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Praying In The Spirit

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Romans 8:26

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.

Ephesians 6:18

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:

Jude 1:20

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

Romans 8:26–27

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. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 14:15

What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also. I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.

1 Corinthians 14:14

For if I pray in another language, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.

John 4:24

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

Romans 8:27

He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit’s mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.

Matthew 6:7

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

1 Corinthians 14:2

For he who speaks in another language speaks not to men, but to God; for no one understands; but in the Spirit he speaks mysteries.

James 4:3

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

Philippians 4:6

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

Matthew 26:41

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

Ephesians 2:18

For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.

Acts 2:1–47

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

Galatians 5:16–17

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 14:4

He who speaks in another language edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the assembly.

1 John 5:15

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.

John 15:7

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

1 John 1:9

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

1 Corinthians 14:19

However in the assembly I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in another language.

1 Thessalonians 5:17

Pray without ceasing.

1 Timothy 2:8

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

Acts 2:4

They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.

Luke 18:1

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

Acts 2:38

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Colossians 3:16

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

Ephesians 5:18

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

James 4:2–4

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. — read the full passage →

John 14:26

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

John 14:1–31

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. — read the full passage →

Leviticus 19:31

“‘Don’t turn to those who are mediums, nor to the wizards. Don’t seek them out, to be defiled by them. I am Yahweh your God.

Galatians 5:16

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

James 5:16

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.

Hebrews 4:16

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.

Psalms 66:18

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

Romans 12:1

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.

Mark 11:24

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

Hebrews 11:6

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.

Leviticus 20:6

“‘The person that turns to those who are mediums, and to the wizards, to play the prostitute after them, I will even set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people.

Revelation 4:2

Immediately I was in the Spirit. Behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting on the throne

Ephesians 6:18–20

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: — read the full passage →

2 Kings 2:9

When they had gone over, Elijah said to Elisha, “Ask what I shall do for you, before I am taken from you.” Elisha said, “Please let a double portion of your spirit be on me.”

Hebrews 11:1

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

Acts 22:16

Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’

Matthew 6:10

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done, as in heaven, so on earth.

Lamentations 2:19

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.

Ephesians 4:2

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;

Romans 14:17

for the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Matthew 6:13

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

1 Timothy 2:1–2

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

Acts 10:44–46

While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all those who heard the word. — read the full passage →

John 14:14

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

Colossians 1:3

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

1 Corinthians 13:1

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

Romans 8:9

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

Romans 8:14

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

Acts 1:8

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

Luke 11:13

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”

Luke 6:12

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

Philippians 4:6–7

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 →

Galatians 5:22–23

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

Titus 1:6

if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.

1 Corinthians 14:13

Therefore let him who speaks in another language pray that he may interpret.

1 Corinthians 14:1–40

Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. — read the full passage →

Romans 8:15

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!”

Ecclesiastes 5:2–3

Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few. — read the full passage →

Psalms 40:5

Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

1 John 5:14

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

Ephesians 6:10

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

Psalms 23:1–6

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

Hebrews 5:7

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,

Galatians 5:17

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

Acts 2:3

Tongues like fire appeared and were distributed to them, and one sat on each of them.

Luke 11:1

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.”

1 Chronicles 16:11

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

Philippians 1:19

For I know that this will turn out to my salvation, through your supplication and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

Ephesians 6:1–24

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 14:22

Therefore other languages are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to the unbelieving; but prophesying is for a sign, not to the unbelieving, but to those who believe.

1 Corinthians 14:13–15

Therefore let him who speaks in another language pray that he may interpret. — read the full passage →

Acts 19:6

When Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke with other languages and prophesied.

Acts 1:14

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.

John 18:1–40

When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples over the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered. — read the full passage →

Matthew 6:9–13

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

Isaiah 1:1–31

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 →

Psalms 145:18

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

1 John 5:16

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.

James 4:2

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.

Galatians 4:6

And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”

2 Corinthians 9:7

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.

1 Corinthians 14:28

But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in the assembly, and let him speak to himself, and to God.

Romans 15:30

Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,

John 1:14

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

Matthew 6:9

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

Revelation 1:1–20

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 →

1 John 5:14–15

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 →

Acts 2:26

Therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced. Moreover my flesh also will dwell in hope;

James 5:14

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,

Acts 2:22

“Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him in your midst, even as you yourselves know,

Acts 2:18

Yes, and on my servants and on my handmaidens in those days, I will pour out my Spirit, and they will prophesy.

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