Luke 15:18-20
18I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, aI have sinned against bheaven and before you. 19 cI am no longer worthy to be called your son. Treat me as one of your hired servants.”’ 20And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and dran and eembraced him and fkissed him.Acts 4:31
31And when they had prayed, gthe place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and hthey were all filled with the Holy Spirit and icontinued to speak the word of God with boldness.Acts 10:30-32
30And Cornelius said, j“Four days ago, about this hour, I was praying in my house at kthe ninth hour, ▼▼That is, 3 p.m.
and behold, ma man stood before me in bright clothing 31and said, ‘Cornelius, nyour prayer has been heard and your alms have been remembered before God. 32Send therefore to Joppa and ask for Simon who is called Peter. He is lodging in the house of Simon, a tanner, by the sea.’ Acts 12:5-16
5So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest oprayer for him was made to God by the church.Peter Is Rescued
6Now when Herod was about to bring him out, on that very night, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, pbound with two chains, and sentries before the door were guarding the prison. 7And behold, qan angel of the Lord rstood next to him, and a light shone in the cell. sHe struck Peter on the side and woke him, saying, “Get up quickly.” And tthe chains fell off his hands. 8And the angel said to him, “Dress yourself and uput on your sandals.” And he did so. And he said to him, “Wrap your cloak around you and follow me.” 9And he went out and followed him. He did not know that what was being done by the angel was real, but vthought he was seeing a vision. 10When they had passed the first and the second guard, they came to the iron gate leading into the city. wIt opened for them of its own accord, and they went out and went along one street, and immediately the angel left him. 11When Peter xcame to himself, he said, “Now I am sure that ythe Lord has sent his angel and zrescued me from the hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting.”12When he realized this, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of aaJohn whose other name was Mark, where many were gathered together and abwere praying. 13And when he knocked at the door of the gateway, aca servant girl named Rhoda came to answer. 14Recognizing Peter’s voice, adin her joy she did not open the gate but ran in and reported that Peter was standing at the gate. 15They said to her, “You are out of your mind.” But she kept insisting that it was so, and they kept saying, “It is aehis angel!” 16But Peter continued knocking, and when they opened, they saw him and were amazed.
1 John 5:14-15
14And this is afthe confidence that we have toward him, that agif we ask anything according to his will he hears us. 15And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.
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