0401 對人有幫助或無情？
基督替我們祈求…，…聖靈親自用說不出來的嘆息替我們禱告。《羅馬書 8:34, 27》
除了基督「長遠活着，替他們祈求」（希伯來書7:25），以及聖靈「為聖徒祈求」，我們還需要更多的論據來成為代禱者嗎？我們是否與他人活在這樣一種關係中，我們因為是神的兒女，受神的靈教導，以至於我們從事代禱的工作？我們應該審視我們目前的處境，在家庭、事業、國家或其他地方影響我們或他人的危機是否似乎正在壓垮我們？我們是否被趕出了神的面前，沒有時間敬拜而離開了？如果是這樣，我們就必須制止這種干擾，並與神建立起如此活潑的關係，以至於我們與他人的關係是通過代禱的工作來維繫，神就在代禱中施行祂的神跡。
要提防不可因你渴望遵行神的旨意而走在神的前面，我們在千百種活動中跑在祂前面，變得被人和問題壓得喘不過氣來，以至於我們不敬拜神，也無法代禱。如果我們不在敬拜的態度中，重擔和隨之而來的壓力臨到我們身上，那隻會產生對神的剛硬和在我們自己靈里的絕望。神不斷地向我們引進那些我們毫無興趣的人，除非我們敬拜神，否則我們自然傾向是對他們無情。我們很快地給他們聖經經文，就像用矛刺他們一樣，或在我們離開之前給他們留下匆忙、不在乎的忠告。一個無情的基督徒一定會使我們的主十分悲傷。
我們的生活是否處於正確的位置，以至於我們可以參與我們的主和聖靈的代求呢？
來自章伯斯的智慧
當我們不再為神的祝福而尋求神時，我們就有時間為祂而尋求祂自己。《生命的道德基礎》
0401 Helpful or Heartless Toward Others?
It is Christ…who also makes intercession for us….the Spirit…makes intercession for the saints… —Romans 8:34, 27
Do we need any more arguments than these to become intercessors– that Christ “always lives to make intercession” (Hebrews 7:25), and that the Holy Spirit “makes intercession for the saints”? Are we living in such a relationship with others that we do the work of intercession as a result of being the children of God who are taught by His Spirit? We should take a look at our current circumstances. Do crises which affect us or others in our home, business, country, or elsewhere, seem to be crushing in on us? Are we being pushed out of the presence of God and left with no time for worship? If so, we must put a stop to such distractions and get into such a living relationship with God that our relationship with others is maintained through the work of intercession, where God works His miracles.
Beware of getting ahead of God by your very desire to do His will. We run ahead of Him in a thousand and one activities, becoming so burdened with people and problems that we don’t worship God, and we fail to intercede. If a burden and its resulting pressure come upon us while we are not in an attitude of worship, it will only produce a hardness toward God and despair in our own souls. God continually introduces us to people in whom we have no interest, and unless we are worshiping God the natural tendency is to be heartless toward them. We give them a quick verse of Scripture, like jabbing them with a spear, or leave them with a hurried, uncaring word of counsel before we go. A heartless Christian must be a terrible grief to our Lord.
Are our lives in the proper place so that we may participate in the intercession of our Lord and the Holy Spirit?
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
When we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself. –The Moral Foundations of Life, 728 L