第四十周 权柄
“天上地下所有的权柄，都赐给我了。”（太28:18）
“我已经给你们权柄，可以……胜过仇敌一切的能力。”（路10:19）
诗：神在“人”里得荣耀，“人”已在神右边坐；
祂会顺服走前路，现登全权的宝座。
为着发展工作，若偏重干庞大的组织与安排，以致多依靠人时，就还未认识“不依赖世人”这话中神所给人的祝福，我若对神有信心，我就照着信心的力量进行，神的灵是不受人之束缚的，所有的权能，都是由于圣灵在个人身上有直接的托付而产生的。
我们该有绝不妥协的刚强，并要加工稳静。心灵里恩典的感觉，乃是稳静之源。这样的刚强与稳静，是能力的表记，也是与谦卑连在一起的，自己感觉一无所有，而又加上平安的灵，就有力量制胜一切。
常常使我心里挂念的，是工作方面质的问题，我没有作别的事，我单作主的工，但要紧的是有里面的能力，有那完全献给基督的心，以得着祂里面丰满的大能，我们的心对于主的思想，目的，并主自己，该是绝对合一的，其中不该有一点的挡阻。从主那里来的感觉所生产的信托和信息，与从我自己来的感觉是何等的不同！
只有基督自己才是你们的能力──基督的能力复庇我们，你们在软弱中得着祂自己作你们的能力，藉此走过这世界。
在祷告中若深信神是我们的，力量就运行出来。
要紧的，是我们要被带到尽头。我们所有的工作，都受我们属灵光景的影响，人若有一个充满基督的心，且有严肃的态度，来对待灵魂与永世关系的事（有充满基督的心，不有这个严肃的态度）他一为主说话，就必带着力量和恩膏。
除非在我们身上彰显主的能力，来胜过一切的阻挡，甚至胜过死亡，我们就不能成为基督一封完全的书信，死亡是操纵在我们手中的，当信徒活在基督生命的大能里，就有绝对胜过死亡的权势。我们不要注重罪孽，也不要惧怕仇敌，因为我们的主是得胜的；祂实在已经得胜，并且正在带领我们进入完满的福乐，在那时，仇敌要全被捆绑。我们必须勇往直前，坚信权能是属于主也是在主的手中。
我们在每一个景况下，到主所安排我们去的地方，就要得着祂宝贵的祝福。没有祂，我们不能作什么。当神照着祂的恩典作工时，我们若能作祂的器皿，表明祂的权能和良善，这是多么快乐呢！我们的心灵若操练到一个地步，即使在工作各种难处的包围中，还以有向着神去，就在任何带我们到神那里去的事情，都是我们的祝福。在基督里有大能，在基督里有满足，一切够你们使用为祂工作，为祂生活。
FORTIETH WEEK POWER
“All power is given unto me.” Matthew 28:18
“Behold, I give unto you power … over all the power of the enemy.” Luke 10:19
God has been glorified in Man;
Man sits at God’s right hand:
Obedient in the race He ran,
Can now all power command.
When there are great arrangements for carrying on work, there is not the recognition of this inherent blessing, which “tarrieth not for the sons of men.” I do not tarry for men if I have faith in God, and act upon the strength of that. Let a man act as the Lord leads him. The Spirit of God is not to be fettered by man. All power arises from the direct authoritative energy of the Holy Ghost in the individual.
Uncompromising firmness becomes us, yet calmness, and nothing keeps the soul so calm as a sense of grace. This is a sign of power, and moreover connected with humbleness. … A sense of nothingness, with the spirit of peace gives a power to surmount all things.
It is not the quantity but the quality of my labour which ever troubles me. I do nothing else, and labour … without stint, but it is inward power, abstraction of heart to Christ, so as to come from the fulness of power in Him, and have nothing there which hinders absolute association of mind with His thoughts and purposes—Himself. … It is a different thing coming in the consciousness that we come from Him, as in His confidence, and having His message.
It is Christ Himself that becomes your power—the power of Christ resting upon you. His power you get in your weakness as your power to walk through this world.
In prayer God is ours, power is put in motion.
It is all important for us to get to the end of ourselves. … All our work feels the effect of our state, and a heart full of Christ and the seriousness of dealing with souls for eternity, which we feel when full of Him, and speaking from Him, gives weight and unction to it.
We cannot be the full epistle of Christ unless we exhibit power over all obstacles—even over death. Death is given us. The believer living in the power of Christ’s life has entire power over death.
We are not to be occupied with evil, or be in any way terrified with the adversary, as if the Lord had not the upper hand. He has overcome and is leading on to a full blessing, when the enemy will be bound. We must go on in the confidence that power belongs to Him and is in His hands
In every case it is where God would have us to be that we find His precious blessing. Without Him we can do nothing. When He works in His grace, how happy one is to be the instrument of His power and goodness! The exercises of our hearts even, in the difficulties of the work, lead us to Him, and everything that does this is in blessing for us.
There is power in Christ, there is sufficiency in Christ for all He would have you to do or be.