“耶和华的眼目看顾义人；祂的耳朵听他们的呼求”（诗34:15）。{FH.26.1}
耶稣降世为人在人间行走时曾经常祈祷。祂的祈祷是多么恳切啊！祂常常整夜伏在又湿又冷的地上痛苦地恳求！可是祂仍是上帝无罪的爱子。连基督都感到需要与祂的父交通，在呼求天父时显得如此恳切，我们更该何等奋发全心与上帝较力啊！因为祂已召我们承受救恩；我们又经常遭受狡敌的猛烈试探，须依赖神恩得力方能胜过。……{FH.26.2}
撒但总是暗示说祷告仅仅是形式而已，对我们毫无用处。他受不了我们向他强大的对手求助。当我们发出热切的祷告时，黑暗的众军都会战兢。他们既担心自己的俘虏会逃脱，便在他们周围形成一道隔墙，使天上的亮光不能达到他们的心灵。但他们若在悲痛无助中仰望耶稣，恳求祂宝血的功劳，他们富有同情心的救赎主就会垂听出于信心的真诚恒切的祈祷，差派大能的天使增援拯救他们。当这些全能的天使披着天上的甲胄前来帮助被追捕得发昏的人时，黑暗的使者就退却了，深知他们的战斗失败了，且有更多的人正在逃脱他们的权势。……{FH.26.3}
你若指望得救，就必须祈祷。要花时间。祷告时不要匆忙，漫不经心。要求上帝在你身上施行彻底的改变，让圣灵的果子在你里面结出，使你借着敬虔的生活，如明灯发光，照亮世界。……{FH.26.4}
要花时间祈祷。而当你祈祷时，要相信上帝必垂听你；要将信心结合在你的祈祷中。让信心持住福气，你就必得福。……{FH.26.5}
凡本着信心向上帝献上的真心恳求，都必蒙垂听。这样的祈祷决不会落空。但声称我们的祈祷须总是按我们所希望的方式成就特别的事，乃是自以为是。上帝非常智慧，不会犯错；非常良善，不会留下一样好处不给行为正直的人。——《时兆》，1886年11月18日。{FH.26.6}
God Hears Prayers, January 14
The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears are open to their cry.?Psalm 34:15.?{FH 26.1}[1]
When Jesus was upon earth, and walked a man among the children of humanity, He prayed, and oh, how earnest were His prayers! How often He spent the whole night upon the damp, cold ground, in agonizing supplication! And yet He was the beloved and sinless Son of God. If Jesus felt the necessity of communion with His Father and manifested so much earnestness in calling upon Him, how much more should we, whom He has called to be heirs of salvation, who are subject to the fiery temptations of the wily foe and dependent upon divine grace for strength to overcome, have our whole souls stirred to wrestle with God....?{FH 26.2}[2]
Satan is ever ready to insinuate that prayer is a mere form and avails us nothing. He cannot bear to have his powerful rival appealed to. At the sound of fervent prayer, the hosts of darkness tremble. Fearing that their captives may escape, they form a wall around them, that Heaven’s light may not reach their souls. But if in their distress and helplessness they look to Jesus, pleading the merits of His blood, their compassionate Redeemer listens to the earnest, persevering prayer of faith and sends to their deliverance a reinforcement of angels that excel in strength. And when these angels, all-powerful, clothed with the armory of heaven, come to the help of the fainting, pursued souls, the angels of darkness fall back, well knowing that their battle is lost, and that more souls are escaping from the power of their influence....?{FH 26.3}[3]
If you expect salvation, you must pray. Take time. Be not hurried and careless in your prayers. Intercede with God to work in you a thorough reformation, that the fruits of the Spirit may dwell in you, and that, by your godly life, you may shine as a light in the world....?{FH 26.4}[4]
Take time to pray. And as you pray, believe that God hears you; have faith mixed with your prayers. Let faith take hold of the blessing, and it is yours....?{FH 26.5}[5]
Every petition that is offered to God in faith and with a true heart will be answered. Such prayer is never lost; but to claim that it will always be answered in the very way and for the particular thing that we desire is presumption. God is too wise to err and too good to withhold any good thing from them that walk uprightly.—Signs of the Times, November 18, 1886.?{FH 26.6}[6]
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