1107 環境未被察覺的神聖性
我們曉得萬事都互相效力，叫愛神的人得益處，就是按他旨意被召的人。《羅馬書8:28》
聖徒一生的境遇是神所命定的，在聖徒的生命中，沒有偶然那一回事。神通過祂的護佑將你帶入你完全不明白的環境，但神的靈卻能理解。神將你帶到某些地方、人群，和某些光景中，通過在你裡面聖靈的代禱，來完成一個明確的計劃。永遠不要把自己置於處境之前，說：「我要成為我自己的護佑；我必密切關注這個，或保護自己免受那個的傷害。」你所有的處境都在神的手中，因此你甚至不需要認為它們是不自然的或獨特的。你在代禱中的責任不是苦惱如何代禱，而是用神以其護佑放在你周圍的日常處境和人，把他們帶到祂的寶座前，讓你裡面的聖靈有機會為他們代求。這樣，神將會與祂的聖徒影響整個世界。
我是否因模糊不清和不確定而使聖靈的工作變得困難，或試圖為祂做祂的工作嗎？我必須作代求的人這一部分——使用我所處的環境和我周圍的人。我必須保持我意識的生命作為聖靈的聖地。然後，當我以禱告將不同的人帶到神面前時，聖靈為他們代求。
你的禱告永遠不可能是我的，我的禱告永遠不能是你的，「…只是聖靈親自用說不出來的嘆息替我們禱告。」（羅馬書 8:26）。如果沒有那代求，其他人的生命就會處於貧困和毀滅中。
來自章伯斯的智慧
對你自己重申你所信的，然後儘可能地去除其中的內容，回到基督十字架的根基上。《竭誠為主》，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