6月20日 你什麼時候開始代求？
約伯為他的朋友祈禱，耶和華就使約伯從苦境轉回。（伯四十二10）
以自我為中心的病態式祈禱，苦苦哀求一意強求自己的好轉，在新約中是找不到的。我若要努力弄好與神的關係，正表明我正離棄神救贖的大恩。“主啊，你若垂聽我禱告，我的心就潔淨；你若幫助我，我就行事正直。”我無法使自己的生命在神面前正直，也無法使生命完全；只有接受主耶穌白白的救贖，我才可以與神有正常的關係。我謙卑地接受這個事實嗎？我必須放下一切權利，放下一切為自己付出的努力，把自己完全的放在神手中，然後以祭司的身分做代求的工作。今日許多禱告是出於對救恩的不信。耶穌不是開始拯救我們，而是已經救了我們，事情已經成就，因此求他再做是一種侮辱。
你若尚未得著百倍的恩典，未領悟話語的亮光，那就該開始為你的朋友禱告，進入內室的事奉。“約伯為他的朋友祈禱，耶和華就使約伯從苦境中轉回。”作為一個得救的人，你生命的真正事業就是為人代求。不論神把你放在什麼環境裡，都要立刻禱告，求他救贖的大工在別人身上成就，正如在你身上一樣。現在就為你的朋友祈禱，為那些與你有接觸的人祈禱吧！
祈禱◆噢，主啊，打發更多工人到我們這裡來，直至這教會擠滿了人，而你能透過他們，在全地榮耀你自己。
June 20 Have You Come To
“When” Yet?
“And the Lord turned the captivity of Job when he
prayed for his friends.” Job 42:10
The plaintive, self-centred, morbid kind of prayer, a dead-set that I
want to be right, is never found in the New Testament. The fact that I am
trying to be right with God is a sign that I am rebelling against the
Atonement. “Lord, I will purify my heart if You will answer my prayer; I will
walk rightly if You will help me.” I cannot make myself right with God, I
cannot make my life perfect; I can only be right with God if I accept the
Atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ as an absolute gift. Am I humble enough to
accept it? I have to resign every kind of claim and cease from every effort,
and leave myself entirely alone in His hands, and then begin to pour out in the
priestly work of intercession. There is much prayer that arises from real
disbelief in the Atonement. Jesus is not beginning to save us, He has saved us,
the thing is done, and it is an insult to ask Him to do it.
If you are not getting the hundredfold
more, not getting insight into God’s word, then start praying for your friends,
enter into the ministry of the interior. “The Lord turned the captivity of Job
when he prayed for his friends.” The real business of your life as a saved soul
is intercessory prayer. Wherever God puts you in circumstances, pray
immediately, pray that His Atonement may be realized in other lives as it has
been in yours. Pray for your friends now; pray for those with whom you come in
contact now.
