Public Prayer
28 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
21 sections
- Acceptable to God
- Christ: Attended
- Christ: Promises Answers To
- Christ: Sanctifies by his Presence
- David
- Exhortation To
- God Promises to Bless In
- God Promises to Hear
- Instituted Form of
- Jehoshaphat
- Jeshua
- Jews
- Joshua
- Paul
- Peter
- Saints Delight In
- should not be Made in an Unknown Language
- Solomon
- Teachers and Prophets, at Antioch
- The Christians
- Urge Others to Join In
Acceptable to God
- Isaiah 56:7 I will bring them to My holy mountain and make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on My altar, for My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations.”
Christ: Attended
- Matthew 12:9 Moving on from there, Jesus entered their synagogue,
- Luke 4:16 Then Jesus came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. As was His custom, He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath. And when He stood up to read,
Christ: Promises Answers To
- Matthew 18:19 Again, I tell you truly that if two of you on the earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by My Father in heaven.
Christ: Sanctifies by his Presence
- Matthew 18:20 For where two or three gather together in My name, there am I with them.”
David
- 1 Chronicles 29:10–19 Then David blessed the LORD in the sight of all the assembly and said: “May You be blessed, O LORD, God of our father Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. …
Exhortation To
- Hebrews 10:25 Let us not neglect meeting together, as some have made a habit, but let us encourage one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
God Promises to Bless In
- Exodus 20:24 You are to make for Me an altar of earth, and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and peace offerings, your sheep and goats and cattle. In every place where I cause My name to be remembered, I will come to you and bless you.
God Promises to Hear
- 2 Chronicles 7:14 and if My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.
- 2 Chronicles 7:16 For I have now chosen and consecrated this temple so that My Name may be there forever. My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.
Instituted Form of
- Luke 11:2 So Jesus told them, “When you pray, say: ‘Father, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come.
Jehoshaphat
- 2 Chronicles 20:5–13 Then Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem in the house of the LORD in front of the new courtyard …
Jeshua
- Nehemiah 9:1–38 On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth, with dust on their heads. …
Jews
- Luke 1:10 And at the hour of the incense offering, the whole congregation was praying outside.
Joshua
- Joshua 7:6–9 Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell facedown before the ark of the LORD until evening, as did the elders of Israel; and they all sprinkled dust on their heads. …
Paul
- Acts 16:16 One day as we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl with a spirit of divination, who earned a large income for her masters by fortune-telling.
Peter
- Acts 3:1 One afternoon Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.
Saints Delight In
- Psalm 42:4 These things come to mind as I pour out my soul: how I walked with the multitude, leading the festive procession to the house of God with shouts of joy and praise.
- Psalm 122:1 I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the LORD.”
should not be Made in an Unknown Language
- 1 Corinthians 14:14–16 For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful. …
Solomon
- 2 Chronicles 6:1–42 Then Solomon declared: “The LORD has said that He would dwell in the thick cloud. …
Teachers and Prophets, at Antioch
- Acts 13:3 And after they had fasted and prayed, they laid their hands on them and sent them off.
The Christians
- Acts 2:46 With one accord they continued to meet daily in the temple courts and to break bread from house to house, sharing their meals with gladness and sincerity of heart,
- Acts 4:24 When the believers heard this, they lifted up their voices to God with one accord. “Sovereign Lord,” they said, “You made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them.
- Acts 12:5 So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was fervently praying to God for him.
- Acts 12:12 And when he had realized this, he went to the house of Mary the mother of John, also called Mark, where many people had gathered together and were praying.
Urge Others to Join In
- Psalm 95:6 O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.
- Zechariah 8:21 and the residents of one city will go to another, saying: ‘Let us go at once to plead before the LORD and to seek the LORD of Hosts. I myself am going.’
Related topics
Joy of David, Over the offerings of the Princes and People for the House of Godthe First Temple
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.