二月六日
多方祷告（弗6:18）
从我们学会祷告起，到现在为止，我们的祷告共有多少了呢！我们开头的祷告是为我们自己，我们求神向我们施怜悯，涂抹我们的罪。他听了我们。但当他涂抹我们的罪简直像吹散一片浮云一样时，那末我们就要更加为我们多祷告了。我们要求神赐我们成圣的恩典，自制、自克的恩典；我们要切切求神重新赐我们坚固的信心，好随意使用他的应许，脱离随时来到的试探，作我们工作时的帮助，并在我们受试炼时救助我们。我们常被迫到神面前，像无所不讨的乞丐一样，为我们的生命祈求。神的儿女们哪！要作见证，见证你们为自己的生命从别处是一无所获的。你们生命所需要的粮食都是从天上来的，你们所喝得水都是从活磐——主基督耶稣而来的。你们的生命自己并不能生长，必须天天依靠神的丰富！那末你的祷告就上达天庭求神无限的、各样属灵的怜悯。你的需要是无数的，而神所供给你的也是无限的。你的祷告，虽有各式各样，而神怜悯的种类也是多得不可胜数的。那末你不是就有理说“我爱主，因为曾听了我们祈求他的声音”吗？你的祷告虽多，而神的应允也是一样地多。在你受患难的时候，虽然因你在施恩座前的战栗、疑惧而羞辱了神，但他仍听了你，赐你力量并帮助了你。记住这一句话，让你的心中充满感激神的态度吧！因他满有恩典地听了你可怜而微弱的祷告：“我的心哪！你要称颂耶和华，不可忘记他的一切恩惠。”
February
6
“Praying
always.” –Ephesians 6:18
What multitudes of prayers we have put up from the first moment when we
learned to pray. Our first prayer was a prayer for ourselves; we asked that God
would have mercy upon us, and blot out our sin. He heard us. But when He had
blotted out our sins like a cloud, then we had more prayers for ourselves. We
have had to pray for sanctifying grace, for constraining and restraining grace;
we have been led to crave for a fresh assurance of faith, for the comfortable
application of the promise, for deliverance in the hour of temptation, for help
in the time of duty, and for succour in the day of trial. We have been
compelled to go to God for our souls, as constant beggars asking for
everything. Bear witness, children of God, you have never been able to get
anything for your souls elsewhere. All the bread your soul has eaten has come
down from heaven, and all the water of which it has drank has flowed from the
living rock–Christ Jesus the Lord. Your soul has never grown rich in itself;
it has always been a pensioner upon the daily bounty of God; and hence your
prayers have ascended to heaven for a range of spiritual mercies all but
infinite. Your wants were innumerable, and therefore the supplies have been
infinitely great, and your prayers have been as varied as the mercies have been
countless. Then have you not cause to say, “I love the Lord, because He
hath heard the voice of my supplication”? For as your prayers have been
many, so also have been God’s answers to them. He has heard you in the day of
trouble, has strengthened you, and helped you, even when you dishonoured Him by
trembling and doubting at the mercy-seat. Remember this, and let it fill your
heart with gratitude to God, who has thus graciously heard your poor weak
prayers. “Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His
benefits.”
