Lord, Teach US to Pray
Written in the late 19th century by South African pastor Andrew Murray, 'Lord, Teach Us to Pray' is a spiritual guide that emphasizes the importance and transformative power of prayer in the Christian life. Murray illustrates how effective prayer is central to developing a closer relationship with God, encouraging believers to approach prayer with humility and recognize Jesus as their ultimate teacher. The book covers various aspects of prayer, including intercessory prayer and the role of the Holy Spirit, inviting readers to deepen their prayer life through meaningful engagement with the divine.
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“Jesus never taught His disciples how to preach, only how to pray. He did not speak much of what was needed to preach well, but much of praying well. To know how to speak to God is more than knowing how to speak to man. Not power with men, but power with God is the first thing. Jesus loves to teach us how to pray.””
— Andrew Murray
“As bread is the first need of the body, so forgiveness for the soul.””
— Andrew Murray
“He did not speak much of what was needed to preach well, but much of praying well. To know how to speak to God is more than knowing how to speak to man. Not power with men, but power with God is the first thing. Jesus loves to teach us how to pray.””
— Andrew Murray
“every one must have some solitary spot where he can be alone with his God.””
— Andrew Murray
“Lord! teach me to tarry with Thee in the school, and give Thee time to train me. May a deep sense of my ignorance, of the wonderful privilege and power of prayer, of the need of the Holy Spirit as the Spirit of prayer, lead me to cast away my thoughts of what I think I know, and make me kneel before Thee in true teachableness and poverty of spirit.””
— Andrew Murray
“O my Lord! strengthen my faith so in the Father's tender love and kindness, that as often as I feel sinful or troubled, the first instinctive thought may be to go where I know the Father waits me, and where prayer never can go unblessed. Let the thought that He knows my need before I ask, bring me, in great restfulness of faith, to trust that He will give what His child requires. O let the place of secret prayer become to me the most beloved spot on earth.””
— Andrew Murray
“And wherever faith has accepted the Father's love, obedience accepts the Father's will. The surrender to, and the prayer for a life of heaven-like obedience, is the spirit of childlike prayer.””
— Andrew Murray
“Jesus would train us to the blessed life of consecration and service, in which our interests are all subordinate to the Name, and the Kingdom, and the Will of the Father.””
— Andrew Murray
“As long as in our worship of God we are chiefly occupied with our own thoughts and exercises, we shall not meet Him who is a Spirit, the unseen One. But to the man who withdraws himself from all that is of the world and man, and prepares to wait upon God alone, the Father will reveal Himself. As he forsakes and gives up and shuts out the world, and the life of the world, and surrenders himself to be led of Christ into the secret of God's presence, the light of the Father's love will rise upon him.””
— Andrew Murray
