Category: Odds & Ends

“We want to see the fire of the Holy Spirit, but you cannot have a fire without fuel. Obedience is the fuel of the Holy Spirit.”

“I don’t want to look back at my life and say, ‘I had a great time.’ I want to look back and say, ‘Hell is emptier because of what Jesus did through me.’”

“我们希望看到圣灵的火，但没有燃料就不会有火。顺从是圣灵的燃料。”

我不想回顾我的生活时说，‘我过得很开心。’我想回顾时说，‘因为耶稣通过我所做的事，地狱更空了。’

“Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?” – Corrie Ten Boom

“祷告是你的方向盘还是备用轮胎？”——科里·滕·布姆

“Praise the Lord! In the order of the Holy Spirit, we have to ‘come short in no gift’”. – Smith Wigglesworth

1 Corinthians 1:7 so that you come short in no gift, eagerly waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,

For Smith Wigglesworth, the Christian life was divided into two realms: the natural and the supernatural. When he references the “order of the Holy Spirit,” he is talking about moving out of human limitations and entering into the Spirit’s domain:

An Expectation and Requirement: Wigglesworth believed that walking in the Holy Spirit wasn’t optional or passive. To him, the “order” is a divine mandate or rule of thumb for a Spirit-filled believer. If you claim to live under the Holy Spirit’s government, your absolute baseline standard is to “come short in no gift.”

The Atmosphere of the Miraculous: In the very next sentences of that sermon, he states that Jesus came so that He “might be made so manifest in us that the world will see Him” and that His servants must be “flames.” Therefore, the “order” is the supernatural economy where spiritual gifts (like healing, prophecy, or tongues) are meant to flow continuously without lack.

If you rewrite his thought in modern language, Wigglesworth is saying:

“Under the rule and standard of the Holy Spirit, we are required to operate in full spiritual power, lacking absolutely nothing.” – Smith Wigglesworth

“赞美主！在圣灵的安排中，我们不能在任何恩赐上有所缺失。” – 史密斯·维格斯沃斯

哥林多前书 1:7 这样，你们在任何恩赐上都不缺乏，热切地期待我们主耶稣基督的显现，

对于史密斯·维格尔斯沃思来说，基督徒的生活分为两个领域：自然的和超自然的。当他提到“圣灵的秩序”时，他指的是超越人的限制，进入圣灵的领域：

一个期望和要求：威格尔斯沃斯认为，在圣灵里行走不是可选的，也不是被动的。对他来说，“秩序”是对充满圣灵的信徒的神圣命令或基本准则。如果你声称自己生活在圣灵的管理之下，你的绝对最低标准就是“在任何恩赐上都不缺失”。

奇迹的氛围：在那篇布道的接下来几句中，他说耶稣来到，是为了“在我们里面显得如此明显，以至于世人能看到他”，并且他的仆人必须成为“火焰”。因此，这种“秩序”就是一种超自然的运作方式，属灵恩赐（比如医治、预言或方言）应该不断流动，不会短缺。

如果你用现代语言改写他的想法，威格尔斯沃斯是在说：

“在圣灵的引导和标准下，我们需要发挥全部的属灵力量，绝不缺少任何东西。” – 史密斯·威格尔斯沃思

“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.” — Francis of Assisi

“Joy is not the absence of darkness. Joy is confidence that the darkness will lift.” – Rebekah Lyons

“世界上的所有黑暗都无法扑灭一支蜡烛的光芒。” — 阿西西的方济各

“快乐不是黑暗的缺席。快乐是有信心相信黑暗终将消散。”——瑞贝卡·莱昂斯

“Like Saint Matthew, we also all have our own little tax booths. Some situation that comes between us and Christ. Some barrier we stay seated behind and watch as our lives go by. We tell ourselves one day I will get up out of this. One day I will fully follow Christ with all my heart.”

“Every day of our lives, we must get up out of our own tax booth. This is hard. It’s always tempting to stay seated in the status quo. Yet throughout Scripture, the status quo rarely survives an encounter with Christ.”

“We must get comfortable with depending on Jesus, no matter how uncomfortable it makes us feel. The alternative is a life built solely on self-reliance. A life stuck behind the tax booth of our own selves.” – Jack Crowley

“就像圣马太一样，我们每个人也都有自己的小税摊。有些情况会把我们和基督隔开。有些障碍让我们坐在后面看着自己的生活流逝。我们告诉自己，总有一天我会站起来。总有一天我会全心全意地跟随基督。”

“在我们的每一天生活中，我们都必须从自己的税务摊位上站起来。这很难。坐在现状中总是很有诱惑力。然而，贯穿整个圣经，与基督的相遇几乎总会打破这种现状。”

“我们必须习惯依靠耶稣，无论这让我们感到多不舒服。另一种选择就是完全靠自己的生活，一种被自己设置的税务关卡困住的生活。” – 杰克·克劳利