For many people, prayer is a mystery. Yet, there is nothing mysterious about it in the Bible: We are to pray according to the Father\u2019s will; have faith; and receive what we have requested. Does the Bible make it too simple, or do we make it too difficult? Perhaps this list of the Top 10 Scriptures About Prayer will help you understand what the Bible says about prayer.<\/p>\n
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#10: 1 Thessalonians 5:17<\/strong><\/p>\n 17<\/small><\/span> pray without ceasing;<\/p><\/div>\n Translation: NASB<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n #9: James 5:13-16<\/strong><\/p>\n 13<\/small><\/span> Is anyone among you suffering? Then he must pray. Is anyone cheerful? He is to sing praises.<\/p> 14<\/small><\/span> Is anyone among you sick? Then he must call for the elders of the church and they are to pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord;<\/p> 15<\/small><\/span> and the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up, and if he has committed sins, they will be forgiven him.<\/p> 16<\/small><\/span> Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much.<\/p><\/div>\n Translation: NASB<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n #8: \u00a0Jeremiah 33:3<\/strong><\/p>\n 3<\/small><\/span> 'Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.'<\/p><\/div>\n Translation: NASB<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n #7: Matthew 18:18-20<\/strong><\/p>\n 18<\/small><\/span> \"Truly I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven.<\/p> 19<\/small><\/span> \"Again I say to you, that if two of you agree on earth about anything that they may ask, it shall be done for them by My Father who is in heaven.<\/p> 20<\/small><\/span> \"For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst.\"<\/p><\/div>\n Translation: NASB<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n #6: Ephesians 6:18<\/strong><\/p>\n 18<\/small><\/span> With all prayer and petition pray at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints,<\/p><\/div>\n Translation: NASB<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Top 10 Scriptures About Prayer Honorable Mentions:<\/strong><\/p>\n The Bible has far more to say about prayer than we could ever include in our list. Here are some of the great insights it would have taken a miracle to\u00a0find more for:<\/p>\n Mark 11:22-26<\/strong><\/p>\n 22<\/small><\/span> And Jesus *answered saying to them, \"Have faith in God.<\/p> 23<\/small><\/span> \"Truly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is going to happen, it will be granted him.<\/p> 24<\/small><\/span> \"Therefore I say to you, all things for which you pray and ask, believe that you have received them, and they will be granted you.<\/p> 25<\/small><\/span> \"Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father who is in heaven will also forgive you your transgressions.<\/p> 26<\/small><\/span> [\"But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father who is in heaven forgive your transgressions.\"]<\/p><\/div>\n Translation: NASB<\/em><\/p>\n Matthew 26:41<\/strong><\/p>\n 41<\/small><\/span> \"Keep watching and praying that you may not enter into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.\"<\/p><\/div>\n Translation: NASB<\/em><\/p>\n Luke 18:1-8<\/strong><\/p>\n 1<\/small><\/span> Now He was telling them a parable to show that at all times they ought to pray and not to lose heart,<\/p> 2<\/small><\/span> saying, \"In a certain city there was a judge who did not fear God and did not respect man.<\/p> 3<\/small><\/span> \"There was a widow in that city, and she kept coming to him, saying, 'Give me legal protection from my opponent.'<\/p> 4<\/small><\/span> \"For a while he was unwilling; but afterward he said to himself, 'Even though I do not fear God nor respect man,<\/p> 5<\/small><\/span> yet because this widow bothers me, I will give her legal protection, otherwise by continually coming she will wear me out.'\"<\/p> 6<\/small><\/span> And the Lord said, \"Hear what the unrighteous judge *said;<\/p> 7<\/small><\/span> now, will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry to Him day and night, and will He delay long over them?<\/p> 8<\/small><\/span> \"I tell you that He will bring about justice for them quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?\"<\/p><\/div>\n Translation: NASB<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n #5: John 15:7<\/strong><\/p>\n 7<\/small><\/span> \"If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.<\/p><\/div>\n Translation: NASB<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n #4:\u00a0Romans 8:26-27<\/strong><\/p>\n 26<\/small><\/span> In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words;<\/p> 27<\/small><\/span> and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.<\/p><\/div>\n Translation: NASB<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n #3: Matthew 17:14-21<\/strong><\/p>\n 14<\/small><\/span> When they came to the crowd, a man came up to Jesus, falling on his knees before Him and saying,<\/p> 15<\/small><\/span> \"Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is a lunatic and is very ill; for he often falls into the fire and often into the water.<\/p> 16<\/small><\/span> \"I brought him to Your disciples, and they could not cure him.\"<\/p> 17<\/small><\/span> And Jesus answered and said, \"You unbelieving and perverted generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring him here to Me.\"<\/p> 18<\/small><\/span> And Jesus rebuked him, and the demon came out of him, and the boy was cured at once.<\/p> 19<\/small><\/span> Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, \"Why could we not drive it out?\"<\/p> 20<\/small><\/span> And He *said to them, \"Because of the littleness of your faith; for truly I say to you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you.<\/p> 21<\/small><\/span> [\"But this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.\"]<\/p><\/div>\n Translation: NASB<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n #2: 1 John 5:14-15<\/strong><\/p>\n 14<\/small><\/span> This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.<\/p> 15<\/small><\/span> And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him.<\/p><\/div>\n Translation: NASB<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n #1: Luke 11:2-13<\/strong><\/p>\n 2<\/small><\/span> And He said to them, \"When you pray, say: 'Father, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come.<\/p> 3<\/small><\/span> 'Give us each day our daily bread.<\/p> 4<\/small><\/span> 'And forgive us our sins, For we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation.'\"<\/p> 5<\/small><\/span> Then He said to them, \"Suppose one of you has a friend, and goes to him at midnight and says to him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves;<\/p> 6<\/small><\/span> for a friend of mine has come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him';<\/p> 7<\/small><\/span> and from inside he answers and says, 'Do not bother me; the door has already been shut and my children and I are in bed; I cannot get up and give you anything.'<\/p> 8<\/small><\/span> \"I tell you, even though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will get up and give him as much as he needs.<\/p> 9<\/small><\/span> \"So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.<\/p> 10<\/small><\/span> \"For everyone who asks, receives; and he who seeks, finds; and to him who knocks, it will be opened.<\/p> 11<\/small><\/span> \"Now suppose one of you fathers is asked by his son for a fish; he will not give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?<\/p> 12<\/small><\/span> \"Or if he is asked for an egg, he will not give him a scorpion, will he?<\/p> 13<\/small><\/span> \"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?\"<\/p><\/div>\n Translation: NASB<\/em><\/p>\n Downloads<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n [bsk-pdf-manager-pdf id=”20″ target=”_blank”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For many people, prayer is a mystery. 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