没有什么，绝对没有什么，在你的生命中是你无法战胜的。只要藉着在祷告之间，竭力地祈求、相信，并支取神的应许。
保罗·华许 – 相信上帝的应许
你意识到有多少
关于敬虔的应许吗？
你知道有多少次
神应许说：“我会让你看见我，
你若寻求我，我会让你认识我。”
我打赌，
我不是一个喜欢打赌的人，
但我用我的一切所有来打赌，
有更多的应许，
圣经中有更多
有关
你在恩典上长进，
战胜罪恶，
被神使用，
践踏蛇，
以及其它一切能力的应许。
圣经里有足够的应许，
一个人若
为这些应许
一天祷告24个小时，
他要活
千万年才能得胜。
去支取神的应许，
你明白我说的话吗？
把神一切的应许，
所有你能找到的
在旧约和新约里的应许，
都写下来，
那些关于敬虔的应许，
关于神与你同在的应许，
关于神帮助你的应许，
关于神使软弱的人坚壮的应许，
关于神向人显明自己的应许，
关于神施展大能的应许，
你都记下来，
为这些应许竭力地祈祷，
你一生一世都要如此。
你若为这些应许祈求，
就会得着！
你若寻求这些应许，
就会寻见！
你若叩这些应许之门，
它就给你开门；
但问题在于，
我们想要应许以外的事物，
我们想要一个舒适的生活，
我们想去侍奉，
我们想去做各种各样的事，
神却有其它安排，
更高的安排，
更大的安排：
让你效法
他儿子的模样，
然后把你看为珍宝一样使用，
作为一个焦点，
作为一个例子，
来显明他的美善，
来永远看顾你，
给你彰显
越来越大的
神的慈爱。
他对你有何等大的安排，
你对自己的安排是多么微薄、可怜。
年轻人，去寻找这些应许，
跪下来，
直到你支取了神的应许；
这些应许要一个一个支取，
要竭力地为此祈祷，
向神呼求。
“神啊，你说过我寻求你就能找到你，
你有说过，
我要寻求你，
我来寻求你。”
要有忍耐，
竭力地祈祷，
心存圣洁，坦然无惧地祈祷。
我们这些知道的人
是多么胆小，
是多么害怕，
多么容易忘记这些事。
大概在三个星期前，
我为某事竭力地祈求
很多年了，
似乎
在我生命中的那方面
并没有长进。
有一天晚上，凌晨一点钟，
我醒来了，
你知道吗？
年长的人，请听我说，
你真的不需要去学别的，
你需要去记住
你所忘记的。
我就这样
起来，
出门，
在挣扎，
在呼喊，
在呼求主，
直到他让我战胜这个罪。
第二天早上，来了一个年轻人，
我想帮助他，他说：
“保罗弟兄，今天早上你看上去有点糟糕，
你昨晚没睡够。”
我引用基思格林的话回答：
“痛苦祈祷的一个不眠之夜，
我战胜了罪。
在神的圣战中，这次征战，
神答应让我得胜。”
有很多阻挡你的力量，
如同地上的迦南人，
要把他们赶出去！
拿着神的应许，
把他们赶出去。
“保罗弟兄，我无法战胜这个罪。”
去禁食祷告，
把它赶出来，
紧紧抓住恩典，
去支取这些应许。
要厌倦这个罪，
问题是你刚开始厌倦这个罪，
过段时间，你开始
能够忍受这个罪，
再过段时间，这个罪成为了
你生命中的一部分。
年轻人，
战士
和彻底的基督徒
不是那些
听现代（基督教）音乐，
而且穿的衬衫后面有经文的人；
他不一定是那些
每家每户敲门传福音的人。
你给我一个
拿着神的应许，
在黑暗中，在身旁无人时，
会跪下来以这些应许征战的人。
其它一切都会按部就班。
没有什么，
绝对没有什么
在你的生命中
是你无法战胜的，
只要藉着在祷告之间
竭力地祈求，
相信
并支取神的应许。
Paul Washer – Believe the Promises of God
Do you have any idea how many promises
for godliness there are?
Do you have idea how many promises
where God says, “I will let you see me,”
“I will let you know me if you seek me.”
I would [bet]
–I’m not a wagering man–
but I’d bet everything I have
that there are more promises,
there are more promises in the Bible
with regard
to you growing in grace,
and overcoming sin,
and being used of God,
and trampling on serpents,
and every other sort of thing.
There are enough promises there,
that if a man
were to pray only over
those promises twenty-four hours a day
he would have to live
ten-thousand lifetimes to win them.
To avail himself of them.
Do you understand what I’m saying!
Take all the promises of God,
all of them that you find,
Old Testament, New Testament.
Write them down.
The ones that talk about godliness,
and God being with you,
and God helping you,
and God strengthening the weak,
and God showing Himself to men,
and God doing mighty things,
and you get down
and you wrestle with them
all the days of your life.
And if you ask about those promises,
you will receive!
If you seek those promises,
you will find!
And if you knock on the door of those promises,
it will be opened to you.
But the problem is
we want other things than the promises.
We want a comfortable life.
We want to be able to minister.
We want all sorts of things.
God has other plans.
Higher plans.
Greater plans.
To make you conformed
to the image of His Son.
And then to use you as a treasure,
as a focal point,
as an illustration
of just how good He is.
To take you throughout all of eternity
and lavish upon you
greater and greater demonstrations
of His goodness.
He has such plans for you.
You have such meager, pitiful plans for yourself.
Young men, find those promises.
Get down on your knees
until you’ve availed yourself of them.
Take them one at a time;
wrestle with them.
Cry out to God.
“God you said if I seek you I’d find you.”
“You said that.”
“I seek you.”
“I seek you.”
And persevere,
wrestle,
with a holy boldness.
Such timid men.
Such timid men.
How easy we forget
–those of us who know.
About three weeks ago
– I’d been wrestling with something
for many, many years–
Just not seeming
to make much progress
in that area of my life.
Then one night about one in the morning
I woke up.
And you know what,
older men listen to me.
You really don’t need to learn anything else.
What you need to do is remember
what you’ve forgotten.
And it was like,
get up,
go out,
and struggle,
and scream,
and cry out to the Lord
until He gives you victory over this thing.
Next morning a young man
that I was wanting to help, he said,
“Brother Paul, your looking kinda bad this morning.”
“You didn’t get much sleep last night.”
And I said in the words of Keith Green,
“When sleepless night of anguish prayer
I triumphed over sin.
One battle in God’s holy war
He promised me to win.”
There’s so many things that pick at you
like those Canaanites in the land.
Drive them out!
Take God’s promises
and drive them out.
“Brother Paul, I have this one sin I can’t overcome.”
Then fast and pray
and drive it out.
Grab a hold of grace.
Avail yourself of promises.
Be sick of the thing.
The problem is at first your sick of the thing,
and then you begin to
be able to live with the thing.
And then the thing becomes
a part of your life.
Young men.
Warriors,
and radical Christians
aren’t those who
listen to contemporary music
and wear t-shirts with verses on the back.
And it’s not necessarily those
who hit the streets going door to door.
You give me one man
who will take the promises of God
and fight through them on his knees
in the darkness when no one else is around.
Everything else will fall in place.
There is nothing,
there is absolutely nothing
in your life
that cannot be overcome,
through wrestling
in prayer,
and believing,
and availing yourself of the promises of God.
Paul Washer’s Bio
保罗-大卫-华许（Paul David Washer，1961年出生），美国新教基督教传道人，加尔文主义神学，隶属于南方浸信会。
保罗华许在德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校学习成为一名石油和天然气律师时皈依了基督教。他搬到秘鲁，在那里当了10年传教士。 1988年，在秘鲁期间，Washer 成立了 HeartCry 传教协会，以支持土著传教士向本民族文化的人作见证。Washer 后来回到美国，自2010年起居住在弗吉尼亚州的拉德福德，继续担任 HeartCry 的传教主任。
