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  SHALL WE NOT PRAY AS NEVER BEFORE
  by Andrew Murray
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Summary: Andrew Murray urges believers to pray for a revival in the life
of God's people to fulfill their duty to God and the world.

Topics: "Prayer", "Revival"
Scripture References: 2 Chronicles 7:14, Matthew 7:7, Luke 18:1, John 7:38, Acts 1:14, Ephesians 6:18, Philippians 4:6-7, Colossians 4:2, 1 Thessalonians 5:17, James 5:16

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Andrew Murray emphasizes the urgent need for prayer among God's people
to ignite a revival that empowers them to fulfill their divine duties
and enhance missionary efforts. He highlights the correlation between
the spiritual vitality of the mother church and the strength of its
converts abroad, suggesting that a revival at home will positively
influence missionary work. Murray calls for believers to seek God's
presence fervently, ensuring that what they share with others is pure
and life-giving, akin to streams flowing from the throne of God.

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Shall we not pray as never before for a revival in the life of God's
people that shall fit them to fulfill their duty to God and the world,
that shall make missionary effort in every deed the supreme end, the
chief glory of the church? If there is anything more needed to urge us
to such prayer, let it be this. The proverb says: As the mother, so the
daughter.

The complaint in missionary churches of the weakness of many of our
converts is most natural when we look at the general tone of our
Christians at home. The influence of the revival of believers in the
older churches on missionaries and converts abroad will be certain and
most blessed. The power of the Spirit of God in the mother churches
wakening to a higher devotion will infallibly affect all their branches
in heathen lands. We cannot impart to them more than we have. Shall we
not beseech God that what we give them shall indeed be streams of living
water in all their divine purity and abundance and quickening power as
they flow from under the throne of God and the Lamb?

(Excerpted from The Coming Revival, by Andrew Murray , pg. 55)

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