Praying In A Closet

“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 →

“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 →

Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.

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.

Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don’t know.

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.

All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”

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:

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

He went in therefore, and shut the door on them both, and prayed to Yahweh.

and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

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.” — read the full passage →

In praying, don’t use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.

“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.

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

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.

Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.

In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?” — read the full passage →

Rejoice always. — 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 →

Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

Pray without ceasing.

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. — read the full passage →

Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. — read the full passage →

Behold, I am Yahweh, the God of all flesh: is there anything too hard for me?

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.

“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 →

“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.

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.

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. — read the full passage →

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

Peter sent them all out, and knelt down and prayed. Turning to the body, he said, “Tabitha, get up!” She opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up.

Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.

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

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

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

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

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.

Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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.

Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving;

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.”

In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.

You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.

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.

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: — read the full passage →

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

Gather the people. Sanctify the assembly. Assemble the elders. Gather the children, and those who nurse from breasts. Let the bridegroom go out of his room, and the bride out of her room.

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.

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

Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. — read the full passage →

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.

Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.

I cried to him with my mouth. He was extolled with my tongue.

Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing? — read the full passage →

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

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.

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

“What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray?

so that you are not seen by men to be fasting, but by your Father who is in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.

If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.

Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.

Yahweh, in the morning you shall hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

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 →

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men:

We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,

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.

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.

He was casting out a demon, and it was mute. When the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke; and the multitudes marveled.

“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.

He said to them, “When you pray, say, ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. — read the full passage →

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.

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

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

Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus, — read the full passage →

He said to them, “When you pray, say, ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.

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

Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen. ’

Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.

But when you do merciful deeds, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand does,

Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.

Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind, — read the full passage →

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you. — read the full passage →

If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it.