Quotes About Prayer

Then he must take a censer full of burning coals from the altar before the LORD, and two handfuls of finely ground fragrant incense, and take them inside the veil.

“Tell Aaron and his sons: This is how you are to bless the Israelites. Say to them:

And when it came to rest, he would say: “Return, O LORD, to the countless thousands of Israel.”

And the people cried out to Moses, and he prayed to the LORD, and the fire died down.

So Moses cried out to the LORD, “O God, please heal her!”

So now I pray, may the power of my Lord be magnified, just as You have declared:

When Moses heard this, he fell facedown.

Then the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned by speaking against the LORD and against you. Intercede with the LORD so He will take the snakes away from us.” So Moses interceded for the people.

So now, please stay here overnight as the others did, that I may find out what else the LORD has to tell me.”

“Stay here by your burnt offering while I am gone,” Balaam said to Balak. “Perhaps the LORD will meet with me. And whatever He reveals to me, I will tell you.” So Balaam went off to a barren height,

Then Balaam said, “Build for me seven altars here, and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams.”

So Moses brought their case before the LORD,

and the LORD answered him,

So Moses appealed to the LORD,

He shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who will seek counsel for him before the LORD by the judgment of the Urim. At his command, he and all the Israelites with him—the entire congregation—will go out and come in.”

And you returned and wept before the LORD, but He would not listen to your voice or give ear to you.

At that time I also pleaded with the LORD:

But the LORD was angry with me on account of you, and He would not listen to me. “That is enough,” the LORD said to me. “Do not speak to Me again about this matter.

For what nation is great enough to have a god as near to them as the LORD our God is to us whenever we call on Him?

But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger.

For I was afraid of the anger and wrath that the LORD had directed against you, enough to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me this time as well.

The LORD was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him, but at that time I also prayed for Aaron.

So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.