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在灵裡敬拜主

　　经文: 「因为真受割礼的，乃是我们这以上帝的灵敬拜，在基督耶稣裡夸口，不靠着肉体的。」（腓立比书三：3）

　　以上的经文可以作为我们祷告的开始，我们求圣灵来引导，来激发我们祷告的灵，然后再进入祷告。

　　首先，我们感谢天父赐给我们各样的福份，我们承认我们的软弱无助，我们信赖上帝的爱与眷顾，我们安静等候在祂的面前，直到心中满有祂同在的确据，知道祂看到我们，也听到我们的祈求，然后我们再求祂的恩典保守我们在祂的爱中，因为离了祂我们就不能做什麽。我们仰望祂，尊主为大，知道我们的生命气息，动作存留都在乎祂，祂是众光之父，一切生命的源头，我们将自己完全交託在祂广阔无边的大爱裡，且享受祂同在的甘甜。

　　最后，我们在求圣灵引导之馀，我们继续求圣灵强化我们的信心，让三位一体的真神，能将各样的能力与恩赐赏赐给我们，并按着我们所需要的，丰丰足足藉着运行在我们裡面的大能大力，供应我们一切需用的。

　　我们要了解的是：要在灵裡事奉主。必须荣耀耶稣基督，不可为肉体夸口。是的，在我裡面毫无良善可言，惟有依靠耶稣，并藉着裡面圣灵的帮助得以成全。让我们花时间思想这节经文，细细咀嚼，以瞭解其真意。假如我们能常在上帝面前默念圣灵的果子，并求上帝赏赐这些圣德给我们，我们的信心就会逐日加增。若我们完全将自己交託给天父，我们就可凭信心大胆地接受圣灵在我们心中的运行动工，知道上帝必亲自成全祂的善工在我们身上。　

　　WORSHIP GOD IN SPIRIT

　　Scripture: "We are the circumcision, which worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh." —PHIL. iii. 3.

　　The foregoing remarks serve as preparatory to the prayer itself. We have come to the Father with the prayer for the Holy Spirit. We have invoked the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Now we begin to pray.

　　First, we pray to God the Father, thanking Him for all the blessings of this life. We acknowledge our entire dependence and impotence, and express our trust in His love and care for us. We wait before Him until we have the assurance that He sees and hears us. Then we direct our prayer to the Lord Jesus, and ask for grace to abide in Him always, for without Him we can do nothing. We look to Him as our Lord, our Preserver, our Life, and give ourselves into His keeping for the day. We give utterance to our faith in His infinite love, and the reality of His pres?ence with us.

　　Lastly, we pray to the Holy Spirit. We have already prayed to Him for guidance. We now ask Him to strengthen us in the faith, that what we have asked of the Father and the Son may be truly wrought in us. He is the Dispenser of the power and gifts of the Father and of the Lord Jesus; all the grace we need must be the result of the working of the Spirit within us.

　　Our text says: "We serve God in the Spirit, we glory in the Lord Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh." We have no power to do the thing that is good. We count on the Lord Jesus, through the Holy Spirit, to work within us. Let us take time to think and meditate on these things. It will help to strengthen our faith if we repeat the text of Gal. v. 22, asking God to grant these fruits in our lives. As we surrender ourselves wholly, we shall have boldness by faith to accept the working of the Holy Spirit in our hearts.