有人在為我跪著禱告

我想先說我自己。Let me start with myself.

我走過一段以為要自己一個人扛的路。I have walked a stretch of road where I thought I had to carry it all by myself.

後來我才知道，有人每個清晨、每個夜裡，跪著把我的名字一個一個帶到神面前。Later I found out that someone—every morning, every night—was on her knees carrying my name to God, one prayer at a time.

這篇訪談，就是其中一位為我守望多年的同伴。我把她的話原原本本帶給你。This interview is one of those who have kept watch over me for years in prayer. I bring you her words just as she said them.

她說：「我們的禱告是有用的。」In her own words: "Because our prayers work."

她講起她的母親，一位禱告的勇士。She tells of her mother, a prayer warrior.

八十多歲住在安養院，老人家每天晚上花一個小時為家人禱告，In her eighties, in a nursing home, her mother spent an hour every night praying for her family,

清晨又花一個小時，為在位掌權的、為世界上每一個國家禱告，求福音的門為他們敞開，and an hour every morning for those in authority, and for every country in the world, that it would be open to the gospel,

然後再為家人禱告一個小時。她說，那些禱告到今天還在應驗。and then another hour for her family. And those prayers, she says, are still being answered today.

我聽見的，是一杯禱告，從母親倒給女兒，從女兒倒到我身上，現在也倒到你手裡。What I hear is a cup of prayer—poured from a mother to a daughter, from that daughter to me, and now into your hands.

她和 Bruce 為我禱告：他在夜裡，她在清晨，把他們所知道我在做的每一件事，都帶到主面前談。She and Bruce prayed for me—he at night, she in the morning—taking everything they knew I was doing and talking it over with the Lord.

她說要為具體的事禱告，因為神也具體地回應。She says to pray specific, because God answers specifically.

她講過一個工場上的故事，我想留著她的原話。She told a story from the mission field, and I want to keep her own words.

傍晚時分，當地的同工來通報：「村裡有些惡人，今晚要出來對付你們，我們不知道會發生什麼事。」In the late afternoon the local workers warned them: "There are bad people from our village coming out after you tonight, and we don't know what's going to happen."

那一家人就禱告、等候，等了又等，整夜什麼事也沒發生。So the family prayed and waited, and waited and waited, and nothing happened.

第二天清早，那些人回來說：「沒事呀，什麼都沒發生。」The next morning those workers came back and said, "Nothing happened."

「不對——他們真的出來了，只是你們的院子四圍站滿了人、衛兵、像軍隊一樣的人，他們嚇壞了，就退回村裡去了。」"No—they did come out, but there were people, guards, like an army, all around your compound. They were frightened, and they went back to the village."

幾年後，這家人回到差他們出去的母會分享，才發現那一夜對母會也是個特別的夜晚——Years later the family went back to their home church and shared the story, and discovered that night had been a significant one there too—

那一夜在母會跪下禱告的人數，正好就是站在院子四圍那群「軍隊」的人數。the number of people kneeling in prayer at the church that night was exactly the number of soldiers standing around the compound.

我把這個故事讀了很多遍。I have read that story many times over.

那一圈站崗的，其實就是那一群跪著的。That ring of guards standing watch was that circle of people kneeling.

跪著禱告的身體，就是天父的保護到達工場的那條路。The praying body was the very road by which the Father's protection reached the field.

聖經說：「無論在哪裡，有兩三個人奉我的名聚會，那裡就有我在他們中間。」（馬太福音 18:20）Scripture says, "For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst." (Matthew 18:20)

兩三個人一奉祂的名聚集，主就在當中——這就是 me2us2WE 的心：從來不是一個人。The moment two or three gather in His name, He is in the middle of them—this is the heart of me2us2WE: never one person alone.

她還說了一句，我一直記著：「你需要的每一樣，她在人的層面上也都需要。」She said one more thing I keep close: "Everything you need, she needs on a human level."

她沒有等我開口要，就為我的疲倦、我的頭痛、我那些磨人的關係禱告。Without waiting for me to ask, she prays over my tiredness, my headaches, the relationships that wear on me.

被人這樣看見、這樣記得，我得學著受得起。To be seen and remembered like this—I am learning to receive it.

她提醒：禱告完，別忘了謝恩。She reminds us: when you pray, don't forget to give thanks.

她說，禱告的時候要帶著感謝，因為你有把握神必垂聽、必回應；She says to pray with thanksgiving, because you have confidence that God hears and will answer;

然後，去看祂怎樣照著你所求的，一條一條應驗在我身上——那會成為你的喜樂。then watch how He answers, point by point, the way you prayed—and it will become your joy.

她最後說：「神不會忘記你愛心的勞苦。」At the last she said, "God will not forget your labor of love."

從 me 到 us 到 WE：禱告把我們連成一條一起回家的路。From me to us to WE: prayer braids us into one road home together.

如果你正握著我的代禱事項，你就在那條路上，就站在那一圈裡。If you are holding my prayer requests, you are on that road, standing right there in that circle.

謝謝你跪下來。Thank you for kneeling.