We know that all things work together for good to those who love God . . . —Romans 8:28
The circumstances of a saint’s life are ordained of God. In the life of a saint there is no such thing as chance. God by His providence brings you into circumstances that you can’t understand at all, but the Spirit of God understands. God brings you to places, among people, and into certain conditions to accomplish a definite purpose through the intercession of the Spirit in you. Never put yourself in front of your circumstances and say, “I’m going to be my own providence here; I will watch this closely, or protect myself from that.” All your circumstances are in the hand of God, and therefore you don’t ever have to think they are unnatural or unique. Your part in intercessory prayer is not to agonize over how to intercede, but to use the everyday circumstances and people God puts around you by His providence to bring them before His throne, and to allow the Spirit in you the opportunity to intercede for them. In this way God is going to touch the whole world with His saints.
Am I making the Holy Spirit’s work difficult by being vague and unsure, or by trying to do His work for Him? I must do the human side of intercession— utilizing the circumstances in which I find myself and the people who surround me. I must keep my conscious life as a sacred place for the Holy Spirit. Then as I lift different ones to God through prayer, the Holy Spirit intercedes for them.
Your intercessions can never be mine, and my intercessions can never be yours, “. . . but the Spirit Himself makes intercession” in each of our lives (Romans 8:26). And without that intercession, the lives of others would be left in poverty and in ruin.
環境是不知不覺中的聖地
萬事都互相效力，叫愛神的人得益處。 （羅八28）
信徒的際遇是神所命定的，信徒生命中沒有偶然那一回事。神在他的旨意中，預備一些你不明白的環境，但神的靈卻明白。他把你帶到某些地方，叫你遇到某些人，遭遇某些事，為使聖靈的代求透過你，行在某一道路上。切勿在環境中說：[我要自己作主；我要當心這個，小心那個。 ]一切環境都在神手中，所以不必為所處的環境滿腹狐疑。你代求的責任，不是要千辛萬苦，乃是用神給你日常的生活際遇，把神安排給你碰到的人帶到他座前，讓你裡面的聖靈有機會為他們代求。這樣，神就能透過聖徒得著整個世界。
我是否無目的，叫聖靈難以工作？我是否要代替聖靈來工作？在代求的事上，我要盡上人的本分，這是指我所處的環境，和我接觸的人。我得把這有知覺的生命作聖靈的聖地，把不同的人帶到神面前，讓聖靈為他們代求。你的代求不能代替我的，我的代求也不能代替你的，只有聖靈在我們個別生命中代求。沒有這代求，人的生命就必受到虧損。
祈禱◆主啊，我投向你，因著你大能的救贖，我以那偉大的勝利禱文來作祈禱：[我們若照他的旨意求什麽，他就听我們，這是我們向他所存坦然無懼的心。 ]
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