Prayer is not the only way I can carry another’s burden, but is is definitely an essential element in my caring.

Help carry one another’s burdens, and in this way you will obey^[a] the law of Christ. – Galatians 6:2 GNT

When it comes down to basics it depends on my perspective and not about someone else.

 If you think you are something when you really are nothing, you are only deceiving yourself. – Galatians 6:3 GNT

I should judge myself so I can relate to others without overestimating myself. I know I have sin, but that sin does not dominate my life. That is why I can help and pray for those who are struggling and have not been set free.

Those who are trying to keep all the boxes checked off are missing the point.

 Even those who practice circumcision do not obey the Law; they want you to be circumcised so that they can boast that you submitted to this physical ceremony. – Galatians 6:13 GNT

To work, pray or suffer apart from Christ is to work, pray and to suffer in vain. It does a person no good to be able to check off the boxes like fasting, praying or anything else, if in their heart they are not following Jesus.

If I have had time and opportunity to go through the Lord’s Prayer, I do the same with the Ten Commandments. I take one part after another and free myself as much as possible from distractions in order to pray. I divide each commandment into four parts, thereby fashioning a garland of four strands. That is, I think of each commandment as, first, instruction, which is really what it is intended to be, and consider what the Lord God demands of me so earnestly. Second, I turn it into a thanksgiving; third, a confession; and fourth, a prayer. – Martin Luther