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Andrew Murray (1828 - 1917). South African pastor, author, and revivalist born in Graaff-Reinet, Cape Colony, to Dutch Reformed missionary parents. Sent to Scotland at 10, he studied at Aberdeen University and Utrecht, Netherlands, returning ordained in 1848. He pastored in Bloemfontein and Worcester, later moderating the Dutch Reformed Church’s Cape Synod. In 1860, he sparked a revival in the Orange Free State, preaching to thousands across racial lines despite apartheid’s rise. Murray wrote over 240 books, including Abide in Christ (1882) and With Christ in the School of Prayer, translated into dozens of languages. His emphasis on holiness, prayer, and divine healing influenced global Pentecostalism. Married to Emma Rutherford in 1856, they had eight children, four becoming missionaries. He founded theological seminaries and the Huguenot College for women. Despite chronic illness, he traveled to Europe and America, speaking at Keswick Conventions. His devotional works remain widely read, shaping Christian spirituality across denominations.
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Andrew Murray emphasizes that God is the initiator and sustainer of all good works in our lives, assuring us that He will complete what He has started. He highlights the importance of recognizing God's active role in our spiritual journey, encouraging believers to depend on Him as Jesus did. By understanding that God works in us to fulfill His will, we can transform our spiritual lives and embody the mindset of Christ, who exemplified complete reliance on the Father. This message calls for a deeper faith in God's continuous work within us, fostering a spirit of yielding and dependence.
All That God Has Begun He Himself Continues
Men have never had their eyes opened to see that all that God has begun he himself continues; that all that he demands he himself works out; that his divine purpose as author of all carries with it the assurance that he will perfect all he began. The God whom Christ has made known is one ‘who works both to will and to do’, who perfects in us every good work to do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight. ‘Through him all things’: if we really believe and seek spiritually to understand this word, what a change it would work in our spiritual life! We should begin to see how really we may follow in the footsteps of the Son of God, and expect the Father to work all for us as he did for him. He said, ‘I can do nothing of myself’, ‘I speak not of myself, but the Father doeth the works’, and taught us that the great mark of his human life was what God had meant the life of Adam to be, an unceasing dependence, an entire yielding of spirit to the Father, waiting for and receiving his working in him. It is this disposition, ‘the mind that was in Christ Jesus’, the very spirit of his Son, that God sent forth into our hearts, that we might live like him. (Excerpted from The Coming Revival, by Andrew Murray , pg. 68)
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Andrew Murray (1828 - 1917). South African pastor, author, and revivalist born in Graaff-Reinet, Cape Colony, to Dutch Reformed missionary parents. Sent to Scotland at 10, he studied at Aberdeen University and Utrecht, Netherlands, returning ordained in 1848. He pastored in Bloemfontein and Worcester, later moderating the Dutch Reformed Church’s Cape Synod. In 1860, he sparked a revival in the Orange Free State, preaching to thousands across racial lines despite apartheid’s rise. Murray wrote over 240 books, including Abide in Christ (1882) and With Christ in the School of Prayer, translated into dozens of languages. His emphasis on holiness, prayer, and divine healing influenced global Pentecostalism. Married to Emma Rutherford in 1856, they had eight children, four becoming missionaries. He founded theological seminaries and the Huguenot College for women. Despite chronic illness, he traveled to Europe and America, speaking at Keswick Conventions. His devotional works remain widely read, shaping Christian spirituality across denominations.