九月九日
经文: 「我就应允你，並将你所不知道，又大又难的事指示你。」（耶利米书卅三：3）
这节圣经有好多译法。有人译作“……又大又强的事”，也有人译为“大而保藏的事”。那么，基督徒的经验中也有一些保藏的、特殊的事：各人属灵生命的发展是不相同的。悔改的经验大都相似，信、乐、望，也都雷同；但欢乐，面对面的相交，并与基督合一的至高境界，并非一般信徒所能臻至的。我们没有约翰所有的一切特恩，倚在耶稣的怀里；也没有保罗被提到三层天上的经验。属神的事中有一些至高的实际知识是锐利的鹰眼所看不到的，也是深奥的思想所想不到的：惟有神能使我们达到那里；但祂使我们所乘的车，以及拉车的马，乃是得胜的祷告。
得胜的祷告能胜过怜悯人的神，“壮年的时候与神较力，与天使较力，并且得胜；哭泣恳求，在伯特利遇见耶和华，耶和华万军之神在那里晓谕我们。”
得胜的祷告把基督徒带到迦密山上，并使福云在天空遮盖他，使恩雨降满大地。得胜的祷告把基督徒带到毗斯迦山顶，叫他看到为他所存留的基业；它把我们提到他泊山上改变我们的形象，直到我们像主，我们在世上也是这样。若你要从普通的经验中进入更高的境地，就当仰望那高过你的磐石，用信心的眼向迫切祷告的窗外观看。当你开了你的一扇窗，另一扇窗也就为你大开。
Morning, September 9
Scripture: “I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not.”(Jeremiah 33:3)
There are different translations of these words. One version renders it, “I will shew thee great and fortified things.” Another, “Great and reserved things.” Now, there are reserved and special things in Christian experience: all the developments of spiritual life are not alike easy of attainment. There are the common frames and feelings of repentance, and faith, and joy, and hope, which are enjoyed by the entire family; but there is an upper realm of rapture, of communion, and conscious union with Christ, which is far from being the common dwelling-place of believers. We have not all the high privilege of John, to lean upon Jesus’ bosom; nor of Paul, to be caught up into the third heaven. There are heights in experimental knowledge of the things of God which the eagle's eye of acumen and philosophic thought hath never seen: God alone can bear us there; but the chariot in which he takes us up, and the fiery steeds with which that chariot is dragged, are prevailing prayers. Prevailing prayer is victorious over the God of mercy, “By his strength he had power with God: yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Beth-el, and there he spake with us.” Prevailing prayer takes the Christian to Carmel, and enables him to cover heaven with clouds of blessing, and earth with floods of mercy. Prevailing prayer bears the Christian aloft to Pisgah, and shows him the inheritance reserved; it elevates us to Tabor and transfigures us, till in the likeness of his Lord, as he is, so are we also in this world. If you would reach to something higher than ordinary grovelling experience, look to the Rock that is higher than you, and gaze with the eye of faith through the window of importunate prayer. When you open the window on your side, it will not be bolted on the other.
