Bible Verses About Prayer
Prayer is the breath of the Christian life — speaking with the God who hears and answers. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer let your requests be made known to God. These verses invite you to pray with boldness and rest.
Do not worry about anything. Instead, in everything, bring your requests to God through prayer and petition, with thanksgiving.
First of all, then, I urge that requests, prayers, intercessions and thanks be offered for everyone:
Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray at all times and not lose heart.
If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask for whatever you want, and it will be done for you.
When the righteous cry out, the LORD listens and frees them from every trouble they face.
How long, LORD? Will you go on forgetting me for good? How long will you turn your face away from me?
So let us, with confidence, approach the throne of grace, to receive mercy and to find grace that brings help just when we need it.
Keep asking, and you will receive. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and the door will be opened for you.
The prayer made in faith will save the one who is ill, and the Lord will raise them up. And if they have committed sins, they will be forgiven.
But you, dear friends, keep building yourselves up on your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit.
So make it your practice to confess your sins to each other and to pray for each other, so that you may be healed. When a righteous person prays, that prayer is at work, and it can do a great deal.
But when you pray, go into an inner room, shut the door, and pray to your Father who is there in secret. Your Father sees what is hidden, and he will repay you.
And again, truly I tell you: if two of you here on earth are of one mind about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.