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Mark 11:24

马可福音 11:24

The Passage

Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.

In the other language

所以我告诉你们，凡你们祷告祈求的，无论是甚么，只要信是得着的，就必得着。

Theme

Believe you receive

Bring a question to this passage

Many readers arrive here from a real question. These are reflections for how this passage speaks to the questions people bring most often — not an answer about what will happen, but an invitation to sit with it slowly.

How do I face this season of pressure at work?

Prayer is at the center of this saying: asking and believing, rather than holding every need inside yourself. This passage does not settle which workplace decision you should make, but it invites you to approach God with trust rather than treating prayer as empty speech. Its strong language is not a formula for securing a promotion, a lighter workload, or agreement from others. You can name those hopes without claiming to know their outcome. Under pressure, even admitting what you need can be difficult. There is room to ask plainly, without polishing your request into something more impressive. This passage does not tell you how to manage that pressure. What in your work feels hardest to carry, and what would it mean to bring that need to God with trust?

Carry thisYou can bring your needs to God without polished words.

Other passages for this questionGenesis 1:26-28 · Isaiah 41:10 · 2 Corinthians 10:2-6

I want to learn to love better in this relationship.

Learning to love someone better can leave you aware of how much you cannot manage by effort alone. This passage does not directly teach relationship skills, but it invites you to bring what you need into prayer with trust. You can ask for patience, courage to listen, and willingness to recognize your own part in a difficult pattern. Believing in prayer does not mean assuming you can control another person's response or secure the outcome you want. Let your asking make room for receiving help and taking one loving, honest step. Prayer is a place to bring your desire to love—what would you like to ask for without deciding how the answer must look?

Carry thisPrayer has room for longing without possession or control.

Other passages for this questionGenesis 1:26-28 · Isaiah 41:10 · 2 Corinthians 10:2-6

What do I need to let go of in the coming weeks?

Prayer here includes asking and receiving, not only rehearsing what you lack. Jesus speaks strongly about trusting as you pray. This verse does not tell you which responsibility or relationship to release, but it invites reflection on how tightly you hold what you ask for. You may notice that prayer has become another way to keep watch over an outcome, as though constant vigilance could secure it. The passage is not a forecast for your coming weeks or a formula for getting your way. It invites trust within the act of asking. Which part of your asking feels hardest to entrust to God, knowing this verse does not identify what you should let go of but invites trust as you pray?

Carry thisYou can ask honestly without making prayer another form of control.

Other passages for this questionGenesis 1:26-28 · Isaiah 41:10 · 2 Corinthians 10:2-6

How can I find stillness in a busy life?

Stillness is not directly addressed here, but Jesus invites you to bring your needs to God with trust. In a busy life, prayer can become one more thing you feel obliged to complete. These words invite a different posture: asking without trying to control every outcome. Believing you have received does not require you to manufacture certainty or pretend your worries have disappeared. You can pause, name what you need, and let the request rest with God. Perhaps stillness begins in that small release, even while the day remains unfinished. Prayer is a place to entrust what you cannot hold alone, so what might you bring to God without immediately taking it back?

Carry thisAn honest request belongs in a moment of quiet.

Other passages for this questionGenesis 1:26-28 · Isaiah 41:10 · 2 Corinthians 10:2-6

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Mark 11 — in context

18The chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching.

19When evening came, he went out of the city.

20As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away from the roots.

21Peter, remembering, said to him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree which you cursed has withered away.”

22Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God.

23For most certainly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and doesn’t doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening; he shall have whatever he says.

24Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.

25Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.

26But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your transgressions.”

27They came again to Jerusalem, and as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders came to him,

28and they began saying to him, “By what authority do you do these things? Or who gave you this authority to do these things?”

29Jesus said to them, “I will ask you one question. Answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.

30The baptism of John—was it from heaven, or from men? Answer me.”

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