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Thy Will Be Done: The Blessedness of a Life in the Will of God (Meditations for a Month) [Updated and Annotated]
150 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 10, 2026
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Andrew Murray
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Murray was Born in Cape Town, South Africa, Murray became a noted missionary leader. His father was a Scottish Presbyterian serving the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa, and his mother had connections with both French Huguenots and German Lutherans. This background to some extent explains his ecumenical spirit. He was educated at Aberdeen University, Scotland, and at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. After ordination in 1848 he served pastorates at Bloemfontein, Worcester, Cape Town, and Wellington. He helped to found what are now the University College of the Orange Free State and the Stellenbosch Seminary. He served as Moderator of the Cape Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church and was president of both the YMCA (1865) and the South Africa General Mission (1888-1917), now the Africa Evangelical Fellowship.
He was one of the chief promoters of the call to missions in South Africa. This led to the Dutch Reformed Church missions to blacks in the Transvaal and Malawi. Apart from his evangelistic tours in South Africa, he spoke at the Keswick and Northfield Conventions in 1895, making a great impression. upon his British and American audiences. For his contribution to world missions he was given an honorary doctorate by the universities of Aberdeen (1898) and Cape of Good Hope(1907).
Murray is best known today for his devotional writings, which place great emphasis on the need for a rich, personal devotional life. Many of his 240 publications explain in how he saw this devotion and its outworking in the life of the Christian. Several of his books have become devotional classics. Among these are Abide in Christ, Absolute Surrender, With Christ in the School of Prayer, The Spirit of Christ and Waiting on God.
Murray was Born in Cape Town, South Africa, Murray became a noted missionary leader. His father was a Scottish Presbyterian serving the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa, and his mother had connections with both French Huguenots and German Lutherans. This background to some extent explains his ecumenical spirit. He was educated at Aberdeen University, Scotland, and at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. After ordination in 1848 he served pastorates at Bloemfontein, Worcester, Cape Town, and Wellington. He helped to found what are now the University College of the Orange Free State and the Stellenbosch Seminary. He served as Moderator of the Cape Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church and was president of both the YMCA (1865) and the South Africa General Mission (1888-1917), now the Africa Evangelical Fellowship.
He was one of the chief promoters of the call to missions in South Africa. This led to the Dutch Reformed Church missions to blacks in the Transvaal and Malawi. Apart from his evangelistic tours in South Africa, he spoke at the Keswick and Northfield Conventions in 1895, making a great impression. upon his British and American audiences. For his contribution to world missions he was given an honorary doctorate by the universities of Aberdeen (1898) and Cape of Good Hope(1907).
Murray is best known today for his devotional writings, which place great emphasis on the need for a rich, personal devotional life. Many of his 240 publications explain in how he saw this devotion and its outworking in the life of the Christian. Several of his books have become devotional classics. Among these are Abide in Christ, Absolute Surrender, With Christ in the School of Prayer, The Spirit of Christ and Waiting on God.
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August 1, 2026
Since I’ve never read a book by Andrew Murray that I didn’t love, the expectations for this book were sky high. It didn’t disappoint. In fact, I hope to re-read it soon.
One of my favorite things about Andrew Murray’s writing is that even though he lived in the 1800s, he explains his subject matter in a relatable, understandable way. Every thought is backed up by Scripture. Almost all of his books are written with short chapters, usually 31 of them, so they can be used as a devotional book. Each chapter is like a small bite, that can be chewed and digested without overwhelming. The nutrient value is high in spiritual richness.
Consider these flavorful samples: “We often fail to take hold of a promise we long to enjoy because we treat it as something isolated and do not connect it with the great whole of God’s will for us. Let every believer seek earnestly to understand what God’s will in His promises is. It is His decision to do a certain thing – His pledge to work in or for us as we trust Him.”
In the chapter entitled, “Doing God’s Will, Our Union with Jesus”: “Many Christians never learn the difference between the law of God and the will of God. The law is given by a ruler and, when set down in a statute book, may be obeyed or broken with little sense of personal relationship to the lawgiver. For this reason, the law has no power to produce obedience. But Christ speaks of the will as the will of a living relationship, in which the Father’s voice and presence are known and the will is never separate from Him whose will it is.”
Murray portrays God as One who longs for relationship with His children, wanting them to see His will not as something impossible to know or accomplish, but as something given to know and bless us, even when it is difficult. God’s love is seen in this book as flowing through His will for each of us. Very beautiful indeed!
One of my favorite things about Andrew Murray’s writing is that even though he lived in the 1800s, he explains his subject matter in a relatable, understandable way. Every thought is backed up by Scripture. Almost all of his books are written with short chapters, usually 31 of them, so they can be used as a devotional book. Each chapter is like a small bite, that can be chewed and digested without overwhelming. The nutrient value is high in spiritual richness.
Consider these flavorful samples: “We often fail to take hold of a promise we long to enjoy because we treat it as something isolated and do not connect it with the great whole of God’s will for us. Let every believer seek earnestly to understand what God’s will in His promises is. It is His decision to do a certain thing – His pledge to work in or for us as we trust Him.”
In the chapter entitled, “Doing God’s Will, Our Union with Jesus”: “Many Christians never learn the difference between the law of God and the will of God. The law is given by a ruler and, when set down in a statute book, may be obeyed or broken with little sense of personal relationship to the lawgiver. For this reason, the law has no power to produce obedience. But Christ speaks of the will as the will of a living relationship, in which the Father’s voice and presence are known and the will is never separate from Him whose will it is.”
Murray portrays God as One who longs for relationship with His children, wanting them to see His will not as something impossible to know or accomplish, but as something given to know and bless us, even when it is difficult. God’s love is seen in this book as flowing through His will for each of us. Very beautiful indeed!
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