In 1998 Whitaker House published one of my favorite books written by Andrew Murray. I am reading through it now for the 4th time. It is a one-page-a-day devotional type book that I always find helpful and motivating...[I often read several pages a day] .so I want to recommend it to you all. Here are a few examples:

"The deep root of all scriptural theology is absolute dependence on God. Waiting on God -in this expression we find one of the deepest truths of God's Word.

"Loving obedience is the way to the enjoyment of His love. Six times the Lord connected the keeping of the commandments with the promise of the great blessing that accompanies loving obedience The love that keeps His commandments is the only way to abide in His love. In our relationship with Christ, love is everything.

"Father, teach me what it means that I am dead with Christ and can live my life through Him. Teach me above all to believe that I cannot either understand or experience this except through the continual working of the Holy Spirit dwelling within me..

"Throughout the church of Christ there is an apparent lack of faith in what the Spirit is as God, in what He can enable us to be, and in how completely He demands full and undisturbed possession of our whole being. All our faith in the fulfillment of Christ's glorious promises, especially that of the Father and Son making their abode in us is subject to one essential and indispensable condition: a life utterly and unceasingly yielded to the rule and leading of the Spirit of Christ.

"Oh sweet resignation of myself to God-happy death of every selfish desire,...the only driver of all evil out of my soul-be my guide and governor wherever I go! 

"We need to pray intensely and persistently that the need for the power of the Holy Spirit may be deeply felt and that a strong faith may be roused in the hearts of many to claim and expect His mighty working. 'I the Lord have spoken, and will do it. Lord I believe, help my unbelief."

bh April 5, 2008

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