By praying to the Lord in the morning, we grow spiritually and receive many blessings. When we wake up and surrender our first moments to the Lord, He guides us daily. By praying to God in the quiet silence of the morning, we hear His voice clearly and can do His will.
In the Bible, we find many examples of people who regularly prayed to God early in the morning. The Lord Jesus is one of them. He would get up early every morning and pray in a secluded place and establish a relationship with God the Father. Through this, he taught us how we can start the day with God.
Another example is King David, who prayed to the Lord and praised Him. He understood the importance of seeking God’s presence at the beginning of the day. In his prayers, we see how much he yearned for God.
When we surrender ourselves to God in the morning, we open our hearts to receive His wisdom and guidance. Through this prayer, we surrender our burdens to God and receive help to be delivered from difficult situations in our lives.
Through morning prayer, we allow God to guide our lives. Let us develop the habit of spending time in solitude with God every day. Through this, we will be able to understand God’s will and please Him by carrying out His plan.
Let us look at the following Bible verses that discuss seeking God in the morning.
Psalm 108:2 :—
“Awake, psaltery harp: I myself will awake early”
Psalm 119:147 :—
“I prevented the dawning of the morning, cried: I hoped in thy word”
Psalm 143:8 :—
“Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee”
Psalm 16:8 :—
“I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved”
Psalm 24:6 :—
“This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah”
Psalm 27:8 :—
“When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, Lord , will I seek”
Psalm 34:10 :—
“The young lions do lack, suffer hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing”
Psalm 40:16 :—
“Let all those that seek thee rejoice be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The Lord be magnified”
Psalm 42:1 :—
“As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God”
Psalm 46:5 :—
“God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, that right early”
Psalm 57:8 :—
“Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery harp: I myself will awake early”
Psalm 63:1 :—
“O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry thirsty land, where no water is”
Psalm 73:28 :—
“But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord God , that I may declare all thy works”
Psalm 88:13 :—
“But unto thee have I cried, O Lord ; in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee”
Psalm 90:14 :—
“O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice be glad all our days”
Psalm 92:2 :—
“To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, thy faithfulness every night”
Psalm 9:10 :—
“They that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, Lord , hast not forsaken them that seek thee”
Proverbs 3:6 :—
“In all thy ways acknowledge him, he shall direct thy paths”
Proverbs 8:17 :—
“I love them that love me; those that seek me early shall find me”
Mark 16:2 :—
“Very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun”
Mark 1:35 :—
“In the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, departed into a solitary place, there prayed”
Isaiah 26:9 :—
“With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness”
Isaiah 50:4 :—
“The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned”
Isaiah 55:1 :—
“Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, he that hath no money; come ye, buy, eat; yea, come, buy wine milk without money without price”
Isaiah 55:6 :—
“Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near”
Lamentations 3:22-23 :—
“It is of the Lord ‘s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail notThey are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness”
Job 8:5 :—
“If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, make thy supplication to the Almighty”
Zephaniah 3:5 :—
“The just Lord is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame”
Matthew 14:23 :—
“When he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: when the evening was come, he was there alone”
Matthew 6:33 :—
“But seek ye first the kingdom of God, his righteousness; all these things shall be added unto you”
Luke 24:1 :—
“Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, certain others with them”
Luke 5:16 :—
“He withdrew himself into the wilderness, prayed”
Luke 6:12 :—
“It came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, continued all night in prayer to God”
Exodus 34:2 :—
“Be ready in the morning, come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, present thyself there to me in the top of the mount”
Genesis 19:27 :—
“Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord”
Hosea 6:3 :—
“Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord : his going forth is prepared as the morning; he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter former rain unto the earth”
Jeremiah 29:13 :—
“Ye shall seek me, find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart”
Jeremiah 33:3 :—
“Call unto me, I will answer thee, show thee great mighty things, which thou knowest not”
Acts 5:21 :—
“When they heard that, they entered into the temple early in the morning, taught. But the high priest came, they that were with him, called the council together, all the senate of the children of Israel, sent to the prison to have them brought”
John 4:23 :—
“But the hour cometh, now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him”
James 4:8 :—
“Draw nigh to God, he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; purify your hearts, ye double minded”
Deuteronomy 4:29 :—
“But if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart with all thy soul”
Hebrews 11:6 :—
“But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him”
Romans 12:2 :—
“Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, acceptable, perfect, will of God”
Colossians 3:1 :—
“If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God”
Ephesians 5:14 :—
“Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, arise from the dead, Christ shall give thee light”