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    Experiencing the Holy Spirit
    Experiencing the Holy Spirit
    Experiencing the Holy Spirit
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    Experiencing the Holy Spirit

    By Andrew Murray

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    There are plenty of insights to get your spiritual fire burning in this book, as Murray reveals the Holy Spirit and makes it come alive! Along with the Bible and an open heart, this book can do much to change how we view what it means to be filled with the Holy Spirit.

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    Andrew Murray

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGENERAL PRESS
    Release dateJul 16, 2019
    ISBN9789389157680
    Experiencing the Holy Spirit
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    Andrew Murray

    Andrew Murray (1828-1917) was born in South Africa. After receiving his education in Scotland and Holland, he returned to South Africa and spent his life there as a pastor, missionary, and author of many devotional books. He and his wife, Emma, raised eight children.

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      Experiencing the Holy Spirit - Andrew Murray

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      Contents

      Preface

      Introduction

      Chapter 1

      How the Blessing is to Be Taught

      Do Not Rest Prematurely

      Where Do We Stand?

      Can We Worship With Sincerity?

      Help to take Hold of This Blessing

      The Church Needs Men Who Testify

      Chapter 2

      How Glorious the Blessing Is

      Blessings of the Pentecostal Life

      Living the Life of Love

      Obtaining Courage and Power

      Power to Bless Others

      Will You Separate Yourself?

      Chapter 3

      How the Blessing was Bestowed from Heaven

      A Personal Relationship

      They Left All for Jesus

      Recognizing Your Enemies

      The Unheard-of Wonder

      Chapter 4

      How Little the Blessing Is Enjoyed

      Power over Sin

      Separation from the World

      Are We Steadfast?

      A Source of Courage

      Chapter 5

      How the Blessing Is Hindered

      A Full Understanding of the Cross

      Self and the Power of Sin

      Is Your Heart Open?

      Who Performs this Transformation?

      Deny Yourself Daily

      Chapter 6

      How the Blessing Is Obtained by Us

      The First Principle

      A Second Step

      Is This Blessing For You?

      Obtaining the Blessing

      The Pearl of Great Price

      Wait for the Manifestation

      Chapter 7

      How the Blessing May Be Strengthened

      Jesus will Keep the Blessing

      Closer Fellowship with Jesus

      For the Obedient

      One Body, One Spirit

      One More Thought

      Chapter 8

      How Your Blessing May Be Increased

      Hold Fast to what You Have

      Persevere In Self-Denial

      Sacrifice and Giving

      Let Jesus Christ Be Everything

      Chapter 9

      In Search of the Full Manifestation

      Strengthened with Power

      What is God’s Aim?

      Love Is...

      Filled with the Fullness

      Chapter 10

      How Fully it is Assured to Us by God

      How Does this Blessing Come?

      More of the Spirit

      He will Work it in You

      Chapter 11

      Finding the Blessing

      Putting Away Sin

      Not in Our Own Strength

      Experiencing Christ

      Preparing Your Soul

      Chapter 12

      The Key to the Secret

      The All of God

      The All of Sin

      The All of Christ

      The All of Surrender

      The All of the Spirit

      The All of Faith

      Preface

      In all our studies of the work of the blessed Spirit, and in our pursuit of a life in His fullness, we will always find the sum of Christ’s teaching in these wonderful words: "He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water" (John 7:38). As we are convicted of the defectiveness of our faith in Christ and as we understand that believing in Him means a yielding of the whole heart, life, and will, we can confidently count on receiving the Holy Spirit’s power and presence. When Christ becomes all that God has made Him to be for us, the Holy Spirit can then flow from Christ to do His blessed work of leading us back to know Him better and to believe in Him more completely.

      The book of Hebrews speaks of Christ in His heavenly glory and power as the object of our faith. The Holy Spirit reveals the way into the Holiest by the blood of Christ and invites us by faith in Christ to have our life there. As we yield our hearts to the leading of the Spirit to know Christ and to believe in what is revealed, the Spirit can take possession of us. The Spirit is given to reveal Christ, and every fully accepted revelation of Christ gives the Spirit room to dwell and work within us. This promise will surely then be fulfilled: "He who believes in Me,... out of his heart will flow rivers of living water." May God lead us to this simple and full faith in Christ, our great High Priest and King in the heavens, and so into a life in the fullness of the Spirit.

      —Andrew Murray

      Introduction

      This book brings a simple but solemn message. The one thing needed for the church in its search for spiritual excellence is to be filled with the Spirit of God. In order to secure attention to this message and attract the hearts of my readers to its blessing, I have laid particular emphasis on certain main points:

      The will of God for every one of His children is that they live entirely and unceasingly under the control of the Holy Spirit.

      Without being filled with the Spirit, it is impossible for an individual Christian or a church to ever live or work as God desires.

      In the life and experience of Christians, this blessing is little used and little searched for.

      God waits to give us this blessing, and in our faith we may expect it with the greatest confidence.

      The self-life and the world hinder and usurp the place that Christ ought to occupy.

      We cannot be filled with the Spirit until we are prepared to yield ourselves to be led by the Lord Jesus—to forsake and sacrifice everything for this "pearl of great price" (Matt. 13:46).

      We have such a poor idea of the unspiritual and sinful state that prevails in the church that, unless we take time to devote our hearts and our thoughts to the real facts of the case, the promise of God can make no deep impression on us. I have presented the subject in various aspects to prepare the way for the conviction that this blessing is in truth the one thing needed; and to get possession of this one thing, we ought to say good-bye to everything else we hold dear. Owing to the prevailing lack of the presence and operation of the Spirit, it takes a long time before these spiritual truths concerning the need, the fullness, and the reality of the Spirit’s power can obtain mastery over us.

      Every day ought to be a Pentecostal season in the church of Christ. Christians cannot live according to the will of God without this blessing. I cannot exhort you, my readers, strongly enough to continue this search for spiritual excellence by calling on God in the confidence that He will answer.

      When we read the book of Acts, we see that the filling with the Spirit and His mighty operation was always obtained by prayer. Recall, for example, what took place at Antioch. When the Christians were engaged in fasting and prayer, God regarded them as prepared to receive the revelation that they must separate Barnabas and Saul. It was only after they had once more fasted and prayed that these two men went forth, sent by the Holy Spirit. (See Acts 13:2– 3.) These servants of God felt that the blessing they needed could come only from above.

      To obtain the blessing we so greatly need, we, in like manner, must liberate ourselves as far as possible from the demands of the earthly life. Let us never become weary or discouraged but ask that the Holy Spirit may again assume His rightful place and exercise full dominion in us. In addition, let us pray that He may again have His true place in the church, be held in honor by all, and in everything reveal the glory of our Lord Jesus. To the soul who diligently searches and prays in sincerity according to His Word, God’s answer will surely come.

      Nothing searches and cleanses the heart like true prayer. It teaches one to ask such questions as

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