And my spirit ponders:
Psalms 86:11-12 — Teach me Your way, O LORD; I will walk in Your truth; Unite my heart to fear Your name.
I will give thanks to You, O Lord my God, with all my heart, And will glorify Your name forever.
Psalms 95:6 — Come, let us worship and bow down, Let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.
Psalms 118:28 — You are my God, and I give thanks to You; {You are} my God, I extol You.
Psalms 119:11 — Your word I have treasured in my heart, That I may not sin against You.
Psalms 119:15 — I will meditate on Your precepts And regard Your ways.
Psalms 119:33 — Teach me, O LORD, the way of Your statutes, And I shall observe it to the end.
Psalms 119:35 — Make me walk in the path of Your commandments, For I delight in it.
Psalms 119:47 — I shall delight in Your commandments, Which I love.
Psalms 119:59 — I considered my ways And turned my feet to Your testimonies.
Psalms 119:92 — If Your law had not been my delight, Then I would have perished in my affliction.
Psalms 119:99 — I have more insight than all my teachers, For Your testimonies are my meditation.
Psalms 119:131 — I opened my mouth wide and panted, For I longed for Your commandments.
Psalms 119:147 — I rise before dawn and cry for help; I wait for Your words.
Psalms 130:5 — I wait for the LORD, my soul does wait, And in His word do I hope.
Psalms 139:14 — I will give thanks to You, for (Some ancient versions read {You are fearfully wonderful}) I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well.
Psalms 145:2 — Every day I will bless You, And I will praise Your name forever and ever.
Psalms 146:2 — I will praise the LORD while I live; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.
Proverbs 2:3-5 — For if you cry for discernment, Lift your voice for understanding;
If you seek her as silver And search for her as for hidden treasures;
Then you will discern the fear of the LORD And discover the knowledge of God.
Proverbs 4:20-22 — My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings.
Do not let them depart from your sight; Keep them in the midst of your heart.
For they are life to those who find them And health to all their body.
Isaiah 26:9 — At night my soul longs for You, Indeed, my spirit within me seeks You diligently; For when the earth experiences Your judgments The inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
Isaiah 55:3 — "Incline your ear and come to Me. Listen, that you may live; And I will make an everlasting covenant with you, {According to} the faithful mercies shown to David.
Isaiah 64:4 — For from days of old they have not heard or perceived by ear, Nor has the eye seen a God besides You, Who acts in behalf of the one who waits for Him.
Jeremiah 29:13 — ~`You will seek Me and find {Me} when you search for Me with all your heart.
Jeremiah 32:33 — ~"They have turned {their} back to Me and not {their} face; though {I} taught them, teaching again and again, they would not listen and receive instruction.
Lamentations 3:25-26 — The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, To the person who seeks Him.
{It is} good that he waits silently For the salvation of the LORD.
Lamentations 3:40 — Let us examine and probe our ways, And let us return to the LORD.
Daniel 6:10 — Now when Daniel knew that the document was signed, he entered his house (now in his roof chamber he had windows open toward Jerusalem); and he continued kneeling on his knees three times a day, praying and giving thanks before his God, as he had been doing previously.
Micah 7:7 — But as for me, I will watch expectantly for the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
Matthew 7:7-8 — "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
~"For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
Matthew 11:28 — "Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.
Matthew 14:23 — After He had sent the crowds away, He went up on the mountain by Himself to pray; and when it was evening, He was there alone.
Luke 6:12 — It was at this time that He went off to the mountain to pray, and He spent the whole night in prayer to God.
Luke 11:9 — "So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
Luke 11:10 — ~"For everyone who asks, receives; and he who seeks, finds; and to him who knocks, it will be opened.
John 16:24 — ~"Until now you have asked for nothing in My name; ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be made full.
Acts 17:11 — Now these were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily {to see} whether these things were so.
1 Corinthians 11:28 — But a man must examine himself, and in so doing he is to eat of the bread and drink of the cup.
1 Corinthians 11:31 — But if we judged ourselves rightly, we would not be judged.
James 1:5 — But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
James 4:2-3 — You lust and do not have; {so} you commit murder. You are envious and cannot obtain; {so} you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask.
You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend {it} on your pleasures.
This topic is from the BibleSteak Team.
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