A. Remind God of His promises when praying:

GEN 32:6. And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.

GEN 32:7. Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;

GEN 32:8. And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.

GEN 32:9. And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:

GEN 32:10. I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.

GEN 32:11. Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children.

GEN 32:12. And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.

NEH 1:4. 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,

NEH 1:5. And said, I beseech thee, O LORD God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments:

NEH 1:6. Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned.

NEH 1:7. We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses.

NEH 1:8. Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations:

NEH 1:9. But if ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there.

NEH 1:10. Now these are thy servants and thy people, whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power, and by thy strong hand.

NEH 1:11. O LORD, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king's cupbearer.

B. Some promises to claim in prayer:

PSA 37:4. Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

PSA 37:5. Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.

ISA 65:24. And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

JER 33:3. Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

JOH 15:7. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

JOH 15:16. Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

PSA 81:10. I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

C. The Lord promises to hear prayer:

2SA 22:7. In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.

PSA 34:15. The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.

PSA 34:17. The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.

PSA 72:12. For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper.

PSA 91:15. He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.

D. God's blessings for those who seek Him:

2CH 26:5. And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God: and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper.