基督寓言：祷告的恒心

大家好，欢迎收听今天的《今日基督教》节目。

Hello and welcome to today's episode of Christianity Today.

我是约书亚·比杜。

My name is Joshua Bidu.

这是我《基督寓言》系列的第二集。

This is episode two of my series parables of Christ.

如果你错过了第一集，请记得去收听。

If you missed episode one, please do what to listen to it.

我会在描述区留下链接。

I'll leave a link in the description.

在第一集中，我讲述了耶稣为何用寓言教导。

In episode one, I spoke about why Jesus taught in parables.

阐明了寓言易于理解和记忆的事实。

Established the fact that parables are easy to understand and remember.

它们非常可靠且贴近生活，蕴含着帮助我们日常生活的宝贵经验。

They are very reliable and relatable and they carry valuable lessons that help us in our daily lives.

第一集讲述的是好撒玛利亚人的故事。

Episode one was about the Good Samaritan.

我们学到的其中一些道理是：应当对陌生人展现同情心，即使这意味着我们需要不辞辛劳。

Some of the lessons we learned were the fact that we should show compassion to strangers, even if it means going out of our way to do so.

我们还应该学会为他人利益做出某些牺牲。

And we should learn to sacrifice certain things for the benefits of others.

这些以及更多道理都是我们在第一集中学到的。

This and other lessons we learned in the first episode.

如果你想收听，我会在描述中留下链接。

So if you want to listen, I'll leave a link in the description.

所以如果你错过了，请务必收听。

So do want to listen if you missed it.

在本期节目中，我将讨论与坚持祷告相关的寓言。

So in this episode, I'll be talking about parables that relate to consistency in prayer.

分别是半夜朋友求援的比喻以及寡妇与不义法官的比喻。

The parable of the friend at midnight and the parable of the widow and the wicked judge.

你知道，祷告是成为基督徒后最先学习的基本功课，因为作为信徒，祷告是你日常生存的必需。

You know prayer is a very basic topic that you are taught when you become a Christian because prayer is a necessity for your daily survival as a believer.

所以当你重生得救后，就会学习祷告的相关教导，包括如何祷告等等。

So prayer once you become born again, are taught about prayer, you are taught how to pray and all that.

一旦学会了祷告方法，接下来就取决于信徒自己实践，建立个人的祷告生活。

So once you are taught how to pray, now it's left to the believer to execute, you know, to build a prayer life for himself.

而这正是问题所在。

And this is where the problem lies.

要知道，对信徒而言，要建立持续稳定的祷告生活，在起步阶段非常困难。

You know, building a sustainable prayer life is very difficult for believers to do once you you begin.

即便是重生多年的信徒，年复一年，他们中大多数仍未能建立祷告生活。

Even believers who have been born again for years, years upon years, most of them don't have a prayer life.

因此，信徒必须建立持之以恒的祷告生活，这对日常灵命至关重要。

So it is important for believers to build consistent prayer lives for their daily survival.

作为信徒，这能帮助我们与神建立亲密关系。

As believers, you know, helps us to develop a relationship with God.

祷告帮助我们理解上帝慈爱的本质。

Prayer helps us to gain an understanding of God's loving nature.

祷告为我们解答此生寻求的问题。

Prayer gives us answers to the questions we seek in this life.

祷告帮助我们找到人生的方向和目标。

Prayer helps us to find our direction and purpose in life.

祷告赐予我们抵御诱惑的力量。

Prayer gives us the strength to avoid temptation.

要知道，你需要培养抵制诱惑的能力，因为作为信徒，你总会面临试炼和诱惑。

You know, you need to build capacity to to avoid temptation because as long as you're a believer, you always face trials and temptations.

祷告同盟符合上帝的旨意。

Prayer alliance is in the will of God.

祷告同盟是为了践行上帝的旨意。

Prayer alliances to do God's will.

祷告与定期禁食也能帮助我们接纳上帝的旨意。

Prayer and regular fasting can also help us accept God's will.

祷告能带来医治、奇迹，改变我们的生活。

And prayer brings healing, miracles, transforms our life.

祷告还能邀请圣灵降临。

Prayer also invites the holy spirit.

祷告有诸多益处。

Prayer has so many benefits.

祷告好处多多。

Prayer has a lot of benefits.

但今天我们要探讨如何建立持之以恒的祷告生活。

But today we are going to look at building a consistent prayer life.

我们将通过耶稣讲述的这两个比喻，来学习如何建立持之以恒的祷告生活。

We are going to look at building a consistent prayer life using these two parables that Jesus taught.

首先，我要诵读两段经文中的比喻。

To begin, I'm going to read from the scriptures, two parables.

第一段出自路加福音11章5至13节，经文说：耶稣又对他们说，你们中间谁有一个朋友，半夜到他那里去说，朋友，请借给我三个饼，因为我有一个朋友行路来到我这里，我没有什么给他摆上。

The first one is Luke eleven, five to 13, which says, and he said unto them, which of you shall have a friend and shall go onto him at midnight and say unto him, friend, lend me three loaves for a friend of mine in his journey is come to me and I have nothing to set before them.

他必从里面回答说：'不要搅扰我，门已经关了，孩子们也同我在床上了。'

And he and he from within shall answer and say, trouble me not the door is now shut and my children are with me in bed.

我不能起来给你。

I cannot rise and give thee.

我告诉你们，虽不因他是朋友而起来给他，但因他情词迫切，就必起来照他所需用的给他。

I say unto you, though he will not rise and give him because he is his friend yet because of his opportunity, he will rise and give him as many as he need.

他所需用的。

He needs.

我又告诉你们：你们祈求，就必得着；寻找，就必寻见；叩门，就必开门。因为凡祈求的就得着，寻找的就寻见，叩门的就给他开门。

And I say unto you, ask and it shall be given unto you seek and he shall find knock and it shall be opened unto you for everyone that's asketh receiveth and he that seeketh find it and to him that's notketh it shall be opened.

你们中间作父亲的，谁有儿子求饼，反给他石头呢？求鱼，反拿蛇当鱼给他呢？求鸡蛋，反给他蝎子呢？

If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone or if he asks a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?

你们虽然不好，尚且知道拿好东西给儿女，何况天父，岂不更将圣灵赐给求他的人吗？

If he then being evil know how to give good gifts unto your children, How much more shall your heavenly father give the holy spirit to them that ask him.

这是耶稣讲的第一个比喻：有人因深夜来了访客，家中无物招待，就去邻居家借饼。当时正值半夜，邻居全家都已入睡，便让他离开。但这人坚持敲门，邻居为免持续被打扰，只得起身满足他的需求。

So this is the first parable where Jesus talks about a friend who went to his friend's place at midnight because he had visitors, he didn't have anything to offer them, so he went to his neighbor's place to ask for bread but they were asleep, it was at midnight, they were asleep, his children were asleep, so he told him to go away because you know everyone is asleep and he's disturbing him so the but the friend was persistent you know he kept knocking knocking so in order to get rid of him his neighbor had to just wake up and you know give him what he needs because if he doesn't, he'll just continue disturbing him and all that.

于是耶稣接着教导说，只要我们祈求，就必得着。

So Jesus follows it up with the lesson where he says that as long as we ask, we will receive.

只要我们寻找，就必寻见；只要我们叩门，门就必为我们开启。

And as long as we seek, we will find and as long as we knock, the door will be open unto us.

因此在祷告中坚持不懈很重要，我们应当恒切祷告。

So it is important that in prayer, we should not relent, we should always keep praying.

我们应当持续祷告，不断寻求，常常叩门。

We should always keep praying, we should always seek, and we should always knock.

第二段经文在路加福音18章1-8节，耶稣讲这个比喻是要人常常祷告不可灰心：某城有个不敬畏神也不尊重人的法官，那城里有个寡妇常来求他'为我伸冤'。

So the second scripture is in Luke chapter 18 verse one to eight and he spake a a parable unto them to this end that men ought always to pray and not to faint saying there was in a city a judge which feared not God neither regarded man and there was a widow in that city and she came unto him saying avenge me of my adversary.

他起初不肯。

And he would not offer a while.

后来他心里想：我虽不敬畏神也不尊重人，但因这寡妇烦扰我，我就给她伸冤吧，免得她常来缠磨我。

But afterward, he said within himself, though I fear not God, nor regard man, yet because this widow troubleeth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.

主说：你们听这不义之官所说的话。神的选民昼夜呼吁他，他纵然为他们忍耐，岂不终久给他们伸冤吗？

And the Lord said, hear what the unjust judge said and shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them.

我告诉你们，他必快快地为他们伸冤。

I tell you that he will avenge them speedily.

然而，人子来的时候，在世上能找到信心吗？

Nevertheless, when the son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?

这里有个女人带着案子去找法官，这法官既不敬畏神也不尊重人，但这女人坚持不懈地追着法官，她非常执着、非常坚定。最后法官终于让步，为她处理了案子，让她胜诉了。

So here's a woman who has a case goes to the judge and the judge because he doesn't fear God doesn't regard the woman but the woman kept pursuing the judge you know she was very persistent she was very consistent So the judge, you know, finally gave in and adjust the case for her, you know, and she won and all that.

你看，这就是坚持和恒心能带来的结果。

You know, that's what persistence and consistency can do.

作为基督徒，只有当你非常坚持、有意愿去认识神并让神成为你生活的一部分时，你才能建立起祷告生活。你需要持之以恒的祷告生活来实现这一点。

As Christians, you can only build a prayer life if you are very consistent, if you are intentional that you want to know God and you want God to be a part of your life, you need a consistent prayer life to do so.

所以接下来我要谈谈如何在祷告中保持恒心，或者说如何建立持之以恒的祷告生活。

So I'm going to talk about how to be consistent in prayer, or how we can build a consistent prayer life.

要知道，当你刚开始时，建立持续的祷告生活并非易事。

You know, building a constant prayer life is not an easy task when you want to begin.

好的。

Okay.

但当你能够开始并坚持到某个阶段后，对你来说就会变得非常容易。

But when you are able to start and then build it up to a certain point, then it becomes very easy for you.

这就像健身一样。

It's it's just like you know, fitness.

当你开始锻炼身体时，最初真的非常痛苦。

When you want to start building your body and you you actually start, you know, it's a real pain.

当你开始去健身房锻炼时，你的肌肉、整个身体都会酸痛不已。但当你达到某个水平后，你会发现疼痛不再像开始时那么剧烈了。祷告也是如此。

When you go to the, when you start going to the gym, you start your body, I mean, your muscles, your your whole body gets aching and all that but when you are able to build it to certain level, yeah, you understand that like the pain is not excruciating like when you started so in the same way that's how prayer is like.

刚开始时，你会觉得总是很疲惫。

At the beginning, it's so, you know, you feel so tired all the time.

当你祷告时，你会感到渴望。

When you are praying, you are yearning.

但所有这些都不应该让你气馁。

But all these things shouldn't discourage you.

好的。

Okay.

这反而应该激励你坚持不懈。

It should rather encourage you to be relentless.

好的，要持之以恒。

Okay, be relentless.

你必须不断努力。

You have to keep pushing.

然后当你达到某个阶段时，祷告对你来说会变得非常容易，甚至到了不祷告就不舒服的地步。

And then you get to a certain point, it becomes very easy for you to the point that when you don't pray, you you you are not okay.

明白吗？你的灵人总是渴望被充满能量。

Okay, your spirit man always wants to be charged and energized.

好的。

Okay.

这就是我想和你们分享的内容。

So that's what I want to talk to you about.

建立持之以恒的祷告生活。

Building a consistent prayer life.

第一步是请求上帝帮助你。

The first step to take is to ask God to help you.

因为说实话，如果上帝不帮你，如果上帝不帮你，你根本不可能挺过去。

Because honestly, if God doesn't help you, if God doesn't help you, there's no way you can be able to pull through.

你无法靠自己的力量做到。

You can't do it by your own strength.

你必须让圣灵来帮助你。

You have to let the holy spirit help you actually.

你必须请求他使你苏醒，因为他在约翰福音6:63中说，使人苏醒的是圣灵。

You have to ask him to quicken you because he says in John six thirty sixty three that it is the spirit that quickens.

肉体毫无益处。

The flesh profits nothing.

所以你不能靠肉体建立持续的祷告生活。

So you can't build a consistent prayer life by the flesh.

好的。

Okay.

你无法凭肉体建立持续的祷告生活。

You can't build a consistent prayer life with the flesh.

你需要神的灵来唤醒你。

You need the spirit of God to quicken you.

来唤醒你。

To quicken you.

如果你想靠肉体建立祷告生活，今天开始，明天就放弃，三天打鱼两天晒网，你的祷告会变得混乱无序。

If if you want to build it with your flesh, you start today, tomorrow, you won't three days time, you pray for a while, and then you are, it's going to be chaotic.

但当你寻求神的帮助时，相信我，他随时都准备好帮助你。

But when you ask for God's help, and trust me, he's always there to help you.

他会唤醒你的灵性生命。

He's going to quicken your spirit man.

好的，说到'唤醒'，让我用发电机打个比方。

Okay, when I say quicken, let me make an example with a generator.

就像发电机，你拉绳启动后，它转一会儿又停了。

Is it a generator when you pull the rope, it's it it starts and then stops.

你拉动绳子，它启动后又停下。

You pull the rope, it starts and then stop.

然后你再次拉动绳子，突然间，发动机或引擎启动，开始持续运转。

And then you pull the rope and then all of a sudden, you know, the motor or the engine picks up and then it starts running.

上帝的灵就是这样运作的。

That's how the spirit of God is.

当你开始祷告时，看起来像是凭肉体开始的。

When you start praying, okay, it's it's looks like you started in the flesh.

但当你持续不断地祷告、祷告、再祷告，突然间，你就像是在另一种能量上滑翔。

But when you continue and you keep doing praying, praying, praying, all of a sudden, it's like now you are gliding on a different energy.

那就是圣灵的能量。

That's the energy of the spirit.

因为现在你不再需要耗费太多力气。

Because now you are not using much energy anymore.

现在是圣灵在承载着你前行。

Now it is the spirit that is carrying you through.

好的，你知道圣经在罗马书中说，圣灵在我们的软弱中帮助我们。

Okay, you know that the Bible says in Romans that the spirit helps us in our weaknesses.

因为我们本不晓得当怎样祷告，但圣灵亲自用说不出来的叹息替我们祷告，所以你不能靠自己的力量完成，你需要神的灵来帮助你，需要神的灵来唤醒你，并且你需要祈求恩典。

For we know not what to pray as we ought but the spirit makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered so you can't do it by your own strength you need the spirit of God to help you in the spirit of God to quicken you And you need to pray for grace.

因为这非常重要，因为恩典你知道是神向不配的人所施的良善。

Because it is so important because grace you know is the goodness of God extended to the undeserving man.

有一种恩典是神赐给我们用来祷告的。

There there is grace that God releases for us to pray.

好的，你需要这种恩典来推动你建立祷告的生活。

Okay, and you need that kind of grace so that it will propel you to build a a prayer life.

圣经在希伯来书四章十六节说：所以我们只管坦然无惧地来到施恩的宝座前。

The Bible says in Hebrews four sixteen, let us therefore come boldly into the throne room of grace.

为要得怜恤，蒙恩惠，作随时的帮助。

That we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

所以我们需要坦然无惧地来到施恩的宝座前。

So we need to come boldly to the throne room of grace.

在那里我们获得怜悯。

Where we obtain mercy.

好的，我们获得怜悯并寻得恩典。

Okay, we obtain mercy and find grace.

这将在我们需要时帮助我们。

That will help us in our time of need.

好的，所以当你刚开始时非常非常重要，你必须迈出的第一步就是请求上帝帮助你。

Okay, so it is very very important when you are beginning, the first step you must take is to ask God to help you.

不要只是来了就以为开始用方言祷告就万事大吉了。

Don't just come and then you think you just start praying in tongues and everything is good.

你必须请求上帝帮助你。

You must ask God to help you.

你必须祈求恩典。

You must pray for grace.

来推动你，因为你不该把这看作短跑冲刺。

To propel you because you shouldn't look at it like a sprint.

好的，你应该把它视为一场马拉松。

Okay, you should look at it as a marathon.

好的，你应该把它视为一场马拉松。

Okay, you should look at it as a marathon.

相信我，上帝会帮助你，上帝会为你开路。

And trust me, God is going to help you, God is going to come through for you.

你必须要有决心。

You have to be intentional.

你必须对此非常非常坚定，并下定决心去做。

You have to be very very intentional about it and set your mind to do it.

要知道，当你下定决心做某事并让圣灵参与其中时，它会推动你达到连你自己都想象不到的高度。

You know, when you set your mind to do something and you attach the holy spirit to it, is going to propel you to new heights that even you couldn't imagine that you could reach that level.

第二点是你需要为它安排时间。

The second point is that you need to schedule it.

好的，你需要有决心，就像我之前说的，现在你需要做的是为它安排时间。

Okay, you need to be intentional, like I said previously, to right now what you have to do is to schedule it.

我们有手机，手机上有提醒功能，把它安排进去。

We have phones, you have reminders on your phone, schedule it.

好的，你可以设置一个10:00到10:30或10:00到11:00的提醒。

Okay, so you can make a reminder that 10:00 to 10:30 or 10:00 to 11:00.

好的，每日提醒就是你的祷告时间。

Okay, daily reminder is your prayer time.

所以一到10点，

So immediately it's 10:00.

你的手机就会提醒你。

Your phone will remind you.

好，该祷告了。

Okay, that it's time to pray.

这是祷告时间。

It's a prayer time.

这非常重要，因为现在你迈出第一步后，既然已请求上帝帮助，就需要把它安排进日程。

And it's very important because right now, after you've taken the first step, ask if you've asked God to help you, you need to schedule it.

好的，上帝爱每个人，但相信我，上帝会奖赏认真的人。

Okay, God loves everybody, but trust me, God rewards seriousness.

好的，现在上帝在说，哦，好吧，你对你即将要做的事是认真的。

Okay, so now God is saying that oh okay, you are, you are serious about about what you are coming to do.

好的，所以现在你必须安排好时间，把它列入你的日程并有意为之。

Okay, so now you have to schedule it, you have to put it in your schedule and be intentional about it.

你必须把它当作每天的重要会议来对待。

You have to treat it like an important meeting every day.

好的，你必须把它当作重要会议来对待。

Okay, you have to treat it like an important meeting.

因为我意识到当你这样做时，手机会提醒你，所以无论你当时在做什么——是在用WhatsApp、刷Facebook还是其他什么——当10点时手机会提醒你（我用10点举例），那是祷告时间10点到10点半。当你开始时，要根据你能做到的来开始，不要突然就想祷告三四个小时，这对你来说会很困难。就像去健身房举哑铃，你不可能一开始就举20下，可能会伤到自己，可以从5下开始。慢慢地，不知不觉你就能做到10下、15下。祷告也是如此，你可以先坚持30分钟十天，然后增加到45分钟十天，再增加到一小时。相信我，随着你不断进步，连那一小时对你来说都会变得短暂，不知不觉你就能祷告三四个小时，甚至觉得一小时都不够。

Because I realized that when you do this, your phone is reminding you so it doesn't matter what you are doing at that particular time whether you are on whatsapp you're on facebook or whatever your phone reminds you when it's 10:00 I'm using 10:00 as an example when it's 10:00 that prayer time 10:00 to 10:30 okay and when when you are starting okay you have to start according to what you can do okay don't start and all of a sudden you want to say pray like three hours or four hours okay it's going to be very difficult for you you have to start somewhere okay when you go to the gym and you take the dumbbells you you say you want to go 20 at a go, you might hurt yourself, so you can start with five, okay, five, five, and before you realize you've moved to 10, before you realize you've moved to 15, that's how prayer is, so you can say okay, I'm doing thirty minutes for ten days, after ten days then you move to let's say forty five minutes, another ten days, after ten days you move to one hour and trust me as you keep progressing even that one hour will become small for you Before you realize you are praying three hours, four hours, and even that one won't even be enough for you.

祷告就是这样。

That's how prayer is.

你祷告得越多，就越想祷告。

The more you pray, the more you want to pray.

就是这样。

That's how it is.

你祈祷得越多，就会越想祈祷。

The more you pray, the more you want to pray.

你必须利用手机上的提醒功能。

You have to make use of reminders on your phone.

时时刻刻都要。

All the time.

所以当你开始时，只管去做。

So when you start, just take it.

这不是短跑，而是一场马拉松。

It's not, it's not a, it's not a sprint, it's a marathon.

与其今天祈祷三小时然后下次祈祷要等到两周后，不如每天坚持祈祷三十分钟。

It's better to pray thirty minutes everyday than to pray three hours today and then the next time you pray is two weeks time.

不，那样的祷告生活是不健康的，我们要的是持之以恒的祷告生活。

No, that's that's a poor prayer life, a consistent prayer life.

即便你每天只祷告二十分钟，那也是持之以恒的祷告生活。

Even if you pray twenty minutes everyday, it's a consistent prayer life.

好的。

Okay.

当你持续祷告三十分钟一段时间后，你会发现三十分钟根本不够，因为你有太多想对神倾诉的事。

You pray thirty minutes for some time, you realize that the thirty minutes is not enough because there are so many things that you can, you, you, you want to say to God.

于是自然而然，你会自己延长祷告时间，甚至无需他人提醒。

And so by default, you see that you increase the time yourself, nobody will even ask you to increase time, you increase the time yourself.

祷告就是如此奇妙。

That's how amazing prayer is.

所以刚开始时，尽管过程煎熬，你的肉体总会与你对抗。

So when you are starting, even though it's very excruciating and your flesh is going to fight with you.

相信我，你的肉体必会与你争战。

Trust me, your flesh will fight with you.

每到祷告时刻，电视里总会播放你想看的节目。

When it's time to pray, they are probably showing you something on the telly you want to watch.

干扰实在太多了。

There are so many distractions.

也许你正在手机上和朋友聊得火热。

Maybe you're having a a a sweet conversation with your friend on your phone or something.

而这时该祷告了。

And it's time to pray.

干扰实在太多了。

There are so many distractions.

相信我，你的肉体将与你的灵性对抗。

Trust me, your flesh is going to fight your spirit.

当你开始建立祷告生活时。

When it's time to build a prayer life.

说真的，这种对抗会很激烈，因为魔鬼会千方百计阻止你祷告。

Seriously, going to fight your spirit because devil is going to do everything to to stop you from praying.

阻止你祷告。

To stop you from praying.

你意识到自己可以唱很多歌。

You realize that you can sing so much.

你可以唱歌、赞美，做所有这些事。

You can sing and praise and all that.

但当涉及到祷告时，你却觉得非常困难。

But when it comes to prayer, you realize that you find it so difficult.

是的，你觉得困难是有原因的。

Yes, there is a reason why you find it so difficult.

因为魔鬼在竭力阻挠。

Because the devil is fighting against it.

他不希望你建立祷告生活，因为一旦你建立了祷告生活，他就知道你会变成什么样。

He doesn't want you to build a prayer life because the moment you build a prayer life, he knows what you are going to become.

没错，魔鬼清楚你会变成什么样。

Yes, the devil knows what you are going to become.

所以他不想让你为自己建立祷告生活。

So he doesn't want you to build a prayer life for yourself.

因为当你停止祷告的那一刻，你将错过那些为你预备的恩典。

Because the moment you stop praying, you are going to tap into certain graces that are in store for you.

而这些正是魔鬼不愿你获得的。

That the devil don't want you to tap into.

所以请安排好时间。

So schedule it.

这是第二点——你需要安排好时间并对此保持专注。

That's the second point you need to schedule it and be intentional about it.

关于如何坚持祷告的第三点是列一个祷告清单。

The third point on how to be consistent in prayer is to make a prayer list.

制作祷告清单非常重要，特别是当你开始培养祷告习惯时。

It is very important for you to make a prayer list especially when you start developing the attitude of prayer.

当你列出祷告清单时，它能帮助你进行有目的的祷告。

When you make a prayer list, what this does is that it helps you to pray with purpose.

好的。

Okay.

你可以说今天我要讨论关于怜悯的主题。

You can say that today, I'm taking a topic on mercy.

所以今天我要为怜悯祷告。

So today I'm going to be praying about mercy.

你可以找到许多关于怜悯的经文。

And you can find so many scriptures about mercy.

然后你用这些经文来支撑你的祷告。

And then you use the scriptures to back your prayer.

这样你今天为怜悯祷告，明天就可以选择圣洁的主题。

So you just be praying about mercy today, tomorrow you take a topic holiness.

你专门为圣洁之类的主题祷告。

You are just praying for holiness and all that.

所以你看祷告清单就像是一个指南，明白吗，你要围绕它来祷告。

So you see prayer list, a prayer list is like a guide, okay, that you are going to pray around.

当你有了祷告清单，它会帮助你总是期待祷告时刻。有了清单，你会更期待进入祷告状态，因为你昨天为某事祷告过，今天可以继续，或者根据清单内容为其他事项祷告，这取决于你的祷告清单安排和跟进方式。

So when you have a prayer list it helps you to always look forward to praying okay when you have a prayer list it's it helps you to look forward to the place of prayer because you prayed for something yesterday today you can continue or you can pray for something else depending on what is on your prayer list and how you follow your prayer list.

好的，这有助于针对不同主题进行祷告。

Okay, it helps to pray concerning various topics.

你可以为人们祷告，可以为国家祷告，你知道的，各种各样的事情都可以。

You can pray for people, you can pray for the nation, you know, all kinds of things.

所以祷告清单非常重要。

So a prayer list is so important.

它就像是指引我们如何祷告的指南。

It's like a guide that guides us on how to pray.

关于祷告清单还有一个好处就是，几个月后你可以回顾你的祷告清单，看看神已经应允了哪些祷告。

So one thing, one good thing about the prayer list too is that many months after, you can look back on your prayer list and now you can look at the prayers that God has answered.

这样你就能明白神确实是美善的神。

And you can see that God is indeed a good God.

明白吗？

You understand?

神确实是美善的神。

God is indeed a good God.

当你看到上帝应允的所有祷告时。

When you look at all the prayers that God have answered.

所以拥有一份祷告清单很重要。

So a prayer having a prayer list is important.

好的，制作祷告清单很简单。

Okay, having a prayer list is simple.

你可以写在手机上。

You can write it on your phone.

你可以写在小笔记本上，或者任何你方便查看的地方。

You can write it in a small notebook, or you know, anywhere that is will be easy for you to assess.

如果你不知道如何制作祷告清单，可以上网搜索。

Okay, you can find if you don't know how to create a prayer list, you can go to the you can go on the internet and then you search.

你可以上网搜索。

You can go on the internet and search.

有很多经文涉及各种主题。

There are so many scriptures related to so several topics.

如果你需要支持某个祷告主题的经文，比如说关于成圣的。

So if you need scriptures that will back a prayer topic, let's say, sanctification.

你可以在网上搜索与成圣相关的经文，就能找到所有相关的经文。

So you search for scriptures related to sanctification on the internet, you get all the scriptures related to it.

然后你可以根据这些内容制定你的祷告要点和祷告清单。

And you can make your prayer, prayer points and prayer lists related to that.

当你开始建立持续的祷告生活时，拥有一份祷告清单非常重要。

So it's important to have a prayer list when you you you start you you start building a a consistent prayer life.

这非常非常重要，它将帮助你并推动你作为基督徒的成长。

It is very very important and it will help you and propel you to grow as a Christian as well.

最后，要保持坚持，要知道很多人开始时热情高涨，后来却逐渐消退。

Finally, be consistent, be consistent, you know, a lot of people start and then you know, their energy dies down.

而重新开始会变得非常困难。

And then starting again becomes very difficult.

你必须保持恒心，坚持不懈，就像我说的，你的肉体将会与你对抗，因为灵与肉总是处于争战中。

And all that, you have to be consistent, you have to be relentless, like I said, your flesh is going to fight you because the the spirit and the flesh are always at war.

这是作为信徒你必须明白的一件事。

That's one thing you must understand as a believer.

灵与肉总是在争战。

The spirit and the flesh are always at war.

因为肉体想要确立对灵的支配地位。

Because the flesh wants to establish its dominance over the spirit.

而你作为信徒，必须用某种方式建造你的灵，使其能压制肉体并确立对肉体的支配。

And you as a believer must build your spirit up in a in a way that it overrides the flesh and it establishes its dominance over the flesh.

这样，你就不再受肉体决定或行为所控制了。

So now, you are not controlled by the decisions or by the dealings of the flesh anymore.

现在，你是由灵的意志所主导。

Now, you are controlled by the by the will of the spirit.

好的。

Okay.

因此，要建立持续的祷告生活，你需要制服肉体，因为肉体会带来诸多干扰——它只追求享乐和满足，而建立祷告生活却是需要克己的。

So, in order for you to build a constant prayer life, you need to subdue the flesh because the flesh comes with so many distractions because all the flesh wants is enjoyment, things to satisfy the flesh, but building a prayer life is excruciating.

这是需要付出努力的。

It's it's work.

这是艰苦的工作。

It's hard work.

你必须明白这是项艰苦的工作，不是短跑冲刺——就像我一直强调的那样。

You have to understand that it's hard work and it's not a sprint like I keep saying.

祷告的肌肉不是一夜之间就能练成的。

You don't develop muscle of prayer overnight.

这是你必须明白的一点。

That's one thing you have to understand.

祷告的肌肉不是一夜之间就能练就的。

You don't develop the muscles of prayer overnight.

这需要经年累月。

It is it is years.

有些人一天能祷告十六小时，有些人二十小时，甚至有人能全天祷告。

Okay, some people can pray for sixteen hours in a day, some people twenty, some people can pray the whole day.

他们并非一日之间就练就了祷告的肌肉。

They didn't develop that muscle of prayer in a day.

好的，这需要经年累月的辛勤付出和对灵性工作、灵性生活的投入。

Okay, it took years and years of hard work and investment into their spiritual work, into their spiritual life.

所以作为信徒，你需要明白，如果这件事需要长时间培养，就别指望祷告一周就能突然变成祷告大师。

So as a believer, you need to understand that if this thing takes a long time to develop, you shouldn't think that you start praying for one week and then all of a sudden, you you you are a prayer guru.

不，你必须要有计划。

No, you have to have a plan.

好的，你必须持之以恒。

Okay, you have to be consistent.

然后经过岁月沉淀，你会发现自己能在祷告中逐渐建立耐力与能力。

And then over the years, you realize that you can be able to withstand and build capacity in the place of prayer.

你看，每个习惯都需要时间培养。

You see every habit takes time to develop.

每个习惯都需要时间培养。

Every habit takes time to develop.

当你建立起规律的祷告生活，比如每天十点到十点半祷告，日复一日，终有一天你会将时间延长到十点四十五分、十一点，甚至不知不觉就通宵祷告了。

So once you build a regimented prayer life, like praying for from ten to 10:30 every day, praying from ten to 10:30 every day, you a time will come where you increase it to ten to 10:45, ten to eleven, and then ten to twelve before you realize you are praying the whole night.

好的，事情就是这样发展的。

Okay, that's that's how it is.

明白吗？祷告需要时间培养。

Okay, prayer takes time to develop.

祷告生活需要时间慢慢建立。

Prayer, a prayer life takes time to develop.

而持续的祷告生活更需要时间沉淀。

And a prayer life takes time to be sustainable.

好的。

Okay.

需要时间才能持久。

Takes time to be sustainable.

你才祷告了一周。

You pray for one week.

好的。

Fine.

再加一周。

Add another week.

如果是要再加一周的话。

If it's to add another week.

所以要不断告诉自己：再坚持一周，再一周。

So always tell yourself one more week, one more week.

不知不觉中，你就在祷告中站稳了脚跟，祷告对你来说变得非常容易。

And before you realize, you've solidified your place in prayer and it becomes very easy for you to pray.

祷告对你来说变得非常容易。

It becomes very easy for you to pray.

另一个建立稳定祷告生活的方法是：你可以邀请同伴或成熟的信徒来帮助你，让他们监督你。我发现基督徒若能接受监督，会受益匪浅。

And one way that you can build a consistent prayer life to is you know ask your peers or a mature believer to help you okay to help you to help you to be accountable One thing I realized is that when you are accountable as a Christian, it helps you a lot.

这能帮助你保持警醒。

It helps you to pay in check.

所以你可以告诉你的牧师，让他留意你的情况。

So you can tell your pastor, you know, to keep tabs on you.

让他留意你，这非常非常有帮助。你可以告诉你的朋友，到了12点请打电话提醒我，当你准备祷告时打电话给我。这样每到12点那个人打电话来，你也会醒来祷告。寻求帮助是好的，请你的同伴帮助你，请你的信徒朋友帮助你，这很有益处。

To keep tabs on you and all that it's very very helpful okay you can tell your friend when it's 12:00 please call me okay call me when you are going to pray call me so the person every time at 12:00 the person calls you you also wake up and you pray Okay, it's good to have help, ask your peers to help you, it's good to ask your fellow believers to help you and all that.

你必须做任何必要的事，采取一切必要措施来建立你的祷告生活。

You have to do whatever it is necessary, whatever necessary thing you must do to build your prayer life.

因为你的肉体也会竭尽全力阻挠你。

Because your flesh is also going to do everything possible.

让你不去祷告。

So you don't pray.

让你不去祷告。

So you don't pray.

所以你必须不惜一切代价。

So you have to do whatever it takes.

你必须愿意不惜一切代价。

You have to be willing to do whatever it takes.

好的，你必须不惜一切代价去做。

Okay, you have to do whatever it takes.

你必须愿意向肉体死去。

You have to be willing to die to the flesh.

你必须愿意牺牲很多东西。

You have to be willing to sacrifice a lot of things.

牺牲很多东西。

Sacrifice a lot of things.

为了维持祷告生活。

In order to sustain a prayer life.

好的，你必须愿意牺牲很多东西，这非常重要。让我再重复一遍这四点：你必须寻求神的帮助，请求祂刺透你，向祂祈求恩典。

Okay you have to be willing to sacrifice a lot of things so it is very very important so the four points let me go over it again you have to ask for God's help you're asking for his help, have to ask him to prick in you, you have to ask him for grace.

好的，祈求恩典帮助你这趟旅程。

Okay, grace to help you on this journey.

你必须安排好时间。

You have to schedule it.

你必须对此保持有意识的努力。

You have to be intentional about it.

你必须把它列入日程，像对待重要会议一样对待它。

You have to put it in your schedule, treat it like an important meeting.

确保你也在手机上设置提醒。

Make sure you use reminders on your phone as well.

好的，在手机上设置提醒，你必须制作一个祷告清单。

Okay, use reminders on your phone, you have to make a prayer list.

你需要制作一个祷告清单，帮助你有目的地祷告。

You have to make a prayer list that helps you to pray with purpose.

好的，这有助于针对不同主题进行祷告。

Okay, it helps to pray concerning various topics.

这样有一天你可以回顾这份清单，当你划掉那些已得应允的事项时，就能看见神的恩典。最后你必须保持坚持，因为培养祷告的肌肉需要时间。

So that one day you can look back on the list and then you see the goodness of God when you take off those that he has answered and finally you have to be consistent Because building a a a muscle, building muscles of prayer takes time.

这不是一天就能建立起来的。

It's not something you can build in a day.

也不是一蹴而就的，这需要时间。

Or overnight, it takes time.

每个新习惯都需要时间来培养。

Every new habit takes time to develop.

作为信徒，我们需要明白这一点，这将帮助你培养祷告生活。

As a believer, we need to understand that and it's going to help you to develop a prayer life.

你需要请一位同伴或成熟的信徒来帮助你保持责任感。

You have to ask a peer or a mature believer to also help you to be accountable.

好的。

Okay.

责任感能帮助信徒成长。

Accountability helps us as believers to grow.

责任感能帮助信徒成长。

Accountability helps us as believers to grow.

以上就是今天节目的全部内容。

So this is it for today's episode.

愿你蒙福。

I hope you are blessed.

希望你能从基督关于祷告恒心的比喻中学到很多。

I hope you learned a lot parables of Christ consistency in prayer.

因此，建立祷告生活在你作为信徒的旅程中至关重要。

So building a prayer life is very, very crucial on your journey as a believer.

我们需要在祷告中培养能力，以维持祷告生活的新发展和新高度。

So we need to build capacity in the place of prayer to sustain new development and new levels in prayer life.

如果你不在与神的属灵工作中培养能力，神就无法信任你或赐福你某些事物，明白吗。

If you don't build capacity in your in your spiritual work with God, God can't trust you or bless you with certain things, okay.

你需要培养能力，这样当神赐福你时，你才能承受得住。

You need to build capacity so that when God blesses you, you can be able to handle it.

是的，你才能容纳得了。

Okay, you can be able to contain it.

所以如果你得到了祝福，也请与朋友分享，让他们同样蒙福。

So if you are blessed, please share with your friends as well so that they can also be blessed.

感谢天父今天为我们带来这美好的信息。

Thank you father for this wonderful message that you've brought our way today.

天上的父，感谢您。

Heavenly father, thank you.

求您赐予我们智慧、知识与理解力，使我们能领悟您不断教导的这些事。天父啊，帮助我们建立持久稳固的祷告生活，从今时直到永远，奉耶稣之名，阿门。

Give us wisdom knowledge and understanding to comprehend these things that you keep teaching us heavenly father help us to build consistent prayer lives now and forevermore in Jesus name amen