Always rejoice. Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
joy | gratitude
In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:6-7
gratitude | worrying | fear
This is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.
1 John 5:14
trust | listening
Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving.
Colossians 4:2
gratitude
You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
Jeremiah 29:12
worship | listening
Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.
Mark 11:24
faith | receiving
Rejoicing in hope, enduring in troubles, continuing steadfastly in prayer.
Romans 12:12
joy | patience
Yahweh is near to all those who call on him,
to all who call on him in truth.
Psalm 145:18
trust | reliability
But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.
Acts 16:25
worship | listening | praise
Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.
Jeremiah 33:3
understanding | listening
In praying, don’t use vain repetitions as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.
Matthew 6:7
speaking | thoughts
Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.
Hebrews 4:16
grace | mercy
For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the middle of them.
Matthew 18:20
Jesus | community | church
In my distress I called on Yahweh,
and cried to my God.
He heard my voice out of his temple.
My cry before him came into his ears.
Psalm 18:6
speaking | listening
But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
Matthew 6:6
reward | Father
And if we know that he listens to us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.
1 John 5:15
trust | listening
Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.
James 5:16
righteousness | healing | sickness
But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.
James 1:6
trust | faith
But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
1 Peter 4:7
second coming | end times | rest
You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
John 15:16
obedience | calling | fruitfulness
I cried to him with my mouth.
He was extolled with my tongue.
Psalm 66:17
worship | praise | singing
All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.
Matthew 21:22
reliability | faith
All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer and supplication, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.
Acts 1:14
community
Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
John 14:13
Jesus | Father
But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you.
Luke 6:27-28
obedience | blessing
You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.
James 4:2
sin | desires
In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.
Romans 8:26
speaking | Spirit | weakness
Yahweh, in the morning you will hear my voice.
In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.
Psalm 5:3
patience | listening
Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime.
In the night his song shall be with me:
a prayer to the God of my life.
Psalm 42:8
love | worship
Hear my prayer, Yahweh.
Listen to my petitions.
In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.
Psalm 143:1
reliability | righteousness | faithfulness
Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Matthew 26:41
temptation | desires | addiction
Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers.
3 John 1:2
blessing | soul | sickness
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,
and his ears open to their prayer;
but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.
1 Peter 3:12
righteousness | listening | evil
Out of my distress, I called on Yah.
Yah answered me with freedom.
Psalm 118:5
dependence | comforter
For I know that this will turn out to my salvation through your prayers and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.
Philippians 1:19
salvation | Spirit
Pray like this:
‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.
Let your Kingdom come.
Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.’
Matthew 6:9-10
Father | humility | world
So we fasted and begged our God for this, and he granted our request.
Ezra 8:23
fasting
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
be acceptable in your sight,
Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.
Psalm 19:14
speaking | heart
This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him,
and saved him out of all his troubles.
Psalm 34:6
listening | salvation | poverty
Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
James 5:14-15
sickness | faith | healing
Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.
Mark 11:25
forgiveness | Father | sin
Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.
Acts 12:5
neighbor | dependence | community
It will be that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.
Acts 2:21
salvation | worship
Yahweh restored Job’s prosperity when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.
Job 42:10
blessing | money
When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were gathered together. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.
Acts 4:31
pentecost | Holy Spirit | miracles
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?
Luke 11:13
Spirit | family | generosity
Turn back, and tell Hezekiah the prince of my people, ‘Yahweh, the God of David your father, says, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day, you will go up to Yahweh’s house.”’
2 Kings 20:5
sadness | healing | prophecy
I thank you and praise you,
O God of my fathers,
who have given me wisdom and might,
and have now made known to me what we desired of you;
for you have made known to us the king’s matter.
Daniel 2:23
worship | wisdom | praise
But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you.
Matthew 5:44
love | persecution
Arise, Yahweh!
God, lift up your hand!
Don’t forget the helpless.
Psalm 10:12
neighbor | poverty
Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.
Acts 13:3
blessing | fasting
Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.
John 17:24
Jesus | Father
I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.
John 17:26
love | Jesus
Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry.
Don’t be silent at my tears.
For I am a stranger with you,
a foreigner, as all my fathers were.
Psalm 39:12
sadness | humility
They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.
Acts 2:42
community | obedience | bread
With all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints.
Ephesians 6:18
Spirit
Forgive us our debts,
as we also forgive our debtors.
Matthew 6:12
debt | forgiveness
Bring us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one.
For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.
Matthew 6:13
temptation | desires | evil
As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.”
Acts 13:2
worship | fasting | Spirit
Give us today our daily bread.
Matthew 6:11
bread | dependence
You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman as to the weaker vessel, as also being joint heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.
1 Peter 3:7
marriage | grace | sexuality
I will strengthen the house of Judah,
and I will save the house of Joseph.
I will bring them back,
for I have mercy on them.
They will be as though I had not cast them off,
for I am Yahweh their God, and I will hear them.
Zechariah 10:6
strength | listening | compassion
He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to the sky, he blessed them, broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude. They ate and were all filled. They gathered up twelve baskets of broken pieces that were left over.
Luke 9:16-17
miracles | food | bread
Now when all the people were baptized, Jesus also had been baptized and was praying. The sky was opened, and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form like a dove on him; and a voice came out of the sky, saying “You are my beloved Son. In you I am well pleased.”
Luke 3:21-22
baptism | Spirit | Jesus
He who turns away his ear from hearing the law,
even his prayer is an abomination.
Proverbs 28:9
obedience | listening | law
I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.
Luke 11:9
seeking | reliability