The New Life by Andrew

Andrew Murray on The New Life: Words of God for Young Disciples Text
with him that God would do what He had spoken.
Young disciples in Christ, the new, the eternal life that is in you is a life of faith. And do you not see
how simple and how blessed that life of faith is? I go every day to the word and hear there what God
has said that He has done and will do. (Gal. 2:20; 3:2,5; 5:5,6; Heb. 10:35; 1 Pet. 1:2)
Ga 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the
life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave
himself for me.
Ga 3:2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the
hearing of faith?
Ga 3:5 He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth
he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
Ga 5:5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
Ga 5:6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith
which worketh by love.
Heb 10:35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
1Pe 1:2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the
Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace,
be multiplied.
I take time to lodge in my heart the word in which God says that, and I hold it fast, entirely assured
that what God has promised, He is able to perform. And then in a childlike spirit I await the fulfilment
of all the glorious promises of His word. And my soul experiences: Blessed is she that believed; for
the things that have been spoken to her from the Lord shall be fulfilled. God promises -- I believe --
God fulfils: that is the secret of the new life.
O my Father, Thy child thanks Thee for this blessed life of faith in which we have to walk. I can do
nothing, but Thou canst do all. All that Thou canst do hast Thou spoken in Thy word. And every word
that I take and trustfully bring to Thee, Thou fulfillest. Father, in this life of faith, so simple, so
glorious, will I walk with Thee. Amen.
1. The Christian must read and search the Scriptures to increase his knowledge. For this purpose he
daily reads one or more principal portions. But he reads the Scriptures also to strengthen his faith.
And to this end he must take one or two verses to make them the subject of special reflection, and to
appropriate them trustfully for himself.
2. Pray, do not suffer yourselves to be led astray by those who speak as if faith were something great
and unintelligible. Faith is nothing other than the certitude that God speaks truth. Take some promises
of God and say to Him: I know for certain that this promise is truth, and that Thou wilt fulfil it. He
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