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1681 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Thunder.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… ). In answer to Samuel’s prayer ( 1 Samuel 12:17, 1 Samuel 12:18 ), God sent thunder, and “all the people greatly feared,” for at such a season (the wheat-harvest) thunder …
1682 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Apocalyptic Literature, 1.21
… not to the Messiah’s coming, but to the last judgment. In answer to the declaration of Moses as to his approaching death, Joshua rends his garments and breaks …
1683 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Apocryphal Gospels.49
… an answer to her prayers and announces that after three days she shall go to the heavenly places to her Son, into true and everlasting life. Apostles from their …
1684 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Discrepancies, Biblical.6
… - 5 ("Answer not a fool," and "Answer a fool according to his folly"), or instances of merely formal contrariety of expression, where the things intended are manifestly …
1685 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. God, 3.31
… carrying to completion. He is Lord of heaven and earth ( Matthew 11:25 ). The forces of Nature are at His command ( Matthew 5:45; 6:30 ). He can answer every prayer and satisfy …
1686 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Images.23
… testifies to faith in the supernatural being represented by the image and to a desire to keep the object of worship near. Prayer is easier when the worshipper …
1687 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Importunity.2
… God answer the earnest prayer of His people. God’s willingness to give exceeds our ability to ask. The parable teaches by way of contrast, not by parallel.
1688 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Intercession.36
… , all prayer necessarily takes a new form from its relation to our Lord, and in this intercessory prayer shares. At the outset, Christ teaches prayer on behalf …
1689 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Intercession.37
… the answer to prayer in the name of Christ is very definite ( John 16:24 ). Christ’s high-priestly prayer is the sublimest height of prayer to God and is intercessory …
1690 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Lord's Prayer, The.12
… Lord’s Prayer was given as a lesson in prayer. As such this simple model surpasses all precepts about prayer. It suggests to the child of God the proper objects …
1691 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Providence, 1.58
… a prayer-hearing and prayer-answering God, a Being so full of tender mercy and loving-kindness that we cannot fail to identify Him with the God whom Christ …
1692 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Providence, 2.7
… us to answer our own prayers, to become and be what we are praying to be. If the Divine Being is a prayer-hearing God, He is least not a prayer-answering God. The laws …
1693 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Providence, 2.19
… will answer such prayers in so far as He deems best; yet the Scriptures encourage us to make spiritual blessings the main object of our prayers. "Seek ye first …
1694 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Samson.25
… beautiful prayers in the Old Testament is that of Manoah for guidance in the training of his yet unborn child ( Judges 13:8 ). Whatever our estimate of his personality …
1695 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Worship.26
… significant to God and man as the clack of a Thibetan prayer-mill. The texts cited also make of worship something far deeper than the human emotion or surrender …
1696 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Miracles.2 (William Smith)
… traced to the agency of man (including prayer under the term agency), and unless it be put forth as a proof of divine mission. Prodigies and special providences …
1697 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Thieves The two.2 (William Smith)
… him now the most terrible of all punishments; to take part in the triumph of his return, the most blessed of all hopes. The yearning prayer was answered, not …
1698 Thayer’s Greek Lexicon, p. ἐπιούσιος.2
… , admirably answer to each other, and that state of mind is portrayed which, piously contented with food sufficing from one day to the next, in praying to God …
1699 365 Days in the Gospels and Spirit of Prophecy, p. 42.9 (Ellen G. White Estate)
… our duties, assured that the blessing will be realized when we need it most. When we have learned to do this, we shall know that our prayers are answered. God will …
1700 365 Days in the Gospels and Spirit of Prophecy, p. 50.25 (Ellen G. White Estate)
… , the answer to our prayer may be delayed, or God may give us something other than we ask, but not so when we ask for deliverance from sin. It is His will to cleanse …