1107 环境未被察觉的神圣性
我们晓得万事都互相效力，叫爱神的人得益处，就是按他旨意被召的人。《罗马书8:28》
圣徒一生的境遇是神所命定的，在圣徒的生命中，没有偶然那一回事。神通过祂的护佑将你带入你完全不明白的环境，但神的灵却能理解。神将你带到某些地方、人群，和某些光景中，通过在你里面圣灵的代祷，来完成一个明确的计划。永远不要把自己置于处境之前，说：「我要成为我自己的护佑；我必密切关注这个，或保护自己免受那个的伤害。」你所有的处境都在神的手中，因此你甚至不需要认为它们是不自然的或独特的。你在代祷中的责任不是苦恼如何代祷，而是用神以其护佑放在你周围的日常处境和人，把他们带到祂的宝座前，让你里面的圣灵有机会为他们代求。这样，神将会与祂的圣徒影响整个世界。
我是否因模糊不清和不确定而使圣灵的工作变得困难，或试图为祂做祂的工作吗？我必须作代求的人这一部分——使用我所处的环境和我周围的人。我必须保持我意识的生命作为圣灵的圣地。然后，当我以祷告将不同的人带到神面前时，圣灵为他们代求。
你的祷告永远不可能是我的，我的祷告永远不能是你的，「…只是圣灵亲自用说不出来的叹息替我们祷告。」（罗马书 8:26）。如果没有那代求，其他人的生命就会处于贫困和毁灭中。
来自章伯斯的智慧
对你自己重申你所信的，然后尽可能地去除其中的内容，回到基督十字架的根基上。《竭诚为主》，11 月 25 日
1107 The Undetected Sacredness of Circumstances
We know that all things work together for good to those who love God… —Romans 8:28
The circumstances of a saint’s life are ordained of God. In the life of a saint there is no such thing as chance. God by His providence brings you into circumstances that you can’t understand at all, but the Spirit of God understands. God brings you to places, among people, and into certain conditions to accomplish a definite purpose through the intercession of the Spirit in you. Never put yourself in front of your circumstances and say, “I’m going to be my own providence here; I will watch this closely, or protect myself from that.” All your circumstances are in the hand of God, and therefore you don’t ever have to think they are unnatural or unique. Your part in intercessory prayer is not to agonize over how to intercede, but to use the everyday circumstances and people God puts around you by His providence to bring them before His throne, and to allow the Spirit in you the opportunity to intercede for them. In this way God is going to touch the whole world with His saints.
Am I making the Holy Spirit’s work difficult by being vague and unsure, or by trying to do His work for Him? I must do the human side of intercession— utilizing the circumstances in which I find myself and the people who surround me. I must keep my conscious life as a sacred place for the Holy Spirit. Then as I lift different ones to God through prayer, the Holy Spirit intercedes for them.
Your intercessions can never be mine, and my intercessions can never be yours, “…but the Spirit Himself makes intercession” in each of our lives (Romans 8:26). And without that intercession, the lives of others would be left in poverty and in ruin.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
Re-state to yourself what you believe, then do away with as much of it as possible, and get back to the bedrock of the Cross of Christ. —My Utmost for His Highest, November 25, 848 R