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The Power Of 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.
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.
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 →
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:
Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. — read the full passage →
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 →
If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done 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.
This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.
Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. — read the full passage →
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.
Pray without ceasing.
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.
In praying, don’t use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.
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. — read the full passage →
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.
“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
Rejoice always. — read the full passage →
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”
Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, if you have faith, and don’t doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you told this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ it would be done. — read the full passage →
I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.
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.
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 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.
You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, and he brings them out of their distress. — read the full passage →
Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don’t know.
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.
He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.
You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
He said to them, “This kind can come out by nothing, except by prayer and fasting.”
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.
I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men:
rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;
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 →
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.
In praying, don’t use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking. — read the full passage →
Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.
For everything spoken by God is possible.”
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 →
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 →
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.
He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,
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.”
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.
He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up, — read the full passage →
Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.
Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.
Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.
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 →
If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it.
Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving;
Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.
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. — read the full passage →
“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. — read the full passage →
Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.
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.
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.
Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises. — read the full passage →
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.
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,
I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand firm in the Lord, my beloved. — read the full passage →
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.
We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus, — read the full passage →
But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. — read the full passage →
Jesus, looking at them, said, “With men it is impossible, but not with God, for all things are possible with God.”
For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in their midst.”
I cried to him with my mouth. He was extolled with my tongue.
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you. — read the full passage →
They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and 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 →
When they heard it, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, “O Lord, you are God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;
for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds, — read the full passage →
Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.
And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.
In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.
He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. — read the full passage →
I thank my God whenever I remember you, — read the full passage →
Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
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.
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 →
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 →
I have called on you, for you will answer me, God. Turn your ear to me. Hear my speech.
Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.
Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done, as in heaven, so on earth.
I always thank my God concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus;
Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen. ’
When he had spoken these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all.
Praise Yahweh, my soul! All that is within me, praise his holy name! — read the full passage →
I love you, Yahweh, my strength. — read the full passage →
Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting; neither were instruments of music brought before him: and his sleep fled from him. — read the full passage →
Now on the next day as they were on their journey, and got close to the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray at about noon.
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