双语灵修（葛培理牧师）： 6月19日 无暇祷告

6月19日

无暇祷告

“在指望中要喜乐；在患难中要忍耐；祷告要恒切。”

罗马书12:12

让我们来谈谈祷告。

早晨，祷告是开启神充满慈爱和祝福的宝藏的钥匙；晚上，祷告是把我们锁在神的保守和护佑之下的钥匙。

里查德·西塞尔（Richard Cecil）(1748-1810)说：“基督徒祈求忍耐、经验、盼望和爱，神的回应却往往是将他们放入苦难的熔炉中。”

马克·霍普金斯（Mark Hopkins 1802-1887)是美国教育家。他说：“我们的祷告与神的慈爱犹如井里的两个水桶，一个上来，另一个就下去。”

我的老朋友，伟大的传教士和祷告者弗兰克·劳布赫（Frank C.Laubuch）说：“祷告的最高境界是与神的双向交通，对我而言，最重要的是聆听神的回应。”

威廉·古柏（William Cowper 1731-1800)说：“最软弱的圣徒，只要跪下祷告，撒旦也会害怕。”

坎伯·摩根（G.Campbell Morgan）讲了这样一个故事：一个父亲和女儿关系非常好，经常一起散步。然后父亲注意到女儿的变化。如果他出去散步，女儿总是借口不去。父亲很难过，却不理解。到了父亲过生日的时候，女儿送给他一双做工精致的拖鞋，告诉他说，“这是我给您做的。”父亲这才明白这三个月到底是怎么回事。他说：“亲爱的，我非常喜欢这双拖鞋。不过下次只要

去买一双拖鞋就好，让我整天都可以看到你。我宁愿你跟我呆在一起，也不需要你为我做什么。”

我们有些人整天为主忙忙碌碌的，以至于不能与主亲近。神会对我们说，“我知道你的行为、劳碌、忍耐，也知道你不能容忍恶人。你也能忍耐，曾为我的名劳苦，并不乏倦。然而有一件事我要责备你，就是你把起初的爱心离弃了。”启示录2:2-4

如果说天上还有谁会落泪，那一定是我们的祷告太少了。

天堂里充满了祷告的答案，只是这些答案都没有人去求问。

今日祷告：

天父，求祢用圣灵充满我们，引导我们按照祢的旨意祷告；奉耶稣的名，阿们。

June 19

TOO BUSY TO PRAY

Be joyful in hope,patient in affliction,faithful in prayer.Romans 12:12,NIV

Here are some thoughts on prayer.

In the morning,prayer is the key that opens to us the treasures of God’s mercies and blessings;in the evening,it is the key that shuts us up under His protection and safeguard.

“God’s way of answering the Christian’s prayer for more patience,experience,hope,and love is often to put him into the furnace of affliction”-Richard Cecil(1748-1810).

“Our Prayer and God’s mercy are like two buckets in a well;while the one ascends,the other descends”–Mark Hopkins,American educator(1802-1887)

My longtime friend,that great humanitarian missionary and man of prayer,Frank C.Laubuch,said,“Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation-and for me the most important is listening to God’s replies.”

“Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon his knee”-William Cowper(1731-1800).

G.Campbell Morgan tells the following story:

A father and his young daughter were great friends and much in each other’s company.Then the father noted a change in his daughter.If he went for a walk,she excused herself from going.He grieved about it,but could not understand.When his birthday came,she presented him with a pair of exquisitely worked slippers,saying,“I have made them for you”.

Then he understood what had been the matter for the past three months,and he said,“My darling,I like these slippers very much,but next time buy the slippers and let me have you all the days.I would rather have my child than anything she can make for me.”

Some of us are so busy for the Lord that He cannot get much of us.To us He would say,“I know your works,your labor,your patience,but I miss the first love”(Revelation 2:2-4).

If there are any tears shed in heaven,they will be over the fact that we prayed so little.

Heaven is full of answers to prayer for which no one ever bothered to ask!

Pray for the Day:

Father,fill us with Your Holy Spirit,and lead us as we pray to pray the things according to Your will;in Jesus’Name.