从天上赐下的复兴
定睛于潮水

经文
诗篇一一零1-7
1(大卫的诗。)耶和华对我主说:你坐在我的右边,等我使你仇敌作你的脚凳。
2耶和华必使你从锡安伸出能力的杖来;你要在你仇敌中掌权。
3当你掌权的日子(或译:行军的日子),你的民要以圣洁的妆饰为衣(或译:以圣洁为妆饰),甘心牺牲自己;你的民多如清晨的甘露(或译:你少年时光耀如清晨的甘露)。
4耶和华起了誓,决不后悔,说:你是照着麦基洗德的等次永远为祭司。
5在你右边的主,当他发怒的日子,必打伤列王。
6他要在列邦中刑罚恶人,尸首就遍满各处;他要在许多国中打破仇敌的头。
7他要喝路旁的河水,因此必擡起头来。
信息分享
转瞬间,「与耶稣同行」已播出差不多一年,今天已来到最后一天的分享了。我想趁这机会向你提出一个重要的问题:神是否有一些比我们现在所看到的更伟大的东西要赐予我们呢?我希望你已经相信祂是有的!但是我们当如何敞开自己来接受神的赏赐呢?我想,它将按照神所定意的时刻赐下,不过,必须借由「热诚、有信心的祷告」的翅膀从天上降下。美国的一位圣经教师和作家皮尔逊博士(Dr.A.T.Pierson)说:「从五旬节那天开始到现在,不论在甚么地方,没有一个灵性大觉醒不是由合一的祷告所开始,哪怕只是两三个人的祷告。因此,当祷告会衰败以后,这些向外或向上的运动也就不能继续下去。」复兴在祷告中降生,并由祷告来维持。
正如主再来是有讯号一样,主将要复兴祂的整个教会也是有讯号的。法国救世军成立的初期,布思将军(General Booth)的大女儿,有一天发觉自己十分沮丧,于是写信给布思将军寻求建议。布思将军回复说:「不要看海浪,只定睛在潮水上。」
我现在同样把这个建议给你,不要让你双眼专注海浪,因为它们有涨有退。要注视潮水,并且问一问自己:它是否正在上涨?倘若你是以信心的眼睛来看,那么你就会看到它是在不断上涨。当潮水涌至,我希望你和我都是已准备好的子民,乐意看到神大能彰显的日子来临!
「复兴在祷告中降生,并由祷告来维持」
进深研究
结三十七1-14;王下三16-17;赛四十3-5;启二十二1
1. 神给以西结的信息是甚么?
2. 你会做些甚么以能带动复兴?
祈祷
天父,我不知道在我有生之年,会否看到全球复兴的降临;不过,我仍想经历个人的复兴。求您从今天开始,引领我以更伟大的方式认识您。奉基督的名祈求。阿们。
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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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