A.W. Tozer said, “The most important aspect of the Christian life is prayer.” God delights in answering our prayers. Jesus said in John 14:13-14, “Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.”
This sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it? The nature of this promise is so big and wide that it’s as if Jesus has given us a blank check signed by him that we can cash when we meet the conditions of the promise. When we pray in Jesus’ name, we must pray according to his will and in alignment with his purposes. When our prayers are focused on the glory of God being displayed in our lives, he’s promised to do what we’ve asked of him.
How should we think about the power of prayer in our lives? Here are 20 verses to help form our theology about the power of God, who delights in working through our lives in prayer.
20 Bible Verses About the Power of Prayer
- 1 John 5:14-15 (ESV)
And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him. - Mark 11:24 (ESV)
Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. - Philippians 4:6 (ESV)
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. - Psalm 37:4-5 (ESV)
Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act. - Matthew 21:21 (ESV)
And Jesus answered them, “Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen. - Micah 7:7 (ESV)
But as for me, I will look to the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me. - Matthew 7:7 (ESV)
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.” - Jeremiah 33:3 (ESV)
Call to me and I will answer you and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known. - 2 Chronicles 7:14 (ESV)
If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land. - 1 John 3:22 (ESV)
And whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him. - Matthew 18:19 (ESV)
“Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.” - Matthew 6:6 (ESV)
But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. - Jeremiah 29:12 (ESV)
Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. - Ephesians 3:20 (ESV)
Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us. - James 4:2 (ESV)
You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. - Proverbs 15:29 (ESV)
The Lord is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous. - Psalm 145:14 (ESV)
The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. - 1 Peter 3:12 (ESV)
“For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.” - James 1:5-6 (ESV)
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. - John 16:24 (ESV)
Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.
While You Wait
If you are in Christ, you have unfettered access to the throne of God and can trust that when you pray, he hears and delights in answering you. But what do you do while you wait for his answer? You trust.
God’s grace in answered prayer comes to us more often through natural means than supernatural. When you want to grow a garden, you plant your seeds, cultivate them, and watch them grow—and God works the same way. Again, A.W. Tozer said, “God does not work with slot machines. [Prayer] is not about putting a nickel in the slot and getting anything you want. That’s the way people work, not God.”
Just like seeds take time to grow, give your prayers time. Your Father, who knows and loves you, will bring about his perfect will at the perfect time. While you wait, grow in your understanding of his will by being in his Word. It’s there you’ll learn that no good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly (Psa 84:11). Good things take time. Keep praying.
Praying with you,
Cara
Related Posts
20 Bible Verses About God Answering Prayers
20 Bible Verses on Spending Time with God
