Andrew Murray's uplifting messages for each day of the year will comfort and refresh you in your walk with God. Spending time with God daily will bring a new joy and peace into your life as you:
Receive help through every trial • Conquer fears that have defeated you Receive the Master's healing touch • Discover God's will for your life Experience the presence of God • Have your every need met by God Be an effective soul winner
As you daily explore these truths from Andrew Murray, you will connect with God's glorious power and see impossibilities turn into realities. Your prayer life will be transformed. You will experience the joy of seeing powerful results in your life as you minister to others.
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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.
Andrew Murray writes with purpose and intensity but in a style that is easily understandable. Each day provides insight into God's Word and His character, challenging the reader to look deeper, while months often carry the same theme throughout, building on one topic or focus. The daily readings are long enough to be thought provoking but short enough to be completed easily each day. This is a great enhancement to any study.