Daily Devotion - Apr 10 - ?}|w?w‾P‥C?eAF-× God's Best Secrets by Andrew Murray

慕安德烈每日靈修 God's Best Secrets by Andrew Murray 新約和禱告 經文: 「你求告我，我就應允你，並將你所不知道，又大又難的事指示你。」（耶利米書卅三：3）「我耶和華說過，也必成就；他們必為這事向我求問，我要給他們成就。」（以西結書卅六：36∼37） 新約應許的成就在於信徒禱告的熱誠與恆切。上帝回應耶利米的禱告：「我要把敬畏的心放在你們裡面，使你們不離開我。」上帝回應以西結的禱告說：「我要使他們順服我的律例，遵行我的典章。」然而因著我們不信的惡習，又囿於人有限的思想及經驗，我們不把上帝的話當真，也不對上帝的應許存著盼望，我們對上帝的全能沒有信心，未曾想過上帝等著要將祂的應許，成就在我們身上，使我們經歷祂是信實可靠的上帝。 上帝曾說若沒有這樣的信心，就無法獲得這樣的經驗，同時祂也以無比的恩慈指出得到這信心的方法，就是不斷的禱告。「你求告我，我就應允你，並將你所不知道，又大又難的事指示你。」「並且，以色列家必為這事向我求問。」只有當人全心全意在意上帝的應許，上帝才要成就做工。惟有迫切恆心的禱告，信心才被鍛鍊出來，得以緊緊抓住上帝的話，完全倚賴上帝大能的工作，如此就可經歷上帝是位又真又活的上帝，祂要顯大能幫助一切相信祂的人。只要大家都能做見證，述說上帝大能的行為，信徒們集合起來，成為教會群體，並且同心合意地禱告，那力量是何等的驚人浩大，如此必能推動上帝的手，將福音廣傳，救恩也要臨到滅亡的人身上。 教會中無論傳道人或平信徒，都要不斷地禱告，而且要迫切、恆切地禱告，好讓聖靈自由地運行，信徒的信心不斷增長，宣告並盼望上帝的應許成就，「我是主，我怎樣說，就怎樣成就。」「主啊！我信心不足，求您助我。」 THE NEW COVENANT AND PRAYER Scripture: "Call unto Me, and I will answer thee, and will shew thee great things, and difficult, which thou knowest not." — JER. i- 3. R. V."I the Lord have spoken it, and I will do it. For this more¬over will I be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them." EZEK. xxxvi. 36, 37. The fulfilment of the great promises of the new covenant is made dependent on prayer. In answer to the prayer of Jeremiah, God had said : "I will put My fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from Me." And to Ezekiel He had spoken : "I will cause them to walk in My statutes, and ye shall keep My judgments." To us in our unbelief, and our judging of the meaning of God's Word according to human thought and experience, there is no expectation of these promises being truly fulfilled. We do not believe that God means them to be literally true. We have not the faith in the mighty power of God that is waiting to make His promise true in our experience. And God has said that without such faith our experience will be but very partial and very limited. He has graciously pointed out the way in which such faith can be found. It is in the path of much prayer. "Call unto Me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great things, and difficult, which thou knowest not." "Moreover, I will be inquired of by the house of Israel to do it for them." It is when individual men and women turn to God with their whole heart to plead these promises that He will fulfil them. It is in the exercise of intense persevering prayer that faith will be strengthened to take hold of God and surrender itself to His omnipotent working. And then as one and another can testify of what God has done and will do, believers will help each other and take their place as the Church of the living God ; pleading for and firmly expecting that His promises will be fulfilled in larger measure, as a new endue-ment for the great work of preaching Christ in the fulness of His redemption to perishing men. The state of the Church, the state of our ministers and members, our own state calls for unceasing prayer. We need to pray intensely and persistently, that the need of the power of the Holy Spirit may be deeply felt, and that a strong faith may be roused in the hearts of many to claim and to expect His mighty working. "I the Lord have spoken it, and I will do it." "I believe; Lord, help my unbelief." www.glorypress.com