11月7日 环境是不知不觉中的圣地

万事都互相效力，叫爱神的人得益处。（罗八28）

信徒的际遇是神所命定的，信徒生命中没有偶然那一回事。神在他的旨意中，预备一些你不明白的环境，但神的灵却明白。他把你带到某些地方，叫你遇到某些人，遭遇某些事，为使圣灵的代求透过你，行在某一道路上。切勿在环境中说：“我要自己作主；我要当心这个，小心那个。”一切环境都在神手中，所以不必为所处的环境满腹狐疑。你代求的责任，不是要千辛万苦，乃是用神给你日常的生活际遇，把神安排给你碰到的人带到他座前，让你里面的圣灵有机会为他们代求。这样，神就能透过圣徒得着整个世界。

我是否无目的，叫圣灵难以工作？我是否要代替圣灵来工作？在代求的事上，我要尽上人的本分，这是指我所处的环境，和我接触的人。我得把这有知觉的生命作圣灵的圣地，把不同的人带到神面前，让圣灵为他们代求。你的代求不能代替我的，我的代求也不能代替你的，只有圣灵在我们个别生命中代求。没有这代求，人的生命就必受到亏损。

祈祷◆主啊，我投向你，因着你大能的救赎，我以那伟大的胜利祷文来作祈祷：“我们若照他的旨意求什么，他就听我们，这是我们向他所存坦然无惧的心。”

November 7 The Undetected Sacredness Of Circumstances

“All things work together for good to them that 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 cannot understand at all, but the Spirit of God understands. God is bringing you into places and among people and into conditions in order that the intercession of the Spirit in you may take a particular line. Never put your hand in front of the circumstances and say – I am going to be my own providence here, I must watch this, and guard that. All your circumstances are in the hand of God, therefore never think it strange concerning the circumstances you are in. Your part in intercessory prayer is not to enter into the agony of intercession, but to utilize the common-sense circumstances God puts you in, and the common-sense people He puts you amongst by His providence, to bring them before God's throne and give the Spirit in you a chance to intercede for them. In this way God is going to sweep the whole world with His saints.

Am I making the Holy Spirit's work difficult by being indefinite, or by trying to do His work for Him? I must do the human side of intercession, and the human side is the circumstances I am in and the people I am in contact with. I have to keep my conscious life as a shrine of the Holy Ghost, then as I bring the different ones before God, the Holy Spirit makes intercession for them.

Your intercessions can never be mine, and my intercessions can never be yours, but the Holy Ghost makes intercession in our particular lives, without which intercession someone will be impoverished.