「關於我手的工作，你們可以吩咐我。」－以賽亞書45:11
- 主耶穌曾用這樣的口吻向父祈求：「父啊，我要...」；
- 約書亞曾在爭戰勝利的關頭，向著烈日舉起他的矛，疾聲呼喊著：「日頭啊，你要停在基遍」！
- 以利亞曾以吩咐的語氣命令天閉塞了整整三年六個月，才又重新開啟；
- 馬丁路德曾跪在垂死的麥蘭基登身旁，不許死亡奪去他的好友。
這是一個來自神奇妙的邀約，祂邀約我們進入與祂另一層次的關係。
我們很熟悉經文中的這段話：「我親手舖張諸天，天上萬象也是我所命定的。」但現在這位創造宇宙萬有的神，竟然邀請我們吩咐祂手的工作，這種關係上的轉變實在令人驚奇。
這樣的觀念和我們平時習慣禱告的態度和模式，實在有太大的落差了！我們的禱告常是懷疑躊躇，滿了不信，絮絮叨叨，沒有力量，並且缺乏重點。
主耶穌在地上生活時，常給身旁的人機會命令祂。
在正要進耶利哥城時，耶穌對城門口討飯的瞎子說：「你要我為你作什麼？」耶穌似乎在說：「你可以隨意吩咐我。」
我們也忘不了主在面對那位女兒被污靈附著的希利尼婦人時，讓她盡情支取主一切豐富的資源。
人有限的頭腦永遠不能明白慈父心頭美好的心意，我們永遠不會了解神為何給了祂兒女如此尊高的地位。
祂似乎在說：「我所有的豐富，隨時供你享受，你可以隨意的吩咐我。」
「你們在我的名裡無論求甚麼，我必作成」－約翰福音14:13－邁爾
"Concerning the work of my hands command ye me" (Isa. 45:11).
Our Lord spoke in this tone when He said, "Father, I will." Joshua used it when, in the supreme moment of triumph, he lifted up his spear toward the setting sun, and cried, "Sun, stand thou still!"
Elijah used it when he shut the heavens for three years and six months, and again opened them.
Luther used it when, kneeling by the dying Melanchthon, he forbade death to take his prey.
It is a marvelous relationship into which God bids us enter. We are familiar with words like those which follow in this paragraph: "I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded." But that God should invite us to command Him, this is a change in relationship which is altogether startling!
What a difference there is between this attitude and the hesitating, halting, unbelieving prayers to which we are accustomed, and which by their perpetual repetition lose edge and point!
How often during His earthly life did Jesus put men into a position to command Him! When entering Jericho, He stood still, and said to the blind beggars:
"What will ye that I shall do unto you?" It was as though He said, "I am yours to command."
Can we ever forget how He yielded to the Syrophenician woman the key to His resources and told her to help herself even as she would?
What mortal mind can realize the full significance of the position to which our God lovingly raises His little children? He seems to say, "All my resources are at your command." "Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do." --F. B. Meyer
