Who do you pray for?

We tend to have a certain few we pray for all the time. What does the bible tell us about who we should pray for?

1 Timothy 2:1-2

2 First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, 2 for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. 3 This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, 4 who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 5 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, 6 who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time. 7 For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth. 8 I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling;
God says pray for all people(V2)....hmmm that should make us all do a little changing in our prayer lives! Not only for all people but in all places(V8). Why does God want us to pray for everyone in all places? Look at verse 4, because God desires all to be saved and know the truth! 

This will help our prayer life...if we are praying as God has taught us and we are praying for all in all places, our prayer life will be more like Jesus’s prayers. Have a love and concern for our fellow man and yes as the bible teaches even our enemies as God has said, He desires than none should perish but come to Him!

2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

Pray for all brothers and sisters in all places!

Tom