双语灵修（葛培理牧师）：11月10日 祷告大能

11月10日

祷告大能

所以我们只管坦然无惧的，来到施恩的宝座前，为要得怜恤，蒙恩惠作随时的帮助。

希伯来书4:16

无论是个人还是国家，我们都不能主宰自己的命运。当人们无法控制一种在高倍显微镜下都看不见的病毒时，又怎能夸口说他们能够掌握自己的命运呢？

这样一种引发肝炎的病毒，就能夺去成千上万人的性命。

尽管我们拥有强大的军事实力、巨大的财富和外交联盟，但当历史证明上帝决定了这个国家的进程时，这国家的人民怎能坚持认为：我们是自己命运的主宰呢？

我们的国家是由相信祷告的人建立起来的。在政府组建过程中，本杰明·富兰克林在1787年费城制宪会议上，对会议主席说：“先生，我活了这么久，我活得越久就越看到令人信服的证据，来证明这个真理：上帝掌管人类事务。一只麻雀若上帝不许，尚且不能掉在地上；那么，如果没有上帝的帮助，一个帝国也无法崛起。”

今天，世界正被历史洪流冲往失控的方向，只有一种能力可以扭转局面，那就是敬畏上帝、相信基督的人祈祷的力量。

亚伯拉罕·林肯是南北战争动荡时期深受爱戴的传奇总统，他说：“我曾多次被一种无法抗拒的力量所驱使而跪下祷告，因为相信已经无路可走。我的智慧，以及我所有的一切，似乎都不足以应付这一天。”但愿今天我们的领导层也能如此谦卑！

今日祷告：

天父，我们倚靠祢、需要祢。求祢赐给我们能力，荣耀祢的名；奉耶稣的名，阿们。

November 10

THE POWER OF PRAYER

Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace,that we may obtain mercy,and find grace to help in time of need.Hebrews 4:16

We are not the masters of our fate either as individuals or as a nation.How can people boast that they control their own destiny,when they cannot control a virus,invisible even under powerful microscopes?

One such virus,causing hepatitis,can lay low thousands of people.

How can the people of this nation,in spite of our military might,our tremendous wealth,and our foreign alliances,insist that we are the masters of our own fate,when history testifies that God shaped this nation’s course?

Our nation was founded by people who believed in prayer.When our government was in the process of being formed,Benjamin Franklin addressed the chairman of the Constitutional Convention,meeting at Philadelphia in 1787,saying,“I have lived,sir,a long time,and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth:that God governs in the affairs of men.And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice,it is probable that an empire cannot rise without His aid.”

Today the world is being carried on a rushing torrent of history that is sweeping out of control.There is but one power available to redeem the course of events,and that is the power of prayer by God-fearing,Christ-believing people.

Abraham Lincoln,beloved and legendary president during the tumultuous days of the Civil War,said,“I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.My own wisdom,and that of all about me,seemed insufficient for the day.”Would that our leadership were as humble today!

Pray for the Day:

Father,we rely on You.We need You.And we pray that You will empower us to glorify Your Name;in Jesus’Name,Amen.