Plead with him, reminding him of your needs, and keep praying earnestly for all Christians everywhere. I guess we think that He gets tired or cranky. But the Bible challenges us to think differently about prayer. Like children before a loving father, we open our hearts and make our requests. We do not try to sort things out, the good from the bad.
Prayer is often a group effort.
Secondly, he tells them to pray for each other, and with each other, and then he urges them to confess their sins to one another. This is probably the most difficult part of the whole idea, but it is the most necessary. Prayer is a personal part of our lives, and there are some things that we pray about that we may not feel comfortable telling the whole world. There's nothing wrong with that, but we must also be aware that God has called us to live transparent lives, and he wants us to move in that direction. The more we can overcome our sense of self-sufficiency and pride, the more of the power of God we can experience.