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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 the ruin of sin is countered by Christ's mission to restore our relationship with God, allowing Him to dwell within us as intended from creation. He explains that the Holy Spirit brings God's presence into our hearts, enabling us to experience a life filled with His fullness. Murray highlights biblical affirmations of God's abiding presence and encourages believers to recognize that God is meant to be their ultimate joy and life. The struggle to feel God's nearness stems from not understanding that He is all we need. Ultimately, we are created to have God as our portion and source of fulfillment.
The Ruin of Sin Christ Comes to Restore
The ruin of sin Christ comes to restore. Creation foretells us what redemption is to effect. Christ came to bring us to God, that God might dwell in us as he meant to dwell in Adam. The Spirit came to bring God to us, that in our very heart and life, here on this earth, God might be all in us. When Christ said of the Father himself: ‘We will come and make our abode with you’; when Paul wrote of being ‘filled with all the fullness of God’; when John said, ‘He that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him’; they all referred to a possible, to a prepared, to a promised life here on earth in which the great, holy, abiding presence of God is known in the heart. We ordinarily count it an unnatural strain, an impossible struggle, ever to maintain the sense of God’s nearness. This is only because we have not yet learnt that God is all – that he created us for this very thing, that he himself might be our joy, our life, our portion. Because all things are of him, because we are of him, it can be, it should be true of us and in us – God is all. (Excerpted from The Coming Revival, by Andrew Murray , pg. 67)
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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.