Early African converts learned the importance of spending time in daily prayer.  Each Christian would find a solitary place in the thicket where he could share his heart in privacy with the Heavenly Father.   As time passed the pathway to their prayer place in the thicket would become worn.  If a Christian neglected his prayer life others would soon notice by the fresh greenery growing on their pathway.  A gentle rebuke and reminder was often used among them by tactfully saying, “Brother, there is grass growing on your path.”

No doubt, one of the most neglected privileges and powers of Christians today is prayer.  When grass has grown over the paths of Christians, their lives become paltry and powerless; families become dysfunctional and divided; churches become insignificant and impotent; and the nation becomes profane and perverted.

The Christian’s hope and help lies in appealing to the great sovereign, caring, all-powerful God.  I hope you are concerned about your prayer life.  BBN-BI has two courses available to help recharge your prayer batteries: 20500, The Value of Prayer by Dr. Ray Stedman and 21800, The School of Prayer by Dr. Warren Wiersbe.  What you will learn from these courses will help rid the greenery from your prayer path.

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