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          OUR DAILY BREAD                        Wednesday, April 13, 1994
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          Read:  1 Timothy 2:1-8

                                  PRAYER EVANGELISM

                      I exhort first of all that supplications,
                        prayers, intercessions, and giving of
                             thanks be made for all men.
                                    1 Timothy 2:1

          Over  the  centuries  since  Jesus died for  our  sins  and  rose
          victorious from the grave, many methods have been used to  spread
          the gospel.  From Peter's first sermon, when 3,000 were saved, to
          great preaching campaigns of men like Charles Spurgeon and  Billy
          Sunday, to friendship evangelism, many ways of influencing others
          to accept Jesus' free gift have been tried.

          In a major city in the midwest, another method has been launched:
          prayer evangelism.  In the campaign to reach toe populace of this
          city, organizers have set out to pray for every individual.  They
          have divided the city into sections, and all cooperating churches
          have been assigned the names of the people in those sections.

          Of  course,  it will also take other kinds of contacts,  such  as
          literature  or  face-to-face  visits, but  prayer  is  the  major
          component. In 1 Timothy, Paul explained that God "desires all men
          to  be  saved and to come to the knowledge of the  truth"  (2:4).
          And the method suggested for beginning the work of evangelization
          is "supplications, prayers, intercessions...for all men" (v.1).

          What about your neighborhood and mine?  Let's begin right now  to
          do some prayer evangelism.

          Author:  J. David Branon

                             FOR WHOM CAN I PRAY TODAY?

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          THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
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          Talk to God about people before you talk to people about God.

          THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:  Psalms 7-9











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