“For after this manner in the old time the holy women also ... trusted in God.” 1 Peter 3:5
I encourage you to prayerfully study examples of the power of prayer in women’s lives throughout the scriptures. Here are a few examples to start you off.
1. See Anna in Luke 2:36-38 serving God with fasting and prayers night and day, waiting for redemption and the birth of Christ. Then consider our position and privilege today in Titus 2:11-14 along with that.
2. See Lydia in Acts 16:13-15,40 — her desire to be where prayer was being made, to worship, and to listen attentively to God’s Word, and her continual hospitality. Notice the blessing that it brought to her whole household.
3. See also Hannah in 1 Samuel 1 — provoked, fretting, bitter, weeping, in grief (vss. 6-8); continuing in prayer (v. 12); seeking grace and “no more sad” (v. 18); worshipping the Lord before her prayer was visibly answered (v. 19); seeing her prayer answered (v. 20); and giving her son back to the Lord (vss. 24-28). Then we see her rejoicing in the Lord (1 Sam. 2:1) and read her prayer of thankfulness (2:1-10).