晨兴圣言-马太福音中所启示...(W6-5)

第六周 • 周五

W6-d5-ch

晨兴餧养

可十一23~24 我实在告诉你们，无论谁对这座山说，你得挪开，投在海里，他若心里不疑惑，只信他所说的成了，就必给他成了。所以我告诉你们，凡你们祷告祈求的，无论是甚么，只要信已经得着了，就必得着。


在圣经中有一个最高的祷告，有一个最属灵的祷告，可是很少有人有这个祷告，很少有人注意这个祷告。…这个祷告就是『权柄的祷告』。我们知道有赞美的祷告，有感谢的祷告，有祈求的祷告，有哀求的祷告。…权柄的祷告，就是吩咐的祷告。这一种祷告乃是圣经中最紧要，最属灵的祷告。这一种祷告乃是权柄的代表，乃是权柄的命令（倪柝声文集第二辑第二册，二二四页）。

信息选读

权柄的祷告可以分两方面：一方面是捆绑，一方面是释放。在地上所捆绑的，在天上也要捆绑；在地上所释放的，在天上也要释放；地上如何，天上也如何。这是马太十八章十八节所说的。接下去十九节是说到祷告的事。…普通祈求的祷告是求神捆绑，求神释放。权柄的祷告是我们用权柄来捆绑，来释放。神所以如此捆绑，就是因为召会已经先捆绑了；神所以如此释放，就是因为召会已经先释放了。神把权柄赐给召会，召会用这权柄去如何说，神就如何作。

甚么是权柄的祷告呢？简单的说，就是马可十一章里的祷告。…二十四节开头说『所以』，『所以』是承上接下之辞。…二十四节是说到祷告的事，可见二十三节也是说到祷告的事。希奇的就是在这里不像普通的祷告，这里不是对神说，『神阿，求你把这座山挪开此地投在海里。』在这里说甚么呢？这里是说，『无论谁对这座山说，你得挪开，投在海里。』…我们想，祷告总是要向神说，『神阿，求你把这座山挪开此地投在海里。』但主在这里所说的是另一方面。…叫我们面向山，对山说。不是对神说，乃是直接对山说，『你得挪开，投在海里。』主恐怕我们以为这不是祷告，所以在二十四节就来解释说，这也是祷告。在这里有一个祷告不是对神说的，但也是祷告。对山说，…这就是权柄的祷告。权柄的祷告，不是求神作甚么，乃是用神的权柄，把神的权柄拿来直接对付难处，直接对付那该除去的事。这种祷告，是每一个得胜者所必须学习的。每一个得胜者必须学会如何直接对山说话。

我们有许多软弱的地方，像脾气、污秽的思想或者身体的病痛等等，如果去对神说，好像不容易见效；但你如果把神的权柄拿来，对山说话，它立刻就跑掉了。…把神的权柄拿来直接去对难处说话，说『奉我主的名叫你离开我』，『我不能容让你留在我身上』，这一种的祷告是很少的。权柄的祷告是你要对那拦阻你的说，『离开我！』你要对你的脾气说，『离开我！』你要对你的疾病说，『离开我！我要靠着主复活的生命仍然起来。』

权柄的祷告不是直接向神求，乃是直接用神的权柄来对付难处。这山，我们人人都有，不过不一定是一样大小的就是了，…总之就是在属灵的道路上拦阻你的那个东西，你可以命令它离开你。这就是权柄的祷告（倪柝声文集第二辑第二册，二三六、二三○至二三二页）。

参读：教会祷告的职事，第四篇。

WEEK 6 — DAY 5

W6-d5-en

Morning Nourishment

Mark 11:23-24 Truly I say to you that whoever says to this mountain, Be taken up and cast into the sea, and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says happens, he will have it. For this reason I say to you, All things that you pray and ask, believe that you have received them, and you will have them.

The Bible contains a most lofty and spiritual prayer. But few people pray this prayer, and few pay attention to it…It is the “prayer of authority.” We know that there are prayers of praise, prayers of thanksgiving, supplicating prayers, and begging prayers…A prayer of authority is a commanding prayer. This is the most crucial and most
spiritual prayer in the Bible. This kind of prayer is a sign of authority and a declaration of authority. (CWWN, vol. 22, “The Prayer Ministry of the Church,” p. 191)

Today’s Reading

A prayer with authority has two aspects. One is to bind, and the other is to loose. What is bound on earth will be bound in heaven, and what is loosed on earth will be loosed in heaven. Matthew 18:18 tells us that whatever the earth does, heaven will also do. In verse 19 there is the matter of prayer… Ordinary prayers are prayers that ask God to bind and loose. Prayers with authority are those in which we bind and loose by exercising authority. God binds because the church has bound, and God looses because the church has loosed. God has given this authority to the church. When the church exercises this authority to speak something, God does it.

What is praying with authority? Simply put, it is praying the prayer of Mark 11…Verse 24 begins with the words “for this reason.” “For this reason” means that this sentence is a continuation of what has gone before…Verse 24 mentions prayer. This proves that verse 23 must also concern prayer. The strange thing is that verse 23 does not sound like an ordinary prayer. The Lord did not tell us to pray, “God, please move the mountain and cast it into the sea.” What does it say? It says, “Whoever says to this mountain, Be taken up and cast into the sea.”…We think that when we pray to God, we have to say, “God, please move this mountain and cast it into the sea.” But the Lord said something else…He told us to turn to the mountain and to speak to the mountain. The speaking is not toward God but directly toward the mountain, telling it to be cast into the sea. Since the Lord was afraid that we would not consider this to be a prayer, He pointed out in the following verse that it is a prayer. This prayer is not directed toward God, but it is a prayer. It is a speaking directed toward the mountain…This is a prayer with authority. A prayer with authority does not ask God to do something. Rather, it exercises God’s authority and applies this authority to deal with problems and things that ought to be removed. Every overcomer has to learn to pray this kind of prayer. Every overcomer has to learn to speak to the mountain.

We have many weaknesses, such as temper, evil thoughts, or physical illnesses. If we plead with God concerning these problems, it seems that there is not much result. However, if we apply God’s authority to the situation and speak to the mountain, these problems will go away…Seldom do we pray by applying God’s authority to the problem or by saying, “I command you in the name of my Lord to go away” or “I cannot tolerate this thing to remain with me anymore.” A prayer with authority is one in which we tell the things that are frustrating us to go away. We can say to our temper, “Go away.” We can say to sickness, “Go away. I will rise up by the resurrection life of the Lord.”

A prayer with authority is not asking God directly. Rather, it is dealing with problems by directly applying God’s authority. All of us have mountains. Of course, these mountains are not the same in size…But whatever is blocking us from going on in the spiritual pathway, we can command to go away. This is to pray with authority. (CWWN, vol. 22, “The Prayer Ministry of the Church,” pp. 200, 195-197)

Further Reading: CWWN, vol. 22, “The Prayer Ministry of the Church,” ch. 4