12月13日 求什么？

常常祷告，不可灰心。（路十八1）

你若不深信救赎的实在，就无法代求；因为你只会把代求变成对人类无可奈何的同情，徒增人的自满自足，与神隔绝。代求，是把激动你心的那个人或事，带到神面前，直到你被神对那人那事的态度所推动。代求是“补满基督患难的缺欠”，无怪乎代求的人那么少。很多人说代求是“设身处地的为那人着想”，不！代求其实是把自己放在神的位置上，从他的角度看事物。

作为一个神的工人，你所知道的实情是神要你知道的，否则便会重压难当。知得过多，过于神要你知道的，你就无法祷告；因人的景况把你压下去，以致你不能进入现实去。

我们的工作是在凡事上与神联系，可是我们却因做个活跃不已的工人，而推卸这个职责。我们拼命做一些可统计的工作，但不做代求的工作。代求是完全没有缠绕网罗的，因为可使我们与神的关系完全敝开。

代求时要当心的，就是不要草草了事。心灵必须着实地接触神的生命。试想神在我们生命的路途上，叫我们遇见多少的人，而我们却轻易的让他们溜走。若我们踏稳在救赎的根基上祷告，神就会创造除代求以外无法成就的新事。

祈祷◆主啊，愿你高举我，使我靠近你，以致你那完美的闪耀着喜乐的救恩，能为着你的荣耀而临到我和照亮我。求你保守我，让我向你的代求通行无阻。

December 13 What To Pray For

“Men ought always to pray, and not to faint” Luke 18:1

You cannot intercede if you do not believe in the reality of the Redemption; you will turn intercession into futile sympathy with human beings which will only increase their submissive content to being out of touch with God. In intercession you bring the person, or the circumstance that impinges on you before God until you are moved by His attitude towards that person or circumstance. Intercession means filling up “that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ,” and that is why there are so few intercessors. Intercession is put on the line of – “Put yourself in his place.” Never! Try to put yourself in God's place.

As a worker, be careful to keep pace with the communications of reality from God or you will be crushed. If you know too much, more than God has engineered for you to know, you cannot pray, the condition of the people is so crushing that you cannot get through to reality.

Our work lies in coming into definite contact with God about everything, and we shirk it by becoming active workers. We do the things that can be tabulated but we will not intercede. Intercession is the one thing that has no snares, because it keeps our relationship with God completely open.

The thing to watch in intercession is that no soul is patched up, a soul must get through into contact with the life of God. Think of the number of souls God has brought about our path and we have dropped them! When we pray on the ground of Redemption, God creates something He can create in no other way than through intercessory prayer.