21 Bible Verses about Prayer, As Asking God
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Have no anxiety about anything, but make all your wants known to God in prayer and entreaty, and with thanksgiving.
Ask, and what you ask will be given you. Search, and you will find what you search for. Knock, and the door will open to you.
So I tell you, ask, and what you ask will be given you. Search, and you will find what you search for. Knock, and the door will open to you.
Hitherto you have not asked for anything as my followers, but now ask, and you will receive, so that your happiness may be complete.
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 and for me, that when I open my lips I may be given a message, so that I may boldly make known the secret of the good news, for the sake of which I am an envoy, and in prison. Pray that, when I tell it, I may have the courage to speak as I ought.
If any one of you is in trouble, he should pray. If any one is in good spirits, he should sing a hymn.
And he went on a little way, and threw himself on his face, and prayed, saying, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass by me. Yet not as I please but as you do!"
And he went on a little way and threw himself on the ground and prayed that if it were possible he might be spared the hour of trial, and he said, "Abba!" that is, Father, "anything is possible for you! Take this cup away from me! Yet not what I please but what you do!"
and said, "Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me. But not my will but yours be done!" OMITTED TEXT
When they entered the city they went to the upstairs room where they were staying. There were Peter, John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James, the son of Alpheus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas, the son of James. They were all devoting themselves with one mind to prayer, with the women and Mary, Jesus' mother, and his brothers.
And they devoted themselves to the teaching and the society of the apostles, the breaking of bread, and prayer.
On the Sabbath we went outside the gates, to the bank of the river where we supposed there was a praying place, and we sat down and talked with the women who gathered there.
But when our time was up, we left there and went on, and all of them with their wives and children escorted us out of the town. There we knelt down on the beach and prayed;
When they heard it, with one impulse they all raised their voices to God and said, "Master, it was you who made heaven, earth, and sea, and everything that is in them, and who said through the holy Spirit by the lips of our forefather David, your slave, " 'Why did the heathen rage, And the peoples form vain designs? The kings of the earth stood by, And the rulers assembled Against the Lord and against his Christ.'read more.
For they have assembled here in this city against your holy servant Jesus, whom you had consecrated??erod and Pontius Pilate, with the heathen and the peoples of Israel, to carry out what your hand and will had destined should happen. And now, Lord, take note of their threats, and give your slaves the power to utter your message fearlessly, when you stretch out your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are done by the power of your holy servant Jesus." When they had prayed, the place where they were meeting shook, and they were all filled with the holy Spirit, and fearlessly uttered God's message.
But about midnight, as Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to them,
So let us come with courage to God's throne of grace to receive his forgiveness and find him responsive when we need his help.
And two blind men sitting by the roadside, hearing that it was Jesus who was passing, called out, "You Son of David! Take pity on us, sir!" The crowd told them to be still, but they called all the louder, "You Son of David! Take pity on us, sir!"
