Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and wonderful results.

James 5:16  NLT

James gives us two ways we can pray best.  First,  we must confess our sins -- both to God and to each other.  It is usually easier to confess sins to God than it is to confess  to other people.  Yet in sin two barriers are often created.  One is between us and God; the other is between us and our fellow humans.  To remove both barriers, both types of confession must be made.  This principle is clearly one that must be used with caution.  It is quite true that there may well be cases where confession of sin to each other may do infinitely more harm than good.  Only where a two-way barrier has been erected because of a wrong ought one to feel the necessity to confess to the other.  Otherwise, just work to remedy the problem and do not cause more trouble than necessary.

Second, James says to pray for one another.  Here we see the mark of pure unselfish intercession.  Saturating oneself in prayer for others is a wonderful spiritual experience.  A prayer may be quiet and private, but it avails much.

Prayer is both necessary and helpful.  We should develop the habit of being prayerful.  Talking to God in praises and petitions should be second nature to us.  We can know God intimately through prayer.  Let us not only develop the habit, but persevere in it