“人子来，并不是要受人的服侍，乃是要服侍人”（可10:45）。{FH.99.1}
基督不住地从天父领受，为要转授给我们。祂说：“你们听见的道不是我的，乃是差我来之父的道”（约14:24）。……祂的生活，思想和祈祷都不是为自己，乃是为别人。祂每天经过长时间与天父交往之后，就出来将天上的光带给那些听祂的人。祂每天重新受到圣灵的洗。在每日的清晨，天父使祂从睡眠中觉醒，并用恩惠膏祂心灵和祂的嘴唇，使祂可以传授他人。祂的话是新由天庭所赐，可以适时向困倦受压迫的人说的。……{FH.99.2}
基督的门徒对祂的祈祷和祂与上帝交通的习惯留下了深刻的印象。有一天，他们与主分离片时之后，发现祂正在专心祈祷。祂似乎不觉得他们在场而仍继续大声祷告。门徒的心为之深受感动。当祂祈祷完毕，门徒随即感叹地说：“求主教导我们祷告”（路11:1）。于是基督如同祂在山边讲道时所说的，又将主祷文重新说了一遍。……{FH.99.3}
祂说：“你们中间谁有一个朋友，半夜到他那里去说：朋友，请借给我三个饼；因为我有一个朋友行路，来到我这里，我没有什么给他摆上”（5,6节）。……{FH.99.4}
基督在比喻中所描述的人是为送给别人而求饼的。……门徒也当这样向上帝求福。在给众人吃饱的神迹和有关于天赐生命之粮的讲论中，基督曾向门徒说明他们充当祂代表的工作。他们要将生命的粮分给众人。……当渴慕生命之粮的人来到他们那里时，他们会感到自己一无所有，爱莫能助。他们自己必须事先领受灵粮，否则就没有什么可分给别人。但他们不可让人空着肚子回去。基督向他们指出了供应的来源。……那差派仆人去使饥饿的人得饱足的上帝，岂不更会为祂自己的工作而供给他们的需要吗？——《评论与通讯》，1910年8月11日。{FH.99.5}
Asking to Give, March 28
The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve.?Mark 10:45.?{FH 99.1}[1]
Christ was continually receiving from the Father, that He might communicate to us. “The word which ye hear,” He said, “is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me.” ... Not for Himself, but for others, He lived and thought and prayed. From hours spent with God He came forth morning by morning to bring the light of heaven to those who heard Him. Daily He received a fresh baptism of the Holy Spirit. In the early hours of the new day the Lord awakened Him from His slumbers, and His soul and His lips were anointed with grace, that He might impart to others. His words were given Him fresh from the heavenly courts, words that He might speak in season to the weary and oppressed....?{FH 99.2}[2]
Christ’s disciples were much impressed by His prayers and by His habit of communion with God. One day after a short absence from their Lord, they found Him absorbed in supplication. Seemingly unconscious of their presence, He continued praying aloud. The hearts of the disciples were deeply moved. As He ceased praying, they exclaimed, “Lord, teach us to pray.” In answer Christ repeated the Lord’s Prayer, as He had given it in the Sermon on the Mount....?{FH 99.3}[3]
“Which of you,” He said, “shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend me three loaves; for a friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him?” ...?{FH 99.4}[4]
Here Christ represents the petitioner as asking that he may give again.... In like manner the disciples were to seek blessings from God. In the feeding of the multitude and in the sermon on the bread from heaven, Christ had opened to them their work as His representatives. They were to give the bread of life to the people.... Souls that were hungering for the bread of life would come to them, and they would feel themselves to be destitute and helpless. They must receive spiritual food, or they would have nothing to impart. But they were not to turn one soul away unfed. Christ directs them to the source of supply.... And would not God, who had sent His servants to feed the hungry, supply their need for His own work?—The Review and Herald, August 11, 1910.?{FH 99.5}[5]
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