Q105. What is Prayer?

Scripture proofs

1. [1]
   Psalms 62:8

   Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.

2. [2]
   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.

3. [3]
   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:

4. [4]
   John 16:23

   And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.

5. [5]
   Matthew 21:22

   And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.

   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.

6. [6]
   Psalms 32:5-6

   I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah. For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.

   Daniel 9:4

   And I prayed unto the Lord my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;

7. [7]
   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.

Proof texts as given in the original; verse text from the King James Version.