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經文：「取幾枝箭來....打地罷。他打了三次，便止住了。神人向他發怒，說，應當擊打五六次。」（王下13:18-19） 這幾句經文的信息真是令人儆醒！約阿施自以為打了二次、三次，已是很有信心了；但是神和先知都大大失望。 約阿施曾經獲得不少神的祝福；而他所得的，與他所信的，正好相符；但那些並不是神要給他的全部，他失去更多的應許和祝福；他得到一些比別人好的，但是他沒有得到神的最好。這是多麼嚴重的一件事！我們真是應該學習禱告得更透切！--信宣 A. B. Simpson 「充充足足的成就一切超過我們所求所想的。」（弗3:20） 請讓我們看看保羅所用的字句；「充充足足」、「一切」、「超過」！每一句字詞都包含著神無限的愛和能力！--宣道會報 The Alliance 新譯｜荒漠甘泉讀書會
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Scripture: "Take the arrows. . . . Smite upon the ground. And he smote twice and stayed. And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times" (2 Kings 13:18, 19). How striking and eloquent the message of these words! Jehoash thought he had done very well when he duplicated and triplicated what to him was certainly an extraordinary act of faith. But the Lord and the prophet were bitterly disappointed because he had stopped half way. He got something. He got much. He got exactly what he believed for in the final test, but he did not get all that the prophet meant and the Lord wanted to bestow. He missed much of the meaning of the promise and the fullness of the blessing. He got something better than the human, but he did not get God's best. Beloved, how solemn is the application! How heartsearching the message of God to us! How important that we should learn to pray through! Shall we claim all the fullness of the promise and all the possibilities of believing prayer? --A. B. Simpson "Unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think" (Eph. 3:20). There is no other such piling up of words in Paul's writings as these, "exceeding abundantly above all," and each word is packed with infinite love and power to "do" for His praying saints. There is one limitation, "according to the power that worketh in us." He will do just as much for us as we let Him do in us. The power that saved us, washed us with His own blood, filled us with might by His Spirit, kept us in manifold temptations, will work for us, meeting every emergency, every crisis, every circumstance, and every adversary. --The Alliance ｜ Mrs. Charles Cowman
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