Today's Daily Bread
The Little Tent
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 counseling 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 local Los Angeles woman, Pearl Goode, was the heart of those
prayer 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
(Col. 1:3,9). In closing he mentioned Epaphras, a founder of the
Colossian church, who is “always laboring 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.
They labor well who intercede
For others with a pressing need;
It’s on their knees they often work
And from its rigor will not shirk. —D. DeHaan
For others with a pressing need;
It’s on their knees they often work
And from its rigor will not shirk. —D. DeHaan
Prayer is not preparation for the work, it is the work. —Oswald Chambers
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