“你们若常在我里面，我的话也常在你们里面，凡你们所愿意的，祈求，就给你们成就”（约15:7）。{FH.22.1}
祈祷已成为获得福气的唯一途径。先祖们都有祈祷的习惯。上帝为他们施行了许多大事。雅各在离开父家前往异乡的时候，怀着谦卑痛悔的心祈祷，主就藉着夜间的异象应允了他。他看见一个梯子，熠熠生辉，梯子的底部安在地上，梯顶直达最高的天。……后来他返回父家时，曾与上帝的儿子整夜较力，直到破晓，并得了胜。主向他保证：“你的名不要再叫雅各，要叫以色列；因为你与上帝与人较力，都得了胜”（创32:28）。{FH.22.2}
约瑟常常祈祷，在那引诱他离开上帝的环境中，得蒙保守不犯罪。当他受试探要偏离纯洁正直的道路时，他说：“我怎能作这大恶，得罪上帝呢”（创39:9）？{FH.22.3}
摩西勤于祈祷。他被称为世上最谦和的人。他因自己的柔和谦卑而受到了上帝的尊荣。他忠诚地履行了所委托给他高贵而神圣的职责。当他带领以色列人经过旷野时，百姓多次因自己的怨言和悖逆而几遭灭顶之灾。但摩西却来到真实的能力之源；将案件呈于主前。……{FH.22.4}
但以理是一位祷告的人，上帝赐给他智慧和坚定的意志，抵制每一种引他陷于不节制之网罗的影响。他在青年时期，靠着全能者的力量，成为一个道德上的伟人。……{FH.22.5}
囚禁在腓立比牢狱中的保罗和西拉，虽因所受的鞭打而痛苦，脚上套着木狗，仍然祷告、唱诗、赞美上帝。天使从天上奉差遣来拯救他们。大地在这些来自天上使者的脚下震动。牢狱的门豁然敞开，使被囚的得了自由。……我们应该不断放松对世界的把握，而紧握天国。——《时兆》，1884年8月14日。{FH.22.6}
Striking Examples of Prayer, January 10
If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.?John 15:7.?{FH 22.1}[1]
Prayer has been made the means of obtaining blessings that would not otherwise be received. The patriarchs were men of prayer, and God did great things for them. When Jacob left his father’s house for a strange land, he prayed in humble contrition, and in the night season the Lord answered him through vision. He saw a ladder, bright and shining, its base resting on earth, and its topmost round reaching to the highest heaven.... Afterward, while on his return to his father’s house, he wrestled with the Son of God all night, even till break of day, and prevailed. The assurance was given him, “Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men.”?{FH 22.2}[2]
Joseph prayed, and he was preserved from sin amid influences that were calculated to lead him away from God. When tempted to leave the path of purity and uprightness, he said, “How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”?{FH 22.3}[3]
Moses, who was much in prayer, was known as the meekest man on the face of the earth. For his meekness and humility he was honored of God, and he discharged with fidelity the high, noble, and sacred responsibilities intrusted to him. While leading the children of Israel through the wilderness, again and again it seemed that they must be exterminated on account of their murmuring and rebellion. But Moses went to the true Source of power; he laid the case before the Lord....?{FH 22.4}[4]
Daniel was a man of prayer, and God gave him wisdom and firmness to resist every influence that conspired to draw him into the snare of intemperance. Even in his youth he was a moral giant in the strength of the Mighty One....?{FH 22.5}[5]
In the prison at Philippi, while suffering from the cruel stripes they had received, their feet fast in the stocks, Paul and Silas prayed and sang praise to God, and angels were sent from heaven to deliver them. The earth shook under the tread of these heavenly messengers, and the prison doors flew open, setting the prisoners free.... We should be continually loosening our hold upon earth, and fastening it upon heaven.—Signs of the Times, August 14, 1884.?{FH 22.6}[6]
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