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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.
Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
Hear my prayer, LORD. Listen to my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.
Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?
The Lord said to him, “Arise and go to the street which is called Straight, and enquire in the house of Judah for one named Saul, a man of Tarsus. For behold, he is praying,
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.
He, fastening his eyes on him and being frightened, said, “What is it, Lord?” He said to him, “Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God.
GOD will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.
Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.
If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.
They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.
Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.
After he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into the mountain by himself to pray. When evening had come, he was there alone.
He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,
The LORD restored Job’s prosperity when he prayed for his friends. The LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.
Listen to the petitions of your servant and of your people Israel, when they pray towards this place. Yes, hear from your dwelling place, even from heaven; and when you hear, forgive.
But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.
For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,
But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.
It will happen that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
Then he said to them, “The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the labourers are few. Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that he may send out labourers into his harvest.
But as for me, my prayer is to you, LORD, in an acceptable time. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation.
Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant and for his supplication, LORD my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you today;
night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
To this end we also pray always for you that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfil every desire of goodness and work of faith with power,
When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room towards Jerusalem) and he knelt on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.
but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn’t fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers.”
Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.
The LORD spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn’t depart from the Tent.
For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. We also pray for this: your becoming perfect.
Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.
But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.
In my distress I called on the LORD, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.
Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.
I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks be made for all men,
with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints.
In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it.
This is the boldness which we have towards him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.
Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.
Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
LORD, in the morning you will hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.
I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’
They were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them; for they cried to God in the battle, and he answered them because they put their trust in him.
Lord, I beg you, let your ear be attentive now to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants who delight to fear your name; and please prosper your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” Now I was cup bearer to the king.
I love the LORD, because he listens to my voice, and my cries for mercy. I believed, therefore I said, “I was greatly afflicted.” I said in my haste, “All people are liars.” What will I give to the LORD for all his benefits towards me? I will take the cup of salvation, and call on the LORD’s name. I will pay my vows to the LORD, yes, in the presence of all his people. Precious in the LORD’s sight is the death of his saints. LORD, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your servant girl. You have freed me from my chains. I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call on the LORD’s name. I will pay my vows to the LORD, yes, in the presence of all his people, in the courts of the LORD’s house, in the middle of you, Jerusalem. Praise the LORD! Because he has turned his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live.
When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were gathered together. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.
For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.
so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.
Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you; but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.
For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the middle of them.”
All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer and supplication, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.
In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.
But most certainly, God has listened. He has heard the voice of my prayer. Sing to the glory of his name! Offer glory and praise! Blessed be God, who has not turned away my prayer, nor his loving kindness from me.
In praying, don’t use vain repetitions as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.
if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”