10 Bible Verses about Heartfelt Prayer To God

Brothers and sisters, my heart's desire and prayer to God on behalf of my fellow Israelites is for their salvation.

(Qof) I cried out with all my heart, "Answer me, O Lord! I will observe your statutes."

"Before I finished praying in my heart, along came Rebekah with her water jug on her shoulder! She went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her, 'Please give me a drink.'

Now Hannah was speaking from her heart. Although her lips were moving, her voice was inaudible. Eli therefore thought she was drunk.

Now seek the Lord your God wholeheartedly and with your entire being! Get up and build the sanctuary of the Lord God! Then you can bring the ark of the Lord's covenant and the holy items dedicated to God's service into the temple that is built to honor the Lord."

My heart tells me to pray to you, and I do pray to you, O Lord.

A psalm of David, written when he was in the Judean wilderness. O God, you are my God! I long for you! My soul thirsts for you, my flesh yearns for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water.

I desperately want to be in the courts of the Lord's temple. My heart and my entire being shout for joy to the living God.

In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how we should pray, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with inexpressible groanings. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes on behalf of the saints according to God's will.

So confess your sins to one another and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great effectiveness.