「以利沙禱告說，耶和華阿，求你開他的眼目，使他能看見。耶和華開少年人的眼目，他就看見滿山有火車火馬圍繞以利沙。」－列王紀下6:17
現今的時代就如同當日申言者的時代，在我們四圍，環繞著耶和華的戰車馬兵，等著帶領我們進入榮耀。
當我們的眼目被主開啟，我們就要看見，生活中的一切大事小事，或喜或憂，都有耶和華的「戰車」四圍護衛我們。
無論真正臨到我們的處境是什麼，我們都可以選擇面對他們的方式和態度。
我們可以選擇坐以待斃，索性躺下來，任其輾過我們；這樣，小小的環境也會成為重型卡車。但若我們選擇爬到環境肩頭，讓它承載著我們，領我們飛向高天；這樣，再大的環境對我們也都成為耶和華的戰車。－史哈拿
神無法使用一個壓傷倒臥的靈魂；因為仇敵的計謀，就是藉著人自己或教會的難處，使他們深陷絕境。
垂頭喪氣的軍隊必定在敵人面前潰敗。
近來有位傳教士告訴我們她靈裡軟弱下沉，身體也因此衰弱，只得被迫回家休養。
我們需要更清楚仇敵如何攻擊我們的靈的計謀，以至於能抵擋他的攻勢。
仇敵若能使我們離開應堅守的崗位，那他就能藉著長期抗戰「折磨」我們（但以理書7:25），使我們靈裡耗弱，放棄了勝利的呼聲。
"Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see" (2 Kings 6:17).This is the prayer we need to pray for ourselves and for one another, "Lord, open our eyes that we may see"; for the world all around us, as well as around the prophet, is full of God's horses and chariots, waiting to carry us to places of glorious victory. And when our eyes are thus opened, we shall see in all events of life, whether great or small, whether joyful or sad, a "chariot" for our souls.
Everything that comes to us becomes a chariot the moment we treat it as such; and, on the other hand, even the smallest trial may be a Juggernaut car to crush us into misery or despair if we consider it.
It lies with each of us to choose which they shall be. It all depends, not upon what these events are, but upon how we take them. If we lie down under them, and let them roll over us and crush us, they become Juggernaut cars, but if we climb up into them, as into a car of victory, and make them carry us triumphantly onward and upward, they become the chariots of God. --Hannah Whitall Smith
The Lord cannot do much with a crushed soul, hence the adversary's attempt to push the Lord's people into despair and hopelessness over the condition of themselves, or of the church. It has often been said that a dispirited army goes forth to battle with the certainty of being beaten. We heard a missionary say recently that she had been invalided home purely because her spirit had fainted, with the consequence that her body sunk also. We need to understand more of these attacks of the enemy upon our spirits and how to resist them. If the enemy can dislodge us from our position, then he seeks to "wear us out" (Daniel 7:25). by a prolonged siege, so that at last we, out of sheer weakness, let go the cry of victory.
