灵里的言辞 Soul Speech
转载 Donald K. McKim 书籍《Everyday Prayer with the Reformers》 有时我们并没有完全投入地祷告，我们可能只是读着祷告文的文字，或者我们可能说出一些熟悉的属灵词语，而没有思想它们的含义。我们甚至可能陷入一种意识流的状态，没有充分地思考我们所说出来的话，所以祷告可能变得机械化。 Sometimes we slip into praying that does not engage us fully. We may read prayers and just read words on a page. Or we may say certain familiar phrases without thinking of their meaning. We may even engage in a kind of stream of consciousness in which we offer prayer without considering fully and completely that we are saying. Prayers can also become rote. 但诗人一开始的祷告是：“耶和华啊，我的心仰望你”（诗篇25:1）。诗人从灵里的深处祷告，这种祷告是诗人全心投入的祈祷。 But the psalmist begins by praying, "To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul" (Ps. 25:1). The psalmist is praying from his soul. This prayer is engaging the totality of the psalmist's self. 乔治·多纳姆在探讨『祷告』这课题时说道：“一般上，祷告要求我们使用灵里的言辞，而不仅仅是口中的言语，是灵里的高升（诗篇25:1），是灵里的倾诉（诗篇62:8），是用灵祷告（以弗所书6:18），并且是真实的祷告（诗篇145:18）。” George Downame, in discussing prayer, wrote that "in the soul generally it is required, that ou...