• 雅各书 5:16

所以，你们要彼此认罪，互相代求，使你们得医治。义人祈祷所发的力量是大有功效的。

• 彼得前书 3:12

因为主的眼看顾义人，他的耳听他们的祈祷；但主向行恶的人变脸。

• 雅各书 4:2

你们贪恋，得不着就杀人；你们嫉妒，不能得手就起争执和冲突；你们得不着，是因为你们不求。

请注意，雅各书5:16并没有说上帝“可能”会听义人的祈祷，或说如果那人够幸运，上帝“可能”会扔给他一块骨头。这节经文不带任何条件地宣告说，义人的祈祷所发的力量是大有功效的。在许多其他的经文里（比如雅各书4:2），圣经解释说，我们之所以得不着需要的东西，首要理由并不是上帝不想给我们，而只是我们不求！

其实即使我们不求，上帝当然也知道我们需要什么，可是祂更知道，我们向祂提出请求的这个举动当中，有某种强大的力量。它帮助我们大胆地求，也让我们敢于担当我们的请求。它使我们走出“被动”的心态，不再消极地坐待上帝来为我们做一切，反而采取“主动”的姿态，向我们良善的上帝积极提出请求。

• James 5:16

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

• 1 Peter 3:12

For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.

• James 4:2

You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.

Notice how this doesn’t say that God MIGHT hear the prayer of a righteous person, or if that person is lucky God MIGHT throw them a bone. It declares without any other condition that a righteous person’s prayer is powerful and effective. In many other scriptures [i.e. James 4:2], the Bible explains that the number one reason that we don’t have what we need is not because God doesn’t want to give it to us, but simply because we don’t ask!

Now obviously God knows what we need even without our asking, but He knows that there's something powerful about us presenting our requests. It helps us to ask boldly and it helps us to take ownership of our request. It takes us from a PASSIVE perspective of expecting God to do everything for us to an ACTIVE position of requesting something from our good God.

今天就鼓起勇气，向上帝祈求你所需要的东西。

Today, be courageous and ask God for the things that you need.