问题40：我们应该祷告什么？
答：神的全部话语都在指导和启发我们应该祷告什么，包括耶稣亲自教我们的祷告。
儿童版：神的全部话语都在指导和启发我们应该祷告什么。

Question 40: What Should We Pray?
Answer: The whole Word of God directs and inspires us in what we should pray, including the prayer Jesus himself taught us.
For Kids: The whole Word of God directs us in what we should pray.


歌谱 Lead Sheet

经文

《以弗所书》3 章14 节至21 节：

　　因此，我在父面前屈膝，（天上地上的各家都是从祂得名），求祂按着祂丰盛的荣耀，藉着祂的灵，叫你们心里的力量刚强起来。使基督因你们的信，住在你们心里，叫你们的爱心有根有基，能以和众圣徒一同明白基督的爱是何等长阔高深；并知道这爱是过于人所能测度的，便叫神一切所充满的，充满了你们。

　　神能照着运行在我们心里的大力，充充足足地成就一切，超过我们所求所想的。但愿祂在教会中，并在基督耶稣里，得着荣耀，直到世世代代，永永远远。阿们！

注解

约翰·屈梭多模

　　圣经蕴藏着巨大的宝藏，它足以满足任何的需要。保罗曾指出：「从前所写的圣经，都是为教训我们写的，叫我们这末世的人因圣经所生的忍耐和安慰，可以得着盼望。」（罗15:4 ；参见林前10:11）神的话真是一个宝库，有着各样的良方。因此，无论谁要放下愚蠢的骄傲、扑灭情欲的火焰、粉碎对钱财的贪念、轻视苦楚，还是要寻求喜乐，养成耐心，在圣经中祂都可以找到大量的方法。

默想

阿利斯泰·贝格

　　若问我们应该祷告什么，我们会本能地翻阅圣经，因为圣经会激励并指导我们。比如说，耶稣提醒我们要常常祷告，不可灰心，或者保罗提醒腓立比人应当一无挂虑，只要凡事借着祷告求助于神。是圣经确保我们有据可循。当我们祷告时，我们是在求神，使我们和祂人行在合神心意的路上。若我们这样祷告，我们就相信神必会成就。

　　所以我们可以为我们的世界祷告，希望世人能够相信福音。正如耶稣所说的，我们可以为被送到禾场的工人祷告；我们可以为福音在我们自己身上的工作祷告，使我们可以成为圣洁、喜乐且感恩的人。虽然我们祷告了这么多，但我们要记得神是乐意赐福我们更多的，甚至不需要我们花时间来求问祂。

　　正如耶稣所说：「你们虽然不好，尚且知道拿好东西给儿女，何况你们在天上的父，岂不更把好东西给求祂的人吗？」（太7:11）

祷告

　　听我们祷告的神，让祢活泼的道塑造我们的渴望和祷告。愿祂来挑战我们为那些看似不可能的事祷告。当我们来到祢面前，愿祂让我们知道我们是祢所爱的儿女。愿祂使我们屈膝下拜，承认我们需要祢。阿们。

Scripture

EPHESIANS 3:14–21

For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

Commentary

JOHN CHRYSOSTOM

Great is the profit to be derived from the sacred Scriptures and their assistance is sufficient for every need. Paul was pointing this out when he said, “Whatever things have been written have been written for our instruction, upon whom the final age of the world has come, that through the patience and the consolation afforded by the Scriptures we may have hope.” (Rom. 15:4; see 1 Cor. 10:11) The divine words, indeed, are a treasury containing every sort of remedy, so that, whether one needs to put down senseless pride, or to quench the fire of concupiscence or to trample on the love of riches, or to despise pain, or to cultivate cheerfulness and acquire patience—in them one may find in abundance the means to do so.

Devotional

ALISTAIR BEGG

When we’re asking what we should pray about, we instinctively turn to the Bible, because it’s the Bible that inspires us and directs us. So whether it’s Jesus reminding us that we should always pray and not faint or Paul reminding the Philippians not to be anxious about anything but in everything to turn to God in prayer, it is the Bible that keeps us on track. As we pray, we’re really asking God to bring our lives and the lives of others into line with his purposes. And when we pray in that way, we’re able to pray with confidence.

So, we can pray for our world, that men and women might come to believe the gospel. We can pray for laborers to be sent into the harvest field, as Jesus said. We can pray for the work of the gospel in our own lives, that we might become holy and joyful and thankful. And when we do all of this, we need to remember that God is far more willing to bless us than we are even to take the time to ask him.

As Jesus said, “If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!” (Matt. 7:11).

Prayer

God Who Hears, let your living Word shape our desires and our prayers. May it challenge us to pray for things that don’t seem possible. May it inform our view of you as we approach you as beloved sons and daughters. May it drive us to our knees as we recognize our need of you. Amen.