14 Bible Verses about Intercessory Prayer

never cease to thank God for you when I mention you in my prayers.

never cease to thank God for you when I mention you in my prayers.

and always whenever I pray for you all I do it with joy,

For this reason I kneel before the Father from whom every family in heaven or on earth takes its name, and beg him out of his wealth of glory to strengthen you mightily through his Spirit in your inner nature read more.
and through your faith to let Christ in his love make his home in your hearts. Your roots must be deep and your foundations strong, so that you and all God's people may be strong enough to grasp what breadth, length, height, and depth mean, and to understand Christ's love, so far beyond our understanding, so that you may be filled with the very fulness of God.

To this end we always pray for you too, asking our God to find you worthy of the call he has given you, and by his power to fulfil every desire you may have for goodness, and every effort of your faith,

That is why, from the day I first heard of it, I have never given up praying for you and asking God to fill you, through full spiritual wisdom and insight, with a clear knowledge of what his will is, so that the lives you live may be worthy of your Master and wholly pleasing to him, and you may be fruitful in all kinds of good deeds, and may grow into fuller knowledge of God. Then, so mighty is his majesty, he will nerve you perfectly with strength for the cheerful exercise of endurance and forbearance in every situation, read more.
and you will thank the Father who has entitled you to share the lot of God's people in the realm of light.

If any one is sick, he should call in the elders of the church and have them pray over him, and pour oil on him in the name of the Lord,

So confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be cured. An upright man can do a great deal by prayer when he tries.

First of all, then, I urge that entreaties, prayers, petitions, and thanksgivings be offered for all men,

You must help me by your prayers, so that many will give thanks to God on my behalf for the blessing granted me in answer to many prayers.

for I know that through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, all this will turn out for my highest welfare,

And they divided up his clothes among them by drawing lots for them,

but I have prayed that your own faith may not fail. And afterward you yourself must turn and strengthen your brothers."

I have a request to make for them. I make no request for the world, but only for those whom you have given me, for they are yours??10 all that is mine is yours and what is yours is mine??nd they have done me honor. Now I am to be no longer in this world, but they are to remain in the world, while I return to you. Holy Father, keep them by your power which you gave me, so that they may be one just as we are. As long as I was with them I kept them by your power which you gave me, and I protected them, and not one of them was lost (except the one who was destined to be lost), so that what the Scripture says might come true. read more.
But now I am coming to you, and I say this here in this world in order that they may have the happiness that I feel fully realized in their own hearts. I have given them your message, and the world has come to hate them, for they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world. I do not ask you to take them away from the world, but to keep them from evil. They do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world. Consecrate them by truth. Your message is truth. Just as you sent me to the world, I have sent them to the world. And it is for their sake that I consecrate myself, that they also may be consecrated by truth. "It is not for them only that I make this request. It is also for those who through their message come to believe in me. Let them all be one. Just as you, Father, are in union with me and I am with you, let them be in union with us, so that the world may believe that you sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, so that they may be one just as we are, I in union with them and you with me, so that they may be perfectly unified, and the world may recognize that you sent me and that you love them just as you loved me. Father, I wish to have those whom you have given me with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me, for you loved me before the creation of the world.

Pray for me, for I am sure I have a clear conscience, and I mean in every way to live an upright life.

And a Canaanite woman of that district came out and screamed, "Son of David, take pity on me, sir! My daughter is dreadfully possessed by a demon!"

So confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be cured. An upright man can do a great deal by prayer when he tries.

If anyone sees his brother committing any sin except a deadly one, he will ask and obtain life for him??rovided the sin is not a deadly one. There is such a thing as deadly sin; I do not say that a man should pray about that.

At my first appearance in court no one came to help me; everybody deserted me. May no one lay it up against them!

Use every kind of prayer and entreaty, and at every opportunity pray in the Spirit. Be on the alert about it; devote yourselves constantly to prayer for all God's people

for emperors and all who are in authority, so that we may live tranquil, quiet lives, with perfect piety and probity.

First of all, then, I urge that entreaties, prayers, petitions, and thanksgivings be offered for all men,

for emperors and all who are in authority, so that we may live tranquil, quiet lives, with perfect piety and probity.

But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for your persecutors,

Brothers, my heart is full of good will toward them; my prayer to God is that they may be saved.

A Roman captain had a slave whom he thought a great deal of, and the slave was sick and at the point of death. When the captain heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to him, to ask him to come and save his slave's life.

If any one is sick, he should call in the elders of the church and have them pray over him, and pour oil on him in the name of the Lord,

So Peter was kept in the jail, but the church was praying earnestly to God for him.

When they came, they prayed that the Samaritans might receive the holy Spirit,

Then falling on his knees, he cried out, "Lord, do not lay this sin up against them!" With these words he fell asleep.