Thematic Bible: Social and family Prayer
Thematic Bible
social and family Prayer » Exemplified » jacob
He built an altar there and named the place El Bethel because there God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.
So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, "Get rid of the foreign gods you have among you. Purify yourselves and change your clothes. Let us go up at once to Bethel. Then I will make an altar there to God, who responded to me in my time of distress and has been with me wherever I went."
social and family Prayer » Exemplified » Abram
Then he moved from there to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and worshiped the Lord.
And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Haran, and they left for the land of Canaan. They entered the land of Canaan.
social and family Prayer » Punishment for neglecting
Vent your anger on the nations that do not acknowledge you. Vent it on the peoples who do not worship you. For they have destroyed the people of Jacob. They have completely destroyed them and left their homeland in utter ruin.
social and family Prayer » Exemplified » David
When David went home to pronounce a blessing on his own house, Michal, Saul's daughter, came out to meet him. She said, "How the king of Israel has distinguished himself this day! He has exposed himself today before his servants' slave girls the way a vulgar fool might do!"
social and family Prayer » Christ promises to be present at
social and family Prayer » Promise of answers to
Again, I tell you the truth, if two of you on earth agree about whatever you ask, my Father in heaven will do it for you.
social and family Prayer » Exemplified » Joshua
If you have no desire to worship the Lord, choose today whom you will worship, whether it be the gods whom your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. But I and my family will worship the Lord!"
social and family Prayer » Exemplified » The disciples
When they had entered Jerusalem, they went to the upstairs room where they were staying. Peter and John, and James, and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James were there. All these continued together in prayer with one mind, together with the women, along with Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.
social and family Prayer » Exemplified » Paul and silas
About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the rest of the prisoners were listening to them.