2 Chronicles 6:19
6:19 But respond favorably to
your servant’s prayer and his request for help, O
Lord my God. Answer
the desperate prayer
your servant is presenting to you.
Psalms 141:2
141:2 May you accept my prayer like incense,
my uplifted hands like the evening offering!
Daniel 9:17-19
9:17 “So now, our God, accept the prayer and requests of your servant, and show favor to your devastated sanctuary for your own sake.
9:18 Listen attentively, my God, and hear! Open your eyes and look on our desolated ruins and the city called by your name. For it is not because of our own righteous deeds that we are praying to you, but because your compassion is abundant.
9:19 O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, pay attention, and act! Don’t delay, for your own sake, O my God! For your city and your people are called by your name.”
Luke 18:1
Prayer and the Parable of the Persistent Widow
18:1 Then Jesus told them a parable to show them they should always pray and not lose heart.
Luke 18:7
18:7 Won’t
God give justice to his chosen ones, who cry out
to him day and night?
Will he delay
long to help them?