Bible Encyclopedia: Prayer: Importunity In

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Prayer and Importunity
... VI. PRAYER AND IMPORTUNITY. ... Fire is the life of prayer, and heaven is reached
by flaming importunity rising in an ascending scale. ...
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Prayer and Importunity (Continued)
... VII. PRAYER AND IMPORTUNITY (Continued). "Two-thirds ... prevail. Moses furnishes
an illustrious example of importunity in prayer. Instead ...
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Because of his Importunity
... Our Lord Jesus thought it of such importance that we should know the need of
perseverance and importunity in prayer, that He spake two parables to teach us this ...
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Eighth Lesson. Because of his Importunity;'
... I cannot rise and give thee.' Then again the perseverance that takes no refusal:
because of his importunity.' And lastly, the reward of such prayer: he will ...
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The Insistency of Prayer
... Lose the importunity of prayer, reduce it to soliloquy, or even to colloquy, with
God, lose the real conflict of will and will, lose the habit of wrestling and ...
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The Necessity of Prayer
... IV. PRAYER AND DESIRE. V. PRAYER AND FERVENCY. VI. PRAYER AND IMPORTUNITY. VII.
PRAYER AND IMPORTUNITY (Continued). VIII. PRAYER AND CHARACTER AND CONDUCT. IX. ...
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"Because of his Importunity. "
... "BECAUSE OF HIS IMPORTUNITY.". ... yet I also know, that He delights in being earnestly
entreated, and that He takes pleasure in the continuance in prayer, and in ...
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Prayer Taught and Encouraged.
... In the prayer as usually publicly repeated, the word "trespasses" is often used
in ... give him because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will ...
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The Syro-Phoenician Woman. (Matt. , xv. , 21; Mark, vii. , 24. ) ...
... It may be a question whether this was Christ's intention from the beginning, or
whether the woman's fervent prayer and believing importunity overcame his first ...
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Prevailing Prayer.
... In such a case no degree of desire or importunity in prayer is improper. A Christian
may come up, as it were, and take hold of the hand of God. ...
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Genesis 18:23-32
And Abraham drew near, and said, Will you also destroy the righteous with the wicked?
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Genesis 32:24-29
And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
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Exodus 32:32
Yet now, if you will forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray you, out of your book which you have written.
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Deuteronomy 9:25
Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.
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Judges 6:36-40
And Gideon said to God, If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said,
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Judges 16:28
And Samson called to the LORD, and said, O Lord God, remember me, I pray you, and strengthen me, I pray you, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.
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1 Samuel 1:10,11
And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to the LORD, and wept sore.
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1 Samuel 12:23
Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way:
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1 Kings 8:22-30
And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven:
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Ezra 9:5,6
And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell on my knees, and spread out my hands to the LORD my God,
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Nehemiah 1:4-6
And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,
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Psalm 17:1,6
Hear the right, O LORD, attend to my cry, give ear to my prayer, that goes not out of feigned lips.
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Psalm 22:1,2,19
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
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Psalm 28:1,2
To you will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if you be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
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Psalm 35:22,23
This you have seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.
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Psalm 55:1,2,16,17
Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not yourself from my supplication.
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Psalm 57:2
I will cry to God most high; to God that performes all things for me.
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Psalm 61:1,2
Hear my cry, O God; attend to my prayer.
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Psalm 70:5
But I am poor and needy: make haste to me, O God: you are my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.
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Psalm 86:3,6
Be merciful to me, O Lord: for I cry to you daily.
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Psalm 88:1,2,9,13
O lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you:
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Psalm 102:1,2
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come to you.
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Psalm 119:58,145-147
I entreated your favor with my whole heart: be merciful to me according to your word.
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Psalm 130:1,2
Out of the depths have I cried to you, O LORD.
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Psalm 141:1,2
Lord, I cry to you: make haste to me; give ear to my voice, when I cry to you.
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Psalm 142:1,2
I cried to the LORD with my voice; with my voice to the LORD did I make my supplication.
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Isaiah 38:2,3
Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the LORD,
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Isaiah 62:7
And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
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Isaiah 64:12
Will you refrain yourself for these things, O LORD? will you hold your peace, and afflict us very sore?
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Daniel 9:3,16-19
And I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:
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Jonah 1:14
Why they cried to the LORD, and said, We beseech you, O LORD, we beseech you, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not on us innocent blood: for you, O LORD, have done as it pleased you.
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Habakkuk 1:2
O LORD, how long shall I cry, and you will not hear! even cry out to you of violence, and you will not save!
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Matthew 15:22-28
And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried to him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, you son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.
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Mark 7:25-29
For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:
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Luke 7:3
And when he heard of Jesus, he sent to him the elders of the Jews, beseeching him that he would come and heal his servant.
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Luke 11:5-8
And he said to them, Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go to him at midnight, and say to him, Friend, lend me three loaves;
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Luke 18:1-7
And he spoke a parable to them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;
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Luke 22:44
And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
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Romans 8:26
Likewise the Spirit also helps our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
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2 Corinthians 12:8
For this thing I sought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.
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Ephesians 6:18
Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
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Hebrews 5:7
Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears to him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
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Subtopics

Answers To Prayer: A Motive for Continued Prayer

Answers To Prayer: Abraham

Answers To Prayer: Abraham's Servant

Answers To Prayer: Apostles

Answers To Prayer: Asa

Answers To Prayer: Blind Man

Answers To Prayer: Christ Gives

Answers To Prayer: Christ Received

Answers To Prayer: Cornelius

Answers To Prayer: Daniel

Answers To Prayer: David