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In the Heavenly Places: Thoughts on the Holy Spirit from Ephesians
by Andrew Murray
These three great spiritual blessings constitute the sum of what a believer needs to know, and needs the Holy Spirit to teach him. A sight, first of all, of all that God wants him to be. Then a consciousness of the wonderful riches and glory of this inheritance in His saints, nothing less than Christ within them. And then the living assurance that the Almighty Power of Christ s resurrection life is actually and unceasingly working in them, to fit them for all that they are to be and to do for God.
But I thought that they had the Spirit already? Yes, certainly; but here is a further gift of the Spirit, a, deeper draught. The blessed stream of the Holy Ghost is forever proceeding from the Father and the Son. There is no finality in this work. It is not like Christ's work — a finished work. Observe there is no expression in Scripture which limits the power or the measure of the outgoing of the Holy Ghost. There is no word to say that the Spirit of God is come to an individual or a Church and that therefore the door may be shut because there is no more Spirit of God to come. We are to be ever receiving, and ever expending, and yet ever expecting at the same time. We must be for evermore opening our hearts to receive further gifts and provisions, forever letting in great waves of the Spirit to pour through our life. May our God flood us all afresh with fuller waves of truth, and love, and power. Would God that His children believed in the Glory of this mystery, and in the power with which it would work in them, and learned to wait for the Spirit of divine wisdom to reveal it to them.
May God enlarge our hearts and fill us with all spiritual blessings in Christ Jesus that we too may walk "In the Heavenly Places". God bless you as you read this Victory Life Kindle Edition by the Rev. Andrew Murray. All proceeds from this book go to further our global missionary efforts. In Christ, Aaron Roberts
But I thought that they had the Spirit already? Yes, certainly; but here is a further gift of the Spirit, a, deeper draught. The blessed stream of the Holy Ghost is forever proceeding from the Father and the Son. There is no finality in this work. It is not like Christ's work — a finished work. Observe there is no expression in Scripture which limits the power or the measure of the outgoing of the Holy Ghost. There is no word to say that the Spirit of God is come to an individual or a Church and that therefore the door may be shut because there is no more Spirit of God to come. We are to be ever receiving, and ever expending, and yet ever expecting at the same time. We must be for evermore opening our hearts to receive further gifts and provisions, forever letting in great waves of the Spirit to pour through our life. May our God flood us all afresh with fuller waves of truth, and love, and power. Would God that His children believed in the Glory of this mystery, and in the power with which it would work in them, and learned to wait for the Spirit of divine wisdom to reveal it to them.
May God enlarge our hearts and fill us with all spiritual blessings in Christ Jesus that we too may walk "In the Heavenly Places". God bless you as you read this Victory Life Kindle Edition by the Rev. Andrew Murray. All proceeds from this book go to further our global missionary efforts. In Christ, Aaron Roberts
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Andrew Murray (1828 - 1917)
Brother Andrew Murray was a well-known writer/preacher in South Africa who ministered amongst the Dutch Reformed churches. His writings now are widely accepted by modern evangelicals and he is published more than ever in his life-time.Some of his better known books titles are: "Abide In Christ", "Absolute Surrender," and "Humility." His burden for the body of Christ were teachings on the abiding Spirit of Christ in the believer, the life of faith with God daily, and the life of intercession and prayer in the Church.
Andrew Murray was possibly the strongest spokesman of the Philadelphian age to expound the Body's necessity to abide in Christ, like the Apostle John before him.
Murray was born into a family of four children in the then remote Graaff-Reinet region (near the Cape) of South Africa. Educated in Scotland, which was followed by theological studies in Holland, Andrew returned to his native land to work as a missionary and minister. Given the daunting task of ministering to Bloemfontein, a remote region of 50,000 square miles and 12,000 people beyond the Orange River, Murray already began to sense the need to for the "deeper Christian life".
Though successful in preaching and bringing many to Christ, Murray found many of his greatest lessons in the School of Suffering, as will all who follow in the path of obedience.
Andrew Murray was one of four children born to Pastor Andrew, Sr., and Maria Murray. He was raised in what was considered to be the most remote corner of the world - Graaff-Reinet, South Africa. Educated in Scotland and Holland, in 1848 Andrew, Jr., returned to South Africa as a missionary and minister with the Dutch Reformed Church. His first appointment was to Bloemfontein, a territory of nearly 50,000 square miles and 12,000 people.
Andrew and his brother John had been in close contact with a revival movement in Scotland, an evangelical extension of the ongoing Second Great Awakening in America. He prayed for the same sort of awakening for the church in South Africa and wrote, "My prayer is for revival, but I am held back by the increasing sense of my own unfitness for the work. I lament the awful pride and self complacency that have till now ruled my heart. O that I may be more and more a minister of the Spirit." (J. du Plessis, The Life of Andrew Murray)
In 1860, revival did come to the churches of Cape Town, South Africa, and subsequently spread to surrounding towns and villages. Even remote farms and plantations felt the impact as lives were changed. Where once the churches had not been able to find one man ready to be a leader for God, the revival raised up 50 in Murray's Cape Town parish alone. There were more conversions in one month in that parish than in the whole course of its previous history. (Leona Choy, Andrew Murray: Apostle of Abiding Love)
Greatly concerned for the spiritual guidance of new converts and renewed Christians, Andrew Murray wrote over 240 books. His writings reflect his own longing for a deeper life in Christ and his prayer that others would long for and experience that life as well.
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