Quotes about Promise
Yet our Lord really meant it, for in the last night with His disciples He promised them that the power of the Spirit would enable them to live a life of obedience. Lord, I do love You and it is my greatest desire to obey Your commands. Please help me to do Your will.
— Andrew Murray
Step by step we shall get to see how truly this promise-precept
— Andrew Murray
The greatest defect of the Old Covenant was that it demanded obedience but did not provide the power for it. The new heart delights in the law of God; it is willing and able to obey it. A promise of God is a thing of faith. If you do not believe it, you cannot appropriate it or put it to use.
— Andrew Murray
When God has begun the work of absolute surrender in you, and when God has accepted your surrender, then God holds Himself bound to care for it and to keep it. Will you believe that?
— Andrew Murray
As my guarantee, He won it for me by His consent to have His petition unanswered.
— Andrew Murray
The value of the promise depends on the promiser; faith in the promise depends on my knowledge of the promiser.
— Andrew Murray
The value of the promise depends on the promiser; faith in the promise depends on my knowledge of the promiser. It is for this reason, before Jesus gave that wonderful prayer promise, He first said, Have faith in God.
— Andrew Murray
This is throughout scripture the great central promise: I am with you.
— Andrew Murray
That is the secret. As the rising sun holds the promise of light for the rest of the day, so your quiet time spent waiting on God will be your promise of His presence and power throughout your day.
— Andrew Murray
He will make His holy promise an actual reality in our conscious experience: "Lo, I am with you alway[s]" (Matt. 28:20). Let us see to it that our faith in His blessed Word, in His divine power, and in His holy abiding presence, is the one thing that masters our whole beings. Then Christ will indeed manifest Himself, abide with us, and dwell in our hearts as His home.
— Andrew Murray
It is only the fully surrendered heart that can fully trust God for all that He has promised.
— Andrew Murray
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— Samuel Johnson