God's Power for Today

by Andrew Murray

Overview

Collected from the works of Andrew Murray, these passages offer daily nuggets of spiritual nourishment. Providing believers with the inspiration to grow closer to God, this 365-day devotional will show how to…

• Proclaim the gospel boldly
• Abide in Christ
• Know the Holy Spirit
• Live a holy life
• Obtain a strong faith
• Understand biblical humility
• Obtain the peace of Christ 

The writings of Andrew Murray have stirred the hearts of millions of Christians. Through the well-loved passages contained in this book, you will receive power to live daily for Christ.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781603746694
Publisher:	Whitaker House
Publication date:	11/01/1997
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	148
File size:	270 KB

About the Author

Andrew Murray (1828–1917) was an amazingly prolific Christian writer. He lived and ministered as both a pastor and author in the towns and villages of South Africa. Some of Murray’s earliest works were written to provide nurture and guidance to Christians, whether young or old in the faith; they were actually an extension of his pastoral work. Once books such as Abide in Christ, Divine Healing, and With Christ in the School of Prayer were written, Murray became widely known, and new books from his pen were awaited with great eagerness throughout the world.
He wrote to give daily practical help to many of the people in his congregation who lived out in the farming communities and could come into town for church services only on rare occasions. As he wrote these books of instruction, Murray adopted the practice of placing many of his more devotional books into thirty-one separate readings to correspond with the days of the month.
At the age of seventy-eight, Murray resigned from the pastorate and devoted most of his time to his manuscripts. He continued to write profusely, moving from one book to the next with an intensity of purpose and a zeal that few men of God have ever equaled. He often said of himself, rather humorously, that he was like a hen about to hatch an egg; he was restless and unhappy until he got the burden of the message off his mind.
During these later years, after hearing of pocket-sized paperbacks, Andrew Murray immediately began to write books to be published in that fashion. He thought it was a splendid way to have the teachings of the Christian life at your fingertips, where they could be carried around and read at any time of the day.
One source has said of Andrew Murray that his prolific style possesses the strength and eloquence that are born of deep earnestness and a sense of the solemnity of the issues of the Christian life. Nearly every page reveals an intensity of purpose and appeal that stirs men to the depths of their souls. Murray moves the emotions, searches the conscience, and reveals the sins and shortcomings of many of us with a love and hope born out of an intimate knowledge of the mercy and faithfulness of God.
For Andrew Murray, prayer was considered our personal home base from which we live our Christian lives and extend ourselves to others. During his later years, the vital necessity of unceasing prayer in the spiritual life came to the forefront of his teachings. It was then that he revealed the secret treasures of his heart concerning a life of persistent and believing prayer.
Countless people the world over have hailed Andrew Murray as their spiritual father and given credit for much of their Christian growth to the influence of his priceless devotional books.
 
South African pastor and author ANDREW MURRAY (1828–1917) was an amazingly prolific writer. Murray began writing on the Christian life for his congregation as an extension of his local pastoral work, but he became internationally known for his books, such as With Christ in the School of Prayer and Abide in Christ, that searched men’s hearts and brought them into a deeper relationship with Christ. With intense purpose and zeal for the message of the gospel, Murray wrote numerous books even after his “retirement” at age seventy-eight.

Read an Excerpt

January 1When you get a promise from God, it is worth just as much as a fulfillment. You only need to honor Him by trusting the promise and obeying Him. God knows about any preparation that you still need. If there is anything that you need to understand, He will lead you to understand it, if you count on Him to do this. Do not look to what others say or to what you think and understand. Look to God, and expect God to do something.

The true taking away of sin is this: if the light comes in, the darkness is expelled. It is the presence of Jesus indwelling in us by the Holy Spirit that can make us holy. The Spirit did everything on the Day of Pentecost and afterwards. It was the Spirit who gave the boldness, the wisdom, the message, and the converting power.

Let everyone who longs for the blessing of the Spirit take these four little sayings as steps: I must be filled; I may be filled; I would be filled; I will be filled.

What is obedience? It is giving up my will to the will of another. Christ said, "Not my will, but thine, be done" (Luke 22:42). Jesus gave up His life to God, and by this He taught us that the only thing that life is worth living for is to give it back to God, even unto death.

Christ never could have ascended to sit upon the throne, never could have accomplished His work of preparing the kingdom so that He could give it to the Father, if He had not begun by giving up Himself and letting God do all.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

January 7

February 27

March 39

April 51

May 63

June 81

July 93

August 105

September 119

October 133

November 149

December 169