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標  題: How To Win Your Unsaved Loved Ones (3)
發信站: 信望愛團契電子佈告欄 (Mon Oct  2 13:12:39 1995)
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  $$  The Role of Prayer ........

      One thing you can do is intercede on their behalf.

      Often when we pray for unsaved loved ones, we cry or pray in the spirit.
  We're more or less trying to do it ourselves in the flesh. We're trying to 
  make God do something. We're trying to force something to come to pass.

      Actually, what we need to do is study the Word and depend upon and
  trust in the Spirit of God to do it. Put the Word first. No prayer life is 
  going to be successful if it's not based on the Word of God. 

      Realize that getting the answer may depend on you. The manifestation
  can come faster if the Word of God is strongly rooted in you. The Bible
  says, " ...faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God" (Rom.
  10:17). In other words, your faith is stronger if you have a lot of the 
  Word in you.

      That's the reason I don't even pray about some things for several days
  until I have examined the Word carefully on the subject. (Emergegencies are 
  different.) If the situation has been there years and hasn't changed, it's
  still going to be there in a few days, and you've got time to study what 
  the Word has to say about it. Keep examining it. Keep mediating upon it.

      Sometimes I have gone for days mediating on just one thing. After three
  or four days, I've found that faith is so strong in me that I couldn't 
  doubt if I wanted to; the Word has built something into me.

      Jesus said in John 15:7. " If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you
  , ye shall ask ye will, and it shall be done unto you." You see, it's after 
  the Word of God gets into you that you're able to pray effectively.

      Because the Spirit of God knows who can be touched -- we don't -- He 
  may lead you to intercede for people you barely know instead of your 
  unsaved loved ones or friends.

      After a certain period of time you will find that the burden of prayer
  will be lifted, and a spirit of lightness will prevail. Sometimes people
  begin to laugh. Many times I have laughed or sung in the Spirit. Why ? When
  the burden lifts, that means the answer is assured, even though it hasn't 
  been manifested yet.