Verses about Prayer
We are promised that praying will deliver results. Here’s a list of verses on the results of prayer. Even more good news is that you don’t even need words as the Holy Spirit will petition when you feel a loss of words.
Likewise, the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
Romans 8:26
But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you.
Matthew 5:44
And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.
Matthew 21:22
Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak
Matthew 26:41
Bless those who curse you, and pray for those who spitefully use you.
Luke 6:28
What is the conclusion then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will also pray with the understanding. I will sing with the spirit, and I will also sing with the understanding.
I Corinthians 14:15
Pray without ceasing.
I Thessalonians 5:17
Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing psalms. Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.
James 5:13-14
For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.
Matthew 18:20
And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.
James 5:15-16
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
Philippians 4:6
Continue earnestly in prayer, being vigilant in it with thanksgiving.
Colossians 4:2
Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints.
Ephesians 6:18
If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
II Corinthians 7:14
Quotes
“I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time, waking and sleeping. It doesn’t change God. It changes me.” C.S. Lewis
“Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I’d do. I’d go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I’d look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I’d just feel a prayer.”
Anne of Green Gables
“I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is so far away is because that is where we have put him. We have kept him at a distance, and then when we are in need and call on him in prayer, we wonder where he is. He is exactly where we left him.”
Has Christianity Failed You?
Books
Praying Women: How to Pray When You Don’t Know What to Say by Sheila Walsh, audiobook
A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23 by W. Phillip Keller, audiobook
Walking the Labyrinth: A Place to Pray and Seek God by Travis Scholl
The Rhythm of Prayer: A Forty-Day Experience by Mark A. Moore
Blog Posts
Battling on the Front Lines – Grip the Sword blog
The One Thing You Need to Do To Make Your Prayer Life Flourish – Kendra Burrow’s blog
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