Matthew 6:8
Greek Text— Matthew 6:8Therefore don’t be like them, for your Father knows what things you need, before you ask him.
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casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.
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:
Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us.
Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.
Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.
In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’
Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice.
In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.
David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.
Lord, open my lips. My mouth will declare your praise.
Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful.
Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?
Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,
Jesus answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things,
He said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.
Don’t seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.
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.
The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift given to us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on your behalf.
giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;
For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
But when they deliver you up, don’t be anxious how or what you will say, for it will be given you in that hour what you will say.
But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;
I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.
Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.
What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.
For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things.
Were you called being a bondservant? Don’t let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.
In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name Ebenezer, saying, “Yahweh helped us until now.”
Hezekiah the king and Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, prayed because of this, and cried to heaven.
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered the king, “Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.
Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
Then the king said to me, “What is your request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.
The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Yahweh tests the hearts.
But, Yahweh of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I will see your vengeance on them; for to you I have revealed my cause.
“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”
Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin,
They prayed and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two you have chosen
But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak: not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.
Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.
whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and spread out his hands toward this house,
I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.
Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.
Hear my cry, God. Listen to my prayer.
Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.
For what does a man have of all his labor and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors under the sun?
“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “For this, moreover, I will be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock.
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.
For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.
Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.
Jesus stood still, and called them, and asked, “What do you want me to do for you?”
But they didn’t understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.
He said to them, “What do you want me to do for you?”
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”
Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.
Now we know that you know all things, and don’t need for anyone to question you. By this we believe that you came from God.”
requesting, if by any means now at last I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,
nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.
Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.
Jesus asked him, “What do you want me to do for you?” The blind man said to him, “Rabboni, that I may see again.”
“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.
When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no wine.”
So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, “Father, I thank you that you listened to me.
Therefore Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them, “Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, ‘A little while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you will see me?’
He, fastening his eyes on him, and being frightened, said, “What is it, Lord?” He said to him, “Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God.
When he had spoken these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all.
He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit’s mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.
who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—
We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,