HAVING A LITTLE POWER AND HAVING CONSTANT CONTACTS WITH PEOPLE (4)
We also need to learn how to redeem our time. Satan, the evil one, who is working busily in the air, never wants us to pray. Satan will do everything to waste away your time for prayer. So you have to redeem your time to pray unceasingly (1 Thes. 5:17).
Also, learn to pray directly. Do not teach the Lord and do not explain to Him in your prayer. The blind man who contacted the Lord outside of the city of Jericho cried out, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” (Luke 18:38). The Lord then said, “What do you want Me to do for you?” (v. 41). This blind man did not pray in the natural way that we do. He did not give the Lord a lot of explanations, a lot of instructions, and a lot of teachings. Instead, he simply said, “Lord, that I may receive my sight!” (v. 41). In our prayer we give too many explanations and too many teachings. It seems that the Lord knows nothing, so we have to teach Him. We have to tell Him who He is and what He can do. This is a routine prayer. We should just tell the Lord what we need and what we want. If we want the Lord to stir up the saints, we should simply pray, “Lord, stir up the saints.” This is good enough.
We must learn to go and contact people through prayer, in prayer, and with prayer all the time. We can give them a phone call or send them one of our gospel tracts. We should read these tracts so that we know their contents. Then we can send a certain tract to someone based upon his need. If we know that someone is not clear that the Lord is his Savior, we can send him Christ the Savior, a tract concerning Christ’s status as the Lamb of God (John 1:29), the bronze serpent (3:14-15), and the grain of wheat (12:24).
First Corinthians 15:58 says that our labor in Christ will never be in vain. Only the Lord knows what will be the issue of our labor. We need to labor in Him until the day we see Him at His return. We have started, and we still have to grow. We should have the assurance that the Lord has done something with us because we have been pursuing Him and seeking Him. On the one hand, we should not analyze. On the other hand, we should not be satisfied. We must go on to grow, to progress, to mature. Then we need to make a resolution to contact people every day. This is the unique duty, responsibility, and work that we have to finish in our Christian life. We must produce some children, and we must have some children, four or five, under our care. The only way for us is to contact people, and the only secret of our success is to have constant contacts for our whole life. (Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1993, vol. 2, “The Training and Practice of the Vital Groups”, ch. 9, pp. 337-338)
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