2/28 English 慕安德烈每日靈修 God's Best Secrets by Andrew Murray 晝夜祈求

晝夜祈求

經文: 「上帝的選民，晝夜呼籲祂，祂縱然為他們忍了多時，豈不終久給他們伸冤嗎？」（路加福音十八：7）

當尼希米聽到耶路撒冷敗壞荒涼的消息，他在上帝面前哭泣：「願祢睜眼看、側耳聰，祢僕人晝夜在祢面前為祢眾僕人……的祈禱。」（尼一：6）那些在聖城城牆守望的人，上帝說：「他們晝夜都不闔眼。」保羅也說：「我們晝夜切切的祈求，要見你們的面，……，在我們父上帝面前，心裡堅固，成為聖潔，無可責備。」（帖前三：10，13）         真的要晝夜禱告嗎？這有可能嗎？若我們的心真被上帝的愛和聖靈所掌管，我們勢必將上帝交待的工作完成，否則心就不得安息，而且也沒有任何事會阻擋我們，去盡力活在上帝面前，來討祂的歡心，喜見祂的笑顏。         「沒有異象，民就放肆。」（箴廿：18）人若清楚看到教會的需要，人心的需要，以及世界禾場的需要，而且也確信藉著祈禱產生的力量，能讓我們剛強為主作見證、領人歸主，我們就會視熱切代禱為己任，晝夜祈求上帝的大能藉我們彰顯。         讓我們向大衛學習，他說：「我心因渴想上帝而熔化。」真的，耶穌救主有如我們的良人，惟有祂值得我們追求，惟有祂值得我們愛慕，讓我們為祂而活，討祂的歡心，並積極地為祂贏得更多的靈魂，若不為祂多結果子，我心就不得安息。         「主啊：祢是最偉大的代禱者，是永遠的祭司，求祢賞賜一顆火熱代禱的心，好完成祢託付的使命。奉耶穌的名，阿們。」

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INTERCESSION DAY AND NIGHT

Scripture: "Shall not God avenge His own elect, which cry day and night unto Him, though He bear long with them!"'—LUKE xviii. 7,

When Nehemiah heard of the destruction of Jerusalem, he cried to God: "Hear the prayer of Thy servant which I pray before Thy face day and night." Of the watchman set on the walls of Jesrusalem, God said: "Which shall never hold their peace day nor night." And Paul writes (1 Thess. iii. 10, 13, R. V.) : "Night and day praying exceedingly, to the end He may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before our God and Father."         Is such prayer night and day really needed and really possible? Most assuredly, when the heart is first so entirely possessed by the desire that it cannot rest until this is fulfilled. The life has so come under the power of the heavenly blessing that nothing can keep it from sacrificing all to obtain it.         When a child of God begins to get a real vision into the need of the Church and of the world, a vision of the Divine redemption which God has promised in the outpouring of His love into our hearts, a vision of the power of true intercession to bring down the heavenly blessing, a vision of the honour of being allowed as intercessors to take part in that work, it comes as a matter of course that he regards the work as the most heavenly thing upon earth—as intercessor to cry day and night to God for the revelation of His mighty power.         Let us learn from David, who said: "The zeal of Thine house hath consumed me"; from Christ our Lord, of whom these words were so intensely true, that there is nothing so much worth living for as this one thought—how to satisfy the heart of God in His longing for human fellowship and affection, and how to win hearts to be His dwelling-place. And shall not we too give ourselves no rest until we have found a place for the Mighty One in our hearts, and yielded ourselves to the great work of intercession for so many after whom the desires of God are going out.         God grant that our hearts may be so brought under the influence of these Divine truths, that we may in very deed yield ourselves to make our devotion to Christ, and our longing to satisfy the heart of God, the chief object of our life.         Lord Jesus, the great Intercessor, who findest in it all Thy glory, breathe, we pray Thee, of Thine own Spirit into our hearts—for Thy Name's sake. AMEN.

2/27 English 慕安德烈每日靈修 God's Best Secrets by Andrew Murray

最大心願

經文: 「有一件事，我曾求耶和華，我仍要尋求。就是一生一世住在耶和華的殿中，瞻仰祂的榮美，在祂的殿裡求問。」（詩篇廿七：4）

當我們以基督的心為心時，我們的生命在聖靈的管理之下，我們的心思意念也會專注在屬天的事上，常常轉眼仰望上帝的聖潔美意，並思想上帝所說的話：「我所說的話必成就，我要做以色列的居所。」         我們越思想上帝渴望住在祂兒女的心中，要人享受祂的安息，我們就越希望每天都能在祂的聖殿仰望祂的榮美，也越發興起為他人禱告的心。無論我們思及國家或親人，得救或未得救的人，只要想到上帝渴望更多的人來認識祂，來享受祂的平安，就巴不得奮身為福音爭戰，也將自己一切的軟弱自卑拋諸腦後，只宣告新約中上帝的應許，上帝必要得勝！         當我們信心的眼睛，看出上帝榮耀的呼召，為了要讓萬人得救，祂把那願為他人代禱火熱的心，擺在我們心裡面，我們就被感動，願意放下自我，更多地與上帝親近，等候祂甘甜的同在，並樂意向人分享因信耶穌而得的好處。         「上帝哪！求祢開我的眼，讓我看到這是何等榮耀的職份，上帝居然看得起我，讓我在祂的聖工上有份，我們豈可輕忽這樣的恩典！願上帝賜下屬天的能力，讓我做個天國精兵、代禱勇士！奉耶穌的名，阿們。」

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MY GREAT DESIRE

Scripture: "One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in His temple."— PSALMS xxvii. 4.

Here we have man's response to God's desire to dwell in us. When the desire of God toward us begins to rule the life and heart, our desire is fixed on one thing, and that is, to dwell in the house of the Lord all the clays of our life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, to worship Him in the beauty of holiness. And then to enquire in His temple and to learn what it means that God has said: "I the Lord have spoken it, and will do it. And I will yet for this be inquired of by the house of Israel to do it for them."         The more we realize the desire of God's love to give His rest in the heart, and the more our desire is thus quickened to dwell every day in His temple and behold His beauty, the more the Spirit of intercession will grow upon us, to claim all that in His New Covenant God has promised. Whether we think of our Church and country, of our home and school, of our nearer or wider circle; whether we think of the saved and all their needs, or the unsaved and their danger, the thought that God is indeed longing to find His home and His rest in the hearts of men, if He be only "inquired of," will rouse our whole being to strive for Zion's sake not to hold our peace. All the thoughts of our feebleness and unworthiness will be swallowed up in the wonderful assurance that He has said of human hearts: "This is my rest for ever; here will I dwell; for I have desired it."         As our faith sees how high our calling is, how indispensable has made fervent, intense, persistent prayer as the condition oi His purpose being fulfilled, we shall be drawn to give up our life to a closer walk with God, to an unceasing waiting upon Him, and to a testimony to our brethren of what God will do in them and in us.         Is it not wonderful beyond all thought, this Divine partnership, in which God commits the fulfilment of His desires to our keeping? Shame upon us that we have so little realized it!         Our Father in heaven, we beseech Thee, give, give in power, we Spirit of grace and supplication to Thy people — for Jesus sake. AMEN.

2/24 English 慕安德烈每日靈修 God's Best Secrets by Andrew Murray

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.

2/22 English 慕安德烈每日靈修 God's Best Secrets by Andrew Murray

同心禱告

經文: 「身體只有一個，聖靈只有一個。」（以弗所書四：4）

人身體各部門配搭合適，發揮功能，才有健康的身體。同理，主內眾弟兄姊妹也互為肢體，彼此幫補，教會才有好處。有人以為得救，只要自己等著上天堂即可，其實不然，我們應當切實禱告，讓眾人同得這福音的好處。我們不僅為自己的教會禱告，還要為世界的禾場禱告。         上帝的愛能讓我們有開闊的心胸，激勵我們為超宗派的聖工，為世界的禾場禱告。也惟有全教會願同心合意在寶座前屈膝禱告，上帝的大能才能沛然降臨、自由運行。基於感恩的心，我們希望各宗派團結同心，但這何其難哉，更遑論不同國藉的教會能聯合，因此一個普世教會的夢想，是難以實現。         讓我們懇求施恩的主，使基督徒更深更緊地連接在一起，這比有形外在教會的連接更重要。而惟一落實這理念的作法，就是藉著不斷操練同心合意的禱告。弟兄姊妹們當明白，自己還扮演著祭司的角色，不僅關懷教會的羊群，還當把基督的愛，擴展到慕道友的身上，如此上帝的家才會充滿生命力，上帝的國才會更快來臨。         願牧師和眾信徒能連結在一起，同心合意為興旺福音禱告，這是促使上帝國度降臨不可或缺的步驟。

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UNITED INTERCESSION

Scripture: "There is one body, and one Spirit."—EPH. iv. 4.

Our own bodies teach us how essential for their health and strength it is that every member should take its full share in seeking the welfare of the whole. It is even so in the Body of Christ. There are, alas, too many who look upon salvation only in connection with their own happiness. There are those, again, who know that they live not unto themselves, and truly seek in prayer and work to bring others to share in their happiness; but they do not yet understand that in addition to their personal circle or Church, they have a calling to enlarge their hearts to take the whole Body of Christ Jesus into their love and their intercession.         Yet this is what the Spirit and the love of Christ will enable them to do. It is only when intercession for the whole Church, by the whole Church, ascends to God's throne, that the Spirit of unity and of power can have its full sway. The desire that has been awakened for closer union between the different branches of the Church of Christ is cause for thanksgiving. And yet the difficulties are so great and, in the case of different nationalities of the world, so apparently insuperable, that the thought of a united Church on earth appears beyond reach.         Let us bless God that there is a unity in Christ Jesus, deeper and stronger than any visible manifestation could make it; and that there is a way in which even now, midst all diversity of administrations, the unity can be practically exemplified and utilized as the means of an unthought-of accession of Divine strength and blessing in the work of the Kingdom. It is in the cultivation and increase of the spirit and in the exercise of intercession that the true unity can be realized. As believers are taught what is the meaning of their calling as a royal priesthood, they are led to see that God is not confined in His love or promises to their limited spheres of labour, but invites them to enlarge their hearts, and like Christ—we may say like Paul too—to pray for all who believe, or can yet be brought to believe, that this earth and the Church of Christ in it will by intercession be bound to the throne of heaven as it has never yet been.         Let Christians and ministers agree and bind themselves together for this world-wide intercession. It will strengthen the confidence that, prayer will be heard, and that their prayers too will become indispensable for the coming of the Kingdom.

2/21 慕安德烈每日靈修 God's Best Secrets by Andrew Murray

代禱的恩典

經文: 「你們要恆切禱告，在此儆醒感恩。也要為我們禱告。」（歌羅西書四：2～3）

沒有任何事能像代禱那樣，引我們更親近耶穌，沐浴在主的愛中；沒有任何事，能像在耶穌面前傾心吐意，為周圍的人禱告那樣使人靈命提昇；沒有什麼事，能像為別人靈魂得贖所做的爭戰禱告那樣，使我們緊緊地與耶穌結合在一起，經歷祂復活的大能；也再沒有什麼事，能像傾命代禱那樣，體會耶穌在客西馬尼園呼喊：「阿爸父！」的心情。在我們為失喪的靈魂，或冷淡的信徒禱告時，我們確能經歷聖靈的大能與上帝話語的信實，因為上帝要打開天上的窗戶，將祂豐盛的恩典賜下，讓我們的禱告蒙應允，讓上帝的國降臨，上帝的名得榮耀。         惟有藉著彼此代禱，可以幫助我們深刻了解在主裡互為肢體，也經由弟兄姐妹同心恆切的禱告，使我們感覺到腹中不斷湧出活水的泉源，滋潤周圍的人，錫安也要成為一盞光明城，照耀那坐在黑暗中的人。         弟兄姊妹們，若我們沒有恆心迫切的禱告，自己與教會將蒙受多麼大的虧損！若我們沒有讓上帝禱告的靈充滿心中，上帝的家會更荒涼，世界會更敗壞墮落。         耶穌長遠活著，現在正為我們禱告，為要把更豐盛的生命賞賜給我們，上帝喜歡我們常到祂施恩寶座前來祈求，難道我們不相信祂要把福份恩典厚厚賞賜給我們？         「天父，求祢將那熱切祈禱，為人代求的靈賞賜給我們。奉耶穌的名，阿們。」

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THE GRACE OF INTERCESSION

Scripture: "Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving, withal praying also for us."—COL. iv. 2, 3.

There is nothing that can bring us nearer to God, and lead us deeper into His love, than the work of intercession. There is nothing that can give us a higher experience of the likeness of God than the power of pouring out our hearts into the bosom of God, in prayer for men around us. There is nothing that can so closely link us to Jesus Christ, the great Intercessor, and give us the experience of His power and Spirit resting on us, as the yielding of our lives to the work of bringing the great redemption into the hearts and lives of our fellow-men. There is nothing in which we shall know more of the powerful working of the Holy Spirit than the prayer breathed by Him into our hearts, "Abba, Father," in all the fulness of meaning that it had for Christ in Gethsemane. There is nothing that can so help us to prove the power and the faithfulness of God to His Word, as when we reach out in intercession to the multitudes, either in the Church of Christ or in the darkness of heathenism. As we pour out our souls as a living sacrifice before God, with the one persistent plea that He shall, in answer to our prayer, open the windows of heaven and send down His abundant blessing, God will be glorified, our souls will reach their highest destiny, and God's Kingdom will come.         There is nothing that will so help us to understand and to experience the living unity of the Body of Christ, and the irresistable power that it can exert, as the daily and continued fellowship with God's children in the persistent plea that God will arise and have mercy upon Zion, and make her a light and a life to those who are sitting in darkness. O my brother, how little we realize what we are losing in not living in fervent intercession! What may we not gain for ourselves and for the world if we allow God's Spirit, as a Spirit of grace and of supplication, to master our whole being!         In heaven Christ lives to pray; His whole intercourse with father is prayer; an asking and receiving of the fulness of Spirit for His people. God delights in nothing so much as in prayer. Shall we not learn to believe that the highest blessings of heaven will be unfolded to us as we pray more?         Blessed Father, pour down the Spirit of supplication and intercession on Thy people—for Jesus Christ's sake. AMEN.

2/19 English 慕安德烈每日靈修 God's Best Secrets by Andrew Murray

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.

2/18/2012 馬太的苦難(一) －－他就起來、跟從耶穌

經文:

太九9～13；十1～4；廿一28～32；路五27～32

鑰節:

耶穌從那裡往前走，看見一個人名叫馬太，坐在稅關上，就對他說：「你跟從我來。」他就起來，跟從了耶穌。(太九9）

參考經文:

太十七24～27；廿八19；可二13～17；三18；六7；路六15；徒一13；二14；五18，27，40～42

提要

        馬太「Matthaios（mat-thah'-yos）─GK3156」意思是「上帝的恩賜（gift of Jehovah）」原是迦百農的一個猶太稅吏，一個背叛同胞，專替羅馬政府收自己同胞稅金的稅吏，是猶太人所不齒的，他們甚至將稅吏、娼妓等同罪人看待（太九11；路五30）。然而，主的憐憫和揀選竟然臨到他。那天，他正坐在稅關上收稅，主呼召他說：「你跟從我來，他就起來，跟從了耶穌。」（太九9）路加福音更仔細地描述：「他就撇下所有的，起來，跟從了耶穌。」（路五28）馬太所撇下的，比眾人還多︰可觀的財富、有利可圖的職業，聲勢顯赫的權力，應主呼召，他就毫不猶豫地撇下這一切，起來跟隨了主，這是真正的捨己。隨後，馬太在家裏大擺筵席，廣邀同業和好友與耶穌一同坐席，他公開見證他的重生，此舉引起法利賽人和文士的批評，也引出了主的名言︰「無病的人用不著醫生，有病的人才用得著；我來本不是召義人悔改，乃是召罪人悔改。」（路五31，32）馬太不但悔改歸主，痛改前非，並且立刻跟隨了主，為主作見證。
        馬太蒙召之後，生命被主翻轉，不再重視名利地位，成為一個謙卑隱藏自己的人。我們之所以知道馬太是一個稅吏，完全是因為他自己告訴我們的。其他兩卷福音書只提到馬太的名字，並沒有提到他的職業。（可三18；路六15）他卻在自己所寫的馬太福音中謙卑的自稱為「稅吏馬太」（太十3），甚至使用「稅吏和娼妓」這樣刺耳的稱謂。（太廿一31）對於他為主所作的事和見證，他不多著墨，反倒謙遜地隱藏自己，（可二15；路五28，29）他的生命前後對照反差極大。馬太曾和其他聖徒參加耶路撒冷的禱告會，一起等候聖靈的降臨，也曾和彼得一起向幾千人講道，他與眾使徒一同坐牢，一起受審，同被拷問，為主受盡羞辱。（徒一13；二14；五18，27，40，41）他一生積極在猶太人中間傳講福音，長達15年之久，見證耶穌基督就是他們所盼望的彌賽亞。他所寫的馬太福音書也是針對猶太人的。他後來轉到外邦人中，繼續謙卑服事傳揚主，在古實傳道，設立教會，領多人歸主，他走遍非洲各地佈道，傳說，主後六十年，他被人用刀殺死，最後為主殉道而死。親愛的，主的門徒用他們的生命來服事、跟隨主，你呢？

默想

1.若「稅吏馬太」能蒙主呼召、罪得赦免、跟從耶穌、成為使徒，那麼世上就沒有任何一個罪人，是主所不能拯救的；也沒有任何一樣罪，是主所不能赦免的。親愛的，主的慈愛是無限的，主的憐憫是深廣的，主的赦免是完全的。來到祂施恩坐前，必得恩惠、蒙保守。
2.馬太從稅吏到門徒，從罪人到聖人，其間的轉變，是否帶給你任何啟示﹖他對自己的過去毫不隱瞞，對主的呼召堅決服從、不惜犧牲一切的態度，是否讓你驚訝﹖他對傳福音的堅持，對主的忠心，為主受辱的以身殉道的精神，是否使你感動﹖「稅吏馬太」真正成為「上帝的恩賜」，成為眾人的禮物了。你是否也願為主擺上一切，來榮耀祂？

苦難的金言

1.活潑的信心在得到上帝的應許以後，立刻能發出讚美和感謝來。──Mathew Henry
2.許多上帝最寶貴的工人，都是從平庸的人群裡召出來的。──Geo. Matheson 

苦難的經文

1.耶穌從那裡往前走，看見一個人名叫馬太，坐在稅關上，就對他說，你跟從我來，他就起來，跟從了耶穌。（太九9）
2.耶穌聽見，就說：「康健的人用不著醫生，有病的人纔用得著。」（太九12）
3.經上說：「我喜愛憐恤，不喜愛祭祀。」這句話的意思，你們且去揣摩。我來，本不是召義人，乃是召罪人。（太九13）

苦難中的禱告

        親愛的主阿，祢就是上帝，惟獨祢是良善的，當我們死在罪惡過犯中，祢的憐憫臨到我們，用祢的大能將我們救起。在我們一切患難和痛苦中，祢以慈愛善待我們。主阿，我們感謝祢。奉主耶穌基督聖名，阿們！