Essential Bible Verses On Prayer

These passages of the Bible focus on God hearing our prayers: 

1. And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him greatly. He shall beget twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation. (Genesis 17:20)
   
   
2. And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows. (Exodus 3:7)
   
   
3. And the LORD said to him, "I have heard your prayer and your request that you have made before me: I have hallowed this house, which you have built, to put my name there for ever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.(1 Kings 9:3)
   
   
4. Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears: behold, I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up unto the house of the LORD. (2 Kings 20:5)
   
   
5. Because your heart was tender, and you have humbled yourself before the LORD, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against those who live there, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and you have rent your clothes and wept before me; I also have heard you, says the LORD.(2 Kings 22:19)
   
   
6. And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice. (2 Chronicles 7:12)
   
   
7. Thus says the LORD: In an acceptable time I have heard you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you. And I will preserve you, and give you for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate inheritance. (Isaiah 49:8)

These passages speak of God hearing our prayers: prayers of parents for children, prayers of relief for suffering, prayers for places of worship, prayers for healing, prayers for forgiveness, prayers for grace.