Daily Devotion - Feb 4 - 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

上帝救贖計劃中的代禱

經文: 「聽禱告的主阿！凡有血氣的，都要來就您。」（詩篇六五：2）

上帝照著祂的形像造了始祖亞當，也把大地交給亞當，希望他能按著上帝的心意管理大地，這是上帝最初的計劃。照理，亞當應是大地的主人，然而，罪進入這世界，亞當的自由意志面臨考驗，他要順服上帝或自己作主？很不幸的，他選擇了後者，因著他的墮落，整個人類就落入罪的詛咒。

上帝的救贖計劃，就是要人從墮落的地方站起來，恢復原來與祂和好的關係，因此祂呼召一群屬祂的僕人，為眾人代求。耶穌在世時，祂不斷為世人代求，作上帝與人之間的中保。祂離世升天後，就把這代禱的工作交給祂的門徒。如祂離別前的一席話：「無論向父求什麼，祂就賜給你們。」（約翰十五：16）上帝樂意施恩，但似乎管道是限制在懇求的基礎上，因祂視此為最高層次的服事，也是信徒降服於全能上帝權柄的表徵。

基督徒應該明白這是何等尊貴榮耀的事——有權利來到上帝面前宣告上帝的得勝與能力，且相信祂垂聽禱告。而且，也只有在上帝的兒女明白代禱在上帝國度中所佔的重要地位，才會認真地把代禱看成是一件重要的責任。

每個基督徒該明白，上帝等著我們親近祂，向祂禱告；代禱更是最蒙福的利器，能將上帝天上豐盛的恩典，傾倒在信徒的心中，供應他們的需要。上帝要親自教導祂的孩子，明白代禱不僅是天父的心意，而且功效更是何等的浩大！


INTERCESSION IN THE PLAN OF REDEMPTION

Scripture: "0 Thou that hearest prayer, unto Thee shall all flesh come." PSALM lxv. 2.

When God gave the world into the power of man, made in His own image, who should rule over it as a viceroy under Him, it was His plan that Adam should do nothing but with God and through God, and God Himself would do all His work in the world through Adam. Adam was in very deed to be the owner, master, and ruler of the earth. When sin entered the world, Adam's power was proved to be a terrible reality, for through him the earth, with the whole race of man, was brought under the curse of sin.
When God made the plan of redemption, His object was to restore man to the place from which he had fallen. God chose His servants of old, who, through the power of intercession, could ask what they would, and it should be given them. When Christ became man, it was that, as man, both on earth and in heaven, He might intercede for man. And ere He left the world. He imparted this right of intercession to His disciples, in the seven-fold promise of the Farewell Discourse (John xv.-xvii.), that whatsoever they should ask He would do for them. God's intense longing to bless seems in some sense to be graciously limited by His dependence on the intercession that rises from the earth. He seeks to rouse the spirit of intercession that He may be able to bestow His blessing on mankind. God regards intercession as the highest expression of His people's readiness to re¬ceive and to yield themselves wholly to the working of His almighty power.
Christians need to realize this as their true nobility and their only power with God—the right to claim and expect that God will hear prayer. It is only as God's children begin to see what intercession means in regard to God's Kingdom, that they will realize how solemn their responsibility is.
Each individual believer will be led to see that God waits for him to take his part. He will feel in very truth that the highest, the most blessed, the mightiest of all human instrumentalities for the fulfilment of the petition, "as in heaven, so on earth," is the intercession that rises day and night, pleading with God for the power of Heaven to be sent down into the hearts of men. Oh that God might burn into our hearts this one thought: Intercession in its omnipotent power is according to His will and is most certainly effectual!


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