VERSES ABOUT PRAYER

You know, our Heavenly Father wants us to be in constant communication with Him through prayer. It's how we connect with God. Think of prayer as your direct line to Him. It's where you bring every request, every worry, every heartache. It's where you go when things aren't going so well, when you're feeling down, when you're carrying a heavy load.

God already knows everything about us, even before we were born. But He wants us to talk to Him, to seek Him out. Prayer is how you build your friendship, your intimacy, your relationship with God. It's one of the most powerful tools you have as a believer in Jesus. It's your defense in every battle, the key to victory in every struggle.

Remember, the power of prayer doesn't come from you. It comes from Jesus. He's the one who answers prayer and makes the impossible possible. When you pray from the heart, you open yourself up to receive His comfort, His peace, and His love.

Come to God with a humble and contrite heart, and He will never turn you away. Just as Ephesians 6:18¹ says, "Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints".

And don't forget what 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18² tells us: "Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you." So, give thanks, even in the tough times. And sometimes, just be still in His presence.

“You will entreat Him, and He will hear you; And you will pay your vows.

But keep on the alert at all times, praying earnestly that you may have strength to escape all these things that are about to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

O Yahweh, hear my prayer, Give ear to my supplications! Answer me in Your faithfulness, in Your righteousness!

For this young boy I prayed, and Yahweh has given me my petition which I asked of Him.

Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest.”

Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh his God from the stomach of the fish,

Now, will God not bring about justice for His elect who cry to Him day and night, and will He delay long over them?

¶Make me know Your ways, O Yahweh; Teach me Your paths.

And the Lord said to him, “Rise up and go to the street called Straight, and inquire at the house of Judas for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for behold, he is praying,

do not cease giving thanks for you, while making mention of you in my prayers:

Epaphras, who is one of your number, a slave of Christ Jesus, sends you his greetings, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand complete and fully assured in all the will of God.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart And do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He will make your paths straight.

You lust and do not have, so you murder. You are envious and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask.

And looking intently on him and becoming afraid, he said, “What is it, Lord?” And he said to him, “Your prayers and alms have ascended as a memorial before God.

By day, Yahweh will command His lovingkindness; And by night, His song will be with me, A prayer to the God of my life.

Keep watching and praying that you may not enter into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Now it happened that at this time He went off to the mountain to pray, and He was spending the whole night in prayer to God.

But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the service of the word.”

If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

Therefore I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and dissension.

And they were continually devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to the prayers.

Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have relieved me in my distress; Be gracious to me and hear my prayer.

And after He had sent the crowds away, He went up on the mountain by Himself to pray; and when it was evening, He was there alone.

He, in the days of His flesh, offered up both prayers and supplications with loud crying and tears to the One able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverence.

¶I have called upon You, for You will answer me, O God; Incline Your ear to me, hear my speech.

¶Seek Yahweh while He may be found; Call upon Him while He is near.

And Yahweh restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends, and Yahweh increased all that Job had twofold.

But He Himself would often slip away to the desolate regions and pray.

May my prayer be established as incense before You; The lifting up of my hands as the evening offering.

And listen to the supplications of Your slave and of Your people Israel, when they pray toward this place; listen from Your dwelling place, from heaven; listen and forgive.

always offering prayer with joy in my every prayer for you all,

But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,

For God, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of His Son, is my witness as to how without ceasing I make mention of you,

But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

Yahweh has heard my supplication, Yahweh receives my prayer.

And He withdrew from them about a stone’s throw, and He knelt down and began to pray,

And it will be that before they call, I will answer, and while they are still speaking, I will hear.

And He was saying to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.

¶But as for me, my prayer is to You, O Yahweh, at an acceptable time; O God, in the abundance of Your lovingkindness, Answer me with the truth of Your salvation.

Yet have regard to the prayer of Your slave and to his supplication, O Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which Your slave prays before You today;

as we night and day keep praying most earnestly that we may see your face, and may complete what is lacking in your faith?

To this end also we pray for you always, that our God will count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill all your good pleasure for goodness and the work of faith with power,

Now when Daniel knew that the written document was signed, he entered his house (now in his roof chamber he had windows open toward Jerusalem); and he continued kneeling on his knees three times a day, praying and giving thanks before his God, as he had been doing previously.

But I have prayed earnestly for you, that your faith may not fail; and you, once you have returned, strengthen your brothers.”

So Peter was kept in the prison, but prayer for him was being made fervently by the church to God.

Hear my cry of lamentation, O God; Give heed to my prayer.

Thus Yahweh used to speak to Moses face to face, just as a man speaks to his friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, and his attendant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.

For we rejoice when we ourselves are weak but you are strong. This we also pray for, that you be restored.

Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.

And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who draws near to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.

pray without ceasing;

The end of all things is at hand; therefore, be of sound thinking and sober spirit for the purpose of prayer.

Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

And all things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”

In my distress I called upon Yahweh, And cried to my God for help; He heard my voice out of His temple, And my cry for help before Him came into His ears.

Until now you have asked for nothing in My name; ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be made complete.

Yahweh is far from the wicked, But He hears the prayer of the righteous.

Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

First of all, then, I exhort that petitions and prayers, requests and thanksgivings, be made for all men,

He has turned toward the prayer of the destitute And has not despised their prayer.

Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving;

Now He was telling them a parable to show that at all times they ought to pray and not to lose heart,

praying at all times with all prayer and petition in the Spirit, and to this end, being on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints,

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and petition with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

But you, when you pray, go into your inner room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.

Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

“ Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

Yahweh is near to all who call upon Him, To all who call upon Him in truth.

Whatever you ask in My name, this will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.

And this is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.

Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much.

rejoicing in hope, persevering in affliction, being devoted to prayer,

For this reason I say to you, all things for which you pray and ask, believe that you have received them, and they will be granted to you.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

O Yahweh, in the morning, You will hear my voice; In the morning I will order my prayer to You and eagerly watch.

So I gave my face to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.

‘Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’

Now when He arrived at the place, He said to them, “Pray that you may not enter into temptation.”

They were helped against them, and the Hagrites and all who were with them were given into their hand; for they cried out to God in the battle, and He was moved by their entreaty because they trusted in Him.

O Lord, I beseech You, may Your ear be attentive to the prayer of Your slave and the prayer of Your slaves who delight to fear Your name, and make Your slave successful today and grant him compassion before this man.” Now I was the cupbearer to the king.

I love Yahweh, because He hears My voice and my supplications. I believed when I said, “I am greatly afflicted.” I said in my alarm, “All men are liars.” ¶What shall I give to Yahweh in return For all His bountiful dealings with me? I shall lift up the cup of salvation And call upon the name of Yahweh. I shall pay my vows to Yahweh, Oh may it be in the presence of all His people. Precious in the sight of Yahweh Is the death of His holy ones. O Yahweh, surely I am Your slave, I am Your slave, the son of Your maidservant, You have loosed my bonds. To You I shall offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving, And call upon the name of Yahweh. I shall pay my vows to Yahweh, Oh may it be in the presence of all His people, In the courts of the house of Yahweh, In the midst of you, O Jerusalem. Praise Yah! Because He has inclined His ear to me, So I shall call upon Him in all my days.

And when they had prayed earnestly, the place where they had gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God with confidence.

Evening and morning and at noon, I will bring my complaint and moan, And He will hear my voice.

For this reason also, since the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

And in the early morning, while it was still dark, Jesus rose up, went out of the house, and went away to a desolate place, and was praying there.

in whom we have boldness and confident access through faith in Him.

¶The eyes of Yahweh are toward the righteous And His ears are open to their cry for help.

and whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight.

Inquire of Yahweh and His strength; Seek His face continually.

Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh by ceasing to pray for you; but I will instruct you in the good and upright way.

For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst.”

These all with one accord were continually devoting themselves to prayer, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and His brothers.

And in the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words;

But certainly God has heard; He has given heed to the voice of my prayer. Sing praise for the glory of His name; Establish His praise as glorious. Blessed be God, Who has not turned away my prayer Nor His lovingkindness from me.

Is anyone among you suffering? Then he must pray. Is anyone cheerful? He is to sing praises.

“And when you are praying, do not use meaningless repetition as the Gentiles do, for they suppose that they will be heard for their many words.

and My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their evil ways, then I will listen from heaven, I will forgive their sin, and I will heal their land.

For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons by whom we cry out, “Abba! Father!”

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