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Overview
In Waiting on God, Andrew Murray shares thirty-one heartfelt meditations, one for each day of the month, to help renew our vision and quicken our desire to turn to the Lord for His quiet, peaceful strength.
Discover how God’s loving presence can refresh the weary heart that learns to wait on Him.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781603746809 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Whitaker House |
| Publication date: | 05/01/1981 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 128 |
| File size: | 2 MB |
| Age Range: | 3 Months to 18 Years |
About the Author
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.
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THE GOD OF OUR SALVATION
"My soul waiteth only upon God; from him cometh my salvation "-Psalm 62:1 (A.S.V.). If salvation truly comes from God and is entirely His work, just as our creation was, it follows that our first and highest duty is to wait on Him and to do that work which pleases Him. Waiting then becomes the only way to the experience of a full salvation the only way to truly know God as the God of our salvation. All the difficulties which are brought forward, as keeping us back from full salvation, have their cause in this one thing: the defective knowledge and practice of waiting upon God. All that the Church and its members need for the manifestation of the mighty power of God in the world is the return to our true place, the place that belongs to us, both in creation and redemption, the place of absolute and unceasing dependence upon God. Let us strive to see what elements make up this most blessed and necessary waiting upon God. It may help us if we discover the reasons why this grace is so little cultivated. We must feel how infinitely desirable it is that the Church, that we ourselves, should learn its blessed secret at any price. The deep need for this waiting on God lies equally in the nature of man and the nature of God. God, as Creator, formed man to be a vessel in which He could show forth His power and goodness. Man was not to have, in himself, a fountain of life or strength or happiness. The ever-living and only living One was to each moment communicate to man all that he needed. Man's glory and blessedness was not to be independent, or dependent upon himself, but dependent on a God of such infinite riches and love. Man was to have the joy of constantly receiving from the fullness of God. This was his blessedness as an unfallen creature. When he fell from God, he was still more absolutely dependent on Him. There was not the slightest hope of his recovery out of his state of death, but in God, His power and mercy. It is God alone who began the work of redemption. It is God alone who continues and carries it on each moment in each individual believer. Even in the regenerate man, there is no power of goodness in himself. He has and can have nothing that he does not each moment receive. Waiting on God is just as indispensable, and must be just as continuous and unbroken, as the breathing which maintains his natural life. It is then because Christians do not know their relationship to God as absolute poverty and helplessness, that they have no sense of the need of absolute and unceasing dependence, or of the unspeakable blessedness of continually waiting on God. But, once a believer begins to see it and consent to it-that he must, by the Holy Spirit, each moment receive what God each moment works-waiting on God becomes his brightest hope and joy. As he begins to understand how God, as God, as infinite Love, delights to impart His own nature to His child as fully as He can-how God is not weary of keeping charge of his life and strength -- he wonders why he ever thought that God could not be waited on all day. God unceasingly giving and working and His child unceasingly waiting and receiving; this is the blessed life. "Truly my soul waiteth upon God; from Him cometh my salvation." First, we wait on God for salvation. Then, we learn that salvation is only to bring us to God and teach us to wait on Him. Then, we find what is better still, that waiting on God is itself the highest salvation. It is ascribing to Him the glory of being All; it is experiencing that He is All to us. May God teach us the blessedness of waiting on Him!
My soul, wait thou only upon God!
Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
‘WAIT THOU ONLY UPON GOD.’ 3
EXTRACT FROM ADDRESS IN EXETER HALL 3
PREFACE 4
DAY 1: THE GOD OF OUR SALVATION. 5
DAY 2: THE KEYNOTE OF LIFE. 5
DAY 3: THE TRUE PLACE OF THE CREATURE. 6
DAY 4: FOR SUPPLIES. 7
DAY 5: FOR INSTRUCTION. 8
DAY 6: FOR ALL SAINTS. 9
DAY 7: A PLEA IN PRAYER. 10
DAY 8: STRONG AND OF GOOD COURAGE. 11
DAY 9: WITH THE HEART. 12
DAY 10: IN HUMBLE FEAR AND HOPE. 13
DAY 11: PATIENTLY. 14
DAY 12: KEEPING HIS WAYS. 15
DAY 13: FOR MORE THAN WE KNOW. 16
DAY 14: THE WAY TO THE NEW SONG. 17
DAY 15: FOR HIS COUNSEL. 18
DAY 16: FOR HIS LIGHT IN THE HEART. 19
DAY 17: IN TIMES OF DARKNESS. 20
DAY 18: TO REVEAL HIMSELF. 21
DAY 19: AS A GOD OF JUDGMENT. 22
DAY 20: WHO WAITS ON US. 22
DAY 21: THE ALMIGHTY ONE. 23
DAY 22: IT CERTAINTY OF BLESSING. 24
DAY 23: FOR UNLOOKED-FOR THINGS. 25
DAY 24: TO KNOW HIS GOODNESS. 26
DAY 25: QUIETLY. 27
DAY 26: IN HOLY EXPECTANCY. 28
DAY 27: FOR REDEMPTION. 29
DAY 28: FOR THE COMING OF HIS SON. 30
DAY 29: FOR THE PROMISE OF THE FATHER. 31
DAY 30: CONTINUALLY. 32
MOMENT BY MOMENT 33
DAY 31: ONLY. 34
NOTE. 35