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A Life of Power
God's Holy Spirit is available to every believer. He comes as Comforter, a Helper, and a Friend, bestowing power for your life. Andrew Murray, a classic Christian writer with knowledge and experience of the Holy Spirit, will show you the power that God wants to give you. This power from God will allow you to revitalize your prayer life and revive your spiritual walk. Murray will show you the purpose of power, the essential condition of receiving, how to be filled with the Spirit, and how to worship in the Spirit. Are you experiencing all that God has to offer? Come into the fullness of a Spirit-filled Christian life today.
199 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1984
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Andrew Murray
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Murray was Born in Cape Town, South Africa, Murray became a noted missionary leader. His father was a Scottish Presbyterian serving the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa, and his mother had connections with both French Huguenots and German Lutherans. This background to some extent explains his ecumenical spirit. He was educated at Aberdeen University, Scotland, and at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. After ordination in 1848 he served pastorates at Bloemfontein, Worcester, Cape Town, and Wellington. He helped to found what are now the University College of the Orange Free State and the Stellenbosch Seminary. He served as Moderator of the Cape Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church and was president of both the YMCA (1865) and the South Africa General Mission (1888-1917), now the Africa Evangelical Fellowship.
He was one of the chief promoters of the call to missions in South Africa. This led to the Dutch Reformed Church missions to blacks in the Transvaal and Malawi. Apart from his evangelistic tours in South Africa, he spoke at the Keswick and Northfield Conventions in 1895, making a great impression. upon his British and American audiences. For his contribution to world missions he was given an honorary doctorate by the universities of Aberdeen (1898) and Cape of Good Hope(1907).
Murray is best known today for his devotional writings, which place great emphasis on the need for a rich, personal devotional life. Many of his 240 publications explain in how he saw this devotion and its outworking in the life of the Christian. Several of his books have become devotional classics. Among these are Abide in Christ, Absolute Surrender, With Christ in the School of Prayer, The Spirit of Christ and Waiting on God.
Murray was Born in Cape Town, South Africa, Murray became a noted missionary leader. His father was a Scottish Presbyterian serving the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa, and his mother had connections with both French Huguenots and German Lutherans. This background to some extent explains his ecumenical spirit. He was educated at Aberdeen University, Scotland, and at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. After ordination in 1848 he served pastorates at Bloemfontein, Worcester, Cape Town, and Wellington. He helped to found what are now the University College of the Orange Free State and the Stellenbosch Seminary. He served as Moderator of the Cape Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church and was president of both the YMCA (1865) and the South Africa General Mission (1888-1917), now the Africa Evangelical Fellowship.
He was one of the chief promoters of the call to missions in South Africa. This led to the Dutch Reformed Church missions to blacks in the Transvaal and Malawi. Apart from his evangelistic tours in South Africa, he spoke at the Keswick and Northfield Conventions in 1895, making a great impression. upon his British and American audiences. For his contribution to world missions he was given an honorary doctorate by the universities of Aberdeen (1898) and Cape of Good Hope(1907).
Murray is best known today for his devotional writings, which place great emphasis on the need for a rich, personal devotional life. Many of his 240 publications explain in how he saw this devotion and its outworking in the life of the Christian. Several of his books have become devotional classics. Among these are Abide in Christ, Absolute Surrender, With Christ in the School of Prayer, The Spirit of Christ and Waiting on God.
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December 21, 2008
This is the best book on the Holy Spirit I've ever read, and possibly will ever read.
That's because it's not what you might imagine: a book on tongues, prophecy, or gifts in that sense. It's a book on the Spirit of God Himself and why He gives Himself to us—not so we can be religious and showy, but quite the contrary—so that we can have a changed life!
The author lovingly and empathetically expounds on the Word to help drive home the point that God loves His children and lives in those who receive Him: when we perceive it with our senses, and when we don't. That's why it's called faith. And when we trust and obey God, despite our feelings or natural understanding, we receive what we ask for in faith: power for our lives, and a greater revelation of God's purposes and workings in our lives. Faith in God is the ultimate stewardship. Use it, and you get more. Squander it, and you find yourself lacking. This a beautiful book that teaches the bible, with the purpose of helping believers be all that God purposes us to be. I wish everyone could read it!
That's because it's not what you might imagine: a book on tongues, prophecy, or gifts in that sense. It's a book on the Spirit of God Himself and why He gives Himself to us—not so we can be religious and showy, but quite the contrary—so that we can have a changed life!
The author lovingly and empathetically expounds on the Word to help drive home the point that God loves His children and lives in those who receive Him: when we perceive it with our senses, and when we don't. That's why it's called faith. And when we trust and obey God, despite our feelings or natural understanding, we receive what we ask for in faith: power for our lives, and a greater revelation of God's purposes and workings in our lives. Faith in God is the ultimate stewardship. Use it, and you get more. Squander it, and you find yourself lacking. This a beautiful book that teaches the bible, with the purpose of helping believers be all that God purposes us to be. I wish everyone could read it!
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