James 5:16 says, “Pray for one another.”Ephesians 6:18 says, “With all prayer and petition pray at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints.”
A basic principle in the New Testament called “Body life,” is that what we do for others is much more effective than what we do for ourselves, including prayer. God made it that way to make us interdependent. We need each other. All that He has done, He has done to make the church more unified, needing each other, pulling us together. I pray for you, and you pray for me, which works well, but me praying for my own needs and you praying for your own needs doesn’t work well at all. A corollary principle is that the more I pray for others, the more others will pray for me, God sees to it.

This week is our “Five Days of Prayer,” where we pray from 5:00 to 10:00 am and 5:00 to 10:00 pm, Monday through Friday. We are praying for our Missionaries and their ministries around the world. When we pray as a church God works in and through the Missionaries, and He will see to it that our church gets prayed for and that each person participating in the “Five Days of Prayer” gets prayed for.

Such is the wisdom of God.