Gossiping or Praying?

Do you criticize people and yet never take time to pray for them? I do, so this is written for me! Its so much easier to criticise and gossip about somebody than it is to pray for them. And yet prayer is what will help them. So the next time you start to think or talk about someone's faults, stop! Start praying for them instead, and you will be using your time far more profitably. By criticizing, I'm meaning talking about them, not to them. There is a time and a place to challenge people on what they are doing. But stay humble, be quick to pray and slow to gossip!
"Speak not evil one of another, brethren..."James 4:11a