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Great Prayer Scriptures
"Pray Without Ceasing"
(Scriptures are King James Version.)

These great prayer promises of the Bible are like any other promise God makes to His people,
they are all conditional. If we will, God will!

God is a great King and though He loves us infinitly, He does demand obedience,
unto these are the promises granted.

2 Chronicles 7:14
"If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."

Psalm 145:18-19
"The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth. He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them."

Proverbs 15:8
"The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight."

Isaiah 65:24
"And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear."

Jeremiah 33:3
"Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not."

Mark 11:24
"Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them."

Romans 8:26
"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."

Matthew 21:22
"And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive."

Matthew 6:8
"Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him."

Matthew 7:7
"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:"

Matthew 7:11
"If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? "

Matthew 18:19
"Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven."

Luke 11:9
"And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you"

Luke 11:13
"If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?"

John 11:22
"But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee."

John 14:13
"And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son."

John 14:14
"If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. "

John 15:7
"If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you."

John 15:16
"Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you."

John 16:23
"And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you."

John 16:24
"Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full."

1 John 5:14
"And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:"

1 John 5:15
"And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him."

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The following scriptures will answer many questions about prayer itself.

Those we should be praying for.

Ezra 6:10
"That they may offer sacrifices of sweet savours unto the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons."

Matthew 5:44
"But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;"

Matthew 19:13
"Then were there brought unto him little children, that he should put his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them."

Luke 6:28
"Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you. Jesus prays for us:"

John 17:9
"I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine."

Things we should pray about.

2 Samuel 24:17
"And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house."

2 Chronicles 7:14
"If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."

Matthew 9:38
"Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest."

Matthew 26:41
"Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."

Mark 14:38
"Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak."

Luke 10:2
"Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest."

Luke 21:36
"Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man."

Luke 22:40
"And when he was at the place, he said unto them, Pray that ye enter not into temptation."

Luke 22:46
"And said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation."

John 17:15, 20
"I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;"

Acts 8:22
"Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee."

2 Corinthians 5:20
"Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God."

2 Corinthians 13:7
"Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates. "

Philippians 1:9
"And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;"

Colossians 1:9
"For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;"

2 Thessalonians 1:11
"Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:"

2 Thessalonians 3:1
"Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you:"

James 1:5-6
"If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed."

A good time to pray.

Psalm 55:17
"Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice."

Luke 6:12
"And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God."

Luke 21:36
"Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man."

1 Thessalonians 5:17
"Pray without ceasing."

Acts 6:4
"But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word."

Acts 12:5
"Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him."

Romans 12:12
"Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;"

Ephesians 6:18
"Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;"

Philippians 4:6
"Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God."

Colossians 4:2
"Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;"

1 Peter 4:7
"But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer."

Good places to pray.

Matthew 6:6
"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."

Matthew 26:36
"Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder."

Matthew 14:23
"And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone."

Mark 6:46
"And when he had sent them away, he departed into a mountain to pray."

Mark 14:32
"And they came to a place which was named Gethsemane: and he saith to his disciples, Sit ye here, while I shall pray."

Acts 10:9
"On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour:"

1 Timothy 2:8
"I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting."

Following the example of Jesus.

Hebrews 12:2
"Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God."

John 11:41-42
"Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me."

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