Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective. They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints. Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.
Intercessory prayer has an element of urgency.
When God's law is broken, people get hurt and suffer. Relationships are shattered and little children suffer the consequences. Those facts should put passion and urgency into our prayers. There is urgency for the healing of the people. Vast numbers of people are in the valley of depression.