Ever wondered if there is any limit on what we can ask for when we pray? Look at this brief look at what people in the OT asked for and got!

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I was thinking about prayer and challenged about the promises that Jesus gives about answered prayer so I decided to write this song to remind me of all the things that people received by their prayers in the Old Testament. If they could do it, why can't I. God hasn't changed.

If you believe, then you will receive,
whatever you ask for when you pray.
If you believe, then you will receive,
whatever you ask for when you pray.

Will you ask for salvation just like Moses,
When God had said he'd rather start again?
Will you ask to be fruitful like Hannah,
After years of waiting and shame?
Hezekiah begged God for mercy,
and he lived for fifteen more years,
and Jacob wrestled with an angel all night
And he was delivered from all of his many fears.

Chorus

Ezra and other leaders sought repentance
that God's name be honoured in Israel
Solomon asked for wisdom
to govern and to judge between good and evil
Joshua asked that the sun stop
so that he could finish the job
Elijah prayed for the fire to fall then rain
to show who had authority to Ahab

Chorus three times