WW_Prayer_Exhortation to Pray

V. Exhortation to Pray / Encouragement to Ask

Matt. 7:7-11: "Ask [aiteo], and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For every one who asks [aiteo] receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. Or what man of you, if his son asks [aiteo] him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks [aiteo] for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask [aiteo] him.

Matt. 21:22: And whatever you ask [aiteo] in prayer [proseuche], you will receive, if you have faith."

Mark 11:24-25: Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask [aiteo] in prayer [proseuchomai], believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. And whenever you stand praying [proseuchomai], forgive, if you have anything against any one; so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses."

Luke 21:36: But watch at all times, praying [deomai] that you may have strength to escape all these things that will take place, and to stand before the Son of man."

John 14:13-14: Whatever you ask [aiteo] in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son; if you ask [aiteo] anything in my name, I will do it.

John 15:7: If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask [aiteo] whatever you will, and it shall be done for you. By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be my disciples.

John 15:16: You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide; so that whatever you ask [aiteo] the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

John 16:22-26: So you have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you. In that day you will ask [erotao] nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, if you ask [aiteo] anything of the Father, he will give it to you in my name. Hitherto you have asked [aiteo] nothing in my name; ask [aiteo], and you will receive, that your joy may be full. "I have said this to you in figures; the hour is coming when I shall no longer speak to you in figures but tell you plainly of the Father. In that day you will ask [aiteo] in my name; and I do not say to you that I shall pray [erotao] the Father for you.

Romans 12:12: Rejoice in your hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer [proseuche].

Eph. 3:20: Glory to God! He is able to do so much more than we can think of or ask for [aiteo]. God uses the power that is working in us.

1 Tim. 2:8: I desire then that in every place the men should pray [proseuchomai], lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling.

James 1:5-7: If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask [aiteo] of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask [aiteo] in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

1 John 3:21-22: Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God; and we receive from him whatever we ask [aiteo], because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.

1 John 5:14-16: And this is the confidence which we have in him, that if we ask [aiteo] anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask [aiteo], we know that we have obtained the requests [aitema: petition] made of [aiteo] him. If any one sees his brother committing what is not a mortal sin, he will ask [aiteo], and God will give him life for those whose sin is not mortal. There is sin which is mortal; I do not say that one is to pray [erotao] for that.