Andrew Murray on Prayer

by Andrew Murray

Experiencing God through Prayer
You can have an exciting relationship of intimate communion with Christ! In these dynamic pages, Andrew Murray explains biblical guidelines for effective communication with God. Discover essential keys to developing a vibrant prayer life, including how   Every Christian can reap the benefits of learning how to pray. Through Murray’s writings, you will find out how your devotions can be transformed so that you can realize the fullness of God’s love, peace, and divine power operating in your daily walk. Lovingly explained, the principles presented here will permanently alter your prayer life!
Books by Andrew Murray included in this collection include Abide in Christ , Prayer Life , Waiting on God , With Christ in the School of Prayer , The Ministry of Intercession , and The Secret of Intercession.

Genres: Christian, Prayer, Theology, Christianity, Nonfiction, Christian Living, Faith

656 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1884

About the author

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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.

Reviews

[Petie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was a labor of love. 656 pages of treasures. Golden nuggets on each and every page. One I will be referring to for years to come. Especially gleaned a lot from the sections on intercession and on incessant prayer, aspects of prayer I have hardly utilized.

“Oh God, who has said of human hearts, ‘Here will I dwell; for I have desired it,’ teach us, we pray you, to pray, day and night, that the desire of Your heart may be fulfilled. Amen.”

[Charlotte · Rating 5 out of 5]

Every Christian should have this book as required reading. In this Scripture-rich anthology, Andrew Murray walks the reader step-by-step through how to have an effective prayer life. Not so much a guidebook on what the elements of prayer are as much as a summary and overview of why we pray, when we should pray, how we should pray--all backed up by Scripture. Major emphasis on the power and necessity of intercessory prayer.

[Yve Tyfama · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a definite read to understand how to truly pray as someone discovering/starting their intimate journey with God .

[Ann · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a collection of 6 books on prayer by Andrew Murray,
Including Abide in Christ, The Prayer Life, Waiting on God, With Christ in the School of Prayer, The Ministry of Intercession, and The Secret of Intercession. Reading roughly one chapter a day — with occasional breaks for travel — it has taken me more than a year to finish, but it was worth the time to take a deep dive into intercessory prayer this year. You can’t spend significant time reading about prayer without actually praying for others. That in itself is a discipline I hope doesn’t fade now that I’ve finished this collection of books.

[Gavin · Rating 4 out of 5]

For me Murray provided perspective and impetus to think about prayer as more a part of my moment to moment life as opposed to a ritual and a go-to. And that is the point when reading about reflection in your spiritual life.

[Barnabas Harper · Rating 5 out of 5]

A goldmine of spiritual exhortation on prayer...

[Stephen Mullins · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'm calling this book done. I didn't get all the way through it. I've been trying to read it on and off for a long time. I think there's a lot of useful things in this book but it's been difficult for me to read. I feel like if I were born 100 years ago I'd have an easier time reading this (it was in fact first published in the late 1800's). I largely felt each chapter said the same thing over and over again, which is that you can do nothing on your own, the flesh is inherently doomed to sin, and only through God can anything be accomplished. Hearing that over and over starts to get discouraging and I was never really left with a sense for how to apply what I was reading to my daily life.

Others may have better luck with this. Lots of people gave this series of book praise; I feel bad giving a religious book a bad rating but it just wasn't the right resource for me personally.