Colossians 4:12. "Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant in Christ. saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God." LABORING FOR YOU. There are some very special people who have a great care for others. It is their big concern to care for and meet the needs of their brothers.
The bond they have with them is both natural and physical. Their interest is also in the welfare of their growth in things spiritual. A person with that kind of interest is one the Lord's people cherish. They want the believers to grow, and fear lest the lost they know perish. So instead of concentrating their life on pursuits of their own, They labor in prayer so the needs of those they know are all done.
A man who looks on the needs of others and personally seeks to meet them, Is a good example of the Master, who into His work has sent him. He has learned to see the people he ministers to through the eyes of the Lord. He applies practical help to them and labors for them in the Word. He knows what is needed and labors himself to meet the need And doesn't complain a lot when others don't seem to heed To what he thinks is an urgent need, so he hastens himself to apply The time necessary to labor fervently in prayer that those needs he can supply.
Such a laborer knows the Lord's people have a special need of God To enable them to stand firm in Christ, in spite of the world And what it thinks is important and all the things people say, So, what this laborer does is to continue to fervently pray As an intercessor who is asking God on their behalf To keep the saints from evil and some of the subtle traps That have been set to turn the people of God away From the path of obedience and the pressure to make them the devil's prey.
"Preserve Thy people, O Lord God, from the pressures and powers that are around them, seeking to conform them into the ways of the world rather than unto Christ. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen."