Cong Fang

你称我为主，你听从我了吗？
You call me Lord, have you listened to me?

你称我为道路，你走在其上吗？
You call me Way, have you walked on it?

你称我为全智，你跟从我了吗？
You call me Wisdom, have you followed me?

你称我为神的丰盛，你祈求过我吗？
You call me The Riches of God, have you prayed to me?

你称我为仁慈，你依靠我了吗？
You call me Mercy, have you put your trust on me?

你称我为全能，你尊敬我吗？
You call me Omnipotence, have you honored me?

你称我为光，你看见我了吗？
You call me Light, have you seen me?

你称我为生命，你盼望得著我吗？
You call me Life, have you longed for me?

你称我为良人，你爱我吗？
You call me Beloved, have you loved me?

你称我为永生，你寻求过我吗？
You call me Eternal Life, have you sought me?

你称我为尊贵，你事奉我了吗？
You call me Honor, have you served me?

你称我为公义，敬畏我吗？
You call me Justice, have you feared me?

清教徒 Richard Steele (1629-1692)

“無論是多麼虔誠的藉口、多麼美觀的前景、或多麼巨大的壓力，不要被這些理由說服你去擾亂公眾的安寧、羞辱你的政府、或從事任何不合法的計劃… 讓神獨自統治這世界；讓合法的地方官長獨自治理祂的人民；而你要做的是樂意地服從或平靜地受苦。「你們若為基督的名受辱罵，便是有福的，因為神榮耀的靈常住在你們身上。 你們中間卻不可有人因為殺人、偷竊、作惡、好管閒事而受苦。」（彼前4:14-15）”

Paul Washer – Prayer (Matthew 6:9-11)

• Christianity is much more than doctrine, but it’s not less than doctrine, but it’s more than doctrine. It is a relationship with God. 
• A praying man is a useful man.
• All praying is based upon our knowledge of who God is.
• You must have a prayer life that is be based upon the knowledge of God: who is God, what are the works of God, and how does God work.
• Walk with God on your knees.
• Know God relationally in prayer.
• Spend the most of time on your knees cultivate a life of prayer.
• Prayer makes a man to be able to speak God’s Word with authority.
• The reverence before God and the boldness before God go hand in hand.
• One of the most powerful prayer is looking up to God and saying “You know.”
• Every trial is to show you your inability and to blow you back to the Great Source of all strength.
• Read the Bible and develop a biblical mind. Think as God thinks and pray as God wills.
• In the Lord’s Prayer, we see the heart of Jesus Christ.
• The only way that you should come out of a pulpit satisfied is because of that sermon the name of God was made greater.
• Expository preaching is a means for God to be glorified.
• If God not be glorified, you cannot be satisfied.
• Once a while we should preach on the streets.
• It takes lots more than loving people for you (to preach on streets). It’s going to take this: His name must be hallowed here (it needs the loving of God).
• The loving to God is the attitude that makes hell tremble.
• If you want the name of God to be hallowed, you are going to spend a lifetime fighting, and those battles are carried out on your knees.
• God’s name is going to be hallowed through our proclamation, and our proclamation is given wings on our prayers.
• Waiting on God is not doing nothing, but running to the throne of God.
• We do not wrestle with Goliath; we wrestle with God.
• We do it by proclamation of the Word of God and copious, ongoing, enduring, preserving, believing prayer.
• I will not let you go until you have fulfilled your promises.