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This book has been written with a deep impression that the place and power of prayer in the Christian life is too little understood. I feel sure that as long as we look on prayer solely as the means of maintaining our own Christian life, we shall not know fully what it is meant to be. But when we learn to regard it as the highest part of the work entrusted to us, the root and strength of all other work, we shall see that we need nothing more than to study and practice the art of praying.If I have succeeded in pointing out the progressive teaching of our Lord in regard to prayer, and the distinct reference of His wonderful promises of His last night to the works we are to do in His name to the greater works and the bearing of much fruit we shall all admit that only when the church gives herself up to this holy work of intercession can she expect the power of Christ to manifest itself on her behalf. I pray that God will use this book to explain to some of His children the wonderful place of power and influence that He is waiting for them to occupy and that a weary world is waiting for too.- Andrew MurrayAbout the AuthorAndrew Murray (1828-1917) was a well-known South African writer, teacher, and pastor. More than two million copies of his books have been sold, and his name is mentioned among other great leaders of the past, such as Charles Spurgeon, T. Austin-Sparks, George Muller, D. L. Moody, and more.

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Table of Contents
With Christ in the School of Prayer
Thoughts on Our Training for the Ministry of Intercession
A 31-Day Study
Andrew Murray
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Preface
O f all the promises connected with the command to abide in me , there is none higher and none that more readily brings the confession Not as though I had already attained it, either were already made perfect (Philippians 3:12) than If ye abide in me and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you (John 15:7). Power with God is the highest attainment of the life of full abiding.
And of all the traits of a life like Christ, there is none higher and more glorious than conformity to Him in the work that now engages Him without ceasing in the Fathers presence His all-prevailing intercession. The more we abide in Him and grow unto His likeness, the more His priestly life will work in us mightily, and our life will become what His is, a life that always pleads and prevails for men.
Thou has made us kings and priests unto God (Revelation 1:6). With both the king and the priest, the chief things are power, influence, and blessing. With the king, the power flows downward, and with the priest, the power rises upward and prevails with God. In our blessed Priest-King, Jesus Christ, the kingly power is founded on the priestly statement: He is able also to save to the uttermost... seeing he ever lives to make intercession (Hebrews 7:25). In us, it is not otherwise. In intercession, the church can find and wield its highest power; each member of the church has power with God and with men and prevails.
This book has been written with a deep impression that the place and power of prayer in the Christian life is too little understood. I feel sure that as long as we look on prayer chiefly as the means of maintaining our own Christian life, we shall not know fully what it is meant to be. But when we learn to regard it as the highest part of the work entrusted to us, the root and strength of all other work, we shall see that we need nothing more than to study and practice the art of praying. If I have succeeded in pointing out the progressive teaching of our Lord in regard to prayer, and the distinct reference of His wonderful promises of His last night to the works we are to do in His name to the greater works and the bearing of much fruit we shall all admit that only when the church gives herself up to this holy work of intercession can she expect the power of Christ to manifest itself on her behalf. I pray that God will use this book to explain to some of His children the wonderful place of power and influence that He is waiting for them to occupy and that a weary world is waiting for too.
In connection with this, another truth has come to me with wonderful clarity as I studied the teaching of Jesus on prayer. The Father waits to hear every prayer of faith to give us whatsoever we will and whatsoever we ask in Jesus name. We have become so accustomed to limiting the wonderful love and the large promises of our God that we cannot read the simplest and clearest statements of our Lord without the qualifying clauses by which we guard and expound them. If there is one thing the church needs to learn, it is that God means prayer to have an answer; it has not entered into the heart of man to conceive what God will do for His child who gives himself to believe that his prayer will be heard (1 Corinthians 2:9). God hears prayer; this truth is universally admitted, but very few understand the meaning or experience the power. If what I have written stirs my reader to go to the Masters words and take His wondrous promises simply and literally as they stand, my objective has been attained.
And then just one thing more. In these last years, thousands have found an unspeakable blessing in learning how completely Christ is our life and how He undertakes to be and to do all in us that we need. I do not know if we have learned to apply this truth to our prayer life yet. Many complain that they dont have the power to pray in faith to pray the effectual prayer that avails much. The message I would gladly bring them is that the blessed Jesus is waiting and longing to teach them this. Christ is our life: in heaven He lives to pray; His life in us is an ever-praying life, if we will but trust Him for it. Christ teaches us to pray not only by example, by instruction, by command, and by promises, but also by showing us Himself, the eternal Intercessor, as our life. When we believe this and go and abide in Him for our prayer life too, our fears of not being able to pray right will vanish, and we will joyfully and triumphantly trust our Lord to teach us to pray that He would be the life and the power of our prayer.
May God open our eyes to see what the holy ministry of intercession is and how we have been set apart for that as His royal priesthood. May He give us a large and strong heart to believe what mighty influence our prayers can exert. And may all fear as to our being able to fulfill our vocation vanish as we see Jesus, living forever to pray, living in us to pray, and maintaining assurance for our prayer life.
Andrew Murray
First Lesson
Teach Us to Pray
And it came to pass that as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray. Luke 11:1
T he disciples had been with Christ and had seen Him pray. They had learned to understand some of the connection between His wondrous life in public and His secret life of prayer. They had learned to believe in Him as the Master in the art of prayer none could pray like Him. And so, they came to Him with the request, Lord, teach us to pray. And in later years, they would have told us that there were few things more wonderful or blessed that He taught them than His lessons on prayer.
Yet, at this time as He was praying in a certain place, one of His disciples who saw Him thus engaged felt the need of repeating the same request, Lord, teach us to pray. As we grow in the Christian life, the thought and the faith of the beloved Master in His never-failing intercession becomes even more precious, and the hope of being like Christ in His intercession gains an attractiveness before unknown. And as we see Him pray and remember that there is none who can pray like Him and none who can teach like Him, we feel that the petition of the disciples, Lord, teach us to pray , is just what we need. And as we think how all He is and has, how He Himself is our very own, and how He Himself is our life, we feel assured that we only have to ask, and He will be delighted to take us up into closer fellowship with Himself and teach us to pray even as He prays.
Come, my brothers! Shall we not go to the blessed Master and ask Him to enroll our names again in that school which He always keeps open for those who long to continue their studies in the divine art of prayer and intercession? Yes, let us say to the Master today, as they did of old, Lord, teach us to pray . As we meditate, we shall find each word of the petition we bring to be full of meaning.
Lord, teach us to pray. Yes, to pray. This is what we need to be taught. Though in its beginnings, prayer is so simple that the feeblest child can pray, yet at the same time it is the highest and holiest work that man can accomplish. Prayer is fellowship with the unseen and Most Holy One. The powers of the eternal world have been placed at its disposal. It is the very essence of true religion, the channel of all blessings, and the secret of power and life. It is not only for ourselves, but also for others, for the church, and for the world that God has given the right to pray and to take hold of Him and His strength. It is on prayer that the promises wait for their fulfillment, the kingdom for its coming, and the glory of God for its full revelation. But how slothful and unfit we are for this blessed work. Only the Spirit of God can enable us to do it right. How speedily we are deceived into resting in the form, while the power is lacking. Our early training, the teaching of the church, the influence of habit, and the stirring of the emotions how easily these lead to prayer that has no spiritual power and avails little.
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