於2012-04-12發佈

知識言語的恩賜

我曾有另一次先知性經歷,從中學到極寶貴的功課。那時我駕著我們事工的飛機,帶著一些樂手,要到田納西州的那什維爾市錄音。在飛機滑行到停機坡道後,一位年輕女孩指揮我們停機。停好飛機後,其中一位樂手的妻子經過那女孩旁,對她說:『妳跟動物相處比跟人還融洽,妳應該成為一位獸醫。』那女孩看起來很震驚,我不禁好奇這樣說是否污辱到她。

我們的團隊先行搭車去錄音室,我離開前到服務台申請加油,那女孩一進來便不加思索地對我說:『剛才和你一起的女生是不是一位靈媒?』我回答:『不是,但妳為什麼要這樣問呢?』她告訴我當她指揮我們停機時,正在想自己跟動物相處比跟人還融洽,應該要成為獸醫才對,就在同時樂手的妻子對她說一樣的話。

那是一個很小的航站,我們的對話大聲到航站的人都聽到了,全聚精會神地看著我們。我解釋這位樂手的妻子是一位基督徒,耶穌何等愛世人,對他們生命有著美好計畫,有時祂會給予祂的僕人諸如此類的資訊,以證實祂對他們人生的旨意。這位女孩深受感動,決定認真看待她『蒙召』成為獸醫這件事,並去唸醫學院。

接著航站裡其他的工作人員和乘客開始詢問,那位樂手的妻子會不會回來,他們可否接受像這樣的服事?此促使我們在錄音來回的那幾個月間,在此航站開展了許多服事機會。那時我們還沒有建立先知性團隊,若有,我會派團隊到那航站,只要他們有需要。這幫助我們看見先知性團隊的需求,而現在我們也可以做更多的回應。

幾乎這樣的服事都帶來許多果子,使人們跨出去、採取行動。我們必須謹記在心,聖靈是『幫助者』,而不是『執行者』。沒有我們,祂不會做任何事;沒有祂,我們也別想要做任何事。基本上信心是即便你可能不知道最後的結果,仍然願意採取行動。這即是何以真正的信心不是對結果有信心,而是對我們所信靠的主有信心。我們必須尋求單單行主的旨意,而不是去尋求結果,因為結果可能與我們所預期的截然不同。同樣的神蹟在一個地方帶來極大的影響力,有可能在另一個地方卻沒有任何影響力,正如我們在主耶穌的事工中所看見的。

你可能心想,自己也很樂意能夠像這位樂手的妻子一樣,清楚聽到主的聲音,觸摸人的需要。真理是你可以,你可能已經這樣做了,只是還沒有發現。我們得著從神來的感動,但我們以為那是出於自己的想像,就沒有行動。許多來到我們先知性訓練特會的人,離開時聽見主的聲音,意識到原來自己早已聽見主的聲音很長的時間,只是沒有認出來。我們無法給予人們先知性恩賜,但我們可以幫助他們認出並攪動他們已有的恩賜。每一位基督徒都有能力認得主的聲音。

無論是像耶穌對井邊婦人所做的,用一句話來攪動一座城市,還是像腓利這位佈道家在使徒行傳八章所做的,都很美好。很明顯腓利所使用的是知識的言語,因為使徒行傳八章告訴我們,人們注意到他是因為他們『聽見又看見』他所行的神蹟。

後來腓利受聖靈吩咐,離開正在大復興的地方,往曠野去只為了與一個人分享福音─衣索匹亞的太監。一位佈道家,似乎要有群眾才能興旺,卻願意如此順服,這樣順服的神蹟幾乎和他後來被提的神蹟一樣大。然而,過了幾百年後,當探險家初到衣索匹亞,他們驚訝發現當地的基督教信仰早已超越他們。我們和腓利皆無法知道他的順服究竟帶領多少人得救,直到永生。

重點是在這裡我們無法判斷果子─我們必須單單專注在對聖靈的順服。一句知識的言語可能會攪動一座城市、一個航站,或只是一個人,而這個人所能帶來的果子超過其他人的總和。要順服。

(摘自喬納 word for the week, Week 13, 2012)

 

The Gift of a Word of Knowledge - The Path of Life, Part 6

Week 13, 2012
Rick Joyner

     I was involved in another prophetic experience that I think has some great lessons. It happened when I was flying our ministry plane to Nashville with some of our musicians to do some recording. After taxing to the General Aviation ramp, a line girl directed us to a parking spot. After we deplaned, the wife of one of our musicians said to the line girl as she walked past her, “You get along with animals better than you do people—you should have been a vet.” The line girl looked stunned, and I couldn’t help wondering if this had insulted her.

     Our team left with their ride, which had been waiting to take them to the recording studio. Before I left, I gave my fuel order at the service desk when the line girl came in and blurted out, “Was that girl with you a psychic?” I said, “No, but why do you ask?” She told me that when she was parking our plane she was thinking about how she gets along better with animals than she does people and that she should have become a vet. That’s when the musician’s wife spoke to her.

     It was just a small terminal, and this conversation was so loud that everyone in the terminal looked intently at us. I explained how this lady was a Christian, and how Christ loves all people and has a plan for their lives, and sometimes He gives His servants information like this about them to confirm His will for their life. The line girl was deeply moved and resolved to take seriously that she was “called” to be a vet and to pursue it.

     Then the other employees and passengers in the terminal started asking if this girl was coming back, and could they get a message like this? This led to a lot of ministry in the terminal over the next few months as we went back and forth for this recording. At that time, we had not set up prophetic ministry teams, but if we had, I would have sent a team over to park in that terminal for as long as there was an opening for ministry. This helped us see the need for this, and now we can be more responsive.

     Almost every such opening that has led to a lot of fruit was the result of someone just stepping out and taking initiative. We must keep in mind that the Holy Spirit is the “Helper,” not the “Doer.” He will not do anything without us, and we should not want to do anything without Him. Faith is basically the willingness to take initiative even when you may not know the exact outcome. This is why true faith is not faith in an outcome, but in the Person we put our trust in. We must seek to simply do the will of the Lord, and not just seek results, because results can be very different than we’re expecting. The same miracle that has a great impact in one place may not have any in another place, just as we see in the Lord’s own ministry.

     You may be thinking that you would love to be able to hear that clearly from the Lord and touch other people like this young lady did. The truth is you can, and you possibly already do but just don’t realize it. We get impressions from the Lord but think they are our own imagination, or something else, and don’t act on them. Many who come to our Prophetic Equipping Conferences who leave hearing from the Lord realize they have been hearing from Him for a long time but did not recognize Him. We can’t give people prophetic gifts, but we can help them recognize and stir up the gifts that they’ve been given. Every Christian has the ability to know the voice of the Lord.

     Stirring a city with a word of knowledge like Jesus did through the woman at the well, or like Philip the evangelist in Acts 8, would be wonderful. It is obvious that Philip was using the gift of a word of knowledge because we’re told in Acts 8 that the people gave attention to him because of the miracles that they “heard and saw.”

     Then Philip was commanded by the Spirit to leave such a great revival and go into the desert to share the gospel with just one man—the Ethiopian eunuch. That an evangelist, who all seem to thrive on crowds, would be this obedient is almost as much of a miracle as him being translated afterward. However, hundreds of years later when explorers first entered Ethiopia they were astonished to find that the Christian faith had preceded them. We won’t know until eternity how many were led to salvation by Philip’s obedience and neither could Philip.

     The point is that we cannot judge the fruit here—we must just focus on obedience to the Holy Spirit. A single word of knowledge might stir a city, a general aviation terminal, or just one person, and the one person could bring more fruit than the others combined. Be obedient.