Prayer that the saints would come to the cross and offer Christ to God for the forgiveness of this country
禱告使聖徒來到十字架,將基督獻給神,禱告求祂赦免這個國家的不道德和混亂,因其得罪了祂這位公義的神,並求祂記念我們的主耶穌死在其上的十字架,使我們可以幫助拯救我們所居住的這個國家(創八20~22,但九4~5,8~11,19~20)。
Gen. 8:20-22—And Noah built an altar to Jehovah and took of every clean beast and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And Jehovah smelled the satisfying fragrance; and Jehovah said in His heart, I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; nor will I ever again smite everything living as I have done. Throughout all the days that earth remains, / Seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, / And summer and winter, and day and night / Shall not cease.
Dan. 9:4-5—And I prayed to Jehovah my God and confessed; and I said, Ah, Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and lovingkindness with those who love Him and keep His commandments, we have sinned and have committed iniquity, and we have acted wickedly and rebelled, to the point of even turning away from Your commandments and from Your judgments.
但九8-11 - 耶和華阿,滿面羞愧歸於我們,就是歸於我們的君王、首領、列祖,因為我們得罪了你。憐恤和饒恕歸於主我們的神,因為我們悖逆了祂;我們沒有聽從耶和華我們神的話,沒有遵行祂藉僕人眾申言者擺在我們面前的訓誨。以色列眾人都犯了你的律法,甚至偏離,不聽從你的話;因此,在你僕人摩西律法上所寫的咒詛和誓言,都傾倒在我們身上,因為我們得罪了神。
但九19-20 - 主阿,求你垂聽!主阿,求你赦免!主阿,求你傾聽並行事!我的神阿,為你自己的緣故,求你不要遲延;因你的城和你的民,都是稱為你名下的。當我還在說話、禱告,承認我的罪,和我本民以色列的罪,為我神的聖山,在耶和華我神面前懇求;
For further reading please refer to 李常受文集,一九九一-一九九二, vol. 3, “The Satanic Chaos in the Old Creation and the Divine Economy for the New Creation,” p. 207.