第一週 • 週五
晨興餧養
徒六4 但我們要堅定持續的禱告，並盡話語的職事。
弗三16~17 願祂照着祂榮耀的豐富，藉着祂的靈，用大能使你們得以加強到裏面的人裏，使基督藉着信，安家在你們心裏…。
〔在以弗所三章十六節，〕裏面的人，是我們重生的靈，有神的生命為其生命。我們的靈是由神的靈重生（約三6），由神的靈內住（羅八11、16），並與神的靈調和的（林前六17）。為了經歷基督，使我們成為神一切的豐滿，我們需要得以加強到我們這裏面的人裏。這含示我們需要藉着聖靈得以加強到我們的靈裏。
因為人是魂，不是靈，所以我們的個性或我們的人位乃是在我們的魂裏。這是聖經說人是魂的原因（出一5，徒二41）。…我們這些魂有外面的器皿—身體，和裏面的器皿—靈。…我們重生以前，在我們的靈裏沒有生命；我們只有在魂裏屬人的生命。但是藉着重生，現今在我們的靈裏有神聖的生命。所以，我們的靈不再只是器皿，乃是成了我們的人位，有神的生命在其中。…舊人位，就是有屬人生命的魂，已經被釘在十字架上，現今我們的新人位乃是有神聖生命的靈。我們那由神聖生命所重生的靈，現今就是我們裏面的人（以弗所書生命讀經，三三七至三三八頁）。
信息選讀
我們需要得以加強，好停留在我們的靈裏，不受對許多事物的思想所打岔。我們要禱告不受打岔，就必須得以加強到裏面的人裏。…我們需要得以加強，好叫我們全人被帶回到我們的靈裏。
我們的心是由魂的各部分—心思、情感、意志，加上靈的主要部分—良心—組成的。這些是我們人內裏的各部分。藉着重生，基督進到我們的靈裏（提後四22）。接着，我們該讓祂擴展到我們心的每一部分。我們的心是我們內裏各部分的總和，也是我們裏面之人的中心；所以，當基督安家在我們心裏，祂就掌管我們裏面的全人，並用祂自己供應、加強我們內裏的各部分。
我們得救時，基督就進到我們的靈裏。…當我們得以加強到裏面的人裏，就給基督開門，在我們裏面擴展，從我們的靈擴展到我們的心思、情感和意志的每一部分裏。基督越多在我們裏面擴展，就越多定居且安家在我們裏面。這意思是說，祂佔有我們裏面的每一部分，並以祂自己充滿、浸透各部分。結果我們不僅得了啟示，我們也被基督充滿。然後無論我們到那裏，我們都是使徒，就是受差遣的人；也是申言者，就是為基督說話的人（以弗所書生命讀經，三三八至三三九、三四一頁）。
我們若以基督為我們的人位，讓祂擴展到我們心裏，那活在我們心裏的人位就不是我們的己，乃是基督（加二20）。我們的心需要實際的成為基督的家。…佔有我們心的，必須是祂而不是我們的己。關鍵的問題在於，活在我們心裏的是誰？安家在我們心裏的人位是誰？只要活在我們心裏的人位仍是我們自己，我們的心就是己的家，而不是基督的家。為此我們需要為自己也為別人禱告，要在日常生活中有以基督為人位的實際。我們所作的一切，都該是基督作的，而不是自己作的。祂的口味和偏好，需要成為我們的口味和偏好。這樣，基督就不僅是我們的生命，也是我們的人位。主就得以在我們心裏擴展，佔有我們的心，並完全安家在我們心裏。至終祂要用自己浸透我們全人，我們就不再憑自己活着，乃憑基督活着（新約總論第十一冊，一七四頁）。
參讀：以弗所書生命讀經，第三十二篇。
WEEK 1 — DAY 5
Morning Nourishment
Acts 6:4 But we will continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry of the word.
Eph. 3:16-17 That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit into the inner man, that Christ may make His home in your hearts through faith…
[In Ephesians 3:16] the inner man is our regenerated spirit, which has God’s life as its life. It is our spirit regenerated by the Spirit of God (John 3:6), indwelt by the Spirit of God (Rom. 8:11, 16), and mingled with the Spirit of God (1 Cor. 6:17). In order to experience Christ unto all the fullness of God, we need to be strengthened into our inner man. This implies that we need to be strengthened into our spirit through the Holy Spirit.
Because human beings are souls, not spirits, our personality, or our person, is in our soul. This is the reason the Bible refers to men as souls (Exo. 1:5; Acts 2:41)…As souls, we have an outward vessel, the body, and an inward vessel, the spirit…Before we were regenerated, there was no life in our spirit; we simply had our human life in our soul. But through regeneration we now have the divine life in our spirit. Therefore, our spirit is no longer merely a vessel; it has become our person with the life of God…The old person, the soul with the human life, has been crucified on the cross, and now our new person is the spirit with the divine life. Our spirit regenerated with the divine life is now our inner man. (Life-study of Ephesians, p. 267)
Todays Reading
We need to be strengthened in order to stay in our spirit and not to be distracted by thoughts regarding so many things. In order to pray without being distracted, we need to be strengthened into our inner man…We need to be strengthened so that our whole being may come back to the inner man and stay there!
Our heart is composed of all the parts of our soul—the mind, the emotion, and the will—plus our conscience, the main part of our spirit. These parts are the inward parts of our being. Through regeneration Christ came into our spirit (2 Tim. 4:22). After this, we should allow Him to spread Himself into every part of our heart. Our heart is the totality of all our inward parts and the center of our inward being; therefore, when Christ makes His home in our heart, He controls our entire inward being and supplies and strengthens every inward part with Himself.
When we were saved, Christ came into our spirit…As we are strengthened into the inner man, the door is opened for Christ to spread in us, to spread from our spirit to every part of our mind, emotion, and will. The more Christ spreads within us, the more He settles down in us and makes His home in us. This means that He occupies every part of our inner being, possessing all these parts and saturating them with Himself. As a result, not only do we receive the revelation, but we also are filled with Christ. Then wherever we may go, we will be the apostles, the sent ones, and the prophets, those who speak for Christ. (Life-study of Ephesians, pp. 268, 270)
If we take Christ as our person, allowing Him to spread into our heart, the person living in our heart will not be the self but Christ (Gal. 2:20). In a practical way our heart needs to become Christ’s home…He, not the self, must be the One who occupies our heart. The crucial question is who is living in our heart and who is the person taking up residence in our heart. As long as we are still the person living in our heart, our heart is the home of the self, not the home of Christ. For this reason, we need to pray for ourselves and for others to have the reality of taking Christ as our person in our daily living. Everything we do should be done not by the self but by Christ. His tastes and preferences need to become ours. Then Christ will be not only our life but also our person. The Lord will thus expand in our heart, take possession of our heart, and make His home in our heart in a full way. Eventually, He will saturate our whole being with Himself, and we will live no longer by the self but by Christ. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 3390-3391)
Further Reading: Life-study of Ephesians, msg. 32
