第一週 • 綱目

『堅定持續的禱告，並盡話語的職事』

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讀經：徒六 4，猶 20，可十一 20~24，弗三 17~19

【週 一】

壹 『堅定持續的禱告』—徒六 4：

一 禱告的意思是說，我們看見自己一無所是，一無所能；這含示禱告是真正的否認己—可八 34，九 29。

二 禱告的人必須是一個要神和神旨意的人—太二六 39，約四 34，五 30，六 38。

三 禱告真實的意義，乃是人在靈裏和神接觸，並吸取神自己—猶 20，約十四 13，十五 7：

1 禱告就是人的靈和神的靈接觸，在接觸之間，把神吸入到人裏面—猶 20，約四 24。

【週 二】

2 真實的禱告，都是人在靈裏調和着是靈的神而有的—猶20，弗六 18，羅八 16，林前六 17：

a 禱告必須是神調在人的靈裏和人一同禱告出來的。

b 真實的禱告乃是神人雙層的禱告，是神的靈調在人的靈裏，人的靈也調在神的靈裏而有的禱告—猶20，羅八 4、26。

c 這個神人調在一起而有的禱告，完全是神發起的，神發動的；神在人裏頭禱告，人也在神裏頭禱告—雅五 17。

3 我們若是要有真實的禱告，由神發起的禱告，摸着神的禱告，就必須是在聖靈裏禱告；在聖靈裏禱告，意思就是，我們和聖靈在二靈的相交裏一起禱告—猶 20，林後十三 14，腓二 1。

4 我們在其中接觸神、吸入神、吸取神並被神充滿的禱告，纔是真實的禱告；惟有這種禱告應當獻給神—啟五 8，八 3~4。

【週三、週四】

四 在聖經中有一個最高、最屬靈的禱告，就是權柄的禱告—太十八 18~19，可十一 23~24，弗一 20~22，二 6，六12~13、18~19：

1 我們如果要作一個禱告的人，就必須學習權柄的禱告；這一種禱告，就是主在馬太十八章十八節所描述的。

2 馬太十八章十八節這裏有一種的禱告稱為捆綁的禱告，又有一種的禱告稱為釋放的禱告；捆綁與釋放—這就是權柄的禱告。

五 權柄的禱告就是馬可十一章二十三至二十四節裏的禱告：

1 信就是信我們已經得着所求的—24 節：

a 按照主的話，我們該相信我們已經得着了，不是我們將要得着。

b 盼望是期待將來的事，相信乃是看事情已經作成。

c 信心不但相信神能或神肯作某件事，並且相信神已經作了。

2 馬可十一章二十至二十四節的禱告是權柄的禱告—23節：

a 權柄的禱告，不是求神作甚麼，乃是用神的權柄，把神的權柄拿來對付難處，對付那該除去的事—亞四 7，太二一 21。

b 神派定我們命令祂所已經命令的事，吩咐祂所已經吩咐的事—十七 20。

c 召會有完全的信心，裏頭不疑惑，清楚知道所作的是完全合乎神旨意的，就能有這樣權柄的禱告—六10，十八 19~20。

d 權柄的禱告是與得勝者極有關係的；每一個得勝者都必須學習對『這座山』說話—可十一 23。

【週 五】

貳 『堅定持續的…盡話語的職事』—徒六 4：

一 禱告該在話語職事之前，正如使徒們所行的—4 節。

二 話語職事的一個範例是以弗所三章十七節上半：『使基督…安家在你們心裏』：

1 當基督擴展到我們心裏，祂就成了我們的人位—17 節上：

a 我們不僅需要接受基督在我們的靈裏作生命，也需要接受祂在我們的心裏作人位。

b 基督成為我們人位惟一的路，乃是祂安家在我們心裏。

c 我們若以基督作我們心裏的人位，那活在我們心裏的人位就不是我們的己，乃是基督—加二 20。

【週 六】

2 那位正安家在我們心裏的基督，乃是無限無量、無法測量的基督—弗三 18：

a 當基督安家在我們心裏，我們就會和眾聖徒一同領畧那闊、長、高、深，就是宇宙的量度，也是無法測量之基督的量度。

b 基督雖是無法測量的，卻要安家在我們心裏。

c 基督是宇宙的立方體，我們在身體裏對祂的經歷也必須是一『立方體』，是三度的。

3 當基督安家在我們心裏，我們就被充滿，成為神一切的豐滿—19 節：

a 神的豐滿乃是基督的身體彰顯三一神到極點，就是三一神團體彰顯的終極完成。

b 基督的身體乃是無限基督的無限彰顯。

c 我們若讓基督安家在我們心裏，就會被三一神充滿到一個地步，成為祂完滿的彰顯。

4 真正的召會生活，乃是無限無量、無法測量的基督親自安家在我們心裏的結果—17 節上，四 16：

a 召會的內容乃是我們所接受作為我們人位的基督，就是作到我們裏面的基督。

b 我們若要有基督身體的實際，就必須讓基督安家在我們心裏。

c 要使基督在馬太十六章十八節論到召會建造的話得着應驗，召會就必須進入一種光景，聖徒都讓基督安家在他們心裏，據有、佔有並浸透他們整個裏面的人。

d 基督越佔有我們裏面的人，我們就越能在身體裏與別人建造在一起—弗二 21~22，四 16。

Week One

“Steadfastly in Prayer and in the Ministry of the Word”

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Hymns: E763

Scripture Reading: Acts 6:4; Jude 20; Mark 11:20-24; Eph. 3:17-19

§ Day 1

I. “Steadfastly in prayer”—Acts 6:4:

A. 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.

B. A man of prayer must be one who seeks God and God’s will—Matt. 26:39; John 4:34; 5:30; 6:38.

C. 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. Prayer is the contact of the human spirit with the divine Spirit, during which we inhale God—Jude 20; John 4:24.

§ Day 2

2. 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. Prayer must be a joint prayer in which God is mingled with our spirit.

b. 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. 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. 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. 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.

§ Day 3 & Day 4

D. 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. 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. 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.

E. Praying with authority is praying the prayer in Mark 11:23-24:

1. Faith is believing that we have received what we have asked for—v. 24:

a. According to the Lord’s word, we should believe that we have received, not that we will receive.

b. To hope means to expect something in the future; to believe means to consider something as having been done.

c. Faith is not only believing that God can or will do a certain thing but also believing that God has done that thing already.

. The prayer in Mark 11:20-24 is a prayer with authority—v. 23:

a. 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. God has commissioned us to command what He has commanded and give orders to what He has given orders to—17:20.

c. 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. Prayer with authority has much to do with the overcomers; every overcomer must learn to speak to “this mountain”—Mark 11:23.

§ Day 5

II. “Steadfastly...in the ministry of the word”—Acts 6:4:

A. Prayer should precede the ministry of the word, just as the apostles practiced—v. 4.

B. An example of the ministry of the word is Ephesians 3:17a: “That Christ may make His home in your hearts”:

1. When Christ spreads into our hearts, He becomes our person—v. 17a:

a. We need to take Christ not only as life in our spirit but also as the person in our hearts.

b. The only way for Christ to be our person is for Him to make His home in our hearts.

c. 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.

§ Day 6

2. The Christ who is making His home in our hearts is an unlimited, immeasurable Christ—Eph. 3:18:

a. 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. Although Christ is immeasurable, He is nevertheless making His home in our hearts.

c. Christ is the universal cube, and our experience of Him in the Body must be “cubical,” three-dimensional.

3. When Christ makes His home in our hearts, we will be filled unto all the fullness of God—v. 19:

a. 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. The Body of Christ is the unlimited expression of the unlimited Christ.

c. 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. 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. The content of the church is the Christ whom we take as our person, the Christ who is wrought into our being.

b. If we would have the reality of the Body of Christ, we must allow Christ to make His home in our hearts.

c. 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. 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.