Category Archives: How to Pray

We all need help how to connect with God in prayer.

Encouraging Morning Prayer – Bible Verses

Here is two wonderful encouraging Bible verses on prayer in the morning.

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Morning time is the best time to connect with God in the Bible and prayer – encouraging Bible verses – Multnomah Falls

Psalm 5:3 O Lord, in the morning shalt thou hear my voice; In the morning will I order my prayer unto thee, and will keep watch.  Notice the word “voice” in this verse. Sometimes we just can pray with our voice, we are not sure where our heart is nor what is the will of God.

Multnomah Falls, Oregon

Multnomah Falls, Oregon


Psalm 88:13 But unto thee, O Lord, have I cried; And in the morning shall my prayer come before thee.

Multnomah Falls, Oregon

Multnomah Falls, Oregon

These verses should be great encouragements for us to take the morning time to connect and contact God through prayer. Morning time is the best time to connect with God in the Bible and prayer

Confidence in Prayer

1 John 5:14-15. And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will. he hears us. 15 And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.

What a peace do these verses bring to us. Notice the word confidence. We just need to pray according to His will. So how do we know His will, His will is first revealed in the Bible. The words of the Bible is God’s will.

Chuck Smith on Prayer

These are some quotes from Chuck Smith’s book Living Water on the subject of prayer. This is from a section on the Spirit helping us pray from Romans 8:26-27

The weakness that Paul is talking about here is our weakness in knowing the will of God. We don’t always know how we should pray. As we size up a situation, we may judge it one way and start praying that way, but it may be just the opposite of what God wants to do.

I have discovered through the years that many of my prayers were completely out of the will of God. There were things I was almost insisting that God do, but in His love and goodness to me, He didn’t do them. Today I am as thankful for the prayers that God did not answer as I am for the prayers that God did answer.

Martin Luther on Prayer

During the reformation, where people came back to the Bible, Martin Luther comments on the subject of prayer. Prayer had to be big in that day because of all the strong religion pulling people away from the Bible. I am sure Luther prayed much.

But the principle went still further; for it vindicated for the laity the possession of spiritual faculties and powers the same in kind as those of the clergy. All Christian men are admitted to the privilege of priesthood, and are “worthy to appear before God to pray for others, and to teach one another mutually the things which are of God. — from First Principles of the Reformation (95 Theses)

So too His priesthood does not consist in the outward display of vestments and gestures, as did the human priesthood of Aaron and our ecclesiastical priesthood at this day, but in spiritual things, wherein, in His invisible office, He intercedes for us with God in heaven, and there offers Himself, and performs all the duties of a priest; as Paul describes Him to the Hebrews under the figure of Melchizedek. Nor does He only pray and intercede for us; He also teaches us inwardly in the spirit with the living teachings of His Spirit. Now these are the two special offices of a priest, as is figured to us in the case of fleshly priests, by visible prayers and sermons.
— from: First Principles of the Reformation (95 Theses)

Jerusalem, the Capital of Israel

Jerusalem, Israel, is very special place to God.

Jerusalem, Israel

Jerusalem, Israel

Jerusalem is mentioned almost 800 times in the Bible in both the Old and New Testaments. In the Old Testament Abraham offered Isaac on Mount Moriah, the site which today is known as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

Jerusalem, Israel

Jerusalem, Israel

David reigned from Jerusalem and spoke often of it. In the New Testament Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was in Jerusalem many times and spoke of it. The major writers of the New Testament including Peter, Paul, and John spoke of Jerusalem.

Jerusalem, Israel Walls

Jerusalem, Israel Walls

Psalms 83:1, O God, do not keep silence; do not hold your peace or be still, O God!

Psalms 132:13-14, For the Lord has chosen Zion;he has desired it for his dwelling place: This is my resting place forever; here I will dwell, for I have desired it.

Psalms 122:6-7, Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! “May they be secure who love you!  Peace be within your walls and security within your towers!”

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.

Jerusalem, Israel

Jerusalem, Israel

His Love

“The LORD your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing.”  Zephaniah 3:17

Canon Beach Haystack Rock 0024

Canon Beach Haystack Rock

Don’t think that God is not for you. He created you with a purpose. So you have purpose. That fact should get us going every day. But He loves us.  I am trying to think of any religion where God is a lover. I think only in Judaism and Christianity is the phrase used “God loves us”. So rejoice in the fact that God is a God of love. So receive His love by believing in Jesus.

Canon Beach Haystack Rock 1127

Canon Beach Haystack Rock

Joshua 1:5 …so I will be with thee; I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Cannon Beach, Oregon

Cannon Beach, Oregon

What is Prayer

Prayer is joining forces with God. Prayer is fellowship with God in carrying our His will on the earth. Remember what Jesus taught us to pray “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven”. There is no issue with God’s will in heaven, just on the earth.

Cannon Beach, Oregon

Cannon Beach, Oregon

Prayer is one of the highest work a man or women can do on the earth.

Cannon Beach, Oregon from Ecola Park

Cannon Beach, Oregon from Ecola Park