The Importance Of Prayer

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

Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving;

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

Pray without ceasing.

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:

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.

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

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.

Rejoice always. — read the full passage →

Jesus said these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you; — read the full passage →

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.

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

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

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

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 →

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

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

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.

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.

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

“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 →

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.

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.

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

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.”

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,

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

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

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.

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!

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.

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. — read the full passage →

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

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

“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.

Yahweh is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.

Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.

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

“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.

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

He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.

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.

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.

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 →

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.

But he withdrew himself into the desert, and prayed.

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.

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 →

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

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, — read the full passage →

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

“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.

I have called on you, for you will answer me, God. Turn your ear to me. Hear my speech.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

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

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 →

and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

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.”

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

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

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.

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 →

Therefore don’t be like them, for your Father knows what things you need, before you ask him.

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

seeing your pure behavior in fear.

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.

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

“Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won’t give him a snake instead of a fish, will he? — read the full passage →

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

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand firm in the Lord, my beloved. — 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,

“But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, — read the full passage →

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

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 →

Immediately the father of the child cried out with tears, “I believe. Help my unbelief!”

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

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.

He killed James, the brother of John, with the sword.

The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

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

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.

(after that Jeconiah the king, the queen mother, the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the smiths, had departed from Jerusalem),

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 →

You shall make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You shall pay your vows.

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. — read the full passage →

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,