晨興聖言-話語的職事...(W5-6)

第五週 • 週六

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晨興餧養

太十八19  …你們中間若有兩個人在地上，在他們所求的任何事上和諧一致，他們無論求甚麼，都必從我在諸天之上的父，得着成全。

徒一14　   這些人…都同心合意，堅定持續的禱告。

 

我竭盡所能要進入你們的禱告，但是辦不到。我要坦率的說，你們的禱告不是團體的禱告。你們都是各禱各的。…我們必須學習，當我們來到禱告聚會中，乃是團體的身體來禱告。在屬靈的範圍裏禱告，必須是團體的。甚至在屬世的範圍裏，一隊有十一個球員踢足球，或者有五個球員打籃球，也不是各打各的，乃是團體的進行。這半個多小時，我在等候、觀察並尋找時機，要進入你們的禱告，但我看不見你們的路線和目標。每個禱告的人都有自己的心思、自己的目標。這完全是由於我們傳統的背景。我盼望我們都能領悟，今天早晨我們的禱告聚會沒有路線，沒有目標。我們不過是來在一起發表自己的感覺（李常受文集一九八四年第二冊，二五○至二五一頁）。

信息選讀

長禱告總是殺死禱告聚會。長禱告指明你只顧自己，不顧別人。你只顧自己的感覺，不顧聚會中的氣氛和流。我們來在一起禱告，…都必須持守這樣的態度同這樣的靈：我們不是中心、流、路線、目標；主（就是那靈）纔是。因此，我們該是敞開的—向主敞開，向那靈敞開。若是祂要用我開始一個禱告，也許我只禱告兩秒鐘。我不會禱告得很長，來發表自己的意見、自己的感覺。也許我裏面覺得，這次禱告聚會應當以主的憐憫來開頭，我會禱告：『主，憐憫我們。主，感謝你。你的憐憫比你的恩典搆得更遠。』這就彀好了。主只用我們這麼多，以祂的憐憫來開始禱告聚會。

我們若是…即時跟隨活的靈，就沒有人會作滿了道理的長禱告。…禱告聚會需要許多即時、新鮮的靈感同新鮮的點。…我們都該一個接着一個禱告，正如球賽中的球隊，隊員同打一個球。然而，今天早晨每個禱告的人都有自己的球。我進來的時候，不曉得該接那個球。

我們在這裏受主的訓練，並且我們是領頭的人。我們是所謂的同工，整個主的恢復都在我們手中；然而我們領頭的人卻是這樣聚禱告聚會。既是這樣，我們能盼望召會的禱告聚會如何？從我們的禱告來看，似乎…我們不過是一班基督徒來在一起禱告，不像是在主的恢復裏。

長禱告會殺死禱告聚會。…你的禱告試驗人的耐心會持續多久。…你相信在行傳一章，當那一百二十人聚集在耶路撒冷時，他們是像我們這樣禱告麼？他們若這樣禱告，我確信十天后他們會疲乏厭倦。

我們必須學習忘記我們所有的一切，所知道的一切，甚至最近所聽見的一切。讓我們來在一起，以敞開的靈，絲毫不受霸佔的禱告；只要倒空的來到禱告聚會中。我們來到禱告聚會中，全人應當在祭壇上，這樣主就能在我們裏面運行，甚至暴露我們。我們來到禱告聚會中，應當存着一無所知，只知道主自己的態度（李常受文集一九八四年第二冊，二五一至二五三頁）。

參讀：長老訓練第二冊，第十章。

WEEK 5 — DAY 6

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Morning Nourishment

Matt. 18:19 …If two of you are in harmony on earth concerning any matter for which they ask, it will be done for them from My Father who is in the heavens.

Acts 1:14 These all continued steadfastly with one accord in prayer…

I did my best to enter into your prayers, but I could not make it. I would like to say frankly that your prayers were not prayers in a corporate way. All of you prayed individualistically…We must learn to come to a prayer meeting to pray as a body, a corporate body. To pray in the spiritual realm must be something corporate. Even in the worldly realm, to play football with eleven members on your team or basketball with five members on your team is not done individualistically but in a corporate way. I was waiting, watching, and seeking a time for over half an hour that I could enter into your prayer, but I could not see what your line or what your goal was. Everyone who prayed had his own mind, his own goal. This is altogether due to our traditional background. I hope that we all can realize that this morning we had a prayer meeting without a line, without a goal. We just came together to express our own feeling. (CWWL, 1984, vol. 2, “Elders’ Training, Book 2: The Vision of the Lord’s Recovery,” p. 193)

Todays Reading

A long prayer always kills the prayer meeting. A long prayer indicates that you care only for yourself and that you do not care for others. You care only for your feeling; you do not care for the atmosphere and the flow in the meeting. When we come together to pray,…we all must hold such an attitude with such a spirit that we are not the center, the flow, the line, the goal, but the Lord, the Spirit, is. Therefore, we are open—open to the Lord and open to the Spirit. If He would use us to start a prayer, maybe we would pray for just two seconds. We would not pray a long prayer to express our opinion, our feeling. Perhaps we have the inner feeling that this meeting of prayer should begin with the Lord’s mercy. Then maybe we would pray, “Lord, have mercy upon us. Thank You, Lord. Thank You that Your mercy can reach much further than Your grace.” This is good enough. The Lord just uses us this much to open the prayer meeting with His mercy.

If we were following the living Spirit instantly, no one would pray a long prayer full of doctrinal points…The prayer meetings need a lot of instant, fresh inspiration with fresh points…We all would pray one after another just like a team in a ball game. The members of one team play with one ball. This morning, however, everyone who prayed had their own ball. When I came in, I did not know “which ball I should catch.”

We are here in the Lord’s training, and we are the leading ones. We are the so-called co-workers, and the entire recovery of the Lord is in our hands. Yet we, the leading ones, were holding a prayer meeting in such a way. Since this is the case, what could we expect of the church prayer meetings? From our prayer it seems that we…are merely a group of Christians coming together to pray but seemingly not something in the Lord’s recovery.

Long prayers kill the prayer meeting…Your prayer tests how long people’s endurance will last…Do you believe that when the one hundred twenty met together in Jerusalem in Acts 1, they prayed in our way? If they had prayed in this way, I am sure they would have been tired and bored after ten days.

We must learn to forget all the things that we have, all the things that we know, and even all the things that we have heard recently. Let us come together to pray with an open spirit with nothing occupying us; just come to the prayer meeting in an empty way. We should come to the prayer meeting with our whole being on the altar so that the Lord can operate within us and even expose us. We should come to the prayer meeting with the attitude that we do not know anything but that we only know the Lord Himself. (CWWL, 1984, vol. 2, “Elders’ Training, Book 2: The Vision of the Lord’s Recovery,” pp. 193-195)

Further Reading: CWWL, 1984, vol. 2, “Elders’ Training, Book 2: The Vision of the Lord’s Recovery,” ch. 10