So Peter was kept in prison, but those in the church were earnestly<n id="1" /> praying to God for him.<n id="2" />

On the Sabbath day we went outside the city gate to the side of the river, where we thought there would be a place of prayer, and we sat down<n id="1" /> and began to speak<n id="2" /> to the women<n id="3" /> who had assembled there.<n id="4" />

and I always ask<n id="1" /> in my prayers, if perhaps now at last I may succeed in visiting you according to the will of God.<n id="2" />

With every prayer and petition, pray<n id="1" /> at all times in the Spirit, and to this end<n id="2" /> be alert, with all perseverance and requests for all the saints.

Do not be anxious about anything. Instead, in every situation, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, tell your requests to God.

But the widow who is truly in need, and completely on her own,<n id="1" /> has set her hope on God and continues in her pleas and prayers night and day.

Elijah was a human being<n id="1" /> like us, and he prayed earnestly<n id="2" /> that it would not rain and there was no rain on the land for three years and six months!

Then he began to teach<n id="1" /> them and said, &#8220;Is it not written: &#8216;<b><i>My house will be called a house of prayer for all nationsi>b>&#8217;?<n id="2" /> But you have turned it into <b><i>a deni>b><n id="3" /> <b><i>of robbersi>b>!&#8221;<n id="4" />

Staring at him and becoming greatly afraid, Cornelius<n id="1" /> replied,<n id="2" /> &#8220;What is it, Lord?&#8221; The angel<n id="3" /> said to him, &#8220;Your prayers and your acts of charity<n id="4" /> have gone up as a memorial<n id="5" /> before God.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> as we were going to the place of prayer, a slave girl met us who had a spirit that enabled her to foretell the future by supernatural means.<n id="2" /> She<n id="3" /> brought her owners<n id="4" /> a great profit by fortune-telling.<n id="5" />

<p class="bodytext">Now I urge you, brothers and sisters,<n id="1" /> through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to join fervently with me in prayer to God on my behalf.

Do not deprive each other, except by mutual agreement for a specified time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer.<n id="1" /> Then resume your relationship,<n id="2" /> so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

Epaphras, who is one of you and a slave<n id="1" /> of Christ,<n id="2" /> greets you. He is always struggling in prayer on your behalf, so that you may stand mature and fully assured<n id="3" /> in all the will of God.

Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as the weaker partners<n id="1" /> and show them honor as fellow heirs of the grace of life. In this way nothing will hinder your prayers.<n id="2" />p>

and when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders threw themselves to the ground<n id="1" /> before the Lamb. Each<n id="2" /> of them had a harp and golden bowls full of incense (which are the prayers of the saints).<n id="3" />

Another<n id="1" /> angel holding<n id="2" /> a golden censer<n id="3" /> came and was stationed<n id="4" /> at the altar. A<n id="5" /> large amount of incense was given to him to offer up, with the prayers of all the saints, on the golden altar that is before the throne.