Pray for your enemies?
Mat 5: v43. Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
V44. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
V45. That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
V46. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? Do not even the publicans the same?
V47. And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more [than others?] do not even the publicans so?
V48. Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
Pray in your closet?
Mat 6: v1. Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
V2. Therefore when thou doest [thine] alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
V3. But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:
V4. That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.
V5. And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites [are:] for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
V6. But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
V7. But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen [do:] for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
V8. Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
V9. After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
V10. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as [it is] in heaven.
V11. Give us this day our daily bread.
V12. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
V13. And lead us not into temptation*, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
*Jas 1: v2. My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;v12. Blessed [is] the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which YahwehShua promised to them that love him. v13. Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of YahwehShua: for YahwehShua cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: v14. But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
V14. For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
V15. But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Daniel didn’t have the above New Covenant scripture and prayed in his window towards Jerusalem.
Dan 6: v10. Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his Yahweh, as he did aforetime.
V11. Then these men assembled, and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his Yahweh.
V12. Then they came near, and spake before the king concerning the king’s decree; Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask [a petition] of any Yahweh or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing [is] true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
Some miracles require prayer and fasting?
Mat 17: v15. Master, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatick, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water.
V16. And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him.
V17. Then Yahweh incarnate answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I suffer you? Bring him hither to me.
V18. And Yahweh incarnate rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour.
V19. Then came the disciples to Yahweh incarnate apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?
V20. And Yahweh incarnate said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
V21. Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.
Long prayers in public didn’t help the Pharisees.
Mat 23: v14. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
Long prayer by Solomon in public worked!
2Ch 6: v1. Then said Solomon, Yahweh hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
V2. But I have built an house of habitation for thee, and a place for thy dwelling for ever.
V3. And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel stood.
V4. And he said, Blessed [be] Yahweh of Israel, who hath with his hands fulfilled [that] which he spake with his mouth to my father David, saying,
V5. Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to build an house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be a ruler over my people Israel:
V6. But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.
V7. Now it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of Yahweh, Yahweh of Israel.
V8. But Yahweh said to David my father, Forasmuch as it was in thine heart to build an house for my name, thou didst well in that it was in thine heart:
V9. Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house; but thy son which shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name.
2Ch 6: v10. Yahweh therefore hath performed his word that he hath spoken: for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and am set on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh the Yahweh of Israel.
V11. And in it have I put the ark, wherein [is] the covenant of Yahweh, that he made with the children of Israel.
V12. And he stood before the altar of Yahweh in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands:
V13. For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold, of five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven
V14. And said, O Yahweh, Yahweh of Israel, [there is] no El like thee in the heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest covenant, and [shewest] mercy unto thy servants, that walk before thee with all their hearts:
2Ch 6: v15. Thou which hast kept with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him; and spakest with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled [it] with thine hand, as [it is] this day.
V16. Now therefore, O Yahweh, Yahweh of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet so that thy children take heed to their way to walk in my law, as thou hast walked before me.
V17. Now then Yahweh, Yahweh of Israel, let thy word be verified, which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David.
V18. But will Yahweh in very deed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!
V19. Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O Yahweh, my Yahweh, to hearken unto the cry and the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee:
2Ch 6: v20. That thine eyes may be open upon this house day and night, upon the place whereof thou hast said that thou wouldest put thy name there; to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant prayeth toward this place
V21. Hearken therefore unto the supplications of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, which they shall make toward this place: hear thou from thy dwelling place, [even] from heaven; and when thou hearest, forgive
V22. If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house
V23. Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.
2Ch 6: v24. And if thy people Israel be put to the worse before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee; and shall return and confess thy name, and pray and make supplication before thee in this house
V25. Then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest to them and to their fathers.
V26. When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; [yet] if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them;
V27. Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou hast taught them the good way, wherein they should walk; and send rain upon thy land, which thou hast given unto thy people for an inheritance.
V28. If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness [there be:]
V29. [Then] what prayer [or] what supplication so ever shall be made of any man, or of all thy people Israel, when every one shall know his own sore and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands in this house.
V30. Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men.
V31. That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
V32. Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not of thy people Israel, but is come from a far country for thy great name’s sake, and thy mighty hand, and thy stretched out arm; if they come and pray in this house
V33. Then hear thou from the heavens, [even] from thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; that all people of the earth may know thy name, and fear thee, as [doth] thy people Israel, and may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name.
V34. If thy people go out to war against their enemies by the way that thou shalt send them, and they pray unto thee toward this city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name;
V35. Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
V36. If they sin against thee, (for [there is] no man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before [their] enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near.
V37. Yet [if] they be themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn and pray unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly
V38. If they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captives, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, and [toward] the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name:
V39. Then hear thou from the heavens, [even] from thy dwelling place, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive thy people which have sinned against thee.
2Ch 6: v40. Now, my Yahweh, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and [let] thine ears [be] attent unto the prayer [that is made] in this place
V41. Now therefore arise, O Yahweh into thy resting place, thou, and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O Yahweh, be clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness.
V42. O Yahweh, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember the mercies of David thy servant.
2Ch 7: v1. Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of Yahweh filled the house.
V2. And the priests could not enter into the house of Yahweh, because the glory of Yahweh had filled Yahweh’s house.
V3. And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of Yahweh upon the house, they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshipped, and praised Yahweh, [saying,] For [he is] good; for his mercy [endureth] for ever.
V4. Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before Yahweh.
V5. And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so the king and all the people dedicated the house of Yahweh.
V6. And the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also with instruments of musick of Yahweh, which David the king had made to praise Yahweh, because his mercy [endureth] for ever, when David praised by their ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets before them, and all Israel stood.
V12. And Yahweh appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for an house of sacrifice.
Elijah made a relatively short prayer.
1Ki 18: v22. Then said Elijah unto the people, I, [even] I only, remain a prophet of Yahweh; but Baal’s prophets [are] four hundred and fifty men.
V29. And it came to pass, when midday was past, and they prophesied until the [time] of the offering of the [evening] sacrifice, that [there was] neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded.
V32. And with the stones he built an altar in the name of Yahweh: and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.
V33. And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid [him] on the wood, and said, Fill four barrels with water, and pour [it] on the burnt sacrifice, and on the wood.
V34. And he said, Do [it] the second time. And they did [it] the second time. And he said, Do [it] the third time. And they did [it] the third time.
V35. And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.
V36. And it came to pass at [the time of] the offering of the [evening] sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, Yahweh, Yahweh of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou [art] Yahweh in Israel, and [thatI] [am] thy servant, and [that] I have done all these things at thy word.
V37. Hear me, O Yahweh, hear me, that this people may know that thou [art] Yahweh, and [that] thou hast turned their heart back again.
V38. Then the fire of Yahweh fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that [was] in the trench.
V39. And when all the people saw [it,] they fell on their faces: and they said, Yahweh, he [is] Yahweh; Yahweh, he is Yahweh.
Enter with thanksgiving?
Psa 100: v1. Make a joyful noise unto Yahweh, all ye lands
V2. Serve Yahweh with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
V3. Know ye that Yahweh he [is] Yahweh: [it is] he [that] hath made us, and not we ourselves; [we are] his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
V4. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, [and] into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, [and] bless his name.
V5. For Yahweh [is] good; his mercy [is] everlasting; and his truth [endureth] to all generations.
Pray always?
Luk 21: v34. And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and [so] that day come upon you unawares.
V35. For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
V36. Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
Pray you are not harvested out of season?
Mat 24: v15. When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand)
V16. Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:
V17. Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:
V18. Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.
V19. And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
V20. But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
V21. For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
V22. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
V23. Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here [is] Yahshua, or there; believe [it] not.
Our Creator prayed to Father Yahweh three times to help him carry out the plan of the Father?
Mat 26: v39. And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou [wilt.]
V41. Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed [is] willing, but the flesh [is] weak.
V42. He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.
Mat 26: v44. And he left them, and went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words.
Opening and closing prayers by 2 brothers this past Sabbath sounded like they came from the heart!
As a sister once said, talk to him like you are in a conversation from the heart! I think YahwehShua put me in this group because I break the Top Ten daily and need the prayers!
HalleluYahwehShua!
