20 Bible Verses about

Prayer While Waiting

Philippians 1:4 BSB

In every prayer for all of you, I always pray with joy,

Luke 6:12 BSB

In those days Jesus went out to the mountain to pray, and He spent the night in prayer to God.

James 5:16 BSB

Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail.

Ephesians 6:18 BSB

Pray in the Spirit at all times, with every kind of prayer and petition. To this end, stay alert with all perseverance in your prayers for all the saints.

Matthew 21:22 BSB

If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.”

Romans 12:12 BSB

Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, persistent in prayer.

Jeremiah 11:14 BSB

As for you, do not pray for these people. Do not raise up a cry or a prayer on their behalf, for I will not be listening when they call out to Me in their time of disaster.

Nehemiah 1:11 BSB

O Lord, may Your ear be attentive to my prayer and to the prayers of Your servants who delight to revere Your name. Give Your servant success this day, I pray, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” (At that time I was the cupbearer to the king.)

Nehemiah 1:6 BSB

let Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to hear the prayer that I, Your servant, now pray before You day and night for Your servants, the Israelites. I confess the sins that we Israelites have committed against You. Both I and my father’s house have sinned.

Ephesians 1:18 BSB

I ask that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope of His calling, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints,

Psalm 39:7 BSB

And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in You.

Romans 8:25 BSB

But if we hope for what we do not yet see, we wait for it patiently.

Psalm 130:5 BSB

I wait for the LORD; my soul does wait, and in His word I put my hope.

Isaiah 51:5 BSB

My righteousness draws near, My salvation is on the way, and My arms will bring justice to the nations. The islands will look for Me and wait in hope for My arm.

Philippians 4:6 BSB

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

Matthew 7:7 BSB

Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.

Matthew 6:6 BSB

But when you pray, go into your inner room, shut your door, and pray to your Father, who is unseen. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

Jeremiah 33:3 BSB

Call to Me, and I will answer and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.

Mark 11:24 BSB

Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

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