With Wings as Eagles

by Andrew Murray

Overview

Why Walk When You Can Soar?
Christian, are you tired? Discouraged? Overwhelmed? Ready to throw in the towel? A feeling of defeat was not God's true design for serving Him.
Andrew Murray provides refreshing insights on the power of effective prayer and the strength to be found in waiting on God. With wise counsel from the Word of God, he emphasizes the solutions for the ageless problem of spiritual exhaustion.
As you grasp these simple biblical truths and effectively incorporate them into your life, you will find yourself able to soar with eagles' wings.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781603746205
Publisher:	Whitaker House
Publication date:	11/01/2002
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	84
File size:	180 KB

About the Author

Andrew Murray (1828–1917) was an amazingly prolific Christian writer. He lived and ministered as both a pastor and author in the towns and villages of South Africa. Some of Murray’s earliest works were written to provide nurture and guidance to Christians, whether young or old in the faith; they were actually an extension of his pastoral work. Once books such as Abide in Christ, Divine Healing, and With Christ in the School of Prayer were written, Murray became widely known, and new books from his pen were awaited with great eagerness throughout the world.
He wrote to give daily practical help to many of the people in his congregation who lived out in the farming communities and could come into town for church services only on rare occasions. As he wrote these books of instruction, Murray adopted the practice of placing many of his more devotional books into thirty-one separate readings to correspond with the days of the month.
At the age of seventy-eight, Murray resigned from the pastorate and devoted most of his time to his manuscripts. He continued to write profusely, moving from one book to the next with an intensity of purpose and a zeal that few men of God have ever equaled. He often said of himself, rather humorously, that he was like a hen about to hatch an egg; he was restless and unhappy until he got the burden of the message off his mind.
During these later years, after hearing of pocket-sized paperbacks, Andrew Murray immediately began to write books to be published in that fashion. He thought it was a splendid way to have the teachings of the Christian life at your fingertips, where they could be carried around and read at any time of the day.
One source has said of Andrew Murray that his prolific style possesses the strength and eloquence that are born of deep earnestness and a sense of the solemnity of the issues of the Christian life. Nearly every page reveals an intensity of purpose and appeal that stirs men to the depths of their souls. Murray moves the emotions, searches the conscience, and reveals the sins and shortcomings of many of us with a love and hope born out of an intimate knowledge of the mercy and faithfulness of God.
For Andrew Murray, prayer was considered our personal home base from which we live our Christian lives and extend ourselves to others. During his later years, the vital necessity of unceasing prayer in the spiritual life came to the forefront of his teachings. It was then that he revealed the secret treasures of his heart concerning a life of persistent and believing prayer.
Countless people the world over have hailed Andrew Murray as their spiritual father and given credit for much of their Christian growth to the influence of his priceless devotional books.
 
South African pastor and author ANDREW MURRAY (1828–1917) was an amazingly prolific writer. Murray began writing on the Christian life for his congregation as an extension of his local pastoral work, but he became internationally known for his books, such as With Christ in the School of Prayer and Abide in Christ, that searched men’s hearts and brought them into a deeper relationship with Christ. With intense purpose and zeal for the message of the gospel, Murray wrote numerous books even after his “retirement” at age seventy-eight.

Read an Excerpt

That They All May Be One

I pray ... That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one. I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one.and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. -- John 17:20-23

The words from which I wish to speak to you are found in John 17. We shall take out of verse 20 the words.. 'I pray." Then in verse 21: "That they all may be one; as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be one in Us: that the world may believe that Thou hast sent Me." Verse 22: "And the glory which Thou gavest Me I have given them." Note that the twentieth verse says, I pray [or, I ask Thee]."The twenty-second verse says, 'The glory which Thou gavest Me I have given them [with the same object]: that they may be one, even as We are One." The twenty-third:" I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that Thou hast sent Me, and hast loved them, as Thou hast loved Me." If I judge correctly what fills your hearts this morning, then I think I would express it this way: there is a deep consciousness that there is not among the people of God that overflowing love that there should be. There is the desire to see this changed, and there is the secret faith: if God chooses, He is able to change us. But there is more. Your coming here is, I trust, a testimony to the positive expectation: if we ask Him, He will pour out more love among His people. We want this morning to make confession of this lack of love, we want to cry to God for an increase of love. I need not remind you of what the proofs are that love is so often lacking. I will not speak of the divisions among the churches; I will not speak of the way in which Christians can speak of each other; I will not speak of the coldness often existing between Christians who spend years together in the same church, and eat the same bread at the Lord's Supper; I will not speak of how the most precious truths and promises of God unconsciously become walls of separation. You all know, you all deplore, that there is not that love whereby the world is compelled to say, "God has loved them, and has poured His love into their hearts." And now, if we are to make confession, and if we are to be encouraged to pray and to hope and to expect deliverance, nothing is better than that we should turn for a few minutes to God's blessed Word-the words of our great High Priest in His last prayer. You know them well. He prayed: 'Father,...I pray that they all may be one." It was God who was to do it. And then He added wonderful words to the effect: "Father, between You and Me there never has been anything but love. and I want that to be among My people, that they may be one, even as We are One." And then He says, in other words: "Father, it will be such a wonderful thing!" When selfish, proud men learn to love as the Father and the Son of God love, the world will be compelled to say, That is more than human love; that is a love that comes from heaven." And then Christ said, in effect, "Father, it is for this that I have given them the glory that You gave Me, and have made them partakers of the Divine nature, and of all that You have. And., Father, on that account I pray for them. I have given them the glory You gave Me. And now, Father., watch over that glory, that they may be one as We are, and that they may be made perfect in one, that the world may believe that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me." What a prayer!

Table of Contents

Preface

*That They All May Be As One

*The Secret Of Effectual Prayer

*With Eagles' Wings