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Prayer
“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.
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“It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”
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If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.”
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He replied, “This kind can come out only by prayer.”
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And as he taught them, he said, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”
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Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
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They devour widows’ houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will be punished most severely.”
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But the angel said to him: “Do not be afraid, Zechariah; your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to call him John.
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Jesus’ Teaching on Prayer
One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.”
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“It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be a house of prayer’; but you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”
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They devour widows’ houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will be punished most severely.”
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When he rose from prayer and went back to the disciples, he found them asleep, exhausted from sorrow.
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My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.
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Jesus Prays for All Believers
“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message,
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They all joined together constantly in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.
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The Fellowship of the Believers
They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
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Peter Heals a Lame Beggar
One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time of prayer—at three in the afternoon.
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When they heard this, they raised their voices together in prayer to God. “Sovereign Lord,” they said, “you made the heavens and the earth and the sea, and everything in them.
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and will give our attention to prayer and the ministry of the word.”
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Cornelius stared at him in fear. “What is it, Lord?” he asked. The angel answered, “Your prayers and gifts to the poor have come up as a memorial offering before God.
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and said, ‘Cornelius, God has heard your prayer and remembered your gifts to the poor.
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Paul and Barnabas appointed elders for them in each church and, with prayer and fasting, committed them to the Lord, in whom they had put their trust.
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On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate to the river, where we expected to find a place of prayer. We sat down and began to speak to the women who had gathered there.
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Paul and Silas in Prison
Once when we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a female slave who had a spirit by which she predicted the future. She earned a great deal of money for her owners by fortune-telling.
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His father was sick in bed, suffering from fever and dysentery. Paul went in to see him and, after prayer, placed his hands on him and healed him.
