Express Thanks for these Truths about Prayer

In prayer, we communicate with God and He communicates with us. Pray that you will be strengthened in your prayer life and motivated to continue intercession for our nation, our military, and that we will have godly leaders.

November

From there [Abram] went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord .

―Genesis 12:8

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?

―Numbers 23:19

The Lord our God is near us whenever we pray to Him.

―Deuteronomy 4:7

In bitterness of soul Hannah wept much and prayed to the Lord.

―I Samuel 1:10

As she kept on praying to the Lord, Eli observed her mouth.  Hannah was praying in her heart, and her lips were moving but her voice was not heard.  Eli thought she was drunk..."Not so, my Lord," Hannah replied, "I am a woman who is deeply troubled.  I have not been drinking wine or beer; I was pouring out my soul to the Lord.  Do not take your servant for a wicked woman; I have been praying here out of my great anguish and grief."

―I Samuel 1:12-13, 15-16

So give your servant a discerning heart to govern your people and to distinguish between right and wrong. For who is able to govern this great people of yours?

―I Kings 3:9

Yet give attention to your servant's prayer and his plea for mercy, O Lord my God. Hear the cry and the prayer that Your servant is praying in Your presence this day.

―I Kings 8:28

If they turn back to You with all their heart and soul in the land of their enemies who took them captive, and pray to You toward the land You gave their fathers, toward the city you have chosen and the   temple I have built for your Name; then from heaven, Your dwelling place, hear their prayer and their plea, and uphold their cause. And forgive Your people, who have sinned against You; forgive all the offenses they have committed against You.

―I Kings 8:48-50

And may these words of mine, which I have prayed before the Lord, be near to the Lord our God day and night, that He may uphold the cause of His servant and the cause of His people Israel according to each day's need, so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the Lord is God and that there is no other.

―I Kings 8:59-60

Because they cried out to him during the battle, He answered their prayers, because they trusted in Him.

―I Chronicles 5:20