12二章说“坐”(6);六章就说“站立得住”,就是站在天上的地位上,“…并且作成了一切,还能站立得住。”(13)我们的争战是与鬼魔争战,所以是属灵的争战。…十八至十九节说,“时时在灵里祷告,并尽力坚持,在这事上儆醒,且为众圣徒祈求,也替我祈求。”这是属灵争战的祷告。这一种的祷告,与普通的祷告大不相同。普通的祷告是从地上祷告到天上去;这里的祷告,不是从地上祷告上去,乃是站在天上的地位,从天上祷告到地上来。权柄的祷告,乃是以天上为起点,以地上为终点的(倪柝声文集第二辑第二册,二二六至二二八页)。
12Ephesians 2 mentions sitting, while chapter 6 mentions standing; we stand in our position in the heavenlies:… “and having done all, to stand” (Eph. 6:13). Our warfare is against the demons. Hence, it is a spiritual warfare. Ephesians 6:18-19 says, “By means of all prayer and petition, praying at every time in spirit and watching unto this in all perseverance and petition concerning all the saints, and for me.” This is a prayer concerning spiritual warfare. This kind of prayer is different from ordinary prayer. Ordinary prayer is directed from earth to heaven. But the prayer here is not from earth to heaven; it begins from a heavenly position and goes from heaven to earth. A prayer with authority has heaven as its starting point and the earth as its destination. (CWWN, vol. 22, “The Prayer Ministry of the Church,” pp. 192-194)