100 Bible Verses About The Power of Prayer

In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.

I intreated thy favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word.

And the Lord said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.

And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten’s sake.

And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god.

Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?

Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin—; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.

I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.

Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;

Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.

For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.

Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord.

When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.

Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us.

O Lord God, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember the mercies of David thy servant.

And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.

Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.

Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.

Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

I called upon the Lord in distress: the Lord answered me, and set me in a large place.

And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man’s hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not.

This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.

And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.

Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way:

And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them, Do not interpretations belong to God? tell me them, I pray you.

That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this place.

As for me, I will call upon God; and the Lord shall save me.

Arise, O Lord, into thy rest; thou, and the ark of thy strength.

Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?

And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.

As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?

And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, Lord, and let thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee.

And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I will pray for you unto the Lord.

And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind: and they cried unto the Lord, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.

Grant not, O Lord, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.

Hear me, O Lord; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.

If thy people go out to war against their enemies by the way that thou shalt send them, and they pray unto thee toward this city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name;

O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee.

Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;

Unto thee will I cry, O Lord my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.

The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.

Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.

Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.

Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.

And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the Lord.

They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.

And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time,

And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.

O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the Lord.

Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping.

Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for the offices thereof.

Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,

And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.

And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands unto the Lord: and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured upon the earth.

I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

Wilt not thou, O God, which hadst cast us off? and thou, O God, which didst not go out with our armies?

Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the Lord, and fasted that day until even, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.

Then Manoah intreated the Lord, and said, O my Lord, let the man of God which thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born.

In my distress I cried unto the Lord, and he heard me.

And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand.

For the Lord your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

And let us arise, and go up to Beth–el; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.

In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.

Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress.

I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints.

God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us; Selah.

And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the Lord.

When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.

Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses.

For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.

Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy counsel.

And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely it is the king of Israel. And they turned aside to fight against him: and Jehoshaphat cried out.

For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.

And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence.

Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?

And she said, Let thine handmaid find grace in thy sight. So the woman went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more sad.

And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the Lord, he arose from before the altar of the Lord, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven.

And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.

Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.

Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

And he said, I seek my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they feed their flocks.

He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.

Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.

The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies.

Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant.

Thy God hath commanded thy strength: strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us.

They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.

And when it rested, he said, Return, O Lord, unto the many thousands of Israel.

He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many with me.

Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.

Hear the right, O Lord, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.

Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the Lord our God.

Our soul waiteth for the Lord: he is our help and our shield.

I cried to thee, O Lord; and unto the Lord I made supplication.