Prayer requests come from deep within our souls.  Each time we ask someone to pray for us, our family, our friends, our circumstance we are opening up our hearts and risking exposure.  We are trusting that confidences are kept and those we share with will pray as they have commited to do.  However, if we are honest, most of us write down the requests on a scratch piece of paper and never think about them again until the next time we see those who gave us the requests.  It should not be this way.  Prayers are sweet smelling incense to our Heavenly Father and we need to honor them as He honors them.