The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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the pursuit of holiness that is, to seek the entrance into the
Holiest, a life in full fellowship with Himself, the Holy One.
the teaching which He has been using to this end, two words
have been very much in the foreground Consecration and
Faith. These are just what are here put
first a true heart and
the fulness of faith. The true heart is
nothing but true
consecration, the spirit that longs to live wholly for God, that
gladly gives up everything that it
may live wholly for Him, and
that above all yields up the heart, as the key of the life, into His
keeping and rule. True religion is an inward life, in the power
of the Holy Spirit. Let us enter in into the inner sanctuary of
God s love, and the Spirit will enter into the inner sanctuary of
our love, into our heart.
longing, ready, utterly given up
blessing.
Let us draw nigh with a true heart
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to desire and receive the
1. If you look at your own constitution, you see how the head and the heart are the two great
centres of life and action. Much thought and study make the head weary. Strong emotion or
excitement affects the heart. It is the heart Qod asks the power of desire and affection and will.
The head and the heart are in partnership.
God tells us that the heart must rule and lead, that it
is the heart He wants. Our religion has been too much that of the head hearing and reading and
thinking. Let us beware of allowing these to lead us astray. Let them stand aside at times. Let
us give the heart time to assert its supremacy.
Let us draw nigh with a true heart.
2. A true heart true in what it says that It thinks of itself; true in what it says that it
believes of Qod; true in what it professes to take from Qod and to glue to Him.
3. It is the heart God wants to dwell in. It is in the state of the heart God wants to prove His
power to bless. It is In the heart the love and the Joy of God are to be known. Let us draw near
with a true heart