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Dear Reader, I open with a question that will make better sense at the end of this introduction:
Does the grass grow in your path?
Every 3 in 3 email alert affords us the opportunity to pray. There are some of our Decency Minutes where we might rightly think, there is nothing else we can do but pray. That, however, doesn’t mean that we look at prayer as a last resort; it is to be our first and best action regarding the circumstances that God brings our way – even if only by way of informing.
It is also to be our first and best action of the day. John Bunyan warned, “He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day.” It would seem that when one neglects prayer or Bible and devotional reading in the morning, it is difficult to find an uninterrupted time for that vitally needed season of prayer, due to the busyness of our days and the unexpected pulls that come along.
Some have compared prayer to our physical breathing and the reading and meditating on Scripture to our physical eating of meals. Martin Luther, in self-assessment claimed, “If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a great deal of the fire of faith.” Let us take great care to feed the fire of our faith by the “breath” of prayer and the “logs” of Scripture and godly devotional thoughts to ponder on throughout the day. Might our fire not go out through neglect, but by God’s Hand and our efforts might it blaze, keeping us warm and being a light that will draw others.
Allow me to close with this short illustration: Early African converts to Christianity were earnest and regular in private devotions. Each one reportedly had a separate spot in the thicket where he would pour out his heart to God. Over time the paths became well worn. As a result, if one of these believers began to neglect prayer, it was soon apparent to the others. They would kindly remind the negligent one, “Brother, the grass grows on your path.”
I ask you: Brother or Sister, does the grass grow in your path? If so, I urge you to begin trampling it down again, beating a path to the Throne of Grace, where you’ll find your loving Heavenly Father waiting with open arms to hear your requests, calm your fears, and lead you in the way everlasting.
As you read or listen to the following Decency Minutes, we once again ask you to pray as the Lord leads in these matters.
Since 2009, 125,000 Nigerian Christians have been slaughtered for their faith. In just 2025, over 7,000 had been martyred by August, while 7,800 had been abducted.
While Christian men are often shot or cut down with machetes, women are captured for continued acts of cruelty. Religious leaders are also often captured.
In that time, 19,000 Nigerian churches have been targeted by jihadists who burned them to the ground with shouts of “Allahu Akbar.”
American Christians have only begun to get a sense of the fears that Nigerian Christians face every day.
In our position of safety relative to our brothers and sisters in Nigeria, we must lift them up in prayer—that God would provide a solution for their safety, peace in their homes, and fruitfulness in their evangelism with the neighbors who despise them.
A new study reveals that the recent surge of those who identify as transgender has dropped by nearly 50 percent. The meteoric rise in transgenderism, and now it’s decline, reveal what any thinking person recognized: transgender identity isn’t rooted in biology; it’s a social contagion, pushed by leftist ideology.
Yet in its wake are young people who will never be the same – bearing not only physical scars, but mental ones as well.
These young people are victims of adults who pushed this destructive ideology. Teachers and doctors who manipulated unhappy teens into believing that they “were born into the wrong body.”
But these leftists are not going down without a fight – they’ll continue to indoctrinate youth into believing this cultish lie.
Yet what turned the tide are courageous ones who stood against the onslaught and defended truth. We cannot remain silent in the face of evil.
Many of us have not forgotten the 2020 election controversies surrounding the Dominion voting machines. With the 2026 midterm election just around the corner and with 78% of Michigan counties relying on these systems, Michigan needs to be aware that a Missouri-based company has acquired Dominion Voting Systems and has rebranded it as Liberty Vote.
Patrice Johnson, founder of Michigan Fair Elections, asks some critical questions regarding Liberty Vote:
How will Liberty Vote support existing Dominion machines?
Will Liberty Vote’s review and potential modifications require new state certification?
Michigan’s current machines are now 7-8 years old. Electronic voting machines typically have a 10-year lifespan, meaning these systems will soon be obsolete. Has the state budgeted the approximately $16 million it will take to replace these machines?
For more on this and other election integrity news go to www.mifairelections.org.
Oswald Chambers on prayer:
“Prayer does not fit us for the greater works; prayer is the greater work. We think of prayer as a common-sense exercise of our higher powers in order to prepare us for God’s work. In the teaching of Jesus Christ, prayer is the working of the miracle of redemption in me which produces the miracle of redemption in others by the power of God. The way fruit remains is by prayer, but remember it is prayer based on the agony of redemption, not on my agony. Only a child gets prayer answered; a wise man does not.
“Prayer is the battle; it is a matter of indifference where you are. Whichever way God engineers circumstances, the duty is to pray. Never allow the thought— ‘I am of no use where I am;’ because you certainly can be of no use where you are not. Wherever God has dumped you down in circumstances, pray to Him all the time. ‘Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do.’ We won’t pray unless we get thrills: that is the intensest form of spiritual selfishness. We have to labor along the line of God’s direction, and He says pray. ‘Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.’
“There is nothing thrilling about a laboring man’s work, but it is the laboring man who makes the conceptions of the genius possible; and it is the laboring saint who makes the conceptions of his Master possible. You labor at prayer, and results happen all the time from His standpoint. What an astonishment it will be to find, when the veil is lifted, the souls that have been reaped by you, simply because you had been in the habit of taking your orders from Jesus Christ.”
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