Pray For Each Other - Praying the Scriptures

Our praying can be enhanced when we pray using words from Scripture. These prayer segments come from Matthew Henry, Pray the Bible, available online at http://www.matthewhenry.org.

(Section 5 – Intercession, and Section 8 – Occasional Addresses)

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We pray, as we are taught, for all people, believing that this is good and pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth and of Jesus Christ, (1 Timothy 2:3-4) who gave himself as a ransom for all. (1Timothy 2:6)

Add to your church day by day those who are being saved; (Acts 2:47) enlarge the place of its tent, lengthen its cords, and strengthen its stakes. (Isaiah 54:2)

O let the earth be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea. (Isaiah 11:9)

O strengthen the weak hands, confirm the feeble knees, say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not. (Isaiah 35:3-4) Answer them with good words and comfortable words, (Zechariah 1:13) saying unto them, Be of good cheer, your sins are forgiven you: (Matthew 9:5) Be of good cheer, it is I; be not afraid, (Mark 6:50) I am your salvation; (Psalm 35:3) and make them to hear the voice of joy and gladness, that broken bones may rejoice. (Psalm 51:8)

To those that are asking what they shall do to inherit eternal life, (Matthew 19:16) discover Christ as the way, the truth, and the life, the only true and living way. (John 14:6) 

O do not quench the smoking flax, nor break the bruised reed, but 

bring forth judgment unto victory. (Matthew 12:20) Let the great Shepherd of the sheep gather the lambs in his arms, and carry them in his bosom, and gently lead them, (Isaiah 40:11) and help them against their unbelief. (Mark 9:24)

Lord, thou hast appointed those that are sick to be prayed for, and prayed with, and hast promised that the prayer of faith shall save the sick; Lord, help us to pray in faith for the sick, (James 5:14-15) and as being ourselves also in the body. (Hebrews 13:3)

 
When our Lord Jesus was here upon earth, we find that they brought to him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and he healed all manner of sicknesses and all manner of diseases among the people; (Matthew 4:23-24) and he hath still the same power over bodily diseases that ever he had: He saith to them, Go, and they go; Come, and they come; Do this, and they do it; and can speak the word, and they shall be healed. (Matthew 8:8-9) He is still touched with the feeling of our infirmities. (Hebrews 4:15) In the belief of this, we do by prayer bring our friends that are sick and lay them before him. (Luke 5:18)