你跟我,极其需要圣灵的大能,在我们生命中得到彰显,需要圣灵在我们生命动工。我们需要恒切的恳求上帝来注入更大的能力。我们缺少的是去把福音传遍万邦万国。我们不能用企画使这成为现实;我们所有的恩赐,所有的能力,所有的口才,所有的策略都不能够成就。但是圣灵能。

保罗·华许 – 圣灵的能力必不可少

你跟我,极其需要圣灵的大能
在我们生命中得到彰显,
需要圣灵在我们生命动工,
我们需要恒切的恳求上帝来注入更大的能力。
恒切的恳求,在我们生命中,在教会中
涌流出圣灵更大的浇灌。
我们所要做的不是依靠我们自己就能够完成的——你明白吗?
我们无法完成!
这伟大的传道工作。
我们缺少的是去把福音传遍万邦万国。
这不是我们所能完成的!
我们不能用企画使这成为现实!
我们无法使这事发生。
我们所有的恩赐,所有的能力,所有的口才,
所有的策略都不能够成就
一切在这个世界中所需要成就的。
但是圣灵能。
圣灵的大能。
我相信这段经文是在告诉我们,需要每时
每刻向上帝呼求,让他的能力在我们的生命中有越来越多的彰显。
但你要知道,圣灵最大的彰显会与我们的品德有关,
跟圣灵在我们生命中所结的的果子有关。
还有圣灵的大能在传道的工作中。
不是在教会中制造混乱或把耶稣基督的教会转弄成疯人马戏团。
而是使教会成为耶稣基督的见证人,
并把福音带向万邦万国。
这是我们不可缺少的。
年轻人,作为一个传道人,你们最大的需要
是能够与上帝独处,把你自己浸泡在他的话语中,
要去学习他的话语,要去学习那些在你以先
有被上帝大大使用过的信心之人。
你还有一个大的需要,就是
一次又一次地去呼求圣灵在你生命中的
流露和其大能的彰显,你才能事奉。
这是你必不可缺少的。
要有更多的,越来越多的…
当我年轻时,我曾一次又一次地去呼求,
“哦上帝!让你的圣灵涌流到我的生命中,
这样我才可能去讲道。”
我还记得在德州奥斯汀的街道外面讲道,
我毫无能力,毫无勇气,也没有力量。
回到家就感到被打败了,最后我就把圣经放到床上说,
“无论在这本书写的是什么,都不在我生命中!”
感谢上帝,那天晚上有一个人来到我家,给了我很多的书。
实际上,是一个白天,给了我很多的书。
乔治慕勒(George Muller),雷欧纳
(Leonard Ravenhill),还有其它。
我开始去读,然后说,
“这些人所说的是:上帝愿意使用最软弱的器皿去成就伟大的工作。”
当我看所有这些人时,我可以清晰地看到,
这是靠圣灵的大能所成就的。
然后我就一个月又一个月地一直呼求,
“哦上帝,哦上帝,让我你的圣灵充满我!加给我力量!在我身上做工!”
“所以我站立起时,我才能讲道!”
他会为你成就这事。
他会为你这样做。
圣灵不是能让你的传道工作好一点点的特殊功能。
圣灵是必不可少的!

Paul Washer – The Power of the Holy Spirit is Essential

You and I, always stand in great need of the power of the Holy Spirit in our life, the working of the Holy Spirit in our life and we should constantly be crying out to God for greater and greater infusions of His power and greater and greater outpourings of the Holy Spirit. Constantly, in our lives and in the church. Listen, what we have to do cannot be done by us – don’t you understand that? It cannot be done! The great missionary endeavor. What still lacks in taking the Gospel to the nations. It cannot be done by us! We cannot organize it into happening! We cannot make it happen. All our gifts, all our power, all our eloquence, all our strategies cannot achieve anything in what has to be done in this world. But the Holy Spirit can. The power of the Holy Spirit.

And we should constantly, and I believe this text is telling us. Constantly be crying out to God for greater and greater manifestations of His power in our life. Know this, some of the greatest manifestations have to do with character and the fruit of the Holy Spirit in our life. And the power of the Holy Spirit in ministry; NOT to create confusion in the church and turn the Church of Jesus Christ into a lunatic circus. But empower the church to be a witness for Jesus Christ and take the Gospel to the nations. We must have that. You greatest need young man, as a preacher, is to be alone with God, to shut yourself up in His Word, to study His Word, to study men of the faith who have gone on before you and been mightily used of God. But you other great need is this: to cry out and cry out for the outpouring and the power of the Holy Spirit on your life so that you might minister. You must have this.

More and more and more… When I was a young man, I would cry out and cry out and cry out, “O God pour out Your Spirit on my life that I might be able to preach.” I can remember going outside street preaching in Austin, Texas, and I had no power, no boldness, no strength. Coming home defeated and finally just putting my Bible on the bed and saying, “Whatever is in this book’s not in my life!” And then, Praise God, someone came to me one night with a bunch of books. Actually, one day with a bunch of books. Things from George Muller, from Leonard Ravenhill… so many others. I began to look and say, “These men are talking about God’s Willingness to do great and mighty through the weakest vessel.” But I can see clear, as I look through all these men, that it is done in the power of the Holy Spirit. And just to cry out for months and months and months, “O God, O God, pour out Your Spirit! Strengthen me! Do a work!” “So when I would stand up I preach!” He will do that for you. He will do that for you. And it is not some special thing that might make your ministry a little bit better. It is absolutely essential!

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。

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