From With Christ in the School of Prayer, by Andrew Murray
Dwell much in the inner chamber, with the door shut—shut in from men, shut up with God; it is there the Father waits you, it is there Jesus will teach you to pray.
It is Jesus, praying Himself, who teaches to pray. He knows what prayer is. He learned it amid the trials and tears of His earthly life. In heaven it is still His beloved work: His life there is prayer.
Give yourself, and live, to do the works of Christ and you will learn to pray so as to obtain wonderful answers to prayer.
Prayer not only teaches and strengthens to work: work teaches and strengthens to pray.
Real faith can never be disappointed.
The will rules the whole heart and life; if I really will to have anything that is within my reach, I do not rest till I have it.
Our prayers must not be a vague appeal to His mercy, an indefinite cry for blessing, but the distinct expression of definite need.
The Holy Spirit is the first of the Father’s gifts, and the one He delights most to bestow.
Each believing prayer brings a step nearer the final victory.
The only right and safe place for the creature is to be and remain absolutely, unceasingly, universally dependent upon God.
It is only Christ who opens the way and teaches the worship in spirit.
Let there be the deep confession of our inability to bring God the worship that is pleasing to Him.
He that gives himself to be led by the Spirit in his life, will be led by Him in his prayers too. And he will find that Fatherlike giving is the Divine response to childlike living.
As the branch thirsts for continued sap, so the believer thirsts for more of the Spirit.
The Father is in secret: in these words Jesus teaches us where He is waiting us, where He is always to be found.
God is what He is through His Spirit; the Spirit is the very life of God.
God loves you not because you are clever not because you are good, but because He is your Father. The Cross of Christ does not make God love us; it is the outcome and measure of His love to us.
Each believing prayer helps to ripen the fruit and bring us nearer to it.
As the union of the branch with the vine is one of growth, never-ceasing growth and increase, so our abiding in Christ is a life process in which the Divine life takes ever fuller and more complete possession of us.
There is nothing so heart-searching as the prayer of faith.
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