Andrew Murray

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121.) Perservering Prayer
      Let it be thus whether you pray for yourself or for others. All labor, bodily or mental, needs time and effort: we must give up ourselves up to it. Nature discovers her secrets and yields her treasures only to diligent and thoughtful labor. However little we can understand it, in the spiritual farming it is the same: the seed we sow in the soil of ...read more

122.) Personal Work
      "Restore unto me the joy of Thy salvation: and uphold me with Thy free spirit. Then will I teach transgressors Thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto Thee" Psalm 51:12,13. "I believe, therefore have I spoken" Psalm 116:10. "But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you" Acts 1:8. Every redeemed man is called ...read more

123.) Peter's Repentance
      "And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And Peter went out, and wept bitterly" (Luke 22:61, 62). That was the turning point in the life of Peter. Christ had said to him: "Thou canst not follow me now" (John 13:36). Peter wa ...read more

124.) Power for Praying and Working
      In prayer the power for work is obtained. Wher Jesus was here on earth, He did the greatest works Himself. Devils that the disciples could not cast out d at His word. When He went to be with the Fether, He was no longer here in body to work directly. The disciples were now His Body. All His work from the throne in heaven must and could be done here ...read more

125.) Power In Weakness
      "He said unto me, My strength is made perfect in weakness. Therefore will I rather glory in my weakness, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in weakness: for when I am weak, then am I strong" 2 Corinthians 12:9,10. There is almost no word that is so imperfectly understood in the Christian life as the word weaknes ...read more

126.) Power of the Blood of Jesus
      What is it that gives to the blood of Jesus such power? How is it that in the blood, alone, there is power possessed by nothing else? The answer to this question is found in Leviticus 17:11, 14. "The life of the flesh is in the blood"; and "I have give it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes ...read more

127.) Prayer
      "Thou, when thou prayest, enter into thine inner chamber, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret, and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly" Matthew 6:6. The spiritual life with its growth depends a great deal on prayer. My life will flourish or decay according to how much or how little I pray ...read more

128.) PRAYER AND THE GLORY OF GOD
      ...to make the glorifying of God his first and only object. We have sought more than once to enforce the truth, that while we ordinarily seek the reasons of our prayers not being heard in the thing we ask not being according to the will of God, Scripture warns us to find the cause in ourselves, in our not being in the right state or not ask ...read more

129.) PRAYER AND THE WILL OF GOD
      It is through The Word, and the Word Alone, that the Spirit teaches... One of the greatest difficulties with young believers is to know how they can find out whether what they desire is according to God's will. I count it one of the most precious lessons God wants to teach through the experience of George Muller, that He is willing to make ...read more

130.) Prevailing Prayer
      I Appointed You That Ye Should Go and Bear Fruit, and That Your Fruit Should Abide: That Whatsoever Ye Shall Ask of the Father in My Name, He May Give It You-John 15.16 In the first verse of our parable, Christ revealed Himself as the true Vine, and the Father as the Husbandman, and asked for Himself and the Father a place in the heart. He ...read more

131.) Privilege and Experience
      "And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine." --Luke 15:31. The words of the text are familiar to us all. The elder son had complained and said, that though his father had made a feast, and had killed the fatted calf for the prodigal son, he had never given him even a kid that he might make merry wi ...read more

132.) Reconciliation Through the Blood
      " Being justified freely by his grace through the REDEMPTION that is in Christ Jesus, whom God bath set forth as a PROPITIATION through faith in his blood."--- iii. 24,25. As we have seen, several distinct blessings have been procured for us by the power of the blood of Jesus, which are all included in the one word " REDEMPTION." Among these ble ...read more

133.) Redemption by Blood
      "Ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things . . . but with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot"-I Pet. i. 18, 79. THE shedding of His blood was the culmination of the sufferings of our Lord. The atoning efficacy of those sufferings was in that shed blood. It is therefore of great importance t ...read more

134.) Religion In The Flesh
      Do we not know, how the Pharisees, with 'self-righteousness and carnal religion, fell into pride and selfishness, and became the servants of sin? Was it not just among the Galatians, of whom Paul asks the question about perfecting in flesh what was begun in the Spirit, and whom he has so to warn against the righteousness of works, that the works o ...read more

135.) Righteousness
      "He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?" Micah 6:8. "Yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God ....Being then made free from sin, ye became servants o ...read more

136.) Sanctification Through the Blood
      "Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with bis own blood, suffered without the gate"-Heb. xiii. 12. "Cleansing through the blood" was the subject of our last chapter. SANCTIFICATION THROUGH THE BLOOD must now occupy our attention. To a superficial observer it might seem that there is little difference between CLEANSING a ...read more

137.) Searching The Scriptures
      "O how I love Thy law! it is my meditation all the day" Psalm 119:97. "Search the Scriptures: and they are they which testify of Me" John 5:39. "The word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard" Hebrews 4:2. At the beginning of this book there is more than one passage on the use of God's Word in the life ...read more

138.) Self-Denial
      "There said Jesus unto His disciples, If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me" Matthew 16:24. Self-denial was an exercise which the Lord Jesus often spoke about. Several times He mentioned it as an indispensable characteristic of every true disciple. He associates it with cross-bearing and losing ...read more

139.) Separated Unto The Holy Spirit
      "Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen ... and Saul. "As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me -Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. "And when they had fasted and p ...read more