Luke 6:12

I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

Pray without ceasing.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us.

He went in therefore, and shut the door on them both, and prayed to Yahweh.

Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you; for now Yahweh would have established your kingdom on Israel forever.

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

Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.

It will happen that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

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:

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

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.

For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.

Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.

Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.

You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:

so that you are not seen by men to be fasting, but by your Father who is in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.

Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don’t know when the time is.

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” Samuel prayed to Yahweh.

Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death; for Samuel mourned for Saul: and Yahweh grieved that he had made Saul king over Israel.

When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name;

because they turned away from following him, and wouldn’t pay attention to any of his ways,

You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice.

when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches.

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.

Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

Oh come, let’s worship and bow down. Let’s kneel before Yahweh, our Maker,

He is Yahweh, our God. His judgments are in all the earth.

Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

Great multitudes from Galilee, Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea and from beyond the Jordan followed him.

so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire.”

About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lima sabachthani?” That is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

Jesus cried again with a loud voice, and yielded up his spirit.

At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is, being interpreted, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and gave up the spirit.

Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

Peter sent them all out, and knelt down and prayed. Turning to the body, he said, “Tabitha, get up!” She opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up.

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let’s have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

But Moses’ hands were heavy; so they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side. His hands were steady until sunset.

Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.

My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him.

Your sons have fainted. They lie at the head of all the streets, like an antelope in a net. They are full of Yahweh’s wrath, the rebuke of your God.

if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good with which I said I would benefit them.

Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

“But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, should he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done will be remembered. In his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

After he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into the mountain by himself to pray. When evening had come, he was there alone.

But he withdrew himself into the desert, and prayed.

As he was praying alone, the disciples were with him, and he asked them, “Who do the multitudes say that I am?”

“It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments.” Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.

I will bless Yahweh, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.

With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches! Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.

He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,

So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he bowed himself down on the earth, and put his face between his knees.

My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.

I have remembered your name, Yahweh, in the night, and I obey your law.

My eyes stay open through the night watches, that I might meditate on your word.

I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night.”

When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.

But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

Jesus, perceiving that, withdrew from there. Great multitudes followed him; and he healed them all,

Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.

Jesus withdrew to the sea with his disciples, and a great multitude followed him from Galilee, from Judea,

After he had taken leave of them, he went up the mountain to pray.

After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John, and brought them up onto a high mountain privately by themselves, and he was changed into another form in front of them.

When it was day, he departed and went into an uninhabited place, and the multitudes looked for him, and came to him, and held on to him, so that he wouldn’t go away from them.

He came down with them, and stood on a level place, with a crowd of his disciples, and a great number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases;

About eight days after these sayings, he took with him Peter, John, and James, and went up onto the mountain to pray.

When he finished praying in a certain place, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.”

Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,