神藉著禱告塑造世界

神藉著禱告塑造世界

God shapes the world by prayer
作者：馬強盛／顏美娟夫婦
純正福音和復興網站
www.repent-pray-revival.org 
2022/4/24

帖撒羅尼迦前書 5:16-18
16 要常常喜樂，
17 不住地禱告，
18 凡事謝恩，因為這是神在基督耶穌裡向你們所定的旨意。

「神藉著禱告塑造世界。」 －愛德華·麥肯德里·邦茲
“God shapes the world by prayer.”  －E.M. Bounds

「神除了回應相信的禱告外，什麼也不做。」 －約翰衛斯理
“God does nothing except in response to believing prayer.” — John Wesley

“God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces of against evil .”  －E.M. Bounds

「禱告不僅改變事情，禱告也會改變世人。」－雷歐納(Leonard Ravenhill)
“Prayer not only changes things; prayer changes people.” –Leonard Ravenhill

「我藉著神和禱告改變人心。」－戴德生
“I turn the heart of men through God by prayer.”  －Hudson Taylor

「永遠不要忘記，全能神主宰著這個世界。他不是一個缺席的神。神的手一直都在掌控世事。」 －愛德華·麥肯德里·邦茲
“It must never be forgotten that Almighty God rules this world.  He is not an absentee God.  His hand is ever on the throttle of human affairs. －E.M. Bounds

「若不禱告，我們就無法為神成就任何事情。凡事都可以藉著迫切的禱告來成就，這就是耶穌基督的教導。」  －邦茲 (E.M. Bounds)
“We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. That is the teaching of Jesus Christ.”   －E. M. Bounds

Will God really answer prayer? 

“Our Lord in His teaching regarding prayer never once referred to unanswered prayer: Jesus said God always answers prayer.”  －Oswald Chambers

「禱告是世上最強大的力量，因為禱告尊榮神，禱告使神主動來幫助我們。」－愛德華•麥克肯德瑞•邦茲(E.M. Bounds)
“Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings Him into active aid.”  －E.M. Bounds

“There meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God, not of the answer.”  －Oswald Chambers

“We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we get to know God Himself.”  －Oswald Chambers

“Prayer is the answer to every problem there is.”  －Oswald Chambers

“How God works in answer to prayer is a mystery that logic cannot penetrate, but that He does work in answer to prayer is gloriously true.”  －Oswald Chambers

“Prayer fills man’s emptiness with God’s fullness.  Prayer puts away man’s poverty with God’s riches.  Prayer eliminates man’s weakness with God’s strength.  Prayer banished man’s littleness with God’s greatness.”  －E. M. Bounds

“Every Minister ought to know that if the prayer meetings are neglected, all his labors are in vain."   -Charles Finney.

“The price of prayerlessness far exceeds the price of prayer.”  －Anonymous

“We may call prayerlessness is neglect, lack of spiritual appetite, or loss of vision.”   －Leonard Ravenhill

“By a strange paradox those who pray most, feel they pray little." －Leonard Ravenhill

“Prayer is a 2-way operation-man talking to God and God talking to man. To many, prayer is dry because they do all the talking.” －Leonard Ravenhill

“Our biggest victories are won by fasting and kneeling in prayer.”  －Julio C. Ruibal

Matthew 9:15 (KJV) “And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.”

Psalm 55:17  “Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and He shall hear my voice.”

“There are two great reasons why we don’t have revival.  One, we’re content to live without it. Two, it’s too costly. We don’t want God to disrupt or status quo. ” Leonard Ravenhill

“All of the people who have been converted have been saved in answer to prayer. Every saint in glory is there in answer to somebody’s prayer. On the other hand, all who have missed heaven have missed it through the neglect of prayer, and have gone down to the regions of eternal death from lack of prayer.  The powers of darkness are felt everywhere from lack of prayer. The devil has paralyzed to a great extent the church from lack of prayer.   -S. B. Shaw