1 Samuel 1:13

with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.

And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”

I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.

For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

When I heard these words, I sat down and wept, and mourned several days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven,

Then I answered them, and said to them, “The God of heaven will prosper us. Therefore we, his servants, will arise and build; but you have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.”

Bring joy to the soul of your servant, for to you, Lord, do I lift up my soul.

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient,

You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

You shall make its horns on its four corners. Its horns shall be of one piece with it. You shall overlay it with bronze.

In Gibeon, Yahweh appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, “Ask for what I should give you.”

Lord, I beg you, let your ear be attentive now to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants, who delight to fear your name; and please prosper your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” Now I was cup bearer to the king.

Yahweh has heard my supplication. Yahweh accepts my prayer.

Hear my prayer, God. Listen to the words of my mouth.

I pour out my complaint before him. I tell him my troubles.

They shall be as mighty men, treading down muddy streets in the battle; and they shall fight, because Yahweh is with them; and the riders on horses will be confounded.

In that day I will make the chieftains of Judah like a pan of fire among wood, and like a flaming torch among sheaves; and they will devour all the surrounding peoples, on the right hand and on the left; and Jerusalem will yet again dwell in their own place, even in Jerusalem.

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.

But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers.

I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever:

Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened, not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

He shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar which is before Yahweh, that is in the Tent of Meeting; and the rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering. He shall pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering.

Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have not been drinking wine or strong drink, but I poured out my soul before Yahweh.

God said to him, “Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself long life, nor have you asked for riches for yourself, nor have you asked for the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice;

The king said to me (the queen was also sitting by him), “How long will your journey be? When will you return?” So it pleased the king to send me, and I set a time for him.

The king said to Esther at the banquet of wine, “What is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.”

The king said again to Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, “What is your petition, queen Esther? It shall be granted you. What is your request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.”

Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,

Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;

Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea; Give ear to my prayer, that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips.

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.

He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

Hear my voice, God, in my complaint. Preserve my life from fear of the enemy.

Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.

Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

“Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.

Now God made Daniel find kindness and compassion in the sight of the prince of the eunuchs.

Ephraim will be like a mighty man, and their heart will rejoice as through wine; yes, their children will see it, and rejoice. Their heart will be glad in Yahweh.

In that day Yahweh will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. He who is feeble among them at that day will be like David, and David’s house will be like God, like Yahweh’s angel before them.

But Jesus answered, “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?” They said to him, “We are able.”

Jesus asked him, “What do you want me to do for you?” The blind man said to him, “Rabboni, that I may see again.”

If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we didn’t use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.

If therefore the whole assembly is assembled together and all speak with other languages, and unlearned or unbelieving people come in, won’t they say that you are crazy?

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.

You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.

Before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her pitcher on her shoulder. She went down to the spring, and drew. I said to her, ‘Please let me drink.’

As Yahweh’s ark came into David’s city, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out through the window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before Yahweh; and she despised him in her heart.

Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant, and for his supplication, Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you today;

As the ark of Yahweh’s covenant came to David’s city, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at the window, and saw king David dancing and playing; and she despised him in her heart.

but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.

Then the king said to me, “What is your request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.

To you, Yahweh, I lift up my soul.

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.

The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.

For Yahweh says to me, “As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds is called together against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for their noise, so Yahweh of Armies will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its heights.

They will come with weeping. I will lead them with petitions. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they won’t stumble; for I am a father to Israel. Ephraim is my firstborn.

You heard my voice: “Don’t hide your ear from my sighing, and my cry.”

He said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear Yahweh, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land.”

Yahweh of Armies will defend them; and they will destroy and overcome with sling stones; and they will drink, and roar as through wine; and they will be filled like bowls, like the corners of the altar.

In that day there will be on the bells of the horses, “HOLY TO YAHWEH”; and the pots in Yahweh’s house will be like the bowls before the altar.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise,

But Jesus said to them, “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?”

For John the Baptizer came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’

for I tell you, I will not drink at all again from the fruit of the vine, until God’s Kingdom comes.”

Others, mocking, said, “They are filled with new wine.”

The commanding officer took him by the hand, and going aside, asked him privately, “What is it that you have to tell me?”

I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.

What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores. They didn’t repent of their works.

Give ear to my words, Yahweh. Consider my meditation.