Prayer, Private

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Matthew 14:23 NT

  After he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into the mountain by himself to pray. When evening had come, he was there alone.

• Matthew 26:36 NT

  Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to his disciples, “Sit here, while I go there and pray.”

• Matthew 26:39 NT

  He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire.”

• Mark 1:35 NT

  Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.

• Luke 9:18 NT

  As he was praying alone, the disciples were with him, and he asked them, “Who do the multitudes say that I am?”

• Luke 9:29 NT

  As he was praying, the appearance of his face was altered, and his clothing became white and dazzling.

• Matthew 6:6 NT

  But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

• Psalms 55:17 OT

  Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice.

• Psalms 88:1 OT

  Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.

• 1 Thessalonians 5:17 NT

  Pray without ceasing.

• Job 22:27 OT

  You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You will pay your vows.

• Acts 9:11 NT

  The Lord said to him, “Arise, and go to the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judah for one named Saul, a man of Tarsus. For behold, he is praying,

• Daniel 6:10 OT

  When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.

• Genesis 19:20 OT

  See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn’t it a little one?), and my soul will live.”

• Genesis 24:12 OT

  He said, “Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, please give me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.

• Genesis 32:9-12 OT

  Jacob said, “God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me, ‘Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good,’ I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the…

• Judges 6:22 OT

  Gideon saw that he was Yahweh’s angel; and Gideon said, “Alas, Lord Yahweh! Because I have seen Yahweh’s angel face to face!”

• Judges 6:36 OT

  Gideon said to God, “If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken,

• Judges 6:39 OT

  Gideon said to God, “Don’t let your anger be kindled against me, and I will speak but this once. Please let me make a trial just this once with the fleece. Let it now be dry only on the fleece, and on all the ground let there be dew.”

• 1 Samuel 1:10 OT

  She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, weeping bitterly.

• 2 Samuel 7:18-29 OT

  Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he said, “Who am I, Lord Yahweh, and what is my house, that you have brought me this far? This was yet a small thing in your eyes, Lord Yahweh; but you have spoken also of your…

• 2 Kings 20:2 OT

  Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed to Yahweh, saying,

• 2 Kings 20:11 OT

  Isaiah the prophet cried to Yahweh; and he brought the shadow ten steps backward, by which it had gone down on the sundial of Ahaz.

• 2 Chronicles 33:18 OT

  Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, behold, they are written among the acts of the kings of Israel.