Bible Verses About Prayer
What Scripture says about praying — the invitations, the promises, and the practice.
Prayer is the believer's breathing — and the Bible is full of instruction, invitation, and promise about it. These verses cover why we pray, how, and what to expect.
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
Ask, seek, knock — the triple invitation.
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
Everything by prayer — the antidote to anxiety.
Pray without ceasing.
Pray without ceasing — prayer as posture, not appointment.
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.
Call unto me, and I will answer — and shew thee great things.
But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
The shut door and the Father who sees in secret.
And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
Confidence: he heareth us when we ask according to his will.
Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
When you don't know what to pray — the Spirit intercedes.
Prayer needs no eloquence, only honesty aimed at a listening Father. Start small, start today, and keep the line open — without ceasing.
