第二十五天  追尋神同在

中譯:王素秋  TOD大衛會幕禱告部

路加福音17:11-19「耶穌往耶路撒冷去，經過撒瑪利亞和加利利。進入一個村子，有十個長大痳瘋的，迎面而來，遠遠的站著，高聲說：『耶穌，夫子，可憐我們吧！』耶穌看見，就對他們說：『你們去，把身體給祭司察看！』他們去的時候就潔淨了。內中有一個見自己已經好了，就回來大聲歸榮耀與　神，又俯伏在耶穌腳前感謝他；這人是撒瑪利亞人。耶穌說：『潔淨了的不是十個人嗎？那九個在哪裡呢？除了這外族人，再沒有別人回來歸榮耀與　神嗎？』就對那人說：『起來，走吧！你的信救了你了。』」

我在阿根廷時，當Claudio Freidzon將這段經文重現並將他的亮光分享給我時，我大大的被震撼了。十個人來到耶穌面前，請求治好他們生理上的大麻瘋病，耶穌請他們去給祭司察看，當他們回去的時候，他們就得到了醫治。然而這10個人當中，只有一個人受感動回到耶穌那裏感謝他，耶穌也很訝異，居然只有一個人回來。當耶穌醫治這個麻瘋病人時，我相信不僅只生理上的還有其他事發生，我相信 那個回來感謝耶穌的人，他靈的最深處是被耶穌的同在所觸動。

Freidzon說：每個人都能夠領受能力，但只有少數人尋求神的同在。領受是靠簡單的信心，但要抓住神的同在，一個人必須用盡他全所有來追尋。Claudio 在40天禁食的復興遇見神中，只單單渴望神的同在，正是耶穌的同在大大撼動整個阿根廷！

當我們正在讀這些上帝傾倒他非凡能力的復興記錄史時，我們很容易誤入歧途去尋求神的能力超越他的同在。讓我們不要單單的祈求並獲得能力，而是讓我們來尋找並竭力追求主的同在，領受是免費的，但竭力追求是需要花代價的。耶穌並不想把祂的榮耀同在彰顯給那些宗教人士，請問你我是否要食物超過要耶穌？

追尋神一個人必須成為只有一件事的人，詩篇:27:4 大衛說“有一件事，我曾求耶和華，我仍要尋求，就是一生一世住在耶和華的殿中，瞻仰他的榮美，在他的殿裡求問。”

成為只有一件事的人，要求的就是專注。對他而言沒有其他的議題，其他的熱情都被這唯一炙燒的渴望擠壓出去了！

上主聖靈，降臨我心中

教導我愛主，像天使一樣，

聖潔的熱誠，充滿我身心 ，

聖靈的施洗如鴿降我身，

主愛成烈火燃於我心壇。

願全球所有參與這40天禁食禱告的兄姐，我們不只尋求並領受能力，更要全心來追尋神的同在，在注視祂的容顏中，從榮耀到榮耀被轉化成主的形象。

讀這本書就是在讀一個故事，是的， 有一部分是我的故事，但主要的是耶穌的故事，就是 最原始的40天耶穌禁食，從而釋放出最原始的耶穌恩膏以傳福音並收割，而且這也是先知性的召集令，呼召一個全球性的再次演繹並恢復耶穌原始的樣式與途徑 ，使我們得著從上頭而來的能力。你願意為此事工奉獻嗎?

 

Day 25  Pursuing The Presence

"Now it happened as He went to Jerusalem that He passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. Then as He entered a certain village, there met Him ten men who were lepers, who stood afar off. And they lifted up their voices and said, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!” So when He saw them, He said to them, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.” And so it was that as they went, they were cleansed. And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, returned, and with a loud voice glorified God, and fell down on his face at His feet, giving Him thanks. And he was a Samaritan. So Jesus answered and said, “Were there not ten cleansed? But where are the nine? Were there not any found who returned to give glory to God except this foreigner?” And He said to him, “Arise, go your way. Your faith has made you well.” - Luke 17:11-19

While in Argentina, I was struck by Claudio Freidzon’s rendition of, and insight into, this passage. Ten men came to Jesus to be healed of the physical ailment of leprosy. Jesus sent them away and, as they went, they were healed. Of the ten, only one man was moved to return to Jesus and thank Him. Jesus was surprised that only one came back. When Jesus healed the leper, I believe something more than physical healing took place. I believe that man was touched in his deepest being by the Presence of Jesus.

Freidzon says that everyone can receive power, but only a few pursue the Presence. Receiving is by simple faith, but to lay hold of the Presence a man must pursue it with all of his being. Claudio, in his revival encounter of 40 days of fasting, simply hungered for the Presence. It was the Presence of Jesus that rocked Argentina.

As we are reading these revival accounts where God poured out His remarkable power, it is easy to get sidetracked by pursuing God’s power rather than His Presence. Let us not just simply ask and receive power, but let us seek and pursue the Presence of the Lord. Receiving is free, but pursuing is costly. Jesus doesn’t share His manifest Presence with mere religionists. Do we want Him more than food?

In pursuit of God, a man must be a man of one thing. David said, “One thing I have desired of the Lord, that will I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in His temple” (Psalm 27:4). To be a man of one thing takes focus. There are no side issues. Other passions are squeezed out by one consuming passion.

 Spirit of God, Descend upon My Heart

Teach me to love Thee as Thine angels love,

One holy passion filling all my frame;

The kindling of the heaven descended Dove,

My heart an altar, and Thy love the flame.

May all across the globe in this 40-day fast, men and women, not just look for and receive power, but let them pursue the Presence and, in beholding His face, be transformed into that image from glory to glory.

To read this book is to read a story. Yes, partly my story, but primarily it’s the story of Jesus and his original forty-day Jesus Fast that released the original Jesus anointing for evangelism and harvest. It is also a prophetic summons calling for a global reenactment and recovery of Jesus’ original pattern and pathway leading to power from on high.