Daily Devotion - Feb 18 - ¼}¦w¼w¯P¨C¤éÆF­× God's Best Secrets by Andrew Murray

慕安德烈每日靈修 God's Best Secrets by Andrew Murray

為牧長禱告

經文: 「也為我祈求。」（以弗所書六：19）「也要為我們禱告。」（歌羅西書四：3）「弟兄們，我還有話說。請你們為我們禱告。」（帖撒羅尼迦後書三：1）

這幾處經文顯示，保羅多麼看重肢體間彼此的關懷與代禱，而且他相信沒有禱告，就沒有工作，沒有禱告，就沒有力量。他鼓勵弟兄姐妹們，為了上帝國度的緣故，也為了個人的緣故，不斷地用感恩的心代禱。

牧師或傳道人的地位，猶如上帝的管家，是天國的大使，擔負著勸人與上帝和好的重要職責，迫切地需要眾信徒禱告的支持。若說保羅傳福音廿年，都還需要眾人的禱告，更何況現代的傳道人，豈不更需要禱告？

傳道人極需眾聖徒為他代禱，而且他有權這麼做，同時這也是他的責任；訓練信徒為教會及世界的禾場禱告。當然，他首先要為自己及眾聖徒多多禱告，讓他們知道他們的代禱在上帝的眼中，佔有極重要的份量。

弟兄姐妹們，要切實地提名代禱，或為某個福音機構禱告，而且要繼續不斷的禱告。好看到上帝的作為彰顯，幫助傳道人成為一個充滿聖靈、會禱告、有愛心的牧師。

「親愛的天父：我們謙卑地來到您面前，求您賞賜信心，好叫我們忠心地為傳道人及世界禾場的需要代禱，使您的福音傳遍全地。阿們。」


INTERCESSION FOR MINISTERS

Scripture: "And for me."—EPH. vi. 19. "Praying also for us."—Coi.. iv. 3. "Finally, brethren, pray for us."—2 THESS. iii. 1.

These expressions of Paul suggest what the strength of his conviction must have been that the Christians had power with God, and that their prayer would in very deed bring new strength to him in his work. He had such a sense of the actual unity of the Body of Christ, of the interdependence of each member, even the most honourable, on the life that flowed through the whole body, that he seeks to rouse Christians, both for their own sakes and for his sake, and for the sake of the Kingdom of God, with his call: "Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving, withal praying also for us."
The Church depends upon the ministry to an extent that we very little realise. The place of the minister is so high, as the steward of the mysteries of God, as the ambassador for God to beseech men in Christ's name to be reconciled to Him, that unfaithfulness or inefficiency must bring a terrible blight on the Church that he serves. If Paul, after having preached for twenty years in the power of God, still needed the prayer of the Church, how much more does the ministry in our day need it?
The minister needs the prayer of his people. He has a right to it. He is in very truth dependent on it. It is his task to train Christians for their work, of intercession on behalf of the Church and the world. He must begin with training them to pray for himself. He may have to begin still farther back and learn to pray more for himself and for them. Let all intercessors, who are seeking to enter more deeply into their blessed work, give a larger place to the ministry, whether of their own church or of other churches.
Let them plead with God for individual men, and for special circles. Let them continue in prayer and watch therein, that ministers may be men of power, men of prayer, and full of the Holy Ghost. O brethren, pray for the ministry!
Our Father which art in heaven, we humbly pray Thee to arouse believers to a sense of their calling to pray for the ministers of the Gospel in the spirit of faith. AMEN.


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