Shall We Not Pray as Never Before
Andrew Murray urges believers to pray for a revival in the life of God's people to fulfill their duty to God and the world.
Andrew Murray emphasizes the urgent need for prayer among God's people to ignite a revival that empowers them to fulfill their divine duties and enhance missionary efforts. He highlights the correlation between the spiritual vitality of the mother church and the strength of its converts abroad, suggesting that a revival at home will positively influence missionary work. Murray calls for believers to seek God's presence fervently, ensuring that what they share with others is pure and life-giving, akin to streams flowing from the throne of God.
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Shall we not pray as never before for a revival in the life of God's people that shall fit them to fulfill their duty to God and the world, that shall make missionary effort in every deed the supreme end, the chief glory of the church? If there is anything more needed to urge us to such prayer, let it be this. The proverb says: As the mother, so the daughter.
The complaint in missionary churches of the weakness of many of our converts is most natural when we look at the general tone of our Christians at home. The influence of the revival of believers in the older churches on missionaries and converts abroad will be certain and most blessed. The power of the Spirit of God in the mother churches wakening to a higher devotion will infallibly affect all their branches in heathen lands. We cannot impart to them more than we have. Shall we not beseech God that what we give them shall indeed be streams of living water in all their divine purity and abundance and quickening power as they flow from under the throne of God and the Lamb?
(Excerpted from The Coming Revival, by Andrew Murray , pg. 55)
Sermon Outline
- The Need for Prayer
- The Influence of the Mother Church
- The Power of the Spirit
- The Spirit's power in the mother churches
- The impact on all branches in heathen lands
Key Quotes
“Shall we not pray as never before for a revival in the life of God's people that shall fit them to fulfill their duty to God and the world, that shall make missionary effort in every deed the supreme end, the chief glory of the church?” — Andrew Murray
Application Points
- We must pray for a revival in the life of God's people to fulfill their duty to God and the world.
- The power of the Spirit of God in the mother churches will infallibly affect all their branches in heathen lands.
- We can impart to our converts only what we have, so we must beseech God that what we give them shall indeed be streams of living water.