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Prayer
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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 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.
In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.
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.
In praying, don’t use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.
Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving;
Pray without ceasing.
Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don’t know.
If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;
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:
This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.
Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.
Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. — read the full passage →
He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,
Rejoice always. — read the full passage →
But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,
And if we know that he listens to us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.
I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.
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 →
“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.
if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Let us 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.
Yahweh, in the morning you shall hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.
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.
But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.
In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.
You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
“But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, — read the full passage →
Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
You didn’t choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.
You lust, and don’t have. You kill, covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.
All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”
Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.
Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord, — read the full passage →
Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.
I cried to him with my mouth. He was extolled with my tongue.
Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.
For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in their midst.”
“When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward. — read the full passage →
Yahweh is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.
But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.
The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.
In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.
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.
You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.
But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.
Out of my distress, I called on Yah. Yah answered me with freedom.
I have called on you, for you will answer me, God. Turn your ear to me. Hear my speech.
I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: — read the full passage →
So we fasted and begged our God for this: and he was entreated of us.
This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us. — read the full passage →
The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God. — read the full passage →
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.
Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →
The messengers came again, and said, “Ben Hadad says, ‘I sent indeed to you, saying, “You shall deliver me your silver, and your gold, and your wives, and your children;
He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to the sky, he blessed them, and broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude. — read the full passage →
If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death. I don’t say that he should make a request concerning this.
Yahweh turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.
“I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them back; for I have mercy on them; and they will be as though I had not cast them off: for I am Yahweh their God, and I will hear them.
When he finished praying in a certain place, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.”
“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.
He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek. — read the full passage →
Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →
“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →
Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble? — read the full passage →
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. — read the full passage →
Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. — read the full passage →
I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: — read the full passage →
Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.
He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.
You shall make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You shall pay your vows.
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
Again, assuredly I tell you, that if two of you will agree on earth concerning anything that they will ask, it will be done for them by my Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →
We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.
and said to them, “Go your way into the village that is opposite you. Immediately as you enter into it, you will find a young donkey tied, on which no one has sat. Untie him, and bring him.
For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.
Yes, I beg you also, true partner, help these women, for they labored with me in the Good News, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.
All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.” — read the full passage →
Hear my prayer, Yahweh. Listen to my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me. — read the full passage →
having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.
If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.
“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →
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,
I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.
Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord,
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