Searching for 'God answers prayer'

John Goodman

I'm wondering if there is an easy way to search for every time the Bible says God answers prayer, has heard prayer etc?

Is there a way to divide these between specific prayers answered and references to this in general?

It seems like a complicated thing to do with the search feature, is there a dataset or resource which can do this?

MJ. Smith

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Simon’s Brother

What is needed is ‘All the prayers Answered by God in the Bible‘ dataset.

The difficulty with a search is that it will not always be worded in a consistent manner to run a search. The fact that God answered a prayer will be ‘alluded’ to at times. 

I'm wondering if there is an easy way to search for every time the Bible says God answers prayer, has heard prayer etc?

Is there a way to divide these between specific prayers answered and references to this in general?

It seems like a complicated thing to do with the search feature, is there a dataset or resource which can do this?

John Goodman

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1185817#Comment_1185817

So there is an all the prayers in the Bible dataset... I guess that is a great starting point.

Dave Hooton

I'm wondering if there is an easy way to search for every time the Bible says God answers prayer, has heard prayer etc?

I started with  <Person God> BEFORE 18 WORDS (answer*, hear*,grant*) BEFORE 2 Words (prayer,petition)

Is there a way to divide these between specific prayers answered and references to this in general?

That's the hard part. You could correlate the results with "All the Prayers in the Bible" (Commentary)  e.g. For 1 Kings 9.3 (Solomon) type 1 Kings 8-9 into the commentary and you get his prayer of dedication in ! Kings 8.. For Is 38:5 type Is 37-38.  For Psalms/Proverbs type the chapter in the commentary, If you don't get a match, the reference to prayer is a general one.

John Goodman

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1185893#Comment_1185893

I got this far: {Label Prayer WHERE Content ~ "Petition"}

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1185895#Comment_1185895

I got this far: {Label Prayer WHERE Content ~ "Petition"}

That goes with the APB Commentary I mentioned above, and has many prayers that are implicit (not in my search), but my search has some extra results that vary between specific and general.

Floyd Johnson

You might start with this resource:  

ALL THE PRAYERS IN THE BIBLE by Jimmy Parks. 

https://www.logos.com/product/197466/all-the-prayers-in-the-bible.