From Absolute Surrender, by Andrew Murray
God is life, and love, and blessing, and power, and infinite beauty, and God delights to communicate Himself to every child who is prepared to receive Him; but ah! this one lack of absolute surrender is just the thing that hinders God.
It is when we sink down in utter helplessness that the everlasting God will reveal Himself in His power.
Self must be utterly denied.
It is impossible for man to do it. And then alongside that is the thought--What is impossible with man is possible with God.
The love of God is always the love of God in its entirety, in its fullness as an indwelling power, a love of God to me that leaps back to Him in love, and overflows to my fellow-men in love.
Deep helplessness, and simple, childlike rest.
You must prove your love to God by your love to your brother; that is the one standard by which God will judge your love to Him.
You cannot work out God’s will, but His Holy Spirit can; and until the Church, until believers grasp this, and cease trying by human effort to do God’s will, and wait upon the Holy Spirit to come with all His omnipotent and enabling power, the Church will never be what God wants her to be.
God has a plan for His Church upon earth. But alas! we too often make our plan, and we think that we know what ought to be done.
The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.
God takes care that His own divine light shines upon you, and that you shall abide in that light, if you will only trust Him for it.
Christ is on the throne, Christ is stronger, Christ has conquered, and Christ will conquer.
Let the Holy Spirit have full dominion over me, in my home, in my temper, in every word of my tongue, in every thought of my heart, in every feeling toward my fellow men.
It is just because there is so much of that self-life in us that the power of God cannot work in us as mightily as God is willing that it should work.
Absolute dependence upon God is the secret of all power in work.
Love is to be the fruit of the Spirit all the day and every day.
As long as we are something, God cannot be all.
There is deliverance, there is the liberty of the Holy Spirit.
The Spirit has come to keep the link with Him unbroken every moment.
Moment by moment I’m kept in His love; moment by moment I’ve life from above.
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