Praying
for forgiveness of sins
Acts
8:24 (Simon pleaded Peter to pray for him)
24 Then Simon
answered, “Pray to the Lord for me so that nothing you
have said may happen to me.”
Ex
8:8(Pharaoh requested Moses and Aaron to pray for him and his people)
8 Pharaoh summoned
Moses and Aaron and said, “Pray to the Lord to
take the frogs away from me and my people, and I will let your people go to
offer sacrifices to the Lord.”
Num
21:7(People requested Moses to pray for them so that they can be forgiven and delivered
from snakes)
7 The people came to
Moses and said, “We
sinned when we spoke
against the Lord and against you. Pray that the Lord will take the
snakes away from us.” So Moses prayed for the people.
1Ki
13:6(The king requested the man of God to pray for him so that his hands may be
restored)
6 Then the king said
to the man of God, “Intercede with the Lord your
God and pray for me that my hand may be restored.” So the man of God interceded
with the Lord, and the king’s
hand was restored and became as it was before.
Jer
42:2 (The army officers requested Jeremiah to pray for people of Israel)
Then all the army officers, including
Johanan son of Kareah and Jezaniah[a] son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from
the least to the greatest approached2 Jeremiah
the prophet and said to him, “Please hear our petition and pray to the Lord your God for this entire remnant. For as you now see,
though we were once many, now only a few are left. 3 Pray that the Lord your God will tell us where we should go
and what we should do.”
We learn the following from the above
verses
1) Request to
pray for forgiveness of sins
2) Simon
pleaded Peter to pray for him
3) Pharaoh
requested Moses and Aaron to pray for him and his people
4) People
requested Moses to pray for them so that they can be forgiven and delivered
from snakes
5) The king
requested the man of God to pray for him so that his hands may be restored
6) The army
officers requested Jeremiah to pray for people of Israel
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