Daily Devotion - Mar 24 - ¯îºz¥Ì¬u Streams in the Desert

荒漠甘泉 Streams in the Desert

禱告要明確

經文: 「雅各說，耶和華，我祖亞伯拉罕的上帝，我父親以撒的上帝阿！您曾對我說，回你本地本族去，我要厚待你。…求您救我。」（創卅二9，11）

在這個禱告中有好幾點可以作我們的幫助，使我們在憂傷的火窯中知道如何向上帝傾心吐意。

雅各就把上帝的應許拿出來提醒上帝：「您…曾說。」他這樣說了兩次（創卅二9，12）。啊，他抓住了上帝！原來上帝的應許就是上帝給我們的把柄，我們能藉著這個去抓住祂；甚麼時候我們能對祂說：「您曾說」，祂絕不能說不。祂必須照祂所說的去作。希律王尚且能守信，何況我們的上帝呢？所以我們禱告的時候，應當把我們的腳站穩在祂的應許上；這樣，天上的門也只得為你敞開了，那時你可以用武力去取你所求的。──譯自實用禱告生活（Practical Portions for the Prayer-life）

主耶穌要我們有專一的禱告。每一個因痛苦試煉而來就祂的人，祂都問他們說：「要我為你作甚麼？」（可十11）如果你盼望有清楚的答應，就得有清楚的禱告。沒有目的的禱告，是沒有答應的。所以你的禱告應當專一。在你禱告的支票上寫明指定的數目，天上的銀行看見了耶穌的名字，就要付你指定的現款。──選

海弗格爾（Havergal）女士說：「每年，每天，我活著眞看見基督人所有的安息、喜樂、能力，都因著一件事情：就是以上帝的話為算數──相信祂怎樣說，就必怎樣作。我們該照祂所用的字眼去接受，切勿更改或變換祂所用的語氣和時候。」

只要把基督的話語──基督的應許和基督寶血拿出來，天上的祝福就沒有一樣能不給你的了。──葛拉克（Adam Clarke）


Be Definite in Prayer

Scripture: "And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the Lord which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee: Deliver me, I pray thee" (Gen. 32:9, 11).

There are many healthy symptoms in that prayer. In some respects it may serve as a mould into which our own spirits may pour themselves, when melted in the fiery furnace of sorrow.
He began by quoting God's promise: "Thou saidst." He did so twice (9 and 12). Ah, he has got God in his power then! God puts Himself within our reach in His promises; and when we can say to Him, "Thou saidst," He cannot say nay. He must do as He has said. If Herod was so particular for his oath's sake, what will not our God be? Be sure in prayer, to get your feet well on a promise; it will give you purchase enough to force open the gates of heaven, and to take it by force. --Practical Portions for the Prayer-life
Jesus desires that we shall be definite in our requests, and that we shall ask for some special thing. "What will ye that I shall do unto you?" is the question that He asks of every one who in affliction and trial comes to Him. Make your requests with definite earnestness if you would have definite answers. Aimlessness in prayer accounts for so many seemingly unanswered prayers. Be definite in your petition. Fill out your check for something definite, and it will be cashed at the bank of Heaven when presented in Jesus' Name. Dare to be definite with God. --Selected
Miss Havergal has said: "Every year, I might almost say every day, that I live, I seem to see more clearly how all the rest and gladness and power of our Christian life hinges on one thing; and that is, taking God at His word, believing that He really means exactly what He says, and accepting the very words in which He reveals His goodness and grace, without substituting others or altering the precise modes and tenses which He has seen fit to use."
Bring Christ's Word--Christ's promise, and Christ's sacrifice--His blood, with thee, and not one of Heaven's blessings can be denied thee. --Adam Clarke


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