Andrew Murray

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201.) The Master's Indwelling, 9 - DEAD WITH CHRIST
      Gal. 2: 20.--I am crucified with Christ. The Revised Version properly has the above text "I have been crucified with Christ." In this connection, let us read the story of a man who was literally crucified with Christ. We may use all the narrative of Christ's work upon earth in the flesh as a type of His spiritual work. Let us take in this instan ...read more

202.) The Master's Indwelling, 10 - JOY IN THE HOLY GHOST
      Romans 14: 17.--For the Kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. In this text we have the earthly revelation of the work of the Trinity. The Kingdom of God is righteousness; that represents the work of the Father. The foundations of His throne are justice and judgment. Then comes the work of ...read more

203.) The Master's Indwelling, 11 - TRIUMPH OF FAITH
      John 4: 50.--And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him. Let me quote from the Gospel according to St. John, the 4th chapter, beginning at the 46th verse: "So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where He made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum. When he heard that Jesus was come u ...read more

204.) The Master's Indwelling, 12 - THE SOURCE OF POWER IN PRAYER
      Romans 8: 26-27.--Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will ...read more

205.) The Master's Indwelling, 13 - THAT GOD MAY BE ALL IN ALL
      1 Corinthians 15: 24-28.--"Then cometh the end, when He shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when He shall have put down all rule, and all authority and power. For He must reign till He hath put all enemies under His feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. For He hath put all things under His feet. But when He ...read more

206.) The Might Of Satan
      "Simon, Simon, behold Satan hath desired to have you, that he might sift you as wheat: but I prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not" Luke 22:31,32. Nothing makes an enemy more dangerous than the fact that he remains hidden or forgotten. Of the three great enemies of the Christian--the world, the flesh, and the devil--the last is the most dange ...read more

207.) The Milk of the Word
      "As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby unto salvation" 1 Peter 2:2. Beloved young Christians, hear what your Father has to say in this word. You have just recently given yourselves to the Lord and have believed that He has received you. You have received the new life from God. You are now as newborn infa ...read more

208.) The Ministry of the Spirit
      'Our sufficiency is of God ; who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life. But if the ministration of death came with glory, how shall not rather the ministration of the Spirit be with glory ?'---2 Cor. 3:6, 7. In none of his Epistles does Pau ...read more

209.) The Morning Hour
      My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up (Psalm 5:3) From the earliest ages, God's servants have thought of the morning as the time especially suitable for worshiping Him. It is still regarded by Christians both as a duty and a privilege to devote some portion of the beginn ...read more

210.) The New Life
      ---For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotton Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life" John 3:16. "For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. Christ is our life" Colossians 3:3,4. ---We declare unto you the life, eternal life, which was with the Father and was manifested unt ...read more

211.) The Newness of the Spirit
      But now we have been discharged from the law, having died, to that wherein we were holden; so that we serve in newness of the Spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.'-Rom. 7:6. If ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law.'-Gal. 5:18 THE work of the indwelling Spirit is to glorify Christ and reveal Him within us. Corresponding to C ...read more

212.) The Outpouring of the Spirit.
      And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak, as the Spirit gave them utterance.'-Acts 1:1-4. In the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, the work of Christ culminates. The adorable mystery of the Incarnation in Bethlehem, the great Redemption accomplished on Calvary, the revelation of Chri ...read more

213.) The Power Of God's Word
      "Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God" (Romans 10:17). "Receive with meekness the implanted, which is able to save your souls" (James 1:21). "We also thank God without ceasing, because when ye received the word of God, which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but, as it 'is in truth, the word of God, whi ...read more

214.) The Power of Persevering Prayer
      Of all the mysteries of the prayer world the need of persevering prayer is one of the greatest. That the Lord, who is so loving and longing to bless, should have to be asked, time after time, sometimes year after year, before the answer comes, we cannot easily understand. It is also one of the greatest practical difficulties in the exercise of beli ...read more

215.) The Prayer Meeting
      "Again I say unto you, that if two of you shall agree an earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of My Father which is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them" Matthew 18:19,20. The Lord Jesus has told us to go into the inner chamber and hold our person ...read more

216.) The Presence of Christ
      "But straightway Jesus spake unto them saying, Be of good cheer, it is I, be not afraid."-Matt. 14:27. All we have had about the work of the blessed Spirit is dependent upon what we think of Jesus, for it is from Christ Jesus that the Spirit comes to us; it is to Christ Jesus that the Spirit ever brings us; and the one need of the Christian lif ...read more

217.) The Pruning Knife
      Already Ye Are Clean Because of the Word I Have Spoken Unto You-John 15.3 What is the pruning knife of this heavenly Husbandman? It is often said to be affliction. By no means in the first place. How would it then fare with many who have long seasons free from adversity; or with some on whom God appears to shower down kindness all their li ...read more

218.) The Revelation of the Spirit
      My preaching was not in persuasive words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. Howbeit we speak wisdom among the perfect: yet a wisdom not of this world; but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, even the wisdom that hath been hidden, which non ...read more

219.) The School of Obedience 1 - Obedience: Its place In Holy Scripture
      In undertaking the study of a Bible word, or of a truth of the Christian life, it is a great help to take a survey of the place it takes in Scripture. As we see where, and how often, and in what connections it is found, its relative importance may be apprehended as well as its bearing on the whole of revelation. Let me try in this first chapter to ...read more