O God! Refresh and gladden my spirit. Purify my heart.
Illumine my powers. I lay all my affairs in Thy hand.
Thou art my Guide and my Refuge.
I will no longer be sorrowful and grieved;
I will be a happy and joyful being.
O God! I will no longer be full of anxiety,
nor will I let trouble harass me.
I will not dwell on the unpleasant things of life.

O God! Thou art more friend to me than I am to myself.
I dedicate myself to Thee, O Lord.

- 'Abdu'l-Bahá (Compilations, Baha'i Prayers, p. 150)

"Intone, O My servants, the verses of God that have been received by thee,
as intoned by them who have drawn nigh unto Him,
that the sweetness of thy melody may kindle thine own soul,
and attract the hearts of all men.
Whoso reciteth, in the privacy of his chamber, the verses revealed by God,
the scattering angels of the Almighty shall scatter abroad the fragrance
of the words uttered by his mouth,
and shall cause the heart of every righteous man to throb.
Though he may, at first, remain unaware of its effect,
yet the virtue of the grace vouchsafed unto him must needs
sooner or later exercise its influence upon his soul.
Thus have the mysteries of the Revelation of God been decreed
by virtue of the Will of Him Who is the Source of power and wisdom."

BAHÁ'U'LLÁH  v 

(Compilations, Baha'i Prayers)

"I have wakened in Thy shelter, O my God,
and it becometh him that seeketh that shelter
to abide within the Sanctuary of Thy protection and the Stronghold of Thy defense.
Illumine my inner being, O my Lord, with the splendors of the Dayspring of Thy Revelation,
even as Thou didst illumine my outer being with the morning light of Thy favor."

(Compilations, Baha'i Prayers, p. 116)

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Is there any Remover of difficulties save God?
Say: Praised be God! He is God! All are His servants, and all abide by His bidding!

- The Báb  28 

(Compilations, Baha'i Prayers, p. 26)

Say: God sufficeth all things above all things,
and nothing in the heavens or in the earth but God sufficeth.
Verily, He is in Himself the Knower, the Sustainer, the Omnipotent.

- The Bab

(Compilations, Baha'i Prayers, p. 27)

Blessed is the spot,
and the house,
and the place,
and the city,
and the heart,
and the mountain,
and the refuge,
and the cave,
and the valley,
and the land,
and the sea,
and the island,
and the meadow
where mention of God hath been made,
and His praise glorified.

- BAHÁ'U'LLÁH

(Compilations, Baha'i Prayers)

Britt wrote: I'm not sure this qualifies as a prayer, but I use it as such!  It is a story related to Nabíl by Bahá'u'lláh Himself about His time in the Siyah-Chal, that darksome prison outside of Tehrán where the Blessed Beauty endured horrible indignities.

"We were all huddled together in one cell, our feet in stocks, and around our necks fastened the most galling of chains. The air we breathed was laden with the foulest impurities, while the floor on which we sat was covered with filth and infested with vermin. No ray of light was allowed to penetrate that pestilential dungeon or to warm its icy coldness. We were placed in two rows, each facing the other. We had taught them to repeat certain verses which, every night, they chanted with extreme fervour.

  'God is sufficient unto me; He verily is the All-Sufficing!' 

one row would intone, while the other would reply:

  'In Him let the trusting trust.' 

The chorus of these gladsome voices would continue to peal out until the early hours of the morning. Their reverberation would fill the dungeon, and, piercing its massive walls, would reach the ears of Násiri'd-Dín Sháh, whose palace was not far distant from the place where we were imprisoned. 'What means this sound?' he was reported to have exclaimed. 'It is the anthem the Bábís are intoning in their prison,' they replied. The Shah made no further remarks, nor did he attempt to restrain the enthusiasm his prisoners, despite the horrors of their confinement, continued to display."

-As quoted by H.M. Balyuzi in Baha'u'llah - The King of Glory, p. 80

 

For those musically inclined..

http://wnc.bcca.org/bahai/music/God%20is%20Sufficient%20Unto%20Me.pdf

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"O seeker of Truth!
If thou desirest that God my open thine eye, thou must supplicate unto God,
pray to and commune with Him at midnight, saying:

O Lord, I have turned my face unto Thy kingdom of oneness
and am immersed in the sea of Thy mercy.
O Lord, enlighten my sight by beholding Thy lights in this dark night,
and make me happy by the wine of Thy love in this wonderful age.
O Lord, make me hear Thy call, and open before my face the doors of Thy heaven,
so that I may see the light of Thy glory and become attracted to Thy beauty.
Verily, Thou art the Giver, the Generous, the Merciful, the Forgiving."

- 'Abdu'l-Bahá  62 

(Compilations, Baha'i Prayers, p. 59)