Let's journey to the most encouraging and inspiring bible verses and scriptures about how to pray.
Asking God in prayer for the answers to our needs and desires is the best way to find them. It is so fundamental that we sometimes forget its importance.
It is not enough to ask God for what you want or need. It is tied to building a trusting and confident relationship with Him. God is able to discern your deepest desires before you ask. However, He loves to hear from you regardless of whether you are asking for direction or just expressing appreciation. It draws you closer to Him.
There are many people in the Bible who were instructed to pray for things that we don’t actually pray about, such as fear, anger, and stress. This is why the Holy Scripture is filled with Bible verses on love, hope, and patience.
However, for those difficult days when you’re addressing exactly how compelling prayer truly is, these scriptures on how to pray will assist with persuading you to get down on your knees and speak with the Lord.
This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
Look to the Lord and his strength; seek his face always.
I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people.
You will pray to him, and he will hear you, and you will fulfill your vows.
My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.
Is anyone among you in trouble? Let them pray. Is anyone happy? Let them sing songs of praise.
Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
The Lord detests the sacrifice of the wicked, but the prayer of the upright pleases him.
I call on you, my God, for you will answer me; turn your ear to me and hear my prayer.
He will respond to the prayer of the destitute; he will not despise their plea.
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
Answer me when I call to you, my righteous God. Give me relief from my distress; have mercy on me and hear my prayer.
The Lord is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.
If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!
One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God.
Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.
In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.
Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.
Therefore I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands without anger or disputing.
Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has ascended into heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess.
When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people—for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.
Therefore let all the faithful pray to you while you may be found; surely the rising of the mighty waters will not reach them.
But God has surely listened and has heard my prayer.
Now therefore, O our God, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his pleas for mercy, and for your own sake, O Lord, make your face to shine upon your sanctuary, which is desolate.
When my life was fainting away, I remembered the Lord, and my prayer came to you, into your holy temple.
I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.
Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.
In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence.
Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul.
Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words.
For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.
Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.
These inspiring scriptures on how to pray have provided us with encouragement and strength to grow in our prayer life.