Searching for Answered Prayers
Does anyone know a way to do a Bible search for all of the prayers that were answered in Scripture? Or is there a resource that gives the list of answered prayers in the Bible? Thanks.
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I don't know of such a resource in Logos, and neither a search of "answered prayers" NEAR Bible nor a search for "answered prayers" NEAR Scripture (I don't know how to combine those two into one search) turned up with anything useful.
But I did find this list on a website:
https://www.eternalwall.org.uk/scriptures/testimonies-in-scripture
And here is a more complete list of prayers in the Bible. You could look these all up and find out if they were answered:
https://4prayertoday.com/prayers-in-the-bible/
It would be a great idea for an Interactive resource. I've proposed that on the Logos feedback board. You might want to go there and vote for it. You have to create a login (can use same login as your Logos one) to vote there, and then to vote, you click the up caret next to any suggestion you want to vote for. The number of votes should increment by one and the up arrow will turn green, indicating you have already voted for it:
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It would be a great idea for an Interactive resource. I've proposed that on the Logos feedback board.
I won't expand upon this comment because even making it stretches the "no theology" guideline, but I can't conceive of a thing existing that is an "unanswered prayer"
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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It would be a great idea for an Interactive resource. I've proposed that on the Logos feedback board.
I won't expand upon this comment because even making it stretches the "no theology" guideline, but I can't conceive of a thing existing that is an "unanswered prayer"
I can't either. My prayer life is much different from this. I was just trying to answer the question that was asked, and remember back to my days when I kept a prayer journal and checked off prayers once they were "answered"; because that's how I thought of prayer back then: You pray for someone to be healed, and they are healed; that is an answered prayer. You pray for guidance on whether to choose one thing or another, and the silence from heaven is deafening for years. That is an "unanswered prayer". To me, at the time, prayer was a transactional thing. You ask for something from God. God might "answer" that prayer by granting your request, or the answer might be a definitive "no" or it might be a long time of waiting without knowing. In any event, prayer is much wider than that, as I now understand. But I try to put myself into the mindset of the person asking the question on the forum rather than expect them to conform to mine. The fact that there is a website with a list of "answered prayers in Scripture" tells me that there is an adequate answer to the person who was asking, and I was of a mind to give them that answer, not leave them with an "unanswered question" [;)]
And sorry for expanding on the theology, but you kind of prompted it.
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Thanks Rosie. My experience with my childhood Church of Christ was much more "you present your worries and fears and joys and ... and God in His infinite wisdom gives you what is best".
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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Thanks Rosie. My experience with my childhood Church of Christ was much more "you present your worries and fears and joys and ... and God in His infinite wisdom gives you what is best".
There are so many different understandings of prayer. I like Mother Teresa's, when she was being interviewed by CBS anchor Dan Rather. He asked her, "When you pray, what do you say to God?" She answered, "I don't say anything. I listen." Dan tried another question, "Well then, what does God say?" Mother Teresa smiled with confidence and answered, "He listens." There was a fairly long pause, after which Mother Teresa added, "And if you don't understand that, I can't explain it to you."
There's certainly no way there can be an "answer" to that kind of prayer. But there are dozens of others kinds of prayer too. There's a wonderful book called Paths to Prayer: Finding Your Own Way to the Presence of God by Patricia D. Brown that describes 40 different kinds of prayer, including Lectio Divina, Breath Prayer, The Daily Office, Prayer Walks, Praying with Icons, Ignatian Prayer, etc. This is way beyond the scope of the OP's question. But just to show that our own understanding of prayer from now or our childhood might not be the same as someone else's, and that might explain why we "can't conceive" of how they envision prayer.
Anyway, I do commend to you this list of prayers answered in Scripture for an example of what I think Jason was asking for.
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I wasn’t looking for a theological diatribe in prayer. i Was asking a software issue about using logos to find places where prayers were asked and then the answer was specifically recorded for us in the Scriptures. There are several i can mention off hand and create a list but I was looking for a way to search for it. Thank you for your replies.
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but I was looking for a way to search for it.
sense:"to answer (prayer)" provides some interesting results
But I think there should be more.
Were there some specific examples you had in mind?
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Does anyone know a way to do a Bible search for all of the prayers that were answered in Scripture?
There is no direct way in Logos. You can find Prayers with label:(prayer AND content:Petition) OR culture:Prayer** but it omits "prayers" like Gen 15:2-3 because it is interpreted as a Question or a Complaint.
Some answers follow directly from the prayer, but how do you choose an answer to a prayer like Ps 28:1-2; 143:1-2? You may get answers via cross-references, but this can be tedious as you would have to include many bibles in the search.
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** perform it as a Books search to get a better idea of the number of prayers, as Verses is misleading.
Dave
===Windows 11 & Android 13
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I think Dake's Topics might have what you are looking for.
Dake, Finis Jennings. Dake’s Topics. WORDsearch, 1991.
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Thanks everyone for your helpful information and search suggestions. I just went through Camp Logos again and thought there might be a way to find this information with their new tagging system. I will look into what you have given here. Keep 'em coming.
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I wasn’t looking for a theological diatribe in prayer.
My apologies. The point that I was initially trying to make was:
- you were assuming that all answered prayers had their answers recorded as such in the Bible - so you were looking only for prayers with explicitly stated answers in the Bible
- you were assuming that FL coding of such prayer/answer pairs was reliable when they include several caveats in the Speaking to God interactive.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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God is the greatest phycologist ever. He listens to any problems any person might have. [8-|]
xn = Christan man=man -- Acts 11:26 "....and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch".
Barney Fife is my hero! He only uses an abacus with 14 rows!
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A Logos resource which lists a great many of the stated answers to prayer in the Bible is my book, The New Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, in the notes provided at Psalm 99:6.
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The New Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, in the notes provided at Psalm 99:6.
“The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others and no one thinks about reforming himself.” St. Peter of Alcántara
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A Logos resource which lists a great many of the stated answers to prayer in the Bible is my book, The New Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, in the notes provided at Psalm 99:6.
Prayers answered, examples of: Moses, Ex 14:15, 16. 15:25. 17:4-6. Nu 11:11-17. Abraham, Ge ch. 15. Abraham’s servant, Ge 24:12-21. Isaac, Ge 25:21. Jacob, Ge ch. 32. Ho 12:3, 4. Israelites, Ex 2:23-25. 14:10. Jg 3:9, 15. 4:3, 23. 6:7-14. 10:10, 15, 16. 1 S 12:10, 11. 2 Ch 15:4, 15. Ne 9:27. Ps 106:15. Gideon, Jg 6:36-40. Manoah, Jg 13:8, 9. Samson, Jg 15:18, 19. 16:28-30. Hannah, 1 S 1:10-17. David, 1 S 23:10-12. Ps +*27:7. Solomon, 1 K 3:1-13. 9:2, 3. Jabez, 1 Ch *4:10. Abijah’s army, 2 Ch 13:14-18. Asa, 2 Ch 14:11-15. 2 Ch 15:15. Elijah, 1 K 18:36-38. Elisha, 2 K 6:18, 20. Jehoshaphat, 2 Ch 18:31. 2 Ch *20:6-27. Jehoahaz, 2 K 13:4. Levites, 2 Ch 30:27. Hezekiah and Isaiah, 2 K 19:14-20. 2 Ch 32:20, 21, 24. 2 K *20:1-6, 10, 11. Manasseh, 2 Ch 33:13, 19. Reubenites, etc., 1 Ch 5:20. Jews, Ezr 8:21, 23. Zc 7:1-4. Daniel, Da *9:20-23. 10:12. Zacharias, Lk 1:13. Ananias, Ac 10:4.
Jerome H. Smith, The New Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: The Most Complete Listing of Cross References Available Anywhere- Every Verse, Every Theme, Every Important Word (Nashville TN: Thomas Nelson, 1992), 656.
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Guess if you're looking for resources of prayers... and maybe search them....
-- All the prayers in the Bible - R.C. Sproul
-- All the prayers in the Bible - Jimmy Parks
-- All the prayers in the Bible - Herbert Lockyer
And I am sure there are others....
xn = Christan man=man -- Acts 11:26 "....and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch".
Barney Fife is my hero! He only uses an abacus with 14 rows!
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