（转贴：理念相同，代为传布，千祈海涵）p
上帝能照著运行在我们心里的大力，充充足足地成就一切，超过我们所求所想的。 □以弗所书3章20节
Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us. □Ephesians 3:20
我们租的房子在一个很好的地段，然而，在这里住了十年之後，房东突然决定要卖房子。我祈求上帝改变房东的决定，让我和太太可以继续住在这栋房子里，因为这里有我们孩子成长的记忆。但是，上帝拒绝了我们的祈求。
每当我为自己的需要祷告时，我总是担心自己作出错误，或是过分的要求。然而，当上帝拒绝我们的要求时，切勿信心动摇，因为他的慈爱仍然环绕著我们。使徒保罗在以弗所书3章里提到，那些曾经历基督慈爱的人（16-17节）可以相信：当上帝拒绝我们的祈求时，他是有著其他的美好原因。
就在上帝拒绝我的祈求後不久，教会里有朋友问我们，愿不愿意租用他们的房子。我们的新家有新的设备、新的水管、新的电线，以及一间额外的卧室。这栋房子在海边，帆船点点、海涛拍岸，每天都提醒我们，即使面对再大的难题，也不会大过我们的上帝。慈爱的天父透过亲爱的朋友给了我们如此美丽的居所，超过我们所求所想。
无论上帝给我们的是超过我们所求，或远少於我们所渴想，我们都可以深信他的计划绝对是最好。 RK
主啊！我知道祢全然美善，
无论祢是否应允祷告，无论祢的赐予
超过我所求所想，或是非我所渴想的，
求祢让我能心存感恩，接受祢所赐予的一切。
当上帝拒绝我们所求时，我们相信必有他的美意。
When God says no to our request, we can be sure it』s for the best.
Surprised By God
November 24, 2012 □ by Randy Kilgore
After 10 years of renting in a charming location, we discovered that our landlord suddenly needed to sell the house. I asked God to change the circumstances and make it possible for my wife and me to stay in this place we』d made home, where we』d watched our children grow up. But God said no.
When it comes to my needs, I worry that I』m asking for the wrong thing or that I』m not worthy of the request I』m making. But God』s no doesn』t need to shake our faith when we』re grounded□surrounded I like to say□in His love. In Ephesians 3, Paul understood that those who know the love of Christ intimately (vv.16-17) can trust God to have a loving reason for saying no.
Shortly after hearing 「no」 from God about my request, friends from church offered to rent us a home they were vacating. Our new location□with new appliances, new plumbing, new electrical wiring, and an extra bedroom□sits on the ocean, an idyllic scene of ships, sails, and sounds that daily remind us that God is bigger than any issue we face. Our loving Father used loving friends to give more than we asked.
Whether God gives us more than we imagined or far less than we desired, we can trust that His plans are much better than ours.
Lord, we know that You are good whether Your answers to our prayers
are abundantly more than we asked or much less than we desire.
Help us to accept whatever comes to us from Your hand. Thank You.