Praying for other people
One of the kindest things you can do for someone is pray for them by name.
Keep a short list of people and pray for them by name. Ask for specific things: health, peace, wisdom, faith, a good decision, a job, a restored relationship.
Pray for people who are hard to love. You will find that prayer changes your heart toward them, even before anything changes in them.
Use the prayer journal to write down requests and, later, to mark them answered. Looking back at answered prayer builds faith.
Read and pray these
1I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks be made for all men, 2for kings and all who are in high places, that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence. 3For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, 4who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.
18with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints.
16Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.
3I thank my God whenever I remember you, 4always in every request of mine on behalf of you all, making my requests with joy, 5for your partnership in furtherance of the Good News from the first day until now; 6being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible (WEB), public domain.