Because you have prayed to me

1. Because you have prayed to me Isaiah 37:21-38

2. Because you have prayed to meIs37:21-38 • God Accomplishes His Promises to You through Your Prayers (21-22)

3. 7 “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. 9 “Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? 11 If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! （Mt 7:7-11）

4. “You do not have because you do not ask God.”（James 4:2）

5. “8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”（1 Jn1:8-9）

6. “o 4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. 5 Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; 6 do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. ”（Philippians 4:4-7）

7. “2 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, 3 for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. 4 And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. 5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. 6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. 7 For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; 8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.”（James 1:2-8）

8. Because you have prayed to meIs37:21-38 • God Accomplishes His Promises to You through Your Prayers (21-22) • God answers your prayers so that His Holy Name be honoured (23-25)

9. “I will defend this city and save it, for my sake and for the sake of David my servant!”（35）

10. “He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.”（Ps 23:3）

11. “Yet he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make known his mighty power. ”（Ps106:8）

12. 9 “For my name’s sake I defer my anger, for the sake of my praise I restrain it for you, that I may not cut you off. 10 Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tried you in the furnace of affliction. 11 For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it, for how should my name be profaned? My glory I will not give to another. (Is 48:9-11)

13. 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love 5 he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, 6 to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.

14. 7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, 8 which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight 9 making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ 10 as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth. 11 In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, 12 so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory.

15. 13 In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, 14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory. (Eph 1:3-14)

16. it’s not about you. You are made by God and for God – and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

17. “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name”（Mt 6:9）

18. “Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather and deliver us from among the nations, that we may give thanks to your holy name and glory in your praise.”（1 Chro16:35）

19. “So now, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone are the LORD.”（20）

20. 「Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? But for this purpose I have come to this hour. 28 Father, glorify your name.」（John 12:27-28）

21. Because you have prayed to meIs37:21-38 • God Accomplishes His Promises to You through Your Prayers (21-22) • God answers your prayers so that His Holy Name be honoured (23-25) • When God answers your prayer he accomplishes what he has foreordained (26-29)

22. “Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. ”（Mal 3:1 ）

23. “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John. ”（Lk 1:13）

24. “5 “Woe to the Assyrian, the rod of my anger, in whose hand is the club of my wrath! 6 I send him against a godless nation, I dispatch him against a people who anger me, to seize loot and snatch plunder, and to trample them down like mud in the streets. ” （Is10:5-6）

25. 24 The LORD of hosts has sworn: “As I have planned, so shall it be, and as I have purposed, so shall it stand, 25 that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and on my mountains trample him underfoot; and his yoke shall depart from them, and his burden from their shoulder.”

26. 26 This is the purpose that is purposed concerning the whole earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations. 27 For the LORD of hosts has purposed, and who will annul it? His hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back? (Is 14:24-27)

27. Because you have prayed to meIs37:21-38 • God Accomplishes His Promises to You through Your Prayers (21-22) • God answers your prayers so that His Holy Name be honoured (23-25) • When God answers your prayer he accomplishes what he has foreordained (26-29) • When we pray, God wants us to be assured of His Faithfulness (30-38)