This is the confidence you have in approaching God: that if you ask for anything according to his will, he hears you. Submit yourself, then, to God; come near to him and he will come near to you. Do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is, that you turn away from your own will which, being of the flesh, always leads you astray. Conquer your will.
Jesus answered, If people love me, they will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. John 14:23
So do not be foolish but learn what the Lord wants you to do. Ephesians 5:17
Those things were important to me, but now I think they are worth nothing because of Christ. Not only those things, but I think that all things are worth nothing compared with the greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. Because of him, I have lost all those things, and now I know they are worthless trash. This allows me to have Christ and to belong to him. Now I am right with God, not because I followed the law, but because I believed in Christ. God uses my faith to make me right with him. Philippians 3:7-9
So give yourselves completely to God. Stand against the devil, and the devil will run from you. Come near to God, and God will come near to you. You sinners, clean sin out of your lives. You who are trying to follow God and the world at the same time, make your thinking pure. James 4:7-8
And this is the boldness we have in God’s presence: that if we ask God for anything that agrees with what he wants, he hears us. 1 John 5:14
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