The Nugget:
Joh 16:24 Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
My Comment:
This is an encouraging prayer promise. It is a good verse to memorize. There are many prayer promises in the Bible. You probably cannot use a concordance to find them. You can track some of them down using cross reference Bible study. A topical Bible like Nave’s Topical Bible, or Nave’s Study Bible, or the Thompson Chain Reference Bible are other good sources to search the Scriptures to find more prayer promises to claim. Of course, I am prejudiced in favor of my own book, The New Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, which has seven indexes at the back. The Topic Number Index will likely lead you to as much as there is to find in the Bible on this subject. In the Topic Number Index, check out Topic Number 879, linked to Jeremiah 33:3, as a starter. See also the Subject Index entry, “Prayer, appeal to promise in.” In fact, this would make a good subject for me to study out further, for I know there is much more in the Bible about this than I have made reference to in any of my indexes!
For those who desire to DIG DEEPER into this subject:
(1) Consult the cross references given in Nelson’s Cross Reference Guide to the Bible on page 1201 for John 16:24.
(2) Consult the cross references given in The New Treasury of Scripture Knowledge on page 1220 or in Logos 5 Bible software for John 16:24.
(3) Lacking access to those two resources, consult the cross references for this passage as I have developed them as given below:
John 16:24. Hitherto. or, Until now. have ye asked nothing. Est 7:2. Jb 21:15. in my name. Jn +1:12. Ge 32:9. 1 K 18:36. 2 K 19:15. Da 9:17. Mt 6:9. Ep 1:16, 17. 1 Th 3:11-13. 2 Th 1:2. 2:16, 17. He *7:25. 13:21. ask. ver. +23. Jn 15:16. Mt 6:5. *+7:7, 8. +**17:20. Nu +*20:8. 2 K 2:10. 4:3. Ps 72:15. *81:10. 116:1. SS 8:13. Lk +*11:9. Ja 1:5. **4:2, 3. 1 J **3:22, 23. +*5:14. and ye shall receive. Jn +*1:16. Ps +**99:6. 145:19. Pr 10:24. Ec 2:26. Mt 21:22. Ac 4:31. 8:15. that your joy. ver. 23. Jn +15:11. 17:13. 1 S 1:18. Ps 132:16. Ac 13:52. Ph 1:26. 2 T 1:4. 1 P *1:8. 1 J 1:3, 4. 2 J 12.
jn 14-16 are 3 great chapters in the gospel of john. 16.24 hitherto have ye asked
nothing in my name; ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
several verses in these chapters on prayer and encouraging to pray. i will share
some of my favorite ones.
1. what a friend we have in jesus,
all our sins griefs to bear!
what privilege to carry every
thing to god in prayer!
2. jn 14.1 let not your heart be troubled;
ye believe in god, believe also in me.
3. jn 14.6 jesus saith unto him, i am the way,
the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto
the father but by me.
4. jn 14.13 and whatsoever ye shall ask in my name,
that will i do, that the father may be glorified in the son.
vs 14 if ye shall ask any thing in my name, i will do it.
5. jn 15.5 i am the vine, ye are the branches; he that
abideth in me, and i in him, the same bringeth forth much
fruit; for without me ye can do nothing.
6. jn 15.7 if ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye
shall ask what ye will and it shall be done unto you.
7. jn 15.16 ye have not chosen me, but i have chosen you,
and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit,
and that your fruit should remain; that whatsoever ye shall
ask of the father in my name, he may give it you.
8. jn 16.13 howbeit when he, the spirit of truth, is come, he
will guide you into all truth; for he shall not speak of himself
but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak; and he will
shew you things to come. vs 14 he shall glorify me; for he shall
receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
9. jn 16.22 and ye now therefore have sorrow, but i will see you
again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh
from you.
10. jn 16.26 at that day ye shall ask in my name: and i say not
unto you, that i will pray the father for you:
11. jn 16.33 these things ye might have spoken unto you, that in
me ye might have peace. in the world ye shall have tribulation;
but be of good cheer, i have overcome the world.
12. oh what peace we often forfeit, o what needless pain
we bear, all because we do not carry, everything to god in prayer.