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採取行動:全部恢復!
TAKE ACTION: RECOVER ALL!
金波特Kim Potter
日期:2022年3月11日 
翻譯:Kate 
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掠奪不是被動的。它不是會自動發生。即使神對你說要採取行動進行掠奪,它也不會神奇地發生。你必須首先採取行動。我們在大衛的生命中看到這個真理。

在《撒母耳記上》第30章中,大衛和他的手下回到家裡,發現他們被敵人入侵了,敵人奪走了他們的一切,帶走了他們的牲畜、帳篷和他們的家人,什麼都沒留下。當然,大衛和他的部下非常痛苦,以至於人們談到要為敵人的行動用石頭砸死大衛。大衛做了三件事,引起了巨大的轉機,今天我們就來看看。

首先,大衛詢問了主。他沒有害怕地逃跑。他沒有說,"哦,天哪!現在怎麼辦?現在怎麼辦?" 不,他轉向上帝。

"大衛非常焦急,因為眾百姓為自己的兒女痛心,說要用石頭打死他。大衛卻倚靠耶和華─他的神,堅定自己。大衛對亞希米勒的兒子亞比亞他祭司說:「請你把以弗得拿來給我。」亞比亞他就把以弗得拿給大衛。大衛求問耶和華說:「我追趕這群人,是否追得上呢?」耶和華對他說:「你可以追,一定追得上,也一定救得回來"。(第 6-8節)

一旦大衛得到了他的答案,結果就完全取決於他。他必須採取行動。而他也確實這樣做了。大衛追趕他的敵人,一心想奪回他的事物和他的家人。

"大衛帶著四百人往前追趕;有二百人疲乏,不能過比梭溪,留在那裏。" (第10節)

最後,聖經說,"......大衛全都奪回來"(第19節)。

"大衛擊殺他們,從黎明直到次日晚上,除了四百個騎駱駝逃走的青年之外,一個也沒有逃脫。亞瑪力人所擄去的財物,大衛全都奪回,並救回他的兩個妻子。凡亞瑪力人所擄去的,無論大小、兒女、掠物和一切被擄去的,大衛全都奪回來。大衛所奪來的牛群羊群,有人趕在群畜前面,說:「這是大衛的掠物。」"。(第17-20節)

敵人進來了,奪走了大衛的一切:妻子、孩子、牲畜,和他的財物。大衛有一個選擇。他可以哭泣和乞求,帶著這巨大的損失繼續生活;或者他可以收回被搶的事物。

我們也有這樣的選擇,因為我們有來自神的恢復的應許。

"我差遣到你們中間的大軍隊,就是蝗蟲、蝻子、螞蚱、剪蟲,那些年間所吃的,我要補還給你們。你們必吃得飽足,讚美耶和華-你們神的名,他為你們行了奇妙的事。我的百姓不致羞愧,直到永遠。"。(約珥書2:25-26)

"但若被抓到,要賠償七倍,他必賠上家中一切財物。" (箴言6:31)。

聖經在馬太福音第11章第12節中說:"從施洗約翰的日子到今天,天國受到強烈的攻擊,強者奪取它。"

現在是用武力奪回一些事物的時候了。現在是恢復所有的時候了。你是否在敵人那裡失去了一些事物--孩子、貨物、牲畜、家園或平安?現在是奪回的時候了。像大衛那樣做,向主詢問。然後,當主給你指示時,採取行動。去追回你的事物。掠奪和戰利品是我們從神那裡得到的應許的一部分;然而,我們不能被動,我們必須採取行動。我們必須去追趕它。我們必須追尋並收回。

我們如何做到這一點?用我們的話語。上帝用話語創造了整個世界--我們的話語中蘊含著力量。生與死在我們的話語中。恢復就在我們的話語中。收回你的事物。

(經文引用2010年和合本修訂版)


TAKE ACTION: RECOVER ALL!
KIM POTTER, DAYTON, TN
2022.3.11

Plundering is not passive. It is not something that will automatically happen. Even if God speaks to you to take action and plunder, it won’t magically happen. You must first, take action. We see this truth in the life of David.

In 1 Samuel 30, David and his men return home to find they have been invaded by an enemy and that enemy has taken everything they owned. They took their livestock, their tents, and their families. Nothing was left. Of course, David and his men were greatly distressed, so much so, the men spoke of stoning David for the action of the enemy. David did three things that caused a great turnaround, let’s look at them today.

First, David inquired of the Lord. He didn’t run in fear. He didn’t say, “Oh my! Now what?” No, he turned to God.

"Now David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and his daughters. But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God. Then David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech’s son, 'Please bring the ephod here to me.' And Abiathar brought the ephod to David. So, David inquired of the Lord, saying, 'Shall I pursue this troop? Shall I overtake them?' And He answered him, 'Pursue, for you shall surely overtake them and without fail recover all.'" (v. 6-8)

Once David had his answer, the outcome was entirely up to him. He had to take action. And he did. David pursued his enemy with every intent to take back his stuff and his family.

"But David pursued, he and four hundred men; for two hundred stayed behind, who were so weary that they could not cross the Brook Besor." (v. 10)

Finally, the Bible says, “...David recovered all” (v. 19).

"Then David attacked them from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men who rode on camels and fled. So David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away, and David rescued his two wives. And nothing of theirs was lacking, either small or great, sons or daughters, spoil, or anything which they had taken from them; David recovered all. Then David took all the flocks and herds they had driven before those other livestock, and said, 'This is David’s spoil.'" (v. 17-20)

The enemy came in and took everything David had, his wives, his children, his livestock, and his belongings. David had a choice. He could cry and beg and go on with life with this great loss. Or he could recover what had been stolen.

We too have this choice because we have a promise of restoration from God.

"I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, My great army, which I sent among you. 'You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, who has dealt wondrously with you. And My people shall never again be put to shame.'" (Joel 2:25-26)

"Yet when he (a thief) is found, he must restore sevenfold; He may have to give up all the substance of his house." (Proverbs 6:31, emphasis mine)

The Bible says in Matthew 11:12: "And from the days of John the Baptist until now the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force."

It’s time to take some things back—by force. It’s time to recover all. Have you lost some things to the enemy—children, goods, livestock, homes, or peace? It is time to take it back. Do like David did, inquire of the Lord. Then, when the Lord gives you instruction, take action. Go after your stuff. Plunder and spoils are part of our promises from God; however, we cannot be passive—we must take action. We must go after it. We must pursue and recover.

How do we do that? With our words. God created the entire world with words—there is power in our words. Life and death in our words. RECOVERY IS IN OUR WORDS. Take back your stuff.