0620 你到「当时」了吗？
约伯为他的朋友祷告，耶和华就使约伯从苦境转回，并且耶和华赐给他的比他以前所有的加倍。《约伯记42:10》
一种可怜的、病态的和以自我为中心的祷告，以及一种决心努力和自私的欲望想要与神和好，在新约圣经中从未找到过。我试图与神和好的这个事实，实际上是我正在抵挡基督十字架的赎罪的一个记号。我祷告说：「主啊，如果袮垂听我的祷告，我就会洁净我的心；如果袮帮助我，我就会正确地行走在袮面前。」但我无法使自己与神和好，我无法让我的生命完全。如果我接受主耶稣基督赎罪作为绝对性的礼物，我才能与神和好。我是否够谦卑地接受它呢？我必须降服我所有的权利和要求，停止一切的自我努力。我必须将自己完全交托在祂手中，然后我才能开始将我的生命倾注在代祷的祭司工作中。有大量的祷告实际上是出于对赎罪的不信。耶稣不仅仅开始拯救我们——祂已经完全地拯救了我们。那是一个已成的事实，我们请求祂做祂已经做成的事，那就是对祂的侮辱。
如果你现在还没有领受耶稣所应许的「百倍」（见马太福音19:29），也没有得到对神话语的洞察力，那么就开始为你的朋友祷告——进入内在生活的事奉中。 「约伯为他的朋友祷告，耶和华就使约伯从苦境转回。」作为一个得救的灵魂，你生命中真正的事情就是代祷。无论神将你置于什么处境，总是要立即祷告，求祂的赎罪之工在别人的生活中被认知何理解，就像在你的生活中一样。现在就为你的朋友祷告，也为那些你现在接触到的人祷告。
来自章伯斯的智慧
祂将要擅自使用你的生命呢？还是你醉心于你对自己未来的构想？神对我们的生命负责，一个伟大的主旨就是不计后果地信赖祂。《蒙神悦纳》
0620 Have You Come to “When” Yet?
The Lord restored Job’s losses when he prayed for his friends. —Job 42:10
A pitiful, sickly, and self-centered kind of prayer and a determined effort and selfish desire to be right with God are never found in the New Testament. The fact that I am trying to be right with God is actually a sign that I am rebelling against the atonement by the Cross of Christ. I pray, “Lord, I will purify my heart if You will answer my prayer— I will walk rightly before You if You will help me.” But 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 surrender all my rights and demands, and cease from every self-effort. I must leave myself completely alone in His hands, and then I can begin to pour my life out in the priestly work of intercession. There is a great deal of prayer that comes from actual disbelief in the atonement. Jesus is not just beginning to save us— He has already saved us completely. It is an accomplished fact, and it is an insult to Him for us to ask Him to do what He has already done.
If you are not now receiving the “hundredfold” which Jesus promised (see Matthew 19:29), and not getting insight into God’s Word, then start praying for your friends— enter into the ministry of the inner life. “The Lord restored Job’s losses when he prayed for his friends.” As a saved soul, the real business of your life is intercessory prayer. Whatever circumstances God may place you in, always pray immediately that His atonement may be recognized and as fully understood in the lives of others as it has been in yours. Pray for your friends now, and pray for those with whom you come in contact now.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
Is He going to help Himself to your life, or are you taken up with your conception of what you are going to do? God is responsible for our lives, and the one great keynote is reckless reliance upon Him. Approved Unto God, 10 R