Prayer

Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail.

Pray in the Spirit at all times, with every kind of prayer and petition. To this end, stay alert with all perseverance in your prayers for all the saints.

In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know how we ought to pray, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groans too deep for words.

One afternoon Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.

Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

One day as we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl with a spirit of divination, who earned a large income for her masters by fortune-telling.

With one accord they all continued in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers.

I am not asking on behalf of them alone, but also on behalf of those who will believe in Me through their message,

They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.

Pray without ceasing.

Paul and Barnabas appointed elders for them in each church, praying and fasting as they entrusted them to the Lord, in whom they had believed.

The LORD has heard my cry for mercy; the LORD accepts my prayer.

Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.

Do not deprive each other, except by mutual consent and for a time, so you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, so that Satan will not tempt you through your lack of self-control.

O You who listen to prayer, all people will come to You.

When Jesus rose from prayer and returned to the disciples, He found them asleep, exhausted from sorrow.

then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, their prayer and petition, and may You uphold their cause.

Before them stood seventy elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan standing among them. Each had a censer in his hand, and a fragrant cloud of incense was rising.

Mattaniah son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, who led in thanksgiving and prayer; Bakbukiah, second among his associates; and Abda son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.

because it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I have heard your prayer concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria.

and he burned fragrant incense on it, just as the LORD had commanded him.

Hear my prayer, O LORD; let my cry for help come before You.

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and attend to my plea for mercy.

I call on You, O God, for You will answer me. Incline Your ear to me; hear my words.

Then Jesus began to teach them, and He declared, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”

But God has surely heard; He has attended to the sound of my prayer.

Hear, O LORD, my righteous plea; listen to my cry. Give ear to my prayer— it comes from lips free of deceit.

Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is for their salvation.