An important tool in our Christian life is a prayer which helps us to establish a relationship with the Lord and to walk smoothly on the path of God’s righteousness in this world.
There are many instances in the Bible about the benefits of prayer through which we can see how it can change a variety of situations. Jesus taught that if we forgive others, our heavenly Father will forgive us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Prayer brings peace to our life. When we face trials and problems in our life we need to seek God in prayer. Our prayer to God will make us fearless and help us to remain free from worry. When we need protection, we must pray as it gives us God’s protection. As the Lord says he hears our prayer and delivers us from danger.
Overall we can understand that prayer changes things. So we need to have to spend our time in prayer in order to be victorious in our Christian life. Let us look at the following Bible verses that will help us to understand how prayer changes things.
Mark 11:25
“And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses”
Ephesians 6:18
“Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints”
Psalm 145:18
“The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth”
Jeremiah 29:12
“Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you”
Psalm 5:3
“My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord ; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up”
Romans 8:26
“Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered”
Acts 12:5
“Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him”
Luke 11:9
“And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you”
1 John 1:9
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness”
Romans 12:12
“Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer”
1 John 5:15
“And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him”
Colossians 4:2
“Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving”
Matthew 7:7
“Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you”
1 Peter 4:7
“But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer”
Acts 2:42
“And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers”
Acts 1:14
“These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren”
1 Timothy 2:8
“I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting”
Acts 4:31
“And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness”
Matthew 6:6
“But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly”
John 15:16
“Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you”
Matthew 18:20
“For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them”
Luke 11:13
“If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?”
James 5:16
“Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much”
Hebrews 4:16
“Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need”
Matthew 21:22
“And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive”
James 1:17
“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning”
Acts 16:25
“And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them”
2 Corinthians 5:17
“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new”
Matthew 6:12
“And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors”
1 John 5:14
“And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us”
John 14:13
“And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son”
Matthew 26:41
“Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak”
1 Peter 3:7
“Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered”
Mark 11:24
“Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them”
1 Peter 5:7
“Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you”
Psalm 18:2
“The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower”
Psalm 66:17
“I cried unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue”
John 5:14
“Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee”
1 Thessalonians 5:17
“Pray without ceasing”
John 15:7
“If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you”
Matthew 6:7
“But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking”
2 Chronicles 7:14
“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land”
Philippians 4:6
“Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God”
Jeremiah 33:3
“Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not”
Psalm 39:12
“Hear my prayer, O Lord , and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were”
James 1:6
“But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed”
