Work? Praying takes work?

So prayer takes work, eh? Hmmm.

What’s there about it that makes it be work?

“Epaphras . . . always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God” (Colossians 4:12).

For this man, prayer was an ongoing, intense experience. Work, in other words.

I know how difficult it is to pray persistently and intensely and desperately for others.

That’s why I do it so infrequently.

Maybe that’s why some have fallen instead of standing perfect and complete.

So what will I do about it besides writing this little piece?