提名代禱INTERCESSION FOR INDIVIDUAL SOULS

2/17 提名代禱

經文: 「以色列人哪，……將你們一一的收集。」（以賽亞書廿七：12）

        人體的各部門都有它固定的位置，分配得當功能互補，正如政府各部門各有功能，彼此協調運作，為要全民得益。教會也是如此，弟兄姐妹們互為肢體，彼此配搭。

        

        我們常常以為傳福音是牧師的工作，然而他的對象常是群眾，而不是個人。這帶來雙重嚴重的虧損，一是信徒不知道他有責任向周圍的人分享他的見證，來激勵別人並且茁壯自己的靈命；其次周圍未信主的人，也沒有機會從信徒的身上，看到耶穌的形像。我們很少將周圍的人，列在代禱名單上，而這對教會，不知是多大的損失！

        

        基督徒何時才能學會這真理——「天國的事業需要信徒大量的禱告。」惟有信徒在明白一個人的得救悔改，需要背後有極大的禱告之時吧！是的，上帝的工作不是倚靠勢力，不是倚靠才能，乃是靠聖靈的大能。惟有當牧師和信徒同心禱告，為福音齊心努力時，教會才會興旺，信徒才會明白自己在神工場上佔有的地位。

       

         要如何激起眾人代禱的心？首先，要明白代禱的需要以及效果，然後從你最接近的人開始禱告，為家人、兒女、朋友鄰居，以及周圍的人。若你覺得還是不能為他們禱告，那麼謙卑地來到主座前，求上帝憐憫，給你這樣的看見，知道上帝樂意聽到蒙恩得救的兒女，為尚未得救的人祈禱代求，這也是正常健康的基督徒應有的態度，證明你是從上帝而生。

        

        然後恆切、迫切地禱告，求上帝將那屬天的能力，賞賜給你和眾兒女們，確信上帝看重我們的代禱，也要應允我們的祈求。

INTERCESSION FOR INDIVIDUAL SOULS

Scripture: "Ye shall be gathered one by one, 0 ye children of Israel."— ISAIAH xxvii. 12.

        In our body every member has its appointed place. It is so too in society and in the Church. The work must always aim at the welfare and the highest perfection of the whole, through the cooperation of every individual member.

        

        In the Church the thought is found too often that the salvation of men is the work of the minister; whereas he generally only deals with the crowd, and but seldom reaches the individual. This is the cause of a twofold evil. The individual believer does not understand that it is necessary for him to testify to those around him—for the nourishment and the strengthening of his own spiritual life, and for the ingathering of souls. Unconverted souls suffer unspeakable loss because Christ is not personally brought to them by each believer they meet. The thought of intercession for those around us is all too seldom found. Its restoration to its right place in the Christian life—how much that would mean to the Church and its missions!

           

        Oh, when will Christians learn the great truth that "what God in heaven desires to do needs prayer on earth as its indispensable condition." It is as we realize this that we shall see that intercession is the chief element in the conversion of souls. All our efforts are vain, without the power of the Holy Spirit given in answer to prayer. It is when ministers and people unite in a covenant of prayer and testimony that the Church will flourish, and that every believer will understand the part he has to take.

        

        And what can we do to stir up the spirit of intercession? There is a two-fold answer. Let every Christian, as he begins to get an insight into the need and the power of intercession, make a beginning in the exercise of it on behalf of single individuals. Pray for your children, for your relatives and friends, for all with whom God brings you into contact. If you feel that you have not the power to intercede, let the discovery humble you and drive you to the mercy seat. God wants every redeemed child of His to intercede for the perishing. It is the vital breath of "The Normal Christian life—the proof that it is born from above.

        

        Then pray intensely and persistently that God may give the power of His Holy Spirit on you and His children around you, that the power of intercession may have the place that God will honour.

From慕安德烈每日靈修 God's Best Secrets by Andrew Murray

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