林前十四12　……就要为着召会的建造，寻求得以超越。

　　　　　　32　　并且申言者的灵，是服从申言者的。

　　弗一17　　愿我们主耶稣基督的神，荣耀的父，赐给你们智慧和启示的灵，使你们充分地认识祂。

　　三种构成申言的元素〔乃是〕：对神的话有认识—属人学习的元素；……有圣灵即时的感动—神圣感动的元素；……有异象，看见神的权益和经纶，看见召会是基督的身体，看见地方召会，看见世界，看见个别的圣徒，甚至看见自己—借着神圣之光的光照而有所看见（哥林多前书结晶读经纲要，第十篇）。

　　1 Cor. 14:12 …Seek that you may excel for the building up of the church.

　　32 And the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets.

　　Eph. 1:17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the full knowledge of Him.

　　The three constituting elements of prophesying [are]:…[to] possess a knowledge of the Word of God—the human element of learning;… [to] have the instant inspiration of the Holy Spirit— the divine element of inspiration;… [and to] have a vision concerning God's interest and economy, concerning the church as the Body of Christ, concerning the local churches, concerning the world, concerning the individual saints, and even concerning ourselves—the view through the enlightening of the divine light. (Prophesying in the Church Meetings for the Organic Building Up of the Church as the Body of Christ (Outlines), p. 33)

　　我们若要申言，就需要过申言的生活。第一，我们需要晨晨复兴（箴四18，哀三22~24，诗一一九147~148）。……每二十四小时就有新的开始，就有黎明和升起的太阳。这是照着神创造里的自然律。我们必须照着这自然的律。每早晨，我们必须早起接触主，呼求祂，并被祂复兴。在哀歌三章二十二至二十四节耶利米说，主的怜恤每早晨都是新鲜的。祂的怜恤像清晨的甘露。每早晨我们必须享受这新鲜的甘露，使我们得以有新的起头，就是早晨的复兴。

　　我们也必须过日日得胜的生活（启二一7）。晨兴之后，我们不该停止接触主。我们可以借着时时与主交通而过得胜的生活（约壹一6）。我们也需要照着灵而行（罗八4下），不在灵之外作任何事。我们也必须随时说主的话，就是讲说主，……无论得时不得时……（提后四2上）。我们不该说，“现在不是我们对人说话的时候。”看起来好像不是时候，但即使是不得时，我们仍须说主的话。这样一个申言的生活使我们够资格申言。

　　在台北，我们与圣徒有过一些实际的交通，关于如何预备在主日召会聚会中申言。每周他们读一章圣经，把这章分成六段，供六天用。在每天的那一段里，他们选出二至三节祷读，用这些经节享受主，使他们每晨得复兴。我们吩咐圣徒在他们早晨与主同在的时候，把主所感动他们的，简短的记下，作个提醒。在周末，他们会有六段一周中所得灵感的笔记。在周六晚上，他们用这些灵感的笔记，写成一篇三分钟的申言稿。然后，他们在家中操练说。他们受教导，不可太长或太短。到了主日，他们去召会聚会的时候，乃是有备而去，这样就成就了主在林前十四章二十六节的话—“各人或有”。他们不是光信靠即时的灵感，乃是来聚会时已经预备好，带着他们所享受之基督的丰富。……圣徒需要得成全以享受基督，被主话浸透，不住地祷告，时时与主交通，在灵里生活行动，并随时在灵里讲说主。然后他们需要学习如何为召会聚会写申言稿。我盼望我们都为着召会的聚会试着实行这事（建造召会的超越恩赐，三一至三二页）。

　　参读：主今日恢复的进展，第六至七章；新约总论，第二百零二、三百四十篇；为着建造基督的身体讲说基督，第一章。

　　If we are going to prophesy, we need to live a prophesying life. First, we need to be revived every morning (Prov. 4:18; Lam. 3:22-24; Psa. 119:147-148)….Every twenty-four hours there is a new start, a dawn, a rising sun. This is according to the natural law in God's creation. We have to go along with this natural law. Every morning we have to rise early to contact the Lord, to call on Him, and to be revived by Him. In Lamentations 3:22-24 Jeremiah says that the Lord's compassions are fresh and new every morning. His mercies are like the fresh dew in the morning. Every morning we must enjoy this fresh dew to have a new start, a morning revival.

　　We must also live an overcoming life every day (Rev. 21:7). After the morning revival we should not stop contacting the Lord. We can live a victorious life by fellowshipping with the Lord moment by moment (1 John 1:6). We also need to walk according to the spirit (Rom. 8:4b), not doing anything outside of the Spirit. We should also speak the word (the Lord) all the time, …in season and out of season (2 Tim. 4:2a). We should not say,”Now is not the time for me to speak to people.” Seemingly it is out of season, but even if it is out of season, we still have to speak the word. Such a prophesying life qualifies us to prophesy.

　　In Taipei we gave the saints some practical fellowship concerning how to prepare to prophesy in the church meetings on the Lord's Day. Every week they will cover a chapter of a certain book of the Bible and divide this chapter into six portions for six days. In each section for each day, they choose two or three verses for pray-reading, and they enjoy the Lord with these verses for their morning revival. We charged the saints to write down a short reminder of what the Lord inspired them with in their time with Him in the morning. At the end of the week they will have six notes of what they were inspired with during the week. On Saturday night they use these notes of their inspiration to compose a prophecy to speak for three minutes. Then they practice it in their homes. They are instructed not to be too long or too short. When they go to the church meeting on the Lord's Day, they have something, thus fulfilling the Lord's word in 1 Corinthians 14:26:”Each one has.” They do not trust merely in instant inspiration, but they come to the meeting prepared with the riches of Christ that they have enjoyed….The saints need to be perfected to enjoy the Lord, to be saturated with the Word, to pray unceasingly, to fellowship with the Lord moment by moment, to walk in the Spirit, and to speak the Lord in the Spirit at all times. Then they need to learn how to compose a prophecy for the church meetings. I hope that we all would try to practice this for our church meetings. (CWWL, 1988, vol. 4,”The Excelling Gift for the Building Up of the Church,” pp. 463-464)

　　Further Reading: Prophesying in the Church Meetings for the Organic Building Up of the Church as the Body of Christ (Outlines), outls. 6-10; CWWL, 1989, vol. 4,”The Advance of the Lord's Recovery Today,” chs. 6-7; The Conclusion of the New Testament, msgs. 202, 340; CWWL, 1988, vol. 1,”Speaking Christ for the Building Up of the Body of Christ,” ch. 1