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经文: 在圣灵里祷告。（犹大书：20）
请看真正祷告的伟大特征──在圣灵里。只有从上帝而来的祷告能回到上帝。祂写在我们心中的意愿能感动祂的心，并带给我们祝福，但是肉体的愿望对祂却起不了作用。在圣灵里祷告的意思，就是热切地祈祷。冷淡的祈祷，其实并不要求主垂听。没有热切祈求，实际上就等于没有祈求。不冷不热的火，就像不冷热的祷告──原本是应该非常炽热的。在圣灵里祷告的，就是坚定地祈求。当上帝延缓应允时，真正的恳求者在祈祷中会更集中力量，并且越来越热切。大门关闭越久，敲门者的敲击就越猛烈。在上帝的眼中，流泪的、痛苦的、不屈不挠的祈祷是美丽的。在圣灵里祷告的意思是谦卑地祈祷，因为圣灵从不会让我们骄傲夸口。祂的工作是让我们知罪。让我们在悔罪中俯伏，并在灵里破碎。在圣灵里祷告也是爱的祷告。祈祷里应当充满香气和爱──对众圣徒的爱。在圣灵里祷告也必须是充满信心的祈祷。人只有坚定所信时，才会打胜战。圣灵是信心之父，也是信心的坚固者，所以我们可以因信上帝的应许而祈求。但愿这超越恩典的多重祝福在我们内心发出馨香之气，因为圣灵住在我们心中！
Evening, October 8
Scripture: “Praying in the Holy Ghost.”(Jude 20)
Mark the grand characteristic of true prayer－“In the Holy Ghost.” The seed of acceptable devotion must come from heaven’s storehouse. Only the prayer which comes from God can go to God. We must shoot the Lord’s arrows back to him. That desire which he writes upon our heart will move his heart and bring down a blessing, but the desires of the flesh have no power with him.
Praying in the Holy Ghost is praying in fervency. Cold prayers ask the Lord not to hear them. Those who do not plead with fervency, plead not at all. As well speak of lukewarm fire as of lukewarm prayer－it is essential that it be red hot. It is praying perseveringly. The true suppliant gathers force as he proceeds, and grows more fervent when God delays to answer. The longer the gate is closed, the more vehemently does he use the knocker, and the longer the angel lingers the more resolved is he that he will never let him go without the blessing. Beautiful in God’s sight is tearful, agonizing, unconquerable importunity. It means praying humbly, for the Holy Spirit never puffs us up with pride. It is his office to convince of sin, and so to bow us down in contrition and brokenness of spirit. We shall never sing Gloria in excelsis except we pray to God De profundis: out of the depths must we cry, or we shall never behold glory in the highest. It is loving prayer. Prayer should be perfumed with love, saturated with love－love to our fellow saints, and love to Christ. Moreover, it must be a prayer full of faith. A man prevails only as he believes. The Holy Spirit is the author of faith, and strengthens it, so that we pray believing God’s promise. O that this blessed combination of excellent graces, priceless and sweet as the spices of the merchant, might be fragrant within us because the Holy Ghost is in our hearts! Most blessed Comforter, exert thy mighty power within us, helping our infirmities in prayer.
