• Prayer can be hindered

    • Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as the weaker partners and show them honor as fellow heirs of the grace of life. In this way nothing will hinder your prayers.
    1 Peter 3:7 – New English Translation (NET)

  • Prayer can be answered in the affirmative, but the answer delayed

    • Then he said to me, “Don’t be afraid, Daniel, for from the very first day you applied your mind to understand and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard. I have come in response to your words. However, the prince of the kingdom of Persia was opposing me for twenty-one days. But Michael, one of the leading princes, came to help me, because I was left there with the kings of Persia.
    Daniel 10:12-13 – New English Translation (NET)

  • Prayer will be granted, if belief is present

    • But if anyone is deficient in wisdom, he should ask God, who gives to all generously and without reprimand, and it will be given to him. But he must ask in faith without doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed around by the wind. For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord, since he is a double-minded individual, unstable in all his ways.
    James 1:5-8 – New English Translation (NET)

    I tell you the truth, if someone says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. For this reason I tell you, whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
    Mark 11:23-24 – New English Translation (NET)

  • Prayer of the righteous is powerful

    • So confess your sins to one another and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great effectiveness.
    James 5:16 – New English Translation (NET)

    But whenever you pray, go into your room, close the door, and pray to your Father in secret. And your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.
    Matthew 6:6 – New English Translation (NET)

  • Prayer with wrong motive will not be answered

    • You ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so you can spend it on your passions.
    James 4:3 – New English Translation (NET)

  • Prayer is not about many (or the right) words

    • When you pray, do not babble repetitiously like the Gentiles, because they think that by their many words they will be heard. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
    Matthew 6:7-8 – New English Translation (NET)

  • Prayer will keep from temptation

    • Stay awake and pray that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.
    Matthew 26:41 – New English Translation (NET)

  • Prayer leads to restored relationship with God

    • Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that he may perhaps forgive you for the intent of your heart.
    Acts 8:22 – New English Translation (NET)

  • Prayer in Jesus name will be granted

    • And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.
    John 14:13-14 – New English Translation (NET)