Helpful or Heartless Toward Others?

It is Christ . . . who also makes intercession for us. . . . the Spirit . . . makes intercession for the saints . . . —Romans 8:34, 27

Do we need any more arguments than these to become intercessors-that Christ “always lives to make intercession” (Hebrews 7:25), and that the Holy Spirit “makes intercession for the saints”? Are we living in such a relationship with others that we do the work of intercession as a result of being the children of God who are taught by His Spirit? We should take a look at our current circumstances. Do crises which affect us or others in our home, business, country, or elsewhere, seem to be crushing in on us? Are we being pushed out of the presence of God and left with no time for worship? If so, we must put a stop to such distractions and get into such a living relationship with God that our relationship with others is maintained through the work of intercession, where God works His miracles.

Beware of getting ahead of God by your very desire to do His will. We run ahead of Him in a thousand and one activities, becoming so burdened with people and problems that we don’t worship God, and we fail to intercede. If a burden and its resulting pressure come upon us while we are not in an attitude of worship, it will only produce a hardness toward God and despair in our own souls. God continually introduces us to people in whom we have no interest, and unless we are worshiping God the natural tendency is to be heartless toward them. We give them a quick verse of Scripture, like jabbing them with a spear, or leave them with a hurried, uncaring word of counsel before we go. A heartless Christian must be a terrible grief to our Lord.

Are our lives in the proper place so that we may participate in the intercession of our Lord and the Holy Spirit?

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對別人衷誠還是冷漠？

有基督耶穌……也替我們祈求……聖靈……替聖徒祈求。 （羅八34、27）

我們還需要什麼理論去支援自己做代求者的工作呢？基督活著為我們代求，聖靈又為聖徒祈求。我們與人的關係，有沒有這種休戚相關的​​樣式，以致我們真像受聖靈教導的兒女，忠於代求的事奉。當從日常的環境中開始——家庭、工作、國家，以及人人共受的境遇——這些事是否重壓著我們？是否使我們離開神的面，沒有時間敬拜？這樣，讓我們停住腳步，回復與神活潑的關係；叫我們與人的關係也回復代求的位置，使神行奇事。

當心不要因渴望遵行神的旨意，而超越了神。我們在許多的事上都走在神的前頭，結果被人事和困難的擔子壓倒，不再敬拜神，也不再代求。每逢重擔與壓力來到，而我們又沒有一種敬拜的態度，這不但會造成對神硬心，更會給自己帶來沮喪。神不斷的把與我們毫不相干的人給我們，這時，除非我們有敬拜神的心，否則我們最自然的反應，就是冷漠無情地對待他們。給他們一段扎心的經文，或代表神作一番責備的勸導後，就一走了之。這樣一個無情的信徒，實在令主痛心。

我們是否與主並聖靈站在同一陣線上，作代求的工作？

祈禱◆噢，主啊，求你探測我心靈最深藏的動機，讓聖靈在那里為我們代求，說出我不能發出的禱告。