Andrew Murray Quote for Week of December 15th

This week Andrew Murray's quote echoes what my good friend and colleague Brent Farquhar is often saying: We don't pray for things, we bring about things by prayer.

"It is by prayer, by unceasing striving in prayer that this grace must be sought for the Church." page 85

Andrew Murray Quote for the Week of October 6th 2013

"As the second Adam, Christ came and brought about a new nature for all the members of His body. This nature is His ow life, perfected through suffering and obedience. In thus being perfected Himself, His perfect life, is ours. And it is that not only judicially, or by imputation, but as an actual spiritual reality, in virtue of our real and living union with Him." page 79 of The Secret of God's Presence.

Andrew Murray Quote for the Week of September 29th 2013

"In the Church of our day it is to be feared that the great majority of believers have no conception of their calling to be perfect. They do not have the slightest idea that it is their duty not only to be Christian, but to be as eminently spiritual, as full of grace and holiness, as it is possible for God to make them."

Andrew Murray quote for Week of September 22nd 2013

Didn't get to my Andrew Murray reading till today but it was worth the wait. Its long but read it through. Tough but life-giving words:

Some have said that they have seen perfectionism slay its thousands. All must admit that imperfectionism has slain its tens of thousands. Multitudes are soothing themselves in a life of worldliness and sin with the thought that as no one is perfect, imperfection cannot be so dangerous. Numbers of true Christians are making no progress because they have never known that we can serve God with a perfect heart - that the perfect heart is the secret of a perfect way, of a work going on to perfection.

Andrew Murray Quote for Week of September 15th 2013

His prayer from chapter 11... i pray it for myself and hope that you will pray it for yourself this week:

I desire this day to come as near to perfection as grace can make it possible for me. 

Pastor Jacob Birch and Andrew Murray quote for this week

From #AndrewMurray "And who are the spiritual? Those in whom not only the gifts, but the graces of the Spirit have obtained supremacy and are made manifest"

Pastor Jacob Birch and Andrew Murray's Quote to Muse Over this Week

Andrew Murray continues to hammer my soul each Monday as I read his "little" book The Secret of God's Presence. The line from this morning's chapter that got me was:

As the inner life of the Church grew feeble, the spiritual truth was lost in external observances and the fellowship of the poverty of Jesus was scarcely to be seen. (page 56)

Pastor Jacob Birch and Andrew Murray's quote on Jesus as Master

From page 51 of The Secret of God's Presence...

"To take Jesus as Master, with the distinct desire and aim to be and live and act like Him--this is true Christianity. This is something far more than accepting him as Saviour and Helper."