The New Life by Andrew

Andrew Murray on The New Life: Words of God for Young Disciples Text
natural things we speak thus, for we have a certain measure of power, and the Lord will increase it.
But the New Testament never uses the expression 'help' of the grace of God in the soul. We have
absolutely no power -- God is not to help us, because we are weak: no, He is to give His life and His
power in us as entirely impotent. He that discerns this aright will learn to live by faith alone.
2. 'Without faith it is impossible to please God'; 'All that is not of faith is sin.' Such works of the Spirit
of God teach us how really every deed and disposition of our life is to be full of faith.
3. Hence our first work every day is anew to exercise faith in Jesus as our life; to believe that He
dwells in us, and will do all for us and in us. This faith must be the mood of our soul the whole day.
This faith cannot be maintained except in the fellowship and nearness of Jesus Himself.
4. This faith has its power in the mutual surrender of Jesus and the believer to each other. Jesus first
gives Himself wholly for us. The believer gives himself wholly in order to be taken into possession
and guided by Jesus. Then the soul cannot even doubt if He will do all for it.
XXVII. THE MIGHT OF SATAN
'Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat: but I made
supplication for thee, that thy faith fail not.' -- Luke 22:31,32
There is nothing that makes an enemy so dangerous as the fact that he remains hidden or forgotten. Of
the three great enemies of the Christian, the world, the flesh, and the devil, the last is the most
dangerous, not only because it is he that, strictly speaking, lends to the others what power they have,
but also because he is not seen, and, therefore, little known or feared. The devil has the power of
darkness: he darkens the eyes, so that men do not know him. He surrounds himself with darkness, so
that he is not observed. Yea, he has even the power to appear as an angel of light. (Matt. 4:6; 2 Cor.
4:4; 11:14)
Mt 4:6 And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He
shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at
any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
2Co 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest
the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
2Co 11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
It is by the faith that recognizes things unseen that the Christian is to endeavour to know Satan, even
as the Scripture has revealed him.
When the Lord Jesus was living upon earth, His great work was to overcome Satan. When at His
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