所以要拿起神所赐的全副军装……随时多方祷告祈求……（弗六13-18）
你要与拦阻你亲近神的东西摔跤，为别人祷告时也要摔跤；但千万不要说你在祷告中与神摔跤，那是不合圣经真理的。你若真与神摔跤，势必一生瘸腿。若神给你一些你不想要的东西，就像雅各一样抓住神，与他摔跤，你就迫使神折断你的大腿窝。不要作阻挡神道路的人，要成为在神面前与世上的事物摔跤的人，要借着他“得胜有余”。在神面前摔跤，必在他国度里见果效。若要我为你代祷，而我在基督里并不完全的话，我可以祷告，却无功效；但若我在基督里完全，祷告就随时产生果效。惟有在完全里，祷告才有功效——“所以要拿起神所赐的全副军装……”
总要分辨什么是神的旨意，什么是他允许发生的事，也就是神对我们护理性的旨意。我们不能更改神的旨意，而我们必须在他面前与一切他容许发生在我们身上的幸运的护理性事情摔跤。我们对这些事情的反应，能帮助我们看清楚他在我们身上的旨意。“万事都互相效力，叫爱神的人得益处”－－这里指那些忠于神的吩咐和主耶稣恩召人。神允许发生的事情，往往是他用来显露真正属他儿女的一个考验。我们不卑躬屈就、不加思索地说：“这是神的旨意。”我们不是与神争斗或摔跤，乃是与那些事情摔跤。当心不可在神面前怠惰地闲坐，而是勇敢地光荣而战，你会发现主的能力充满你。
祈祷◆噢，主啊，倘若我有任何刚强的一面，那只是在你里面得着的刚强。今天早上，我因想起这话而满心欢喜－－“你们要靠着主，倚赖他的大能大力作刚强的人。”
December 16: Wrestling Before God
“Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God . . . praying always . . . ” Ephesians 6:13, 18
You have to wrestle against the things that prevent you from getting to God, and you wrestle in prayer for other souls; but never say that you wrestle with God in prayer, it is scripturally untrue. If you do wrestle with God, you will be crippled all the rest of your life. If, when God comes in some way you do not want, you take hold of Him as Jacob did and wrestle with Him, you compel Him to put you out of joint. Don’t be a hirpler in God’s ways, but be one who wrestles before God with things, becoming more than conqueror through Him. Wrestling before God tells in His Kingdom. If you ask me to pray for you and I am not complete in Christ, I may pray but it avails nothing; but if I am complete in Christ my prayer prevails all the time. Prayer is only effective when there is completeness – “Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God.”
Always distinguish between God’s order and His permissive will, i.e., His providential purpose towards us. God’s order is unchangeable; His permissive will is that with which we must wrestle before Him. It is our reaction to the permissive will of God that enables us to get at His order. “All things work together for good to them that love God” – to those who remain true to God’s order, to His calling in Christ Jesus. God’s permissive will is the means whereby His sons and daughters are to be manifested. We are not to be like jelly-fish saying, “It’s the Lord’s will.” We have not to put up a fight before God, not to wrestle with God, but to wrestle before God with things. Beware of squatting lazily before God instead of putting up a glorious fight so that you may lay hold of His strength.