双语灵修（葛培理牧师）：6月5日 不住祷告

6月5日

不住祷告

“他既辞别了他们，就往山上去祷告。”

马可福音6:46

圣经中最令人惊叹的就是主耶稣基督用很多的时间祷告。他在地上的事工只有三年时间，但是他从来没有忽视祷告。他在每一个棘手的事工之前祷告。他也定时祷告。每一天的开始，他都以祷告来到父神的面前，全然将自己敞开。每一天的结束，也是如此。

相比之下，我们的祷告是多么的仓促和敷衍。早晨起来，背几句经文，然后就跟神再见了。晚上睡觉前，再匆匆跟神打个招呼。主耶稣不是这样祷告的。他切切祷告，反复祈求。圣经记载，他甚至整夜都恳切祷告。

而我们是多么缺乏耐心，缺乏毅力、缺乏恳切之心啊！不久前报纸上报道说，华盛顿一名男子花了十七年的时间，提告政府，为了索赔81000美金。可惜，很多人都不愿意花十七分钟，来为自己失丧的灵魂、或者为没有得救的人祷告。

圣经说：“要不住祷告。”这应该是每一个真基督徒的座右铭。永远不要停止祷告，无论你的环境是多么黑暗和绝望。几年前，一位女士写信给我，她为丈夫的悔改恳切祷告了十年。但是他不但没有信，而且更加刚硬。我就请她继续祷告。过了一段时间，我又收到她的来信。在她祷告的第十一年，她丈夫奇迹般地皈信了耶稣。这正是不住祷告的荣美见证。

你有没有在为谁祷告呢？

今日祷告：

天父，求祢给我们一颗为主里的弟兄姊妹祷告的心，为着那些失丧的灵魂归向祢而祷告，为着祢的荣耀而祷告。奉耶稣基督的圣名，阿们。

June 5

CHRIST’S EXAMPLE

And when he had sent them away,he departed into a mountain to pray.Mark 6:46

One of the most amazing things in all the Scriptures is how much time Jesus spent in prayer.He had only three years of public ministry,yet Jesus was never too hurried to spend hours in prayer.He prayed before every difficult task confronting Him.He prayed with regularity-not a day began or closed on which He did not unfold His soul before His Father.

How quickly and carelessly,by contrast,we pray.Snatches of memorized verses are hastily spoken in the morning;then we say good-bye to God for the rest of the day,until we rush through a few closing petitions at night.

This is not the prayer program that Jesus outlined.Jesus pleaded long and repeatedly.It is recorded that He spent entire nights in fervent appeal.

How little perseverance and persistence and pleading we show.Some time ago the newspapers told of a man in Washington who spent seventeen years securing favorable action on a claim of$81,000 against the government.Yet many people will not pray seventeen minutes for the welfare of their own immortal souls or the salvation of other people.

The Scripture says,“Pray without ceasing.“This should be the motto of every true follower of Jesus Christ.Never stop praying,no matter how dark and hopeless your case may seem.Some years ago,a woman wrote me that she had pleaded for ten years for the conversion of her husband,but that he was more hardened than ever.I advised her to continue to plead.

Some time later I heard from her again.She said her husband was gloriously and miraculously converted in the eleventh year of her prayer vigil.That’s what it means to“pray without ceasing.”

Who have you prayed for lately?

Pray for the Day:

Father,give us Your heart to pray for our brothers and sisters in Christ,and to pray for the lost to come into Your kingdom,and to pray for Your glory;we pray in Jesus’Name.