「你為自己圖謀大事麼？不要圖謀，因我必使災禍臨到凡有血肉的；但你無論往那裏去，我必將你的性命賜給你為掠物；這是耶和華說的。」－耶利米書45:5
在今日這個舉步維艱的末後時代，我們對這個應許倍感親切。
什麼是「將你的性命賜給你為掠物」呢？就是從仇敵的口中被救回來的性命，就是大衛從獅子的口中搶奪回來的羊羔。
這不是逃離戰爭的喧擾、仇敵的攻擊，而是在敵人的面前擺設筵席、在風雨來時搭建避難所、在持續受壓後仍有生息。
這就是保羅「被壓太重，力不能勝」之時所經歷的醫治；就是刺未曾挪去，但因基督大能的覆庇，恩典卻漫溢的幫助。
「主啊，求你將我的性命賜給我為掠物，使我在最為難的環境中，因著你得勝有餘！」－屬天的日子
整整四十個晝夜，我們的救主和魔鬼同在曠野，受牠極度的試誘，祂的人性因饑餓困倦而軟弱。
巴比倫王將三個希伯來青年，丟入加熱七倍的火窯中，他們卻在行刑前神色自若，直到拯救的時刻來到。
但以裡在獅子坑中度過了一個長夜，當他再出來的時候，「身上不見任何傷損，因為他信靠他的神」。
他們得以與仇敵同住，乃是因為他們住在神的同在裡。
"And seekest thou great things for thyself? Seek them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the Lord: but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest" (Jer. 45:5).A promise given for hard places, and a promise of safety and life in the midst of tremendous pressure, a life "for a prey." It may well adjust itself to our own times, which are growing harder as we near the end of the age, and the Tribulation times.
What is the meaning of "a life for a prey"? It means a life snatched out of the jaws of the destroyer, as David snatched the lamb from the lion. It means not removal from the noise of the battle and the presence of our foes; but it means a table in the midst of our enemies, a shelter from the storm, a fortress amid the foe, a life preserved in the face of continual pressure: Paul's healing when pressed out of measure so that he despaired of life; Paul's Divine help when the thorn remained, but the power of Christ rested upon him and the grace of Christ was sufficient. Lord, give me my life for a prey, and in the hardest places help me today to be victorious. --Days of Heaven upon Earth
We often pray to be delivered from calamities; we even trust that we shall be; but we do not pray to be made what we should be, in the very presence of the calamities; to live amid them, as long as they last, in the consciousness that we are, held and sheltered by the Lord, and can therefore remain in the midst of them, so long as they continue, without any hurt. For forty days and nights, the Saviour was kept in the presence of Satan in the wilderness, and that, under circumstances of special trial, His human nature being weakened by want of food and rest. The furnace was heated seven times more than it was wont to be heated, but the three Hebrew children were kept a season amid its flames as calm and composed in the presence of the tyrant's last appliances of torture, as they were in the presence of himself before their time of deliverance came. And the livelong night did Daniel sit among the lions, and when he was taken up out of the den, "no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he believed in his God." They dwelt in the presence of the enemy, because they dwelt in the presence of God.
