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Absolute Surrender

“I desire by God's grace to give to you this message—that your God in Heaven answers the prayers which you have offered for blessing on yourselves and for blessing on those around you by this one Are you willing to surrender yourselves absolutely into His hands?

“What is our answer to be? God knows there are hundreds of hearts who have said it, and there are hundreds more who long to say it but hardly dare to do so. And there are hearts who have said it, but who have yet miserable failed, and who feel themselves condemned because they did not find the secret of the power to live that life. May God have a word for all!” — Andrew Murray

This book—simple and powerful—is the result of Murray's passionate exploration of the issue of surrender—why it's seemingly impossible and yet completely

166 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1885

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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.

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June 21, 2024
“La condición para obtener la plena bendición de Dios es la absoluta rendición a El!”
“Una de las peores cosas que el pecado hizo para el hombre, fue hacerlo egoísta, pues el egoísmo no puede amar.”
“Y nuestro animo es una prueba que revela si el amor de Cristo llena nuestro corazón o no.”
“Nuestro primer deseo debe ser tener la voluntad de Dios revelada… Pero Dios solo puede revelar su voluntad a un corazón que es humilde, comprometido, y que está vacío. Dios solo puede revelar su voluntad en momentos de perplejidad y dificultades especiales, a un corazón que ha aprendido a obedecer y darle a El la honra lealmente en cosas pequeñas y en la vida diaria.”
“Es en corazones rendidos enteramente al Señor, en corazones enteramente separados por sí mismos del mundo, e inclusive de los ejercicios religiosos habituales, que se entregan en oración intensa para ver a su Señor, donde la voluntad de Dios será hecha manifiesta en forma celestial.”
“¿Cuál es la voluntad de Dios? Está contenida en una frase: separación para el Espíritu Santo.
“Cuando tocamos fondo, entonces El nos muestra que en el Espíritu tenemos el poder de la obediencia, el poder de la victoria y el poder de la verdadera santidad.”
“Es que no hay perspectiva hasta que llega un cambio radical, hasta que la Iglesia de Dios comience a ver que cada pecado en el creyente proviene de la carne, de una vida carnal en medio de nuestras actividades religiosas, de un esfuerzo humano que lucha por servir a Dios. Hasta que aprendamos a confesarnos y hasta que comencemos a ver, debemos de alguna u otra manera lograr que el Espiritu de Dios regrese en poder a su Iglesia, nosotros podemos fallar.”
“Ah, si: usted falla porque no acepta las fuerzas de Dios. Solo Dios puede obrar su voluntad en usted. Usted no puede obrar la voluntad de Dios, pero su Espíritu Santo puede; y hasta que la Iglesia, los creyentes se aferren a esto y dejen de tratar por esfuerzo humano hacer la voluntad de Dios, hasta que venga el Espíritu Santo con toda su omnipotencia y poder, la Iglesia nunca será aquello que Dios quiere que sea, y que Dios desea hacer de ella.”
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March 2, 2024
Ustedes son los pámpanos del Señor Jesús. Si hay en su corazón la consciencia que no es un pámpano fuerte, sano, que lleva fruto, que no está ligado estrechamente con Jesús, que no vive en Él como debería, escuche decir a Jesús: "Soy la vid, te recibo, te atraigo hacia mí, te bendigo, te fortalezco, te lleno con mi Espíritu. Yo, la vid, los he tomado para que sean mis pámpanos, me he entregado claramente a ustedes; hijos, entréguense ustedes claramente a mí. Me he entregado a mí mismo absolutamente a ti; me he convertido en hombre, y fui muerto por ustedes, para ser enteramente de ustedes. Vengan y ríndanse a sí mismos enteramente para ser míos".
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