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Key Bible Verse: And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage and warn each other (Hebrews 10:25). Bonus Reading: Heb. 10:23–25

About four months into working on my most recent record, I was working 12-hour days, we were over budget, and I wasn't sure if the record would be finished on time. I was overwhelmed.

It had been a while since I had met with the guys from my prayer group. Our prayer group has seven couples in it, and the women meet every Tuesday without fail. Some-times the guys put off our meetings. But I need those guys in my life to keep me accountable.

So one day at the recording studio I said to my co-producer and engineer, "I'm going to lunch, and I don't know how long I'll be gone." I met the guys in the boardroom at a nearby restaurant. One guy had been struggling spiritually but hadn't told anyone. He began to weep. I confessed that I too had been struggling. We prayed for each other. That day healing took place. Restoration took place. Afterward I thought, Why did we wait so long? We need each other so much.

I don't know anyone who can make it on his own. We need to plug in, and I thank God for helping me to plug into an amazing group of brothers in Christ.

—Michael W. Smith in Decision

My Response: How could I help create a safe place where guys are free to open up to each other?

Thought to Apply: A man who is not in a group with other men is an accident waiting to happen. —Howard Hendricks (Christian educator)

Adapted from Decision (Billy Graham Evangelistic Assoc., 4/00) by permission.

Prayer for the Week

Lord, help me to be there for other men, and to honestly admit I need them to be there for me.

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