43 Bible Verses about Prayer During Hard Times

Pray without ceasing.

For this shall every one that is merciful pray unto thee in the time when thou may be found; surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come near unto him.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in tribulation.

They shall not be ashamed in the evil time, and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

Is anyone among you afflicted? let them pray. Is anyone happy? let them sing.

But I will sing of thy power; I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning, for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble.

praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit and watching in this with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints

and call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

And it shall turn out to you for a testimony.

Yet the LORD will command his mercy in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.

Watch ye therefore and pray always that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass and to stand before the Son of man.

In the day when I called, thou didst answer me and strengthen me with strength in my soul.

If thou art slack in the day of tribulation, thy strength shall be reduced.

Wait in him at all times; ye peoples, pour out your heart before him; God is our refuge. Selah.

remembering without ceasing the work of your faith and labour and charity and of waiting with the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of our God and Father,

From a tight place I called upon JAH; and JAH answered me and set me in a wide place.

not slothful in earnest care, but fervent in the Spirit, serving the Lord,

But no one shall say, Where is God my maker, who gives songs in the night;

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation; the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.

And woe unto those that are with child and to those that give suck in those days!

But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter neither on the sabbath day,

I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men,

In the day of good enjoy that which is good, but in the day of adversity open your eyes and learn: God also has made the one (the day of adversity) before the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.

Did I not weep for the one that was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?

In every thing give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit; I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink but have poured out my soul before the LORD.

And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba; prayer also shall be made for him continually; and daily he shall be given blessings.

Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the congregation ; and let them pray for him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord;

for then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

Call unto me, and I will answer thee and show thee great and difficult things, which thou dost not know.

And being in agony, he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women and Mary, the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.

But ye, beloved, building up yourselves upon your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,

I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear comes upon you;

But at midnight as Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises unto God, and the prisoners heard them,

But the end of all things is at hand; be ye, therefore, temperate and watch unto prayer.

I was even yet speaking in prayer, and that man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, flying swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening sacrifice.

And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;

And then shall many be offended and shall betray one another and shall hate one another.

Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: peradventure shall any thing be covered unto me?