Quotes about Prayer

So we prayed to our God and posted a guard against them day and night.

O my God, remember Tobiah and Sanballat for what they have done, and also Noadiah the prophetess and the other prophets who tried to intimidate me.

And the Levites—Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani—stood on the raised platform and cried out in a loud voice to the LORD their God.

So You delivered them into the hands of enemies who oppressed them, and in their time of distress they cried out to You. From heaven You heard them, and in Your great compassion You gave them deliverers who saved them from the hands of their enemies.

Mattaniah son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, who led in thanksgiving and prayer; Bakbukiah, second among his associates; and Abda son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.

The two thanksgiving choirs then stood in the house of God, as did I, along with the half of the officials accompanying me,

Remember me for this, O my God, and do not blot out my deeds of loving devotion for the house of my God and for its services.

Esther replied, “This is my petition and my request:

However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—

If only my request were granted and God would fulfill my hope:

But if you would earnestly seek God and ask the Almighty for mercy,

If I summoned Him and He answered me, I do not believe He would listen to my voice.