於2022-08-18發佈


DAY 57
有價值觀的異象
雷克-喬納 Rick Joyner
翻譯:Kate
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今天,似乎那些擁有最磐石般的價值觀的人缺乏遠見。同樣地,許多有遠見的人也缺乏價值觀。我們的目標必須是有價值觀的異象。我們要在健全的聖經真理中越紮越深,真正致力於聖經明確規定的道德標準和誠信。

為了實現有效的異象,我們還需要提高我們對歷史的看法。如果我們不得不一次又一次地 "重新發明輪子",我們將很少能完成真正新的和新鮮的東西。正是從堅如磐石的價值觀的堅實基礎上,結合從前人那裡得到的智慧和謙遜,我們才能展望未來,為即將到來的事情做準備。真正的異象有如此強大的根基。

當我們在談論即將到來的 "新"事物時,我們不僅僅是在談論重新設計教會。在過去的幾十年裡,重新設計的熱潮席捲了西方工業界,現在也席捲了教會的許多地方。工業和教會都需要很多這樣的東西。我們需要從教會的四面牆和我們的"會議心態"中解脫出來,看到教會成為一種活生生的、充滿活力的力量,一週七天,一天二十四小時都在運作。然而,正如工業界對再造工程只導致一些人能夠使錯誤的產品變得更好一樣,教會中的許多人認為,通過採用新方法,他們可以變得更適合這個時代。新方法論可能會有説明,但我們需要的不僅僅是這些。基督教的定義需要轉化。

對許多基督徒來說,信仰只是他們生活的附屬品,而不是生活本身的本質。耶穌不是為了每週與我們見面幾次而死在十字架上的。祂來是為了成為我們的生命。這是我們最終的呼召和目的:讓耶穌成為我們的生命,以便我們能夠彰顯在祂身上的生命和力量。這永遠不會因為我們有更好的建築或更好的計畫而得到實現。我們的工是為了讓基督在祂的子民中形成。我們的目標是努力使每一個人在基督裡得到完全。

這不是一個新信息。事實上,每一代人中可能都有一些人在宣揚這個信息。即便如此,真正做到這一點確實很激進,但這必須是我們的目標。我們必須有意識地在祂裡面生活、行動和存在(徒17:28)。我們的最終目標應該是只想祂會想的事,只說祂會說的話,並做我們看到祂做的事。這是我們作為王的使者的呼召--代表祂,讓祂通過我們活出祂的生命。

我驚奇地看著我們當地的先知事工團隊。我們現在有大約四百人在其中服事。這些人真的聽到了神的聲音,他們被用來從根本上影響成千上萬的生命。我覺得他們的恩賜不斷進入新的層次。然而,我們更敏銳地感覺到需要那些有解釋恩賜的人。大多數獲得更高層次啟示的人都沒有解釋的恩賜。現在,我們正試圖將那些有明顯解釋恩賜的人與那些得到啟示的人組合起來。

真正的先知性解釋並不是來自於對聖經象徵意義的瞭解。解釋本身就是一種先知的恩賜。有趣的是,聖經中可能擁有最大解經恩賜的兩個人,約瑟和但以理,似乎只能夠解釋別人的夢。他們實際上不能解釋直接給他們的啟示。主似乎有意讓我們需要別人,無論我們的恩賜有多大。這就是我們現在所處的事奉階段。

即使我們有了啟示和解釋,還有另一個階段,那就是應用。這與其說是先知的恩賜,不如說是主要賦予使徒、牧師和教師的一種智慧領域。我們有不少預言性的話語,我們覺得必須要發出去,結果有牧師打電話來詢問他們應該如何回應這些話。我們的回答往往是:"我們不知道。這是你的職責。" 這通常讓他們感到震驚,但我們知道自己的局限性,以及我們多麼需要他們來瞭解全貌。

即使是最偉大的先知事工也只能看到一部分,因此要想得到全貌,我們必須把他們得到的東西和其他人看到的東西放在一起。有許多不成熟、不耐煩或理想主義的人認為,如果有人真的聽到神的聲音,他們應該得到整個信息。但這是一種假設,導致人們在預言方面的許多問題。

最好的人只能看到一部分,所以每當我們聽到預言時,我們需要不斷尋求主的其他部分。主已經組成了祂的身體,並分配了所有的恩賜,所以我們需要彼此。沒有人可以在沒有教會其他成員的情況下單獨存在。因此,除非我們適當地與整個基督的身體結合,否則我們不會有準確的異象。

我們自己的地方教會在先知的恩賜方面有了很大的發展,我們相信有一天會有數以百計的具有新約地位的成熟的先知事工從我們教會發出。我們也知道,我們未來對教會的貢獻將要求所有這些都與目前的傳道、牧養和教導事工結合起來,以幫助為即將到來的使徒式事工準備道路。

當主賜給教會的所有事工都能團結一致地發揮作用時,那將是一個榮耀的日子。這是主對祂的子民完美的計畫(見約17:23)。即便如此,只有當我們把注意力放在神的最終目的上時,我們才會安全,不會把神的次要目的變成偶像。神的最終目的不僅僅是讓各事工彼此合一,而是讓所有的人與祂合一。

這些時代充滿了潛力。天窗似乎不斷地打開。我們都可以走得很高,只要我們有信心就可以走得很遠。正如甘保羅曾經說過的:"我們都是想離上帝多近就多近"。面紗已經撕開,大門已經打開。讓我們利用我們被賦予的巨大祝福,帶著真理本身賦予我們的知識,生活在這個非凡的時代。讓我們不要一直等待有人來攪動水面,而國王本人就站在我們身邊!現在是時候了。現在是前進的時候了,走下船來與祂同行。

現在是時候去實現最高的異象了,像祂一樣,做祂所做的工作。像祂一樣意味著我們必須深深地、完全地奉獻給主的價值觀。這首先是愛--對祂的愛和對彼此的愛。獻身於聖靈的恩賜是正確的,因為聖經命令我們 "懇切盼望"(見哥林多前書12:31)它們。然而,所有的恩賜都是通過信仰發揮作用,而信仰則是通過愛來發揮作用。我們應該尊重聖靈的恩賜,但要從奉獻聖靈的果實這一最堅實委身的基礎出發。

 

DAY 57
Vision With Values
Rick Joyner

Today it seems as if those who have the most rock solid values are lacking in vision. Likewise, many who have vision are lacking in values. It must be our goal to have vision with values. We want to sink our roots deeper and deeper into sound biblical truth, with a genuine commitment to the moral standards and integrity that are clearly mandated by Scripture.

For an effective vision, we also need to increase our perspective of history. We will accomplish very little that is truly new and fresh if we have to "re-invent the wheel" over and over. It is from the firm foundation of rock solid values, combined with the wisdom and humility to receive from those who have gone before us, that we can look into the future and prepare for what is to come. True vision has such strong roots.

When we are talking about the "new" thing that is coming we are not just talking about re-engineering the church. A fad of re-engineering swept through Western industry over the last couple of decades, and it is now sweeping much of the church. Much of this was needed in industry and the church. We need to be delivered from the four walls of the church, and our "meeting mentality," and see the church become a living, vibrant force that functions twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. However, just as much of the devotion to re-engineering in industry only resulted in some being able to make the wrong products better, many in the church have thought that by adopting a new methodology they could become more relevant to the times. New methodologies can be helpful, but we need more than that. The very definition of Christianity needs transforming.

To many Christians, faith is but an appendage to their lives, rather than the essence of life itself. Jesus did not come to die on the cross so that He could meet with us a couple of times a week. He came to be our life. This is our ultimate calling and purpose: for Jesus to be our life so that we can manifest the life and power that is found in Him. This will never be done because we have better buildings or better programs. Our labor is for Christ to be formed in His people. Our goal is to try to present every man complete in Christ.

This is not a new message. In fact, there have probably been some who have preached it in every generation. Even so, to actually do it would be radical indeed, but that must be our goal. We must consciously live and move and have our being in Him (Acts 17:28). Our ultimate goal should be to only think thoughts that He would think, to only say what He would say, and to do that which we see Him doing. This is our calling as ambassadors of the King—to represent Him by having Him live His life through us.

I have watched our local prophetic ministry teams in amazement. We now have about four hundred people who serve on them. These people are really hearing from God, and they are being used to radically impact thousands of lives. I feel that their gifts are constantly going to new levels. However, we are feeling more acutely aware of the need for those with gifts of interpretation. Most who get the higher levels of revelation do not have the gift of interpretation. Now we are trying to team those with obvious gifts of interpretation with those who get revelation.

True prophetic interpretation does not come from just knowing biblical symbolism. Interpretation is a prophetic gift in its own right. It is interesting that the two men who probably had the greatest gifts of interpretation in Scripture, Joseph and Daniel, only seemed able to interpret dreams that came to others. They actually could not interpret the revelation that came directly to them. The Lord seems intent on making us need others regardless of how great our gifts are. This is the phase that we are now in as a ministry.

Even when we have revelation and interpretation, there is another phase yet, which is application. This is not so much of a prophetic gift as it is a realm of wisdom given mostly to the apostles, pastors, and teachers. We have had quite a few prophetic words that we felt compelled to send out which resulted in calls from pastors asking what they should do in response to these words. Often our response was, "We don't know. That's your part." This usually shocked them, but we know our limits, and how much we need them to get the full picture.

Even the greatest prophetic ministry will only see in part, and therefore to get the entire picture we must put what they get together with what others are seeing. There are many immature, impatient, or idealistic people that believe if someone is really hearing from God they should get the whole message. But that is a presumption that causes many of the problems people have with the prophetic.

The best only see in part, so whenever we hear a prophetic word, we need to keep seeking the Lord for the other parts. The Lord has composed His body, and distributed all of the gifts so that we need each other. No one can stand alone without the rest of the church. Therefore, we will not have an accurate vision unless we are properly joined to the entire body of Christ.

Our own local church has seen much growth in the prophetic gifts, and we believe that we will one day have hundreds of mature prophetic ministries of New Testament stature sent out from our church. We also know that our future contribution to the church is going to require that all of these be joined with the present evangelistic, pastoral, and teaching ministries to help prepare the way for the coming apostolic ministry.

It will be a glorious day when all of the ministries that the Lord has given to His church are able to function together in unity. That is the Lord's plan for the perfection of His people (see John 17:23). Even so, it is only as we keep our attention on the ultimate purpose of God that we will be safe from making idols out of His lesser purposes. The ultimate purpose of God is not just having ministries walk in unity with each other, but having all of His people in unity with Him.

These times are pregnant with potential. The windows of heaven seem to be continually open. We can all go as high as we desire, and as far as we have the faith to go. As Paul Cain once said, "We are all as close to God as we want to be." The veil has been rent, and the door is open. Let's take advantage of the great blessing we have been given to live in these extraordinary times with the knowledge we have been given by the Truth Himself. Let's not keep waiting for someone to come stir the waters while the King Himself is standing right next to us! It is time to go ahead and step out of the boat and walk with Him.

It is time to go for the highest vision of all, being like Him and doing the works that He did. Being like Him means that we must be deeply and completely devoted to the values of the Lord. This was first of all love—love for Him and love for one another. It is right to be devoted to the gifts of the Spirit because the Scripture commands us to "earnestly desire" (see I Corinthians 12:31) them. However, all of the gifts work through faith, and faith works by love. We should esteem the gifts of the Spirit, but from the most solid foundation of devotion to the fruit of the Spirit.