第一篇 “坚定持续地祷告，并尽话语的职事”
Message One “Steadfastly in Prayer and in the Ministry of the Word”
读经：徒六4，犹20，可十一20~24，弗三17~19
Scripture Reading: Acts 6:4; Jude 20; Mark 11:20-24; Eph. 3:17-19
壹 “坚定持续地祷告”—徒六4:
“Steadfastly in prayer”—Acts 6:4:
To pray means that we realize that we are nothing and that we can do nothing; this implies that prayer is the real denial of the self—Mark 8:34; 9:29.
二 祷告的人必须是一个要神和神旨意的人—太二六39，约四34，五30，六38。
A man of prayer must be one who seeks God and God’s will—Matt. 26:39; John 4:34; 5:30; 6:38.
三 祷告真实的意义，乃是人在灵里和神接触，并吸取神自己—犹20，约十四13，十五7：
The real significance of prayer is to contact God in our spirit and to absorb God Himself—Jude 20; John 14:13; 15:7:
１ 祷告就是人的灵和神的灵接触，在接触之间，把神吸入到人里面—犹20，约四24。
Prayer is the contact of the human spirit with the divine Spirit, during which we inhale God—Jude 20; John 4:24.
２ 真实的祷告，都是人在灵里调和着是灵的神而有的—犹20，弗六18，罗八16，林前六17：
Genuine prayers are prayers that are mingled with God the Spirit in our spirit—Jude 20; Eph. 6:18; Rom. 8:16; 1 Cor. 6:17:
ａ 祷告必须是神调在人的灵里和人一同祷告出来的。
Prayer must be a joint prayer in which God is mingled with our spirit.
ｂ 真实的祷告乃是神人双层的祷告，是神的灵调在人的灵里，人的灵也调在神的灵里而有的祷告—犹20，罗八4、26。
True prayers—prayers that involve God and man—are the issue of the Spirit of God being mingled with man’s spirit and man’s spirit being mingled with the Spirit of God—Jude 20; Rom. 8:4, 26.
ｃ 这个神人调在一起而有的祷告，完全是神发起的，神发动的；神在人里头祷告，人也在神里头祷告—雅五17。
In this prayer God and man mingle together, and God is the Initiator and the Motivator; God prays in man, and man prays in God—James 5:17.
３ 我们若是要有真实的祷告，由神发起的祷告，摸着神的祷告，就必须是在圣灵里祷告；在圣灵里祷告，意思就是，我们和圣灵在二灵的相交里一起祷告—犹20，林后十三14，腓二1。
If we would have genuine prayers, prayers that are initiated by God and that touch God, we must pray in the Holy Spirit; praying in the Holy Spirit means that we and the Holy Spirit pray together in the fellowship of the two spirits—Jude 20; 2 Cor. 13:14; Phil. 2:1.
４ 我们在其中接触神、吸入神、吸取神并被神充满的祷告，才是真实的祷告；唯有这种祷告应当献给神—启五8，八3~4。
Prayers in which we contact God, inhale God, absorb God, and are filled with God are genuine prayers; only prayers of this kind should be offered to God—Rev. 5:8; 8:3-4.
四 在圣经中有一个最高、最属灵的祷告，就是权柄的祷告—太十八18~19，可十一23~24，弗一20~22，二6，六12~13、18~19：
The Bible contains a most lofty and spiritual prayer—the prayer of authority—Matt. 18:18-19; Mark 11:23-24; Eph. 1:20-22; 2:6; 6:12-13, 18-19:
１ 我们如果要作一个祷告的人，就必须学习权柄的祷告；这一种祷告，就是主在马太十八章十八节所描述的。
If we want to be a man of prayer, we have to learn to pray with authority; this is the kind of prayer described by the Lord in Matthew 18:18.
２ 马太十八章十八节这里有一种的祷告称为捆绑的祷告，又有一种的祷告称为释放的祷告；捆绑与释放—这就是权柄的祷告。
In Matthew 18:18 there is a prayer that is called binding prayer and a prayer that is called loosing prayer; to bind and to loose—this is to pray with authority.
五 权柄的祷告就是马可十一章二十三至二十四节里的祷告：
Praying with authority is praying the prayer in Mark 11:23-24:
１ 信就是信我们已经得着所求的—24节：
Faith is believing that we have received what we have asked for—v. 24:
ａ 按照主的话，我们该相信我们已经得着了，不是我们将要得着。
According to the Lord’s word, we should believe that we have received, not that we will receive.
ｂ 盼望是期待将来的事，相信乃是看事情已经作成。
To hope means to expect something in the future; to believe means to consider something as having been done.
ｃ 信心不但相信神能或神肯作某件事，并且相信神已经作了。
Faith is not only believing that God can or will do a certain thing but also believing that God has done that thing already.
２ 马可十一章二十至二十四节的祷告是权柄的祷告—23节：
The prayer in Mark 11:20-24 is a prayer with authority—v. 23:
ａ 权柄的祷告，不是求神作什么，乃是用神的权柄，把神的权柄拿来对付难处，对付那该除去的事—亚四7，太二一21。
A prayer with authority does not ask God to do something; instead, it exercises God’s authority and applies this authority to deal with problems and things that ought to be removed—Zech. 4:7; Matt. 21:21.
ｂ 神派定我们命令祂所已经命令的事，吩咐祂所已经吩咐的事—十七20。
God has commissioned us to command what He has commanded and give orders to what He has given orders to—17:20.
ｃ 召会有完全的信心，里头不疑惑，清楚知道所作的是完全合乎神旨意的，就能有这样权柄的祷告—六10，十八19~20。
The church can have such a prayer with authority by having full faith, being without doubt, and being clear that what we do is fully according to God’s will—6:10; 18:19-20.
ｄ 权柄的祷告是与得胜者极有关系的；每一个得胜者都必须学习对“这座山”说话—可十一23。
Prayer with authority has much to do with the overcomers; every overcomer must learn to speak to “this mountain”—Mark 11:23.
贰 “坚定持续地……尽话语的职事”—徒六4：
“Steadfastly…in the ministry of the word”—Acts 6:4:
Prayer should precede the ministry of the word, just as the apostles practiced—v. 4.
二 话语职事的一个范例是以弗所三章十七节上半：“使基督……安家在你们心里”：
An example of the ministry of the word is Ephesians 3:17a: “That Christ may make His home in your hearts”:
１ 当基督扩展到我们心里，祂就成了我们的人位—17节上：
When Christ spreads into our hearts, He becomes our person—v. 17a:
ａ 我们不仅需要接受基督在我们的灵里作生命，也需要接受祂在我们的心里作人位。
We need to take Christ not only as life in our spirit but also as the person in our hearts.
ｂ 基督成为我们人位唯一的路，乃是祂安家在我们心里。
The only way for Christ to be our person is for Him to make His home in our hearts.
ｃ 我们若以基督作我们心里的人位，那活在我们心里的人位就不是我们的己，乃是基督—加二20。
If we take Christ as our person in our hearts, the person living in our hearts will not be the self but Christ—Gal. 2:20.
２ 那位正安家在我们心里的基督，乃是无限无量、无法测量的基督—弗三18：
The Christ who is making His home in our hearts is an unlimited, immeasurable Christ—Eph. 3:18:
ａ 当基督安家在我们心里，我们就会和众圣徒一同领略那阔、长、高、深，就是宇宙的量度，也是无法测量之基督的量度。
As Christ makes His home in our hearts, we apprehend with all the saints the breadth, the length, the height, and the depth; these are the dimensions of the universe, the dimensions of the immeasurable Christ.
ｂ 基督虽是无法测量的，却要安家在我们心里。
Although Christ is immeasurable, He is nevertheless making His home in our hearts.
ｃ 基督是宇宙的立方体，我们在身体里对祂的经历也必须是一“立方体”，是三度的。
Christ is the universal cube, and our experience of Him in the Body must be “cubical,” three-dimensional.
３ 当基督安家在我们心里，我们就被充满，成为神一切的丰满—19节：
When Christ makes His home in our hearts, we will be filled unto all the fullness of God—v. 19:
ａ 神的丰满乃是基督的身体彰显三一神到极点，就是三一神团体彰显的终极完成。
The fullness of God is the Body of Christ as the expression of the Triune God to the uttermost, the ultimate consummation of the corporate expression of the Triune God.
ｂ 基督的身体乃是无限基督的无限彰显。
The Body of Christ is the unlimited expression of the unlimited Christ.
ｃ 我们若让基督安家在我们心里，就会被三一神充满到一个地步，成为祂完满的彰显。
If we let Christ make His home in our hearts, we will be filled with the Triune God to such an extent that we will become His full expression.
４ 真正的召会生活，乃是无限无量、无法测量的基督亲自安家在我们心里的结果—17节上，四16：
The genuine church life is the issue of the unlimited and immeasurable Christ personally making His home in our hearts—v. 17a; 4:16:
ａ 召会的内容乃是我们所接受作为我们人位的基督，就是作到我们里面的基督。
The content of the church is the Christ whom we take as our person, the Christ who is wrought into our being.
ｂ 我们若要有基督身体的实际，就必须让基督安家在我们心里。
If we would have the reality of the Body of Christ, we must allow Christ to make His home in our hearts.
ｃ 要使基督在马太十六章十八节论到召会建造的话得着应验，召会就必须进入一种光景，圣徒都让基督安家在他们心里，据有、占有并浸透他们整个里面的人。
In order for Christ’s word in Matthew 16:18 concerning the building up of the church to be fulfilled, the church must enter into a state where saints allow Christ to make His home in their hearts, possessing, occupying, and saturating their entire inner being.
ｄ 基督越占有我们里面的人，我们就越能在身体里与别人建造在一起—弗二21~22，四16。
The more Christ occupies our inner being, the more we will be able to be built up with others in the Body—Eph. 2:21-22; 4:16.
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