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Our Daily Bread - Saturday, January 16, 2016
by RBC Ministries

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THE LITTLE TENT

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For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
-Colossians 1:19

THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:
Genesis 39-40
Matthew 11

During evangelist Billy Graham's historic 1949 Los Angeles campaign, the big tent that held over 6,000 people was filled to overflowing every night for 8 weeks. Close by was a smaller tent set aside for counselling and prayer. Cliff Barrows, longtime music director and close friend and associate of Graham, has often said that the real work of the gospel took place in "the little tent," where people gathered on their knees to pray before and during every evangelistic service. A loscal Los Angeles woman, Pearl Goode, was the heart of those prater meetings and many that followed.
In the apostle Paul's letter to the followers of Christ in Colosse, he assured them that he and his colleagues were praying always for them (Colossians 1:3,9). In closing, he mentioned Epaphras, a founder of the Colossian church, who is "always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God" (4:12).
Some people are given the high visibility task of preaching the gospel in "the big tent." But God has extended to us all, just as He did to Epaphras and Pearl Goode, the great privilege of kneeling in "the little tent" and bringing others before the throne of God. - David McCasland
They labour well who intercede
For others with a pressing need;
It's on their knees they often work
And from its rigour will not shirk. - D.DeHaan

Prayer is not preparation for the work, it the work - Oswald Chambers

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