Waiting on God Paperback – May 22, 2017

The message is so simple. "I am waiting on God." His book Absolute surrender for me is too complicated. On our coins we have In God We Trust. How do you apply that? If we don't know how to deal with this or that I am waiting on God is the exercise of patience that often gives the answer. It takes away anxiety and worry. You don't have to try to get your own answers that often can be wrong. It's a very good read and it's application is right on for me. Maybe for the reader. Blessings

There are many Scripture verses that speak of waiting on God. Just what is involved in that? The author does well in going through many of those Scriptures, explaining the different aspects of waiting on God in different circumstances and times of life. It has encouraged me to take time to stop and consider what God desires to do in my life through waiting on Him, and not just plunging ahead on my own.

I purchased my first copy Jan. '63. Read through many times, carried with me around the world. Valuable insights into relationship with Triune God. Rich teaching from The Word. Great blessing to through this digital copy. So meaningful!

Wow, I was reading another book and he referred to this book and I found it on Amazon for the .99 cent deal which was wonderful, but....I already had it. I had purchased his collection with twenty book inside of it for the same .99 cent. So please check the collections before you purchase a single book for the best value. God bless everyone who is watching!!

As 2018 began, the first of Andrew Murray’s books landed in my lap. The Spirit speaks through him as clearly now as He did in the 1800s. This is a call to discipleship and surrender. What a treasure.

"My soul waiteth for the Lord, more than watchmen for the morning; yea, more than watchmen for the morning."  JPS Hebrew-English Tanakh: Pocket Edition If I had to summarize this book in one word, it would be "RICH," for every page contains so much of God's truth that it has been difficult to select from among the pages and chapters to determine what to include in this review.This pocket-sized book is arranged in a devotional format, in thirty-one short chapters, each about three pages long, each chapter covering a different facet of what it means to wait on God, which Murray sums thus, "What He asks of us, in the way of surrender, obedience, desire, and trust, is all comprised in this one word: waiting on Him, waiting for His salvation. It combines the deep sense of our entire helplessness and our perfect confidence that our God will work all in His divine power" (p. 16). Waiting on God, in turn, comprises both the active and passive elements of entering His blessed rest, the state into which He desires to bring all His children, not just in the hereafter, but in the here-and-now.Throughout the book, from a variety of perspectives, Murray draws the reader to consider and embrace the truth of just how good God is, how we are in Him, and He is in us. In Chapter 28, "For the Coming of His Son," Murray writes, "Waiting on God in heaven, and waiting for His Son from heaven, these two God has joined together and no man may put them asunder" (p. 119). Murray goes on to describe the waiting of the Bride for the Bridegroom, not for expectation of the position or privilege she will gain, but because she loves the Bridegroom, the ecstasy of God's own love being a certain, inextricable part of that. And this is the sweet pleasure of waiting on Him, in tender love toward Him and toward each other, in true bridal spirit, even as He works in us to perfect His love toward, in and through us.In the spirit of love, Murray anguishes over the "tens of thousands of professing Christians, who live on in carelessness, and who, if no change come, must perish under God's hand" (for God is a righteous judge of all, deliverer, and faithful avenger of His chosen ones) and he implores that we who wait on God warn them, plead with and for them, for God's mercy (p.85).Every chapter ends with the refrain, "My soul, wait thou only upon God!" for waiting on God is never in vain, for He promises that "...they shall not be ashamed that wait for me" Isaiah 49:23.Sadly, only a few of Andrew Murray's books are available in our local library. Murray's works are now in the public domain, and Whitaker House is one of the publishing companies that produces this work. This company utilizes the proceeds from these sales to sustain the company and to invest in exclusively Christian charitable works, including missionary works (I took the time to contact the company and ask the question). They offer many such works at up to a seventy-five percent discount. There is a publisher's note in the front of this edition letting the reader know that "The text of this book... has been edited for the modern reader." The full text (I assume of the original, unedited version) is available online, free, but possibly is not as convenient as a pocket book to carry around or as economical to give as a gift or use in group study.I read my first Andrew Murray book  Abide in Christ  some thirty-six years ago, when I was a teenager and new believer. There was sound reason that book was required reading in the youth group I was involved with then, for Murray's exposition of what it means to abide in Christ had a profound impact on my walk from that time forward.  Waiting on God  has at least as much if not more potential to impact what remains of my life, for waiting on God is my rest and abiding joy, it is Christ in me, the hope of glory.

This book built in me chapter by chapter. I received the greatest impact on my situation in the final chapter

I forged through because the content was great and the teaching sound, as expected, but it's barely readable or even in order the way it was slapped together as an ebook. That's why it's 3 stars instead of 4 or 5...

This is one of the most beautiful books I have ever read. It is like an oasis for thirst souls. Each day's text is based on waiting for God. I found that it changed my way of thinking about things and about priorities. It can be read one 2-3 page lesson over 31 days but it has such a profound and yet simple message that it could be looked upon as a book to return to often when one is feeling stressed or overwhelmed by life.

In this classic work, written in 1896 and since then seldom if ever out of print, Andrew Murray takes the reader through 31 daily readings from both testaments about waiting on God – the Bible’s name for contemplative prayer – showing how this settled attitude of inner listening constitutes the heart of the Christian life. When I first read it over 40 years ago it taught me what is still almost the only thing I really know about prayer, which is that PRAYER TAKES TIME. Rereading it recently I found it just as fresh and uplifting as I did then. If you only ever read one book on the subject, this should be it.

Awesome book about a subject very few Christians know and practice today. This is the main reason most Christians don't fulfill God's destiny.Waiting on God prepares you for service to God, it also sustains you during hardship/persecution etc. Because you have heard from God and you know you are in His perfect will, you will continue to stand and trust the God that began a good work in you to carry you through.

Waiting on God is not just sitting and waiting for something to happen. This book opens up to the reader the various ways in which we are to ‘wait’ for God in our daily lives. Love it.

A forgotten aspect in current Christianity is how we wait on God - what is involved, how we do it, what is achieved and what does it do for us and for the Lord. Anything by Andrew Murray is worth having and to invest in.