从天上赐下的复兴
为复兴作好准备
经文
希伯来书十19-25
19弟兄们，我们既因耶稣的血得以坦然进入至圣所，
20是借着他给我们开了一条又新又活的路，从幔子经过，这幔子就是他的身体。
21又有一位大祭司治理神的家！
22并我们心中天良的亏欠已经洒去，身体用清水洗净了，就当存着诚心和充足的信心来到神面前；
23也要坚守我们所承认的指望，不至摇动，因为那应许我们的是信实的。
24又要彼此相顾，激发爱心，勉励行善。
25你们不可停止聚会，好像那些停止惯了的人，倒要彼此劝勉，既知道（原文是看见）那日子临近，就更当如此。
信息分享
很多人认为复兴所激起的情感，对有效的基督徒生命会造成阻碍，我们今天要多花一天的时间来反思这个问题。事情不错是有这么一个可能，但并非一定就是如此发生。只要有完备的基督教导，将复兴时所产生的情感引向正确的方向，那么可能就能产生美好和持久的果效。
很多见证1904年威尔斯大复兴的人说，要是有更多的牧者带领群众进入与神更深入的关系中，那么这次复兴肯定可以更持久，并且有更大的属灵果效。当时我只有十多岁，刚信主不久，但当我一听到这个说法，就马上委身事奉，希望尽自己的能力去确保将来复兴来临时，教会不会因缺乏教导而受损。
1965年我创立了世界复兴运动（Crusade for World Revival）（简称为CWR），其主要目的是鼓励大家为个人和群体的复兴祷告，同时加深自己对圣经的了解。尽管这事工在过去多年来也增加了其他目标，但主要还是要帮助神的百姓为复兴作好准备。我真希望你每一天跟着这些灵修指引来阅读和默想所指定的经文，不仅仅是在建立自己的属灵资源，也在预备自己不论在现在或将来，能够为别人作更深入和更有效的服事。谁知道你除了现在每天为基督所作的服事以外，将来是不是更能够帮助建立一些在复兴时认识了耶稣基督的人呢？
「人们需要被引进与神更深入的关系里」
进深研究
提后二1-15；来三13；罗十五1
1. 提摩太对于所听到的要采取甚么行动？
2. 他个人想要做些甚么？
祈祷
天父，能够见证复兴并参与其中，这是多么美妙的事。但无论我能否这么做，求您帮助我每天把从您那儿所得到知识传扬出去。奉耶稣的名祈求，阿们。
Heaven-Sent Revival
Getting ready for revival
Bible reading:
Hebrews 10:19-25
19 Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,
20 by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body,
21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God,
22 let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.
23 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.
24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds,
25 not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
Message
We spend a final day reflecting on the argument that the emotions kindled in revival are counter-productive to an effective Christian life. The answer, as we have seen, is that this can be so - but it need not be. When sound Christian teaching is available to channel the emotion seen in times of revival into productive purposes, then the sky's the limit.
Many who witnessed the 1904 Welsh revival say that it could have continued longer and made an even greater spiritual impact if there had been more teachers to lead the people into the deeper things of God. When I first learned this (just after becoming a Christian in my mid-teens), I immediately committed my life to doing everything I could to ensure that future revivals would not suffer for lack of teaching resources.
In 1965 I founded the Crusade for World Revival (now called CWR) with the primary objective of encouraging people to pray for both personal and corporate revival and deepen their understanding of the Word of God. Other objectives have been added to these over the years, but the primary goal is still that of helping God's people prepare for revival. I like to think that day by day as you follow these meditations and read the set Scriptures, you are not only building up your own spiritual resources but preparing yourself for a deeper and more effective ministry to others - now and in the future. Who knows but that in addition to your present and daily ministry for Christ you may have a part in establishing someone who has come to know Him in a time of revival?
"People need to be led into the deeper things of God"
Prayer
O Father, how wonderful it would be to witness a revival - and have a part in it. But whether I will or not, help me take the knowledge I gain from You day by day - and pass it on. In Jesus' Name I ask it. Amen.
Further study
2 Timothy 2:1-15
Hebrews 3:13
Romans 15:1
1. What was Timothy to do with the things he heard?
2. What was he to do personally?
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