Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, greets you, always struggling on your behalf in his prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God. For I bear him witness that he has worked hard for you and for those in Laodicea and in Hierapolis.
Colossians 4:12-13
I’m struck that prayer here is equated with “struggling” and “working hard”. I really wonder as a nation how much it has been prayerlessness that has plunged us into rejecting Christ so much…
We have work to do along these lines, family.
fmi360 
Amen! I have to actually purpose in my mind and heart to pray for these knuckleheads in charge who seem to be hell bent on our nation’s destruction.
But it starts with us, because that is where judgement begins– the house of the Lord. And we have to fight becoming lukewarm at all cost. Praying is a sacrifice, but rescue begins with the prayers of the saints.