10/14 慕安德烈每日靈修 God's Best Secrets by Andrew Murray

聖經的話

經文: 「上帝的道是活潑的，是有功效的。」（希伯來書四：12）

引用聖經的話作為禱告的內容，我發現大有幫助。假若聖靈提醒我想起一節經文，我就把它帶到施恩寶座前，求上帝按祂的話兌現祂的應許，這樣的習慣增加我的信心，提醒我上帝的承諾，使我明白上帝的心意，知道惟有按著上帝的旨意祈求，所求的心願才得實現（約壹五：14）。         禱告就像點火一樣，若燃料無缺，火苗才會點燃，聖經的話就是禱告的燃料，聖經必須用禱告的心好好研讀，並且牢記在心，在生活中實踐出來，而這惟有靠著聖靈大能的激發才能做得到。         仔細尋思，我們領悟上帝的話，有如帶有永恆生命的種子。我們明白種子的奧妙特性，雖是小小毫不起眼的一粒，卻能迸發出無限的生命力，只要把它放在土壤裡，施以陽光和水份，就能長成一棵大樹。         上帝的每一句話，每一個應許，都帶有能力，若我們將它存記在心，反覆思想並喜愛它，就一定會發旺成長，結出仁義的果子。將自己沈浸在上帝的話語中，直到你心湧出一個確據。雖然我心冷淡沈寂，但上帝的話活潑有功效，能在我心裡動工，激發我的愛心、信心。 聖靈會教導我們如何禱告，信徒藉著禱告表達心中的慾望與需要，聖經的話也成為禱告的方向與內容；但是若沒有聖靈的幫助，我們就很難明白上帝在我們身上的工作，因此我們要常常求聖靈這位導師，教導我們如何有個切實且又甘甜的禱告生活。

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THE WORD OF GOD

Scripture: "The Word of God is living and active."—HEB. iv. 12.

I find it a great help to use much of God's Word in my prayers. If the Holy Spirit impresses a certain text upon my mind, I take it to the Throne of Grace and plead the promise. This habit increases our faith, reminds us of God's promises, and brings us into harmony with God's will. We learn to pray according to God's will, and understand that we can only expect an answer when our prayers are in accordance with that will (1 John v. 14).         Prayer is like fire. The fire can only burn brightly if it is supplied with good fuel. That fuel is God's Word, which must not only be studied carefully and prayerfully, but must be taken into the heart and lived out in the life. The inspiration and powerful working of the Holy Spirit alone can do this.         By thoughts such as these we gain a deeper insight into the value and power of God's Word, as a seed of eternal life. We are all familiar with the characteristics of a seed—a small grain in which the life-power of a whole tree slumbers. If it is placed in the soil it will grow and increase and become a large tree. Each word or promise of God is a seed containing a divine life in it. If I carry it in my heart by faith, love it and meditate on it, it will surely but slowly spring up and bring forth the fruits of righteousness. Think over this until you gain the assurance: although my heart seems cold and dead, the Word of God will work within me the disposition promised in His Word.         The Holy Spirit uses both the Word and prayer. Prayer is the expression of our human need and desire. The Word of God is the means that the Holy Spirit teaches us to use as a guide to what God will do for us, and the demonstration of the secret working of the Holy Spirit in our hearts, by which God Himself fulfils His promise, and gives us what we could not obtain without the help of the Spirit.

10/10 English 慕安德烈每日靈修 God's Best Secrets by Andrew Murray

信心的靈

經文: 「我們也信，所以也說話。」（哥林多後書四：13）

你知道為什麼要大家背誦聖靈的果子嗎？因為這樣可以提醒我們，常常反省自己有否擁有這幾樣聖德，我們對聖靈的恩賜，要有一顆切慕渴求的心，厚賜予眾人的上帝，才會大大賞賜。現在讓我們思想最後兩個聖靈的果子：信實與節制。         門徒問耶穌：「為何有些邪靈趕不走？」耶穌回答：「有些鬼，若不禁食禱告就不出來。」他們的信心不夠堅定，他們禱告的時候，也不夠火熱，自我犧牲的誠意不夠，禱告若人聽了都不能感動，又如何能上達天庭？這兒我們看到信心與節制的結合。         信心是聖靈的果子，引導人單單地仰賴耶穌；信心相信上帝的話，緊緊地抓住上帝的應許，安靜等候上帝要照著祂所答應的，用大能大力成就一切祂所答應的，基督徒每天的生活，都是一個信心的生活。         再來思想「節制」這個果子，這原是指在飲食上，或吃或喝都極有節制所引申出來的涵意；就是在言語上很謹慎，有分寸，在行為上與人互動時，也不以自我為中心，處處為人著想。「除去私慾，一心過聖潔公義有節制的生活」，應是基督徒生活的座右銘，如此才能在與世人交往時，知道如何拒絕誘惑，節制有度；並且與上帝有親密的交通，行公義的事，以合乎上帝的心意。         信心與節制都是聖靈的果子，當我們求聖靈教導我們怎樣禱告時，我們心門就被打開，上帝就將這兩樣聖靈的果子植入我們心田，使我們行事為人，滿有上帝的形象。         將這經文藏記在心，讓聖靈的感動常在你心中引導你，每天帶領你更親近天父，使你內在的人結出信心與節制的果子，讓別人看出你的行事為人，是屬上帝的子民。

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THE SPIRIT OF FAITH

Scripture: "Having the same spirit of faith, we also believe."—2 COR. iv. 13.

Do you begin to realize why it is so important to commit to memory the text, Gal. v. 22 ? It will strengthen the desire in our hearts to have and to hold the fruits of the Spirit within us. Our expectation of the blessing God will give will be enlarged. Let us pause a while on the two last fruits of the Spirit—Faith and Temperance.         When the disciples asked the Lord: "Why could we not cast out the evil spirit?"—His reply was: "This kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting." Their faith was not powerful enough, and even if they had prayed, they had not the zeal and self-sacrifice needed for prevailing prayer. Here we see the union of faith and temperance.         Faith is a fruit of the Spirit—and leads the seeking soul to depend on God alone. Faith believes God's Word, and clings to Him, and waits in perfect trust that His power will work within us all that He has promised. The whole life of the Christian each day is a faith life.         Let us now think of Temperance. This refers in the first place to eating and drinking, and leads us to restraint, carefulness, and unselfishness in our conversation, our desires, in all our intercourse with one another. Our motto should be: "Forsaking all worldly desires, to live righteously and godly and temperately in all things." Temperate in all our dealings with the world and its temptations. Righteous in the doing of God's will. Devout in the close communion with God Himself.         Faith and temperance are both fruits of the Spirit. When we ask the Spirit to teach us to pray, we open our hearts towards Him that He may grant us the fruits of the Spirit, faith and tem¬perance, to influence our daily lives in our intercourse with God and man.         Learn this text by heart, and let the promptings of the Spirit in your heart each day lead you to the Father, that He may grant the fruits of the Spirit in your inner life, which will be seen in all your actions.

10/9 司布真每日靈修(夜) Evening by Evening

十月九日

經文: 耶穌卻一言不答。（馬太福音十五：23）

真誠的尋求卻尚未得到祝福的人，可以從今晚的經文中獲得安慰。雖然這婦人對救主有極大的信心，但是祂並未立即給予祝福。祂要賜福，但卻等待片刻。「耶穌一言不答。」在世上沒有一個人的祈禱能及得上這位婦人的祈求。她極為迫切，而她的信心如此大，甚至耶穌都說：「婦人，妳的信心是大的。」（太十五：28）。信心為祈禱帶來應允，這話是確實的，但不一定即時蒙應允。有時對信心加以試驗會比對信心的賞賜更為重要。真誠的信心可能像一顆隱藏的種子，尚未萌芽開花成為喜樂與平安。救主的片刻沈默是許多尋求主之心靈的悲傷試驗。而像這樣嚴厲、截然的回答：「不好拿兒女的餅丟給狗吃。」（太十五：26）更是教人的心情愈發沈重。許多人在等待主時得到即時的答覆，但並不是所有人都如此。有人瞬間就從黑暗轉入了光明，但有時卻像生長緩慢的植物慢極了，上帝可能使你對罪有更深的感受而不使你有被饒恕的感覺，在這種情況下，你需要耐性來忍受沈重的打擊。雖然你可能被打傷，但你仍要信靠上帝。雖然祂向你說氣話，但你乃要相信祂心中對你的愛。不要放棄尋求，也不要放棄對主的信靠，因為你尚未獲得你渴望的蒙福之喜樂。投向祂，當你不能有喜樂的盼望時，更要堅定地依靠祂。

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Evening, October 9

Scripture: “But he answered her not a word.”(Matthew 15:23)

Genuine seekers who as yet have not obtained the blessing, may take comfort from the story before us. The Saviour did not at once bestow the blessing, even though the woman had great faith in him. He intended to give it, but he waited awhile. “He answered her not a word.” Were not her prayers good? Never better in the world. Was not her case needy? Sorrowfully needy. Did she not feel her need sufficiently? She felt it overwhelmingly. Was she not earnest enough? She was intensely so. Had she no faith? She had such a high degree of it that even Jesus wondered, and said, “O woman, great is thy faith.” See then, although it is true that faith brings peace, yet it does not always bring it instantaneously. There may be certain reasons calling for the trial of faith, rather than the reward of faith. Genuine faith may be in the soul like a hidden seed, but as yet it may not have budded and blossomed into joy and peace. A painful silence from the Saviour is the grievous trial of many a seeking soul, but heavier still is the affliction of a harsh cutting reply such as this, “It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.” Many in waiting upon the Lord find immediate delight, but this is not the case with all. Some, like the jailer, are in a moment turned from darkness to light, but others are plants of slower growth. A deeper sense of sin may be given to you instead of a sense of pardon, and in such a case you will have need of patience to bear the heavy blow. Ah! poor heart, though Christ beat and bruise thee, or even slay thee, trust him; though he should give thee an angry word, believe in the love of his heart. Do not, I beseech thee, give up seeking or trusting my Master, because thou hast not yet obtained the conscious joy which thou longest for. Cast thyself on him, and perseveringly depend even where thou canst not rejoicingly hope.

10/7 司布真每日靈修(夜) Evening by Evening

十月七日

經文: 你到底倚靠誰。（以賽亞書三十六：5）

這是一個重要的問題。請聽基督徒的回答，並看看是否也是你的答案。我倚靠天父，相信祂在世界的根基立定以前已經揀選了我。我依靠祂供應我、教導我、引領我、糾正我、並將我領回家。我依靠聖子。祂是真神中的真神──基督耶穌。我信靠祂，因為祂親自捨命，拯救我脫離眾罪，並以祂完全的公義裝飾我。我依靠祂作我的代禱者，在祂父的寶座前陳上我的祈求和願望。我相信在未來的大日子中祂要作我的中保，為我請命，使我稱義。我依靠祂所是的、祂所作成的、和祂所應許要作的。我依靠聖靈。祂已將我從罪惡中拯救出來，並從我的生命中將所有罪惡逐出。我相信祂會勒住我的脾氣、降服我的意志、開啓我的智力、控制我的熱情、安慰我的消沈、幫助我的軟弱、並且照亮我的黑暗。我依靠祂內住作我的生命，統管我作我的王，使我的靈、魂、體都全然成聖，然後接我到天上與眾聖徒永遠同住於光明中。我相信祂的能力永不衰竭、祂的愛永不消滅、祂的仁慈永不改變、祂的信實永不失落、祂的智慧永不混亂、祂的完全美善永不減少！依靠祂，現在我能享有平安，將來可得榮耀。

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Evening, October 7

Scripture: “Now on whom dost thou trust?”(Isaiah 36:5)

Reader, this is an important question. Listen to the Christian's answer, and see if it is yours. “On whom dost thou trust?” “I trust,” says the Christian, “in a triune God. I trust the Father, believing that he has chosen me from before the foundations of the world; I trust him to provide for me in providence, to teach me, to guide me, to correct me if need be, and to bring me home to his own house where the many mansions are. I trust the Son. Very God of very God is he—the man Christ Jesus. I trust in him to take away all my sins by his own sacrifice, and to adorn me with his perfect righteousness. I trust him to be my Intercessor, to present my prayers and desires before his Father's throne, and I trust him to be my Advocate at the last great day, to plead my cause, and to justify me. I trust him for what he is, for what he has done, and for what he has promised yet to do. And I trust the Holy Spirit—he has begun to save me from my inbred sins; I trust him to drive them all out; I trust him to curb my temper, to subdue my will, to enlighten my understanding, to check my passions, to comfort my despondency, to help my weakness, to illuminate my darkness; I trust him to dwell in me as my life, to reign in me as my King, to sanctify me wholly, spirit, soul, and body, and then to take me up to dwell with the saints in light for ever.”         Oh, blessed trust! To trust him whose power will never be exhausted, whose love will never wane, whose kindness will never change, whose faithfulness will never fail, whose wisdom will never be nonplussed, and whose perfect goodness can never know a diminution! Happy art thou, reader, if this trust is thine! So trusting, thou shalt enjoy sweet peace now, and glory hereafter, and the foundation of thy trust shall never be removed.

10/7 慕安德烈每日靈修 God's Best Secrets by Andrew Murray

聖靈的賜予

經文: 「天父豈不更將聖靈給求祂的人麼？」（路加福音十一：13）

有一本關於禱告的小書，作者以他過來人的經驗，分享自己如何經歷更深禱告生活的祕訣，試圖將他的心得傳承給我們。當我們思想禱告這題目，不禁想到我們正活在聖靈澆灌的世代，他說：「我深深覺得我們處在聖靈作工的世代，凡我們所做的服事，若非出於聖靈的感動或催逼，就沒有什麼價值。」這也令我想起一處寶貴的經文：「你們雖然不好，尚且知道拿好東西給兒女。何況天父，豈不更將聖靈給求祂的人麼？」（路十一：13）         我覺得欣慰興奮的是，每天都能來到天父面前，領受聖靈供應我們一天的需要，這是基督徒每天最重要的事。若不如此，我們就無法討上帝的歡喜，也沒有辦法對周圍的人，有實際的幫助。這令我更進一步想到，若我們的禱告能提昇我們在生活中行出上帝的旨意，必然是源自於上帝，這位一切能力的供應者。河水不可能不出於源頭，同理，若聖靈藉著我們禱告，禱告者的祈求也必蒙應允，恩澤自己或代禱的對象。「我越來越相信」這本書的作者所提到：「基督徒的生命在於他禱告的質，勝過他禱告的量。」         這是多麼值得深思的題目，也是值得迫切禱告的內容！你今天禱告的時候，就熱切地求上帝賞賜給你聖靈的恩膏，上帝會樂意施恩給你的。         「天父啊，求祢讓聖靈現在就動工在我心中，教導我學習如何禱告！奉主耶穌聖名，阿們！」

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THE DISPENSATION OF THE SPIRIT

Scripture: "How much more shall your Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him?"—LUKE xi. 13.

The writer of a little book on Prayer tells us that he has learned through his own experience the secret of a better prayer life, and would gladly pass on that which has helped him. As he was meditating on prayer, the great thought came with power, that we are now living in the dispensation of the Spirit. He says: "I felt deeply that in this time of the working of the Holy Spirit, all we may do in God's service is of little value unless it is inspired by the power of the Holy Spirit. This brought me to the well-known, precious, and inexhaustible text, 'How much more shall your Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him?'"         I felt anew that the main thing for each of us is to receive, afresh from the Father, the Holy Spirit for our daily needs and daily life. Without this we cannot please God, nor can we be of any real help to our fellow-men. This brought the further thought that our prayers, if they are to raise our loves to fulfil God's purpose, must have their origin in God Himself, the highest source of power. Water cannot rise higher than its source. And so it happens that if the Holy Spirit prays through us, as human channels or conduits, our prayers will rise again to God, who is their source, and the prayers will be answered by the Divine working in ourselves and in others. "I believe more and more," says the writer, "that the Christian life of each one of us depends chiefly on the quality of our prayers and not on the quantity."         What material for thought is here, for deep meditation, for earnest prayer! When you pray today, ask the Heavenly Father to give you the Holy Spirit afresh for this day. He yearns to do it.         Father, grant me now the working of Thy Holy Spirit, that I may learn to pray.

10/6 司布真每日靈修(夜) Evening by Evening

十月六日

經文: 摩西取了古實女子為妻。（民數記十二：1）

摩西在選擇妻子時作了一個特別的決定。但是那位比摩西更偉大的主所選擇的更是不尋常。我們的主，美如谷中的百合花，卻取了一位自認為黑「因為日頭把我曬黑了」(歌一：6)的女子。每個信徒被耶穌的愛充滿時定會驚訝不已：何以如此的大愛竟會豐富地臨到一個完全不配的人身上！我們雖在暗中犯罪而且對主不忠，卻可得到白白的恩典，因此，我們要向恩典之主俯首敬拜。耶穌必然是在自己的心中找到愛我們的理由，絕對不會是在我們身上，因為祂在我們身上絕對找不到。即使我們已經認罪悔改，但由於老我的本性，以致我們仍然是黑的，然而恩典卻使我們變為美麗。拉塞福形容他自己說：「祂與我的關係好像我是一個病人，而祂是那位我所需要的醫生。唉，多少時候我捉弄了基督！祂縛緊、我解開；祂建造、我推倒；我與基督爭論，而祂卻能在一天之內二十次與我和好！」我們靈魂既溫柔又忠實的良人啊！願祢恩典的工作繼續改變我們，教我們擁有祢的形像。我們知道，有一天祢要將我們毫無玷污、毫無缺點地獻給祢自己。摩西的婚姻遭受反對，他和他的配偶成為毀謗的對象。當罪人悔改，蒙耶穌接納成為祂的配偶時，必遭虛妄的世界譏諷，這點我們還會覺得意外嗎？這也是法利賽人反對耶穌的理由：「這個人接待罪人。」（路十五：2）

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Evening, October 6

Scripture: “He had married an Ethiopian woman.”(Numbers 12:1)

Strange choice of Moses, but how much more strange the choice of him who is a prophet like unto Moses, and greater than he! Our Lord, who is fair as the lily, has entered into marriage union with one who confesses herself to be black, because the sun has looked upon her. It is the wonder of angels that the love of Jesus should be set upon poor, lost, guilty men. Each believer must, when filled with a sense of Jesus’ love, be also overwhelmed with astonishment that such love should be lavished on an object so utterly unworthy of it. Knowing as we do our secret guiltiness, unfaithfulness, and black-heartedness, we are dissolved in grateful admiration of the matchless freeness and sovereignty of grace. Jesus must have found the cause of his love in his own heart, he could not have found it in us, for it is not there. Even since our conversion we have been black, though grace has made us comely. Holy Rutherford said of himself what we must each subscribe to—“His relation to me is, that I am sick, and he is the Physician of whom I stand in need. Alas! how often I play fast and loose with Christ! He bindeth, I loose; he buildeth, I cast down; I quarrel with Christ, and he agreeth with me twenty times a day!” Most tender and faithful Husband of our souls, pursue thy gracious work of conforming us to thine image, till thou shalt present even us poor Ethiopians unto thyself, without spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing. Moses met with opposition because of his marriage, and both himself and his spouse were the subjects of an evil eye. Can we wonder if this vain world opposes Jesus and his spouse, and especially when great sinners are converted? for this is ever the Pharisee's ground of objection, “This man receiveth sinners.” Still is the old cause of quarrel revived, “Because he had married an Ethiopian woman.”

10/6 English 慕安德烈每日靈修 God's Best Secrets by Andrew Murray

仁愛的信心

經文: 「在基督耶穌裡，受割禮不受割禮全無功效，惟獨使人生發仁愛的信心，才有功效。」（加拉太書五：6）

信心是根，愛是果，對上帝的愛有信心，對弟兄姐妹的愛，也就會自然而然萌生出來，兩者是相輔相成的；因為心中若充滿上帝的大愛，自然而然就會滿溢出來，流到周圍的人身上；所以真實的信心會產生一種熱情，想擁抱世人並付出愛。但是教會中多麼缺乏這種關懷的熱情，牧師也很少傳講這類的信息，讓弟兄姐妹們明白信心生活，可以帶來喜樂和仁愛的果子。         我們的生活，無論夫婦、父子、兄弟，或朋友之間，這些人倫之常情，都必須建立在主愛的基礎上。不要說「這不可能」，因為在上帝沒有難成的事，上帝可以藉著聖靈的大能，將祂的大愛澆灌下來，讓我們活出奔放、熱情的生命！         我們要緊緊抓住上帝的話，並深信祂要親自帶領我們每天的驚奇之旅，祂會賜下意想不到的驚喜，充實我們的人生。並要讓這樣的思想，成為我們信心跳躍的驅力，因著對上帝長闊高深的愛，有著不斷增長的信心，那愛的活泉就不斷湧流，甚至流到仇敵的身上；也像和煦的暖陽，照耀到最偏僻角落的弟兄身上。         喔！弟兄姐妹們，整個救恩的精義，可以濃縮成兩個字：即「信」和「愛」。願我們將信心深深地根植在上帝大愛的沃土上，每天和上帝有密切的溝通、吸取養分，使我們有更多廣大包容的愛心，與周遭的世人交往。願上帝將這經訓銘刻在我們心版上，使我們生活有愛、行路有光，藉著對耶穌的信心，活出有愛的一生，來見證上帝的榮美！

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FAITH WORKING THROUGH LOVE

Scripture: "In Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love."—GAL. v. 6.

"Faith is the root: Love is the fruit. Faith becomes strong in the love of God and of Christ. Faith in God and love to the brethren must always go hand in hand. Faith in God's wonderful love, shed abroad in our hearts, enables us to live always in love towards our fellow-men. This true faith gives us power for a life of fervent, all-embracing love.         Yet how little the Church realize? of all this! How seldom does the preacher lay stress on a Christlike love to the brethren, as the fruit and joy of the life of faith!         All of our life—in the home, between father and mother, par¬ents and children, brothers and sisters, friends and servants— should be a life in the love of Christ. Do not say: "It is impos¬sible." All things are possible to God, who through His Holy Spirit will shed His love in our hearts to be lived out in our daily lives. Let our faith cling to God's Word, and to the unseen and wonderful things He will do for us each day. Let these thoughts about love impel us to accept with new and greater faith the Love of God, and then dedicate our lives to letting it radiate from us to all men, yes, even to our enemies, and to the heathen at the uttermost parts of the earth.         O Christian, the whole of salvation lies in these two words —Faith and Love. Let our faith each day take deeper root in God's eternal love. And then each day the fruit of the Spirit will be love in all our intercourse with those around us. May God imprint these words deeply in our hearts, and make them a joy and strength to us—In Jesus Christ nothing avails, but "love working through faith,"