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The Secret of Believing Prayer

Andrew Murray 205

The most wonderful promises in all of Scripture are those regarding answers to prayer. To many, such promises have raised the question “How can I ever attain to the faith that knows it receives all it asks?”

The power to believe a promise depends entirely on our faith in the One who promises.

The power to believe a promise depends entirely on our faith in the One who promises.




So Will You Have Power in Prayer. By Andrew Murray

"If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you." John 15:7 nkjv

Prayer is both one of the means and one of the fruits of our union with Christ. As a means it is of great importance.

All the things of faith, all the pleadings of desire, all the yearnings after a fuller surrender, all the confessions of shortcoming and of sin, all the exercises in which the soul gives up self and clings to Christ, find their utterance in prayer.

But it is not so much a means as it is a fruit of abiding that the Savior mentions it in the parable of the Vine. He does not think of prayer as we too often do—exclusively as a means of getting blessing for ourselves.

Rather, He sees prayer as one of the primary channels of influence by which, through us as workers together with God, the blessings of Christ’s redemption are dispensed to the world.

Ours will be the effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man, availing much, like Elijah’s prayer for ungodly Israel (James 5:16–18). Such prayer will be the fruit of our abiding in Him as well as the means of bearing much fruit.


In promising to answer prayer (John 14:13), Christ’s single thought is this: “that the Son may bring glory to the Father.” In His intercession on earth (John 17), this was His sole desire and plea; as He intercedes in heaven, it is still His chief object.

As the believer abides in Christ, the Savior breathes the same desire into him. The thought only for the glory of God becomes more and more the keynote of the life hidden in Christ.

At first, it subdues, quiets, and makes the soul almost hesitant to entertain a wish, lest it should not be to the Father’s glory.

But when His glory has finally become the goal, and everything is yielded to it, it comes with mighty power to enlarge the heart and open it to the vast possibilities afforded it.


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Andrew Murray

Andrew Murray was a man wholly consecrated to God. Born in 1828, of missionary parents serving in South Africa. Murray’s messages, which have circled the globe, changing countless lives, are from a man who was both ordinary and extraordinary.

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Power in Prayer

Andrew Murray
Throughout Andrew Murray’s writings, a common theme occurs: prayer. He continually returned to the need for prayer, its place in the Christian’s life, what to pray about, and how to pray.
If you are a true Christian, the proof will be in your love

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Love as a Mark of a True Believer

John MacArthur
If you don’t have a love for God’s people, for the members of your new family in Christ, that’s clear evidence you’re still a product of your sinful self, separated from the life and love of God.
The answer is that God is merciful even to those who are not His own.

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God’s Love for the Unbelieving World

John MacArthur
We know from human experience that love and hate are not mutually exclusive. It is not the least bit unusual to have concurrent feelings of love and hatred directed at the same person.
All true believers have this love; and all who have it are true believers.

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The Source of True Love

John MacArthur
From the truth that God is love, the apostle John draws this corollary: “Love is of God” (1 John 4:7). God is the source of all true love. Love is therefore the best evidence that a person truly knows God: “Everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
Lord Almighty, help me to be loyal in serving and trusting You at all times.

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Decision of Loyalty

Augustine Ampratwum-Duah
The above words of Ruth to her mother-in-law [Naomi] constitute a decision of loyalty. She made a resolution not to forsake Naomi, which was a solemn declaration made by Ruth. Power of resolution silences temptation and resists the Devil, forcing him to flee.
If He withdraws Himself a little, it is only to make me treasure His presence more.

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Seeking Rest of the Soul in Communion with Christ

Charles Spurgeon
These words express the desire of the believer for Christ and his desire for present communion with Him. Where do you pasture your flock? In Your house?
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