6月20日 你什么时候开始代求？

约伯为他的朋友祈祷，耶和华就使约伯从苦境转回。（伯四十二10）

以自我为中心的病态式祈祷，苦苦哀求一意强求自己的好转，在新约中是找不到的。我若要努力弄好与神的关系，正表明我正离弃神救赎的大恩。“主啊，你若垂听我祷告，我的心就洁净；你若帮助我，我就行事正直。”我无法使自己的生命在神面前正直，也无法使生命完全；只有接受主耶稣白白的救赎，我才可以与神有正常的关系。我谦卑地接受这个事实吗？我必须放下一切权利，放下一切为自己付出的努力，把自己完全的放在神手中，然后以祭司的身分做代求的工作。今日许多祷告是出于对救恩的不信。耶稣不是开始拯救我们，而是已经救了我们，事情已经成就，因此求他再做是一种侮辱。

你若尚未得着百倍的恩典，未领悟话语的亮光，那就该开始为你的朋友祷告，进入内室的事奉。“约伯为他的朋友祈祷，耶和华就使约伯从苦境中转回。”作为一个得救的人，你生命的真正事业就是为人代求。不论神把你放在什么环境里，都要立刻祷告，求他救赎的大工在别人身上成就，正如在你身上一样。现在就为你的朋友祈祷，为那些与你有接触的人祈祷吧！

祈祷◆噢，主啊，打发更多工人到我们这里来，直至这教会挤满了人，而你能透过他们，在全地荣耀你自己。

June 20 Have You Come To "When" Yet?

“And the Lord turned the captivity of Job when he prayed for his friends.” Job 42:10

The plaintive, self-centred, morbid kind of prayer, a dead-set that I want to be right, is never found in the New Testament. The fact that I am trying to be right with God is a sign that I am rebelling against the Atonement. “Lord, I will purify my heart if You will answer my prayer; I will walk rightly if You will help me.” I cannot make myself right with God, I cannot make my life perfect; I can only be right with God if I accept the Atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ as an absolute gift. Am I humble enough to accept it? I have to resign every kind of claim and cease from every effort, and leave myself entirely alone in His hands, and then begin to pour out in the priestly work of intercession. There is much prayer that arises from real disbelief in the Atonement. Jesus is not beginning to save us, He has saved us, the thing is done, and it is an insult to ask Him to do it.

If you are not getting the hundredfold more, not getting insight into God's word, then start praying for your friends, enter into the ministry of the interior. “The Lord turned the captivity of Job when he prayed for his friends.” The real business of your life as a saved soul is intercessory prayer. Wherever God puts you in circumstances, pray immediately, pray that His Atonement may be realized in other lives as it has been in yours. Pray for your friends now; pray for those with whom you come in contact now.