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Topic: Prayer (Asking)

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2024-07-11 Praying with the Community: Why do we ask others to pray in the community for something? What are the benefits of community prayer over just praying yourself? [Matthew 18:19, James 4:2-3].
2024-07-09 Praying for Healing: Is it worth praying for healing, if doctors indicate when there is nothing that can be done? [1 Peter 5:7, Luke 11:9, Luke 22:42, Matthew 26:39, Mark 14:36, John 6:38].
2024-06-28 Cessationism: Would you talk about Cessationism, as John MacArthur is quite critical of the idea that the gifts continue? [1 Corinthians 1:7].
Cessationism & Praying for Someone: How would a Cessationist be different from non-Cessationist praying for a sick child?
2024-06-28 Prayer & Fasting: Does God listen more to prayers if it is accompanied by fasting?
2024-06-21 Catholic Prayers to the Saints: In light of these scriptures in Revelation, how can we be critical of the Catholics offering prayers to the saints? [Revelation 5:8, Revelation 8:3-4, John 16:23-27].
2024-06-18 Talking to the Father, Neglecting Jesus: If I am always talking to the Father, am I neglecting my relationship with Jesus?
2024-06-18 Asking in Jesus' Name: What does it mean when scripture says if we ask anything in His name, He will do it? Does it apply to healing? [John 14:13-15, Genesis 1:26].
2024-06-18 Finding the Right Words When Praying: What do you think about using other's words when praying, since I can't always think of the right words? [Romans 8:26].
2024-06-14 Praying in Jesus' Name: In whose authority are you praying when you pray "in Jesus' name?" [John 16:23-26, Colossians 2:17].
2024-06-13 Posture While Praying: Do you think the posture of prayer is important to God? Can we be sitting or lying on our backs, rather than kneeling? [1 Kings 8:54].
2024-06-13 Continuing Confession in Prayer: Should we continue to confess and ask forgiveness in prayer? [Matthew 6:9-13].
2024-06-03 Expectation of Healing Through Prayer: How do I answer a skeptic about why not all are healed when they are prayed for? [2 Corinthians 12:7].
2024-05-27 Trying Times: Callers asks for prayer in a trying time.
2024-05-21 Praying Together: What did it look like when the people in the Bible prayed together? [Acts 1:14-26, Acts 4:24, Acts 12:12].
2024-04-25 Church in San Diego: Can you recommend the church you liked in San Diego?
Expectations in Prayer: What should my disposition in prayer be? When I prayed for the healing of my son, he passed. [Matthew 7:7-11, Psalm 34:10, Psalm 84:11].
2024-03-29 "Grace is Sufficient for You": Do you think that Paul hear God's voice audibly when He said "My grace is sufficient for you." [2 Corinthians 12:9].
Prayer-How Long and Often?: How long and often should we continue to pray for something if it appears unanswered? [Luke 18:1ff, Matthew 7:7-8, 1 Thessalonians 5:17].
2024-02-22 Specific Times of Day to Pray: What about the "eight prayer watches" and what does scripture say about specific times to pray? [Luke 12:38, Ezekiel 33:6, Matthew 26:40-45].
2024-02-21 Miracles & Answered Prayer Today: How does God determine what miracles to perform today and which prayers to answer?
2024-02-16 God Saving Our Friends: Is this a promise indicating that if I am praying for my friends, I can be confident that He will save them? [1 John 5:16].
2024-02-14 Jesus' Prayer in Gethsemane: What was Jesus asking in prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane? [Matthew 26:41].
Jesus Didn't Drink Wine: What would you say in rebuttal to a claim that Jesus did not drink wine? [1 Timothy 5:23].
John the Baptist, a Wine-Free Nazarite: Did John the Baptist avoid drinking wine because he was a Nazarite? [Matthew 11:18-19].
2024-01-09 Unanswered Prayer: I assume you have been praying for your children to come to the Lord for the past 40 years, how do you reconcile this unanswered prayer? [Luke 18:1-8, Daniel 9:23].
2023-12-15 Praying "In Jesus Name": Why do we pray "in Jesus Name?"
2023-10-13 About Prayer: What is the context of the passage about prayer in 1 John 5? Why is this being addressed here? [1 John 5:14-21, Psalm 84:11, Revelation 2:10].
Dispensationalism's Popularity: Why do you think that so many people embrace John Nelson Darby's Dispensationalism when it arose so late (1830)?
Premillennial View (Eschatology): Is there a simple way to understand the different views surrounding Dispensationalism, the pre-trib rapture, and the millennium?
2023-10-11 Prayers From Hell: Can God hear people's prayers from hell?
2023-10-09 Prayer of Jabez: In the Prayer of Jabez, what does "enlarge my territory" mean? [1 Chronicles 4:10-11].
2023-10-09 Pray to Whom?: To whom are we to pray? [John 10:30, Hebrews 9:11-15, Ephesians 6:18, John 16:23, John 16:26, Matthew 6:9-13, Acts 4:24, Ephesians 3:14, Acts 7:59, Revelation 22:20].
2023-09-15 "Novo" Organization & "Divine Counsel": What do you think about an organization that is drawing its doctrine from rather unestablished & presumptuous material like the "divine counsel"("Unseen Realm" by Michael Heiser, Bible Project). [Genesis 6, Deuteronomy 32:6, Psalm 82].
Power from the Spiritual Realm: What do we need to know from scripture about how to pray effectively and powerfully? Do we need to claim authority to make our prayers work (as with healing, and authority over demons)?
2023-09-13 Prayer-"If it is Your Will": If we end our prayers with "if it is Your will," are we being fatalistic (showing a lack of faith)? [1 John 5:14, James 4:2].
Why Circumcision?: Why did God institute circumcision, rather than something that both men and women could exhibit as a sign of His covenant (such as piercing)? Is this a slight to women?
2023-09-01 Praying for Jerusalem: What did it mean to you "to pray for Jerusalem" as opposed to how you see that now, as a non-Dispensationalist? [Acts 7:48, Acts 17:24, Deuteronomy 12:4ff, Matthew 23:38, Ezekiel 8-11, Zechariah 1:16, Exodus 3:5, Psalm 122:6, Hebrews 12:23, Romans 7:1-4].
2023-09-01 Divorced Father Fears for Children: Why doesn't God answer my prayers for protection for my children, who are under some dangerous influences from my ex-wife? [Matthew 6:32].
2023-08-17 Judgment on Our Nation: How does the verse "if my people will number themselves ... I will heal their land" apply to us today? [2 Chronicles 7:14, 1 Peter 2:4, Philippians 3:20-21, Jeremiah 29, 2 Corinthians 5:20].
2023-08-04 Judging & Judging Others: Are the scriptures about "not judging" without exception? What are the parameters? [Matthew 7, 1 Corinthians 14:29, John 7:24, Matthew 7:3-5].
"Ask and it Will be Given": If we ask anything in Jesus' name, are there certain limits? [Luke 11:9-13, Matthew 7:9-11, John 14:13-17, Psalm 34:10, Psalm 84:11].
2023-08-03 Needing Specifics for Prayer: Is it biblical for someone to require specifics if they will be praying for you?
"Fire Prayers": Do you know about the book "Fire Prayers?"
2023-08-03 Needing Specifics for Prayer: Is it biblical for someone to require specifics if they will be praying for you?
"Fire Prayers": Do you know about the book "Fire Prayers?"
2023-08-01 Fasting & Unanswered Prayer: Is it a sin not to fast? Could it be why one's prayers are not answered? [Matthew 6:16-18, Mark 2:19, Matthew 9:14-15].
2023-07-26 "Forgive Them, For They Know Not What They Do:" What is the implication of Jesus saying, "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do?" Does this mean forgiven unto salvation?
2023-07-21 Prayer of a "Christian Energy Healer": Is a "Christian Energy Healer" compatible with the Bible? [Acts 19:13].
Prayers by Non-believers: How do we know who is being prayed to, when someone prays for us?
2023-07-21 Prayer of a "Christian Energy Healer": Is a "Christian Energy Healer" compatible with the Bible? [Acts 19:13].
Prayers by Non-believers: How do we know who is being prayed to, when someone prays for us?
2023-07-12 Grieving Lost Sister: Caller asks the audience for prayer. Rec: Topical lecture: "Making Sense of Suffering."
2023-07-03 Praying Better (More and Longer): If you want to pray more and longer, what do you say for more than about ten minutes? [Isaiah 42:1-4, 1 Corinthians 14, Matthew 6:7-8].
2023-06-27 "Called on the Name of the Lord:" What does it mean to "call on the name of the Lord?" [Genesis 26:33, 1 Corinthians 1:2].
2023-06-22 Fasting: What makes fasting effective? Caller also requests prayer from listeners. [Matthew 6:16-18, Matthew 9:15, Isaiah 58:6-10, Matthew 17:21, James 5:16, 1 Corinthians 7:5].
2023-06-16 The Lord's Prayer (Forgiveness): If the Lord's Prayer is a kind of blueprint to pray, should we be asking daily not only for our daily food but for forgiveness, and daily forgive others? [James 3:2, 1 Corinthians 4:4, 1 John 2:1]
2023-05-22 Praying for the Unsaved: How should we be praying for the unsaved, but not force it upon them? [Luke 13:34, Isaiah 5:4, Isaiah 66:4, Acts 26:19, James 4:3, Acts 2:37, Acts 7:54].
2023-05-18 Praying in Public Rather Than a Closet: How can you respond to evangelists praying in public, rather than in a closet as Jesus said? [Matthew 6:6, John 17].
2023-05-08 Origen's View of Hell: I disagree with the way you present Origen’s view of Hell: Universal Reconciliation. [Philippians 2:11].
Jesus Praying for the Disciples: Is Jesus' prayer still applicable to us the way it was for the disciples in John 17? [John 17:6-19].
2023-05-05 Anti-faith Statements in Prayer: Would you comment on compromising "anti-faith" statements that often follow a prayer, such as, when one requests healing, and follows with the qualification of "if it is God's will?" [2 Corinthians 12:9, 2 Corinthians 12:7, James 5:15, John 6:40, 1 John 5:14].
2023-05-02 Love your Enemies: Don't you think that scripture requires us to learn to love our enemies? [Job 42:9-10, Galatians 5:14, Psalm 82:6, Philippians 2:3-4, Luke 6:35, Romans 12:10].
2023-04-27 Holy Spirit's Intercession in Prayer: How does the Holy Spirit intercede for us in prayer and in our groans, as described in Romans 8? [Romans 8:26-27, John 16:27, 1 John 5:14, Acts 2:4].
Praying to the Holy Spirit: Should we pray directly to the Father, rather than the Holy Spirit?
2023-04-25 Wisdom Literature; Prayers & Psalms: Can one use wisdom literature and the Psalms as prayers and though not necessarily so, also instructive? [Psalm 23, Acts 2:30].
Praise & Worship: Shouldn't praise and worship be more about the greatness of God rather than His making a way for us? [Psalm 103, Exodus 15, Isaiah 29:13].
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