| 禱告的靈 | |
| 經文: 「鑒察人心的，曉得聖靈的意思，因為聖靈照著上帝的旨意替聖徒祈求。」（羅馬書八：27） | |
| 人內在的靈，是源自於上帝口中所吹出來的一口靈氣，因此我們理當彰顯上帝的性情及上帝的工作。 禱告的靈，就是要從我們這個肉身的器皿，活出上帝的形像，和願意效法耶穌的榜樣。凡事盡其所能而沒有自己的意思，竭力配合上帝的心意；換句話說，就是要倒空自己，除去自己的私慾和脾氣，讓上帝的愛與真光得以照進人心；這樣的禱告是以耶穌的名禱告，沒有什麼事不被成就的。 因著上帝愛靈魂的心，祂一心所期盼的，就是能把人心當作祂的居所，只要人一打開心門，祂就樂意內住在人心中。沒有什麼事會攔阻上帝與人的連合，除非人自己不肯親近上帝並且選擇遠離祂；因為人的道路是人的意志方向，或者說人活在世上所做的事，都是他意志所做的選擇，自由意志是人最尊貴的特質。 人在生理方面的需要，其實與動物多有雷同，諸如吃喝拉睡等現象，以及物質的需求等；但人若把心思意念太多放在感官的刺激與滿足，以及物質的追求上，將會導致人性的墮落與淪喪，尊貴的人類也將淪為動物的層次等級了。 親愛的弟兄姐妹們，讓我們仔細尋思和徹底瞭解，為何永生的天父藉著聖靈，將祂的生命氣息吹進我們的鼻孔裡，為的是要我們顯出祂的性情與作為來！在世上我們常肯為虛浮的名利，花時間付代價，不辭勞苦地追求尋覓；我們豈不該也以同樣的努力，去認識上帝，了解祂的愛，明白上帝的旨意，並以遵行祂的旨意，作為我們一生奮鬥的目標？ 上帝等著要施恩給你、要向你彰顯，要充滿你的生命，要使用你來榮耀祂；如果你願意將自己獻上擺在祭壇，並依靠祂行事，就會看到人也可以跟隨耶穌基督佳美的腳蹤，在地上活出上帝愛的形像，並榮耀祂的名。 | |
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| THE SPIRIT OF PRAYER | |
| Scripture: "And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God."--Romans 8:27 | |
| "The spirit of the soul is in itself nothing else but a spirit breathed forth from the life of God, and for this only end, that the life of God, the nature of God, the working of God, the tempers of God, might be manifested in it. "The Spirit of Prayer is a pressing forth of the soul out of this earthly life; it is a stretching with all its desires after the life of God; it is a leaving, as far as it can, all its own spirit, to receive a Spirit from above, to be one Life, one Love, one Spirit with Christ in God. This prayer, which is an emptying itself of all its own lusts and natural tempers, and an opening itself for the Light and Love of God to enter into it, is the prayer in the Name of Christ, to which nothing is denied. For the love which God bears to the soul, His eternal, never-ceasing desire to enter into it, to dwell in it, and open the birth of His Holy Word and Spirit in it, stays no longer than till the door of the heart opens for it. For nothing does or can keep God out of the soul, or hinder His Holy union with it, but the desire of the heart turned from Him. For the life of the soul in itself is nothing else but a work¬ing will; wherever the will works, there and there only the soul lives, whether it be in God or in the creature. "A will given up to earthly good, is at grass with Nebuchadnezzar, and has one life with the beasts of the field; for earthly desires keep up the same life in a man and an QX. Earthly food only desired and used for the support of the earthly body, is suitable to man's present condition and the order of nature. But when the desire, the delight and longing of the soul is set upon earthly things, then the humanity is degraded, is fallen from God ; and the life of the soul is made as earthly and animal as the life of the body." Child of God, do let us rise to a right conception of what it means that the Eternal Father, by the Holy Spirit, breathes into us, is seeking to have the life of God, the nature of God, the working of God, revealed within us. In earthly things we are not unwilling to take pains to make sacrifices for the object of our desire. Shall we not begin, as never before, to make the knowedge of God, the love of God, the will of God, the pleasing of God, the great object of our study and our effort. God is waiting to bless us, to reveal Himself to us, to fill us with His life, to use us for His glory, if we will but yield ourselves to the life of continual dependence and adoration. We shall then prove how possible it is for a man to walk in the footsteps of Christ Jesus, living His life on earth every day in the love of the Father and to His glory, | |
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