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108 Bible Verses about Asking for Help
You know, it's tough sometimes to ask for help, even when things are really piling up and you just don't know what to do. It's easy to try to go it alone, to wear yourself out physically and emotionally, all because you don't want to bother anyone or be judged. We build up these walls to protect ourselves, forgetting that there are people around us who genuinely want to help, and ultimately, we forget Jesus. He offers true love, never condemns, and has solutions for everything we face.
If there's anyone you should never hesitate to reach out to, it's God. He's right there with you, your rock, holding your hand and saying, "Don't be afraid, I'm here to help." He wants you to trust completely that in His hands, you'll find peace. Open your heart to Him. Tell Him everything that's going on, the good, the bad, the painful. Let it all out. Cry if you need to. Let His love heal you and lift you up.
Asking the right person for help isn't a bad thing. Jesus won't shame you or broadcast your struggles. He wants you to empty yourself, to get it all off your chest, and be free from anything that's holding you back. In every situation, He wants to work in your life and for you to share His goodness and the amazing things He does.
God loves you and cares for you like you wouldn't believe. He cares about your family, your finances, your health, everything. Remember His promise in Isaiah 41:10 (NIV): "So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand." Notice, it doesn't say He *might* help you sometime. It says He *will* always help you. You just need to ask, trusting that He hears you and He answers.
Right here, right now, receive God's peace and the confidence to come before Him without fear. Lay it all out. Your help comes from the Creator of heaven and earth, who is good and whose mercies are new every morning.
I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, From whence cometh my help.
My help cometh from the LORD, Which made heaven and earth.
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: And there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
but they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
Without counsel purposes are disappointed: But in the multitude of counsellors they are established.
Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
Whither shall I go from thy spirit? Or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: If I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
If I take the wings of the morning, And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
Even there shall thy hand lead me, And thy right hand shall hold me.
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; Thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;
Hear my cry, O God; Attend unto my prayer.
From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, When my heart is overwhelmed: Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; And lean not unto thine own understanding.
In all thy ways acknowledge him, And he shall direct thy paths.
I waited patiently for the LORD; And he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, And set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes.
I cried unto thee; save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies.
For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
Shew me thy ways, O LORD; Teach me thy paths.
Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: For thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.
and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, And strengthenedst me with strength in my soul.
But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Unless the LORD had been my help, My soul had almost dwelt in silence.
When I said, My foot slippeth; Thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.
In the multitude of my thoughts within me Thy comforts delight my soul.
The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
and if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; Let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.
Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: Be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
Search me, O God, and know my heart: Try me, and know my thoughts:
And see if there be any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting.
Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear What man shall do unto me.
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, As the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.
Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; Yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
As the hart panteth after the water brooks, So panteth my soul after thee, O God.
My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: When shall I come and appear before God?
I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.
Mine eyes prevent the night watches, That I might meditate in thy word.
I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.
Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.
I love the LORD, Because he hath heard my voice and my supplications.
Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, Therefore will I call upon him as long as I live.
Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
The LORD is thy keeper: The LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.
The sun shall not smite thee by day, Nor the moon by night.
The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: He shall preserve thy soul.
The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in From this time forth, and even for evermore.
Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.
Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:
that ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.
What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
In God I will praise his word, In God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.
He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; And that which he hath given will he pay him again.
The proud have forged a lie against me: But I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.
For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
Truly my soul waiteth upon God: From him cometh my salvation.
He only is my rock and my salvation; He is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.
He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: He that keepeth thee will not slumber.
Behold, he that keepeth Israel Shall neither slumber nor sleep.
Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: For thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, And that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.
Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear them not: for I have delivered them into thine hand; there shall not a man of them stand before thee.
saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.
Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me.
Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: Be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.