21 Bible Verses about Prayer, As Asking God
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the Lord is coming: be not in any manner of sollicitude, but in all your occasions lay your requests before God by prayer and supplication accompany'd by thanksgiving.
Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and ye shall find: knock, and the door shall be opened.
I tell you likewise, ask, and it shall be given: seek, and ye shall find: knock, and the door shall be opened.
hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be compleat.
Pour out your souls unto God upon all occasions, watching in prayer with all perseverance and supplication for all christians: in particular for me, that I may have leave to speak without any restraint, and make known the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an embassador, tho' in chains: that I may duely represent it to the full.
Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. is his mind serene? let him sing psalms.
Then advancing a little further, he fell prostrate in prayer, and said, "O my father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not mine, but thy will be done."
then advancing a little further, he fell on the ground, and prayed, that this anxiety might pass from him. saying, father, all things are possible to thee, take away this cup from me: nevertheless, not my will, but thine be done.
he pray'd in these words, father, "O that you would divert this cup from me! nevertheless not my will, but thine be done." then an angel from heaven appear'd to him, and comforted him. and being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was like grumes of blood falling to the ground.
When they were arrived there, they went up into an upper room, where Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alpheus, Simon the Zelot, and Judas the brother of James used to resort, and unanimously persevere in prayer with the women, Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brethren being present.
they continued stedfastly in the apostolical doctrine of a community, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
we went out of town on the sabbath towards the river, where the Jews were allowed to have an oratory.
that time being ended, we departed, being conducted by them in a body with the women and children quite out of the city, where we kneeled down on the shore, and prayed.
at the relation of which they unanimously lift up their voice to God, and said, Lord, thou art the God who hast made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that is therein: who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, "why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things? the kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ."read more.
for it was truly against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, that Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, united themselves in this city, to effect what thy power and thy wisdom pre-determined to be done. and now, Lord, behold their threatnings: and enable thy servants to deliver thy word with freedom, by displaying thine hand in miraculous cures, and prodigies, which by the name of thy holy child Jesus shall be done. When they had prayed, the place where they were assembled, trembled; they were all filled with the holy spirit, and they spake the word of God with boldness.
accordingly, after having fasted and prayed they gave them imposition of hands, and dismiss'd them.
At midnight Paul and Silas went to prayers, and sang praises to God, which the other prisoners heard:
us therefore approach with confidence to the throne of grace, that we may obtain the seasonable assistance of divine mercy and favour.
and there were two blind men sitting by the way-side, who hearing that Jesus was passing by, cried out, "have mercy on us, O Lord, thou son of David." and the people reprimanded them, to make them hold their tongue: but they bawl'd out the more, have mercy on us, O Lord, thou son of David.
