6捌 我们要作今天的得胜者就该像以萨迦的子孙,“通达时务,知道以色列人所当行的;”(代上十二32上;)见下述李弟兄应用上的经历: 在烟台大复兴前夕,当日本人入侵中国并使中国人原已够艰难的生活更加艰辛时,李弟兄在其私人笔记上写道: 一九四二十二月四日晚于烟台 地上的人受灾难,教会受难为,这并非神心愿的时代,乃是神手续的时代。神是要用手续达到祂的心愿。从手续的时代转到心愿的时代,这转弯的地方需要人作转移时代的祷告。但以理就是这样的人。 地上受灾难,是因为地上的人不要神,不顾神的事。所以圣徒如果要祷告,结束灾难的时候,圣徒就必须答应神的要求,顾到神和祂的需要。哦!今天这许多的灾难,该叫我们醒过来,不再向着地了!哦!今天真是我们该彻底奉献,以代表教会来答应神的要求,好叫神有路可以进来,将这手续的时代转成祂心愿的时代。(李文集,一九三二至一九四九年,第二册—中文版尚未出书) 6Ⅷ As today’s overcomers, we should be like the children of Issachar, “men who understood the times that they might know what Israel should do” (1 Chron. 12:32a); see Brother Lee’s applicable experience on the next page. On the eve of the revival in Chefoo, when the Japanese had invaded China and had made life in China, which was hard enough, to be even harder, Brother Lee wrote the following in his personal notes in Chefoo, 1942: People on earth are suffering calamities, and the churches are in hardship; this is not the age of God’s heart’s desire but the age of God’s procedures. God is using His procedures to fulfill His heart’s desire. To turn from the age of procedures to the age of God’s heart’s desire, man must pray the age-turning prayer. Daniel was such a man. The earth is suffering calamities because people on the earth do not want God and do not care for God’s affairs. Therefore, if the saints are to pray to end the time of calamities, they must answer God’s demands and care for God and His needs. Oh! These many calamities today should wake us up to no longer live to the earth! Oh! Today we should truly consecrate ourselves to answer God’s demands on behalf of the church so that God may have a way to come in and to turn this age of procedures into the age of His heart’s desire. (The Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1932–1949, vol. 2, p. 27)