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Absolute Surrender


Andrew Murray
1828-1917



A Voice from the Philadelphian Church Age

  Wisdom is Justified

"Original" portrait of Dr. Murray courtesy of
Debbie Fortnum, Andrew Murray's
Great, Great, Great, Great Granddaughter.


Andrew Murray



Dr. Andrew Murray


"My lord, O king, according to thy saying, I am thine and all that I have" (1Kings 20:4). [Ahab's fearful words to King BenHadad.] The condition of God's blessing is absolute surrender of all into His hands.

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God does not ask you to give the perfect surrender in your strength, or by the power of your will; God is willing to work it in you. Do we not read:
"It is God that worketh in us, both to will and to do of His good pleasure" (Philippians 2:13). ...learn to believe...


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Abraham... God raised him up and prepared him as an instrument for His glory. Did not God say to Pharaoh:
"For this cause have I raised thee up, for to show in thee My power" (Exodus 9:16)? And if God said that of him, will not God say it far more of every child of His? God comes and offers to work this... He desires to help you to get hold of Him entirely.


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Look at the Lord Jesus Christ in Gethsemane. We read that He,
"through the eternal Spirit," offered Himself a sacrifice unto God. The Almighty Spirit of God was enabling Him to do it. ...And when you do yield yourself in absolute surrender, let it be in the faith that God does now accept of it. That is the great point, and that is what we so often miss... be occupied with God... look up to God... remember there is a God present that takes note of it, and writes it down in His book...


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...there is a God present who at that very moment takes possession of you. You may not feel it... but God takes possession if you will trust Him. When God has begun the work of absolute surrender in you, and when God has accepted your surrender, then God holds Himself bound to care for it and to keep it. Will you believe that? In this matter of surrender there are two: God and I-- I a worm, God the everlasting and omnipotent Jehovah. Worm, will you be afraid to trust yourself to this mighty God now? God is willing. Do you not believe that He can keep you continually, day by day, and moment by moment? (
"Sing unto the Lord, bless His name; shew forth His salvation from day to day" -- Psalm 96:2.)


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And why have you not experienced it? Because you have not trusted God for it... believe that God will maintain it. ...that aged saint who, on his ninetieth birthday... --I mean George Muller. What did he say he believed to be the secret of his happiness, and of all the blessing which God had given him? ...two reason. The one was that he had been enabled by grace to maintain a good conscience before God day by day; the other was, that he was a lover of God's Word. ...Such a life has two sides-- on the one side, absolute surrender to work what God wants you to do; on the other side, to let God work what He wants to do.


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Say: "Lord God, not a word upon my tongue but for Thy glory, not a movement of my temper but for Thy glory, not an affection of love or hate in my heart but for Thy glory, and according to Thy blessed will."


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...separate from the world; we are called to come out from the world that hates God. Come out for God... given up... by divine grace... acknowledge that you have grieved the Holy Spirit by your self-will, self-confidence, and self-effort. Bow humbly before Him in the confession of that, and ask him to break the heart and to bring you into the dust before Him. Then, as you bow before Him, just accept God's teaching that in your flesh
"there dwelleth no good thing," and that nothing will help you except another life which must come in. You must deny self once for all. Denying...(next page)


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...self must every moment be the power of your life, and then Christ will come in and take possession of you, ...bow our knees to the Father to ask that He would strengthen us with all might by the Spirit in the inner man, and that He would fill us with His mighty power. And as the Spirit reveals Christ to us, Christ comes to live in our hearts forever, and the self-life is cast out. ...bow before God in humility ...confess before Him the state of the whole Church, ...Oh, we want to confess the sins of God's people around us, and to...
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...humble ourselves. ...There is deliverance. ...death was the path to glory for Christ... --death to self, and fellowship with Christ. ...and...
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...then the Holy Spirit will bring the whole Christ-- Christ crucified and risen and living in glory-- into your heart.



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