1月31日 死因：被耶和华神击打

撒上25:38
过了十天、耶和华击打拿八、他就死了。
It happened about ten days after, that Yahweh struck Nabal, so that he died.
主耶稣！在人看来拿八是因惧怕过度病死，却不晓得是耶和华神击打拿八。主啊！我要更多的认识耶和华神的作为，求祢赐给我属天的智慧，对疾病，病患，病死，有属地的知识，也有属天的启示，叫我不只懂得处理病痛，也懂得疾病的属灵源头，可以帮助自己，同时也可以服侍人，叫父神得荣耀。

1月30日 把主权交给神

撒上24:10-12
今日你亲眼看见在洞中耶和华将你交在我手里．有人叫我杀你、我却爱惜你、说、我不敢伸手害我的主．因为他是耶和华的受膏者。我父阿、看看你外袍的衣襟在我手中．我割下你的衣襟、没有杀你、你由此可以知道我没有恶意叛逆你．你虽然猎取我的命、我却没有得罪你。愿耶和华在你我中间判断是非、在你身上为我伸冤．我却不亲手加害于你。
Behold, this day your eyes have seen how that Yahweh had delivered you today into my hand in the cave. Some urged me to kill you; but I spared you; and I said, I will not put forth my hand against my lord; for he is Yahweh's anointed. Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and didn't kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you hunt for my life to take it. May Yahweh judge between me and you, and may Yahweh avenge me of you; but my hand shall not be on you.
主耶稣！大卫把主权交给神，不私自审判，不乘机报复，不怕受伤害，只专注在不得罪神。主啊！生活中与我为敌的，他们受报，我不幸灾乐祸，他们亨通，我不嫉妒，有机会报复时，我仍然要专注於讨神喜悦，乐意把主权交给神。

1月29日 敬畏神的思维

撒上24:3-6
到了路旁的羊圈、在那里有洞．扫罗进去大解。大卫和跟随他的人正藏在洞里的深处。跟随的人对大卫说、耶和华曾应许你说、我要将你的仇敌交在你手里、你可以任意待他．如今时候到了．大卫就起来、悄悄的割下扫罗外袍的衣襟。随后大卫心中自责、因为割下扫罗的衣襟．对跟随他的人说、我的主、乃是耶和华的受膏者、我在耶和华面前万不敢伸手害他、因他是耶和华的受膏者。
He came to the sheep pens by the way, where there was a cave; and Saul went in to relieve himself. Now David and his men were abiding in the innermost parts of the cave. The men of David said to him, "Behold, the day of which Yahweh said to you, 'Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it shall seem good to you.'" Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe secretly. It happened afterward, that David's heart struck him, because he had cut off Saul's skirt. He said to his men, "Yahweh forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, Yahweh's anointed, to put forth my hand against him, since he is Yahweh's anointed."
主耶稣！大卫因敬畏神，拥有与众不同的思维。主啊！求祢提升我对上位者该有的尊重，尊敬，尊荣的思维。因为若不是祢所允许，他们断不能坐在这位置上。我所当作的是为在上位的祷告，代求，祝谢。

1月28日 神的拯救及时

撒上23:26-28
扫罗在山这边走，大卫和跟随他的人在山那边走．大卫急忙躲避扫罗．因为扫罗和跟随他的人、四面围住大卫和跟随他的人、要拿获他们。忽有使者来报告扫罗、说、非利士人犯境抢掠．请王快快回去。于是扫罗不追赶大卫、回去攻打非利士人。因此那地方名叫西拉哈玛希罗结。
Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men surrounded David and his men to take them.
But a messenger came to Saul, saying, "Hurry and come; for the Philistines have made a raid on the land!" So Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines: therefore they called that place Sela Hammahlekoth.
主耶稣！ 使徒保罗对神的信念，我们四面受敌、却不被困住．心里作难、却不至失望．主啊！这也是我对神的信念，坚信神的拯救，帮助，医治，都是及时的，叫神得荣耀。我要操练以理性看现象，也用灵性看异象，用肉眼看实事，也要以信心看神的信实。

1月27日 神在暗中保护

 撒上23:14
大卫住在旷野的山寨里、常在西弗旷野的山地。扫罗天天寻索大卫、神却不将大卫交在他手里。
David stayed in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but God didn't deliver him into his hand.
主耶稣！我要谨守、儆醒．因为我们的仇敌魔鬼、如同吼叫的狮子、遍地游行、寻找可吞吃的人．我相信，耶和华神在暗中保护我，神不会将我交在恶人手里。主啊！我不要愚昧到去羡慕恶人的成就，去效法恶人的计谋、去思念罪人的道路、或尝试亵慢人的座位。求祢打开我心中的眼睛，晓得神在暗中保护着我。

1月26日 听谁的？

撒上23:1-4
有人告诉大卫说、非利士人攻击基伊拉、抢夺禾场。所以大卫求问耶和华说、我去攻打那些非利士人、可以不可以．耶和华对大卫说、你可以去攻打非利士人、拯救基伊拉。跟随大卫的人对他说、我们在犹大地这里尚且惧怕、何况往基伊拉去攻打非利士人的军旅呢。大卫又求问耶和华．耶和华回答说、你起身、下基伊拉去．我必将非利士人交在你手里。
David was told, "Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and are robbing the threshing floors." Therefore David inquired of Yahweh, saying, "Shall I go and strike these Philistines?" Yahweh said to David, "Go strike the Philistines, and save Keilah." David's men said to him, "Behold, we are afraid here in Judah: how much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?" Then David inquired of Yahweh yet again. Yahweh answered him, and said, "Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into your hand."
主耶稣！大卫两次求问耶和华神，神都回答：去！攻打非利士人。大卫并没有因为跟随他的人感到害怕而退却。主啊！我们听见祢说：去！为祢作见证，传福音，医治，释放，教导人遵守祢的吩咐。祢应许与我们同工，我们只听祢的，不再害怕人怎么说，不在乎人怎么看。因为我们不是为自已活，也不是为人而活，我们乃是为主而活。

1月25日 成为他人的投靠

撒上22:1-3
大卫就离开那里、逃到亚杜兰洞。他的弟兄和他父亲的全家听见了、就都下到他那里。凡受窘迫的、欠债的、心里苦恼的、都聚集到大卫那里．大卫就作他们的头目．跟随他的约有四百人。大卫从那里往摩押的米斯巴去、对摩押王说、求你容我父母搬来、住在你们这里、等我知道神要为我怎样行。
David therefore departed there, and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and all his father's house heard it, they went down there to him. Everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented, gathered themselves to him; and he became captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men. David went there to Mizpeh of Moab, and he said to the king of Moab, "Please let my father and my mother come out with you, until I know what God will do for me."
主耶稣！受窘迫的，欠债的，心里苦恼的，和大卫的家人，都来就近大卫，投靠他的保护。今天的社会，仍旧有许多受窘迫的，欠债的，心里苦恼的，当中也包括我们的家人。主啊！我们要效法大卫投靠耶和华神，好让有需要保护的人可以就近我们，他们也可以得到耶和华神的帮助。

1月24日 不停止在感动说话

撒上19:20
扫罗打发人去捉拿大卫．去的人见有一班先知都受感说话、撒母耳站在其中监管他们、打发去的人、也受神的灵感动说话。有人将这事告诉扫罗、他又打发人去、他们也受感说话。扫罗第三次打发人去、他们也受感说话。然后扫罗自己往拉玛去、到了西沽的大井、问人说、撒母耳和大卫在哪里呢．有人说、在拉玛的拿约。他就往拉玛的拿约去．神的灵也感动他、一面走、一面说话、直到拉玛的拿约。
Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, the Spirit of God came on the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied.
When it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also prophesied.Then went he also to Ramah, and came to the great well that is in Secu: and he asked, "Where are Samuel and David?" One said, "Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah." He went there to Naioth in Ramah. Then the Spirit of God came on him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah.
主耶稣！扫罗王被圣灵感动说话，并不因此而改变恶念。主啊！ 我们误以为被圣灵充满讲方言，生命一定会改变，是不正确的。被圣灵感动说话，是神的意思，神的作为。我们被圣灵感动，是神的恩典，我们的心意不改变，是我们的选择。求主帮助我，懂得察验内心，与神的旨意对齐，做法与神的律法对齐。不停止在感动说话，有行动完成神的计划。

1月23日 耶和华也与我同在

撒上18:14-5
大卫作事无不精明．耶和华也与他同在。扫罗见大卫作事精明、就甚怕他
David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and Yahweh was with him.When Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he stood in awe of him.
主耶稣！神与大卫同在，大卫就作事无不精明。主啊！几时我若没有渴慕耶和华神的同在，几时我若是作事不精明，求祢向我施恩，赐给我谦卑受教的思维，足以除去骄傲的恶根。

1月22日 胜败全在乎耶和华

撒上17:45-47
大卫对非利士人说、你来攻击我、是靠着刀枪和铜戟．我来攻击你、是靠着万军之耶和华的名、就是你所怒骂带领以色列军队的神。今日耶和华必将你交在我手里．我必杀你、斩你的头．又将非利士军兵的尸首、给空中的飞鸟地上的野兽吃．使普天下的人都知道以色列中有神．又使这众人知道耶和华使人得胜、不是用刀用枪．因为争战的胜败全在乎耶和华．他必将你们交在我们手里。
Then David said to the Philistine, "You come to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a javelin: but I come to you in the name of Yahweh of Armies, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. Today, Yahweh will deliver you into my hand. I will strike you, and take your head from off you. I will give the dead bodies of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the sky, and to the wild animals of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, and that all this assembly may know that Yahweh doesn't save with sword and spear: for the battle is Yahweh's, and he will give you into our hand."
主耶稣！大卫面对巨人，不靠刀枪，只靠耶和华神的名。主啊！我被世界的信念系统干扰，偏重靠人际关系，靠权势，靠金钱，靠人脉，靠专家，却忘了靠圣灵，靠神的话，靠敬畏神，靠祷告。主啊！我要看重与神的关系，神的名，大过胜利与否，因为胜败在乎耶和华。

1月21日 神预备的器皿

撒上17:33-37
扫罗对大卫说、你不能去与那非利士人战斗．因为你年纪太轻、他自幼就作战士。大卫对扫罗说、你仆人为父亲放羊．有时来了狮子、有时来了熊、从群中衔一只羊羔去。我就追赶他、击打他、将羊羔从他口中救出来．他起来要害我、我就揪着他的胡子、将他打死。你仆人曾打死狮子和熊．这未受割礼的非利士人向永生神的军队骂阵、也必像狮子和熊一般。大卫又说、耶和华救我脱离狮子和熊的爪、也必救我脱离这非利士人的手。扫罗对大卫说、你可以去吧．耶和华必与你同在。
Saul said to David, "You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth." David said to Saul, "Your servant was keeping his father's sheep; and when a lion or a bear came, and took a lamb out of the flock, I went out after him, and struck him, and rescued it out of his mouth. When he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and struck him, and killed him. Your servant struck both the lion and the bear. This uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, since he has defied the armies of the living God." David said, "Yahweh who delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine." Saul said to David, "Go; and Yahweh shall be with you."
主耶稣！大卫从小学会服从父亲，被派去牧羊，接受艰险的磨练。主啊！我知道要作神的器皿，必须是按照神的装备法规，我要学习听从父母，接受磨练，不发怨言，不比较，不急躁，不怕辛苦，不怕危险，有勇气面对挑战，有智慧克服困难，有耐心等待上帝的时机。

1月20日 耶和华的灵

撒上16:13-14,18,23
撒母耳就用角里的膏油、在他诸兄中膏了他．从这日起、耶和华的灵就大大感动大卫．撒母耳起身回拉玛去了。耶和华的灵离开扫罗、有恶魔从耶和华那里来扰乱他。... 其中有一个少年人说、我曾见伯利恒人耶西的一个儿子善于弹琴．是大有勇敢的战士、说话合宜、容貌俊美、耶和华也与他同在。..
从神那里来的恶魔临到扫罗身上的时候、大卫就拿琴用手而弹、扫罗便舒畅爽快、恶魔离了他。
Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brothers: and the Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah. Now the Spirit of Yahweh departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from Yahweh troubled him...Then one of the young men answered, and said, "Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing, a mighty man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a comely person; and Yahweh is with him."..It happened, when the spirit from God was on Saul, that David took the harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.
主耶稣！大卫被耶和华的灵感动，而耶和华的灵却离开扫罗王，扫罗王就被恶魔的灵扰乱。主啊！我看见恶魔的灵在许多人身上进行扰乱的工作，他们明知所作的带来家人的痛苦，他们的良心逐渐麻木，越来越专顾自己，善于拒绝承认自己的错误。主啊！我恳求耶和华的灵常在我身上，使我的灵苏醒，心清不扰乱，说话合宜，刚强壮胆，靠主常喜乐。

1月19日 耶和华神看内心

撒上16:6-7
他们来的时候、撒母耳看见以利押、就心里说、耶和华的受膏者必定在他面前。耶和华却对撒母耳说、不要看他的外貌和他身材高大、我不拣选他、因为耶和华不像人看人、人是看外貌、耶和华是看内心。
It happened, when they had come, that he looked at Eliab, and said, "Surely Yahweh's anointed is before him." But Yahweh said to Samuel, "Don't look on his face, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for I see not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart."
主耶稣！外表，才能，往往是人所看重的，也是人常犯的错误。神阿、求你鉴察我、知道我的心思、试炼我、知道我的意念。看在我里面有甚么恶行没有、引导我走永生的道路。求祢帮助我，不凭外貌选人，也不全凭才干用人，赐予我与圣灵同行的恩典，借着圣灵，能辨识忠心良善的人。

【什么是祷告】

【什么是祷告】祷告是与神交谈、向神祈求。一般基督徒以为「祷告只是向神求些东西」，因此只在他们有需要、有急难的时候，才肯到神面前来向祂祷告。其实，祷告更重要的一面，乃是跟神亲近、和神说话、与神交通。祷告是人与神相亲相近，经历神同在的时刻。

【祷告乃是人心转向神】「祷告」这词的真实意思是「一种意愿的趋向」，就是意愿向着神。一切真正的祷告是寻求神，并且是因着神我们就得着所需要的一切。简单地说，祷告是人的心转向神。
神永远是站在我们这边的，但我们却不常站在祂那边。当人们祷告时，这就是神的机会。一位年老的犹太人说：「祷告是天上和地上相亲的时刻。」── 黄迦勒《求主教导我们祷告》

【祷告是向神打开心门】祷告就是让主耶稣进入我们的心里。「看哪，我站在门外叩门，若有听见我声音就开门的，我就进到他那里去，我与他，他与我一同坐席」(启三20)。上述经文首先叫我们明白，不是我们的祷告感动了主，乃是主感动我们去祷告。祂叩我们的心门。祂叫我们知道，祂很想进到我们心里。我们的祷告常是主叩我们心门的结果。
祷告不是别的，只是打开心门、给主耶稣开条门路，让祂来帮助我们，让祂运用祂自己的能力解决我们的难题。── 黄迦勒《求主教导我们祷告》

【祷告是与神相交而认识神】祷告不仅仅是向神求一些东西，虽然我们祈求一些东西是表示我们完全依靠神。祷告也是与神相交──与神交通──(不只是)与神交谈。我们借着与人交谈而认识人，同样，我们也是借着与神交谈而认识神。祷告的最高果效，不是从恶者手中得拯救，或得到一些渴求的东西，而是认识神。「认识你独一的真神，并认识你所差来的耶稣基督，这就是永生」(约十七3)。是的，祷告会使人更认识神，这乃是心灵最高的发现。
祷告是我们来接触神，和神交通；藉此，让神有机会把祂自己启示在我们的里面，使我们晓得祂的旨意。在神将祂的心意向我们打开的同时，也向我们指点出我们身上的弱点、错误、拦阻、难处来，并赐给我们力量，把它们除去。── 黄迦勒《求主教导我们祷告》

1月18日 不停留在伤感

撒上16:1
耶和华对撒母耳说、我既厌弃扫罗作以色列的王、你为他悲伤要到几时呢．你将膏油盛满了角、我差遣你往伯利恒人耶西那里去、因为我在他众子之内、预定一个作王的。
Yahweh said to Samuel, "How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite; for I have provided a king for myself among his sons."
主耶稣！撒母耳为扫罗王将失去王位悲伤多日，耶和华神亲自安慰撒母耳。主啊！我承认许多时候被伤感所困扰，使我感到失落，失败，失去方向。然而，祢的信实成为我的倚靠，祢的安慰成为我的力量，我不再停留在伤感，祢赐予我有足够的盼望往前行。谢谢祢亲自安慰了我。

1月17日 神眼中的罪

撒上15:22-23
撒母耳说、耶和华喜悦燔祭和平安祭、岂如喜悦人听从他的话呢．听命胜于献祭、顺从胜于公羊的脂油。悖逆的罪、与行邪术的罪相等．顽梗的罪、与拜虚神和偶像的罪相同．你既厌弃耶和华的命令、耶和华也厌弃你作王。
Samuel said, "Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of Yahweh? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected the word of Yahweh, he has also rejected you from being king."
主耶稣！耶和华神喜悦人听从他的话，在生活作息中顺从神的律。主啊！我们把真理理想化，却没有把真理生活化，神眼中的罪，悖逆和顽梗，与行邪术，拜虚神和偶像是相同的罪。尝试想把悖逆和顽梗的罪合理化，都是陡然的。求祢施恩，帮助我，加添力量，听从祢的话，把真理生活化，活出基督的样式，叫父神在真道上得荣耀。

1月16日 不知道根源的认罪

撒上15:24-29
扫罗对撒母耳说、我有罪了、我因惧怕百姓听从他们的话、就违背了耶和华的命令、和你的言语。现在求你赦免我的罪、同我回去、我好敬拜耶和华。撒母耳对扫罗说、我不同你回去、因为你厌弃耶和华的命令．耶和华也厌弃你作以色列的王。撒母耳转身要走、扫罗就扯住他外袍的衣襟、衣襟就撕断了。撒母耳对他说、如此、今日耶和华使以色列国与你断绝、将这国赐与比你更好的人。以色列的大能者、必不至说谎、也不至后悔．因为他迥非世人、决不后悔。
Saul said to Samuel, "I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of Yahweh, and your words, because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice. Now therefore, please pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship Yahweh." Samuel said to Saul, "I will not return with you; for you have rejected the word of Yahweh, and Yahweh has rejected you from being king over Israel." As Samuel turned about to go away, Saul grabbed the skirt of his robe, and it tore. Samuel said to him, "Yahweh has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day, and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better than you. Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent."
主耶稣！扫罗认违背耶和华神命令的罪，却没有认识到犯罪的根源，仍是心中厌弃神的命令。主啊！我向祢求智慧和恩典，可以知道我犯罪的根源，我要彻底认罪悔改，拔除罪根，并且我也要更加喜爱耶和华神的命令。
不知道根源的认罪是知识
知道罪的根源认罪是生命
罗8:6 体贴肉体的就是死．体贴圣灵的乃是生命平安．

1月15日 明知故犯

撒上15:17-21
撒母耳对扫罗说、从前你虽然以自己为小、岂不是被立为以色列支派的元首么。耶和华膏你作以色列的王。耶和华差遣你、吩咐你说、你去击打那些犯罪的亚玛力人、将他们灭绝净尽。你为何没有听从耶和华的命令、急忙掳掠财物、行耶和华眼中看为恶的事呢。扫罗对撒母耳说、我实在听从了耶和华的命令、行了耶和华所差遣我行的路、擒了亚玛力王亚甲来、灭尽了亚玛力人。百姓却在所当灭的物中、取了最好的牛羊、要在吉甲献与耶和华你的神。
Samuel said, "Though you were little in your own sight, weren't you made the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh anointed you king over Israel; and Yahweh sent you on a journey, and said, 'Go, and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.' Why then didn't you obey the voice of Yahweh, but took the spoils, and did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh?" Saul said to Samuel, "But I have obeyed the voice of Yahweh, and have gone the way which Yahweh sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. But the people took of the spoil, sheep and cattle, the chief of the devoted things, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God in Gilgal."
主耶稣！扫罗王明知神的吩咐，却纵容以色列百姓违反神的命令，受责备时还假装无辜受累。我们身为信徒，晓得神的法规，纵容他人去行，面对神的责备，就把责任归咎他人。我们明知故犯，还怪责他人，推卸责任，主啊！我们向祢认罪，悔改，求祢收回祢的怒气，免我们的债，不追算我们的罪孽。

1月14日 以神为主的思维

撒上14:43-45
扫罗对约拿单说、你告诉我你作了甚么事．约拿单说、我实在以手里的杖、用杖头蘸了一点蜜尝了一尝．这样我就死吗。扫罗说、约拿单哪、你定要死、若不然、愿神重重的降罚与我。 百姓对扫罗说、约拿单在以色列人中这样大行拯救、岂可使他死呢、断乎不可、我们指着永生的耶和华起誓、连他的一根头发也不可落地、因为他今日与神一同作事．于是百姓救约拿单免了死亡。
Then Saul said to Jonathan, "Tell me what you have done!" Jonathan told him, and said, "I certainly did taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in my hand; and behold, I must die." Saul said, "God do so and more also; for you shall surely die, Jonathan." The people said to Saul, "Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has worked with God this day!" So the people rescued Jonathan, that he didn't die.
主耶稣！约拿单缺少以神为主的思维，不看重父亲的吩咐，所以不认为所做的有错。以色列民在缺乏以神为主的思维下去保护约拿单，扫罗王也陷入同样的思维模式，听从百姓的话。主啊！我们向祢求更多以神为主的思维，若是约拿单认错，百姓求情，扫罗王赦免，神得荣耀，这是何等的荣美。

1月13日 先当亲近神

撒上14:35-37
扫罗为耶和华筑了一座坛、这是他初次为耶和华筑的坛。扫罗说、我们不如夜里下去追赶非利士人、抢掠他们、直到天亮、不留他们一人．众民说、你看怎样好就去行吧．祭司说、我们先当亲近神。 扫罗求问神说、我下去追赶非利士人可以不可以、你将他们交在以色列人手里不交．这日神没有回答他。
Saul built an altar to Yahweh. This was the first altar that he built to Yahweh. Saul said, "Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and take spoil among them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them." They said, "Do whatever seems good to you." Then the priest said, "Let us draw near here to God." Saul asked counsel of God, "Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will you deliver them into the hand of Israel?" But he didn't answer him that day.
主耶稣！扫罗以为筑坛，神就会应予他所要做的事。祭司回答，先当亲近神。因为亲近神，是不能被崇拜或敬拜的礼仪，或教会的事工事务所取代。主啊！我们不再自欺，我们承认用事工事奉来伪装我们与祢的关系，求祢赦免。求祢施恩，拯救我们脱离虚假，不再逃避，勇于承认自身的不足，软弱，惧怕，叫我们敢于活出真实来亲近祢。

1月12日 尊荣父亲

撒上14:28-33
百姓中有一人对他说、你父亲曾叫百姓严严的起誓、说、今日吃甚么的、必受咒诅．因此百姓就疲乏了。约拿单说、我父亲连累你们了．你看、我尝了这一点蜜、眼睛就明亮了。今日百姓若任意吃了从仇敌所夺的物、击杀的非利士人、岂不更多么。这日以色列人击杀非利士人、从密抹直到亚雅仑．百姓甚是疲乏．就急忙将所夺的牛羊和牛犊、宰于地上、肉还带血就吃了。有人告诉扫罗说、百姓吃带血的肉、得罪耶和华了。扫罗说、你们有罪了、今日要将大石头滚到我这里来。
Then one of the people answered, and said, "Your father directly commanded the people with an oath, saying, 'Cursed is the man who eats food this day.'" The people were faint. Then Jonathan said, "My father has troubled the land. Please look how my eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey. How much more, if perhaps the people had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies which they found? For now has there been no great slaughter among the Philistines."
They struck of the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. The people were very faint; and the people flew on the spoil, and took sheep, and cattle, and calves, and killed them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood. Then they told Saul, saying, "Behold, the people are sinning against Yahweh, in that they eat meat with the blood." He said, "You have dealt treacherously. Roll a large stone to me this day!"
主耶稣！约拿单没有听见父亲的吩咐，不能够成为不尊荣父亲的借口。求祢赦免我的过去有不尊荣父母的过失，虽然我没有听到他们的吩咐，也不可以是我的借口不尊重他们。主啊！我向祢求尊荣，尊敬，尊重父母的智慧和能力。

1月11日 那日耶和华神使以色列人得胜

撒上14:21-23
从前由四方来跟随非利士军的希伯来人、现在也转过来、帮助跟随扫罗和约拿单的以色列人了。那藏在以法莲山地的以色列人、听说非利士人逃跑、就出来紧紧的追杀他们。那日耶和华使以色列人得胜、一直战到伯亚文。
Now the Hebrews who were with the Philistines as before, and who went up with them into the camp, from all around, even they also turned to be with the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan. Likewise all the men of Israel who had hidden themselves in the hill country of Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle. So Yahweh saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over by Beth Aven.
主耶稣！希伯来人因害怕敌人，投降到服事敌人，甚至帮助敌人。今天在我的国家，公司里，也有信徒因害怕失去工作，身份，财富，他们成为敌基督的帮手。主啊！求祢的灵兴起，使仇敌四散，求祢的灵运行，使神的子民灵魂苏醒，归回，整合。今日就是耶和华神使我们得胜的时刻。

1月10日 或者耶和华神为我们施展能力

撒上14:6
约拿单对拿兵器的少年人说、我们不如过到未受割礼人的防营那里去．或者耶和华为我们施展能力、因为耶和华使人得胜、不在乎人多人少。
Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armor, "Come, and let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised. It may be that Yahweh will work for us; for there is no restraint on Yahweh to save by many or by few."
主耶稣！对耶和华神的认识，约拿单曾经听过耶和华神的作为，却没有亲身经历过神。如今，面对多如海沙的敌军，以单纯的信心回应，或者耶和华神为我们施展能力。主啊！我听说过祢行奇事，病得医治，鬼附的得释放，破碎家庭得重建。我要学习像约拿单，以单纯的信心回应面对的困境，面临的挑战，或者耶和华神为我们施展能力。

1月9日 扫罗王作了糊涂事

撒上13:9-12
扫罗说、把燔祭和平安祭带到我这里来．扫罗就献上燔祭。刚献完燔祭、撒母耳就到了．扫罗出去迎接他要问他好。撒母耳说、你作的是甚么事呢．扫罗说、因为我见百姓离开我散去、你也不照所定的日期来到、而且非利士人聚集在密抹．所以我心里说、恐怕我没有祷告耶和华、非利士人下到吉甲攻击我、我就勉强献上燔祭。撒母耳对扫罗说、你作了糊涂事了、没有遵守耶和华你神所吩咐你的命令、若遵守、耶和华必在以色列中坚立你的王位、直到永远。
Saul said, "Bring here the burnt offering to me, and the peace offerings." He offered the burnt offering. It came to pass that as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might greet him. Samuel said, "What have you done?" Saul said, "Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you didn't come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines assembled themselves together at Michmash;
therefore I said, 'Now the Philistines will come down on me to Gilgal, and I haven't entreated the favor of Yahweh.' I forced myself therefore, and offered the burnt offering." Samuel said to Saul, "You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you; for now Yahweh would have established your kingdom on Israel forever.
主耶稣！扫罗王没有服从撒母耳的吩咐，心急，做了糊涂事，代替撒母耳的职务献祭。主啊！我承认，很多时候我会心急，结果做了许多糊涂事，求祢赦免。我要专心学习，常常操练，使我更熟悉更快速完全服从祢的指示和带领。

1月8日 因耶和华神的大名

撒上12:19
众民对撒母耳说、求你为仆人们祷告耶和华你的　神、免得我们死亡、因为我们求立王的事、正是罪上加罪了。撒母耳对百姓说、不要惧怕．你们虽然行了这恶、却不要偏离耶和华、只要尽心事奉他。若偏离耶和华去顺从那不能救人的虚神、是无益的。耶和华既喜悦选你们作他的子民、就必因他的大名不撇弃你们。
All the people said to Samuel, "Pray for your servants to Yahweh your God, that we not die; for we have added to all our sins this evil, to ask us a king." Samuel said to the people, "Don't be afraid. You have indeed done all this evil; yet don't turn aside from following Yahweh, but serve Yahweh with all your heart.
Don't turn aside to go after vain things which can't profit nor deliver, for they are vain. For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name's sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people to himself.
主耶稣！ 耶和华神，守约施慈爱，信实直到万代。耶和华神应许祝福亚伯拉罕，择选他的后裔为子民，因为耶和华神的大名，就爱他们到底，永不放弃。主啊！感谢祢的大名，感谢祢的同在，感谢祢择选了我，感谢祢爱我到底，感谢祢永不撇弃我。不是我有什么，仍是完全因耶和华神的大名。

1月7日 耶和华神却没有忘记

撒上12:8-11
从前雅各到了埃及．后来你们列祖呼求耶和华、耶和华就差遣摩西、亚伦领你们列祖出埃及、使他们在这地方居住。他们却忘记耶和华他们的神、他就把他们付与夏琐将军西西拉的手里、和非利士人并摩押王的手里．于是这些人常来攻击他们。他们就呼求耶和华、说、我们离弃耶和华、事奉巴力、和亚斯他录、是有罪了．现在求你救我们脱离仇敌的手、我们必事奉你。耶和华就差遣耶路巴力、比但、耶弗他、撒母耳、救你们脱离四围仇敌的手、你们才安然居住。
"When Jacob had come into Egypt, and your fathers cried to Yahweh, then Yahweh sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your fathers out of Egypt, and made them to dwell in this place. "But they forgot Yahweh their God; and he sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the army of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab; and they fought against them. They cried to Yahweh, and said, 'We have sinned, because we have forsaken Yahweh, and have served the Baals and the Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve you.' Yahweh sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side; and you lived in safety.
主耶稣！以色列列祖三番四次忘记耶和华神，耶和华神却没有忘记亚伯拉罕和与亚伯拉罕所立的约。主啊！我晓得我的软弱，容易把祢给忘了，求祢保守我的心，常常记念天父的爱，时刻儆醒感恩，不忘传承给后代，坚守主日，倚靠耶和华神的信实。

1月6日 新的心，新的经历

撒上10:9-10
扫罗转身离别撒母耳、神就赐他一个新心．当日这一切兆头都应验了。扫罗到了那山、有一班先知遇见他、神的灵大大感动他、他就在先知中受感说话。
It was so, that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart: and all those signs happened that day. When they came there to the hill, behold, a band of prophets met him; and the Spirit of God came mightily on him, and he prophesied among them.
主耶稣！神为扫罗预备新的心，新的经历。主啊！谢谢祢丰盛的恩典， 赐给我们一个新心、将新灵放在我们里面．又从我们的肉体中除掉石心、赐给你们肉心。圣灵啊！我渴慕天天都被祢所充满，时时刻刻被祢所引导，常常与敬畏神的人相近。每天带着新的心，期待新的经历。

1月5日 变为新人，趁时而作

撒上10:6-7
耶和华的灵必大大感动你、你就与他们一同受感说话．你要变为新人． 这兆头临到你、你就可以趁时而作、因为神与你同在。
and the Spirit of Yahweh will come mightily on you, and you shall prophesy with them, and shall be turned into another man. Let it be, when these signs have come to you, that you do as occasion shall serve you; for God is with you.
主耶稣！凡是相信祢是上帝的独生子，认罪悔改，接受祢为救主，他就在祢里面，成为新造的人。主啊！我在基督耶稣里，旧事已过，如今我变为新人，成为有灵的活人，我要趁着还活着的时候，被圣灵所用，做成神在我身上的工，活出基督的生命，活出神的性情，活出圣灵的大能，活出精彩，叫我的生命不会白活。

1月4日 神任凭人的任性

撒上8:6-9
撒母耳不喜悦他们说、立一个王治理我们．他就祷告耶和华。耶和华对撒母耳说、百姓向你说的一切话、你只管依从、因为他们不是厌弃你、乃是厌弃我、不要我作他们的王。自从我领他们出埃及到如今、他们常常离弃我、事奉别神、现在他们向你所行的、是照他们素来所行的。故此你要依从他们的话、只是当警戒他们、告诉他们将来那王怎样管辖他们。
But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, "Give us a king to judge us." Samuel prayed to Yahweh. Yahweh said to Samuel, "Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me, that I should not be king over them. According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, in that they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also to you. Now therefore listen to their voice: however you shall protest solemnly to them, and shall show them the way of the king who shall reign over them."
主耶稣！人的任性，固执，随心中所好的，不以神的律为乐，只想满足自己的欲望，反对神的话，抗拒神的管制。主啊！求祢赦免我因任性，固执，自私的本性所犯的罪。求祢施恩拯救我，管教我，不要任凭我。我要将心归回，归正，不再偏行己路，我也要更加喜爱祢的指示和管教。

1月3日 历史重演

撒上7:14
非利士人所取以色列人的城邑、从以革伦直到迦特、都归以色列人了．属这些城的四境、以色列人也从非利士人手下收回。那时以色列人与亚摩利人和好。
The cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even to Gath; and Israel recovered its border out of the hand of the Philistines. There was peace between Israel and the Amorites.
主耶稣！三千年前以色列从非利士人手中收回失地，过后又再失去。现今历史重演，以色列收回失地，而联合国却动议加以否定。主啊！求祢败坏恶人在联合国的动议，求祢祝福反对这动议的国家，求祢保护以色列国，在列国中兴起支持以色列国的政治家。

1月2日 以色列必得胜

撒上7:7-10
非利士人听见以色列人聚集在米斯巴、非利士的首领就上来要攻击以色列人．以色列人听见就惧怕非利士人。以色列人对撒母耳说、愿你不住的为我们呼求耶和华我们的神、救我们脱离非利士人的手。撒母耳就把一只吃奶的羊羔、献与耶和华作全牲的燔祭、为以色列人呼求耶和华．耶和华就应允他。撒母耳正献燔祭的时候、非利士人前来要与以色列人争战．当日耶和华大发雷声、惊乱非利士人、他们就败在以色列人面前。
When the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were gathered together at Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. When the children of Israel heard it, they were afraid of the Philistines. The children of Israel said to Samuel, "Don't cease to cry to Yahweh our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines." Samuel took a suckling lamb, and offered it for a whole burnt offering to Yahweh: and Samuel cried to Yahweh for Israel; and Yahweh answered him.
As Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel; but Yahweh thundered with a great thunder on that day on the Philistines, and confused them; and they were struck down before Israel.
主耶稣！以色列面对敌人的攻击威吓，因惧怕发出呼求，撒母耳听见百姓的呼求向耶和华神献祭，耶和华神就向敌人发声，这样的事今天仍然正在发生。主啊！我深信，当国际列强威吓以色列，信徒向神献上祷告和敬拜的时候，耶和华神必然向敌人发声，败坏一切仇敌，以色列必得胜。