Prayer

If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.”

Jesus answered, “This kind cannot come out, except by prayer.”

because I know that through your prayers and the provision of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, my distress will turn out for my deliverance.

Now, my God, may Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to the prayer offered in this place.

Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:

“Go back and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. I will surely heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the house of the LORD.

then may You hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and may You uphold their cause.

In the day of trouble I sought the Lord; through the night my outstretched hands did not grow weary; my soul refused to be comforted.

Let the righteous man strike me; let his rebuke be an act of loving devotion. It is oil for my head; let me not refuse it. For my prayer is ever against the deeds of the wicked.

All their deeds are done for men to see. They broaden their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels.

Long may he live! May gold from Sheba be given him. May people ever pray for him; may they bless him all day long.

As for you, do not pray for these people, do not offer a plea or petition on their behalf, and do not beg Me, for I will not listen to you.

O Lord, may Your ear be attentive to my prayer and to the prayers of Your servants who delight to revere Your name. Give Your servant success this day, I pray, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” (At that time I was the cupbearer to the king.)

and will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”

And God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore a fifth son to Jacob.

By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph’s sons and worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff.

and then was a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.

The LORD is far from the wicked, but He hears the prayer of the righteous.

When he is tried, let him be found guilty, and may his prayer be regarded as sin.

Perhaps the LORD your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to defy the living God, and He will rebuke him for the words that the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that still survives.”

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.

Hear, O God, my voice of complaint; preserve my life from dread of the enemy.

“Go and tell Hezekiah that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.

And they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in Zela in the land of Benjamin, in the tomb of Saul’s father Kish. After they had done everything the king had commanded, God answered their prayers for the land.

“Cornelius the centurion has sent us,” they said. “He is a righteous and God-fearing man with a good reputation among the whole Jewish nation. A holy angel instructed him to request your presence in his home so he could hear a message from you.”

And the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick. The Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven.

In response, King Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz cried out to heaven in prayer,

And their prayers for you will express their affection for you, because of the surpassing grace God has given you.

I rise before dawn and cry for help; in Your word I have put my hope.

The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.