Bible Verses About Prayer

or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?

So if you, even though you are bad, know how to give your children gifts that are good, how much more will your Father in heaven keep giving good things to those who keep asking him!

After instructing the crowds to sit down on the grass, he took the five loaves and the two fish and, looking up toward heaven, made a b'rakhah. Then he broke the loaves and gave them to the talmidim, who gave them to the crowds.

A woman from Kena`an who was living there came to him, pleading, "Sir, have pity on me. Son of David! My daughter is cruelly held under the power of demons!"

But Yeshua did not say a word to her. Then his talmidim came to him and urged him, "Send her away, because she is following us and keeps pestering us with her crying."

He said, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Isra'el."

But she came, fell at his feet and said, "Sir, help me!"

He answered, "It is not right to take the children's food and toss it to their pet dogs."

She said, "That is true, sir, but even the dogs eat the leftovers that fall from their master's table."

Then Yeshua answered her, "Lady, you are a person of great trust. Let your desire be granted." And her daughter was healed at that very moment.

he took the seven loaves and the fish, made a b'rakhah, broke the loaves and gave them to the talmidim, who gave them to the people.

To repeat, I tell you that if two of you here on earth agree about anything people ask, it will be for them from my Father in heaven.

For wherever two or three are assembled in my name, I am there with them."

In other words, you will receive everything you ask for in prayer, no matter what it is, provided you have trust."

While they were eating, Yeshua took a piece of matzah, made the b'rakhah, broke it, gave it to the talmidim and said, "Take! Eat! This is my body!"

Also he took a cup of wine, made the b'rakhah, and gave it to them, saying, "All of you, drink from it!

Going on a little farther, he fell on his face, praying, "My Father, if possible, let this cup pass from me! Yet -- not what I want, but what you want!"

Then he took the five loaves and the two fish, and, looking up toward heaven, made a b'rakhah. Next he broke up the loaves and began giving them to the talmidim to distribute. He also divided up the two fish among them all.

Instead, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit in her came to him and fell down at his feet.

The woman was a Greek, by birth a Syro-phoenician, and she begged him to drive the demon out of her daughter.

He said, "Let the children be fed first, for it is not right to take the children's food and toss it to their pet dogs."

She answered him, "That is true, sir; but even the dogs under the table eat the children's leftovers."

Then he said to her, "For such an answer you may go on home; the demon has left your daughter."

He then told the crowd to sit down on the ground, took the seven loaves, made a b'rakhah, broke the loaves and gave them to his talmidim to serve to the people.

They also had a few fish; making a b'rakhah over them he also ordered these to be served.