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.”

 I am convinced that one of the most neglected privilges 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; 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 several courses available to help recharge your prayer batteries.  Browse the courses in the Christian Living and Family Studies and those in Bible Elective Studies.  If you have some greenery growing on your prayer path you may want to work your way through one or more of these courses.

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