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為眾信徒禱告 | |
| 經文: 「靠著聖靈，隨時多方禱告祈求，並要在此儆醒不倦，為眾聖徒祈求。」（以弗所書六：18） | |
| 從這段經文我們看到，保羅是何等盡心盡力地為眾聖徒祈求，而且他也用情詞迫切的語調，來打動讀者的心，也能像他一樣「隨時多方、儆醒不倦地為眾聖徒祈求。」這勸勉值得我們反覆思想。 保羅深深覺得在基督裡，眾信徒互為肢體，藉著愛與禱告，彼此連接在一起。他勸勉以弗所的信徒要熱切、儆醒不倦地為眾信徒禱告，不只為自己的教會，也要為世界的禾場，因為「團結就是力量」。若我們恆切持續地操練這個功課，我們可從自我中心釋放出來，禱告也不至軟弱，基督的愛也能自由豐盛地從我們身上流露出來。 靈命淺的信徒，其禱告的內容，常環繞在自己的需要或求上帝為他們做什麼上面；讓我們從現在開始，學習在愛中多為別人禱告，多為教會的需要禱告，多為他人的靈魂代求，這樣的生活才是健康正常基督徒應有的樣式——捨己為人，委身歸主。 再沒有別的事比與主連合，按上帝的心意禱告更加偉大；也沒有別的事比為別人懇切代禱，並見禱告蒙上帝應允更為喜樂。 | |
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| PRAYER FOR ALL SAINTS | |
| Scripture: "With all prayer and supplication praying at all seasons in the Spirit, and watching thereunto in all perseverance and sup¬plication for all the saints."—EPH. vi. 18 (R. V.). | |
| Notice how Paul repeats the words in the intensity of his desire to reach the hearts of his readers. "With all prayer and supplication praying at all seasons, watching thereunto in all perseverance and all supplication." It is, "all prayer, all seasons, all perseverance, all supplication." The words claim thought, if they are to meet with the needed response. Paul felt so deeply the unity of the Body of Christ, and he was so sure that that unity could only be realized in the exercise of love and prayer, that he pleaded with the believers at Ephesus unceasingly and fervently to pray for all saints, not only in their immediate circle, but in all the Church of Christ of whom they might hear. "Unity is strength." As we exercise this power of intercession with all perseverance, we shall be delivered from self with all its feeble prayers, and lifted up to that enlargement of heart in which the love of Christ can flow freely and fully through us. The great lack in true believers often is that in prayer they are occupied with themselves, and with what God must do for them. Let us realize that we have here a call to every believer to give himself without ceasing to the exercise of love and prayer. It is as we forget ourselves, in the faith that God will take charge of us, and yield ourselves to the great and blessed work of calling down the blessing of God on our brethren, that the whole Church will be fitted to do its work in making Christ known to every creature. This alone is the healthy and the blessed life of a child of God who has yielded himself wholly to Christ Jesus. Pray for God's children and the Church around you. Pray for all the work in which they are engaged, or ought to be. Pray at all seasons in the Spirit for all God's saints. There is no blessedness greater than that of abiding communion with God. And there is no way that leads to the enjoyment of this more surely than the life of intercession for which these words of Paul appeal pleadingly. | |
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