How encouraging for the Colossians to know they were remembered in Paul’s prayers. He had heard good things about them from Epaphras as seen in verse 7, “7 You so learned it from Epaphras, our beloved fellow servant. He is a faithful minister of Christ in our stead and as our representative and [f]yours”, and so, whenever he prayed for them, he gave thanks to God for their faith in Christ and their love for all their fellow believers. Know that according to this verse, Epaphras is described as a faithful missionary who brought the gospel to Philemon and others in his city and he brought the news about the Church in Colossae to Paul and you can see that Colossians 4:12 suggests that Epaphras was from Colosae, he was known for his faithful prayers for his fellow Colossians believers, as Paul described him as ‘a servant of Christ Jesus’. These words link two important qualities: faith and love. The New Testament often joins these together words of faith and love; they could be ‘Scripture’s Conjoined Twins’. If you are to have an enduring selfless love for others you must first of all have faith in God because people will nearly want to throw you off balance in your God-man relationship if not for your strong faith in God knowing that it is God you look up to not man. Psychology teaches that love for other people is an integral part of good emotional health, but it has nothing to say on the need for a relationship with God. Without a relationship with God, however, love for others soon runs out of energy and all that initial emotions for the relationship all fades away and hate takes the place of love, which is why faith in God is always the glue that holds love for others firm so that when the realities of the human flaws, weak traits of character and attitude including weak behavioral patterns begins to surface, faith in God will make you to still endure! Some time ago I read about an African government agency which invested a large sum of money in a building programme designed to improve the lifestyle of a certain tribe living in grass huts on a hillside. To replace these flimsy dwellings the government built brick houses at the foot of the hill. The tribes people, however, felt uncomfortable in their new houses and, after they had lived in them for just a few days, they decided to move back into their old huts. An exasperated official said to missionaries who lived among them, ‘These ungrateful people need a lot of loving faith. I’m afraid the best we can do is to lift them; we leave it to you to love them.’ Exasperated is intensely irritated and frustrated impulses. Love that is not linked to God in faith quickly runs out of impetus and endurance, which many people are not aware of in going into relationship and that is why you see certain relationship don’t last because the love is not Conjoined with faith, as in faith and love that should always go together in other for it to last and pass the test of time. Governments can raise people’s standard of living but they can’t love them. Only when we have faith in God can we go on loving the unresponsive. No faith in God, no love like God’s. So people should be trained and taught how to love like God, Lord Jesus Christ with His Agape type of love otherwise all what humans call love is only a misuse of the word in reality! We need to be made whole with body, spirit and soul working perfecting together and hooked up with the Holy Spirit of God to be in harmony.