Spiritual Renewal - by Andrew Murray (Paperback)

About the Book

"This book contains excerpts from God's Best Secrets, Ã 1998 Whitaker House. The text of this book has been updated for the modern reader. Words, expressions, and sentences structure have been revised for clarity and readability."--Title page verse

Book Synopsis

The great work of the Holy Spirit is to reveal Christ in our hearts and lives as the crucified one who dwells within us. Let this be the chief aim of all your devotion: complete dependence on God and an expectation of continually receiving all goodness and salvation from Him alone. --Andrew Murray

To live a life of grace filled with God's blessings, Christians must set aside time each day to read the Scriptures, spend time alone in prayer, and seek to draw closer to the Lord. In Spiritual Renewal: 90 Devotions for a Deeper Fellowship with God, Andrew Murray provides quiet reflections on the Bible that invite believers to enter into God's presence and fellowship with Him daily. Murray shares his heartfelt teachings on:

• Fellowshipping with Christ on the cross
• The exceeding greatness of God's power
• How temperance in all things brings us closer to the Lord
• The missionary messages of the apostles
• The role of the Holy Spirit in the church

Through intimate hours spent with your Savior, you will experience the depths of God's abiding presence, the joyful sense of peace that comes from fellowship with our heavenly Father, and the abundant life in Christ that is available to all who seek it.

About the Author

Andrew Murray (1828-1917) was an amazingly prolific Christian writer who lived and ministered as both a pastor and author in the towns and villages of South Africa. Some of Murray's earliest works were an extension of his pastoral work, written to provide nurture and guidance to Christians, whether young or old in the faith. Once books such as Abide in Christ, Divine Healing, and With Christ in the School of Prayer were written, Murray became widely known, and new books from his pen were awaited with great eagerness around the world.

He wrote to give daily practical help to many of the people in his congregation who lived out in the farming communities and could come into town for church services only on rare occasions. As he wrote these books of instruction, Murray adopted the practice of placing many of his more devotional books into thirty-one separate readings to correspond with the days of the month.

At the age of seventy-eight, Murray resigned from the pastorate and devoted most of his time to his manuscripts. He continued to write profusely, moving from one book to the next with an intensity of purpose and a zeal that few men of God have ever equaled. He often said of himself, rather humorously, that he was like a hen about to hatch an egg; he was restless and unhappy until he got the burden of the message off his mind.

During these later years, after hearing of pocket-sized paperbacks, Murray immediately began to write books to be published in that fashion. He thought it was a splendid way to have the teachings of the Christian life at your fingertips, where they could be carried around and read at any time of the day.
Murray's writings still move the emotions, search the conscience, and reveal the sins and shortcomings of many of us with a love and hope born out of an intimate knowledge of the mercy and faithfulness of God.

Countless people have hailed Andrew Murray as their spiritual father and given credit for much of their Christian growth to the influence of his devotional books.