Psalms 6:9

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

Pray without ceasing.

Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,

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

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

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

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks be made for all men:

He brought me out also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

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

But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.

Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

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.

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

don’t cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,

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

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

In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.

Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless his people with peace.

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

This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

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

I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from?

Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever.

Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

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

Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

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.”

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!”

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.

In my distress, I called on Yahweh. Yes, I called to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry came into his ears.

For they all would have made us afraid, saying, “Their hands will be weakened from the work, that it not be done.” But now, strengthen my hands.

Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, to your tents.

You who hear prayer, all men will come to you.

My cry goes to God! Indeed, I cry to God for help, and for him to listen to me.

Then I called on Yahweh’s name: “Yahweh, I beg you, deliver my soul.”

I said in my haste, “All people are liars.”

When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream.

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

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

He also brought me out into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

Then the Levitical priests arose and blessed the people. Their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy habitation, even to heaven.

Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a wide place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.

“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”

Yahweh is in his holy temple. Yahweh is on his throne in heaven. His eyes observe. His eyes examine the children of men.

My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.

Then I thought, “I will appeal to this: the years of the right hand of the Most High.”

In the day of my trouble I will call on you, for you will answer me.

set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.

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

I was glad when they said to me, “Let’s go to Yahweh’s house!”

I lift up my eyes to you, you who sit in the heavens.

If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, let Israel now say,

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

While I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before Yahweh my God for the holy mountain of my God;

But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!”

I will strengthen them in Yahweh; and they will walk up and down in his name,” says Yahweh.

For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

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

and said to them, “Why do you sleep? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation.”

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:

All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer and supplication, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.

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.

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

What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also. I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.

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.

always in every request of mine on behalf of you all, making my requests with joy,

strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy,

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

I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’

I prayed for this child, and Yahweh has given me my petition which I asked of him.

I cry to Yahweh with my voice, and he answers me out of his holy hill.

As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

But most certainly, God has listened. He has heard the voice of my prayer.

Out of my distress, I called on Yah. Yah answered me with freedom.

In my distress, I cried to Yahweh. He answered me.

In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me with strength in my soul.

He said, “I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.

“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.

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: