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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 source and sustainer of all things, asserting that He does not abandon creation to operate independently but actively maintains it. He challenges the notion that living in constant communion with God is an unattainable ideal, urging believers to understand and embrace the truth that all things are accomplished through Him. This understanding is crucial for experiencing true rest and happiness in the Christian life, as it allows for a deeper relationship with God.
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God Works All
2. God Works All. ‘Through him are all things.’ He did not only begin; he alone continues and maintains. As wonderful and mysterious as is the ‘of him’ is also the ‘through him’. He did not, as the Deist dreams, part with a certain portion of his life and power, leaving the creature to himself and certain laws he had imposed. No, above and through all these laws he himself keeps charge as the God which worketh all in all. We want to study and realize this in its relation to the Christian life. The call to let God be all in our life, the thought of ever being able to live so that it shall be to us natural, perfect rest and happiness to walk with God and maintain unbroken communion with him, is counted a dream, an impossible ideal, an overstrained demand. And why? Simply because the ‘through him all things’ is not understood and believed. (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.