晨興聖言--認識、經歷、並活包羅萬有的基督...(W6-5)

第六週■週五

晨興餧養

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西四2『你們要堅定持續的禱告,在此儆醒感恩。』

二6 ~ 7『你們旣然接受了基督,就是主耶穌,在祂裏面已經生根,並正被建造,且照着你們所受的教導,在信心上得以堅固,洋溢着感謝,就要在祂裏面行事爲人。』

我們是植物,生根於基督這真土壤裏〔西二7〕。基督是我們生長的土地。不僅如此,基督也是我們長大所需要的一切。

神乃是藉着進到我們裏面,叫我們生長的。神越加到我們裏面,就越使我們生長。…基督身體的長大在於我們裏面神的增長,神的加添,神的增多。所以,神是以非常主觀的方式把祂自己給了我們,而叫我們生長。

神旣然藉着這種方式叫人生長,我們就需要花時間來吸取祂。…我們每天怎樣花時間喫東西,我們也該照樣花時間吸取主,花時間吸收基督的豐富。…如果我們匆匆忙忙,就不能吸收多少祂的豐富。我們需要有充分的時間來禱告,這使我們能更多吸取神的豐富(歌羅西書生命讀經,三七一、五六七至五六八頁)。

信息選讀

旣然今天我們的需要是被那靈充滿並浸透,我們就必須來看,要經歷那靈需要作些甚麼。主的話啓示,在神一面,一切都豫備好了。神豫備好了,並且在等候我們。…我們需要作的第一件事就是到主面前去;要如此行,我們就需要學習如何確定並有效能的接觸主。我怕許多信徒禱告了多年,並花了許多時間讀主的話,卻從來沒有確定並有效能的接觸主。

我們早晨與主同在的時間要成功,必須先作一件事。我們必須到主面前去,有一段確定的時間讓祂鑒察我們、光照我們並遇見我們。我們必須特意、確定的到主面前去,與祂有這樣一段時間。…我們若渴望作正常、活而屬靈的基督徒,就必須這樣到主面前去。我們若這樣作,並且確定的被主遇見,…結果是我們會被聖靈充滿,並且在我們的生活裏會有很大的改變。我們會領悟作基督徒乃是要在靈裏,並且基督徒的生活完全是在靈裏的事(李常受文集一九六三年第四册,三八、四一頁)。

我們禱告的時候,就進入至聖所,來到施恩的寶座前。…禱告乃是來到施恩寶座前的路。我們來到施恩的寶座前,就受憐憫,得恩典,滿足我們應時的需要〔參來四16〕。我們來到施恩的寶座前禱告的時候,憐憫和恩典就像江河一樣,在我們裏面湧流,並供應我們。這是何等的賞賜!在禱告中得着恩典的水流,的確比我們的禱告得着答應還要重要。我們的禱告有沒有得着答應是次要的,主要的乃是恩典如同江河從寶座流到我們裏面。

要得着這恩典的江河,就要把我們屬靈的電池充滿屬天的電流。屬天的電流,神聖的電流,乃是三一神作恩典從寶座流到我們裏面。這流帶來說不出的供應和享受。

今天基督徒所以輭弱,原因就在於他們屬靈的電池沒有充電。他們因着缺少禱告,就缺少屬天的傳輸。我們在一天的生活當中,必須一再充滿神聖的電流。這的確是堅定持續禱告的賞賜(歌羅西書生命讀經,七二二至七二三頁)。

參讀:接觸主,在靈裏被充滿,並有正確的基督徒聚會,以完成神永遠的定旨,第三章。

WEEK 6 — DAY 5

Morning Nourishment

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Col. 4:2 Persevere in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving.

       2:6-7 As therefore you have received the Christ, Jesus the Lord, walk in Him, having been rooted and being built up in Him, and being established in the faith even as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

We are plants rooted in Christ as the real soil [cf. Col. 2:7]. Christ is the earth in which we grow. Furthermore, Christ is all that we need for growth.

[God] gives the growth by getting into us. The more God is added to us, the more growth He gives…The growth of the Body depends on the growth of God, the addition of God, the increase of God, within us. Therefore, God gives the growth by giving Himself to us in a very subjective way.

Since God gives growth in this way, we need to take time to absorb Him… As we daily take time to eat food, we should daily take time to absorb the Lord, take time to assimilate the riches of Christ…If we are in a hurry, we shall not be able to absorb much of His riches. We need to allow adequate time for prayer. This will enable us to absorb more of the riches of our God. (Life-study of Colossians, pp. 298, 456)

Today’s Reading

Since our need today is to be filled and saturated with the Spirit, we must consider what we need to do in order to experience the Spirit. The Lord’s Word reveals that on God’s side everything is ready. God is ready and is waiting for us…The first thing we must do is to go to the Lord. To do this we need to learn how to contact the Lord in a definite and prevailing way. I am afraid that many believers have been praying for a number of years and have spent much time reading the Word but have never contacted the Lord in a definite and prevailing way.

In order for our morning time with the Lord to be successful, we must first do one thing. We must go to the Lord to have a definite time in which we allow Him to search us, enlighten us, and meet us. We must go to the Lord in a purposeful and definite way to have such a time…If we desire to be normal, living, and spiritual Christians, we must go to the Lord in this way. If we do this and are met by the Lord in a definite way,…the result will be that we will be filled with the Holy Spirit, and there will be a great change in our life. We will realize that to be a Christian is to be in the spirit and that the Christian life is absolutely a matter in the spirit. (CWWL, 1963, vol. 4, pp. 28, 31)

When we pray, we enter into the Holy of Holies and approach the throne of grace…Prayer is the way to come forward to the throne of grace. Coming forward to the throne of grace, we receive mercy and grace to meet our timely need [cf. Heb. 4:16]. When we pray, approaching the throne of grace, mercy and grace will become a river flowing in us and supplying us. How rewarding this is! Receiving the flow of grace in prayer is actually more important than having our prayers answered. Whether or not our prayer is answered is secondary. The primary thing is that grace flows like a river from the throne and into our being.

To receive this river of grace is to have our spiritual battery charged with heavenly current. The heavenly current, the divine electricity, is the Triune God as grace flowing out of the throne and into us. The supply and enjoyment this brings is unspeakable.

Christians today are weak because their spiritual batteries are not charged. Because they are short of prayer, they are short of the heavenly transmission. Again and again during the day, we need to be charged with the divine electrical current. This surely is a reward for persevering in prayer. (Life-study of Colossians, pp. 581-582)

Further Reading: CWWL, 1963, vol. 4, “Contacting the Lord, Being Filled in Spirit, and Having Proper Christian Meetings for the Accomplishment of God’s Eternal Purpose,” ch. 3

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