【扭转损失】

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扭转你的损失

只是过犯不如恩赐。若因一人的过犯，众人都死了，何况 神的恩典，与那因耶稣基督一人恩典中的赏赐，岂不更加倍的临到众人吗？（罗马书5:15）

亲爱的弟兄姊妹们，如果你需要有人告诉你怎样能扭转损失，那就到上帝这里来吧，上帝是这方面的专家，因为祂曾失去的比任何人都多。

想想看，上帝曾失去了路西弗（他悖逆了上帝），就是在众多受膏天使中高居首位的天使长；并且随从路西弗的堕落，上帝也失去了至少三分之一的天使。尔后，上帝又失去了祂所创造的男人和女人（他们背叛了上帝），又因为祂曾将管理全地的权柄赐给他们（亚当夏娃），所以当祂失去亚当和夏娃时，也一同失去了这个地球。总之，你能计算出这是多么大的产业损失！

然而，即便如此，上帝也决不是输家，祂在任何时候都是最大的赢家。你知道为什么吗？因为上帝知道如何扭转损失，祂知道怎样用“给予既得”的法则来扭转为赢。

你们要给人，就必有给你们的，并且用十足的升斗、连摇带按、上尖下流地倒在你们怀里（路加福音6:38）   

这难道不令人震惊吗？其实，上帝不仅拥有一切方法能够得回祂所失去的，祂也拥有所有智慧和全能能够成就祂的旨意，但是上帝却惟独选择用给予的方法来得回祂所失去的。

上帝给予世人一件无法替代的至宝：祂的独生子，并且祂对祂的救赎计划充满了信心。当“给予既得”的法则运作之时，万能的天父上帝不仅得回了祂的独生子，也一同赎回成千上万的儿子。

所以，不要认为给予需要的人帮助会导致你蒙受损失，并为此感到心痛，当你服从上帝的教导而甘心给予时，你会从上帝“给予既得”的法则中得到回报。甘心给予吧，让宇宙中拥有最大力量的法则为你而运作起来。

Turn Your Losses Around

But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did GOD’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, JESUS CHRIST, overflow to the many! (Romans 5:15)

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

If you ever need someone to tell you how to turn things around, go to GOD. HE's an expert on the subject. HE's suffered more losses than anyone who's ever lived.

Just think about it. HE lost Lucifer, HIS top-ranked, most anointed angel. And HE lost at least a third of HIS other angels as well when Lucifer fell. Then HE lost the man and woman HE had created; and because HE'd given them (Adam and Eve) dominion over the earth, when HE lost them (Adam and Eve), He lost the Earth too. Any way you figure it, that's a lot of real estate down the drain!

Yet, in spite of all that, GOD is no loser. HE's the greatest winner of all time. Do you know why? Because HE knows how to turn the losses around. HE knows how to use the law of giving and receiving to transform losses into gains.

"Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over" (Luke 6:38).

Isn't that staggering? HE had every option that exists to choose from to redeem the things HE'd lost. HE had all wisdom and all power available to HIM. Out of all that, the law of giving is what HE chose to use.

HE gave the most irreplaceable thing HE had: His only Son. Then HE backed that gift with HIS own faith. And when the law of giving and receiving had done its work, the ALMIGHTY FATHER GOD received not only HIS first begotten SON, but millions of other sons as well.

Don't despair over your losses. Redeem them the same way GOD redeemed HIS. Give and put the most powerful principle in the universe to work for you.

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上帝决不容忽视

亲爱的弟兄姊妹们，那些认为凭自己就能摆脱一切困扰（战胜自己的罪）的人，终究是沉迷在自我当中，他们决对经不住现实生活的考验，最终还是败在罪恶之下。而那些信靠上帝作为的人，是有上帝的灵在他们里面（他们的生活和呼吸都倚靠着上帝）。痴迷于自我是一条死路，而专注上帝便会带领我们走出死路，进到宽敞、广阔、自由的生命中。专注自己就是与专注上帝相悖，任何人全神贯注于自己就是在忽视上帝，就是自认强于上帝，这样做实际上就是忽视上帝是 神、忽视上帝大能的作为。上帝决不喜悦被忽视！

研经：罗马书8:1-14

8:1 如今那些在基督耶稣里的就不定罪了。  

8:2 因为赐生命圣灵的律，在基督耶稣里释放了我，使我脱离罪和死的律了。  

8:3 律法既因肉体软弱有所不能行的，　神就差遣自己的儿子成为罪身的形状，作了赎罪祭，在肉体中定了罪案。

8:4 使律法的义成就在我们这不随从肉体，只随从圣灵的人身上。  

8:5 因为随从肉体的人体贴肉体的事，随从圣灵的人体贴圣灵的事。  

8:6 体贴肉体的就是死，体贴圣灵的乃是生命平安。  

8:7 原来体贴肉体的就是与　神为仇，因为不服　神的律法，也是不能服。  

8:8 而且，属肉体的人不能得　神的喜欢。  

8:9 如果　神的灵住在你们心里，你们就不属肉体，乃属圣灵了。人若没有基督的灵就不是属基督的，

8:10 基督若在你们心里，身体就因罪而死，心灵却因义而活。  

8:11 然而叫耶稣从死里复活者的灵，若住在你们心里，那叫基督耶稣从死里复活的，也必借着住在你们心里的圣灵，使你们必死的身体又活过来。  

8:12 弟兄们，这样看来，我们并不是欠肉体的债、去顺从肉体活着；

8:13 你们若顺从肉体活着必要死，若靠着圣灵治死身体的恶行必要活着。  

8:14 因为凡被　神的灵引导的都是　神的儿子。  

GOD can never be ignored

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Those who think they can do it on their own (overcome sin on their own) end up obsessed with measuring their own moral muscle but never get around to exercising it in real life. Those who trust GOD’s action in them find that GOD’s SPIRIT is in them—living and breathing GOD! Obsession with self in these matters is a dead end; attention to GOD leads us out into the open, into a spacious, free life. Focusing on the self is the opposite of focusing on GOD. Anyone completely absorbed in self ignores GOD, ends up thinking more about self than GOD. That person ignores who GOD is and what HE is doing. And GOD isn’t pleased at being ignored!

Scripture study: Rom. 8:1-14.

8:1 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,

8:2 because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death.

8:3 For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man,

8:4 in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit.

8:5 Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.

8:6 The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace;

8:7 the sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so.

8:8 Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God.

8:9 You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.

8:10 But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness.

8:11 And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you.

8:12 Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation--but it is not to the sinful nature, to live according to it.

8:13 For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live,

8:14 because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

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服从上帝永远都会受到祝福，让我们现在就开始服从上帝

人屡次受责罚，仍然硬着颈项，他必顷刻败坏，无法可治（箴言29:1）

亲爱的弟兄姊妹们，有些人存有错误的思想：当圣灵的带领临到他们时，他们可以暂时忽视不理，待他们想要时，才会在他们认为适合的时间服从圣灵。他们会想：“其实我知道我这样做是错的，我也知道这种生活方式不对，可是这么多年来我一直都是这么做的，还是等以后再给主一个交代吧。”

让我提醒你：你这样做极其危险！因为上帝曾说，当你拒绝祂的带领时，你的心便会越来越坚硬。但是这并不是说上帝的恩典不会再临到你，也不是说若你悔改、归向上帝，上帝也不会再宽恕你，这里是说：罪会使你的心变得麻木坚硬，以致你无法敏锐地听到上帝的呼召。

类似的事情就发生在以色列百姓的身上。上帝曾吩咐他们该做什么，但是他们却拒不照做。当上帝想要使他们进入应许之地，吩咐他们进入那地并占领它时，他们却断然拒绝了。

当然，他们认为他们有很好的拒绝理由。他们是被恐惧和不信所占据，他们实际上是想，若照上帝说的去做，一定会被敌人消灭。但是，你知道，无论有多好的理由，其实就是在悖逆上帝。悖逆最终会导致你受到苦难，也会使你的心一再地坚硬下去。

以色列的百姓常常忽视上帝的带领，最后上帝便打发他们返回了旷野。他们是如此硬着颈项悖逆上帝，以致上帝无法带领他们进入为他们计划好的祝福之中，只得让他们返回旷野，直到所有20岁以上悖逆的人（只剩2人）都死在旷野。上帝不得不从悖逆者的后代中培育新一代有肉心的子民，带领这些顺服的新一代进入了应许之地。

以上我们得到的教训是：不要轻视任何一种犯罪。当上帝告诉你该做什么时，不要怠慢，不要认为迟一会再做会变得更容易做。不会的，你若拖延不做，反而会变得更加难做。

当圣灵纠正你时，你要果断地服从祂的指示。让你的心变得柔软起来，服从主！

研经：尼希米9:6-37

9:6 你、惟独你是耶和华。你造了天和天上的天、并天上的万象，地和地上的万物，海和海中所有的，这一切都是你所保存的。天军也都敬拜你。  

9:7 你是耶和华 神，曾拣选亚伯兰，领他出迦勒底的吾珥，给他改名叫亚伯拉罕。  

9:8 你见他在你面前心里诚实，就与他立约，应许把迦南人、赫人、亚摩利人、比利洗人、耶布斯人、革迦撒人之地赐给他的后裔，且应验了你的话。因为你是公义的。  

9:9 你曾看见我们列祖在埃及所受的困苦，垂听他们在红海边的哀求，  

9:10 就施行神迹奇事，在法老和他一切臣仆、并他国中的众民身上，你也得了名声，正如今日一样。因为你知道他们向我们列祖行事狂傲。  

9:11 你又在我们列祖面前把海分开，使他们在海中行走干地，将追赶他们的人抛在深海，如石头抛在大水中。  

9:12 并且白昼用云柱引导他们，黑夜用火柱照亮他们当行的路。  

9:13 你也降临在西乃山，从天上与他们说话，赐给他们正直的典章、真实的律法、美好的条例与诫命。  

9:14 又使他们知道你的安息圣日，并借你仆人摩西传给他们诫命、条例、律法。  

9:15 从天上赐下粮食充他们的饥，从磐石使水流出解他们的渴，又吩咐他们进去得你起誓应许赐给他们的地。  

9:16 但我们的列祖行事狂傲，硬着颈项不听从你的诫命、  

9:17 不肯顺从，也不记念你在他们中间所行的奇事，竟硬着颈项、居心背逆自立首领，要回他们为奴之地。但你是乐意饶恕人，有恩典、有怜悯、不轻易发怒、有丰盛慈爱的　神，并不丢弃他们。  

9:18 他们虽然铸了一只牛犊，彼此说“这是领你出埃及的神”，因而大大惹动你的怒气。  

9:19 你还是大施怜悯，在旷野不丢弃他们，白昼云柱不离开他们，仍引导他们行路；黑夜火柱也不离开他们，仍照亮他们当行的路。  

9:20 你也赐下你良善的灵教训他们，未尝不赐吗哪使他们糊口，并赐水解他们的渴。  

9:21 在旷野四十年，你养育他们，他们就一无所缺：衣服没有穿破、脚也没有肿。  

9:22 并且你将列国之地照分赐给他们，他们就得了西宏之地、希实本王之地、和巴珊王噩之地。  

9:23 你也使他们的子孙多如天上的星，带他们到你所应许他们列祖进入得为业之地。  

9:24 这样，他们进去得了那地，你在他们面前制伏那地的居民，就是迦南人。将迦南人和其君王、并那地的居民都交在他们手里，让他们任意而待。  

9:25 他们得了坚固的城邑、肥美的地土、充满各样美物的房屋、凿成的水井、葡萄园、橄榄园、并许多果木树。他们就吃而得饱、身体肥胖，因你的大恩、心中快乐。  

9:26 然而他们不顺从，竟背叛你，将你的律法丢在背后，杀害那劝他们归向你的众先知，大大惹动你的怒气。  

9:27 所以你将他们交在敌人的手中，磨难他们。他们遭难的时候哀求你，你就从天上垂听，照你的大怜悯赐给他们拯救者，救他们脱离敌人的手。  

9:28 但他们得平安之后又在你面前行恶，所以你丢弃他们在仇敌的手中，使仇敌辖制他们。然而他们转回、哀求你，你仍从天上垂听，屡次照你的怜悯拯救他们，  

9:29 又警戒他们，要使他们归服你的律法。他们却行事狂傲，不听从你的诫命，干犯你的典章（人若遵行就必因此活着)扭转肩头，硬着颈项，不肯听从。  

9:30 但你多年宽容他们，又用你的灵借众先知劝戒他们，他们仍不听从。所以你将他们交在列国之民的手中。  

9:31 然而你大发怜悯，不全然灭绝他们，也不丢弃他们，因为你是有恩典、有怜悯的　神。  

9:32 我们的　神啊，你是至大、至能、至可畏、守约施慈爱的　神。我们的君王、首领、祭司、先知、列祖和你的众民，从亚述列王的时候直到今日所遭遇的苦难，现在求你不要以为小。  

9:33 在一切临到我们的事上，你却是公义的。因你所行的是诚实，我们所作的是邪恶。  

9:34 我们的君王、首领、祭司、列祖都不遵守你的律法、不听从你的诫命和你警戒他们的话。  

9:35 他们在本国里沾你大恩的时候，在你所赐给他们这广大肥美之地上不事奉你，也不转离他们的恶行。

9:36 我们现今作了奴仆，至于你所赐给我们列祖享受其上的土产并美物之地，看哪，我们在这地上作了奴仆。  

9:37 这地许多出产归了列王，就是你因我们的罪所派辖制我们的。他们任意辖制我们的身体和牲畜，我们遭了大难。  

Obedience to GOD will always bring blessing. Let us obey GOD starting right now.

"He who being often reproved hardens his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy."

(Proverbs 29:1)

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Some people have the mistaken idea that when the direction of the HOLY SPIRIT comes to them, they can just ignore it for a while if they want to and then obey HIM later in their own good time. They think to themselves, "I know what I'm doing is wrong. I know my lifestyle isn't right, but I'm just going to do it a while longer. Then I'll get things straightened out with the LORD."

Let me warn you, that is an extremely dangerous thing to do. Because GOD says that when you refuse HIS guidance, your heart grows hard. It's not that GOD's grace doesn't extend to you anymore. It's not that HE wouldn't forgive you if you turned to HIM. It's just that sin will callous your heart to the point where you can't hear HIM calling.

That's what happened to the children of Israel. GOD would tell them what to do and they wouldn't do it. When HE was trying to bring them into the Promised Land and HE told them to go in and possess it, they flatly refused.

Of course, they thought they had good reasons for refusing. They were so full of fear and unbelief that they actually thought if they did what GOD said, they'd be destroyed. But, you know, it doesn't matter how good your reasons are for disobeying GOD. That disobedience will still cost you to suffer the consequence. It will still harden your heart.

The children of Israel ignored GOD's leading so often that HE finally just sent them into the wilderness. They were so stiff-necked, HE couldn't lead them into the blessings HE'd planned for them, and HE had to just let them wander around until all but two of them had died off. HE had to raise up a whole new generation of softer hearted people before HE could take them into the land.

Take a lesson from that and don't play around with sin. When GOD tells you what you need to do, don't put HIM off thinking it will be easier to do it later. It won't be. It will be harder!

When the SPIRIT of GOD comes to correct you, follow HIS instructions and follow them quickly. Keep your heart tender. Obey the LORD!

Scripture Study: Nehemiah 9:6-37

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作基督的使者

所以我们作基督的使者（哥林多后书5:20）

亲爱的弟兄姊妹们，你是基督的使者！如果你让耶稣基督作为你的生命之主，那么在这个世界你就是受差派为耶稣基督的使者。就如各国的大使被派驻别国，在别国代表本国的利益一样，你就是天国派驻世界的使者，负责维护上帝国度的荣耀。

想想看，无论你去哪里，你所代表的都是万王之王、万主之主，这是至高的荣耀啊！也许看起来让人难以想象又高不可及，但是上帝会装备你，使你能够胜任此职。上帝不仅会赐你祂的名和祂话语的大能，甚至祂把自己的灵也赐在你里面，并且赐给你能力，使你能够听见和服从圣灵对你的指示。

多年前我曾听到一个预言，说将来基督徒在世上的言谈举止、行为做事会像上帝一样。他们受到上帝的能力和圣灵的大大激励，以致人们会说：“看看这些基督徒，他们认为自己就是上帝。”“不”，圣灵说：“他们不是上帝，他们是上帝的代表，是上帝的儿女，也是上帝的使者，奉差派做上帝的事工。”

我相信，我们现在就生活在这个预言所讲的时期。我们能够看到，光明的军队正在不断地成长和壮大。现在已经没有时间再把自己的生命一半献给 神、一半私有了，现在是尽心竭力专为上帝献出全部生命的时候---如果你这么做，上帝会赐你祂的恩膏、祂的能力、祂的荣耀和祂的美善，那么你将为上帝而发出光亮，正如腓立比书2:15里说，像光照耀在这弯曲悖谬的世代（在这弯曲悖谬的世代，作　神无瑕疵的儿女，你们显在这世代中，好像明光照耀）。

就在今天，开始思考你自己，不要只作普通的男人或女人，要作全能上帝的使者。让上帝国度的荣耀，永远在你的心里和意念里高居首位。【把自己降服于上帝：“主啊，求您指示我，在每一件事情中怎样作好您的使者。”】

今天就开始以基督使者的身份来生活吧！

研经：哥林多后书5:10-21

5:10 因为我们众人必要在基督台前显露出来，叫各人按着本身所行的，或善或恶受报。  

5:11 我们既知道主是可畏的，所以劝人，但我们在　神面前是显明的，盼望在你们的良心里也是显明的。  

5:12 我们不是向你们再举荐自己，乃是叫你们因我们有可夸之处，好对那凭外貌不凭内心夸口的人有言可答。  

5:13 我们若果颠狂，是为　神；若果谨守，是为你们。  

5:14 原来基督的爱激励我们，因我们想一人既替众人死，众人就都死了。

5:15 并且祂替众人死，是叫那些活着的人不再为自己活，乃为替他们死而复活的主活，  

5:16 所以我们从今以后不凭着外貌认人了。虽然凭着外貌认过基督，如今却不再这样认祂了。  

5:17 若有人在基督里，他就是新造的人，旧事已过，都变成新的了。  

5:18 一切都是出于　神，祂借着基督使我们与祂和好，又将劝人与祂和好的职分赐给我们。  

5:19 这就是　神在基督里叫世人与自己和好，不将他们的过犯归到他们身上，并且将这和好的道理托付了我们。  

5:20 所以我们作基督的使者，就好像　神借我们劝你们一般，我们替基督求你们与　神和好。  

5:21 神使那无罪的替我们成为罪，好叫我们在祂里面成为　神的义。  

Be an Ambassador for Christ

"Now then we are ambassadors for Christ...."

(2 Corinthians 5:20)

Dear Brothers and sisters,

You are an ambassador for CHRIST! If you have made JESUS CHRIST the LORD of your life, you have been sent to act as a representative for HIM in this world. Just as nations send ambassadors to represent their interests in other countries, you've been sent here to look after the interests of the KINGDOM of GOD.

Think about that. Everywhere you go you are representing the KING of Kings and the LORD of Lords. That's a very high honour. It may also seem like a rather tall bill to fill. But GOD has equipped you to do it. HE's given you HIS NAME and the power of HIS WORD. HE's even put HIS very own SPIRIT inside you. And HE's given you the ability to hear and obey the directions of that SPIRIT.

I heard a prophecy years ago that said there would come a time when men on the earth would walk and talk and act like GOD. They'd be motivated by HIS power and His SPIRIT so strongly that people would say of them, "Look at those believers. They think they're GOD." "No," the HOLY SPIRIT said, "they are not GOD. They are agents of GOD, children of GOD, ambassadors of GOD, sent to do the works of GOD."

I believe we're living in the day and hour that prophecy was talking about. We're seeing that army of light begin to grow.

This is no time to be half-consecrated and half-dedicated. This is the time to go all the way with GOD, to give HIM your whole life. If you'll do that, HE'll give you back such anointing and such power and such glory and goodness that you'll shine for HIM, as Philippians 2:15 says, as lights in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation (15 so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.” Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky).

Begin to think about yourself today, not as just another ordinary man or woman but as an ambassador of ALMIGHTY GOD. Let the interests of HIS kingdom be foremost in your mind and heart. Submit yourself to HIM and say, "LORD, show me how to be YOUR representative in everything I do."

You are an ambassador for CHRIST. Begin to live like it today.

Scripture Study: 2 Corinthians 5: 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of CHRIST, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.

11 Since, then, we know what it is to fear the LORD, we try to persuade others. What we are is plain to GOD, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience. 12 We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to take pride in us, so that you can answer those who take pride in what is seen rather than in what is in the heart. 13 If we are “out of our mind,” as some say, it is for GOD; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. 14 For CHRIST’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. 15 And HE died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for HIM who died for them and was raised again.

16 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded CHRIST in this way, we do so no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in CHRIST, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! 18 All this is from GOD, who reconciled us to HIMSELF through CHRIST and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 that GOD was reconciling the world to HIMSELF in CHRIST, not counting people’s sins against them. And HE has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20 We are therefore CHRIST’s ambassadors, as though GOD were making HIS appeal through us. We implore you on CHRIST’s behalf: Be reconciled to GOD. 21 GOD made HIM who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in HIM we might become the righteousness of GOD.

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无所惧怕!

主曾说：“我总不撇下你、也不丢弃你。”所以我们可以放胆说：“主是帮助我的，我必不惧怕，人能把我怎么样呢？”（希伯来书13:5-6）

亲爱的弟兄姊妹们，“怕丢面子”是现今存在于基督肢体中的主要问题，存有这种意识就会导致我们不能勇敢坚定地服从上帝的吩咐，我们会对上帝的话语产生怀疑---如果我按照上帝的话去做，那别人会怎么看我？比如，我奉上帝的名，命令这个瘫痪的人从轮椅上站起来，而他却站不起来，那我不是很没面子吗？如果我跟人分享，靠着上帝我相信我会战胜困境，可是我的处境非但没有改善，反而更加窘迫，那别人会怎么想呢，上帝？在他们眼里，我不就是个不太好的基督徒了吗？

如果你有过这样的想法，那让我告诉你：人怎样看你都无所谓，你服从上帝才是关键。当你服从上帝时，你的个人名誉就不再重要，而且你越早放弃个人名誉就对你越好。如果你只专注于服从上帝，那么上帝必会因你的信心和服从而在你的生命中行出超乎想象的大作为。

并且你知道吗？一旦你这样去做（专注服从上帝，不在乎自己的名誉），你的名誉反而会好起来。这是很有意思的事，当你放弃维护自己的形象时，你的形象反而会被改善。为什么呢？因为当人们看你时，看到的不是你微不足道的形象，而是会看到主耶稣的形象透过你彰显出来。

所以你要撇开“怕丢面子”的旧意识，在你里面发展上帝的意识。不要再受“怕人耻笑、怕出洋相”的恐惧控制，要信靠主耶稣来行万事。

毕竟主承诺，祂总不撇下你、也不丢弃你---紧握这个承诺，相信它，并把这个承诺作为你行万事的根基！一旦你这样做了，你就会懂得，真的再没有什么可惧怕的了！

研经：罗马书8:29-39

8:29 因为祂预先所知道的人，就预先定下效法祂儿子的模样，使祂儿子在许多弟兄中作长子。

8:30 预先所定下的人又召他们来，所召来的人又称他们为义；所称为义的人，又叫他们得荣耀。  

8:31 既是这样，还有甚么说的呢？　神若帮助我们，谁能敌挡我们呢？  

8:32 神既不爱惜自己的儿子，为我们众人舍了，岂不也把万物和祂一同白白的赐给我们吗？  

8:33 谁能控告　神所拣选的人呢？有　神称他们为义了。

8:34 谁能定他们的罪呢？有基督耶稣已经死了，而且从死里复活，现今在　神的右边也替我们祈求。

8:35 谁能使我们与基督的爱隔绝呢？难道是患难么、是困苦么、是逼迫么、是饥饿么、是赤身露体么、是危险么、是刀剑么？

8:36 如经上所记：“我们为你的缘故终日被杀，人看我们如将宰的羊。”

8:37 然而靠着爱我们的主，在这一切的事上已经得胜有余了。  

8:38 因为我深信无论是死、是生、是天使、是掌权的、是有能的、是现在的事、是将来的事、  

8:39 是高处的、是低处的、是别的受造之物，都不能叫我们与　神的爱隔绝。这爱，是在我们的主基督耶稣里的。  

Nothing to Be Afraid Of

"HE hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, The LORD is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me."

(Hebrews 13:5-6)

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Self-consciousness is a major problem in the BODY of CHRIST today. It keeps us from doing the things GOD tells us to do. Instead of simply obeying HIM, it makes us start to wonder, "Now what will people think of me if I do that? What if I command that person to get out of the wheelchair and he doesn't get up? What if I start believing for prosperity and go broke? What about that, GOD? I won't look too good, will I?"

If you've ever been through that, let me tell you something: It doesn't matter how you look! It's obeying GOD that counts. When it comes to obeying GOD, your own reputation doesn't count; and the sooner you forget it, the better off you'll be.

But you know what's ironic? Once you do that, your reputation gets better. It's a funny thing. When you lose that desire to protect your image, your image will improve. Why? Because then when people look at you, instead of seeing that puny little image you have of yourself, they'll see the image of the LORD JESUS coming through.

So put aside that old self-consciousness and develop GOD-consciousness instead. Stop being dominated by the fear of man and start being motivated by faith in what JESUS can do.

After all, HE has promised HE will never leave you or forsake you. Grab hold of that. Believe it. Act on it. Once you do, you'll realize there's really nothing to be afraid of anymore!

Scripture Study: Romans 8: 29 For those GOD foreknew HE also predestined to be conformed to the image of HIS SON, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. 30 And those HE predestined, HE also called; those HE called, HE also justified; those HE justified, HE also glorified.

More Than Conquerors

31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If GOD is for us, who can be against us? 32 HE who did not spare HIS own SON, but gave HIM up for us all—how will HE not also, along with HIM, graciously give us all things? 33 Who will bring any charge against those whom GOD has chosen? It is GOD who justifies. 34 Who then is the one who condemns? No one. CHRIST JESUS who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of GOD and is also interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of CHRIST? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written:

“For your sake we face death all day long;

we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through HIM who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of GOD that is in CHRIST JESUS our LORD.