express our needs and desires, and listen to His voice. The Bible is full of verses that teach us about prayer, its importance, its power, and its benefits. Here are 30 Bible verses on prayer that you can use to enrich your prayer life.
1. Philippians 4:6 - Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
2. Mark 11:24 - Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
3. Romans 8:26 - Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.
4. Matthew 6:6 - But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
5. James 5:16 - Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
6. Matthew 26:41 - Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
7. Colossians 4:2 - Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.
8. 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 - Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you
9. 1 John 5:14-15 - This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.
10. Jeremiah 29:12 - Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
11. Romans 12:12 - Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
12. Psalm 145:18 - The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.
13. Jeremiah 33:3 - Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.
14. Acts 16:25 - About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.
15. Matthew 6:7 - And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words.
16. Hebrews 4:16 - 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.
17. Matthew 18:20 - For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.
18. Psalm 18:6 - In my distress I called to the Lord; I cried to my God for help. From his temple he heard my voice; my cry came before him, into his ears.
19. James 1:6 - But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.
20. John 15:16 - You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.
21. 1 Peter 4:7 - The end of all things is near. Therefore be alert and of sober mind so that you may pray.
22. Psalm 34:17 - The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears them; he delivers them from all their troubles.
23. Ephesians 6:18 - And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people.
24. Luke 11:9-10 - So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
25. Luke 18:1 - Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.
26. John 14:13-14 - And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.
