【诗60:4】你把旌旗赐给敬畏你的人，可以为真理扬起来。（细拉）【Psa60:4 】But for those who fear you, you have raised a banner to be unfurled against the bow.

出埃及记 17:15 摩西筑了一座坛，起名叫耶和华尼西（就是耶和华是我旌旗的意思）；旌旗指得胜，神让大卫常处于弱势与险境，带领一群看似乌合之众的人去打败远胜自己的强敌，是为了把得胜的秘诀赐给他——这秘诀就是敬畏神，而敬畏神的核心是恨恶罪。Exodus 17:15 — “Moses built an altar and called it The LORD is my Banner.” The banner speaks of victory. God often kept David in weakness and danger, leading what seemed like a scattered and unlikely group to overcome enemies far stronger than themselves, in order to give him the secret of victory. That secret was the fear of the Lord, and at the heart of the fear of the Lord is to hate evil.

主啊，感谢你，让我明白为什么信主以后还总经历失败。在与家人和他人相处时，我常常败给自己里面的自义、论断、不饶恕、自私以及受拒绝的伤害。这些缠绕我一生的原罪就是我的仇敌。Lord, I thank You for helping me understand why, even after believing in You, I still so often experience failure. In my relationships with family and others, I repeatedly fall before the self-righteousness, judgment, unforgiveness, selfishness, and wounds of rejection within me. These sinful patterns, which have entangled me throughout my life, are the true enemies I must face. 过去我虽然听道、祷告、争战，甚至在失败后痛哭悔改，但一进到现实环境中，就容易再次顺从仇敌的意念，重蹈覆辙，重新进入过去被掳的模式中。In the past, although I listened to sermons, prayed, and fought spiritually, even weeping in repentance after failure, once I returned to real-life situations, I would easily submit again to the enemy’s thoughts, repeat the same mistakes, and fall back into the old patterns of captivity.

主啊，我是你孩子，你本是乐意把你的旌旗得胜赐给我的。今天你借着这节经文，再次对我说话：敬畏你不是只在聚会或祷告时，而是在平时日常生活当中，我的心在想什么？Lord, I am Your child, and You delight in giving me the victory of Your banner. Today, through this passage, You speak to me once again: to fear You is not only for times of fellowship or prayer, but for everyday life. What fills my mind day by day? 是思想你的真理还是在计算别人的恶？又顺着仇敌的意念去想…进入过去被掳的模式？还是停住？意识到不对，立刻回到真理里去。用真理对付仇敌射过来的一切火箭(把真理旗帜扬起来)。Am I meditating on Your truth, or dwelling on the wrongs of others? Am I following the thoughts of the enemy and slipping back into former patterns of bondage, or will I stop, recognise what is wrong, and immediately return to the truth? Teach me to use Your truth against every flaming arrow of the enemy, lifting high the banner of truth.

主啊，我愿意悔改，你是公义的，别人的对错好坏你自会断定，我愿意放下自己，单单敬畏你，悔改我自己的罪。我要因着敬畏你，重新在我的生命中挥动你的真理旌旗，向以前屡次掳去我的仇敌夸胜。Lord, I am willing to repent. You are righteous, and You alone will judge what is right or wrong in others. I choose to lay down myself, to fear You alone, and to repent of my own sin. Because I fear You, I desire once again to raise the banner of Your truth over my life and to triumph over the enemies that so often carried me away in the past.

主啊，我为着我以前的失败向你感恩。感谢你训练我，一个原本失败的人，因敬畏你，不光自己得胜，竖起真理旗帜，也帮助以前失败的人可以得胜！Lord, I thank You even for my former failures. Thank You for training me — one who was once defeated — so that through fearing You, I may not only walk in victory myself and raise high the banner of truth, but also help others who once lived in defeat to enter into victory as well.

（刘姊妹 Sister Liu）