Since prayer is at the bottom of all this, what I want mostly is for men to pray - not shaking angry fists at enemies but raising holy hands to God. - 1 Timothy 2:8-10 MSG 

For who do you know that really knows you, knows your heart? And even if they did, is there anything they would discover in you that you could take credit for? Isn’t everything you have and everything you are sheer gifts from God? - 1 Corinthians 4:7-8 MSG 

Those in the crowd were indignant and scolded him for making so much of a disturbance, but he kept shouting with all his might, “Son of David, have mercy on me now and heal me!”

Mark 10:48 TPT

We had heard of the city's glory, but now we have seen it ourselves- the city of the LORD of Heaven's Armies. It is the city of our God; he will make it safe forever.

Psalm 48:8 NLT

2 Thessalonians 2:13 AMP

But we should and are [morally] obligated [as debtors] always to give thanks to God for you, believers beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation through the sanctifying work of the Spirit [that sets you apart for God’s purpose] and by your faith in the truth [of God’s word that leads you to spiritual maturity].

“It will be like when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his hunger isn’t satisfied; or like when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and behold, he is faint, and he is still thirsty. The multitude of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion will be like that.”

Isaiah 29:8 WEB

“Ezra opened the scroll in the sight of all the people for he was above all the people. When he opened it, all the people stood up.”

Nehemiah 8:5 TLV