Notes from Absolute Surrender by Andrew Murray

Direct qutotations.

Absolute Dependence
The branch is absolutely dependent on the vine
The vine had the work to do, and the branches had just to depend upon the vine, and receive what it gave
The Holy Spirit never ceases to give us Strength
just to abide before Him in the simple utter helplessness of one who knows nothing, and is nothing, and can do nothing
If I am something, then God is not everything; but when I become nothing, God can become all, and the everlasting God in Christ can reveal Himself fully.
The branch has nothing but what it gets from the vine, and you and I can have nothing but what we get from Jesus.

Deep Restfulness
if you would be a true branch of Christ, the living Vine, just rest on Him. Let Christ bear the responsibility
No one who learns to rest upon the living Christ can become slothful, for the closer your contact with Christ the more of the Spirit of His zeal and love will be borne in upon you..
Romans 5:5 And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.

Much Fruitfulness
John 15:8 This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples
As the vine does its work in giving its own peculiar sap to the branch, so expect Christ to give His own Holy Spirit into your heart, and then you will bear much fruit.
remember that in order that you should bear more fruit you just require more of Jesus in your life and heart.
life of the branch is a life of much fruit, because it is a life rooted in Christ, the living, heavenly Vine.

Close Communion
the life of the branch is a life of close communion.
Abide. Your life is to be an abiding life.
the abiding work is the work of the heart, not of the brain, the work of the heart clinging to and resting in Jesus, a work in which the Holy Spirit links us to Christ Jesus.
believe that deeper down than the brain, deep down in the inner life, you can abide in Christ, so that every moment you are free the consciousness will come
close personal actual communion with Christ is an absolute necessity for daily life. Take time to be alone with Christ.
If you are not willing to sacrifice time to get alone with Him, and to give Him time every day to work in you, and to keep up the link of connection between you and Himself, He cannot give you that blessing of His unbroken fellowship.

Absolute Surrender
as literally as Christ was given up entirely to God, I am given up entirely to Christ. just as entirely and absolutely as Christ gave up His life to do nothing but seek the Father’s pleasure, and depend on the Father absolutely and entirely, I am to do nothing but to seek the pleasure of Christ. But that is actually true. Christ Jesus came to breathe His own Spirit into us, to make us find our very highest happiness in living entirely for God, just as He did.
But our relationship to Jesus ought to be such that we are entirely at His disposal, and every day come to Him humbly and straightforwardly and say:

Summary
“I am the Vine, ye are the branches.”
“Thou art my Vine, and I am Thy branch. It is enough, my soul is satisfied.”