Lifting Hands

I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.

So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name.

Lift up your hands in the sanctuary. Praise Yahweh!

Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.

Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.

Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.

and Ezra blessed Yahweh, the great God. All the people answered, “Amen, Amen,” with the lifting up of their hands. They bowed their heads, and worshiped Yahweh with their faces to the ground.

I reach out my hands for your commandments, which I love. I will meditate on your statutes.

At the evening offering I arose up from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn; and I fell on my knees, and spread out my hands to Yahweh my God;

He led them out as far as Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.

Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.

Solomon stood before the altar of Yahweh in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven;

It was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication to Yahweh, he arose from before the altar of Yahweh, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread out toward heaven.

When Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed. When he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.

I spread out my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah.

My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh. I have spread out my hands to you.

When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

The mountains saw you, and were afraid. The storm of waters passed by. The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high.

whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and spread out his hands toward this house:

Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands to Yahweh; and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured on the earth.

“If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him.

Moses said to him, “As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands to Yahweh. The thunders shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that you may know that the earth is Yahweh’s.

Princes shall come out of Egypt. Ethiopia shall hurry to stretch out her hands to God.

whatever prayer and supplication be made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall know every man his own plague and his own sorrow, and shall spread out his hands toward this house: — read the full passage →

Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people, and blessed them; and he came down from offering the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings.

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

He stood before the altar of Yahweh in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands — read the full passage →

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

Don’t neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the elders.

For I lift up my hand to heaven and declare, as I live forever,

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

Oh clap your hands, all you nations. Shout to God with the voice of triumph!

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

He took them in his arms, and blessed them, laying his hands on them.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

whatever prayer and supplication be made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall know every man his own plague and his own sorrow, and shall spread out his hands toward this house:

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, Yahweh;

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread out our hands to a strange god;

whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and spread out his hands toward this house: — read the full passage →

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

When the sun was setting, all those who had any sick with various diseases brought them to him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.

For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who gives birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, saying, “Woe is me now! For my soul faints before the murderers.”

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

whom they set before the apostles. When they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time;

Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,

Arise, Yahweh! God, lift up your hand! Don’t forget the helpless.

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands on him. The children of Israel listened to him, and did as Yahweh commanded Moses.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us; establish the work of our hands for us; yes, establish the work of our hands.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

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

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power. Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces.

When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me, saying, “Don’t be afraid. I am the first and the last,

For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break out before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields shall clap their hands.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

“However doesn’t one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?

Lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go into the midst of the sea on dry ground.

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it.”

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.

speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing, and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by him who lives forever that it shall be for a time, times, and a half; and when they have made an end of breaking in pieces the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.

“I am inquired of by those who didn’t ask; I am found by those who didn’t seek me: I said, See me, see me, to a nation that was not called by my name. — read the full passage →

Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.

All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

Zion spreads out her hands; there is no one to comfort her; Yahweh has commanded concerning Jacob, that those who are around him should be his adversaries: Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing.

You stretched out your right hand. The earth swallowed them.

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

There is no healing your wound, for your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over you; for who hasn’t felt your endless cruelty?

Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

Thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and set up my banner to the peoples; and they shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.

Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on man, and on animal, and on every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.”

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh. — read the full passage →

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. — read the full passage →

(although Jesus himself didn’t baptize, but his disciples),

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;