從天上賜下的復興
定睛於潮水

經文
詩篇一一零1-7
1(大衛的詩。)耶和華對我主說:你坐在我的右邊,等我使你仇敵作你的腳凳。
2耶和華必使你從錫安伸出能力的杖來;你要在你仇敵中掌權。
3當你掌權的日子(或譯:行軍的日子),你的民要以聖潔的妝飾為衣(或譯:以聖潔為妝飾),甘心犧牲自己;你的民多如清晨的甘露(或譯:你少年時光耀如清晨的甘露)。
4耶和華起了誓,決不後悔,說:你是照著麥基洗德的等次永遠為祭司。
5在你右邊的主,當他發怒的日子,必打傷列王。
6他要在列邦中刑罰惡人,屍首就遍滿各處;他要在許多國中打破仇敵的頭。
7他要喝路旁的河水,因此必抬起頭來。
信息分享
轉瞬間,「與耶穌同行」已播出差不多一年,今天已來到最後一天的分享了。我想趁這機會向你提出一個重要的問題:神是否有一些比我們現在所看到的更偉大的東西要賜予我們呢?我希望你已經相信祂是有的!但是我們當如何敞開自己來接受神的賞賜呢?我想,它將按照神所定意的時刻賜下,不過,必須藉由「熱誠、有信心的禱告」的翅膀從天上降下。美國的一位聖經教師和作家皮爾遜博士(Dr.A.T.Pierson)說:「從五旬節那天開始到現在,不論在甚麼地方,沒有一個靈性大覺醒不是由合一的禱告所開始,哪怕只是兩三個人的禱告。因此,當禱告會衰敗以後,這些向外或向上的運動也就不能繼續下去。」復興在禱告中降生,並由禱告來維持。
正如主再來是有訊號一樣,主將要復興祂的整個教會也是有訊號的。法國救世軍成立的初期,布思將軍(General Booth)的大女兒,有一天發覺自己十分沮喪,於是寫信給布思將軍尋求建議。布思將軍回覆說:「不要看海浪,只定睛在潮水上。」
我現在同樣把這個建議給你,不要讓你雙眼專注海浪,因為它們有漲有退。要注視潮水,並且問一問自己:它是否正在上漲?倘若你是以信心的眼睛來看,那麼你就會看到它是在不斷上漲。當潮水湧至,我希望你和我都是已準備好的子民,樂意看到神大能彰顯的日子來臨!
「復興在禱告中降生,並由禱告來維持」
進深研究
結三十七1-14;王下三16-17;賽四十3-5;啟二十二1
1. 神給以西結的信息是甚麼?
2. 你會做些甚麼以能帶動復興?
祈禱
天父,我不知道在我有生之年,會否看到全球復興的降臨;不過,我仍想經歷個人的復興。求您從今天開始,引領我以更偉大的方式認識您。奉基督的名祈求。阿們。
編者按:
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Heaven-Sent Revival
"Keep your eyes on the tide"

Bible reading:
Psalm 110:1-7
1 The Lord says to my lord:[a] "Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet."
2 The Lord will extend your mighty scepter from Zion, saying, "Rule in the midst of your enemies!"
3 Your troops will be willing on your day of battle. Arrayed in holy splendor, your young men will come to you like dew from the morning's womb.[b]
4 The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind: "You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek."
5 The Lord is at your right hand[c]; he will crush kings on the day of his wrath.
6 He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead and crushing the rulers of the whole earth.
7 He will drink from a brook along the way,[d] and so he will lift his head high.
Message
On this our final day we ask again: Has God something bigger for us than we are at present seeing? I hope I have convinced you that He has! How can we be open to receiving it? It comes at the precise moment God appoints but it is carried down from heaven on the wings of fervent believing prayer. Dr A.T. Pierson said: "From the Day of Pentecost until now, there has not been one great spiritual awakening in any land which has not begun in a union of prayer though only among two or three, and no such outward or upward movement has continued after such prayer meetings have declined." Revivals are born in prayer and sustained by prayer.
Just as there are signs concerning the second coming, so there are signs that the Lord is not far from reviving His whole Church. In the early days of the Salvation Army in France, the eldest daughter of General Booth, known by her French rank as the "Marechale", found herself at one point in an extremely discouraging situation. She wrote to General Booth asking for his advice, which came in these words: "Take your eyes off the waves and fix them on the tide."
I give you now that same advice. Don't let your eyes become focused on the waves, with their advances and retreats. Keep your eyes on the tide and ask yourself: Is it rising? If you look with the eye of faith I think you will see that it is. When it breaks I pray that it will not find you or me unprepared, but that we shall be a people who are willing in the day of God's power.
"Revivals are born in prayer and sustained by prayer"
Prayer
Father, I don't know whether I will live to see a world-wide revival but I want to live to experience a personal revival. Take me on from this point to know You in a much greater way. In Christ's Name I ask it. Amen.
Further study
Ezekiel 37:1-14
2 Kings 3:16-17
Isaiah 40:3-5
Revelation 22:1
1. What was God's message to Ezekiel?
2. What will you do to bring about revival?
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