双语灵修（葛培理牧师）：5月11日 如何祷告

5月11日

如何祷告

“「你们祈求，就给你们；寻找，就寻见；叩门，就给你们开门。”

马太福音7:7

即便是一个小孩子，也懂怎么表达要求。祷告是神的孩子的必修课程。耶稣说，你们祷告的时候，说：“我们在天上的父…”我们小区有一些孩子，我经常给他们一些衣物。他们也经常跟我要，我都答应。我把他们当成自己的孩子。我对他们有负担。神对他的儿女有特别的负担。除非我们重生成为他的儿女，我们没有权利开口向他祈求。“凡接待他的，就是信他名的人，他就赐他们权柄作神的儿女。”（约翰福音1:12）

有的新基督徒跟我说，他们不知道怎么祷告，不知道说什么。当我们的孩子刚开始学说话又找不到合适的词语时，他们还是会设法让我和妻子明白他们的意思。他们出错，却更让我们疼爱。事实上，我相信，与大多数成年人流利准确的说话相比，我更珍惜的是他们早期的对话尝试。

哦，朋友，如果你觉得神没有听你的祷告，不要着急。神要你跟他建立像儿女般属灵的亲密的关系。“使你们无可指摘，诚实无伪，在这弯曲悖谬的世代作神无瑕疵的儿女。你们显在这世代中，好像明光照耀，”（腓立比书2:15）

今日祷告：

天父，我们祈求你的同在。我们祈求祢圣灵的引导。求祢向我们显明祢的爱与恩慈，让我们感受到祢是如此在乎我们；奉耶稣的名，阿门。

May 11

HOW TO PRAY

Ask,and it will be given you;seek,and you will find;knock,and it will be opened to you.For every one who asks receives,and he who seeks finds,and to him who knocks it will be opened.Matthew 7:7 RSV

Even a child can understand these instructions.Prayer is for God’s children.

Jesus said,“When ye pray,say,Our Father….”

There were children in our neighborhood for whom I provided all clothing,food,and the necessities of life.They asked freely of me,and their requests were usually granted.They were my children!By virtue of their relationship to me,I had a particular responsibility to them.

God has a particular responsibility to His children;and unless we have been born into the family of God through the new birth,we have no right to ask favors of God.The Bible says,“But as many as received him to them gave he power to become the sons of God,even to them that believe on his name”(John 1:12).

I have had new Christians say to me,“I don’t know how to pray.I don’t have the right words”

When our children were just learning to talk and had difficulty finding the right words,they still managed to make themselves understood to my wife and me,and the mistakes they made only endeared them to us.In fact,I am sure I treasure their early attempts at conversation more than the words of most adults speaking without hesitation and without error.

Oh,my anxious friend whose prayers have not been answered,God invites you to the intimacy of spiritual sonship.“That ye may be blameless and harmless,the sons of God,without rebuke,in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation,among whom ye shine as lights in the world”(Philippians 2:15).

Pray for the Day:

Father,we ask for Your presence.We ask for Your Holy Spirit.We ask for your guidance.We ask for You to reveal Your love and mercy to us so that we will sense how much You care for us;in Jesus’Name,Amen.