Bible Verses About Prayer

After Yeshua had gone indoors, his talmidim asked him privately, "Why couldn't we drive it out?"

He said to them "This is the kind of spirit that can be driven out only by prayer."

Therefore, I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, trust that you are receiving it, and it will be yours.

And when you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him; so that your Father in heaven may also forgive your offenses."

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

Also he took a cup of wine, made the b'rakhah, and gave it to them; and they all drank.

It was around that time that Yeshua went out to the hill country to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God.

Hearing about Yeshua, the officer sent some Jewish elders to him with the request that he come and heal his servant.

Then he took the five loaves and the two fish and, looking up toward heaven, made a b’rakhah, broke the loaves and began giving them to the talmidim to distribute to the crowd.

One time Yeshua was in a certain place praying. As he finished, one of the talmidim said to him, “Sir, teach us to pray, just as Yochanan taught his talmidim.”

He said to them, “When you pray, say: ‘Father, May your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come.

Give us each day the food we need.

Forgive us our sins, for we too forgive everyone who has wronged us. And do not lead us to hard testing.’”

He also said to them, “Suppose one of you has a friend; and you go to him in the middle of the night and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,

because a friend of mine who has been travelling has just arrived at my house, and I have nothing for him to eat.’

Now the one inside may answer, ‘Don’t bother me! The door is already shut, my children are with me in bed — I can’t get up to give you anything!’

But I tell you, even if he won’t get up because the man is his friend, yet because of the man’s hutzpah he will get up and give him as much as he needs.

“Moreover, I myself say to you: keep asking, and it will be given to you; keep seeking, and you will find; keep knocking, and the door will be opened to you.

For everyone who goes on asking receives; and he who goes on seeking finds; and to him who continues knocking, the door will be opened.

“Is there any father here who, if his son asked him for a fish, would instead of a fish give him a snake?

or if he asked for an egg would give him a scorpion?

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

Then Yeshua told his talmidim a parable, in order to impress on them that they must always keep praying and not lose heart.

“In a certain town, there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected other people.

There was also in that town a widow who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me a judgment against the man who is trying to ruin me.’