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第四十六课 - 属灵的争战(四)- 争战的祷告

 (取自布马可著《得胜的祷告》(The Adversary - The Christian Versus Demon Activity),中文版,译者:葛庆元,张铭章,中国主日学协会,2008年七月版)

 复兴的祷告

 

    「天父啊!我赞美你的名,因为你借着主耶稣基督,赐给我恩典,为我预备得胜的生活,使我克服失败和罪恶,我实在欢喜快乐。如今在你面前,我承认自己的罪恶、别人的罪恶和我们国家的罪恶,求上帝大施怜悯,我愿在你面前,承认自己的罪恶、别人的罪恶和我们国家的罪恶:求上帝大施怜悯,我愿在你面前,承认我们信徒的不冷不热,和沾染世俗的罪;同时也承认我们社会的邪恶,应受上帝的审判。在娱乐界里有毒品的流行、醉酒和道德的败坏,犯罪的事日增,缺乏道德的标准。求上帝赦免宗教界自由主义的罪,也赦免基要派彼此严厉的批评和磨擦。

    我为那些邪恶和欺诈的人对邪灵活动日感兴趣而哀恸。求上帝不要用审判所多玛的烈怒来对付我们。只倾出一种大能,使人为罪自责,愿罪人因罪的重担哀声叹息,好像在五旬节的情形一般,直等到他们呼喊:『我们当怎样行?』

    赞美上帝的圣名,籍着主耶稣基督和他的工作,你有足够的恩典,垂听我们的呼求。求你用十字架上的宝血,与复活的能力,对付人心中的罪恶和悖逆,我愿等候圣灵的带领,一直到复兴。

    我深知撒但和幽暗权势,正以残酷的手段,来策画各种计谋以阻止教会复兴,它已经缜密的建立起它的国度,反对一切圣洁和良善的人。

    靠主耶稣基督的名,我要攻破撒但为拦阻复兴所建立的坚固营垒,求上帝使用主耶稣基督十字架上的得胜和复活,直接抵挡撒但拦阻教会复兴的计划。我要打倒撒但借着宗教上的外表,使许多人受捆绑及眼瞎,以及借着不愿祷告和不注重上帝的话使人软弱无力等等。我要为主耶稣基督夺回撒但为阻止教会复兴所占领的地盘,凭着耶稣基督的十字架和复活,我确信,撒但的计划已经完全被粉粹,我要毁坏撒但在复兴来临所做移转的企图。我呼求圣灵将智慧和分辨的灵,浇灌在你所拣选带领教会复兴的领袖们身上,愿这次复兴的程度比以前更大,能够洁净教会,预备迎接主的再临,并使普天下的人都归向主。

    慈爱的主耶稣基督,你劝我们来买为复兴教会所需要的东西,求你赐给我们火炼的金子,当你活在我们手里面时,使我们穿上洁净的白衣,用圣灵的眼药涂抹我们,使我们能看见属灵的真理,固守真道,并做实际的运用。慈悲的救主,我愿敞开心门,让你做我心中的主,求你再一次更新你的教会,并做教会的主。使我们所有人,都能与主相交,更进主的爱里。我的祈求和赞美,都是靠主耶稣基督的功劳,阿们!」

Revival Prayer

    Heavenly Father, I praise Your name for the grace that has come to me through the Lord Jesus Christ. I rejoice in the victory which You have provided for me to live above sin and failure. I come before You in confession and to plead Your mercy over my own sins, the sins of other believers, and the sins of our nation. Our nation stands before You, deserving Your wrath and judgment. I confess the sins of lukewarmness, apathy, and worldliness on the part of believers. I acknowledge before You the wickedness of our society and its deserving of judgment. I stand in to confess the awful affront to You which is represented in the drug epidemic, the drunkenness, the moral rottenness in the entertainment field, the crime increases of our land, and the lack of moral character in national leadership. I ask forgiveness and mercy for the religious sins of liberalism and the too-often harsh, bitter criticism and contentious spirit of fundamentalism. I grieve with You over the awful rise of interest in the occult and the open worship of Satan by wicked, deceived people. May You judge not this nation with wrath and fury as upon Sodom, but judge it with a mighty outpouring of conviction of sin.

    May sinners groan under the burden of their guilt until the people cry out as did those at Pentecost, “What shall we do?”

    I praise Your holy name that there is sufficient measure of grace through the Person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ to answer this cry. I plead the blood of the cross and the power of the resurrection against the wretched sins and rebellion of the hearts of men against God. I wait for the Holy Spirit to lead and prepare and bring us all to revival.

    I recognize that Satan and the kingdom of darkness over which he rules have plotted and strategized against revival with relentless effort. Satan has built carefully his kingdom to oppose all that is holy and good.

    In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I smash and pull down all of the strongholds that Satan has erected to hinder revival. I pray the focus of the mighty victory of the cross and the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ directly against Satan's plans to hinder revival. I pull down his strongholds of religious loyalties that blind and bind so many. I pull down his strongholds of prayerlessness and carelessness with the Word of God. I claim back for the Lord Jesus Christ the ground Satan is claiming as a means of hindering revival, and I affirm that Satan's plans were fully defeated through the cross and the resurrection of Jesus Christ. I pull down all of Satan's plans to divert revival when it comes. I call for the Holy Spirit to grant wisdom and discernment to the leaders of revival chosen by You to lead. May this revival for which I pray be greater than any that has ever come before. May it serve to purify the church and prepare it for the coming of our Lord. May it bring multitudes into the fold all over the world. Loving Lord Jesus Christ, You invited us to come and buy of You that which we need for revival. Give us the gold tried in the fires of testing brought by Your sovereign power. Give us the white raiment of Your purity as You live Your life in us. Grant us the eyesalve of the Holy Spirit's anointing to see spiritual truth, to retain it, and to apply it in practice. I open the door to Your Lordship, dear Saviour. I invite You to come in to me personally and into Your church with a fresh visit and to be the sovereign Lord You are, that we all might fellowship with you in the deepness of Your love. I ask this all and bring it before You with praise in the merit and worthiness of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.