Christian Books - Gods Plan For You

Publisher: Whitaker House Publisher
ISBN: 0883685124
Pages: 144
Book Type: Trade Paperback
Size: 8.8 x 4.7 x 0.4 inches
Released Date: Nov 1997

Reviews
Table Of Contents
Excerpt

Description:
"There is a treasury of good works God has prepared for us to do, " says Andrew Murray. In this book, you will capture a new vision of your mission in life. You will discover how you were created to accomplish good works for God. Increase your faith in what God will do through you.

Reviews:

God Has Wonderful Plans for You! October 7, 2003
Reviewer: Michael Taylor

Murrays' book is a great encouragement for us to seek and discover His wonderful plan for our lives.
The book will help the reader to:

1. Be continually dependent on God and glorify Him in our lives.
2. Understand that every believer is important to Jesus and that we have equal footing at the cross.
3. Know that only religious work grounded in Christ will last.
4. Realize that God will give us insight as to what we need to do and that He will give the strength to do it.
5. Know that the work for Christ must also be done in His love.
6. Know the principles for how to be full of good works.
7. Realize that God created us for good works.
8. Know that true contemplation leads to action.

Introduction
1. Waiting And Working 7
2. Good Works The Light Of The World 11
3. Son, Go Work 15
4. To Each One His Work 19
5. To Each One According To His Ability 23
6. Life And Work 28
7. The Father Abiding In Me Does The Work 32
8. Greater Works 36
9. Created In Christ Jesus For Good Works 40
10. Work, For It Is God Who Works In You 45
11. Faith Working By Love 48
12. Bearing Fruit In Every Good Work 53
13. Always Abounding In The Work Of The Lord 57
14. Abounding Grace For Abounding Work 62
15. In The Work Of Ministering 67
16. According To The Working Of Each Several Part 72
17. Women Adorned With Good Work 76
18. Rich In Good Works 81
19. Prepared Unto Every Good Work 86
20. Furnished Completely Unto Every Good Work 90
21. Zealous Of Good Works 94
22. Ready To Every Good Work 98
23. Careful To Maintain Good Works 103
24. As His Fellow-Workers 107
25. According To The Working
Of His Power 112
26. Laboring More Abundantly 117
27. A Doer Who Works Will Be Blessed In Doing 122
28. The Work Of Soul-Saving 126
29. Praying And Working 130
30. 1 Know Thy Works 134
31. That God May Be Glorified 139

Excerpt
Chapter 1 Waiting And Working
"But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength"--Isaiah 40:31.
"Neither hath the eye seen, 0 God, beside Thee, what He hath prepared for him that waiteth for Him"-Isaiah 64:4.

The relationship between waiting and working is made clear in the above verses. We see that waiting brings the needed strength for working, preparing us for joyful and unwearied work. "They that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint." Waiting on God has its value in this- it makes us strong to do His work. The second verse reveals the secret of this strength. "Neither hath the eye seen ... what He hath prepared for him that waiteth for Him." The waiting on God secures the working of God for us and in us, out of which our work must spring. The two passages teach the great lesson that waiting on God lies at the root of all true working for God.

There are some who say they wait upon God, but they do not work for Him. There may be various reasons for this. They confuse true waiting on God (living in direct communication with Him) with the lazy, helpless waiting that excuses itself from all work. Some wait on God as one of the highest exercises of the Christian life. Yet, they have never understood that the root of all true waiting must be surrender and readiness to be completely equipped for God's use in serving men. Others are ready to work as well as wait, but are looking for some great inflow of the Spirit's power to enable them to do mighty works, while they forget that as believers they already have the Spirit of Christ dwelling in them. They forget that more grace is only given to those who are faithful in the little, and that it is only in working that we can be taught by the Spirit how to do the greater works.

All Christians need to learn that waiting has working for its object. It is only in working that waiting can attain its full perfection and blessedness. It is as we elevate working for God to its true place, as the highest exercise of spiritual privilege and power, that the absolute need and the divine blessing of waiting on God can be fully known.

On the other hand, there are many who work for God but know little of what it is to wait on Him. They have been led to take up Christian work under the impulse of natural or spiritual feeling or the urging of a pastor. However, they do so very little sense of what a holy thing it is to for God. They do not know that God's work only be done in God's strength, by God Himself working in us. The Son of God could do nothing of Himself. The Father in Him did the work as He lived in continual dependence before Him. Many never learned that the believer can do nothing unless God works in him. They do not understand; it is only in utter weakness we depend upon Him so His power can rest on us. They have no conception of a continual waiting on God as being one of the first and essential conditions of successful work. Christ's Church and the world are sufferers today, not only because so many of its members are not working for God, but because so much working for God is done without waiting on God.

Among the members of the body of Christ there is a great diversity of gifts and operations. Some who are confined to their homes because of sickness or other duties may have more time for waiting on God. Others, who are overworked, find it very difficult to make time and be quiet before the Lord. These may mutually supply each other's lack.

Let those who have time for waiting on God definitely link themselves to some who are working. Let those who are working seek the help of those to whom the special ministry of waiting on God has been entrusted. Thus will the unity the health of the Church be maintained. Those who wait will know that the outcome will be power for work. Those who work will realize their only strength is the grace obtained by waiting. Thus will God work for His Church that waits on Him.

Let us pray as we proceed in these meditations on working for God that the Holy Spirit will show us how sacred and urgent our calling is to work, and how absolute our dependence is upon God's strength to work in us. May we also learn how sure it is that those who wait on Him will renew their strength. Then we will find waiting on God and working for God to be inseparably one.

1. It is only as God works for me, and in me, that I can work for Him.
2. All His work for me is through His life in me.
3. He will most surely work, if I wait on Him.
4. All His working for me, and my waiting on Him, has but one aim, to fit me for His work of saving men