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經文：「靠著愛我們的主，在這一切的事上，已經得勝有餘了。」（羅8:37） 眞是奇怪，攻擊我們的仇敵與反對我們的勢力，竟是我們走到神面前的階梯。 正如鷲鷹高踞峭壁，守望黑雲密佈的天空；雖然叉狀的閃電穿上刺下，牠仍十分安靜地坐等那將來的風雨。牠從不肯早一刻起飛；必須感覺風雨爆發打在身上時，再尖嘯一聲，乘風雨而去。而這正是神要祂的每一位孩子做的：把黑雲當作火車，藉此得勝有餘。 所謂的「得勝有餘」，不只是要將敵人驅逐，還要趁此擄掠敵人一切的軍火與糧食。 親愛的，你有沒有得到你的戰利品？當你進入苦難谷時，有沒有帶著掠物出來？當毀滅臨到的時候，你有沒有信靠神？祂必叫你出來的時候，比進去的時候更豐富！ 「得勝有餘」就是從仇敵那裡把掠物奪來，作為己用。 英國的孟博士 Dr. Moon 雙目失明的時候說：「主阿，我從祢手裡接受這眼盲的恩典。求祢教我如何用它來鑄造祢的榮耀，好使祢來的時候，得著滿足。」。神果然藉著他發明盲人所用的凸版文字，千萬盲友藉此能讀神的話語；還有許多竟因此蒙了救贖。--選 神並不挪去保羅的刺；而是行那比「挪去」更美的事；神使用那刺，因為刺的用處比保護與尊榮的用處更大。--選 新譯｜荒漠甘泉讀書會
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Scripture: "In all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us" (Rom. 8:37). The Gospel is so arranged and the gift of God so great that you may take the very enemies that fight you and the forces that are arrayed against you and make them steps up to the very gates of heaven and into the presence of God. Like the eagle, who sits on a crag and watches the sky as it is filling with blackness, and the forked lightnings are playing up and down, and he is sitting perfectly still, turning one eye and then the other toward the storm. But he never moves until he begins to feel the burst of the breeze and knows that the hurricane has struck him; with a scream, he swings his breast to the storm, and uses the storm to go up to the sky; away he goes, borne upward upon it. That is what God wants of every one of His children, to be more than conqueror, turning the storm-cloud into a chariot. You know when one army is more than conqueror it is likely to drive the other from the field, to get all the ammunition, the food and supplies, and to take possession of the whole. That is just what our text means. There are spoils to be taken! Beloved, have you got them? When you went into that terrible valley of suffering did you come out of it with spoils? When that injury struck you and you thought everything was gone, did you so trust in God that you came out richer than you went in? To be more than conqueror is to take the spoils from the enemy and appropriate them to yourself. What he had arranged for your overthrow, take and appropriate for yourself. When Dr. Moon, of Brighton, England, was stricken with blindness, he said "Lord, I accept this talent of blindness from Thee. Help me to use it for Thy glory that at Thy coming Thou mayest receive Thine own with usury." Then God enabled him to invent the Moon Alphabet for the blind, by which thousands of blind people were enabled to read the Word of God, and many of them were gloriously saved. --Selected God did not take away Paul's thorn; He did better--He mastered that thorn, and made it Paul's servant. The ministry of thorns has often been a greater ministry to man than the ministry of thrones. --Selected ｜ Mrs. Charles Cowman
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