19 Bible Verses About Prayer, and Why Nothing Is Asked For Until the Fourth Line



  • The Lord’s Prayer spends its first three petitions on God’s name, kingdom and will, and every line of it is plural.
  • Ask, seek and knock are continuous verbs in Greek: keep asking, keep seeking, keep knocking.
  • Mark 11:25 attaches a condition about forgiving other people to the promise in the verse before it.
  • The shortest prayer in the Gospels is seven words, said by a man who would not look up, and it is the only one commended on the spot.
  • The word behind “pray continually” was used of a persistent cough rather than constant speech.

Nothing is asked for in the Lord’s Prayer until the fourth line. The name, the kingdom and the will come first; bread, forgiveness and rescue come after. The disciples asked to be taught how to pray and what they got back was an order of business, and the order is the lesson. The nineteen passages below follow it: the prayer he gave, the way he prayed himself, the conditions attached to asking, what to do when we have nothing to…

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