Overview
Prayer is the believer's privilege and responsibility to speak directly to God the Father through Christ. Jesus taught His disciples to pray with faith, persistence, and alignment with God's will. Prayer encompasses petition, intercession, thanksgiving, and worship, and God promises to hear and answer those who come to Him in faith through Christ.
Key Scriptures
"Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you" (Matthew 7:7, ESV). "If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it" (John 14:14, ESV). "And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us" (1 John 5:14, ESV).
Application
Establish a consistent prayer life, bringing your genuine needs and concerns before God with confidence in His willingness and ability to answer according to His perfect will.
✦ Scripture References 40 references
Matthew 6:9
Matthew 6:10
Matthew 6:11
Matthew 6:12
Matthew 6:13
Luke 11:2
Luke 11:3
Luke 11:4
John 14:13
John 14:14
John 15:16
John 16:23
John 16:24
Acts 9:11
Psalms 22:1
Psalms 22:2
Psalms 40:1
Psalms 80:4
Psalms 88:14
Jeremiah 42:7
Habakkuk 1:2
Luke 18:7
Exodus 33:17
Exodus 33:18
Exodus 33:19
Exodus 33:20
Deuteronomy 4:29
Deuteronomy 4:30
Deuteronomy 4:31
2 Chronicles 7:13
2 Chronicles 7:14
2 Chronicles 7:15
Job 8:5
Job 8:6
Psalms 37:4
Psalms 37:5
Psalms 50:14
Psalms 50:15
Psalms 55:16
Psalms 55:17
✦ Topical Scripture Breakdown 614 verses
»Lord's Prayer«
Acceptable through Christ
An evidence of conversion
Answer to prayer, delayed
Answer to prayer, promised
2 Chronicles 7:13
2 Chronicles 7:14
2 Chronicles 7:15
Amos 5:4
Amos 5:5
Amos 5:6
Deuteronomy 4:29
Deuteronomy 4:30
Deuteronomy 4:31
Exodus 33:17
Exodus 33:18
Exodus 33:19
Exodus 33:20
Jeremiah 29:12
Jeremiah 29:13
Job 8:5
Job 8:6
Joel 2:18
Joel 2:19
Matthew 6:5
Matthew 6:6
Matthew 6:7
Matthew 6:8
Matthew 6:9
Matthew 6:10
Matthew 6:11
Matthew 6:12
Matthew 6:13
Matthew 7:7
Matthew 7:8
Matthew 7:9
Matthew 7:10
Matthew 7:11
Matthew 18:19
Matthew 18:20
Psalms 37:4
Psalms 37:5
Psalms 50:14
Psalms 50:15
Psalms 55:16
Psalms 55:17
Psalms 86:5
Psalms 86:6
Psalms 86:7
Psalms 102:17
Psalms 102:18
Psalms 102:19
Psalms 102:20
Psalms 145:18
Psalms 145:19
Answered
2 Corinthians 12:8
2 Corinthians 12:9
James 5:17
James 5:18
Job 34:28
Jonah 2:1
Jonah 2:2
Lamentations 3:57
Lamentations 3:58
Luke 23:42
Luke 23:43
Psalms 3:4
Psalms 4:1
Psalms 6:8
Psalms 6:9
Psalms 18:6
Psalms 21:2
Psalms 21:4
Psalms 22:4
Psalms 22:5
Psalms 22:24
Psalms 28:6
Psalms 30:2
Psalms 30:3
Psalms 31:22
Psalms 34:4
Psalms 34:5
Psalms 34:6
Psalms 40:1
Psalms 66:19
Psalms 66:20
Psalms 77:1
Psalms 77:2
Psalms 81:7
Psalms 99:6
Psalms 99:7
Psalms 99:8
Psalms 106:44
Psalms 107:6
Psalms 107:7
Psalms 107:13
Psalms 107:14
Psalms 107:15
Psalms 107:16
Psalms 107:17
Psalms 107:18
Psalms 107:19
Psalms 107:20
Psalms 116:1
Psalms 116:2
As the Spirit of adoptions, leads to
Ascends to heaven
Avoid hindrances in
Beseeching the Lord
Bowing down
Bowing the knees
By Hezekiah
By Jacob
Calling upon the name of the Lord
Commanded
Confession
Daniel 9:4
Daniel 9:5
Daniel 9:6
Daniel 9:7
Daniel 9:8
Daniel 9:9
Daniel 9:10
Daniel 9:11
Nehemiah 1:4
Nehemiah 1:7
Confession in prayer
1 Kings 8:47
1 Samuel 12:10
Daniel 9:5
Daniel 9:6
Daniel 9:7
Daniel 9:8
Daniel 9:9
Daniel 9:10
Daniel 9:11
Daniel 9:12
Daniel 9:13
Daniel 9:14
Daniel 9:15
Ezra 9:6
Ezra 9:15
Isaiah 59:12
Isaiah 59:13
Job 7:20
Job 40:4
Job 40:5
Judges 10:10
Judges 10:15
Leviticus 5:5
Leviticus 26:40
Nehemiah 1:6
Nehemiah 1:7
Nehemiah 9:2
Nehemiah 9:33
Nehemiah 9:34
Nehemiah 9:35
Numbers 5:5
Numbers 5:6
Numbers 5:7
Psalms 31:10
Psalms 32:3
Psalms 32:5
Psalms 38:4
Psalms 38:5
Psalms 38:6
Psalms 38:7
Psalms 38:8
Psalms 38:10
Psalms 38:18
Psalms 40:12
Psalms 51:3
Psalms 51:4
Psalms 69:5
Psalms 106:6
Psalms 106:7
Psalms 119:176
Continue instant in
Covenant of God
Crying to God
Crying to heaven
Drawing near to God
Everywhere
Evils averted by praying
Experience of past mercies an incentive to
Faint not in
Faithfulness of God
Falling on the face
Fasting
For mercy and grace to help in time of need
For spiritual blessings
For temporal blessings
God answers
God hears
Helps our infirmities in
Importunity in prayer
1 Kings 8:22
1 Kings 8:23
1 Kings 8:24
1 Kings 8:25
1 Kings 8:26
1 Kings 8:27
1 Kings 8:28
1 Kings 8:29
1 Kings 8:30
1 Samuel 1:10
1 Samuel 1:11
Ezra 9:5
Ezra 9:6
Genesis 18:23
Genesis 18:24
Genesis 18:25
Genesis 18:26
Genesis 18:27
Genesis 18:28
Genesis 18:29
Genesis 18:30
Genesis 18:31
Genesis 18:32
Genesis 32:24
Genesis 32:25
Genesis 32:26
Genesis 32:27
Genesis 32:28
Genesis 32:29
Judges 6:36
Judges 6:37
Judges 6:38
Judges 6:39
Judges 6:40
Nehemiah 1:4
Nehemiah 1:5
Nehemiah 1:6
Psalms 22:1
Psalms 22:2
Psalms 28:1
Psalms 28:2
Psalms 35:22
Psalms 35:23
Psalms 55:1
Psalms 55:2
Psalms 55:16
Psalms 55:17
Psalms 61:1
Psalms 61:2
Psalms 88:1
Imprecatory prayers
2 Samuel 16:10
2 Samuel 16:11
2 Samuel 16:12
Deuteronomy 11:29
Deuteronomy 11:30
Deuteronomy 27:11
Deuteronomy 27:12
Deuteronomy 27:13
Job 3:1
Job 3:2
Job 3:3
Job 3:4
Job 3:5
Job 3:6
Job 3:7
Job 3:8
Job 3:9
Job 3:10
Joshua 8:33
Joshua 8:34
Nehemiah 4:4
Nehemiah 4:5
Numbers 22:6
Numbers 22:7
Numbers 22:8
Numbers 22:9
Numbers 22:10
Numbers 22:11
Numbers 23:7
Numbers 23:8
Numbers 24:9
Numbers 24:10
Psalms 31:17
Psalms 31:18
Psalms 40:14
Psalms 40:15
Psalms 68:1
Psalms 68:2
Psalms 69:23
Psalms 69:24
Psalms 69:27
Psalms 69:28
Psalms 70:2
Psalms 70:3
Psalms 83:13
Psalms 83:14
Psalms 83:15
Psalms 83:16
Psalms 83:17
Psalms 109:9
In a forgiving spirit
In everything
In faith
In full assurance of faith
In the Holy Spirit
Kneeling
Lifting up the hands
Lifting up the heart
Lifting up the soul
Looking up
Making supplication
Mercy of God
Model for
Night and day
Of the righteous, avails much
Of the upright, a delight to God
Ostentation in, forbidden
Pleas offered in prayer
1 Kings 8:25
1 Kings 8:26
1 Kings 8:59
1 Kings 8:60
1 Kings 18:36
1 Kings 18:37
2 Kings 19:15
2 Kings 19:16
2 Kings 19:17
2 Kings 19:18
2 Kings 19:19
2 Samuel 7:25
2 Samuel 7:26
2 Samuel 7:27
2 Samuel 7:28
2 Samuel 7:29
Deuteronomy 3:24
Deuteronomy 3:25
Deuteronomy 9:25
Deuteronomy 9:26
Deuteronomy 9:27
Deuteronomy 9:28
Deuteronomy 9:29
Exodus 32:11
Exodus 32:12
Exodus 32:13
Genesis 32:9
Genesis 32:10
Genesis 32:11
Genesis 32:12
Joshua 7:8
Joshua 7:9
Nehemiah 1:8
Nehemiah 1:9
Numbers 14:13
Numbers 14:14
Numbers 14:15
Numbers 14:16
Numbers 14:17
Numbers 14:18
Psalms 9:19
Psalms 9:20
Psalms 74:10
Psalms 74:11
Psalms 74:20
Psalms 74:21
Psalms 74:22
Psalms 74:23
Psalms 79:10
Psalms 79:11
Pouring out the heart
Pouring out the soul
Praise
Prayer test proposed by Elijah
1 Kings 18:24
1 Kings 18:25
1 Kings 18:26
1 Kings 18:27
1 Kings 18:28
1 Kings 18:29
1 Kings 18:30
1 Kings 18:31
1 Kings 18:32
1 Kings 18:33
1 Kings 18:34
1 Kings 18:35
1 Kings 18:36
1 Kings 18:37
1 Kings 18:38
1 Kings 18:39
Prayers of the apostles
Praying all night
Praying daily in the morning
Praying in a loud voice, satirized by Elijah
Praying thrice daily
Praying to idols
Praying twice daily
Praying without ceasing
Private prayer, enjoined
Profuse prayers, to be avoided
Promised as a Spirit of
Promises of God
Quickening grace necessary to
Repentance
Righteousness of God
Rise early for
Secret prayer
Seek divine teaching for
Seeking the face of the Lord
Seeking to God
Self-abasement
Shortness of time a motive to
Silent prayer
Spreading forth the hands
Standing
Suitable in affliction
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving before taking food
1 Corinthians 10:30
1 Corinthians 10:31
1 Corinthians 11:24
1 Samuel 9:13
1 Timothy 4:3
1 Timothy 4:4
Acts 27:35
John 6:11
John 6:23
Joshua 9:14
Luke 9:16
Luke 22:19
Mark 6:41
Mark 8:6
Mark 8:7
Mark 14:22
Mark 14:23
Matthew 14:19
Matthew 15:36
Matthew 26:26
Matthew 26:27
Romans 14:6
The promises of Christ encourage to
The promises of God encourage to
Through Christ
To Christ
To God
To the Holy Spirit
Unbelief in prayer
Unclassified scriptures relating to prayer
1 Chronicles 16:11
1 Chronicles 16:35
1 Thessalonians 5:17
1 Thessalonians 5:18
2 Chronicles 7:14
Ecclesiastes 5:2
Ephesians 3:11
Ephesians 3:12
Ephesians 6:18
Ephesians 6:19
Genesis 32:24
Genesis 32:25
Genesis 32:26
Genesis 32:27
Genesis 32:28
Isaiah 55:6
Luke 11:1
Luke 11:2
Luke 11:3
Luke 11:4
Luke 11:5
Luke 11:6
Luke 11:7
Luke 11:8
Luke 11:9
Luke 11:10
Luke 11:11
Luke 11:12
Luke 11:13
Mark 9:28
Mark 9:29
Matthew 6:5
Matthew 6:6
Matthew 6:7
Matthew 6:8
Matthew 6:9
Matthew 6:10
Matthew 6:11
Matthew 6:12
Matthew 6:13
Matthew 7:7
Matthew 7:8
Nehemiah 4:9
Proverbs 15:8
Psalms 27:8
Psalms 105:3
Psalms 105:4
Psalms 145:18
Revelation 8:3
Revelation 8:4
Vain repetitions in, forbidden
Vain repetitions of prayers, to be avoided
Watchfulness
Weeping
Weeping in prayer
With a true heart
With boldness
With confidence in God
With deliberation
With desire to be answered
With desire to be heard
With earnestness
With holiness
With humility
With importunity
Genesis 32:26
Luke 11:8
Luke 11:9
Luke 18:1
Luke 18:2
Luke 18:3
Luke 18:4
Luke 18:5
Luke 18:6
Luke 18:7
With preparation of heart
With submission to God
With the heart
With the soul
With the spirit and understanding
With the whole heart
With truth
With unfeigned lips
Without ceasing