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Andrew Murray
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of four children born to Andrew, Sr. and Maria Murray, Andrew Murray
was raised in what was considered then the most remote corner of the
world - Graaff-Reinet (near the Cape), South Africa. It was here,
after his formal education in Scotland and three years of
theological study in college in Holland, that Andrew Murray returned
as a missionary and minister. Murray's first appointment was to
Bloemfontein, a remote and unattractive territory of nearly 50,000
square miles and 12,000 people beyond the Orange River. Even at this
early stage of ministry, he already showed signs of becoming a noted
author. The "deeper Christian life" was a favorite subject for
Murray. He told how God was committed to revealing more of Himself
to those who would seek Him.
He often prayed, "May not a single moment of my life
be spent outside the light, love, and joy of God's presence and may
not a moment without the entire surrender of my self as a vessel for
Him to fill full of His Spirit and His love." Increasingly his life
and teachings focused on abiding in Christ. He wrote, "Abide in
Christ: your life in Him will lead you to that fellowship with God
in which the only true knowledge of God is to be had. His love, His
power, His infinite glory will, as you abide in Jesus, be so
revealed as it hath not entered into the heart of man to conceive."
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