I am sure you are familiar with the phrase ‘five-a-day.’ It is a catchy little slogan to ensure we are eating plenty of fruit and vegetables to maintain a healthy diet. But I want to take that phrase in a slightly different direction.
Think about five people in your sphere of influence who do not yet know Christ and make a commitment that you will pray, consistently, for those five, every day, wherever you are. I read about this simple idea in George Müller’s diaries: ‘In November 1844, I began to pray for the conversion of five individuals. I prayed every day without a single intermission, whether sick or in health, on the land, on the sea, and whatever the pressure of my engagements might be.’
This ‘five-a-day’ feels almost too simple an idea to mention to such a sophisticated readership as en, and yet it is the simple things that often matter most. Mark Twain once said: ‘It’s not those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.’
