Let us give ourselves to prayer – Andrew Murray

Let us give ourselves to prayer, intelligent, deliberate, intense prayer. I now venture to offer to God’s children what I trust may be a help in this prayer for revival. I shall ask them to pray very specially that God would give themselves and all his people such a vision of what he positively expects his church to be, of what he has promised that he is able to do and actually can make it, that in its light the conviction may be deepened of how impossible it is for us to rest satisfied with what the church at present is.

This will prepare us for realizing the utter impotence of all human efforts, and the necessity for our looking up for a divine interposition. It will compel us to listen earnestly to God’s word concerning the almighty power in which he is ready to work, that in our own personal experience we may prove, and may be able to testify confidently to others, that God does a new thing in the earth, that he does enable his children to live lives of holy and exact obedience, of joyous and complete consecration to his service.

We shall then be ready to believe with a new intensity in the Holy Spirit, as he can fill the hearts of God’s saints, and clothe them with the power which fits them for conquering the world.

(Excerpted from The Coming Revival, by Andrew Murray , pg. 15)

Andrew Murray