Pray the following pages out loud to learn how to worship God in the Tabernacle. It is based on
Pastor Cho’s teaching of the Temple (Tabernacle) Prayer.
Father we desire to pray today, so we come to your mountain right NOW -- seeking You. We cry out for Your anointing today! Anoint me, Lord! Only through more anointing can I carry out my work according to your will for me and only by your anointing can I fulfill your plan for my life. It was You who commanded Moses to build the tabernacle in the wilderness. Lord, you dwelt there and met your people there. The Israelites only worshipped You in that tabernacle.
The Tabernacle illustrates Your pattern of worship. It holds the sequence to draw close to You! I desire that intimacy today. I thank you for the tabernacle model through Moses, in Jesus, and in Heaven. I thank you for the Courtyard – where the Brazen Altar and the Laver is. I thank you for the Holy Place – where the Candlesticks are, as well as the Table of Showbread and the Altar of Incense. I thank you for the Holy of Holies – where the Arc of the Covenant and Your Mercy Seat reside. Today – according to Your Word – I am a priest in your temple, my body. My spirit is as the Holy of Holies. My mind is as the Holy Place.
My physical body is as the Courtyard.
Come, Lord Jesus!
Work through my spirit, through my mind, through my body.
I directly worship you, Lord, through the temple of my body, my mind and my spirit.
I am a priest unto the Lord.
Jesus, You are the High Priest of Heaven.
Teach me my priestly duties today.
Teach me according to your ordained pattern of approaching God.
蓋恩夫人帶給教會一個重大屬靈改革,就是她恢復了禱告「應有」的力量,拿掉天主教在禱告這件事套上的層層枷鎖,向世人宣告禱告的實行有多麼的「簡易」!在那個人無法自由禱告,凡是禱告均需要透過馬利亞、聖人和神父的天主教壓迫的時代,蓋恩夫人的小書《簡易祈禱法》(Experiencing the Depths of Jesus Christ)的出現是個屬靈重量級的影響。
他早年的生平事蹟鮮為人知,沒有受過正式的學校教育,僅有家庭教育,和一位名叫勞倫斯的神父的悉心教導;他特別景仰他,因此進修會時取名「復活的勞倫斯」 (Lawrence of the Resurrection)。在18歲那年的初冬,看見寒風吹落滿樹的黃葉,樹枝光禿禿;不禁聯想到,不久之後,春風吹又生,枝繁葉茂,鬱鬱蔥蔥,而且還會開花結果。因此恍然大悟,讚歎天主創造的大能!這奧秘在他腦海中,使他燃起熾愛主的心火;從此以後,他對天主的愛與日俱增!
勞倫斯在作戰中受重傷,迫不得已,匆匆結束軍旅生涯後,因殘疾不能做什麼,只能當法國國王財政大臣富伯先生 (William de Fuibert)的侍從;他在言談中常自嘲是個「笨手笨腳經常打破東西的男僕人」!