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上帝國度降臨

經文: 「願祢的旨意行在地上如同行在天上。」（路加福音十一：2）

當上帝造天地時，祂希望地上的一切有天上的樣式，這是祂當初創造的目的。當我們思想天上的榮耀時，上帝就在那裡，而且一切的豐盛都在祂裡面。反觀地上人間，充滿罪惡兇殺、敗壞污穢，大都份的世人都瞎了心眼，不認識真光，而多數的基督徒，對上帝的要求也不太理會，我們實在需要神蹟，需要復興，被聖靈充滿，並竭力追求聖潔，好使上帝的旨意行在地上，如同行在天上。         上帝的國如何在人間實現？惟有藉著上帝兒女不斷的禱告，禱告是天上與地上連接的橋樑。神子耶穌活著時，在地上設立禱告的好榜樣，如今在天上祂仍長遠地為我們代求，同時祂也要求我們，能成為祂有力的代禱同工。         耶穌在客西馬尼園震撼人心的禱告：「父啊！不要照我的意思，只要照祢的意思。」（太廿：39）這正是我們學習操練禱告的模式，好更貼近上帝的心，更降服在祂的旨意下。無論是父母為兒女的禱告，或是為冷淡退步的基督徒禱告，甚或是為迷失的羊群代禱，都是上帝喜悅我們做的事。         此外，我們不僅為認識的人禱告，或為教會禱告，我們更要擴大禱告的範圍，為全地屬上帝的教會、世界的禾場禱告，使上帝的能力彰顯，上帝的國度早日降臨。         「父啊：願祢的國降臨，願祢的旨意行在地上，如同行在天上。阿們。」

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INTERCESSION THE LINK BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH

Scripture: "Thy will be done, as in heaven, so on earth."—LUKE xi. 2.

When God created heaven and earth, He meant heaven to be the Divine pattern to which earth was to be conformed; "as in heaven, so on earth," was to be the law of its existence.         The word calls us to think of what constitutes the glory of heaven. God is all in all there. Everything lives in Him and to His glory. And as we then think of what this earth has now become, with all its sin and misery, with the great majority of the race without any knowledge of the true God, and the remainder nominally Christians, yet for the greater part utterly indifferent to His claims, and estranged from His holiness and love, we feel what a revolution, what a miracle is needed, if the word is to be fulfilled: "As in heaven, so on earth."         And how is this ever to come true? Through the prayers of God's children. Our Lord teaches us to pray for it. Intercession is to be the great link between heaven and earth. The intercession of the Son, begun upon earth, continued in heaven, and carried on by His redeemed people upon earth, will bring about the mighty change: "As in heaven, so on earth." As Christ said, "I come to do Thy will, O God," until He prayed the great prayer in Gethsemane, "Thy will be done": so His redeemed ones, who yield themselves fully to His mind and Spirit, make His prayer their own, and unceasingly send up the cry, "Thy will be done, as in heaven, so on earth."         Every prayer of a parent for a child, of a believer for the saving of the lost, or for more grace to those who have been saved, is part of the great unceasing cry going up day and night from this earth, "As in heaven, so on earth."         But it is when God's children not only learn to pray for their immediate circles and interests, but enlarge their hearts to take in the whole Church and the whole world, that their united supplication will have power with God and hasten the day when it shall indeed be, "As in heaven so on earth"—the whole earth filled with the glory of God. Child of God, will you not yield yourself, like Christ, to live with this one prayer: "Father, Thy will be done on earth as in heaven"?         Our Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name, Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done—as in heaven, so on earth. AMEN.