0607 力量的最大源头
你们奉我的名无论求什么，我必成就。 《约翰福音 14:13》
我是否在生命隐秘深处履行了这个代祷的职事？在真正代祷中，没有陷阱，也没有任何被欺骗或显示骄傲的危险。这是一项隐藏的事工，结出果子，天父因此得荣耀。我是让我的灵命被浪费，或我专注将一切都带到一个中心点——我的主的代赎？耶稣基督是越来越主宰着我生活中的每一个兴趣吗？如果我生活的重心或最强大的影响力是主的代赎，那么我生活的各方面都会为祂结出果实。
然而，我必须花时间去意识这个力量的中心点什么。我愿意每小时花一分钟来专注于此吗？「你们若常在我里面…」，亦即，如果你继续不断地从那个中心点开始行动、思考和工作，「凡你们所愿意的，祈求就给你们成就。」（约翰福音 15:7）。我是住在祂里面吗？我花时间住在祂里面？我生命中能力最大的源头是什么？是我的工作、服事和为人所做的牺牲，还是我尽力为神工作？那不应该是这些，在我的生命中施加最大力量的应该是主的救赎。最塑造我们的，不是我们花最多时间的事物，而是对我们产生最大影响力的。我们必须下定决心限制并集中我们的愿望和兴趣在基督十字架的赎罪上。
「你们奉我的名无论求什么，我必成就……」住在耶稣里的门徒就是神的旨意，而看似他的自由选择，实际上乃是神预定的旨意。这很神秘吗？它看起来与健全的逻辑互相矛盾或似乎完全荒谬吗？是的，但对神的圣徒来说，那是多么荣耀的真理啊。
来自章伯斯的智慧
自然地说，没有什么比衰败更能让我们迅速丧失信心了——身体美丽的衰退、自然生命的衰退、友谊的衰退、关系的衰退，所有这些都使人心灰意冷；但保罗说，当我们信靠耶稣基督时，这些事情就不会令我们沮丧，光明会透过它们而来。《帮助之地》
0607 The Greatest Source of Power
Whatever you ask in My name, that I will do… —John 14:13
Am I fulfilling this ministry of intercession deep within the hidden recesses of my life? There is no trap nor any danger at all of being deceived or of showing pride in true intercession. It is a hidden ministry that brings forth fruit through which the Father is glorified. Am I allowing my spiritual life to waste away, or am I focused, bringing everything to one central point— the atonement of my Lord? Is Jesus Christ more and more dominating every interest of my life? If the central point, or the most powerful influence, of my life is the atonement of the Lord, then every aspect of my life will bear fruit for Him.
However, I must take the time to realize what this central point of power is. Am I willing to give one minute out of every hour to concentrate on it? “If you abide in Me…”— that is, if you continue to act, and think, and work from that central point— “you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you” (John 15:7). Am I abiding? Am I taking the time to abide? What is the greatest source of power in my life? Is it my work, service, and sacrifice for others, or is it my striving to work for God? It should be none of these— what ought to exert the greatest power in my life is the atonement of the Lord. It is not on what we spend the greatest amount of time that molds us the most, but whatever exerts the most power over us. We must make a determination to limit and concentrate our desires and interests on the atonement by the Cross of Christ.
“Whatever you ask in My name, that I will do….” The disciple who abides in Jesus is the will of God, and what appears to be his free choices are actually God’s foreordained decrees. Is this mysterious? Does it appear to contradict sound logic or seem totally absurd? Yes, but what a glorious truth it is to a saint of God.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
There is nothing, naturally speaking, that makes us lose heart quicker than decay—the decay of bodily beauty, of natural life, of friendship, of associations, all these things make a man lose heart; but Paul says when we are trusting in Jesus Christ these things do not find us discouraged, light comes through them. —The Place of Help, 1032 L