Talking With God By Andrew Murray.

A very wonderful friend of mine sent me a book called 199 Treasures of Wisdom on Talking with God by Andrew Murray.  I would like to share some of the wisdom in this book with you.  I hope you are as blessed as I have been.  I will try to include more each week.

1.  I must take time to come into God's presence, to feel my weakness and my need, and to renew my fellowship with Him.

2.  Time alone with the Lord Jesus each day is the indispensable condition of growth and power

3.  Even as a father and his child enjoy being together, so I must have this intimate fellowship with God each day.

4.  Let this be my chief object in prayer, to realize the presence of my heavenly Father.  Let my goal be: "Alone with God."

5.  If I seek fellowship with the Father, I will find Him in His word.

6.  May every sight of those in need help urge me to cry to God who alone can help.

7.  My source of power in prayer is the Vine.  If I am the branches a biding in Christ, He will supply the power.

8.  Am I spending time in His presence?  everything depends on this.

9.  The greatest happiness of my life is that I am loved by the Lord Jesus and can fellowship with Him everyday.

     O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek You.  ( Psalm 63:1)

10.  O that I would take time daily in His presence to drink in His love.

11.   It is only when I am wholly surrenderred to the Spirit that I will be able to live according to God's will.

12.  Unless I am on my knees I cannot live in His love.

13.  A life of prayer will make a life of love to Christ, to other Christians, and to those without Christ.

14.  I must ask myself if my prayer is really in accordance with the will of God and the Word of God.

15.  My hidden prayer life is inseparably bound up with united prayer.

16.  Time I spend in prayer is an offering pleasing to God.

17.  The real practice of prayer is when I take hold of God and have communion and fellowship with Him.

18.  To experience real prayer I must sacrifice my selfish desires.

     "Lord teach us to pray"  ( Luke 11:1)