Sikh Religion Gurus and Sacred Texts, Vol. 2
Aug 24, 2026 · 3 hr 14 min · 34 segments
"Waiting on God" by Andrew Murray invites listeners into a profound exploration of the importance of patience and trust in the divine. Murray emphasizes the need for believers to cultivate a deep…
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Daily Messages for a Month by Reverend Andrew Murray.
To Mr. and Mrs. Albert A.
Head, whose love gave us such a bright home during our absence from our own, and to whose labors and prayers the days of quiet waiting on God in Whitechapel and the day of united prayer in Exeter Hall owed so much, this little volume is affectionately inscribed.
Thou fain wouldst follow him throughout this year.
Thou fain with listening heart his voice wouldst hear.
Thou fain wouldst be a passive instrument possessed by God, and ever spirit-sent upon his service sweet.
Then be thou still, for only thus can he in thee fulfill his heart's desire.
O hinder not his hand from fashioning the vessel he hath planned.
Be silent unto God, and thou shalt know the quiet, holy calm he doth bestow on those who wait on him.
So shalt thou bear his presence and his life and light in where the night is darkest, and thine earthly days shall show his love and sound his glorious praise.
And he will work with hand unfettered free his high and holy purposes through thee.
First on thee must that hand of power be turned, till in his love's strong fire thy dross is burned, and thou come forth a vessel for thy Lord, so frail and empty, yet since he hath poured into thine emptiness his life, his love.
O question not henceforth what thou canst do.
Thou canst do nought, but he will carry through the work where human energy had failed, where all thy best endeavors had availed thee nothing.
Then, my soul, wait and be still.
If thou wilt take no less, his best shall be thy portion now and through eternity.
Frieda Hanbury Extract from Address in Exeter Hall, May 31st, 1895 I have been surprised at nothing more than at the letters that have come to me from missionaries and others from all parts of the world, devoted men and women, testifying to the need they feel in their work of being helped to a deeper and a clearer insight into all that Christ could be to them.
Let us look to God to reveal himself among his people in a measure very few have realized.
At all our conventions and assemblies too little time is given to waiting on God.
We want to wait on him, to put away our experiences, however blessed they have been, our conceptions of truth, however sound and scriptural we think they seem, our plans, however needful and suitable they appear, and give God time and place to show us what he could do, what he will do.
He can do new things, unheard-of things, hidden things.
Let us enlarge our hearts and not limit him.
When thou camest down, thou didst terrible things we looked not for.
The mountains flowed down at thy presence.
Andrew Murray Preface Previous to my leaving home for England last year, I had been much impressed by the thought of how, in all our religion, personal and public, we need more of God.
I had felt that we needed to train our people in their worship more to wait on God, and to make the cultivation of a deeper sense of his presence, of more direct contact with him, of entire dependence on him, a definite aim of our ministry.
At a welcome breakfast in Exeter Hall, I gave very simple expression to this thought in connection with all our religious work.
I have already said elsewhere that I was surprised at the response the sentiment met with.
I saw that God's Spirit had been working the same desire in many hearts.
The experiences of the past year, both personal and public, have greatly deepened the conviction.
The following pages are the outcome of my conviction and of the desire to direct the attention of all God's people to the one great remedy for all our needs.
More than half the pieces were written on board ship.
I fear they bear the marks of being somewhat crude and hasty.
I have felt in looking them over as if I could wish to write them over again.
But this I cannot now do.
And so I send them out with the prayer that He who loves to use the feeble may give His blessing with them.
I do not know if it will be possible for me to put into a few words what are the chief things we need to learn.
In a note at the close of the book on law I have mentioned some.
But what I want to say here is this.
He will do all for you.
How simple this looks.
And yet this is the gospel we so little know.
I feel ashamed as I send forth these very defective meditations.
May He use them to draw us all to Himself to learn in practice and experience the blessed art of waiting only upon God.
Would God that we might get some right conception of what the influence would be on a life spent not in thought or imagination or effort but in the power of the Holy Spirit wholly waiting upon God.
With my greeting in Christ to all God's saints it has been my privilege to meet and no less to those I have not met I subscribe myself your brother and servant Andrew Murray.
Wellington 3rd March 1896.
End of preface.
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For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Christopher Smith.
Daily Messages for a Month by Reverend Andrew Murray.
To Mr. and Mrs. Albert A.
Head, whose love gave us such a bright home during our absence from our own, and to whose labors and prayers the days of quiet waiting on God in Whitechapel and the day of united prayer in Exeter Hall owed so much, this little volume is affectionately inscribed.
Thou fain wouldst follow him throughout this year.
Thou fain with listening heart his voice wouldst hear.
Thou fain wouldst be a passive instrument possessed by God, and ever spirit-sent upon his service sweet.
Then be thou still, for only thus can he in thee fulfill his heart's desire.
O hinder not his hand from fashioning the vessel he hath planned.
Be silent unto God, and thou shalt know the quiet, holy calm he doth bestow on those who wait on him.
So shalt thou bear his presence and his life and light in where the night is darkest, and thine earthly days shall show his love and sound his glorious praise.
And he will work with hand unfettered free his high and holy purposes through thee.
First on thee must that hand of power be turned, till in his love's strong fire thy dross is burned, and thou come forth a vessel for thy Lord, so frail and empty, yet since he hath poured into thine emptiness his life, his love.
O question not henceforth what thou canst do.
Thou canst do nought, but he will carry through the work where human energy had failed, where all thy best endeavors had availed thee nothing.
Then, my soul, wait and be still.
If thou wilt take no less, his best shall be thy portion now and through eternity.
Frieda Hanbury Extract from Address in Exeter Hall, May 31st, 1895 I have been surprised at nothing more than at the letters that have come to me from missionaries and others from all parts of the world, devoted men and women, testifying to the need they feel in their work of being helped to a deeper and a clearer insight into all that Christ could be to them.
Let us look to God to reveal himself among his people in a measure very few have realized.
At all our conventions and assemblies too little time is given to waiting on God.
We want to wait on him, to put away our experiences, however blessed they have been, our conceptions of truth, however sound and scriptural we think they seem, our plans, however needful and suitable they appear, and give God time and place to show us what he could do, what he will do.
He can do new things, unheard-of things, hidden things.
Let us enlarge our hearts and not limit him.
When thou camest down, thou didst terrible things we looked not for.
The mountains flowed down at thy presence.
Andrew Murray Preface Previous to my leaving home for England last year, I had been much impressed by the thought of how, in all our religion, personal and public, we need more of God.
I had felt that we needed to train our people in their worship more to wait on God, and to make the cultivation of a deeper sense of his presence, of more direct contact with him, of entire dependence on him, a definite aim of our ministry.
At a welcome breakfast in Exeter Hall, I gave very simple expression to this thought in connection with all our religious work.
I have already said elsewhere that I was surprised at the response the sentiment met with.
I saw that God's Spirit had been working the same desire in many hearts.
The experiences of the past year, both personal and public, have greatly deepened the conviction.
The following pages are the outcome of my conviction and of the desire to direct the attention of all God's people to the one great remedy for all our needs.
More than half the pieces were written on board ship.
I fear they bear the marks of being somewhat crude and hasty.
I have felt in looking them over as if I could wish to write them over again.
But this I cannot now do.
And so I send them out with the prayer that He who loves to use the feeble may give His blessing with them.
I do not know if it will be possible for me to put into a few words what are the chief things we need to learn.
In a note at the close of the book on law I have mentioned some.
But what I want to say here is this.
He will do all for you.
How simple this looks.
And yet this is the gospel we so little know.
I feel ashamed as I send forth these very defective meditations.
May He use them to draw us all to Himself to learn in practice and experience the blessed art of waiting only upon God.
Would God that we might get some right conception of what the influence would be on a life spent not in thought or imagination or effort but in the power of the Holy Spirit wholly waiting upon God.
With my greeting in Christ to all God's saints it has been my privilege to meet and no less to those I have not met I subscribe myself your brother and servant Andrew Murray.
Wellington 3rd March 1896.
End of preface.
