双语灵修(葛培理牧师):4月23日 生命复兴

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生命复兴

“以后,我要将我的灵浇灌凡有血气的。你们的儿女要说预言;你们的老年人要做异梦,少年人要见异象。”

约珥书2:28

如果说我们的生命和教会出现复兴,会是什么样的呢?有一件事我敢肯定,就是复兴会带来圣灵大大的浇灌。

首先,人们会对神的大能有一个新的看见。我们必须明白主不仅仅是温柔、怜悯、满有慈爱,祂也是公义、圣洁、愤怒的神。很多基督徒看神相当夸张片面。他们看不到神的全貌。我们会很自然地引用约翰福音3:16,却不知后面还有一句:“不信的人,罪已经定了”(约翰福音3:18)。神的慈爱必须结合神的公义以及对罪的愤怒和对圣洁的要求,否则就不完全。令神不安的不是我们肉体的苦楚,而是我们里面的罪。我们往往更害怕肉体上的痛苦,而不是我们道德上的过犯。十字架是一个永恒的见证,它表明神愿意为圣洁而死。在罪债得以偿还之前,我们无法脱离罪责。(神设了挽回祭,罪才得赦免。)我们需要的是怜悯,就是接受十字架的救恩。

史哈拿(Hannah Whitall Smith)在她的《信徒快乐秘诀》一书中告诉我们,我们需要看到的是上帝的同在始终是一个事实,我们的心思意念在祂的面前都是赤露敞开的,我们的祷告也蒙祂垂听,就好像我们的眼睛可以看见祂,我们的双手可以触摸祂一样。这样我们在和他的关系上,就不会模糊,并且能够真实地感受到神在乎我们的每一句祷告。

今日祷告:

天父,我们将生命交托给祢。我们要远离罪恶,我们渴望跟随你。求祢用圣灵充满我们,使我们过圣洁的生活,成为福音的见证人;奉耶稣的名,阿门。

 

April 23

THE EFFECTS OF REVIVAL

And it shall come to passthat I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh;and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,your old men shall dream dreams,your young men shall see visions.Joel 2:28

What would happen if revival were to break into our lives and our churches today?I am sure of one thing.At the heart of that revival would be a tremendous outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

To begin with,people would have a new vision of the majesty of God.We must understand that the Lord is not only tender and merciful and full of compassion,but He is also the God of justice,holiness,and wrath.

Many Christians have a caricature of God.They do not see God in all of His wholeness.We glibly quote John 3:16,but we forget to quote the following verses,“He who does not believe has been judged already”(verse 18,NAB).Compassion is not complete in itself,but must be accompanied by inflexible justice and wrath against sin and a desire for holiness.

What stirs God most is not physical suffering but sin.All too often we are more afraid of physical pain than of moral wrong.The Cross is the standing evidence of the fact that holiness is a principle for which God would die.God cannot clear the guilty until atonement is made.Mercy is what we need,and that is what we receive at the foot of the Cross.

In her book The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life,Hannah Whitall Smith tells us,“…What we need is to see that God’s presence is a certain fact always,and that every act of our soul is done right before Him,and that a word spoken in prayer is really spoken to Him,as if our eyes could see Him and our hands could touch Him.Then we shall cease to have such vague conceptions of our relations with Him,and shall feel the binding force of every word we say in His presence.”

Pray for the Day:

Father,we commit our lives to you.We turn away from sin,and we desire to follow you.Fill us with your Holy Spirit and empower us to live holy lives and to be witnesses for the Gospel;in Jesus’Name,Amen.

 

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