双语灵修（葛培理牧师）：12月8日 施恩宝座

12月8日

施恩宝座

所以我们只管坦然无惧地来到施恩的宝座前……

——希伯来书4:16

祷告就是你与上帝之间的对话。许许多多的人仅仅在重压之下，危险之中，踌躇之时才会想到祷告。有一次我乘坐飞机时，飞机的一个发动机突然熄火，此时人们便开始祷告。我也曾与很多士兵交谈，他们告诉我，只有当他们真的身临战场时才会祷告。在患难的时刻祷告似乎是人的本能。我们知道“散兵坑里没有无神论者”这句话，但我们若不能将基督信仰在日常生活中活出来，就不能改变世界。让祷告的力量加增。一个人在祷告中获得的力量远远比手持重械所获得的力量大得多。当一个民族同心合意向神祷告时所获得的力量远比倾其资源于防御武器时所获得的力量大得多。解决我们一切问题的答案就是与全能的上帝交通。

今日祷告

亲爱的主，与你相亲的祷告时刻是我一天中最美好的时光。我知道，我虽渺小，祢却在等候我。然而你说过我可以坦然无惧地来到祢的面前，是的，我在你的面前，知道祢在垂听我的祷告。奉主耶稣基督的圣名，阿们！

The Throne of Grace

Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace…

—Hebrews 4:16

Prayingis simply a two-way conversation between you and God.Thousands of people pray only when they are under great stress,or in danger,overcome by uncertainty.I have been in airplanes when an engine died;then people started praying.I have talked to soldiers who told me that they never prayed until they were in the midst of battle.There seems to be an instinct in man to pray in times of trouble.We know“there are no atheists in foxholes,”but the kind of Christianity that fails to reach into our everyday lives will never change the world.Develop the power of prayer.Man is more powerful when he is in prayer than when he is behind the most powerful guns.A nation is more powerful when it unites in earnest prayer to God than when its resources are channeled into defensive weapons.The answers to all our problems can be had through contact with almighty God.

Prayer for the day

My time spent in prayer with You,dear Lord,is the highlight of my day.To know You are waiting to have this communion humbles me.Yet You say I can come boldly—this I do now,knowing You hear me!