“YET SHALL HE LIVE”-A.W.Tozer

“YET SHALL HE LIVE” – A.W.Tozer This may sound strange – but it is a fact that death is not the worst thing that can happen to a believing Christian! I can recall the first time I heard that statement, in a quiet conversation with Harry M. Shuman, for many years the president of the […]

“WHY AM I HERE?”-A.W.Tozer

“WHY AM I HERE?” – A.W.Tozer Since the first fallen man got still long enough to think, fallen men have been asking these questions:  “Whence came I? What am I? Why am I here? and Where am I going?” The noblest minds of the race have struggled with these questions to no avail. Did the […]

“TOWARD THE MARK”-A.W.Tozer

“TOWARD THE MARK” – A.W.Tozer It is one of the devil’s oldest tricks to discourage Christian believers by causing them to look back at what they once were. It is indeed the enemy of our souls who makes us forget that we are never at the end of God’s love. No one will make progress […]

“TOP SIDE OF THE SOUL”-A.W.Tozer

“TOP SIDE OF THE SOUL” – A.W.Tozer It is certainly a reality in our day that too few men and women are willing to keep the “top side” of their souls open to God and to His light from heaven. You may wonder about such expression as the “top side” of the soul, but I […]

“THUS SAITH THE LORD”-A.W.Tozer

THUS SAITH THE LORD” – A.W.Tozer In a time when everything in the world seems to be related to vanity, God is depending on His believing children to demonstrate that He is the great Reality; that we are made by God and for Him! The answer to the question, “Where did I come from?” can […]

“TEARS OF JOY – AMEN!”-A.W.Tozer

“TEARS OF JOY – AMEN!” – A.W.Tozer We need not be afraid of a genuine visitation of the Spirit of God! Blaise Pascal, the famed 17th-century French scientist and philosopher, experienced in his lifetime a personal, overwhelming encounter with God that changed his life. Those who attended him at his death found a worn, creased […]

“Spiritual” Love-A.W.Tozer

“Spiritual” Love – A.W.Tozer The human heart can love the human Jesus as it can love the human Lincoln, but the spiritual love of Jesus is something altogether different from and infinitely superior to the purest love the human heart can know. Indeed it is not possible to love Jesus rightly except by the Holy […]

“SOMEONE” IS THERE-A.W.Tozer

SOMEONE” IS THERE – A.W.Tozer Wherever faith has proved itself to be real, it has inevitably had upon it a sense of the “present” God. The holy Scriptures possess in marked degree this feeling of actual encounter with a real Person. The men and women of the Bible talked with God. They spoke to Him […]

“Single-Faced”-A.W.Tozer

Single-Faced” – A.W.Tozer I also long in the tender mercies of Christ that among us there may be the following: . . . 6. A childlike candor. I love children because of their unbelievably beautiful candor. They look at you and say the most utterly simple things. If they were just a little older they […]

“Religion” Deterioration-A.W.Tozer

“Religion” Deterioration – A.W.Tozer This is hard for people to face up to. Religion deteriorates just as fruit rots and just as people get old in spite of all they try to do at the drug stores. It is inevitable that we get old, and so it is with religion. It is built-in that we […]

“NOW IT IS THE LORD”-A.W.Tozer

“NOW IT IS THE LORD” – A.W.Tozer Is it possible to become so enamored of God’s good gifts that we fail to worship Him, the Giver? Dr. Albert B. Simpson, the founder of The Christian and Missionary Alliance, invited to preach in a Bible conference in England discovered on his arrival that he was to […]

“I WILL NOT FORSAKE YOU!”-A.W.Tozer

“I WILL NOT FORSAKE YOU!” – A.W.Tozer Men without God suffer alone and die alone in times of war and in other circumstances of life. All alone! But it can never be said that any true soldier of the Cross of Jesus Christ, no man or woman as missionary or messenger of the Truth has […]

“I am with You Always”-A.W.Tozer

“I am with You Always” – A.W.Tozer It is hardly possible to overstress the importance of unceasing inward prayer on the part of the one who would live the God-conscious life. Prayer at stated times is good and right; we will never outgrow the need of it while we remain on earth. But this kind […]

“Fast Food” Christianity 2-A.W.Tozer

“Fast Food” Christianity 2 – A.W.Tozer It is hardly a matter of wonder that the country that gave the world instant tea and instant coffee should be the one to give it instant Christianity. If these two beverages were not actually invented in the United States it was certainly here that they received the advertising […]

“Fast Food” Christianity-A.W.Tozer

“Fast Food” Christianity – A.W.Tozer It is hardly a matter of wonder that the country that gave the world instant tea and instant coffee should be the one to give it instant Christianity. If these two beverages were not actually invented in the United States it was certainly here that they received the advertising impetus […]

“BORN OF GOD!”-A.W.Tozer

“BORN OF GOD!” – A.W.Tozer I think most of us remember with assurance the words of the Charles Wesley hymn which was his own personal testimony: His Spirit answers to the blood, And tells me I am born of God! Wesley testified here and in many other hymns to an inner illumination! When I became […]

“Being” Determines “Doing”-A.W.Tozer

“Being” Determines “Doing” – A.W.Tozer To teach that the filling with the Holy Spirit is given to the Christian to provide “power for service” is to teach truth, but not the whole truth. Power for service is but one effect of the experience, and I do not hesitate to say that it is the least […]

“BE STILL AND KNOW”-A.W.Tozer

“BE STILL AND KNOW” – A.W.Tozer Prayer among evangelical Christians is always in danger of degenerating into a glorified “gold rush.” Almost every book on prayer deals with the “get” element mainly. How to get things we want from God occupies most of our space. Christians should never forget that the highest kind of prayer […]

“AUTOMATIC” SAINTS?-A.W.Tozer

“AUTOMATIC” SAINTS? – A.W.Tozer Not everyone agrees with me that full qualification for eternity is not instant or automatic or painless. I can only hope that you are wise enough, desirous enough and spiritual enough to face up to the truth that every day is another day of spiritual preparation, another day of testing and […]

“AS I WAS, SO I WILL BE!”-A.W.Tozer

“AS I WAS, SO I WILL BE!” – A.W.Tozer For all things, God is the great Antecedent! Because He is, we are and everything else is. We cannot think rightly of God until we begin to think of Him as always being there-and being there first! Joshua had this to learn. He had been so […]

“A CHEERFUL HEART”-A.W.Tozer

“A CHEERFUL HEART” – A.W.Tozer The thankful Christian will turn with true delight to the expression of Joseph Addison in his Thanksgiving hymn, “When All Thy Mercies, 0 My God,” found in many of the better hymnals. Addison gives a mental image that requires music for its expression: Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily […]

Your Thoughts a Sanctuary-A.W.Tozer

Your Thoughts a Sanctuary – A.W.Tozer For thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him who has a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.” –Isaiah […]

YOUR DEVOTIONAL LIFE-A.W.Tozer

YOUR DEVOTIONAL LIFE – A.W.Tozer Too many of us object, perhaps unconsciously, to the rather evident fact that the maintenance of the devotional mood is indispensable to success in the Christian life. And what is the devotional mood? It is nothing else than constant awareness of God’s enfolding presence, the holding of inward conversations with […]

You Are a Theologian!-A.W.Tozer

You Are a Theologian! – A.W.Tozer The effort to be practicing Christians without knowing what Christianity is about must always fail. The true Christian should be, indeed must be, a theologian. He must know at least something of the wealth of truth revealed in the Holy Scriptures. And he must know it with sufficient clarity […]

YES, GOD LOVES US-A.W.Tozer

YES, GOD LOVES US – A.W.Tozer If we are to have any satisfying and lasting understanding of life, it must be divinely given. It begins with the confession that it is indeed the God who has revealed Himself to us who is the central pillar bearing up the universe. Believing that, we then go on […]

YES, EVERYTHING IS WRONG… UNTIL JESUS MAKES IT RIGHT-A.W.Tozer

YES, EVERYTHING IS WRONG… UNTIL JESUS MAKES IT RIGHT – A.W.Tozer Men and women without God are helpless and hopeless human beings. We do well to remember that sin is to the human nature what cancer is to the human body! Who can argue with the fact that sin has ruined us? Our feverish activity […]

Wrestling with those Unanswerable Questions-A.W.Tozer

Wrestling with those Unanswerable Questions – A.W.Tozer All of us at some time in our life become suddenly aware that we are in a strange place called the world. We do not remember coming here and we are not sure when or how we are going to leave. A score of pressing questions fill our […]

Worthy to Lead-A.W.Tozer

Worthy to Lead – A.W.Tozer Paul, an apostle (not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised Him from the dead)…. –Galatians 1:1 Conformity to the Word of God is always right, but obedience to religious leaders is good only if those leaders prove themselves worthy to lead. […]

WORTHY – OR UNWORTHY?-A.W.Tozer

WORTHY – OR UNWORTHY? – A.W.Tozer The love of Jesus is so inclusive that it knows no boundaries. At the point where we stop loving and caring, Jesus is still there-loving and caring! The question may be asked: “How does the living Christ feel today about the sinful men and women who walk our streets?” […]

Worshiping the Giver-A.W.Tozer

Worshiping the Giver – A.W.Tozer In the love which any intelligent creature feels for God there must always be a measure of mystery. It is even possible that it is almost wholly mystery, and that our attempt to find reasons is merely a rationalizing of a love already mysteriously present in the heart as a […]

Worshiping God with All We Are-A.W.Tozer

Worshiping God with All We Are – A.W.Tozer In worship several elements may be distinguished, among them love, admiration, wonder and adoration. Though they may not be experienced in that order, a little thought will reveal those elements as being present wherever true worship is found. Both the Old and the New Testament teach that […]

Worshipful Thinking-A.W.Tozer

Worshipful Thinking – A.W.Tozer Man is a worshiper and only in the spirit of worship does he find release for all the powers of his amazing intellect. A religious writer has warned us that it may be fatal to trust to the squirrel-work of the industrious brain rather than to the piercing vision of the […]

Worshipers then Workers-A.W.Tozer

Worshipers then Workers – A.W.Tozer The primary work of the Holy Spirit is to restore the lost soul to intimate fellowship with God through the washing of regeneration. To accomplish this He first reveals Christ to the penitent heart (1 Cor. 12:3). He then goes on to illumine the newborn soul with brighter rays from […]

WORSHIP-AND WORK-A.W.Tozer

WORSHIP-AND WORK – A.W.Tozer I must take issue with those in the churches who insist that the worshiping saints do not get anything done but worship! Such an attitude reveals that they have not done their homework. The beautiful part of worship is that it prepares you and enables you to zero in on the […]

Worldly Pollution-A.W.Tozer

Worldly Pollution – A.W.Tozer What, then, is that world against which we are warned by the apostles? That world whose friendship constitutes spiritual adultery, the love of which stands in opposition to the love of God? It is the familiar world of sinful human society which swells about and beneath us as the waters of […]

World and Kingdom Status-A.W.Tozer

World and Kingdom Status – A.W.Tozer In spite of our lip service – service to democracy, Americans are a decidedly class-conscious people. The very politicians and educators and church leaders among us who sound abroad the praises of the common man and plead for equal rights for all are in private practice as aloof from […]

Working Out What God Works In You-A.W.Tozer

Working Out What God Works In You – A.W.Tozer The Holy Spirit in this passage is saying two things: God works in you to will, but you are to work with God in working it out. God works in you–that is, God is always previous. God is the aggressor. God saw you in the rut […]

Workers Used of God-A.W.Tozer

Workers Used of God – A.W.Tozer In a close and final sense no one can do God’s work. Nor does He turn His work over to others to do. He works in His people and through them, but always it is He who works. Jesus said, “My Father is always at his work to this […]

Words of Spirit and Life-A.W.Tozer

Words of Spirit and Life – A.W.Tozer The Bible is unique among books, which means simply that no book has been produced just like it. The Bible is not a book of history, though it contains much history, and all it does contain is authentic. It is not a book of science, though all its […]

Wondering Worship-A.W.Tozer

Wondering Worship – A.W.Tozer The third stage of true worship is wonder. Here the mind ceases to understand and goes over to a kind of delightful astonishment. Carlyle said that worship is ?transcendent wonder,? a degree of wonder without limit and beyond expression. That kind of worship is found throughout the Bible (though it is […]

WITHOUT FEELING?-A.W.Tozer

WITHOUT FEELING? – A.W.Tozer I do know something of the emotional life that goes along with conversion to Jesus Christ. I came into the kingdom of God with joy, knowing that I had been forgiven. I have had people tell me very dogmatically that they will never allow “feeling” to have any part in their […]

With the Wind in Your Face-A.W.Tozer

With the Wind in Your Face – A.W.Tozer Are You Feeling the Wind? ?God hath called you to Christ?s side,? wrote the saintly Rutherford, ?and the wind is now in Christ?s face in this land; and seeing ye are with Him, ye cannot expect the leeside or the sunny side of the brae.? With that […]

WISDOM FROM GOD-A.W.Tozer

WISDOM FROM GOD – A.W.Tozer The thinking of our generation often reflects a willingness to exchange a high view of God’s eternity for a short-term concept called “here and now.” Technology is presumed to be paramount but the answers science gives us are short-term answers. The scientists may be able to keep us alive for […]

Winter Experiences-A.W.Tozer

WISDOM FROM GOD – A.W.Tozer There is such a thing as a renaissance, a personal revival. The best illustration is the coming of the springtime on the farm. The snow will lay all winter long, and in some places you don”t see the ground until springtime. How utterly dead everything looks, but you know that […]

Winds of Change and the Changeless God-A.W.Tozer

Winds of Change and the Changeless God – A.W.Tozer The contemporary world is a result of radical changes down the generations amounting to revolution: the scientific revolution, the industrial revolution, the communications revolution, the philosophical revolution and the social revolution. Are we going to accept the belief that the Bible must be interpreted anew in […]

Willing to Love-A.W.Tozer

Willing to Love – A.W.Tozer Civilized man has brought about this tragic fall by associating love with sex exclusively and then popularizing the error by every means at his command. Millions of young people today are wholly unable to think of love except in terms of the disgraceful promiscuity of Hollywood. Newspapers now report the […]

Wild-eyed Fanatics-A.W.Tozer

Wild-eyed Fanatics – A.W.Tozer Do not quench the Spirit. Do not despise prophecies. Test all things; hold fast what is good. –1 Thessalonians 5:19-21 This is a crude illustration, but let me tell you what we did after planting a field of corn when I was a young fellow in Pennsylvania. To save the field […]

WHY SETTLE DOWN?-A.W.Tozer

WHY SETTLE DOWN? – A.W.Tozer Why should a Christian “settle down” as soon as he has come to know the Lord? I blame faulty exposition of the New Testament for stopping many Christians dead in their tracks, causing them to shrug off any suggestion that there is still spiritual advance and progress beckoning them on. […]

Why Satan Hates the Child of God-A.W.Tozer

Why Satan Hates the Child of God – A.W.Tozer As we move farther on and mount higher up in the Christian life we may expect to encounter greater difficulties in the way and meet increased hostility from the enemy of our souls. Though this is seldom presented to Christians as a fact of life it […]

Whole Life Prayer-A.W.Tozer

Whole Life Prayer – A.W.Tozer “I am the Vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit, for without Me you can do nothing…. If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for […]

WHO WILL COME TO JESUS?-A.W.Tozer

WHO WILL COME TO JESUS? – A.W.Tozer God’s invitation to men is broad but not unqualified. The words “whosoever will may come” throw the door open, indeed, but the church is carrying the gospel invitation far beyond its proper bounds, turning it into something more human and less divine than that found in the sacred […]

WHO IS YOUR EXAMPLE?-A.W.Tozer

WHO IS YOUR EXAMPLE? – A.W.Tozer The Christian churches of our day have suffered a great loss in rejecting the example of good men, choosing instead the “celebrity of the hour” for their pattern. We must agree that it is altogether unlikely that we know who our “greatest” men are. One thing is sure, however-the […]

Who is the Church?-A.W.Tozer

Who is the Church? – A.W.Tozer For clarification, what is the church? When I say that a church gets into the rote and then onto the rut and finally to the rot, what am I talking about? For one thing, the church is not the building. A church is an assembly of individuals. There is […]

WHO HEARS THE CALL OF GOD?-A.W.Tozer

WHO HEARS THE CALL OF GOD? – A.W.Tozer Who can deny that there are certain persons who, though still unconverted, nevertheless differ from the crowd, marked out of God, stricken with an interior wound and susceptible to the call of God? In the prayer of Jesus in John 17:1lb, He said: “Father, keep through thine […]

WHICH CROSS DO WE CARRY?-A.W.Tozer

WHICH CROSS DO WE CARRY? – A.W.Tozer One of the strange things under the sun is a “crossless” Christianity. The cross of Christendom is a “no-cross,” an ecclesiastical symbol. The cross of our Lord Jesus Christ is a place of death! Let each one be careful which cross he carries! Thousands turn away from Jesus […]

Where Truth Leads Us-A.W.Tozer

Where Truth Leads Us – A.W.Tozer The world is full of seekers, true enough, and they gravitate quite naturally toward the church. Seekers after peace of mind are plentiful enough to keep the printing presses busy; seekers after physical health are always with us in sufficient numbers to make our leading faith healers comfortably rich; […]

WHERE IS THE RADIANCE?-A.W.Tozer

WHERE IS THE RADIANCE? – A.W.Tozer I keep looking, but with little success, for a distinguishing radiance in life and testimony among our evangelical Christians. Instead of an inner witness, too many professing Christians are depending upon logical conclusions drawn from Bible texts. They have no witness of an encounter with God, no awareness of […]

Where Have Those Hymnals Gone?-A.W.Tozer

Where Have Those Hymnals Gone? – A.W.Tozer In order to express myself more freely on a matter that lies very near to my heart, I shall waive the rather stilted editorial we and speak in the first person. The matter I have in mind is the place of the hymnbook in the devotional life of […]

Where Are the Prophets?-A.W.Tozer

Where Are the Prophets? – A.W.Tozer O God, You are my God; early will I seek You; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water. So I have looked for You in the sanctuary, to see Your power and Your glory. –Psalm […]

When ”Adjust” Means ”Maladjust”-A.W.Tozer

When ”Adjust” Means ”Maladjust” – A.W.Tozer A word that is being greatly overused in modern society is adjust. I am certainly not the first one to complain about it, but my objection to its overuse is, I believe, on a little higher level, for most persons who register their objections are thinking only about its […]

When the Heart Lights Go On-A.W.Tozer

When the Heart Lights Go On – A.W.Tozer God is concerned with the whole man and has designed that Christian experience should embrace the entire personality. The Christian faith deals not with the spiritual only but with the moral and the rational as well. The rational and moral elements in religion are the proper objects […]

WHEN PENTECOST CAME-A.W.Tozer

WHEN PENTECOST CAME – A.W.Tozer As we read the New Testament, we find a very simple and very plain and very forceful truth-the Holy Spirit makes a difference! Consider the early disciples-Jesus Himself had taught them for more than three years-the greatest Bible school! But still He had to caution them and encourage them not […]

When Interests Collide-A.W.Tozer

When Interests Collide – A.W.Tozer Whether we are considering two men or two nations we see how personal interest controls their relation to each other. Two men can live together in perfect harmony as long as their interests coincide. Indeed it might correctly be said that human society can exist only by organizing itself in […]

When Fish Catch the Fisherman-A.W.Tozer

When Fish Catch the Fisherman – A.W.Tozer History shows clearly enough that true spirituality has never at any time been the possession of the masses. In any given period since the fall of the human race, only a few persons ever discerned the right way or walked in God’s law. God’s truth has never been […]

What We Are and What We Can Be-A.W.Tozer

What We Are and What We Can Be – A.W.Tozer Remember, we are compared with what we could be, not just what we should be. God being who He is, and Jesus Christ being His risen and all-powerful Son, anything we ought to be we can be. Anything that God has declared that we should […]

What to Do with Burdens-A.W.Tozer

What to Do with Burdens – A.W.Tozer “If a burden is laid on my back and another immediately takes it off and carries it himself,” said Meister Eckhart, “it can make no difference to me whether it is one or a hundred pounds.” In the Scriptures, there would seem to be three kinds of burdens […]

WHAT REALLY MATTERS?-A.W.Tozer

WHAT REALLY MATTERS? – A.W.Tozer It is all but impossible these days to get people to pay any attention to things that really matter. The broad cynic in our modern civilization is likely to ask: “What really matters, after all?” It is our personal relationship to God that really matters! That takes priority over everything […]

What Is Faith?-A.W.Tozer

What Is Faith? – A.W.Tozer Remember that faith is not a noble quality found only in superior men. It is not a virtue attainable by a limited few. It is not the ability to persuade ourselves that black is white or that something we desire will come to pass if we only wish hard enough. […]

What Do You Mean?-A.W.Tozer

What Do You Mean? – A.W.Tozer A disturbing phenomenon of the day is the new and tricky use of familiar words. A ”people’s republic,” for instance, is not a republic nor does it belong to the people. The word ”freedom” now in most countries refers to something so restricted that a generation or two ago […]

What a Great Responsibility!-A.W.Tozer

What a Great Responsibility! – A.W.Tozer For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand? –Revelation 6:17 What a great responsibility God has laid upon us preachers of His gospel and teachers of His Word. In that future day when God’s wrath is poured out, how are we going […]

Weare the Church-A.W.Tozer

Weare the Church – A.W.Tozer Revival may be experienced on three levels, viz., in the individual, the church or the community. It is impossible to have a community revival where there has not been a church revival, and unless at least a few individuals seek and obtain a spiritual transformation in their own hearts, there […]

WE WERE OUTCASTS, TOO-A.W.Tozer

WE WERE OUTCASTS, TOO – A.W.Tozer We confess, do we not, that we have a Christian responsibility to believe God’s Word and to obey God’s Truth? Then we should accept the fact that it is our task to practice the Christian virtues in the power of the Holy Spirit as we await the coming of […]

We Were Made to Worship-A.W.Tozer

We Were Made to Worship – A.W.Tozer Mans nature indicates that he was created for three things: To think, to worship and to work. But thinking is not enough. Men are made to worship also, to bow down and adore in the presence of the Mystery inexpressible. Mans mind is not the top peak of […]

We Travel an Appointed Way-A.W.Tozer

We Travel an Appointed Way – A.W.Tozer Nehemiah, the good, rose up from his weeping to do something about a vision God had laid on his heart. Under divine providence, he was soon transported from Shushan to his beloved city, Jerusalem, armed with authority and equipped with materials to rebuild the ruined city. . . […]

WE SEE GOD’S PURPOSE-A.W.Tozer

WE SEE GOD’S PURPOSE – A.W.Tozer We trust the Word of God-and the inspired revelation makes it plain to the believing Christian that all things in the universe have derived their form from Christ, the eternal Son! We are assured that even as an architect-builder gathers the necessary materials needed to fashion the structure he […]

We Need to Repent-A.W.Tozer

We Need to Repent – A.W.Tozer Do not quench the Spirit. –1 Thessalonians 5:19 It is time for us to repent, for our transgressions against the blessed Third Person have been many and much aggravated. We have bitterly mistreated Him in the house of His friends. We have crucified Him in His own temple as […]

We Need Him More and More-A.W.Tozer

We Need Him More and More – A.W.Tozer But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you. –John 14:26 I have reason to suspect that many people are trying to give leadership […]

We Need Church Family-A.W.Tozer

We Need Church Family – A.W.Tozer The Christian life begins with the individual; a soul has a saving encounter with God and the new life is born. Not all the pooled efforts of any church can make a Christian out of a lost man. But once the great transaction’s done the communion of believers will […]

We Must Have Better Christians 2-A.W.Tozer

We Must Have Better Christians 2 – A.W.Tozer To talk of “better” Christians is to use language foreign to many persons. To them all Christians are alike; all have been justified and forgiven and are the children of God, so to make comparisons between them is to suggest division and bigotry and any number of […]

We Must Have Better ChristiansWe Must Have Better Christians-A.W.Tozer

We Must Have Better ChristiansWe Must Have Better Christians – A.W.Tozer Excerpted from Of God and Men To talk of “better” Christians is to use language foreign to many persons. To them all Christians are alike; all have been justified and forgiven and are the children of God, so to make comparisons between them is […]

We Languish for Men-A.W.Tozer

We Languish for Men – A.W.Tozer Then Paul answered, “What do you mean by weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.” –Acts 21:13 The Church at this moment needs men, the right kind of men, […]

WE KNOW WHAT WE BELIEVE-A.W.Tozer

WE KNOW WHAT WE BELIEVE – A.W.Tozer The hope of the Christian church still lies in the purity of her theology, that is, her beliefs about God and man and their relation to each other. It is a fact that positive beliefs are not popular these days. I sense that the modern efforts to popularize […]

WE HAVE IT ALL-A.W.Tozer

WE HAVE IT ALL – A.W.Tozer How much time have you spent in your Christian life meditating on the plain instruction from our Savior?-“Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” The God who has revealed Himself to needy men and women wants us […]

WE GET AROUND IT-A.W.Tozer

WE GET AROUND IT – A.W.Tozer The Lordship of Jesus is not quite forgotten among Christians, but it has been relegated to our hymn book, where all responsibility toward it may be comfortably discharged in a glow of pleasant religious emotion. The idea that the Man Christ Jesus has absolute and final authority over all […]

WE ARE NOT ORPHANS-A.W.Tozer

WE ARE NOT ORPHANS – A.W.Tozer I once wrote in an editorial that Christian believers are not orphans in this world, making the point that the divine Shepherd goes before us and that we travel an appointed way. A reader wrote to question my allusion to our traveling an “appointed” way, asking: “I was brought […]

WE ARE NOT ALL ALIKE-A.W.Tozer

WE ARE NOT ALL ALIKE – A.W.Tozer We ought to be fully aware that in the body of Christ we are not interested in the production of “cookie-cutter” Christians. This is a word of caution in the matter of Christian experience-there is no pattern or formula for identical Christian experiences. It is actually a tragic […]

We and Our Times are in God’s Hands-A.W.Tozer

We and Our Times are in God’s Hands – A.W.Tozer The man of true faith may live in the absolute assurance that his steps are ordered by the Lord. For him, misfortune is outside the bounds of possibility. He cannot be torn from this earth one hour ahead of the time which God has appointed, […]

Wants or Wishes-A.W.Tozer

Wants or Wishes – A.W.Tozer The third class of blessing consists of spiritual treasures which are ours by blood atonement but which will not come to us unless we make a determined effort to possess them. To make things clearer let me set forth four propositions touching this heritage of joy which God has set […]

Wanted: Worshipers-A.W.Tozer

Wanted: Worshipers – A.W.Tozer It remains only to be said that worship as we have described it here is almost (though, thank God, not quite) a forgotten art in our day. For whatever we can say of modern Bible-believing Christians, it can hardly be denied that we are not remarkable for our spirit of worship. […]

Wanted: God Seers-A.W.Tozer

Wanted: God Seers – A.W.Tozer When viewing the religious scene today, we are tempted to fix on one or another weakness and say, “This is what is wrong with the church. If this were corrected, we could recapture the glory of the early church and have pentecostal times back with us again.” This tendency to […]

Walking in Truth 2-A.W.Tozer

Walking in Truth 2 – A.W.Tozer Any man who would escape the heavy tax which humankind lays upon the righteous must make a satisfactory compromise with error. This is so because sin has perverted the nature of things. He that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey is as true now as when it was […]

Walking in Truth-A.W.Tozer

Walking in Truth – A.W.Tozer Any man who would escape the heavy tax which humankind lays upon the righteous must make a satisfactory compromise with error. This is so because sin has perverted the nature of things. He that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey is as true now as when it was first […]

Walking in the Light of His Presence-A.W.Tozer

Walking in the Light of His Presence – A.W.Tozer Our frantic and futile effort to harmonize the truth of Christ with psychology, philosophy and science is proof enough of a deep incertitude among us concerning the sufficiency of Christ. It is a tragicomic sight to see our modern apostles licking the palm of any man […]

Wakeful Walking-A.W.Tozer

Wakeful Walking – A.W.Tozer Of course, people resent any word reflecting on them, but every once in a while there appears an awakened soul. Some way or another this person got awake. Somehow God Almighty wakened him or her, whether by the crowing of the rooster or by the braying of Balaam’s donkey. This person […]

Wake Up the Lion In You!-A.W.Tozer

Wake Up the Lion In You! – A.W.Tozer Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God. –2 Corinthians 3:5 That is the difference between Christianity and all the Oriental cults and religions. All cult religions try to wake up what you already […]

Waiting Rather than Fretting-A.W.Tozer

Waiting Rather than Fretting – A.W.Tozer Of one thing we may be sure; we can never escape the external stimuli that cause vexation. The world is full of them and though we were to retreat to a cave and live the remainder of our days alone, we still could not lose them. The rough floor […]

Waiting for God-A.W.Tozer

Waiting for God – A.W.Tozer I am convinced that the dearth of great saints in these times even among those who truly believe in Christ is due at least in part to our unwillingness to give sufficient time to the cultivation of the knowledge of God. We of the nervous West are victims of the […]

Vital Faith Shows Itself in Changed Living-A.W.Tozer

Vital Faith Shows Itself in Changed Living – A.W.Tozer We would make a clear distinction here between moral action and mere religious activity. In truth there is already too much of that popular type of activity which does little more than agitate the surface of religion. Its never-ending squirrel-cage motion gives the impression that much […]

Victory Through Defeat-A.W.Tozer

Victory Through Defeat – A.W.Tozer And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. ( Genesis 32:28) But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the […]

Victors or Victims-A.W.Tozer

Victors or Victims – A.W.Tozer If Satan opposes the new convert he opposes still more bitterly the Christian who is pressing on toward a higher life in Christ. The Spirit-filled life is not, as many suppose, a life of peace and quiet pleasure. It is likely to be something quite the opposite. Viewed one way […]

Utilizing Our Spiritual Resources-A.W.Tozer

Utilizing Our Spiritual Resources – A.W.Tozer I think that most Christians would be better pleased if the Lord did not inquire into their personal affairs too closely. They want Him to save them, keep them happy and take them to heaven at last, but not to be too inquisitive about their conduct or service. But […]

Using Both Wings 2-A.W.Tozer

Using Both Wings 2 – A.W.Tozer Truth is like a bird; it cannot fly on one wing. Yet we are forever trying to take off with one wing flapping furiously and the other tucked neatly out of sight. Many of the doctrinal divisions among the churches are the result of a blind and stubborn insistence […]

Using Both Wings-A.W.Tozer

Using Both Wings – A.W.Tozer Truth is like a bird; it cannot fly on one wing. Yet we are forever trying to take off with one wing flapping furiously and the other tucked neatly out of sight. Many of the doctrinal divisions among the churches are the result of a blind and stubborn insistence that […]

Urgently Needed: Prophetic Leaders-A.W.Tozer

Urgently Needed: Prophetic Leaders – A.W.Tozer There has probably never been another time in the history of the world when so many people knew so much about religious happenings as they do today. The newspapers are eager to print religious news; the secular news magazines devote several pages of each issue to the doings of […]

UNWILLING TO YIELD-A.W.Tozer

UNWILLING TO YIELD – A.W.Tozer I know there are people who hear me preach regularly who will never consider changing their way of living They will go ‘underground’ before they will do that! Our situation is not an isolated case. There are millions of men and women with an understanding of the revelation of God […]

Unused Truth-A.W.Tozer

Unused Truth – A.W.Tozer Lack of balance in the Christian life is often the direct consequence of overemphasis on certain favorite texts, with a corresponding underemphasis on other related ones. For it is not denial only that makes a truth void; failure to emphasize it will in the long run be equally damaging. And this […]

Unseen Realities-A.W.Tozer

Unseen Realities – A.W.Tozer Let us not be shocked by the suggestion that there are disadvantages to the life in Christ. There most certainly are. Abel was murdered. Joseph was sold into slavery, Daniel was thrown into the den of lions, Stephen was stoned to death, Paul was beheaded, and a noble army of martyrs […]

Unlovely Religious People-A.W.Tozer

Unlovely Religious People – A.W.Tozer Any act gains in power as it moves inward toward the heart. For this reason, the sins of the spirit are more iniquitous than those of the body. This was illustrated boldly by the attitude of our Lord toward these two kinds of sins and the corresponding two classes of […]

Unlimited Resources but Limited Receptacles-A.W.Tozer

Unlimited Resources but Limited Receptacles – A.W.Tozer Since God is infinite, whatever He is must be infinite also; that is, it must be without any actual or conceivable limits. The moment we allow ourselves to think of God as having limits, the one of whom we are thinking is not God but someone or something […]

Universal Brotherhood: The Impossible Dream-A.W.Tozer

Universal Brotherhood: The Impossible Dream – A.W.Tozer The dream of a universal brotherhood based upon the ethics of Jesus is just that-a dream. It is compounded of a few words of Christ mixed with vast numbers of uninspired words spoken by men whose yearnings are to be commended but whose wisdom is suspect. To arrive […]

UNITED WITH CHRIST-A.W.Tozer

UNITED WITH CHRIST – A.W.Tozer The Spirit of God has impelled me to preach and write much about the believer’s conscious union with Christ-a union that must be felt and experienced. I will never be through talking about the union of the soul with the Savior, the conscious union of the believer’s heart with Jesus. […]

UNHOLY, UNRIGHTEOUS, UNHAPPY-A.W.Tozer

UNHOLY, UNRIGHTEOUS, UNHAPPY – A.W.Tozer All of history and the daily newspaper testify that the human race lies in ruin-spiritually, morally and physically. The long parade of gods, both virtuous and obscene, and a thousand varieties of vain and meaningless religious practices declare our spiritual degeneration, while disease, old age and death testify sadly to […]

Ungifted Hands-A.W.Tozer

Ungifted Hands – A.W.Tozer For it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure. –Philippians 2:13 The important thing is that the Holy Spirit desires to take us and control us and use us as instruments and organs through whom He can express Himself in the body […]

Ungifted Hands-A.W.Tozer

Ungifted Hands – A.W.Tozer For it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure. –Philippians 2:13 The important thing is that the Holy Spirit desires to take us and control us and use us as instruments and organs through whom He can express Himself in the body […]

UNCLEAN BY COMPARISON-A.W.Tozer

UNCLEAN BY COMPARISON – A.W.Tozer In the Old Testament, whenever the living God revealed Himself in some way to humankind, terror and amazement were the reactions. People saw themselves as guilty and unclean by comparison! In the book of Revelation, the Apostle John describes the overwhelming nature of his encounter with the Lord of glory. […]

Unanswered Prayer-A.W.Tozer

Unanswered Prayer – A.W.Tozer Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Resist him, steadfast in the faith…. –1 Peter 5:8-9 If unanswered prayer continues in a congregation over an extended period of time, the chill of discouragement will settle over the praying […]

Two Conditions Must Be Met-A.W.Tozer

Two Conditions Must Be Met – A.W.Tozer Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence toward God. And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight. –1 John 3:21-22 When we go to God with a request that […]

Trying to Run While Entangled-A.W.Tozer

Trying to Run While Entangled – A.W.Tozer . . If we compare what we ought to be and could be with what we are, and we don’t see that we are in a rut and we are not concerned, then one of three things may be wrong. First, we may not be converted at all. […]

Truth that Seeks Lost People-A.W.Tozer

Truth that Seeks Lost People – A.W.Tozer Our Lord said, I am the Truth, and again He said, The Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. Truth therefore is not hard to find for the very reason that it is seeking us. Truth is not a thing for […]

Truth Tests-A.W.Tozer

Truth Tests – A.W.Tozer We need to cultivate a healthy skepticism toward everything that cannot be supported by the plain teaching of the Bible. Belief is faith only when it has God?s revealed truth for its object; beyond that it may be fully as injurious as unbelief itself. Many of the stories brought forward to […]

Truth Revelations-A.W.Tozer

Truth Revelations – A.W.Tozer That we must often receive new truth into minds already cluttered up with old truths, half-truths and scraps of downright error, and fit it into the total in such a way that it will appear right and ?feel? right to the heart, makes it extremely difficult for us to grow in […]

TRUTH IS A PERSON-A.W.Tozer

TRUTH IS A PERSON – A.W.Tozer Let me say boldly that it is not the difficulty of discovering truth, but the unwillingness to obey it, that makes it so rare among men. Our Lord said, “I am the Truth.” And again He said, “The Son of Man is come to seek and to save that […]

TRUTH HAS A SOUL-A.W.Tozer

TRUTH HAS A SOUL – A.W.Tozer I believe there is a positive warning in the gospels that a person’s faith may stand in the revealed Bible text-and still be as dead as the proverbial door nail! Consider the prayer of our Lord in Matthew 11: “All things are delivered unto me of my Father; and […]

Trusting the Completely Trustworthy God-A.W.Tozer

Trusting the Completely Trustworthy God – A.W.Tozer Idolatry is the supreme sin and unbelief is the child of idolatry. Both are libels on the character of the Most High and the Most Holy. He that believeth not God hath made him a liar, wrote the apostle John. A God who lies is a God without […]

Trusting in His Unfailing Love-A.W.Tozer

Trusting in His Unfailing Love – A.W.Tozer How long you continue in this night of the soul will depend upon a number of factors, some of which you may be able later to identify, while others will remain with God, completely hidden from you. The words ?The day is thine, the night also is thine? […]

True Poverty of Spirit-A.W.Tozer

True Poverty of Spirit – A.W.Tozer Within the human heart “things” have taken over. . . . There is within the human heart a tough fibrous root of fallen life whose nature is to possess, always to possess. It covets “things” with a deep and fierce passion. The pronouns “my” and “mine” look innocent enough […]

True Love-A.W.Tozer

True Love – A.W.Tozer Among the innocent victims of this effete and degenerate age, there is none so pure and so beautiful as love. Next to the word God with its various forms, there is no word so fair in all the language. Yet it may be said without qualification that this beautiful word has […]

Trials Are Only Temporary-A.W.Tozer

Trials Are Only Temporary – A.W.Tozer The man whom Christ illuminates with His message has eyes, and that resolves the old difficulty of blindness; but he must use his new eyes in a blind world, and that creates another problem. The world in its blindness resents his claim to sight and will go to any […]

Translating Biblical Truth Into the Language of the Pew-A.W.Tozer

Translating Biblical Truth Into the Language of the Pew – A.W.Tozer . . . Invariably the newly learned, like the newly rich, overdo everything, and that is just what the evangelical-rationalists are doing. They forget that Moses, David, our blessed Lord Himself, John, Luther, Wesley, Bunyan, Schopenhauer, William James (to bring together a few very […]

TOO MUCH “AT HOME”-A.W.Tozer

TOO MUCH “AT HOME” – A.W.Tozer One of the most telling indictments against many of us who compose our Christian churches is the almost complete acceptance of the contemporary scene as our permanent home! We have been working and earning, getting and spending, and now we are enjoying the creature comforts known to human beings […]

To Think God’s Thoughts-A.W.Tozer

To Think God’s Thoughts – A.W.Tozer But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night. –Psalm 1:2 To think God’s thoughts requires much prayer. If you do not pray much, you are not thinking God’s thoughts. If you do not read your Bible much and […]

TO SIN IS TO REBEL-A.W.Tozer

TO SIN IS TO REBEL – A.W.Tozer Some of you will object to my saying this, but it is my opinion that in Christianity we have over-emphasized the psychology of the lost sinner’s condition. We spend time describing the sinner’s woes and the great burden he carries until we almost forget the principal fact that […]

To Know God is to Love Him-A.W.Tozer

To Know God is to Love Him – A.W.Tozer God is love, and is for that reason the source of all the love there is. He has set as the first of all commandments that we love Him with all our hearts, but He knows that the desired love can never originate with us. We […]

Time with God-A.W.Tozer

Time with God – A.W.Tozer Moses was dead, but the God of Moses still lived. Nothing had changed and nothing had been lost. Nothing of God dies when a man of God dies. Here we acknowledge (and there is fear and wonder in the thought) the essential unity of God’s nature, the timeless persistence of […]

Thus Saith the Lord-A.W.Tozer

Thus Saith the Lord – A.W.Tozer Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. –Psalm 119:105 Every new year is an uncharted and unknown sea. No ship has ever sailed this way before. The wisest of earth’s sons and daughters cannot tell us what we may encounter on this […]

Three Faithful Wounds-A.W.Tozer

Three Faithful Wounds – A.W.Tozer “Faithful are the wounds of a friend,” says the Holy Spirit in Proverbs 27:6. And lest we imagine that the preacher is the one who does the wounding, I want to read Job 5:17,18: “Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the […]

Three Degrees of Knowledge-A.W.Tozer

Three Degrees of Knowledge – A.W.Tozer In a recent letter a man from Jamestown, NY, quoted a statement from an editorial, ?Three Degrees of Religious Knowledge,? . . . and asked for clarification. The quotation was taken from that part of the editorial dealing with the third degree of knowledge: ?. . . it is […]

THOUGHTS ON COMMUNION-A.W.Tozer

THOUGHTS ON COMMUNION – A.W.Tozer What a sweet comfort to us that our Lord Jesus Christ was once known in the breaking of the bread. In earlier Christian times, believers called the Communion “the medicine of immortality,” and God gave them the desire to pray: Be known to us in breaking bread, But do not […]

Those Sanctifying Effects of Suffering-A.W.Tozer

Those Sanctifying Effects of Suffering – A.W.Tozer Instant Christianity tends to make the faith act terminal and so smothers the desire for spiritual advance. It fails to understand the true nature of the Christian life, which is not static but dynamic and expanding. It overlooks the fact that a new Christian is a living organism […]

Those Museum Pieces-A.W.Tozer

Those Museum Pieces – A.W.Tozer Now I do not think that Satan much cares to destroy us Christians physically. The soldier dead in battle who died performing some deed of heroism is not a great loss to the army but may rather be an object of pride to his country. On the other hand the […]

Thinking Well-A.W.Tozer

Thinking Well – A.W.Tozer The creative religious thinker is not a daydreamer, not an ivory tower intellectual carrying on his lofty cogitations remote from the rough world; he is more likely to be a troubled, burdened man weighed down by the woes of existence, occupied not with matters academic or theoretical but the practical and […]

THINK LIKE GOD THINKS-A.W.Tozer

THINK LIKE GOD THINKS – A.W.Tozer If God knows that your intention is to worship Him with every part of your being, He has promised to cooperate with you. On His side is the love and grace, the promises and the atonement, the constant help and the presence of the Holy Spirit. On your side […]

The “Rote” to “Rutness”-A.W.Tozer

The “Rote” to “Rutness” – A.W.Tozer We can go one step further and come to what I will call the rut, which is bondage to the rote. When we are unable to see and sense bondage to the rote, we are in a rut. For example, a man may be sick and not even know […]

The “Exegete” of the Father-A.W.Tozer

The “Exegete” of the Father – A.W.Tozer Elsewhere I have said that we cannot know God by thinking, but that we must do a lot of thinking if we would know Him well. This sounds self-contradictory, but I am sure that the two statements are in full accord with each other. The inability of the […]

The Wrong Kind of Teachers-A.W.Tozer

The Wrong Kind of Teachers – A.W.Tozer The newborn Christian finds himself alive with a sweet, enjoyable kind of life that he accepts naively, almost unconsciously. To him everything is simple and immediate. He knows no intermediary. Christ is to him on an infinitely higher level what its mother is to a baby–warmth, nourishment, protection, […]

THE WORLDLY “VIRUS”-A.W.Tozer

THE WORLDLY “VIRUS” – A.W.Tozer As Christian believers, we must stand together against some things. So, if you hear anyone saying that A.W. Tozer preaches a good deal that is negative, just smile and agree: “That is because he preaches the Bible!” Here are some of the things we oppose: we are against the many […]

The Word of God-A.W.Tozer

The Word of God – A.W.Tozer Of course we of this generation cannot know by firsthand experience how the Word of God was read in other times. But it would be hard to conceive of our fathers having done a poorer job than we do when it comes to the public reading of the Scriptures. […]

THE WORD MADE FLESH-A.W.Tozer

THE WORD MADE FLESH – A.W.Tozer I have given much thought and contemplation to the sweetest and tenderest of all of the mysteries in God’s revelation to man-the Incarnation! Jesus, the Christ, is the Eternal One, for in the fullness of time He humbles Himself John’s description is plain: the Word was made flesh and […]

THE WONDER OF REDEMPTION-A.W.Tozer

THE WONDER OF REDEMPTION – A.W.Tozer My brethren in the Christian faith, stand with me in defense of this basic doctrine: The living God did not degrade Himself in the Incarnation. When the Word was made flesh, there was no compromise on God’s part! It is plain in the ancient Athanasian Creed that the early […]

The Wonder of God-A.W.Tozer

The Wonder of God – A.W.Tozer Moses took us back to the beginning of all that we see, all that we call the universe. He took us back before the stars and moon were, before space was and before time was, and said, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). […]

The Witness of the Spirit-A.W.Tozer

The Witness of the Spirit – A.W.Tozer Knowledge by spiritual experience is not mental, it is intuitive. It is consciousness, it is acquaintance with something or someone by direct awareness. It might help the reader to understand what we mean by such words as ?awareness? and ?consciousness? if he were to ask himself how he […]

THE WINSOME SAINTS-A.W.Tozer

THE WINSOME SAINTS – A.W.Tozer Much of Christianity overlooks the fact that if we are led by the Spirit of God and if we show forth the love of God this world needs, we become the “winsome saints.” The strange and wonderful thing about it is that truly winsome and loving saints do not even […]

The Way to God is a Person-A.W.Tozer

The Way to God is a Person – A.W.Tozer When they knew God, they glorified him not as God, read the terrible words, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into […]

THE WALK OF FAITH-A.W.Tozer

THE WALK OF FAITH – A.W.Tozer There are spiritual lessons for every Christian believer in the life of godly Enoch, seventh generation from Adam through Adam’s third son, Seth. We are impressed that he could resist the devil and find fellowship with his Creator-God, for he lived in a worldly society headed for destruction. Enoch’s […]

The Utilitarian Christ-A.W.Tozer

The Utilitarian Christ – A.W.Tozer I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees You. Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. –Job 42:5-6 Within the past few years, for instance, Christ has been popularized by some so-called evangelicals as one who, if a proper […]

THE UNITY OF ALL THINGS-A.W.Tozer

THE UNITY OF ALL THINGS – A.W.Tozer If we are humble and sincere Christians, this should be one of the most welcome thoughts we have ever considered: the work of Christ in redemption will achieve ultimately the expulsion of sin, the only divisive agent in the universe! When that is accomplished, God’s creation will once […]

The Union of Faith and Works-A.W.Tozer

Just as in eternity God acted like Himself and when incarnated in human flesh still continued to be true to His holiness in all His conduct, so does He when He enters the nature of a believing man. This is the method by which He makes the redeemed man holy. He enters a human nature […]

The Unending Chapter-A.W.Tozer

The Unending Chapter – A.W.Tozer That next chapter after the last is the source of all the Christian’s hope, for it assures us that our Lord has put death in its place and has delivered us from the ancient curse. Death did not end the activities of our Lord; it did not even interrupt them, […]

The Unchanging Need of the Human Heart-A.W.Tozer

The Unchanging Need of the Human Heart – A.W.Tozer We of the twentieth century have exactly the same basic needs as the people of the first century. We feel the weight of sin and mortality just as they did. We long for peace and life eternal exactly as they did. We are tortured by fears, […]

The Tyranny of the Customary-A.W.Tozer

The Tyranny of the Customary – A.W.Tozer In the Old Testament, the enemy that threatened Israel the most was the dictatorship of the customary. Israel became accustomed to walking around in circles and was blissfully content to stay by the safety of the mountain for a while. To put it another way, it was the […]

THE TRANSFORMED LIFE-A.W.Tozer

THE TRANSFORMED LIFE – A.W.Tozer Many of the great evangelists who have touched the world for God, including such men as Jonathan Edwards and Charles Finney, have declared that the church is being betrayed by those who insist on Christianity being made “too easy.” Jesus laid down the terms of Christian discipleship and there are […]

The Top Side of Our Souls-A.W.Tozer

The Top Side of Our Souls – A.W.Tozer And Jesus answered and said to her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things. But one thing is needed, and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken away from her.” –Luke 10:41-42 …every real Christian, however practical, is in some […]

The Text Plus the Holy Spirit-A.W.Tozer

The Text Plus the Holy Spirit – A.W.Tozer So they come to you as people do, they sit before you as My people, and they hear your words, but they do not do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their hearts pursue their own gain. –Ezekiel 33:31 When you are trying […]

The terrible doctrine of the Remnant-A.W.Tozer

The terrible doctrine of the Remnant – A.W.Tozer Rom 9:27 Isaiah also cries concerning Israel, “though the numbers of the sons of Israel is as the sands of the sea, a remnant shall be saved.’ I want to articulate a doctrine in the Bible that is very troubling and alarming. I am very much afraid […]

The Taming of Anger-A.W.Tozer

The Taming of Anger – A.W.Tozer It is significant that when our Lord describes the stream of iniquity as it flows out of the heart He begins with the thoughts. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies… Matthew 15:19. It is doubtful whether any sin is ever […]

The Sword of the Spirit-A.W.Tozer

The Sword of the Spirit – A.W.Tozer Undoubtedly God goes along with us as far as He can in this weak and one-sided treatment of the Holy Scriptures, but He cannot be pleased with this way of doing. Our Heavenly Father takes pleasure in seeing us develop and grow up spiritually. He does not want […]

The Study of God-A.W.Tozer

The Study of God – A.W.Tozer It is precisely because God is, and because man is made in His image and is accountable to Him, that theology is so critically important. Christian revelation alone has the answer to life?s unanswered questions about God and human destiny. To let these authoritative answers lie neglected while we […]

The Strength of Humility-A.W.Tozer

The Strength of Humility – A.W.Tozer In the kingdom of heaven, weak things become mighty and mighty things often prove to be useless. God seeth not as man seeth, and the things that are held in high esteem among men may be scorned by the Most High God, maker of heaven and earth. That carnal […]

THE SPIRIT ILLUMINATES-A.W.Tozer

THE SPIRIT ILLUMINATES – A.W.Tozer When we study the New Testament record, we see plainly that Christ’s conflict was with the theological rationalists of His day. John’s gospel record is actually a long, inspired, passionately-outpoured account trying to save us from evangelical rationalism-the doctrine that says the text is enough. Divine revelation is the ground […]

The Speaking Voice-A.W.Tozer

The Speaking Voice – A.W.Tozer An intelligent plain man, untaught in the truths of Christianity, coming upon this text, would likely conclude that John meant to teach that it is the nature of God to speak, to communicate His thoughts to others. And he would be right. A word is a medium by which thoughts […]

The Soul In the Body-A.W.Tozer

The Soul In the Body – A.W.Tozer But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased. –1 Corinthians 12:18 Let us review something here that we probably know: the doctrine of the life and operation of Christian believers on earth–starting with the fact that the Christian […]

The Set of Our Sails-A.W.Tozer

The Set of Our Sails – A.W.Tozer But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s delicacies, nor with the wine which he drank…. –Daniel 1:8 Though we do not hear much of it in this age of spineless religion, there is nevertheless much in the […]

THE SECRET WORKING OF GOD-A.W.Tozer

THE SECRET WORKING OF GOD – A.W.Tozer I do believe in the secret and mysterious working of God in the human breast. I must believe it after finding the forgiving and converting grace of God in the Savior, Jesus Christ. My father and mother held high human standards, but completely without any thought of God. […]

The Saint Must Walk Alone-A.W.Tozer

The Saint Must Walk Alone – A.W.Tozer Most of the world’s great souls have been lonely. Loneliness seems to be one price the saint must pay for his saintliness. In the morning of the world (or should we say, in that strange darkness that came soon after the dawn of man’s creation), that pious soul, […]

The Root Appears-A.W.Tozer

The Root Appears – A.W.Tozer Now everyone knows that moisture is necessary to the germination of seeds, to the swelling of buds and to the sprouting of the root buried there in the ground. Where there is no water, life lies suspended in sleepy inaction. Even the desert plant must have a minimal quantity of […]

The Rod and the Cross-A.W.Tozer

The Rod and the Cross – A.W.Tozer For the Christian cross carrying and chastisement are alike but not identical. They differ in a number of important ways. The two ideas are usually considered to be the same and the words embodying the ideas are used interchangeably. There is, however, a sharp distinction between them. When […]

The Rigors of Shepherding-A.W.Tozer

The Rigors of Shepherding – A.W.Tozer Because we are the kind of persons we are and because we live in a world such as we do, the shepherd of souls is often forced to work at what would appear to be cross purposes with himself. For instance, he must encourage the timid and warn the […]

The Revelatory Light of Scripture-A.W.Tozer

The Revelatory Light of Scripture – A.W.Tozer Among men, questions usually have more than one side; sometimes they have many. Pros and cons are often balanced so finely against each other that it is virtually impossible to know where the right lies. But with God there is only one side. God’s side is good and […]

The Responsibility of Choice-A.W.Tozer

The Responsibility of Choice – A.W.Tozer Our Lord Jesus looked after the rich young ruler as he walked away, but He did not follow him or attempt to coerce him. The dignity of the young man’s humanity forbade that his choices should be made for him by another. To remain a man he must make […]

The Refiner’s Fire-A.W.Tozer

The Refiner’s Fire – A.W.Tozer Ten thousand enemies cannot stop a Christian, cannot even slow him down, if he meets them in a attitude of complete trust in God. They will become to him like the atmosphere that resists the airplane, but which because the plane’s designer knew how to take advantage of that resistance, […]

THE REALITIES OF HEAVEN-A.W.Tozer

THE REALITIES OF HEAVEN – A.W.Tozer Much of the secularism and rationalism of our times dismisses the Christian view and teaching about heaven as “nothing more than hopeful thinking.” But the Christian’s promised hope of future blessedness is founded upon the fullest and plainest revelations of the Old and New Testaments. That it accords with […]

The Quiet Call of Christ-A.W.Tozer

The Quiet Call of Christ – A.W.Tozer It is like the Lord to fasten a world upon nothing, and make it stay in place. Here He takes that wonderful, mysterious microcosm we call the human soul and makes its future weal or woe to rest upon a single word–if. If any man, He says, and […]

The Psychology of Impermanence-A.W.Tozer

The Psychology of Impermanence – A.W.Tozer Time may show that one of the greatest weaknesses in our modern civilization has been the acceptance of quantity rather than quality as the goal after which to strive. This is particularly evident in the United States. Costly buildings are constantly being erected with no expectation that they shall […]

THE PROMISE OF THE SPIRIT-A.W.Tozer

THE PROMISE OF THE SPIRIT – A.W.Tozer The miraculous events wrought in Jerusalem by the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost indicated to the disciples that Jesus Christ, the Messiah-Savior, had indeed taken His place at the right hand of the Majesty on high. With Jewish critics all around, Peter lifted his voice and […]

The Privilege of Choice-A.W.Tozer

The Privilege of Choice – A.W.Tozer It is inherent in the nature of man that his will must be free. Made in the image of God who is completely free, man must enjoy a measure of freedom. This enables him to select his companions for this world and the next; it enables him to yield […]

The Primacy of Self-A.W.Tozer

The Primacy of Self – A.W.Tozer Selfish personal interest, says the Greek moral philosopher Epictetus, is the motive behind all human conduct. The children of the world, Christ tells us, are often wiser than the children of light. In his discovery of the springs of human conduct Epictetus reveals an understanding of mankind far beyond […]

THE PRESENCE OF GOD-A.W.Tozer

THE PRESENCE OF GOD – A.W.Tozer The spiritual giants of old were those who at some time became acutely conscious of the presence of God. They maintained that consciousness for the rest of their lives. How otherwise can the saints and prophets be explained? How otherwise can we account for the amazing power for good […]

The Prayer of Faith-A.W.Tozer

The Prayer of Faith – A.W.Tozer ..The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. –James 5:16 A second important requirement if the believing church is to be used in God’s ministry is prayer and the response God makes to our prayers uttered in true faith…. No matter what our stature or status, we […]

The Prayer of a Minor Prophet[1]-A.W.Tozer

The covenant and prayer of a preacher This is the prayer of a man called to be a witness to the nations. This is what he said to his Lord on the day of his ordination. After the elders and ministers had prayed and laid their hands on him he withdrew to meet his Savior […]

The Powers That Shape Us-A.W.Tozer

The Powers That Shape Us – A.W.Tozer Fortunately for all of us, human nature is not fixed but plastic. Every human being is in a state of becoming, of passing from what he was to what he is to be. And this is as true of the Christian as of every other person. The new […]

The Power of Godly Living-A.W.Tozer

The Power of Godly Living – A.W.Tozer The most effective argument for Christianity is still the good lives of those who profess it. A company of pure-living and cheerful Christians in the community is a stronger proof that Christ is risen than any learned treatise could ever be. And a further advantage is that, while […]

The Power God Recognizes-A.W.Tozer

The Power God Recognizes – A.W.Tozer “Woe to the rebellious children,” says the Lord, “who take counsel, but not of Me, and who devise plans, but not of My Spirit, that they may add sin to sin.” –Isaiah 30:1 The continued neglect of the Holy Spirit by evangelical Christians is too evident to deny and […]

The Period Becomes a Comma-A.W.Tozer

The Period Becomes a Comma – A.W.Tozer He was dead, but He is alive forevermore. That such a thing could be was intimated by the miracles of restoration which our Lord performed during His earthly ministry. The widow’s son was brought back to life for a brief time; at our Lord’s gentle call Jairus’s little […]

THE PERFECTIONS OF GOD-A.W.Tozer

THE PERFECTIONS OF GOD – A.W.Tozer I hope that if I am remembered at all it will be for this reason: I have spent my efforts and my energies trying to turn the direction of the people away from the external elements of religion to those that are internal and spiritual. I have tried to […]

The Pain of Cross-Bearing-A.W.Tozer

The Pain of Cross-Bearing – A.W.Tozer The weakness of much that passes for the Christian faith these days is seen in the readiness of many professed followers of Christ to make any concessions in order to ?get along with people,? especially with relatives and in-laws. The philosophy of mid-twentieth century Christianity is a philosophy of […]

The Open Secret-A.W.Tozer

The Open Secret – A.W.Tozer But the God we must see is not the utilitarian God who is having such a run of popularity today, whose chief claim to men’s attention is His ability to bring them success in their various undertakings and who for that reason is being cajoled and flattered by everyone who […]

The Only Way to the Father-A.W.Tozer

The Only Way to the Father – A.W.Tozer It is more than a little strange that persons who modestly decline to risk an opinion on matters that do not touch them at all closely, such as philosophy or science for instance, are often ready and eager to pronounce with finality on religion which above all […]

The One to be Feared-A.W.Tozer

The One to be Feared – A.W.Tozer Over the years I have read or thumbed through a great many books on how to conquer fear. The cult of relaxation has, in fact, quite taken over certain areas of the religious thinking of the day. Of course the fear-not cultists are able to assemble a lot […]

The One Before Whom All Shall Bow-A.W.Tozer

The One Before Whom All Shall Bow – A.W.Tozer The cure for superstition is an increased appreciation of the being of God: not names only, but character and being. The idea that the devil is afraid of a word or a gesture is pure superstition. He is not afraid of any name, not even the […]

The Object of True Faith-A.W.Tozer

The Object of True Faith – A.W.Tozer True faith is not the intellectual ability to visualize unseen things to the satisfaction of our imperfect minds; it is rather the moral power to trust Christ. To be contented and unafraid when going on a journey with his father the child need not be able to imagine […]

The Need for Solitude-A.W.Tozer

The Need for Solitude – A.W.Tozer And when He had sent the multitudes away, He went up on the mountain by Himself to pray. Now when evening came, He was alone there. –Matthew 14:23 Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions […]

THE NEED FOR REVERENCE-A.W.Tozer

THE NEED FOR REVERENCE – A.W.Tozer Many persons who have been raised in our churches no longer think in terms of reverence, which seems to indicate that they doubt God’s presence is there! Much of the blame must be placed on the growing acceptance of a worldly secularism that seems much more appealing than any […]

The Need for Power from On High-A.W.Tozer

The Need for Power from On High – A.W.Tozer Christ told His disciples to tarry in Jerusalem until they had been endued with power from on high. This can only mean that He will not entrust His work to the unready and the unqualified. It is infinitely more important that we should be prepared for […]

The Need for Illumination-A.W.Tozer

The Need for Illumination – A.W.Tozer But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. –1 Corinthians 2:14 The doctrine of the inability of the human mind and the need for divine illumination is […]

The Necessity of the Spirit’s Illumination-A.W.Tozer

The Necessity of the Spirit’s Illumination – A.W.Tozer I said that the causes of religious confusion were four, and I named misunderstanding of the nature of truth as one of them. The others are lack of love, unbelief and nonobedience. “Wisdom is a loving spirit,” says the Wisdom of Solomon. “He guides the humble in […]

THE MYSTERY IN WORSHIP-A.W.Tozer

THE MYSTERY IN WORSHIP – A.W.Tozer Consider the experience of Moses in the desert as he beheld the fire that burned in the bush without consuming it. Moses had no hesitation in kneeling before the bush and worshiping God. Moses was not worshiping a bush; it was God and His glory dwelling in the bush […]

THE MENACE OF THE RELIGIOUS MOVIE-A.W.Tozer

THE MENACE OF THE RELIGIOUS MOVIE – A.W.Tozer When God gave to Moses the blueprint of the Tabernacle He was careful to include every detail; then, lest Moses should get the notion that he could improve on the original plan, God warned him solemnly, “And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was […]

THE LORD OF ALL BEAUTY-A.W.Tozer

THE LORD OF ALL BEAUTY – A.W.Tozer Think with me about beauty-and about this matchless One who is the Lord of all beauty, our Savior! God has surely deposited something within our human beings that is capable of understanding and appreciating beauty – the love of harmonious forms, appreciation of colors and beautiful sounds. Brother, […]

THE LONELY HUMAN-A.W.Tozer

THE LONELY HUMAN – A.W.Tozer There is a strange contradiction in human nature all around us: the fact that a person can reek with pride, display a swollen ego and strut like a peacock-and yet be the loneliest and most miserable person in the world! We find these people everywhere-pretending and playing a game. Deep […]

The Law of Surrender-A.W.Tozer

The Law of Surrender – A.W.Tozer The Bible says that we are to present our bodies “as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God.” Of course, if you give your body, you give everything it contains. That means giving yourself wholly to God, and the idea of giving yourself wholly to God contains three laws. […]

The Last Chapter-A.W.Tozer

The Last Chapter – A.W.Tozer The four Gospels tell the story of the life and ministry of Jesus, and in so doing, they follow accurately the ordinary course of biography, giving the facts of His birth, growth, work, death and burial. That is the way with biography: the very word itself suggests it, for it […]

The Knowledge of God-A.W.Tozer

The Knowledge of God – A.W.Tozer For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food. –Hebrews 5:12 Probably the most widespread and persistent problem to be found among […]

The Inseparability of Faith and Obedience-A.W.Tozer

The Inseparability of Faith and Obedience – A.W.Tozer The truth is that faith and obedience are two sides of the same coin and are always found together in the Scriptures. As well try to pry apart the two sides of a half-dollar as to separate obedience from faith. The two sides, while they remain together […]

The Inner Witness of the Spirit-A.W.Tozer

The Inner Witness of the Spirit – A.W.Tozer Then, there is another kind of divine working that may occur without our being aware of it, or at least without our recognizing it for what it is. This is that wondrous operation of God known in theology as prevenient grace. It may be simple “conviction,” or […]

The Indispensable Necessity of Spiritual Diagnosis-A.W.Tozer

The Indispensable Necessity of Spiritual Diagnosis – A.W.Tozer Not the fact that the churches are unusually active these days, not what religious people are doing, should engage our attention, but why these things are so. The big question is: Why? And no one seems to have an answer for it. Not only is there no […]

The Illogic of Complaining-A.W.Tozer

The Illogic of Complaining – A.W.Tozer Among those sins most exquisitely fitted to injure the soul and destroy the testimony, few can equal the sin of complaining. Yet the habit is so widespread that we hardly notice it among us. The complaining heart never lacks for occasion. It can always find reason enough to be […]

THE HUMBLE PLACE-A.W.Tozer

THE HUMBLE PLACE – A.W.Tozer I have met two classes of Christians; the proud who imagine they are humble, and the humble who are afraid they are proud! There should be another class: the self-forgetful men and women who leave the whole thing in the hands of Christ and refuse to waste any time trying […]

The Holy are Humble-A.W.Tozer

The Holy are Humble – A.W.Tozer The Church in America suffered a greater loss than she has since discovered when she rejected the example of good men and chose for her pattern the celebrity of the hour. Human greatness cannot be determined by popularity polls nor by the number of lines any man rates in […]

The Heavy Responsibility of Sheep-Feeding-A.W.Tozer

The Heavy Responsibility of Sheep-Feeding – A.W.Tozer God’s Word says that a faithful and wise steward gives the people their meat in due season. Some people preach the Bible all right, and you cannot deny that. But they go to the Bible as you would to a medical book to find out what you should […]

THE HAPPY MORN-A.W.Tozer

THE HAPPY MORN – A.W.Tozer When we sing, “The Light of the world is Jesus,” there should be a glow on our faces that would make the world believe indeed that we really mean it! The Incarnation meant something vast and beautiful for John Milton-and he celebrated the coming of Jesus into the world with […]

The Habit of Holy Thought-A.W.Tozer

The Habit of Holy Thought – A.W.Tozer Casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ. –2 Corinthians 10:5 What we think about when we are free to think about what we will– that is what we are or […]

THE GREAT PHYSICIAN-A.W.Tozer

THE GREAT PHYSICIAN – A.W.Tozer If you are a discouraged and defeated Christian believer, you may have accepted the rationalization that your condition is “normal for all Christians.” You may now be content with the position that the progressive, victorious Christian life may be suitable for a few Christian – but not for you! You […]

The Great Illuminator-A.W.Tozer

The Great Illuminator – A.W.Tozer The New Testament draws a sharp line between the natural mind and the mind that has been touched by divine fire. When Peter made his good confession, “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God” (Matt. 16:16), our Lord replied, “Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and […]

The Great Deceiver-A.W.Tozer

The Great Deceiver – A.W.Tozer The Devil is a master strategist. He varies his attacks as skillfully as an experienced general and always has one more trick to use against the one who imagines he is well experienced in the holy war. By two radically opposite things the devil seeks to destroy us-by our sins […]

THE GOSPEL WARNING-A.W.Tozer

THE GOSPEL WARNING – A.W.Tozer We who rejoice in the blessings that have come to us through the Savior, need to bear in mind that the gospel is not good news only! The message of the Cross is good news indeed for the penitent, but to those who obey not the gospel it carries an […]

The Good Life that Turns Out to be Not So Good-A.W.Tozer

The Good Life that Turns Out to be Not So Good – A.W.Tozer Almost everywhere it is assumed that people are seeking truth, that society is literally swarming with dedicated truth seekers. The fact is that men have never in any numbers sought after truth. If we may judge peoples interests by their deeds, then […]

THE GODHEAD-FOREVER ONE-A.W.Tozer

THE GODHEAD-FOREVER ONE – A.W.Tozer When Christ Jesus died on that unholy, fly-infested cross for mankind, He never divided the Godhead! We are assured from the earliest church fathers that the Father in heaven, His eternal Son, and the Holy Ghost are forever One-inseparable, indivisible-and can never be anything else. Not all of Nero’s swords […]

The Gift of Prophetic Insight-A.W.Tozer

The Gift of Prophetic Insight – A.W.Tozer Excerpted from Of God and Men A prophet is one who knows his times and what God is trying to say to the people of his times. What God says to His church at any given period depends altogether upon her moral and spiritual condition and upon the […]

The From’s and To’s-A.W.Tozer

The From’s and To’s – A.W.Tozer The evangelical Church today is in the awkward position of being wrong while it is right, and a little preposition makes the difference. One place where we are wrong while we are right is in the relative stress we lay upon the prepositions to and from when they follow […]

The Four Horsemen of the Gloomy Decades-A.W.Tozer

The Four Horsemen of the Gloomy Decades – A.W.Tozer Immediately following the first World War, a wave of pessimism swept over the literate world. What the cause was I shall not go into here but, whatever it was, the intellectual mood of the ?20s and ?30s was thoroughly despondent. Materialism, pessimism, cynicism and skepticism were […]

The Foolish Spending of Life-A.W.Tozer

The Foolish Spending of Life – A.W.Tozer The Greek philosopher Pythagoras is said to have divided men into three classes: 1. Seekers after knowledge. 2. Seekers after honor. 3. Seekers after gain. Thus far Pythagoras. But I wonder why he failed to notice two other classes: those who are not seekers after anything and those […]

The First Lesson to Learn-A.W.Tozer

The First Lesson to Learn – A.W.Tozer Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. –Matthew 26:41 To pray successfully is the first lesson the preacher must learn if he is to preach fruitfully; yet prayer is the hardest thing he will ever be called […]

The File-card Mentality-A.W.Tozer

The File-card Mentality – A.W.Tozer As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? –Psalm 42:1-2 When religion loses its sovereign character and becomes mere form this spontaneity is lost also, […]

The Feasibility of Change-A.W.Tozer

The Feasibility of Change – A.W.Tozer . . . people in ruts . . . discover that the passing of time tends to dull their religious feelings, and the signal that used to be quite clear is fading out. Then they worry a little and say, “The signal is gone. I’ll have to do something.” […]

The Father’s Gift-A.W.Tozer

The Father’s Gift – A.W.Tozer   In the ”sixth” chapter of John our Lord makes some statements which gospel Christians seem afraid to talk about. The average one of us manages to live with them by the simple trick of ignoring them. They are such as these: 1. Only they come to Christ who have […]

The Falling of Life-Leaves-A.W.Tozer

The Falling of Life-Leaves – A.W.Tozer People who are in the rut, the circular grave, find that it is getting harder for them to change. They used to have spells when they were emotionally moved. Their wills got over on the side of God, and they really meant to make themselves into good Christians by […]

The Fallacy of “Secret Sin”-A.W.Tozer

The Fallacy of “Secret Sin” – A.W.Tozer No sin is private. It may be secret but it is not private. It is a great error to hold, as some do, that each man’s conduct is his own business unless his acts infringe on the rights of others. “My liberty ends where yours begins” is true, […]

The Fallacy of “Insignificant Sin”-A.W.Tozer

The Fallacy of “Insignificant Sin” – A.W.Tozer Persons out of Christ often try to comfort themselves with the remembrance that they have never in their lives committed any really great sin. Little trifling acts of wrongdoing perhaps, but nothing of any consequence, so surely God will overlook their rather insignificant transgressions when He settles their […]

The Faith Walk-A.W.Tozer

The Faith Walk – A.W.Tozer Periods of staleness in the life are not inevitable but they are common. He is a rare Christian who has not experienced times of spiritual dullness when the relish has gone out of his heart and the enjoyment of living has diminished greatly or departed altogether. Since there is no […]

THE ETHICS OF JESUS-A.W.Tozer

THE ETHICS OF JESUS – A.W.Tozer The teachings of Jesus belong to the Church, not to society, for in society is sin, and sin is hostility to God! Christ did not teach that He would impose His teachings upon the fallen world. He called His disciples to Him and taught them, and everywhere throughout His […]

THE ETERNAL VERITY-A.W.Tozer

THE ETERNAL VERITY – A.W.Tozer There is a great deal of discussion now taking place about the lack of spiritual power in our Christian churches. What about the New Testament patterns? Brethren, the apostolic method was to provide a foundation of good, sound biblical reasons for following the Savior, for our willingness to let the […]

The Eternal Spirit-A.W.Tozer

The Eternal Spirit – A.W.Tozer But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth. –Acts 1:8 You know, the Church started out with a Bible, then it got a […]

THE END OF THE AGE-A.W.Tozer

THE END OF THE AGE – A.W.Tozer Everywhere around us we are experiencing a great new wave of humanity’s interest in spiritism and devil worship. I must take this as one of the signs that God’s age of grace and mercy is approaching the end point. It tells us that the time may be near […]

The Economic Squeeze-A.W.Tozer

The Economic Squeeze – A.W.Tozer   But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. –2 Timothy 4:5 A number of factors contribute to bad spiritual leadership…. The economic squeeze. The Protestant ministry is notoriously underpaid and the pastor’s family is often large. Put these two […]

THE EASTER TRIUMPH-A.W.Tozer

THE EASTER TRIUMPH – A.W.Tozer I do not mind telling you that within me I find the Easter message and the reality of the Resurrection more beautiful and glorious than the Christmas scene. Christmas tells us that Jesus was born; that He was born for the humiliation of suffering and death and atonement. But Easter […]

The Divine Teacher-A.W.Tozer

The Divine Teacher – A.W.Tozer We make a serious mistake when we become so attached to the preaching or writing of a great Christian leader that we accept his teaching without daring to examine it. No man is that important in the kingdom of God. We should follow men only as they follow the Lord […]

The Divine Illuminator-A.W.Tozer

The Divine Illuminator – A.W.Tozer To know God in the scriptural meaning of the term is to enter into experience of Him. It never means to know about. It is not a knowledge mediated by the intellect, but an unmediated awareness experienced by the soul on a plane too high for the mind to reach. […]

The Disease of Misplaced Hope-A.W.Tozer

The Disease of Misplaced Hope – A.W.Tozer In a previous piece I said that hope is unique in being at once the most precious and the most treacherous of all our treasures. I have shown that, as Goldsmith says, “Hope, like the gleaming taper’s light, Adorns and cheers our way.” But we do not listen […]

The Director of Our Way-A.W.Tozer

The Director of Our Way – A.W.Tozer Among the many wonders of the Holy Scriptures is their ability frequently to compress into a sentence truth so vast, so complex, as to require a whole shelf of books to expound. Even a single phrase may glow with a light like that of the ancient pillar of […]

The Daunting Task-A.W.Tozer

The Daunting Task – A.W.Tozer For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. –Romans 1:16 The greatest event in history was the coming of Jesus Christ into the world to live […]

The Danger of World-worship-A.W.Tozer

The Danger of World-worship – A.W.Tozer A great deal can be learned about people by observing whom and what they imitate. The weak, for instance, imitate the strong; never the reverse. The poor imitate the rich. The self-assured are imitated by the timid and uncertain, the genuine is imitated by the counterfeit, and people all […]

The Danger of Modifying the Good News-A.W.Tozer

The Danger of Modifying the Good News – A.W.Tozer Our constant effort should be to reach as many persons as possible with the Christian message, and for that reason numbers are critically important. But our first responsibility is not to make converts but to uphold the honor of God in a world given over to […]

The Danger of Misplaced Commitment-A.W.Tozer

The Danger of Misplaced Commitment – A.W.Tozer Faith in Jesus is not commitment to your church or denomination. I believe in the local church; I am not a tabernacle man. I believe in the divine assembly. We ought to realize that we are, as a group of Christians, a divine assembly, a cell in the […]

The Danger of Heart-hardening-A.W.Tozer

The Danger of Heart-hardening – A.W.Tozer Another breakdown in the truth–feeling–act sequence comes when the heart for selfish reasons deliberately hardens itself against the Word of God. This is the state of all who love darkness rather than light and for that reason either withdraw from the light altogether or when exposed to it stubbornly […]

The Danger of Eloquence-A.W.Tozer

The Danger of Eloquence – A.W.Tozer There are few things in religious circles held in greater esteem than eloquence. Yet there are few things of less actual value or that bring with them greater temptation or more harm. One qualification everyone expects a preacher to have is the ability to discourse fluently on almost any […]

The Cure-A.W.Tozer

The Cure – A.W.Tozer . . . suppose that I found an old fellow sitting on a bench and I went and sat down beside him. I noticed by looking at him that he had high blood pressure. I could tell it by the veins that stood out on his forehead. I began to try […]

THE CROWD TURNS BACK-A.W.Tozer

THE CROWD TURNS BACK – A.W.Tozer Our Lord Jesus Christ called men to follow Him, but He plainly taught that “no man can come unto me, except it were given him of my Father” (John 6:65). It is not surprising that many of His early followers, upon hearing these words, went back and walked no […]

The Cross is a Radical Thing-A.W.Tozer

The Cross is a Radical Thing – A.W.Tozer The cross of Christ is the most revolutionary thing ever to appear among men. The cross of the Roman times knew no compromise; it never made concessions. It won all its arguments by killing its opponent and silencing him for good. It spared not Christ, by slew […]

The Contemporary vs. the Eternal-A.W.Tozer

The Contemporary vs. the Eternal – A.W.Tozer Pastors and churches in our hectic times are harassed by the temptation to seek size at any cost and to secure by inflation what they cannot gain by legitimate growth. The mixed multitude cries for quantity and will not forgive a minister who insists upon solid values and […]

The Compelling Call-A.W.Tozer

The Compelling Call – A.W.Tozer For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of, for necessity is laid upon me; yes, woe is me if I do not preach the gospel! –1 Corinthians 9:16 The true minister is one not by his own choice but by the sovereign commission of God. From […]

The Church: the Body of Christ-A.W.Tozer

The Church: the Body of Christ – A.W.Tozer The universal Church is the body of Christ, the bride of the Lamb, the habitation of God through the Spirit, the pillar and ground of the truth. The local church is a community of ransomed men, a minority group, a colony of heavenly souls dwelling apart on […]

The Church is Us-A.W.Tozer

The Church is Us – A.W.Tozer Our most pressing obligation today is to do all in our power to obtain a revival that will result in a reformed, revitalized, purified church. It is of far greater importance that we have better Christians than that we have more of them. Each generation of Christians is the […]

The Church is Our Spiritual Family-A.W.Tozer

The Church is Our Spiritual Family – A.W.Tozer The elements of a true church are few and easy to possess. They are a company of believers, the Lord, the Spirit and the Word of the Living God. Let the Lord be worshiped, the Spirit be obeyed, the Word be expounded and followed as the only […]

The Christian’s Greatest Enemy-A.W.Tozer

The Christian’s Greatest Enemy – A.W.Tozer Excerpted from Rut, Rot or Revival East of the Jordan in the territory of Moab, Moses began to expound this law, saying: The Lord our God said to us at Horeb, “You have stayed long enough at this mountain. Break camp and advance into the hill country of the […]

The Choice Quandary-A.W.Tozer

The Choice Quandary – A.W.Tozer One of the problems most frequently encountered by serious-minded Christians is how to discover the will of God in a given situation. Now, granted that we are wholly committed to God with every full intent to obey Him, we may expect actually to be led by Him. The Scriptures that […]

The Chapter after the Last-A.W.Tozer

The Chapter after the Last – A.W.Tozer Matthew says, “And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his own new tomb.” Mark says, “And he [Joseph] bought fine linen, and took him [Jesus] down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in […]

The Changing External and the Unchanging Internal-A.W.Tozer

The Changing External and the Unchanging Internal – A.W.Tozer While Jesus grew through the various stages of developing childhood, He never saw a mechanical device more complicated than a cart. He never saw paper, or plastic, or a telephone, or a radio, or a camera, or a printed sheet, or a paved highway, or a […]

The Call of God-A.W.Tozer

The Call of God – A.W.Tozer Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. –Hebrews 12:11 “Your calling,” said Meister Eckhart to the clergy of his day, “cannot make you holy; but you can […]

The Brooding Spirit of God-A.W.Tozer

The Brooding Spirit of God – A.W.Tozer Because the inner lostness is the same in all human beings the work of God to reclaim them must be the same in all. And the Spirit broods over all, illuminating, revealing, convicting, enabling them to hear and see and understand. It is one of the wonders and […]

THE BREATH OF GOD-A.W.Tozer

THE BREATH OF GOD – A.W.Tozer Two of the great realities in our midst are surely the promised Presence of God and the testimony of His eternal Word! By the “Word of God” I do not refer only to the book you hold in your hand-paper and letters, pages and ink-sewed together with silk thread. […]

The Blindness of Self-Righteousness-A.W.Tozer

The Blindness of Self-Righteousness – A.W.Tozer . . If we compare what we ought to be and could be with what we are, and we don’t see that we are in a rut and we are not concerned, then one of three things may be wrong. First, we may not be converted at all. . […]

The Blessedness of Obedience-A.W.Tozer

The Blessedness of Obedience – A.W.Tozer It will take more than talk and prayer to bring revival. There must be a return to the Lord in practice before our prayers will be heard in heaven. We dare not continue to trouble God’s way if we want Him to bless ours. Joshua sent his army up […]

The Bible’s Purpose-A.W.Tozer

The Bible’s Purpose – A.W.Tozer In recent years the Bible has been recommended for many other purposes than the one for which it was written. The peace of mind cults, for instance, manage to find in it oil for the troubled waters of the soul; but to make it work they must pick, choose, misunderstand […]

The Believer and Worlds-A.W.Tozer

The Believer and Worlds – A.W.Tozer The New Testament teaches that to be a follower of Christ it is necessary that a man turn his back upon the world and have no fellowship with it. Our Lord drew a sharp line between the kingdom of God and the world and said that no one could […]

The Barrenness of Busyness 2-A.W.Tozer

The Barrenness of Busyness 2 – A.W.Tozer Satan’s distracting words often come from the most unexpected quarters. Martha would call Mary away from sitting at the feet of the Master. Sometimes, if we are not careful, our best friend may distract us. Or it might be some very legitimate activity. This day’s bustle and hurly-burly […]

The Barrenness of Busyness-A.W.Tozer

The Barrenness of Busyness – A.W.Tozer Satan’s distracting words often come from the most unexpected quarters. Martha would call Mary away from sitting at the feet of the Master. Sometimes, if we are not careful, our best friend may distract us. Or it might be some very legitimate activity. This day’s bustle and hurly-burly would […]

The Bane of “Religious Talk”-A.W.Tozer

The Bane of “Religious Talk” – A.W.Tozer Now, while we cannot project ourselves backward through time and walk again in Galilee with Christ and His disciples, we can by faith actually experience “the substance of things hoped for”; we can have every sufficient “evidence of things not seen” (Hebrews 11:1, KJV); we can taste “the […]

The Ark Analogy-A.W.Tozer

The Ark Analogy – A.W.Tozer Third, the church is depicted as an ark on the flood waters. As the ark of Noah floated on the waters and contained all who would be salvaged, so the church of Jesus Christ is an ark on the flood waters and contains all who will be salvaged. Remember that! […]

The Advent Convergence of Two Worlds-A.W.Tozer

The Advent Convergence of Two Worlds – A.W.Tozer The birth of Christ told the world something. . . . His coming, I repeat, told the world something; it declared something, established something. What was it? That something was several things, and as Christ broke the loaves into pieces for greater convenience in eating, let me […]

The Ability to Do-A.W.Tozer

The Ability to Do – A.W.Tozer Behold, I send the Promise of My Father upon you; but tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high. –Luke 24:49 A definition of the word “power” means the ability to do. You know, because it is the Greek word from which […]

That Questionable Suffering-A.W.Tozer

That Questionable Suffering – A.W.Tozer We delude ourselves when we try to turn our just punishments into a cross and rejoice over that for which we should rather repent. ?For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer […]

That Narrow Gate-A.W.Tozer

That Narrow Gate – A.W.Tozer Positive beliefs are not popular these days. A mistaken desire to maintain a spirit of tolerance among all races and religions has produced a breed of Januslike Christians with built-in swivels, remarkable only for their ability to turn in any direction gracefully. The philosophy behind this whole thing is that […]

That Magnificent Gift of Thought-A.W.Tozer

That Magnificent Gift of Thought – A.W.Tozer Though human nature as we know it now is fallen and morally degenerate, it yet stands at the top in the order of Gods creation. Of no other being was it said, In the image of God created he him. Mans nature indicates that he was created for […]

That Baby in the Manger-A.W.Tozer

That Baby in the Manger – A.W.Tozer One of the most beautiful descriptions of our Savior to be found anywhere is that given by Isaiah in the 53rd chapter of his prophecy: ?He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground? (verse 2). Those who have at […]

Tests of Love-A.W.Tozer

Tests of Love – A.W.Tozer The Christian cannot be certain of the reality and depth of his love until he comes face-to-face with the commandments of Christ and is forced to decide what to do about them. Then he will know. ?He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings? (John 14:24), said our Lord. […]

Tests for Genuineness-A.W.Tozer

Tests for Genuineness – A.W.Tozer How can we tell whether or not a man or a religious demonstration is of God? The answer is easy to find, but it will take courage to follow the facts as God reveals them to us. The tests for spiritual genuineness are two: First, the leader must be a […]

Testing the Spirits-A.W.Tozer

Testing the Spirits – A.W.Tozer Many tender-minded Christians fear to sin against love by daring to inquire into anything that comes wearing the cloak of Christianity and breathing the name of Jesus. They dare not examine the credentials of the latest prophet to hit their town lest they be guilty of rejecting something which may […]

Testing Leaders-A.W.Tozer

Testing Leaders – A.W.Tozer There is a common debt that every Christian owes to his fellow Christians; but there is a heavier debt that he owes to particular Christians: to Bible scholars, to translators, to reformers, missionaries, evangelists, revivalists, hymn writers, composers, pastors, teachers and praying saints. For these we should keep the incense of […]

Tension Between the Old Nature and the New-A.W.Tozer

Tension Between the Old Nature and the New – A.W.Tozer Christ in a believer’s heart will act the same as He acted in Galilee and Judea. His disposition is the same now as then. He was holy, righteous, compassionate, meek and humble then, and He has not changed. He is the same wherever He is […]

Temporal Consequences and Eternal Ones-A.W.Tozer

Temporal Consequences and Eternal Ones – A.W.Tozer There is a close cause-and-effect relationship between deeds and consequences. No right-thinking person would try to deny this. The whole scheme of rewards and punishment is a solid and substantial part of the belief of both Jews and Christians, as well as of many moral philosophers and of […]

Temple Cleansers-A.W.Tozer

Temple Cleansers – A.W.Tozer The critical need in this hour of the church?s history is not what it is so often said to be: soul-winning, foreign missions, miracles. These are effects, not causes. The most pressing need just now is that we who call ourselves Christians should frankly acknowledge to each other and to God […]

TELL THE WHOLE TRUTH-A.W.Tozer

TELL THE WHOLE TRUTH – A.W.Tozer It is sad indeed to know that there are Christian leaders among us who are too timid to tell the people all the truth. They are now asking men and women to give to God only that which costs them nothing! The contemporary moral climate does not favor a […]

Teach Me to Listen-A.W.Tozer

Teach Me to Listen – A.W.Tozer Now the Lord came and stood and called as at other times, “Samuel! Samuel!” And Samuel answered, “Speak, for Your servant hears.” –1 Samuel 3:10 Lord, teach me to listen. The times are noisy and my ears are weary with the thousand raucous sounds which continuously assault them. Give […]

Taking Time to Rest-A.W.Tozer

Taking Time to Rest – A.W.Tozer Sometimes our trouble is not moral but physical. As long as we are in these mortal bodies our spiritual lives will be to some degree affected by our bodies. Here we should notice that there is a difference between our mortal bodies and the ?flesh? of Pauline theology. When […]

Take Time to Listen-A.W.Tozer

Take Time to Listen – A.W.Tozer The entrance of Your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple. I opened my mouth and panted, for I longed for Your commandments. -Psalm 119:130-131 The Quakers had many fine ideas about life, and there is a story from them that illustrates the point I am trying […]

Tainted Tradition-A.W.Tozer

Tainted Tradition – A.W.Tozer By a kind of poetic justice, Peter has been the center of a number of historical contradictions, or perhaps we should say traditional, for many of them lack the dignity of authentic history. They are the fabrications of the Roman special pleaders who will make a case for themselves even if […]

Superstitious Shadows-A.W.Tozer

Superstitious Shadows – A.W.Tozer Faith honors God by accepting the biblical revelation of the divine character. Faith lets God be what He says He is and adjusts its concepts accordingly. Superstition degrades the reputation of God by believing things unworthy of Him. One rests upon fact and the other upon fancy. As I said before, […]

Supernatural Energies-A.W.Tozer

Supernatural Energies – A.W.Tozer But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint. –Isaiah 40:31 It is possible to work far beyond the normal strength of the human constitution and yet experience […]

Submitting to Christ’s Lordship-A.W.Tozer

Submitting to Christ’s Lordship – A.W.Tozer No one has any right to believe that he is indeed a Christian unless he is humbly seeking to obey the teachings of the One whom he calls Lord. Christ once asked a question (Luke 6:46) that can have no satisfying answer, ?Why do you call me, `Lord, Lord,? […]

Stumble Causers-A.W.Tozer

Stumble Causers – A.W.Tozer When we are first converted, especially if we come from a non-Christian background, we are likely to be almost too naive for our own good. The wondrous experience through which we have just passed, or perhaps I should say into which we have entered, has predisposed us to believe in everybody. […]

STRIVING FOR NUMBERS-A.W.Tozer

STRIVING FOR NUMBERS – A.W.Tozer In Christian circles today, the church that can show an impressive quantitative growth is frankly envied and imitated by other ambitious churches. Numbers, size and amounts seem to be very nearly all that matter-with a corresponding lack of emphasis on quality! This is the age of the Laodiceans. The great […]

Strength in Weakness-A.W.Tozer

Strength in Weakness – A.W.Tozer We may need to look closely to discover the relation between inflation and unbelief, but such a relation does nevertheless exist. The man of faith is so sure of his position before God that he can quietly allow himself to be overlooked, discredited, deflated, without a tremor of anxiety. He […]

Steering by Gods Compass-A.W.Tozer

Steering by Gods Compass – A.W.Tozer Put this down as an unfailing rule: Never seek the leading of the Lord concerning an act that is forbidden in the Word of God. To do so is to convict ourselves of insincerity. Again, prophet, psalmist, apostle and our blessed Lord Himself join to point out the way […]

Staying with the Clear Teaching of Scripture-A.W.Tozer

Staying with the Clear Teaching of Scripture – A.W.Tozer Every believer as well as every minister of Christ must decide whether he will put his emphasis upon the majors or the minors. He must decide whether he will stay by the sober truths which constitute the beating heart of the Scriptures or turn his attention […]

Stay in the Secret Place-A.W.Tozer

Stay in the Secret Place – A.W.Tozer My voice You shall hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning I will direct it to You, and I will look up. –Psalm 5:3 Retire from the world each day to some private spot, even if it be only the bedroom (for a while I retreated […]

Standing for Truth-A.W.Tozer

Standing for Truth – A.W.Tozer We have developed in recent times a peace-loving, soft-spoken, tame and harmless brand of Christian of whom the world has no fear and for whom it has little respect. We are careful, for instance, never to speak in public against any of the false cults lest we be thought intolerant. […]

Springtime of the Heart-A.W.Tozer

Springtime of the Heart – A.W.Tozer It is possible for us to go through spiritual experiences that can rouse us, the spiritual equivalent of a springtime in the meadow. I have seen it happen, and I would like to see it happen today. . . . . . . We can have the spiritual equivalent […]

SPIRITUAL UNANIMITY-A.W.Tozer

SPIRITUAL UNANIMITY – A.W.Tozer The Holy Spirit knew what He was doing when He moved the Apostle Peter to write to the early Christian church about the reality of being “of one mind” in their fellowship. Peter was not asking all the brothers and sisters to settle for some kind of regulated uniformity. He was […]

Spiritual Truth Is Spiritually Discerned-A.W.Tozer

Spiritual Truth Is Spiritually Discerned – A.W.Tozer Surely God has that to say to the pure in heart which He cannot say to the man of sinful life. But what He has to say is not theological, it is spiritual; and right there lies the weight of my argument. Spiritual truths cannot be received in […]

SPIRITUAL TESTING-A.W.Tozer

SPIRITUAL TESTING – A.W.Tozer In the scriptural accounts, there are many examples of men and women being tested, and I think it is plain that the Holy Spirit rarely tells a believer that he is about to be tested. Abraham was being tested when the Lord asked him to take his only son up into […]

Spiritual Smugness-A.W.Tozer

Spiritual Smugness – A.W.Tozer Self-righteousness is terrible among God’s people. If we feel that we are what we ought to be, then we will remain what we are. We will not look for any change or improvement in our lives. This will quite naturally lead us to judge everyone by what we are. This is […]

Spiritual Sleepwalkers

Spiritual Sleepwalkers – A.W. Tozer When the Bible says “Awake to righteousness and sin not,” it indicates the possiblity of a sudden awakening, like when an alarm clock going off rouses you out of sleep. There is such a thing as being asleep and suddenly being wakened, and this is surprising to people. People often […]

SPIRITUAL READINESS-A.W.Tozer

SPIRITUAL READINESS – A.W.Tozer When the Bible says that God is calling a special people out of the nations to bear the name of His eternal Son, I believe it –  and His name is Jesus! Our pious forefathers believed in spiritual preparation, and they said so. They saw themselves as a bride being prepared […]

Spiritual Pride-A.W.Tozer

Spiritual Pride – A.W.Tozer It might be a shock to some of us if we could know why we are disliked and why our testimony is rejected so violently. Could it be that we are guilty of a deep sinfulness of disposition that we just cannot keep hidden? Arrogance, lack of charity, contempt, self-righteousness, religious […]

Spiritual Leadership of Anointed Men-A.W.Tozer

Spiritual Leadership of Anointed Men – A.W.Tozer Obey those who rule over you, and be submissive, for they watch out for your souls, as those who must give account. Let them do so with joy and not with grief, for that would be unprofitable for you. –Hebrews 13:17 You cannot deny that the life and […]

Spiritual Gifts-A.W Tozer

Spiritual Gifts – A.W Tozer There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all. –1 Corinthians 12:4-6 The time is more than ripe for a rethinking of the whole […]

Spiritual Fervor or Frenzied Activity-A.W.Tozer

Spiritual Fervor or Frenzied Activity – A.W.Tozer Not the quantity of zeal matters to God, but the quality. The significant question is not how zealous is the Christian but why is he zealous and to what does his zeal lead? To the church at Laodicea our Lord said, “Be zealous, therefore, and repent” (Revelation 3:19, […]

Spiritual Discernment-A.W.Tozer

Spiritual Discernment – A.W.Tozer Therefore give to Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people, that I may discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of Yours? –1 Samuel 3:9 That so-called Bible religion in our times is suffering rapid decline is so evident as to need […]

SPIRITUAL CONFIRMATION-A.W.Tozer

SPIRITUAL CONFIRMATION – A.W.Tozer The human personality has a right to be consciously aware of a meeting with God. There will be a spiritual confirmation, an inward knowledge or witness! This kind of confirmation and witness was taught and treasured by the great souls throughout the ages. Conscious awareness of the presence of God! I […]

Spiritual Burdens and Worry Weights-A.W.Tozer

Spiritual Burdens and Worry Weights – A.W.Tozer It was not to the unregenerate that the words “Do not fret” were spoken, but to God-fearing persons capable of understanding spiritual things. We Christians need to watch and pray lest we fall into this temptation and spoil our Christian testimony by an irritable spirit under the stress […]

Spiritual Balance-A.W.Tozer

Spiritual Balance – A.W.Tozer It is a thin and rather smooth coin of common knowledge that the human race has lost its symmetry and tends to be lopsided in almost everything it is and does. Religious philosophers have recognized this asymmetry and have sought to correct it by preaching in one form or another the […]

Spiritual Appraisers-A.W.Tozer

Spiritual Appraisers – A.W.Tozer A prophet is one who knows his times and what God is trying to say to the people of his times. What God says to His Church at any given period depends altogether upon her moral and spiritual condition and upon the spiritual need of the hour. Religious leaders who continue […]

Spirit Taught 2-A.W.Tozer

Spirit Taught 2 – A.W.Tozer Having as the High Priest of our profession the incarnation of all divine wisdom and having as our source book of religious knowledge the holy Scriptures, the soundest and saltiest work ever written, why do we tend so easily to become confused about things spiritual? I believe the causes are […]

Spirit Taught-A.W.Tozer

Spirit Taught – A.W.Tozer Always the decisive conflict in religion will be where important concepts are joined in opposition, concepts so vital that they are capable of saving or wrecking the Christian faith in any given generation. At this critical juncture in church history, the real conflict is between those who hold to an objective […]

Spirit Illumination-A.W.Tozer

Spirit Illumination – A.W.Tozer Hard, serious thought and the illumination of the Holy Spirit. 6. Then we must think. Human thought has its limitations, but where there is no thinking there is not likely to be any large deposit of truth in the mind. Evangelicals at the moment appear to be divided into two camps–those […]

SPECTATOR CHRISTIANS-A.W.Tozer

SPECTATOR CHRISTIANS – A.W.Tozer This we have heard: “I am a born again Christian and I am happy that my sins are forgiven and I go to church on Sunday because I like the fellowship!” We ask: “Do you not go to put yourself in the way of spiritual blessing?” The answer: “No, I am […]

Sound Conversion-A.W.Tozer

Sound Conversion – A.W.Tozer I am convinced that many evangelicals are not truly and soundly converted. Among the evangelicals it is entirely possible to come into membership, to ooze in by osmosis, to leak through the cells of the church and never know what it means to be born of the Spirit and washed in […]

Songs to Live By-A.W.Tozer

Songs to Live By – A.W.Tozer Sometimes our hearts are strangely stubborn and will not soften or grow tender no matter how much praying we do. At such times, it is often found that the reading or singing of a good hymn will melt the ice jam and start the inward affections flowing. That is […]

Some Other Time-A.W.Tozer

Some Other Time – A.W.Tozer Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. –John 14:12 “You will receive power” (Acts 1:8a). “Eagerly desire the greater gifts” (1 Corinthians 12:31a). […]

Some New Mystery Bagged-A.W.Tozer

Some New Mystery Bagged – A.W.Tozer For all the Athenians and the foreigners who were there spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing. –Acts 17:21 The temptation to forget the few spiritual essentials and to go wandering off after unimportant things is very strong, especially to […]

Sneaky Superstition-A.W.Tozer

Sneaky Superstition – A.W.Tozer Superstition is inherent in fallen human nature and I suppose there is no one entirely free from it. There are two classes of men who appear to have come the nearest to getting deliverance from the bondage of superstition: the scientist who has developed a mentality that accepts nothing that cannot […]

Sin’s Cure-A.W.Tozer

Sin’s Cure – A.W.Tozer Only God could reconstruct the world and allow for such reversals of fact; but anyone can tinker at it theoretically. Had Hitler, for instance, been a good and gentle man, six million Jews now dead would be living (making allowance for a certain few who would have died in the course […]

Sincere Reverence, Joyful Informality and Genuine Humility-A.W.Tozer

Sincere Reverence, Joyful Informality and Genuine Humility – A.W.Tozer I also long in the tender mercies of Christ that among us there may be the following: . . . 3. A feeling of humble reverence. I am disapointed that we come to church without a sense of God or a feeling of humble reverence. There […]

Showing Christ’s Kindness-A.W.Tozer

Showing Christ’s Kindness – A.W.Tozer No observant man will attempt to deny that a vast amount of Christian money is being spent on those who do not need it, while the poor and the needy and such as have no helper must often go unnoticed and unhelped, even though they too are Christians and servants […]

Sheep Are Led-A.W.Tozer

Sheep Are Led – A.W.Tozer Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord our Maker. For he is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand. –Psalm 95:6-7 Cattle are driven; sheep are led; and our Lord compares His people to […]

Sharpening the Axe-A.W.Tozer

Sharpening the Axe – A.W.Tozer I have never subscribed to the doctrine that we Christians should live in an intellectual vacuum, refusing to hear what the world has to say. A faith that must be “protected” is no faith at all. If I can retain my faith in Christ only by closing my mind against […]

Sharing the Good News-A.W.Tozer

Sharing the Good News – A.W.Tozer The impulse to share, to impart, normally accompanies any true encounter with God and spiritual things. The woman at the well, after her soul-inspiring meeting with Jesus, left her water pots, hurried into the city and tried to persuade her friends to come out and meet Him. Come, see […]

SHARING GOD’S NATURE-A.W.Tozer

SHARING GOD’S NATURE – A.W.Tozer Our heavenly Father disciplines us for our own good, “that we may share in His holiness.” God’s motives are always loving! I have known people who seemed to be terrified by God’s loving desire that we should reflect His own holiness and goodness. As God’s faithful children, we should be […]

Setting Our Sails in the Will of God-A.W.Tozer

Setting Our Sails in the Will of God – A.W.Tozer In the kingdom of God what we will is accepted as what we are. If any man will, said our Lord, let him. God does not desire to destroy our wills, but to sanctify them. In that terrible, wonderful moment of surrender it may be […]

Setting Our Minds On Things Above-A.W.Tozer

Setting Our Minds On Things Above – A.W.Tozer The notion that Christians should always be optimistic and congenial is heresy pure and simple. An ill-founded optimism may, under certain conditions, be extremely harmful. A Christian is not obliged to be either pessimistic or optimistic or glad or sad or positive or negative after a preconceived […]

Serious Repentance and Restitution-A.W.Tozer

Serious Repentance and Restitution – A.W.Tozer . . . Well, here are some suggestions which anyone can follow and which, I am convinced, will result in a wonderfully improved Christian life. . . . 3. Put yourself in the way of the blessing. It is a mistake to look for grace to visit us as […]

Sending Something Better-A.W.Tozer

Sending Something Better – A.W.Tozer However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. –John 16:13 Our trouble is that we are trying to […]

Self-judging-A.W.Tozer

Self-judging – A.W.Tozer All things else being equal, a Christian will make spiritual progress exactly in proportion to his ability to criticize himself. Paul said, “But if we judged ourselves, we would not come under judgment” (1 Corinthians 11:31). We escape the critical judgment of God by exercising critical self-judgment. It is as simple as […]

Self-Examination-A.W.Tozer

Self-Examination – A.W.Tozer The philosopher Socrates said, “An unexamined life is not worth living.” If a common philosopher could think that, how much more we Christians ought to listen to the Holy Spirit when He says, “Examine yourself.” An unexamined Christian lies like an unattended garden. Let your garden go unattended for a few months, […]

Self-examaination-A.W.Tozer

Self-examaination – A.W.Tozer . . . Well, here are some suggestions which anyone can follow and which, I am convinced, will result in a wonderfully improved Christian life. . . . 6. Bring your life into accord with the Sermon on the Mount and such other New Testament Scriptures as are designed to instruct us […]

Self-deception and How to Avoid It-A.W.Tozer

Self-deception and How to Avoid It – A.W.Tozer OF ALL FORMS OF DECEPTION, self-deception is the most deadly, and of all deceived persons the self-deceived are the least likely to discover the fraud. The reason for this is simple. When a man is deceived by another he is deceived against his will. He is contending […]

Selective Scripture Screening 2-A.W.Tozer

Selective Scripture Screening 2 – A.W.Tozer Heresy is not so much rejecting as selecting. The heretic simply selects the parts of the Scripture he wants to emphasize and lets the rest go. This is shown by the etymology of the word heresy and by the practice of the heretic. “Beware,” an editorial scribe of the […]

Selective Scripture Screening-A.W.Tozer

Selective Scripture Screening – A.W.Tozer Heresy is not so much rejecting as selecting. The heretic simply selects the parts of the Scripture he wants to emphasize and lets the rest go. This is shown by the etymology of the word heresy and by the practice of the heretic. “Beware,” an editorial scribe of the fourteenth […]

Selective Acceptance of the Teaching of Christ and the Apostles-A.W.Tozer

Selective Acceptance of the Teaching of Christ and the Apostles – A.W.Tozer It may seem a bit odd that the religious teachers who exalted the teachings of Jesus to the seventh empyrean should in the same breath demote the person of Jesus to the level of a common man; yet they did just that. They […]

Seeking God with ALL Our Heart-A.W.Tozer

Seeking God with ALL Our Heart – A.W.Tozer I have previously shown that any Christian who desires to may at any time experience a radical spiritual renaissance, and this altogether independent of the attitude of his fellow Christians. The important question now is, How? Well, here are some suggestions which anyone can follow and which, […]

Seeking Approval-A.W.Tozer

Seeking Approval – A.W.Tozer Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. –2 Timothy 4:2 I cannot believe in the spirituality of any Christian man who keeps an eye open for the approval of others, whoever they may be. The man after God’s own […]

SEEKING AFTER TRUTH-A.W.Tozer

SEEKING AFTER TRUTH – A.W.Tozer We live in a mixed-up kind of world in which many people are not at all sure of what they believe or what they ought to believe. Some churches advertise that way-you do not have to believe anything: “just be a seeker after truth.” Some actually settle for poetry, siding […]

Seekers After God-A.W.Tozer

Seekers After God – A.W.Tozer Seekers after God. Thanks be to God on high that these too are among us. They are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. Their number is not large when counted against the millions who have forgotten their Maker, but taken together they are a goodly […]

Seeker, Pretender, or In-the-Rut Disciple-A.W.Tozer

Seeker, Pretender, or In-the-Rut Disciple – A.W.Tozer . . . People in the rut never know when the last leaves are falling for them. Why are people in the rut? There are several possibilities. They may never have been truly converted at all, and this is one of our great problems now. We have a […]

Seeing with Compassion-A.W.Tozer

Seeing with Compassion – A.W.Tozer “Excitement, perturbation, feeling.” These are states of mind we are all familiar with. In a world as violent and full of conflict as this these come and go, blaze up and die down in the average man’s bosom a hundred times a day. The normal man and woman will in […]

Seeing Ourselves in Peter-A.W.Tozer

Seeing Ourselves in Peter – A.W.Tozer For some queer reason, we seem to love people more when they are not too perfect. In the presence of a faultless saint, the average one of us feels ill at ease. We are likely to be discouraged rather than inspired by the sight of a character too impeccable […]

Saying Goodbye to the Rut-A.W.Tozer

Saying Goodbye to the Rut – A.W.Tozer Jesus gives the story of the man who was covetous and lost his soul. So do not be covetous–be generous. Do not be stingy, but be free with your money. Do not be afraid–thank the Lord, trust Him and put fear away. These are examples of the constituted […]

Savior But Not Lord?-A.W.Tozer

Savior But Not Lord? – A.W.Tozer In the New Testament salvation and discipleship are so closely related as to be indivisible. They are not identical, but as with Siamese twins they are joined by a tie which can be severed only at the price of death. Yet they are being severed in evangelical circles today. […]

SAVIOR AND LORD-A.W.Tozer

SAVIOR AND LORD – A.W.Tozer God chose His only begotten Son as the channel for His grace and truth, for John witnesses that “grace and truth came by Jesus Christ!” The Law was given by Moses-but that was all that Moses could do. He could only “command” righteousness. In contrast, only Jesus Christ produces righteousness. […]

Satanic Diversion-A.W.Tozer

Satanic Diversion – A.W.Tozer Failing in his frontal attacks upon the child of God, Satan often turns to more subtle means of achieving his evil purpose. He resorts to devious methods in his attempt to divert the Christian from carrying out the task God has committed to him. He often succeeds by involving the saint […]

SALVATION’S PRICE-A.W.Tozer

SALVATION’S PRICE – A.W.Tozer Too many Christian leaders, acting like enthusiastic promoters, are teaching that the essence of faith is this: “Come to Jesus-it will cost you nothing!” The price has all been paid – “it will cost you nothing!” Brethren, that is a dangerous half-truth. There is always a price connected with salvation and […]

Sacrifice is No Substitute for Obedience-A.W.Tozer

Sacrifice is No Substitute for Obedience – A.W.Tozer It is almost unbelievable how far we will go to avoid obeying God. We call Jesus “Lord” and beg Him to rejuvenate our souls, but we are careful to do not the things He says. When faced with a sin, a confession or a moral alteration in […]

Running Toward the Goal-A.W.Tozer

Running Toward the Goal – A.W.Tozer The true Christian, though he is in revolt against the world’s efforts to brainwash him, is no mere rebel for rebellion’s sake. He dissents from the world because he knows that it cannot make good on its promises. He has tasted the pleasures of society and he knows that […]

RUNNING LIFE’S RACE-A.W.Tozer

RUNNING LIFE’S RACE – A.W.Tozer The writer to the Hebrews gives us good New Testament counsel: “Let us run the race with patience.” The Holy Spirit here describes Christian believers as runners on the track, participants in the race which is the Christian life. He provides both strong warning and loving encouragement, for there is […]

Room to Grow-A.W.Tozer

Room to Grow – A.W.Tozer This concept of the Christian life as a journey to be taken, a growth to be attained, is being lost to us through two widely separated modern errors. . . . The second error is found among us evangelicals. This error is the exact opposite of the liberal’s, which assumes […]

RICHES OF GRACE-A.W.Tozer

RICHES OF GRACE – A.W.Tozer Would it startle you if I dared to say that the living God has never done anything in His universe apart from Jesus Christ? Christians seem to be woefully unaware of the full meaning and measure of the grace of God. Why should we question God’s provision when the Holy […]

REVIVAL-AND RENEWAL-A.W.Tozer

REVIVAL-AND RENEWAL – A.W.Tozer I hope some of you will agree with me that it is of far greater importance that we have better Christians than that we have more of them! If we have any spiritual concerns, our most pressing obligation is to do all in our power to obtain a revival that will […]

Revival Conditions-A.W.Tozer

Revival Conditions – A.W.Tozer Our mistake is that we want God to send revival on our terms. We want to get the power of God into our hands, to call it to us that it may work for us in promoting and furthering our kind of Christianity. We want still to be in charge, guiding […]

Reverent Worship-A.W.Tozer

Reverent Worship – A.W.Tozer Many of our popular songs and choruses in praise of Christ are hollow and unconvincing. Some are even shocking in their amorous endearments, and strike a reverent soul as being a kind of flattery offered to One with whom neither composer nor singer is acquainted. The whole thing is in the […]

Revelation is not Enough-A.W.Tozer

Revelation is not Enough – A.W.Tozer THE key, the crux of this whole issue, is in verse 17. If any man is willing to do God’s will, he shall know. People marvelled at our Lord as He taught. They asked: “How knoweth this man letters having never learned?” ‘How does He know learning’, in other […]

RESURRECTION: A FACT-A.W.Tozer

RESURRECTION: A FACT – A.W.Tozer The resurrection of Christ and the fact of the empty tomb are not a part of this world’s complex and continuing mythologies. This is not a Santa Claus tale-it is history and it is a reality! The true church of Jesus Christ is necessarily founded upon the belief and the […]

RESURRECTION POWER-A.W.Tozer

RESURRECTION POWER – A.W.Tozer Let us be confident, Christian brethren, that our power does not lie in the manger at Bethlehem nor in the relics of the Cross. True spiritual power resides in the victory of the mighty, resurrected Lord of glory, who could pronounce after spoiling death: “All power is given me in heaven […]

RESPONSE TO THE WORD-A.W.Tozer

RESPONSE TO THE WORD – A.W.Tozer Men and women who read and study the Scriptures for their literary beauty alone have missed the whole purpose for which they were given. God’s Word is not to be enjoyed as one might “enjoy” a Beethoven symphony or a poem by Wordsworth. The reason: the Bible demands immediate […]

Responding to the Wake-Up Call-A.W.Tozer

Responding to the Wake-Up Call – A.W.Tozer There is also spiritual sleep. Notice Ephesians 5:14: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise from the dead.” This verse is often spoken to sinners, but it was not written to sinners. Ephesians was never written to sinners. It is not a message to sinners at all, but a message […]

RESPONDING TO THE SPIRIT-A.W.Tozer

RESPONDING TO THE SPIRIT – A.W.Tozer Are we raising a whole generation of young men and women without any sensitivity to the voice of God’s Holy Spirit? I am on record, and I will be as long as I live, that I would rather lose a leg and hobble along throughout the rest of my […]

RESOURCES THAT ENDURE-A.W.Tozer

RESOURCES THAT ENDURE – A.W.Tozer The people of this world have always fussed and argued over this world’s resource-hope for life, health, financial prosperity, international peace and a set of favorable circumstances. These resources are good in their own way, but they have a fatal defect-they are uncertain and transitory! Today we have them; tomorrow […]

Resisting Monotony By Means of Variety-A.W.Tozer

Resisting Monotony By Means of Variety – A.W.Tozer Some of the purest souls have written of the dangers of continuous spiritual exercises uninterrupted by lowlier considerations. Von Hugel speaks of the ?neutral cost? of prayer and advises that we should sometimes break off thoughts of heavenly things and go for a walk or dig in […]

Repellent Personalities-A.W.Tozer

Repellent Personalities – A.W.Tozer Sometimes we Christians are opposed and persecuted for reasons other than our godliness. We like to think it is our spirituality that irritates people, when in reality, it may be our personality. True, the spirit of this world is opposed to the Spirit of God; he that is born after the […]

Renewal Prayer-A.W.Tozer

Renewal Prayer – A.W.Tozer The children of the world are sometimes wiser than the children of light. . . . We have been offered the face of God and the glory of Christ. We have been offered holiness and righteousness and indwelling by the Spirit. We can have our prayers answered and have hell fear […]

Remembering to Give Thanks-A.W.Tozer

Remembering to Give Thanks – A.W.Tozer There is probably no such thing as a wholly thankless heart. Everyone at some time feels a sense of gratitude for benefits received. This seems to be instinctive, or if not instinctive then surely acquired at a very early age. That a great many persons fail in the degree […]

Remembering the Forgotten-A.W.Tozer

Remembering the Forgotten – A.W.Tozer Gospel churches which mostly begin with the lowly are usually not content till they attain some degree of wealth and social acceptance. Then they gradually fall into classes, determined largely by the wealth and education of the members. The individuals that comprise the top layer of these various classes go […]

Religious Word-Rationing-A.W.Tozer

Religious Word-Rationing – A.W.Tozer Most religious people have been guilty of multiplying words as substitutes for worthy deeds, and of all such the writer of these lines is probably the worst offender. But because we have offended is not sufficient reason for our going on to repeat the offense. It is better that we face […]

Religious Elitism-A.W.Tozer

Religious Elitism – A.W.Tozer The question of numbers and their relation to success or failure in the work of the Lord is one that disturbs most Christians more than a little. On the question there are two opposing schools of thought. There are Christians, for instance, who dismiss the whole matter as being beneath them. […]

REJOICE-OR GRUMBLE-A.W.Tozer

REJOICE-OR GRUMBLE – A.W.Tozer I think all of us meet Christian men and women who always seem to look on the gloomy side and are never able to do anything with life’s problems but grumble about them! I meet them often and when I do, I wonder: “Can these people be reading and trusting the […]

Refusing to be Conformed to the Pattern of This World-A.W.Tozer

Refusing to be Conformed to the Pattern of This World – A.W.Tozer Men are impressed with the message of the Church just as far and as long as she is different from themselves. When she seeks to be like them they no longer respect her. They believe (and rightly) that she is playing false to […]

Reflecting on the Memoirs of Those Who Walked with God-A.W.Tozer

Reflecting on the Memoirs of Those Who Walked with God – A.W.Tozer . . . Why do the majority of present day Christians prefer shallow religious fiction? Or uninspired Bible talks that never get beyond the “first principles”? Or one-page daily devotions? Or watered-down Christian biography? . . . . . . present day evangelical […]

Refiner’s Fire-A.W.Tozer

Refiner’s Fire – A.W.Tozer Slowly you will discover God?s love in your suffering. Your heart will begin to approve the whole thing. You will learn from yourself what all the schools in the world could not teach you–the healing action of faith without supporting pleasure. You will feel and understand the ministry of the night; […]

Recognizing the Witness of the Spirit-A.W.Tozer

Recognizing the Witness of the Spirit – A.W.Tozer Again, the experience of the Spirit’s fullness coming upon the believer’s heart is often judged by the amount and quality of emotional charge that accompanies it. Some go so far as to declare bluntly that no one is filled with the Spirit who has not experienced certain […]

Recognizing Satans Strategic Initiative-A.W.Tozer

Recognizing Satans Strategic Initiative – A.W.Tozer Many times in history the Christians in various towns, cities and even whole countries have given up their defense for reasons wholly evil. Worldliness, sinful pleasures and personal ungodliness have often been the cause of the churchs disgraceful surrender to the enemy. Today, however, Satans strategy is different. Though […]

Recognizing Real Revival-A.W.Tozer

Recognizing Real Revival – A.W.Tozer There seems to be a notion abroad that if we talk enough and pray enough, revival will set in like a stock market boom or a winning streak on a baseball club. We appear to be waiting for some sweet chariot to swing low and carry us into the Big […]

Receiving Life Through the Book of Life-A.W.Tozer

Receiving Life Through the Book of Life – A.W.Tozer Volumes could be written in praise of the Holy Bible without using one word too many. President Woodrow Wilson once said that the Bible is a book of such importance that no one unacquainted with it can be said to be an educated man, and one […]

Real Worship-A.W.Tozer

Real Worship – A.W.Tozer If you do not have this fascination, it could be that you are but another Esau. What a tragedy to be born of the red clay and live and die and be buried in the red clay. Shakespeare said of Caesar, “That though he be the emperor yet give nature time […]

Reading that Incites Thinking-A.W.Tozer

Reading that Incites Thinking – A.W.Tozer When the noted scholar Dr. Samuel Johnson visited the king, the two sat for a while before the fire in silence. Then the king said, “I suppose, Dr. Johnson, that you read a great deal.” “Yes, Sire,” replied Johnson, “but I think a great deal more.” One of the […]

Read or Get Out of the Ministry-A.W.Tozer

Read or Get Out of the Ministry – A.W.Tozer A wise man will hear and increase learning, and a man of understanding will attain wise counsel. –Proverbs 1:5 When a very young minister, I asked the famous holiness preacher, Joseph H. Smith, whether he would recommend that I read widely in the secular field. He […]

Radical Conversion-A.W.Tozer

Radical Conversion – A.W.Tozer Let a man but become, as the early Methodists would have said, soundly converted, and certain things will begin to happen in his life. He will experience a wonderful unification of personality and a turning about of the whole life toward God and heavenly things. Though he will undoubtedly suffer from […]

Radical Adjustment to the Jesus Way-A.W.Tozer

Radical Adjustment to the Jesus Way – A.W.Tozer . . . The truth is that the world does not know where it is going; it has not found life’s summum bonum; it is not qualified as a model for the members of society to follow. It is instead puzzled, frightened and frustrated. Generation follows generation […]

Quiet Zeal-A.W.Tozer

Quiet Zeal – A.W.Tozer There are a certain number of persons that cannot rest until they are making a great noise and stirring up a world of dust. Their temperament demands that they be always burnt up about something. Their type of mind forbids that they let their friends and neighbors alone until they have […]

QUESTIONS WE ASK-A.W.Tozer

QUESTIONS WE ASK – A.W.Tozer I am convinced that anyone who brings up the question of consequences in the Christian life is only a mediocre and common Christian! I have known some who were interested in the deeper life, but began asking questions: “What will it cost me-in terms of time, in money, in effort, […]

Pythagorus Three Classes of Humanity-A.W.Tozer

Pythagorus Three Classes of Humanity – A.W.Tozer The Greek philosopher Pythagoras is said to have divided men into three classes: 1. Seekers after knowledge. 2. Seekers after honor. 3. Seekers after gain. It would be interesting if not too edifying to look for Pythagoras three classes in modern society. 1. Seekers after knowledge. These are […]

Putting Up With the Weaknesses of Others-A.W.Tozer

Putting Up With the Weaknesses of Others – A.W.Tozer The Apostle Paul wrote, “We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves” (Romans 15:1). He thus plainly accepts the fact that there will be infirm persons among the believing members of the spiritual community we call […]

Pursuing Truth-A.W.Tozer

Pursuing Truth – A.W.Tozer One of the great religious thinkers of this century has pointed out a strange contradiction in the mental attitude of our times–our eager love of knowledge and our universal neglect of truth. That men love knowledge is too well demonstrated to need proof, if by knowledge we mean facts, know-how, statistics, […]

Purity of Heart-A.W.Tozer

Purity of Heart – A.W.Tozer On our farm in Pennsylvania there were cherry trees which were attacked by little parasites of some sort. A parasite would get into a little branch, pierce the bark and exude a gum. Then the branch would get a knot on it and bend. All over the trees were those […]

Purifying Conceptions of God-A.W.Tozer

Purifying Conceptions of God – A.W.Tozer . . . if superstition dishonors God, is it not an evil thing and is not the Christian who harbors it guilty of serious sin against the Majesty in the heavens? The answer to these questions is not as pat as we could desire it to be. An unqualified […]

Public Reading of Scripture-A.W.Tozer

Public Reading of Scripture – A.W.Tozer Til I come, give attention to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. –1 Timothy 4:13 Of course we of this generation cannot know by firsthand experience how the Word of God was read in other times. But it would be hard to conceive of our fathers having done a poorer […]

Public Bible-Reading as Part of Worship-A.W.Tozer

Public Bible-Reading as Part of Worship – A.W.Tozer To read the Bible well in public we must first love it. The voice, if it is free, unconsciously follows the emotional tone. Reverence cannot be simulated. No one who does not feel the deep solemnity of the Holy Word can properly express it. God will not […]

Protesting Protestants-A.W.Tozer

Protesting Protestants – A.W.Tozer Our church is going to go the way of the gospel. We are not radicals nor fools. We do not fast 40 days. We dress like other people, drive vehicles and have modern homes. We are human and like to laugh. But we believe that God Almighty has not changed and […]

Prosperous, Comfortable and Spiritually Bored-A.W.Tozer

Prosperous, Comfortable and Spiritually Bored – A.W.Tozer The evangelical Christian need make no apology for his beliefs. They are in direct lineal descent from those of the apostles. He can check the tenets of his total creed against the life giving, transforming beliefs of church fathers both East and West, reformers, mystics, missionaries, saints and […]

Prophetic Preaching-A.W.Tozer

Prophetic Preaching – A.W.Tozer If Christianity is to receive a rejuvenation, it must be by other means than any now being used. If the Church in the second half of this century is to recover from the injuries she suffered in the first half, there must appear a new type of preacher. The proper, ruler-of-the-synagogue […]

Prophetic Preachers-A.W.Tozer

Prophetic Preachers – A.W.Tozer Of the sons of Issachar who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, their chiefs were two hundred…. –1 Chronicles 12:32 A prophet is one who knows his times and what God is trying to say to the people of his times…. Today we need prophetic […]

PROBLEMS AND PRESSURES-A.W.Tozer

PROBLEMS AND PRESSURES – A.W.Tozer Jesus did not promise any of us that consistent Christian living would be easy! He did not promise a release from daily problems and pressures. He did not promise to take us to our heavenly home on a fluffy pink cloud! We live our lives in the knowledge of the […]

Priceless Exchange-A.W.Tozer

Priceless Exchange – A.W.Tozer A great preacher whom I heard a few years ago said that the word “renew” in Isaiah 40:31 really meant “exchange”; so the text should read, “They that wait upon the Lord shall exchange their strength.” Oddly enough I do not now remember how he developed his sermon or just how […]

Prevailing Prayer-A.W.Tozer

Prevailing Prayer – A.W.Tozer It is written that Christ died for our sins, and again it is written that “if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins” (1 John 1:9). These two texts are written of the same company of persons, namely Christians. We dare not compel the […]

Pressing toward the Goal Ahead-A.W.Tozer

Pressing toward the Goal Ahead – A.W.Tozer We are not called to fellowship with nonexistence. We are called to things that exist in truth, to positive things, and it is as we become occupied with these that health comes to the soul. Spiritual life cannot feed on negatives. The man who is constantly reciting the […]

Pressing On! 2-A.W.Tozer

Pressing On! 2 – A.W.Tozer Once while listening to a man reproach, disparage and scold an assembly of Christians with whom he was only slightly acquainted and whose personal lives he had no way of appraising, I asked myself some questions, the answers to which up to this point I have not received. Since they […]

Pressing On-A.W.Tozer

Pressing On – A.W.Tozer The rapidity with which improvement is made in the life will depend altogether upon the degree of self-criticism we bring to our prayers and to the school of daily living. Let a man fall under the delusion that he has arrived, and all progress is stopped until he has seen his […]

Preparing Now for Then-A.W.Tozer

Preparing Now for Then – A.W.Tozer . . . the Lord may soon return. I realize there is a lot that we do not know about prophecy, but most Christians are looking for the second coming of the Lord. They expect Him to come. They do not know when He will come, and the ones […]

Preaching the Word-A.W.Tozer

Preaching the Word – A.W.Tozer Again, the Christian minister must have a word from God for the teen-aged, the middle-aged and the very aged. He must speak to the scholar as well as to the ignorant; he must bring the living Word to the cultured man and woman and to the vulgarian who reads nothing […]

Preachers Without Power-A.W.Tozer

Preachers Without Power – A.W.Tozer Now the purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith, from which some, having strayed, have turned aside to idle talk, desiring to be teachers of the law, understanding neither what they say nor the things which they affirm. –1 […]

PREACH A WHOLE CHRIST-A.W.Tozer

PREACH A WHOLE CHRIST – A.W.Tozer I reject the human insistence among us that Christ may sustain a divided relationship toward us in this life. I am aware that this is now so commonly preached that to oppose it or object to it means that you are sticking your neck out and you had best […]

Praying Women-A.W.Tozer

Praying Women – A.W.Tozer It might be a humbling experience for some of us men to be allowed to see just how much of lasting spiritual value is being done by the women of the churches. As in the days of His flesh, Christ still has devout women who follow Him gladly and minister unto […]

Praying That Is Praying-A.W.Tozer

Praying That Is Praying – A.W.Tozer Juliana of Norwich at the beginning of her wonderful Christian life addressed a prayer to her Savior and then added the wise words, “And this I ask without any condition.” It was that last sentence that gave power to the rest of her prayer and brought the answer in […]

PRAYERS: TOO LATE-A.W.Tozer

PRAYERS: TOO LATE – A.W.Tozer John, in the sixth of Revelation, describes the most tragic, unavailing prayer meeting in the world’s history! Cries and groans, shouts and demands, moans and whisper – all will be heard in that coming Day of the Lord when the forces of judgment are released. Even the mountains and the […]

Prayerful Digestion of God’s Word-A.W.Tozer

Prayerful Digestion of God’s Word – A.W.Tozer How then shall unbelief be cured and faith be strengthened? Surely not by straining to believe the Scriptures, as some do. Not by a frantic effort to believe the promises of God. Not by gritting our teeth and determining to exercise faith by an act of the will. […]

PRAYER OF A SERVANT-A.W.Tozer

PRAYER OF A SERVANT – A.W.Tozer Lord, I have heard Thy voice and was afraid. Thou hast called me to an awesome task in a grave and perilous hour. Thou art about to shake all nations and the earth and also heaven, that the things that cannot be shaken may remain. Lord my Lord, Thou […]

Prayer is No Substitute for Obedience-A.W.Tozer

Prayer is No Substitute for Obedience – A.W.Tozer Granted that the man who seeks revival has stopped thinking in plurals and has narrowed his faith down to one single individual, himself, what then? How can he find that after which his soul is yearning? How can he cooperate with his hungers to the end that […]

PRAYER FOR ANOINTING-A.W.Tozer

PRAYER FOR ANOINTING – A.W.Tozer It is time, 0 God, for Thee to work, for the enemy has entered into Thy pasture, and the sheep are torn and scattered. False shepherds abound who deny the danger and laugh at the perils which surround Thy flock. Lord Jesus, I come to Thee for spiritual preparation. Lay […]

Prayer Changes the Man-A.W.Tozer

Prayer Changes the Man – A.W.Tozer And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in My name, I will do it. –John 14:13-14 In all our praying, however, it is important that we keep in mind that God will […]

Prayer and Faith-A.W.Tozer

Prayer and Faith – A.W.Tozer It is . . . critically important that the Christian take full advantage of every provision God has made to save him from delusion. These are prayer, faith, constant meditation on the Scriptures, obedience, humility, hard, serious thought and the illumination of the Holy Spirit. 1. Prayer is not a […]

Pray Without Ceasing-A.W.Tozer

Pray Without Ceasing – A.W.Tozer Pray without ceasing. –1 Thessalonians 5:17 I knew of an able preacher greatly used of the Lord in evangelism and Bible conferences. He was a busy, busy man. There came the occasion when someone frankly asked him, “Doctor, tell us about your prayer life. How do you pray? How much […]

Pray Till You Pray-A.W.Tozer

Pray Till You Pray – A.W.Tozer Continue earnestly in prayer, being vigilant in it with thanksgiving. –Colossians 4:2 Dr. Moody Stuart, a great praying man of a past generation, once drew up a set of rules to guide him in his prayers. Among these rules is this one: “Pray till you pray.”… The habit of […]

Praise Reporters-A.W.Tozer

Praise Reporters – A.W.Tozer The irrepressible urge to share spiritual blessings can explain a great many religious phenomena. It even goes so far as to create a kind of vicarious transfer of interest from one person to another, so that the blessed soul would if necessary give up its own blessing that another might receive. […]

PRACTICING THE TRUTH-A.W.Tozer

PRACTICING THE TRUTH – A.W.Tozer Christians habitually weep and pray over beautiful truth, only to draw back from that same truth when it comes to the difficult job of putting it into practice! Actually, the average church simply does not dare to check its practices against biblical precepts. It tolerates things that are diametrically opposed […]

POWER OF THE CROSS-A.W.Tozer

POWER OF THE CROSS – A.W.Tozer Only a person with a perfect knowledge of mankind could have dared to set forth the terms of discipleship that our Lord Jesus Christ expects of His followers. Only the Lord of men could have risked the effect of such rigorous demands: “Let him deny himself!” Can the Lord […]

POUR YOURSELF OUT-A.W.Tozer

POUR YOURSELF OUT – A.W.Tozer Science declares that nature abhors a vacuum. It should be happy knowledge to us, then, that the same principle is true in the kingdom of God-when you empty yourself, God Almighty rushes in! The Creator God who fills the universe and overflows into immensity can never be surrounded by that […]

POSTPONING OBEDIENCE-A.W.Tozer

POSTPONING OBEDIENCE – A.W.Tozer A notable heresy has come into being throughout our evangelical Christian circle-the widely accepted concept that we humans can choose to accept Christ only because we need Him as Savior, and that we have the right to postpone our obedience to Him as long as we want to! The truth is […]

Pleasing Meditation-A.W.Tozer

Pleasing Meditation – A.W.Tozer The worldly man can never rest. He must have ?somewhere to go?? and ?something to do.? This is a result of the fall, a symptom of a deep-lying disease, yet a blind religious leadership caters to this terrible restlessness instead of trying to cure it by the Word and the Spirit. […]

Please Pray for Me-A.W.Tozer

Please Pray for Me – A.W.Tozer I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all […]

PLAYING AT RELIGION-A.W.Tozer

PLAYING AT RELIGION – A.W.Tozer When our faith becomes obedience to our Savior, then it is true faith, indeed! The difficulty we modem Christians face is not misunderstanding the Bible, but persuading our untamed hearts to accept its plain instruction. Our problem is to get the consent of our world-loving minds to make Jesus Lord […]

Peter: the Rock that Sank-A.W.Tozer

Peter: the Rock that Sank – A.W.Tozer Peter contained or has been accidentally associated with more contradictions than almost any other Bible character. He appeared to be a combination of courage and cowardice, reverence and disrespect, selfless devotion and dangerous self-love. Only Peter could solemnly swear that he would never desert Christ and then turn […]

Personally Weak but Strong in Him-A.W.Tozer

Personally Weak but Strong in Him – A.W.Tozer After the exchange of sin for righteousness is that of wrath for acceptance. Then comes the exchange of death for life. Christ died for dead men that they might rise to be living men. Paul’s happy if somewhat involved testimony makes this clear: “I am crucified with […]

Personal Responsibility for Revival-A.W.Tozer

Personal Responsibility for Revival – A.W.Tozer That “glorious band, the chosen few, on whom the Spirit came” at Pentecost, were not wraiths nor were they composed of an extract of pure humanity dwelling on another plane. They were people. The names of some of them are listed by the Holy Spirit. Though it did not […]

Personal Identity-A.W.Tozer

Personal Identity – A.W.Tozer Let no one despise your youth, but be an example to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity. –1 Timothy 4:12 This problem of personal identity not infrequently troubles the faithful minister. The congregation has called him as their pastor and teacher, but the […]

Personal Holiness-A.W.Tozer

Personal Holiness – A.W.Tozer But as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, “Be holy, for I am holy.” –1 Peter 1:15-16 You cannot study the Bible diligently and earnestly without being struck by an obvious fact–the whole matter of personal holiness is highly […]

Personal Feeding on God’s Word-A.W.Tozer

Personal Feeding on God’s Word – A.W.Tozer Oh, how I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day. –Psalm 119:97 I remember James M. Gray, the noted Bible teacher, telling of a Christian brother, a Michigan farmer, whose spiritual life had suddenly blossomed until there was an overflowing of God’s presence. Many in […]

Personal Discipline-A.W.Tozer

Personal Discipline – A.W.Tozer Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it. And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we […]

Personal Creed in Development-A.W.Tozer

Personal Creed in Development – A.W.Tozer Preaching Christ is generally, and correctly, held to be the purest, noblest ministry in which any man can engage; but preaching Christ includes a great deal more than talking about Christ in superlatives. It means more than giving vent to the religious love the speaker feels for the Person […]

Personal Commitment to Growth-A.W.Tozer

Personal Commitment to Growth – A.W.Tozer There comes a time when the true believer must take his stand on the oath and covenant of God and refuse to be shaken. He must lift high his happy affirmation, not in arrogance, but in faith and in deep humility. Perhaps his declaration of independence will go something […]

Persistence in Going On-A.W.Tozer

Persistence in Going On – A.W.Tozer Israel allowed themselves to settle down and became contented with circumstances that were all right, but which could and did break their spirit of adventure and cause them to accept the status quo as being final for them. Every once in a while through prophet, apostle or psalmist, God […]

Perpetual Spiritual Infancy-A.W.Tozer

Perpetual Spiritual Infancy – A.W.Tozer For some reason, religious activity and godliness do not always go together. To discover this, it is only necessary to observe the current religious scene. There is no lack of soul-winning effort surely, but many of the soul-winners give one the impression that they are little more than salesmen for […]

People Follow Leaders-A.W.Tozer

People Follow Leaders – A.W.Tozer Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ. –1 Corinthians 11:1 The history of Israel and Judah points up a truth taught clearly enough by all history, viz., that the masses are or soon will be what their leaders are. The kings set the moral pace for the people…. Whatever […]

People Are What They Think About -A.W.Tozer

People Are What They Think About – A.W.Tozer Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life. –Proverbs 4:23 Every person is really what he or she secretly admires. If I can learn what you admire, I will know what you are, for people are what they think about […]

Overflowing Hope-A.W.Tozer

Overflowing Hope – A.W.Tozer So strong, so beautiful is hope that it is scarcely possible to overpraise it. It is the divine alchemy that transmutes the base metal of adversity into gold. In the midst of death Paul could be bold and buoyant because he had firm confidence in the final outcome. “For we who […]

Overcome Distractions-A.W.Tozer

Overcome Distractions – A.W.Tozer But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. –Matthew 6:6 Among the enemies to devotion none is so harmful as distractions. Whatever […]

OUR WILLS MUST SURRENDER-A.W.Tozer

OUR WILLS MUST SURRENDER – A.W.Tozer The Christian doctrine of obedience to God and to His will is now largely neglected in modern religious circles, and many in our own congregations seem to feel that our obligation to obey has been discharged by the act of believing on Jesus Christ at the beginning of our […]

Our Ultimate Teacher-A.W.Tozer

Our Ultimate Teacher – A.W.Tozer When we think about spiritual things there is always danger that we think like men instead of like God. Theological truth cannot enter the mind as a separate substance or as an experience complete in itself. It must be grasped by the mind in an act of response; and the […]

Our Ultimate Care-Giver-A.W.Tozer

Our Ultimate Care-Giver – A.W.Tozer Unnecessary burdens are crushing the life out of people every day. Mental institutions are overflowing and psychiatrists are doing a rushing business because the burden of living is getting to be more than we can bear. Civilization has not made our lot easier except in things pertaining to the body; […]

Our Tragic Waste of Time-A.W.Tozer

Our Tragic Waste of Time – A.W.Tozer One thing taught large in the Holy Scriptures is that while God gives His gifts freely, He will require a strict accounting of them at the end of the road. Each man is personally responsible for his store, be it large or small, and will be required to […]

Our MOST CRITICAL NEED-A.W.Tozer

Our MOST CRITICAL NEED – A.W.Tozer THE MOST CRITICAL NEED of the Church at this moment is men – the right kind of men, bold men. The talk is that we need revival, that we need a new baptism of the Holy Spirit – and God knows we must have both – but God will […]

Our Model Intercessor-A.W.Tozer

Our Model Intercessor – A.W.Tozer Two other considerations may help us here. One is that our Lord did on at least one occasion pray for sinners. “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing,” was a request made to God on behalf of evil men. Is it not reasonable that if […]

OUR LIFE IS IN CHRIST-A.W.Tozer

OUR LIFE IS IN CHRIST – A.W.Tozer Certainly not all of the mystery of the Godhead can be known by man-but just as certainly, all that men can know of God in this life is revealed in Jesus Christ! When the Apostle Paul said with yearning, “That I may know Him,” he was not speaking […]

Our Infinite Worth in Christ-A.W.Tozer

Our Infinite Worth in Christ – A.W.Tozer No matter how insignificant he may have been before, a man becomes significant the moment he has had an encounter with the Son of God. When the Lord lays His hand upon a man, that man ceases at once to be ordinary. He immediately becomes extraordinary, and his […]

OUR INDIVIDUAL WORTH-A.W.Tozer

OUR INDIVIDUAL WORTH – A.W.Tozer Our lost race has always been prone to discount and reject the wonderful fact of the individual factor in the love of God. Far, far too many men and women in this world are convinced that God’s love for the world is just one big lump – and the individual […]

OUR HIGHEST HAPPINESS-A.W.Tozer

OUR HIGHEST HAPPINESS – A.W.Tozer Let me call it to your attention that the happiness of all moral creatures lies in the giving of obedience to God, the Creator. The psalmist cries out in Psalm 103:20: “Bless the Lord, ye his angels; that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of […]

Our Grit and God’s Grace-A.W.Tozer

Our Grit and God’s Grace – A.W.Tozer I am cheered to know so many of you are with me on this. We are going to go to the New Testament and be Bible Christians. We are going to sell out to God and not the devil. We are going to pray more, read our Bible […]

OUR GOD: ALL SUFFICIENT-A.W.Tozer

OUR GOD: ALL SUFFICIENT – A.W.Tozer Have we modern men and women never given thought or meditation concerning the eternal nature of God? Who are we to imagine that we are “bailing out” the living God when we drop a $10 bill in the Sunday offering plate? Let us thank God for the reality of […]

OUR FUTURE REWARDS-A.W.Tozer

OUR FUTURE REWARDS – A.W.Tozer Our motives in the Christian life should be both right and genuine. God is the Faithful One. We are to love Him and serve Him because He is God-not because of the gracious things He does for us or for the rewards He promises us! However, it should be said […]

Our First Responsibility-A.W.Tozer

Our First Responsibility – A.W.Tozer I rise before the dawning of the morning, and cry for help; I hope in Your word. My eyes are awake through the night watches, that I may meditate on Your word. -Psalm 119:147-148 Briefly, the way to escape religion as a front is to make it a fount. See […]

Our Fear of Emotions-A.W.Tozer

Our Fear of Emotions – A.W.Tozer So he, leaping up, stood and walked and entered the temple with them– walking, leaping, and praising God. –Acts 3:8 One cause of the decline in the quality of religious experience among Christians these days is the neglect of the doctrine of the inward witness. Stamping our feet to […]

Our Faith Reflects Our Concept of God-A.W.Tozer

Our Faith Reflects Our Concept of God – A.W.Tozer All things else being equal, the destiny of a man or nation may safely be predicted from the idea of God which that man or that nation holds. No nation can rise higher than its conception of God. While Rome held to her faith in the […]

Our Ever Living Intercessor-A.W.Tozer

Our Ever Living Intercessor – A.W.Tozer Christ in His high priestly prayer specifically states, “I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me” (John 17:9). That is what He said; it only remains to learn by reverent comparison with other Scripture just what the words mean. To insist that by […]

OUR CHARTER IS FROM GOD-A.W.Tozer

OUR CHARTER IS FROM GOD – A.W.Tozer While we are right to thank God in appreciation for all of the great and good men in the history of the Christian church, we actually “follow” none of them. Our charter goes farther back and is from a higher source. They were rightly looked upon as leaders, […]

On Pursuing Quality-A.W.Tozer

On Pursuing Quality – A.W.Tozer The emphasis today in Christian circles appears to be on quantity, with a corresponding lack of emphasis on quality. Numbers, size and amount seem to be very nearly all that matters even among evangelicals. The size of the crowd, the number of converts, the size of the budget, the amount […]

On Knowing the Will of God-A.W.Tozer

On Knowing the Will of God – A.W.Tozer One of the problems most frequently encountered by serious-minded Christians is how to discover the will of God in a given situation. This is not a small matter. To countless thousands of Christians it is vitally important. Their peace of heart depends upon knowing that God is […]

On Being Trustworthy Investors-A.W.Tozer

On Being Trustworthy Investors – A.W.Tozer To each of us God has issued a certain store as it has pleased Him: to one more, to another less. And since God owes us nothing, anything He gives us may be put down to His unearned generosity. The man with a smaller store dare not complain against […]

On Being Seekers and Servers of God-A.W.Tozer

On Being Seekers and Servers of God – A.W.Tozer Sins of great magnitude may indicate an energy of soul which if turned in a right direction can lead far up the way toward spiritual perfection. Conversely, there is a meanness of soul that inhibits and restricts the scope and intensity of even the most common […]

On Being Men and Women of God-A.W.Tozer

On Being Men and Women of God – A.W.Tozer “Your calling,” said Meister Eckhart to the clergy of his day, “cannot make you holy; but you can make it holy.” No matter how humble that calling may be, a holy man can make it a holy calling. A call to the ministry is not a […]

On Being Inwardly Christian-A.W.Tozer

On Being Inwardly Christian – A.W.Tozer Fellowship, committees and clubs are all right under the right circumstances, but this kind of an answer to that kind of a problem presupposes that those who give the answer have misuderstood the problem. There are three things they misunderstand. First, they misunderstand the nature of Christian faith. Christian […]

On Being Different -A.W.Tozer

On Being Different – A.W.Tozer The Church’s mightiest influence is felt when she is different from the world in which she lives. Her power lies in her being different, rises with the degree in which she differs and sinks as the difference diminishes. This is so fully and clearly taught in the Scriptures and so […]

On Being Church-A.W.Tozer

On Being Church – A.W.Tozer First, they misunderstand the nature of Christian faith. . . . Second, they misunderstand the nature of the church. You see, the church is a body of individuals united in Christ but having separate individual responsibilites. Thus the body is improved only as we improve the individuals that compose the […]

On Becoming More Lovable-A.W.Tozer

On Becoming More Lovable – A.W.Tozer God desires that all men should become Christlike, for in so doing they present larger and more perfect objects for the reception of His outpoured love. Conformity to the nature of Christ on the part of a redeemed man restores the image of God in the soul and thus […]

Oh!-A.W.Tozer

Oh! – A.W.Tozer Then said I: “Ah, Lord God! Behold, I cannot speak, for I am a youth.” –Jeremiah 1:6 To be articulate at certain times we are compelled to fall back upon “Oh!” or “O!”–a primitive exclamatory sound that is hardly a word at all and that scarcely admits of a definition…. In theology […]

OCCUPIED WITH PRAISE-A.W.Tozer

OCCUPIED WITH PRAISE – A.W.Tozer It is surely an erroneous supposition for humans to think or to believe that death will transform our attitude and dispositions. This is what I mean: if in this life we are not really comfortable talking and singing about heaven and its joy, I doubt that death will transform us […]

Obeying God-A.W.Tozer

Obeying God – A.W.Tozer The second question is: How many are worthy to hear His voice? In Acts 13:46b Paul and Barnabas told the people, “Since you reject it . . . we now turn to the Gentiles.” This is a terrible judgment. But here is the gist of what I want to say: A […]

NOTHING BUT SWEETNESS-A.W.Tozer

NOTHING BUT SWEETNESS – A.W.Tozer Let me caution you about the attitudes of some of the bubbly “happy! happy!” people in our congregations who will insist that the Word of God can never be anything but honey sweet! Fellow believers, when we digest, absorb and soak up the Word of the Lord, it becomes part […]

Not Asking for Anything-A.W.Tozer

Not Asking for Anything – A.W.Tozer I love the Lord, because He has heard my voice and my supplications. Because He has inclined His ear to me, therefore I will call upon Him as long as I live. –Psalm 116:1-2 I think that some of the greatest prayer is prayer where you don’t say one […]

NORMAL-OR NOMINAL?-A.W.Tozer

NORMAL-OR NOMINAL? – A.W.Tozer Is the Lord Jesus Christ your most precious treasure in the whole world? If so, count yourself among “normal” Christians, rather than among “nominal” Christians! My old dictionary gives this definition as the meaning of nominal: Existing in name only, not real or actual; hence so small, slight, as to be […]

No Turning Back-A.W.Tozer

No Turning Back – A.W.Tozer With large blocks of evangelicals praying and preaching like Christians while they live and talk like worldlings, how much longer may we expect them to remain evangelical? Apostasy always begins with the conduct. First there is a wrong orientation of the life, a facing toward the lost world with yearning […]

NO ONE CHANGES GOD’S LAW-A.W.Tozer

NO ONE CHANGES GOD’S LAW – A.W.Tozer Because we live in a period known as the age of God’s grace, it has become a popular thing to declare that the Ten Commandments are no longer valid, no longer relevant in our society. With that context, it has become apparent that Christian churches are not paying […]

No Morality Without God-A.W.Tozer

No Morality Without God – A.W.Tozer It has always seemed to me completely inconsistent that existentialism should deny the existence of God and then proceed to use the language of theism to persuade men to live right. The French writer, Jean-Paul Sartre, for instance, states frankly that he represents atheistic existentialism. ?If God does not […]

No Looking Back-A.W.Tozer

No Looking Back – A.W.Tozer There is an art of forgetting, and every Christian should become skilled in it. Forgetting the things which are behind is a positive necessity if we are to become more than mere babes in Christ. If we cannot trust God to have dealt effectually with our past we may as […]

No Light Without the Divine Enlightener-A.W.Tozer

No Light Without the Divine Enlightener – A.W.Tozer However unpopular we may become as a result, we must cling to the knowledge that all men are heretics by nature and can never know redeeming truth till they are enlightened from above by and through the inspired revelation we call the Scriptures. We are never kind […]

NEW TESTAMENT ROOTS-A.W.Tozer

NEW TESTAMENT ROOTS – A.W.Tozer It is really a blessed thing in our Christian fellowship and in our congregations that God never asks whether it is a big church or a little church! A young pastor, when introduced to a well-known church leader, said, “You do not know me. I am the pastor of a […]

New Testament Christianity and Ours-A.W.Tozer

New Testament Christianity and Ours – A.W.Tozer The cross is a symbol of the selfless, others-centered life of Christ, but it does not end there. Our Lord made it also a symbol of the normal Christian life. If any man will come after me, He said, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, […]

MYSTICISM PLUS THEOLOGY 2-A.W.Tozer

MYSTICISM PLUS THEOLOGY 2 – A.W.Tozer Christian preachers and ministers ought to acknowledge, publicly and with humility, their great indebtedness to the apostles John and Paul. Study the Gospel of John and you will concur with me that John is surely the mystic of the New Testament! Explore the epistles of the Apostle Paul and […]

MYSTICISM PLUS THEOLOGY-A.W.Tozer

MYSTICISM PLUS THEOLOGY – A.W.Tozer Christian preachers and ministers ought to acknowledge, publicly and with humility, their great indebtedness to the apostles John and Paul. Study the Gospel of John and you will concur with me that John is surely the mystic of the New Testament! Explore the epistles of the Apostle Paul and you […]

Much Every Way-A.W.Tozer

Much Every Way – A.W.Tozer Ah, Lord God! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for You. –Jeremiah 32:17 When Tennyson wrote “More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of,” he probably uttered a truth of vaster significance […]

MORE THAN RELIGION-A.W.Tozer

MORE THAN RELIGION – A.W.Tozer Contrary to much that is being said and practiced in churches, true worship is not something that we “do” in the hope of appearing to be religious! True worship must be a constant and consistent attitude or state of mind within the believer, a sustained and blessed acknowledgement of love […]

MORE THAN PARDON-A.W.Tozer

MORE THAN PARDON – A.W.Tozer It is a fact that the New Testament message of good news, “Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures,” embraces a great deal more than an offer of free pardon. Surely it is a message of pardon-and for that may God be praised-but it is also a message […]

MORE THAN A NAME-A.W.Tozer

MORE THAN A NAME – A.W.Tozer There have always been professing Christians who argue and insist: “I am all right-I worship in the name of Jesus.” They seem to believe that worship of God is based on a formula. They seem to think there is a kind of magic in saying the name of Jesus! […]

Moratorium on Activity-A.W.Tozer

Moratorium on Activity – A.W.Tozer Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my anxieties; and see if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. –Psalm 139:23-24 I suppose my suggestion will not receive much serious attention, but I should like to suggest that […]

Moral Sleep-A.W.Tozer

Moral Sleep – A.W.Tozer My aim is to awaken some from the rut. I know it is impossible to awaken everybody, but I hope to awaken some. I use the word awaken here advisedly and carefully because the Bible contains significant teaching gathered around the word sleep. There is first of all natural sleep. “He […]

Moral Physicians-A.W.Tozer

Moral Physicians – A.W.Tozer In the previous chapter I said that truth should not be passed out indiscriminately, but suited to the circumstances and needs of the hearers. From the prophets we learn this and from the apostles, as well as from our Lord Himself. These were never bound by a mechanical religious ?curriculum? which […]

MORAL DETERMINATION-A.W.Tozer

MORAL DETERMINATION – A.W.Tozer Though we do not have much of it in this age of spineless religion, there is nevertheless much in the Bible about the place of moral determination in the service of the Lord. The Old Testament tells us that “Jacob vowed a vow,” and Daniel “purposed in his heart.” Paul determined […]

MONEY IS NOT TRUTH-A.W.Tozer

MONEY IS NOT TRUTH – A.W.Tozer It is a fact in human history that men and women have never in any great numbers sought after truth. The young people who stream from our halls of learning each year confess to having no more than a passing and academic interest in truth. The majority admit that […]

Model Christians-A.W.Tozer

Model Christians – A.W.Tozer Then there is the removal of faults and abuses. Where are the faults and abuses? Look around at the religious scene and you will see the faults, the abuses and the desperate need for change. Where are the model saints? We ought to be raising model saints, the kind Christians could […]

MISUSING THE BIBLE-A.W.Tozer

MISUSING THE BIBLE – A.W.Tozer I believe that everything in the Bible is true, but to attempt to make the Bible a textbook for science is to misunderstand it completely and tragically! It has become a fairly popular practice for Bible teachers to claim to find in the Scriptures confirmation of almost every recent discovery […]

Misunderstood Salt-A.W.Tozer

Misunderstood Salt – A.W.Tozer For choosing God as our one all absorbing interest we Christians are sometimes scorned or written off as hopelessly narrow-minded. But must we apologize? Must we apologize that we have chosen Christ as our career? That we deliberately will to walk with those who walk with God? That we have chosen […]

Mistaking Word for Deed-A.W.Tozer

Mistaking Word for Deed – A.W.Tozer The genuine philosopher, Epictetus used to say, was not one who had read Chrysippus and Diogenes and so could discourse learnedly on the teachings of these men, but one who had put their teachings into practice. Nothing else would satisfy him. He refused to call any man a philosopher […]

Mistaking Effect for Cause-A.W.Tozer

Mistaking Effect for Cause – A.W.Tozer No matter how sincere they may be, ministers without discernment are sure to err. Their conclusions are inevitably false because their reasoning is mechanical and without inspiration. I hear their error in our pulpits and read it in our religious periodicals; and it all sounds alike: revived churches engage […]

Misreading God’s Self-Revelation-A.W.Tozer

Misreading God’s Self-Revelation – A.W.Tozer We are all heretics by nature and take to error as instinctively as ducks take to water. This does not mean that natural theology is wholly false, for the heavens declare the glory of God and the visible universe shows His eternal power and Godhead. Add to these the presence […]

Misinformed Zeal-A.W.Tozer

Misinformed Zeal – A.W.Tozer Zeal, according to Webster, means ardor in the pursuit of anything; ardent and active interest; enthusiasm; fervor. Surely this should describe a Christian, and the better the Christian the more accurately it should apply. The devout soul should and will be fervent. He will pursue the things of God actively and […]

Mired in the “Rote” -A.W.Tozer

Mired in the “Rote” – A.W.Tozer . . . Everybody knows just what will happen, and this has become our deadliest enemy. We blame the devil, the “last days” and anything else we can think of, but the greatest enemy is not outside of us. It is within–it is an attitude of accepting things as […]

Ministry Qualifications -A.W.Tozer

Ministry Qualifications – A.W.Tozer Leadership requires vision, and whence will vision come except from hours spent in the presence of God in humble and fervent prayer? All things else being equal, a praying woman will know the will of God for the church far better than a prayerless man. We do not here advocate the […]

MINISTRY OF THE CHURCH-A.W.Tozer

MINISTRY OF THE CHURCH – A.W.Tozer Not all of the pooled efforts of any church can make a Christian out of a lost man! The Christian life begins with the individual; a soul has a saving encounter with God and the new life is born. All else being equal, every individual. Christian will find in […]

Ministry Methods-A.W.Tozer

Ministry Methods – A.W.Tozer Once the prophet, the apostle, the reformer, saw a vision or heard a voice, or in later times had an encounter with God through the holy Scriptures and went out firm and sure to declare the Word of the Lord. Now we watch the world to get our next cue and […]

Minds–Blind or Opened-A.W.Tozer

Minds–Blind or Opened – A.W.Tozer Until the full light of God?s inspired Word floods down upon the religious landscape, almost everything is obscure and indistinct. The finest minds see things that are not there and fail to see the things that are. This inability to make out the details is a frustrating thing to persons […]

Mighty Deeds and Empty Words-A.W.Tozer

Mighty Deeds and Empty Words – A.W.Tozer Again, that world-shaking event, the crucifixion of Christ, is stated in four words, “There they crucified him.” One shudders to think what fanfare and buildup such a stupendous event would require if written by the shallow novelists or dramatists of our day. To represent such a solemn event […]

MERCY: A BOUNDLESS SEA-A.W.Tozer

MERCY: A BOUNDLESS SEA – A.W.Tozer A human being is never really aware of the great boundless sea of the mercy of God until by faith he comes across the threshold of the kingdom of God and recognizes it and identifies it! My father was 60 years old when he bowed before Jesus Christ and […]

Men Who Do Not Pray-A.W.Tozer

Men Who Do Not Pray – A.W.Tozer Therefore, brethren, seek out from among you seven men of good reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. –Acts 6:3 Let us watch that we do not slide imperceptibly to a state where the women do the praying and the […]

Men of Prayer-A.W.Tozer

Men of Prayer – A.W.Tozer Prayer is not a work that can be allocated to one or another group in the church. it is everybody?s responsibility; it is everybody?s privilege. Prayer is the respiratory function of the church; without it we suffocate and die at last, like a living body deprived of the breath of […]

Memorization Priority-A.W.Tozer

Memorization Priority – A.W.Tozer Certain cultures have stressed memorization to a point where education consists largely in learning by rote a few of the classics. . . . About this two things may be said: One, that great skill in memorizing is found almost exclusively among peoples where books are scarce and where a certain […]

Membership in the Universal Church-A.W.Tozer

Membership in the Universal Church – A.W.Tozer Sometimes people come into the local church who have never come into the universal church. People join a church who have never been born into the true church. Some churches actually throw the doors open and say, “Now we’ll sing the closing hymn for those who want to […]

Meditate Long and Often-A.W.Tozer

Meditate Long and Often – A.W.Tozer I remember the days of old; I meditate on all Your works; I muse on the work of Your hands, I spread out my hands to You; my soul longs for You like a thirsty land. –Psalm 143:5-6 Among Christians of all ages and of varying shades of doctrinal […]

MEDIOCRE CHRISTIANITY-A.W.Tozer

MEDIOCRE CHRISTIANITY – A.W.Tozer Read your New Testament again and you will agree that mediocrity in the Christian life is not the highest that Jesus offers. Certainly God is not honored by our arrested spiritual development – our permanent half-way spiritual condition. We all know that the Bible tells us that we honor God by […]

Media Manipulation-A.W.Tozer

Media Manipulation – A.W.Tozer . . . advertising, at least in the United States, is the most powerful educational agent extant. Those who write the advertising copy probably do more to determine the way the average person thinks than the school and church combined. The reasons for this are two. One is that men may […]

Meaningless Words-A.W.Tozer

Meaningless Words – A.W.Tozer At the risk of shocking some tender-minded persons, I venture to list here a few words and phrases that to millions of evangelical Christians have no longer an identifiable content and are used merely as religious sounds without any relation to reality. They have meaning, and they are good and sacred […]

Mature Living 2-A.W.Tozer

Mature Living 2 – A.W.Tozer The absence of spiritual devotion today is an omen and a portent. The modern church is all but contemptuous of the sober virtues–meekness, modesty, humility, quietness, obedience, self-effacement, patience. To be accepted now, religion must be in the popular mood. Consequently, much religious activity reeks with pride, display, self-assertion, self-promotion, […]

Mature Living-A.W.Tozer

Mature Living – A.W.Tozer The absence of spiritual devotion today is an omen and a portent. The modern church is all but contemptuous of the sober virtues–meekness, modesty, humility, quietness, obedience, self-effacement, patience. To be accepted now, religion must be in the popular mood. Consequently, much religious activity reeks with pride, display, self-assertion, self-promotion, love […]

Mastering Our Medium-A.W.Tozer

Mastering Our Medium – A.W.Tozer God has honored human speech by using it as a medium through which to express His message of salvation, first in the inspired Scriptures and afterwards in a thousand languages and dialects among the nations of mankind. Language is the mighty organ upon which may be played the joyous oratorio […]

Marked by Christly Fragrance-A.W.Tozer

Marked by Christly Fragrance – A.W.Tozer I also long in the tender mercies of Christ that among us there may be the following: . . . 7. A presence of Christ that is as the fragrance of myrrh and aloes. When you become accustomed to the smell of His garments you will be spoiled for […]

Marching in Place-A.W.Tozer

Marching in Place – A.W.Tozer God in His conscending love and kindness often sends a Moses, or maybe a Joshua or an Isaiah, or in latter times a Luther or Wesley to show us that the work of the Lord is not progressing. Times are bad in the kingdom and getting worse. The tendency is […]

MAN’S WASTED POTENTIAL-A.W.Tozer

MAN’S WASTED POTENTIAL – A.W.Tozer God has made it plain that hell is a real place-a final abode for people who do not want to love God and serve Him! The sadness and the tragedy of this fact is that these are human beings, all dear to God because He created them in His own […]

MAN’S VIEW OF THIS WORLD-A.W.Tozer

MAN’S VIEW OF THIS WORLD – A.W.Tozer If you have ever given much thought to this present world in which we live, you have some idea of the power of interpretation. The world is a stable fact, quite unchanged by the passing of years, but how different is modern man’s view of the world from […]

MAN’S EMPTY PROMISES-A.W.Tozer

MAN’S EMPTY PROMISES – A.W.Tozer We have listened throughout our lifetime to the continuing promises of peace and progress made by the educators and the legislators and the scientists, but so far they have failed to make good on any of them. Perhaps it is an ironic thought that fallen men, though they cannot fulfill […]

MAN HAS LOST GOD-A.W.Tozer

MAN HAS LOST GOD – A.W.Tozer The average person in the world today, without faith and without God and without hope, is engaged in a desperate personal search and struggle throughout his lifetime. He does not really know what he is doing here. He does not know where he is going. The sad commentary is […]

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – Why People Find the Bible Difficult-A.W.Tozer

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – Why People Find the Bible Difficult – A.W.Tozer THAT MANY PERSONS FIND THE BIBLE HARD to understand will not be denied by those acquainted with the facts. Testimony to the difficulties encountered in Bible reading is too full and too widespread to be dismissed lightly. In human […]

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – What We Think of Ourselves Is Important-A.W.Tozer

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – What We Think of Ourselves Is Important – A.W.Tozer THE MAN WHO IS SERIOUSLY CONVINCED that he deserves to go to hell is not likely to go there, while the man who believes that he is worthy of heaven will certainly never enter that blessed place. I […]

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – What Men Live By-A.W.Tozer

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – What Men Live By – A.W.Tozer HUMAN LIFE HAS ITS CENTRAL CORE where lie the things men live by. These things are constant. They change not from age to age, but are the same among all races throughout the world always. Life also has its marginal zones […]

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – True Religion Is Not Feeling but Willing-A.W.Tozer

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – True Religion Is Not Feeling but Willing – A.W.Tozer ONE OF THE PUZZLING QUESTIONS likely to turn up sooner or later to vex the seeking Christian is how he can fulfill the scriptural command to love God with all his heart and his neighbor as himself. The […]

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – True Faith Is Active. Not Passive-A.W.Tozer

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – True Faith Is Active. Not Passive – A.W.Tozer A CHRISTIAN IS ONE WHO BELIEVES on Jesus Christ as Lord. With this statement every evangelical agrees. Indeed there would appear to be nothing else to do, since the New Testament is crystal clear about the matter. This first […]

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – Three Faithful Wounds-A.W.Tozer

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – Three Faithful Wounds – A.W.Tozer FAITHFUL ARE THE WOUNDS OF A FRIEND, says the Holy Spirit in Proverbs 27:6. And lest we imagine that the preacher is the one who does the wounding, I want to read Job 5:17 and 18: “Behold, happy is the man whom […]

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – Three Degrees of Religious Knowledge-A.W.Tozer

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – Three Degrees of Religious Knowledge – A.W.Tozer IN OUR KNOWLEDGE OF DIVINE THINGS three degrees may be distinguished: the knowledge furnished by reason, by faith and by spiritual experience respectively. These three degrees of knowledge correspond to the departments of the tabernacle in the ancient Levitical order: […]

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – There Is No Wisdom in Sin-A.W.Tozer

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – There Is No Wisdom in Sin – A.W.Tozer THE WORLD HAS DIVIDED MEN into two classes, the stupid good people and the clever wicked ones. This false classification runs through much of the literature of the last centuries from the classics to the comic strip, from Shakespeare’s […]

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – The Wrath of God: What Is It?-A.W.Tozer

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – The Wrath of God: What Is It? – A.W.Tozer IT IS RARE that there is anything good in human anger. Almost always it springs out of unholy states of heart, and frequently it leads to cursing and violence. The man of evil temper is unpredictable and dangerous […]

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – The Unknown Saints-A.W.Tozer

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – The Unknown Saints – A.W.Tozer WILLIAM WORDSWORTH IN A FINE PASSAGE states his belief that there are many more poets in the world than we suppose, “. . .men endowed with highest gifts, The vision and the faculty divine,” but who are unknown because they lacked or […]

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – The Sanctification of the Secular-A.W.Tozer

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – The Sanctification of the Secular – A.W.Tozer THE NEW TESTAMENT TEACHES that all things are pure to the pure, and I think we may assume that to the evil man all things are evil. The thing itself is not good or bad; goodness or badness belongs to […]

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – The Saint Must Walk Alone-A.W.Tozer

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – The Saint Must Walk Alone – A.W.Tozer MOST OF THE WORLD’S GREAT SOULS have been lonely. Loneliness seems to be one price the saint must pay for his saintliness. In the morning of the world (or should we say, in that strange darkness that came soon after […]

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – The Old Cross and the New-A.W.Tozer

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – The Old Cross and the New – A.W.Tozer ALL UNANNOUNCED AND MOSTLY UNDETECTED there has come in modern times a new cross into popular evangelical circles. It is like the old cross, but different: the likenesses are superficial; the differences, fundamental. From this new cross has sprung […]

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – The Lordship of the Man Jesus Is Basic-A.W.Tozer

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – The Lordship of the Man Jesus Is Basic – A.W.Tozer WE ARE UNDER CONSTANT TEMPTATION these days to substitute another Christ for the Christ of the New Testament. The whole drift of modern religion is toward such a substitution. To avoid this we must hold steadfastly to […]

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – The Importance of Sound Doctrine-A.W.Tozer

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – The Importance of Sound Doctrine – A.W.Tozer IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE to overemphasize the importance of sound doctrine in the life of a Christian. Right thinking about all spiritual matters is imperative if we would have right living. As men do not gather grapes of thorns nor […]

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – The Decline of Apocalyptic Expectation-A.W.Tozer

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – The Decline of Apocalyptic Expectation – A.W.Tozer A SHORT GENERATION AGO, or about the time of the first World War, there was a feeling among gospel Christians that the end of the age was near, and many were breathless with anticipation of a new world order about […]

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – The Cure for a Fretful Spirit-A.W.Tozer

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – The Cure for a Fretful Spirit – A.W.Tozer THE HOLY SPIRIT IN PSALM 37 admonishes us to beware of irritation in our religious lives: “Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.” The word “fret” comes to us from the […]

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – The Communion of Saints-A.W.Tozer

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – The Communion of Saints – A.W.Tozer “I believe in the communion of saints.”-Apostles’ Creed THESE WORDS WERE WRITTEN into the creed about the middle of the fifth century. It would be difficult if not altogether impossible for us at this late date to know exactly what was […]

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – The Church Cannot Die-A.W.Tozer

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – The Church Cannot Die – A.W.Tozer THERE IS A NOTION ABROAD that Christianity is on its last legs, or possibly already dead and just too weak to lie down. This is confidently believed in Communist countries, and while spokesmen for the West are too polite to say […]

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – The Call of Christ-A.W.Tozer

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – The Call of Christ – A.W.Tozer TO BE CALLED TO FOLLOW CHRIST is a high honor; higher indeed than any honor men can bestow upon each other. Were all the nations of the earth to unite in one great federation and call a man to head that […]

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – Temperament in the Christian Life-A.W.Tozer

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – Temperament in the Christian Life – A.W.Tozer A CELEBRATED AMERICAN PREACHER once advanced the novel theory that the various denominations with their different doctrinal emphases served a useful purpose as gathering places for persons of similar temperaments. Christians, he suggested, tend to gravitate toward others of like […]

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – Some Thoughts on Books and Reading -A.W.Tozer

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – Some Thoughts on Books and Reading – A.W.Tozer ONE BIG PROBLEM IN MANY PARTS of the world today is to learn how to read, and in others it is to find something to read after one has learned. In our favored West we are overwhelmed with printed […]

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – Some Things Are Not Negotiable-A.W.Tozer

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – Some Things Are Not Negotiable – A.W.Tozer WILL ROGERS ONCE OPINED that a sure way to prevent war would be to abolish peace conferences. Of course Will, as usual, had his tongue in his cheek; he meant only to poke fun at the weak habit of substituting […]

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – Religious Boredom-A.W.Tozer

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – Religious Boredom – A.W.Tozer THAT THERE IS SOMETHING gravely wrong with evangelical Christianity today is not likely to be denied by any serious minded person acquainted with the facts. Just what is wrong is not so easy to determine. In examining the situation myself I find nature […]

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – Preface-A.W.Tozer

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – Preface – A.W.Tozer THE SUPREME INTEREST in the life of A. W. Tozer was God: He who spoke and brought the world into being, Who justly rules over men and nations, yet deigns to make man His dwelling place. He believed that all that really matters is […]

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – On the Origin and Nature of Things-A.W.Tozer

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – On the Origin and Nature of Things – A.W.Tozer THE CELEBRATED PRAYER of the great German astronomer, Kepler, has been a benediction to many: “O God, I thank Thee that Thou hast permitted me to think Thy thoughts after Thee.” This prayer is theologically sound because it […]

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – On Taking Too Much for Granted -A.W.Tozer

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – On Taking Too Much for Granted – A.W.Tozer ONCE MARY AND JOSEPH, with a number of friends and relatives, were traveling back home from Jerusalem and, supposing the young Jesus to be in the company, went a whole day’s journey before discovering that He had been left […]

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – On Breeding Spotted Mice-A.W.Tozer

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – On Breeding Spotted Mice – A.W.Tozer THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LATELY CARRIED an interesting if somewhat depressing story out of London about a certain British peer who had died just a few days short of his eighty-ninth birthday. Having been a man of means and position, it had […]

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – In Praise of Dogmatism-A.W Tozer

Man – The Dwelling Place of God – In Praise of Dogmatism – A.W Tozer IT IS VITAL TO ANY UNDERSTANDING of ourselves and our fellowmen that we believe what is written in the Scriptures about human society, that it is fallen, alienated from God and in rebellion against His laws. In these days of […]

Man-The Dwelling place of God-How to Try the Spirits-A.W Tozer

Man-The Dwelling place of God-How to Try the Spirits – A.W Tozer THESE ARE THE TIMES that try men’s souls. The Spirit has spoken expressly that in the latter times some should depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons; speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a […]

Man-The Dwelling place of God-How to Make Spiritual Progress-A.W Tozer

Man-The Dwelling place of God-How to Make Spiritual Progress – A.W Tozer THE COMPLACENCY of CHRISTIANS is the scandal of Christianity. Time is short, and eternity is long. The end of all things is at hand. Man has proved himself morally unfit to manage the world in which he has been placed by the kindness […]

Man-Dwelling place of God-God must be loved for Himself-A.W.Tozer

Man-Dwelling place of God-God must be loved for Himself – A.W.Tozer GOD BEING WHO HE is must always be sought for Himself, never as a means toward something else. Whoever seeks other objects and not God is on his own; he may obtain those objects if he is able, but he will never have God. […]

Man-Dwelling place of God-Faith: The misunderstood doctrine-A.W.Tozer

Man-Dwelling place of God-Faith: The misunderstood doctrine – A.W.Tozer IN THE DIVINE SCHEME OF SALVATION the doctrine of faith is central. God addresses His words to faith, and where no faith is, no true revelation is possible. “Without faith it is impossible to please him.” Every benefit flowing from the atonement of Christ comes to […]

Man-The Dwelling place of God-Dwelling place of God-A.W Tozer

Man-The Dwelling place of God-Dwelling place of God – A.W Tozer DEEP INSIDE EVERY MAN there is a private sanctum where dwells the mysterious essence of his being. This far-in reality is that in the man which is what it is of itself without reference to any other part of the man’s complex nature. It […]

Man-The Dwelling place of God-Does God always answer prayer?-A.W Tozer

Man-The Dwelling place of God-Does God always answer prayer? – A.W Tozer CONTRARY TO POPULAR OPINION, the cultivation of a psychology of uncritical belief is not an unqualified good, and if carried too far it may be a positive evil. The whole world has been booby-trapped by the devil, and the deadliest trap of all […]

Man-The Dwelling place of God-Choices reveal and make character-A.W Tozer

Man-The Dwelling place of God-Choices reveal and make character – A.W Tozer INTO NINE WORDS, having altogether but eleven syllables, Luke packs a world of universal truth: “Being let go, they went to their own company” (Acts 4:23). Every normal man has a “company,” however small, where he feels at home and to which he […]

Man-The Dwelling place of God-Boasting or belittling-A.W Tozer

Man-The Dwelling place of God-Boasting or belittling – A.W Tozer WE ALL know how painful it is to be forced to listen to a confirmed boaster sound off on his favorite topic – himself. To be the captive of such a man even for a short time tries our patience to the utmost and puts […]

Man-The Dwelling place of God-A do it yourself education better than none-A.W Tozer

Man-The Dwelling place of God-A do it yourself education better than none – A.W Tozer THIS IS WRITTEN FOR THOSE CHRISTIANS who may have missed a formal education. Let no one despair. A do-it-yourself education is better than none. It can be acquired by the proper use of our mental powers. Our intellectual activities in […]

Making the most of today-A.W.Tozer

Making the most of today – A.W.Tozer Making the most of today We have little sympathy for the psychology expressed in the various “Back To” movements among Christians today. Our direction is not back, but forward. Few acts are as futile as sitting down and singing “Backward, turn backward, O Time, in thy flight.” We […]

Most the most of opportunities-A.W.Tozer

Most the most of opportunities – A.W.Tozer Most the most of opportunities God has also given us a wealth of opportunities. An opportunity may be defined as a providential circumstance which permits us to turn our time, our money and our talents to account. Of all gifts this is the most common, and it is […]

Making the most of opportunity-A.W.Tozer

Making the most of opportunity – A.W.Tozer Making the most of opportunity It is imperative not only that we Christians get out of our rut but that we get out now. You know if you are in. If you are not getting any prayers answered, or if your prayers are so vague you are not […]

Making God feel at home-A.W.Tozer

Making God feel at home – A.W.Tozer Making God feel at home Once the heart is freed from its contrary impulses, Christ within becomes a wondrous experiential fact. The surrendered heart has no more controversy with God, so He can live in us congenial and uninhibited. Then He thinks His own thoughts in us: thoughts […]

Make time to pray-A.W.Tozer

Make time to pray – A.W.Tozer Make time to pray “Am I faithful in prayer?” Ask yourself that. “Well, I’m busy,” you say. Yes, you are busy. So was the Lord Jesus. So was Martin Luther. Luther said, “In the morning I have so much work to do that I am going to have to […]

Masjesty and meekness-A.W.Tozer

Masjesty and meekness – A.W.Tozer Masjesty and meekness When the prophets try to describe for me the attributes, the graces, the worthiness of the God who appeared to them and dealt with them, I feel that I can kneel down and follow their admonition: “He is thy Lord-worship thou Him!” They described Him as radiantly […]

Lovingly truthful -A.W.Tozer

Lovingly truthful – A.W.Tozer Loving truthful Here are some questions I recommend you ask yourself. In quiet silence ask, “Am I always truthful and honest? I claim to be a Christian, and I believe that the root of the matter is in me and the seed of God is in my heart. I believe I […]

Lovingly embracing truth-A.W.Tozer

Lovingly embracing truth – A.W.Tozer Loving embracing truth Now lest I be misunderstood and so succeed only in confusing things still further, let me assure my readers that I am and have always been a staunch advocate of theology, and regularly teach doctrine systematically in pursuance of my pastoral calling. I joyfully recognize that there […]

Loving worship-A.W.Tozer

Loving worship – A.W.Tozer Loving worship The love of Christ both wounds and heals, it fascinates and frightens, it kills and makes alive, it draws and repulses, it sobers and enraptures. There can be nothing more terrible or more wonderful than to be stricken with love for Christ so deeply that the whole being goes […]

Loving obedience-A.W.Tozer

Loving obedience – A.W.Tozer Loving obedience The absence of the concept of discipleship from present-day Christianity leaves a vacuum which we instinctively try to fill with one or another substitute. I name a few.Pietism.By this I mean an enjoyable feeling of affection for the person of our Lord which is valued for itself and is […]

Loving God only-A.W.Tozer

Loving God only – A.W.Tozer Loving God only The first and greatest commandment is to love God with every power of our entire being. Where love like that exists, there can be no place for a second object. Yet popular Christianity has as one of its most effective talking points the idea that God exists […]

Loving God and our neighbor-A.W.Tozer

Loving God and our neighbor – A.W.Tozer Love God and our neighbor The whole of true religion can be summed up in the spiritual love of Jesus. To love God and to love our neighbor was said by our Lord to be the fulfilling of the law and the prophets. All Christians believe that God […]

Love without measure-A.W.Tozer

Love without measure – A.W.Tozer Love without measure I once wrote something about how God loves us and how dear we are to Him. I was not sure I should put it down on paper-but God knows what I meant. I wrote: “The only eccentricity that I can discover in the heart of God is […]

Love expressed in obedience 2 -A.W.Tozer

Love expressed in obedience 2 – A.W.Tozer Love expressed in obedience 2 No matter what I write here, thousands of pastors will continue to call their people to prayer in the forlorn hope that God will finally relent and send revival if only His people wear themselves out in intercession. To such people God must […]

Love expressed in obedience-A.W.Tozer

Love expressed in obedience – A.W.Tozer Love expressed in obedience Our Lord told His disciples that love and obedience were organically united, that the keeping of His sayings would prove that we loved Him and the failure or refusal to keep them would prove that we did not. This is the true test of love, […]

Lost but not abandoned-A.W.Tozer

Lost but not abandoned – A.W.Tozer Lost but not abandoned . . . The Advent established:. . . Third, God indeed spoke by the prophets. The priests and scribes who were versed in the Scriptures could inform the troubled Herod that the Christ was to be born in Bethlehem of Judaea. And thereafter the Old […]

Lord , give me yourself-A.W.Tozer

Lord , give me yourself – A.W.Tozer Lord , give me yourself Absalom dwelt two full years in Jerusalem and saw not the king’s face, though the king was his own father. Are there not many in the kingdom of God who have no awareness of God, who seem not to know that they have […]

Lord of Righteousness-A.W.Tozer

Lord of Righteousness – A.W.Tozer Lord of Righteousness In the midst of all the confusions of our day, it is important that we find out that Jesus Christ is the Lord of all righteousness and the Lord of all wisdom. Righteousness is not a word easily acceptable to lost men and women in a lost […]

Looking beyond the created world to the Creator-A.W.Tozer

Looking beyond the created world to the Creator – A.W.Tozer Looking beyond the created world to the Cretor To persons brought up in the Judaeo-Christian tradition the thought that anyone should actually worship nature seems absurd, but we have only to step across into almost any of the cultures we call pagan to learn that […]

Looking at God-A.W.Tozer

Looking at God – A.W.Tozer Looking at God Among Christians of all ages and of varying shades of doctrinal emphasis there has been fairly full agreement on one thing: They all believed that it was important that the Christian with serious spiritual aspirations should learn to meditate long and often on God. Let a Christian […]

Longing for God-A.W.Tozer

Longing for God – A.W.Tozer Longing for God As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? –Psalm 42:1-2 O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied […]

Longing after God – A.W.Tozer

Longing after God – A.W.Tozer Longing after God Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight…. –Exodus 33:13 Come near to the holy men and women of the past and you will […]

Long before the Lord-A.W.Tozer

Long before the Lord – A.W.Tozer Long before the Lord But whenever Moses went in before the Lord to speak with Him, he would take the veil off until he came out; and he would come out and speak to the children of Israel whatever he had been commanded. –Exodus 34:34 It is written of […]

Living for the will of God-A.W.Tozer

Living for the will of God – A.W.Tozer Living for the will of God The temptation to gear our lives to social consequences is frightfully strong in a world like ours, but it must be overcome all the way down the line. The Christian businessman when faced with a moral choice must never ask, ?How […]

Living with eternity’s values in view-A.W.Tozer

Living with eternity’s values in view – A.W.Tozer Living with eternity’s values in view The spiritual man habitually makes eternity-judgments instead of time-judgments. By faith he rises above the tug of earth and the flow of time and learns to think and feel as one who has already left the world and gone to join […]

Living that grieves the Spirit-A.W.Tozer

Living that grieves the Spirit – A.W.Tozer Living that grieves the Spirit It is almost certain that sin is the cause of the rut, the circular grave in which so many people find themselves. Since only sin offends God, and sin is extremely deceitful, it can be present doing its deadly work while the people […]

Living in joy and peace-A.W.Tozer

Living in joy and peace – A.W.Tozer Living in joy and peace There are areas in our lives where in our effort to be right we may go wrong, so wrong as to lead to spiritual deformity. To be specific let me name a few: 4. When we seek to be serious and become somber. […]

Living Christs ethics recuires His power-A.W.Tozer

Living Christs ethics recuires His power – A.W.Tozer Living Christs ethics recuires His power The ethics of Jesus must be imposed upon society, we are told, then all inequalities will vanish; the division of humanity into rich and poor, great and small, privileged and underprivileged will be no more. Under the benign influence of Christs […]

Living by faith in the night-A.W.Tozer

Living by faith in the night – A.W.Tozer Living by faith in the night To do His supreme work of grace within you He will take from your heart everything you love most. Everything you trust in will go from you. Piles of ashes will lie where your most precious treasures used to be. . […]

Living as relatives to humankind-A.W.Tozer

Living as relatives to humankind – A.W.Tozer Living as relatives to humankind We human beings were made for each other, and what any of us is doing at any time cannot be a matter of indifference to the rest of us. On the human plane all men are brothers. The Son of Man never denied […]

Living as light in the world-A.W.Tozer

Living as light in the world – A.W.Tozer Living as light in thye world Whether or not the Christian should separate himself from the world is not open to debate. The question has been settled for him by the Sacred Scriptures, an authority from which there can be no appeal. The New Testament is very […]

Living as good Samaritans-A.W.Tozer

Living as good Samaritans – A.W.Tozer Living as good Samaritans The testimony of the true follower of Christ might well be something like this: The world’s pleasures and the world’s treasures henceforth have no appeal for me. I reckon myself crucified to the world and the world crucified to me. But the multitudes that were […]

Live for God’s glory-A.W.Tozer

Live for God’s glory – A.W.Tozer Live for God’s glory It may be difficult for the average Christian to get hold of the idea that his daily labors can be performed as acts of worship acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. We must practice living to the glory of God actually and determinedly. By one […]

Live by the Spirit-A.W

Live by the Spirit – A.W Live by the Spirit Actually the purest saint at the moment of his greatest strength is as weak as he was before his conversion. What has happened is that he has switched from his little human battery to the infinite power of God. He has quite literally exchanged weakness […]

Listening to God before we speak for Him-A.W.Tozer

Listening to God before we speak for Him – A.W.Tozer Listening to God before we speake for Him Holy men of soberer and quieter times than ours knew well the power of silence. David said, I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred. My heart was […]

Light -and shadows-A.W.Tozer

Light -and shadows – A.W.Tozer Light-and shadows A person once called me to ask this question: “Mr. Tozer, do you think a person who is really a Christian can hurt another Christian?” There is no easy answer-but I had to reply: “Yes, I think so.” Why is it that a man can be on his […]

Light to live by-A.W.Tozer

Light to live by – A.W.Tozer Light to live by The Bible was called forth by the moral emergency occasioned by the fall of man. It is the voice of God calling men home from the wilds of sin; it is a road map for returning prodigals; it is instruction in righteousness, light in darkness, […]

Light of life-A.W.Tozer

Light of life – A.W.Tozer Light of life The Bible is a life-bringing and a life-giving book. It is not primarily concerned with any department of human thought for its own sake. If the Bible speaks about the rainbow, it is that we may be reminded of God?s covenant of mercy with mankind. If it […]

Life is only a little while-A.W. Tozer

Life is only a little while – A.W. Tozer Life is only a little while It was John Milton who said that hope springs eternal in the human breast. Indeed hope is such a vital thing that were it to die out of the heart of mankind, the burden of life could not long be […]

Life flows from God-A.W Tozer

Life flows from God – A.W Tozer Life flows from God Without doubt, we have suffered the loss of many spiritual treasures because we have let slip the simple truth that the miracle of the perpetuation of life is in God! Be assured that God did not create life and toss it from Him like […]

Let’s go on!-A.W.Tozer

Let’s go on! – A.W.Tozer Let’s go on! The will of God is always the proper goal for every one of us. Where God is must be the place of desire. Any motion toward God is a forward motion. Even repentance is not a retreat toward the past but a decided march into a more […]

Let us take it personally – A.W.Tozer

Let us take it personally – A.W.Tozer Let us take it personally What a difference it makes when we humans cease being general and become pointed and personal in our approach to God! We then come to see that all that God did was for each of us. It was for me that holy men […]

Let us draw near today -A.W.Tozer

Let us draw near today – A.W.Tozer Let us draw near today Today is our day. No one at any time has ever had any spiritual graces that we at this time cannot enjoy if we will meet the terms on which they are given. If these times are morally darker, they but provide a […]

Let us be thankful -A.W. Tozer

Let us be thankful – A.W. Tozer Let us be thankful To be grateful to God’s servants is to be grateful to God; and it follows that in a very real sense we thank God when we thank His people! We will always have spiritual leaders, and I think we make two mistakes in our […]

Let the day dawn -A.W.Tozer

Let the day dawn – A.W.Tozer Let the day dawn The Bible tells us that when a person becomes a Christian, it is as though the sun has come up and the day has dawned. Then his experience along the path should be like the glowing light which shineth more and more unto the perfect […]

Let God alone-A.W.Tozer

Let God alone – A.W.Tozer Let God alone But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. –James 1:4 God is saying, “I stand ready to pour a little liquid fire into your heart, into your spiritual being!” We respond: “No, Lord, please excuse me. That sounds like […]

Let fear become trust -A.W.Tozer

Let fear become trust – A.W.Tozer Let fear become trust What can we do but pray for the throngs of defiant men and women who believe that their humanistic view of life is all-sufficient? They believe that they are responsible “captains” of their own souls. The sad fact is that even while they are joining […]

Less than Trinitarian 2 – A.W. Tozer

Less than Trinitarian 2 – A.W. Tozer Less than Trinitarian 2 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen. –2 Corinthians 13:14 Our blunder (or shall we frankly say our sin?) has been to neglect the doctrine of the […]

Less than Trinitarian – A.W. Tozer

Less than Trinitarian – A.W. Tozer Less than Triniterian The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen. –2 Corinthians 13:14 Our blunder (or shall we frankly say our sin?) has been to neglect the doctrine of the Spirit to […]

Learning to lean as He leads – A.W.Tozer

Learning to lean as He leads – A.W.Tozer Learning to lean as He leads Obedience to Christ proves we love Him, and in return He shows Himself to us. You say, “There are so many commandments, how can I obey? How can I remember them all, and can I be sure I am obeying?” In […]

Learning from the Master – A.W. Tozer

Learning from the Master – A.W. Tozer Learning from the Master Good speaking as well as good writing has its pitch, its tempo, its balance and rhythm, its tone and timbre. And these things cannot be learned in the popular sense of the word; they can only be acquired by unconscious imitation. If we listen […]

Leaning toward heresy -A.W.Tozer

Leaning toward heresy – A.W.Tozer Leaning toward heresy  When large numbers of adherents in the Christian churches come to believe that God is different from what He actually is, that concept becomes heresy of the most insidious and deadly kind! When the Christian church surrenders her once lofty concept of God and substitutes for it […]

Leadership:Joy or burden?-A.W.Tozer

Leadership:Joy or burden? – A.W.Tozer Leadership:Joy or burden I think we make two mistakes in our attitude toward our Christian leaders, one in not being sufficiently grateful to them and the other in following them too slavishly. The first is a sin of omission, and because it is something that is not there it is […]

Leaders who are Spiritual visionaries – A.W.Tozer

Leaders who are Spiritual visionaries – A.W.Tozer Leaders who are Spiritual visionaries The great deficiency to which I refer is the lack of spiritual discernment, especially among our leaders. How there can be so much Bible knowledge and so little insight, so little moral penetration, is one of the enigmas of the religious world today. […]

Labouring in the Lord-A.W.Tozer

Labouring in the Lord – A.W.Tozer Labouring in the Lord Certain passages of Scripture, if carelessly read, might give the impression that God delegates some of His work to Christian leaders to do for Him as a manufacturer might sublet to others certain items in a contract; such, for instance, as First Corinthians 15:58, “Therefore, […]

Knowing with the heart-A.W.Tozer

Knowing with the heart – A.W.Tozer Knowing with the heart . . . there is at the root of true religion an inward witness, an awareness of God and Christ at the farthest-in core of the renewed Christian?s spirit given to him by the Spirit of God. This experience results from faith in and obedience […]

Knowing the incomprehensible – A.W. Tozer

Knowing the incomprehensible – A.W. Tozer Knowing the incomprehensible The glory of God has not been revealed to this generation of men. The God of contemporary Christianity is only slightly superior to the gods of Greece and Rome, if indeed He is not actually inferior to them, in that He is weak and helpless while […]

Knowing our weakness and God’s power -A.W.Tozer

Knowing our weakness and God’s power – A.W.Tozer Knowing our weakness and God’s power  Moses was not a fluent man. His words spoken to God must be accepted as being a sincere and fair appraisal of the facts: “O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to […]

Knowing His presence – A.W. Tozer

Knowing His presence – A.W. Tozer Knowing His presence Do not try to short-circuit God’s plans for your discipleship. and spiritual maturity here. If you and I were already prepared for heaven in the moment of our conversion, God would have taken us home instantly! We must remember that God exists in Himself. His holy […]

Knowing God 3 – A.W. Tozer

Knowing God 3 – A.W. Tozer Knowing God 3  One of the heaviest problems the inquiring Christian faces today is why so many good and apparently sincere religious leaders are going so far astray from the plain teachings and practices of the New Testament. Destructive elements are being innocently introduced into present-day worship and service […]

Knowing God 2 – A.W. Tozer

Knowing God 2 – A.W. Tozer Knowing God 2  The witness of the Spirit is a sacred inner thing which cannot be explained. It is altogether personal and cannot be passed from one to another. Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of God’s waterspouts, and the outward ear cannot hear what it says. Much […]

Knowing God – A.W. Tozer

Knowing God – A.W. Tozer Knowing God Our Lord, in defining eternal life, summed up the supreme goal of human existence: That they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. And Paul revealed the one overpowering interest of his life when he wrote That I may know him. […]

Keeping the message of the Bible central – A.W.Tozer

Keeping the message of the Bible central – A.W.Tozer Keeping the message of the bible central The Bible is the most important book in the world, and for Christians it is just about the only book–certainly the only book that should claim the place of honor in the public worship of God. We are, we […]

Keep fresh – A.W. Tozer

Keep fresh – A.W. Tozer Keep fresh The clever proponents of evil political ideologies are spending millions to make us Americans ashamed to love our country. By the use of all available media of communication they are persuading our people that there is little left worth defending and certainly nothing worth dying for. They are […]

Keep the torch burning – A.W. Tozer

Keep the torch burning – A.W. Tozer Keep the torch burning The clever proponents of evil political ideologies are spending millions to make us Americans ashamed to love our country. By the use of all available media of communication they are persuading our people that there is little left worth defending and certainly nothing worth […]

Keep growing! -A.W.Tozer

Keep growing! – A.W.Tozer Keep growing! One thing taught throughout the Bible, and particularly in the New Testament, is that the Christian life is a progression, a journey of the redeemed soul toward God. Another is that Satan stands to resist every step and to hinder the journey in every way possible. To advance against […]

Just wait on God – A.W. Tozer

Just wait on God – A.W. Tozer Just wait on God But the Lord is in His holy temple. Let all the earth keep silence before Him. –Habakkuk 2:20 I think we are the busiest bunch of eager beavers ever seen in the religious world. The idea seems to be that if we are not […]

Just turning the crank – A.W.Tozer

Just turning the crank – A.W.Tozer Just turning the crank So he answered and said to me: “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ says the Lord of hosts.” –Zechariah 4:6 I say this because it is possible to run a church and […]

Just meditate for a month – A.W.Tozer

Just meditate for a month – A.W.Tozer Just meditate for a month  But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night. –Psalm 1:2 Let the old saints be our example. They came to the Word of God and meditated. They laid the Bible on the […]

Just do it – A.W.Tozer

Just do it – A.W.Tozer Just do it The Lord said to become children. If we all became children, how beautiful that would be. You could walk up to a man and shake his hand without wondering, “Do I know enough judo to handle him?” He would not hurt you. Christians here are not going […]

Joy and wander – A.W.Tozer

Joy and wander – A.W.Tozer Joy and wander It is tragic that men and women everywhere are losing the sense of wonder, confessing now only one interest in life-and that is utility! Even Christmas Day has been degraded. We ignore the beautiful and the majestic, asking only “How can I use it? How much profit […]

Journey of the heart – A.W.Tozer

Journey of the heart – A.W.Tozer Journey of the heart I object to the charge that “Tozer preaches experience.” I preach Christ, the Savior-that is my calling! But I am positive about the validity, the reality and the value of genuine Christian experience. We can talk to Jesus just as we talk to our other […]

Jesus said He was God – A.W.Tozer

Jesus said He was God – A.W.Tozer Jesus said He was God The more we study the words of our Lord Jesus Christ when He lived on earth among us, the more certain we are about who He is. Some critics have scoffed: “Jesus did not claim to be God. He only said He was […]

Itching ears 2 – A.W.Tozer

Itching ears 2 – A.W.Tozer Itching ears 2 – A.W.Tozer Religious people are psychologically conditioned to the trite phrase and the hackneyed expression. True, the stereotyped pattern varies slightly between different groups, but there would seem to be no reason why a clever speaker could not preach tonight to Calvinists, tomorrow to Arminians, the next […]

Itching ears – A.W.Tozer

Itching ears – A.W.Tozer Itching ears In the church many are lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. If you do not like what I am saying, I want to ask you something. Think about the company you run with. What do they talk about most? God and the love of God, or other […]

It may not be convenient- A.W. Tozer

It may not be convenient – A.W. Tozer It may not be convenient But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified. –1 Corinthians 9:27 What must our Lord think of us if His work and His witness depend upon the convenience […]

It matters what you think – A.W.Tozer

It matters what you think – A.W.Tozer It matters what you think It is something of a happy paradox that while the thoughts deeply affect the will and go far to determine its choices, the will on the other hand has the power to control the thoughts. A will firmly engaged with God can swing […]

Is the church weary? -A.W.Tozer

Is the church weary? – A.W.Tozer Is the church weary? As Christian believers, we stand together in the evangelical faith-the historical faith of our fathers. Yet, we must confess that many congregations seem bogged down with moral boredom and life-weariness. The church is tired, discouraged and unastonished-Christ seems to belong to yesterday. The prophetic teachers […]

Instruct – then exhort -A.W.Tozer

Instruct – then exhort – A.W.Tozer Instruct – then exhort The godly men of old through whom the Scriptures came to us were faithful in their exhortations to personal faith and godliness, characteristic of the early church. The apostolic method of teaching, instructing and encouraging was based on solid and fundamental Christian doctrine. This was […]

Inescapable choices – A.W.Tozer

Inescapable choices – A.W.Tozer Inescapable choices When the rich young ruler learned the cost of discipleship he went away sorrowing. He could not give up the sunny side of the brae. But thanks be to God, there are some in every age who refuse to go back. The Acts of the Apostles is the story […]

Indicators of God’s choosing – A.W.Tozer

Indicators of God’s choosing – A.W.Tozer Indicators of God’s choosing . . . No man is ever the same after God has laid His hand upon him. He will have certain marks, and though they are not easy to detect perhaps we may cautiously name a few. One mark is a deep reverence for divine […]

Incarnating truth -A.W.Tozer

Incarnating truth – A.W.Tozer Incarnating truth A farmer sows wheat and, granted that the soil is fertile, his harvest will be only what the seed was, allowing for the slight natural retrogression that usually follows each careless planting. Is it not plain that the quality of the seed is what matters most? Would it not […]

In word or in power – A.W.Tozer

In word or in power – A.W.Tozer In word or in power Excerpted from The Divine ConqestFor our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit and with deep conviction, as you know what kind of men we were among you for your sake. (1 […]

In the world but not of it – A.W.Tozer

In the world but not of it – A.W.Tozer In the world but not of it We are sent to bless the world, but never are we told to compromise with it. Our glory lies in a spiritual withdrawal from all that builds on dust. The bee finds no honey while crawling around the hive. […]

In pursuit of God – The Universal presence

In pursuit of God – The Universal presence In pursuit of God – The universal presence Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? Ps. 139:7 In all Christian teaching certain basic truths are found, hidden at times, and rather assumed than asserted, but necessary to all truth […]

In pursuit of God – The speaking voice – A.W.Tozer

In pursuit of God – The speaking voice – A.W.Tozer In pursuit of God – The speaking voice In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1:1 An intelligent plain man, untaught in the truths of Christianity, coming upon this text, would likely conclude that […]

In pursuit of God – The Sacrament of living – A.W. Tozer

In pursuit of God – The Sacrament of living – A.W. Tozer In pursuit of God – The sacrament of living Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. I Cor. 10:31 One of the greatest hindrances to internal peace which the Christian encounters is the […]

In pursuit of God – The gaze of the soul -A.W.Tozer

In pursuit of God – The gaze of the soul – A.W.Tozer In pursuit of God -The gaze of the soul Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith. Heb.12:2 Let us think of our intelligent plain man mentioned in chapter six coming for the first time to the reading of the Scriptures. […]

In the pursuit of God – The blessedness of possessing nothing – A.W.Tozer

In the pursuit of God – The blessedness of possessing nothing – A.W.Tozer In pursuit of God – Blessedness of possessing nothing Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Matt. 5:3 Before the Lord God made man upon the earth He first prepared for him by creating a world […]

In pursuit of God -Restoring the creator – creature relation – A.W.Tozer

In pursuit of God -Restoring the creator – creature relation – A.W.Tozer In pursuit of God – restoring the creator – creature relation Be Thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; let thy glory be above all the earth. Ps. 57:5 It is a truism to say that order in nature depends upon right relationships; […]

In pursuit of God – Removing the veil – A.W.Tozer

In pursuit of God – Removing the veil – A.W.Tozer In Pursuit of God -Removing the veil Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus. Heb. 10:19 Among the famous sayings of the Church fathers none is better know than Augustine’s `Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our […]

In pursuit of God – Preface – A.W.Tozer

In pursuit of God – Preface – A.W.Tozer In pursuit of God – Preface In this hour of all-but-universal darkness one cheering gleam appears: within the fold of conservative Christianity there are to be found increasing numbers of persons whose religious lives are marked by a growing hunger after God Himself. They are eager for […]

In pursuit of God – Meekness and rest -A.W.Tozer

In pursuit of God – Meekness and rest – A.W.Tozer In pursuit of God- Meekness and rest Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. Matt.5:5A A fairly accurate description of the human race might be furnished one unacquainted with it by taking the Beatitudes, turning them wrong side out and saying, `Here […]

In pursuit of God – Introduction – A.W.Tozer

In pursuit of God – Introduction – A.W.Tozer In pursuit of God – Introduction Here is a masterly study of the inner life by a heart thirsting after God, eager to grasp at least the outskirts of His ways, the abyss of His love for sinners, and the height of His unapproachable majesty–and it was […]

In pursuit of God – Following hard after God – A.W.Tozer

In pursuit of God – Following hard after God – A.W.Tozer In pursuit of God – Following hard after God My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me. Ps. 63:8 Christian theology teaches the doctrine of prevenient grace, which briefly stated means this, that before a man can seek God, God must […]

In the pursuit of God- Apprehending God – A.W.Tozer

In the pursuit of God- Apprehending God – A.W.Tozer In the pursuit of God- Apprehending God O taste and see. Ps. 34:8 It was Canon Holmes, of India, who more than twenty-five years ago called attention to the inferential character of the average man’s faith in God. To most people God is an inference, not […]

In the beginning – A.W.Tozer

In the beginning – A.W.Tozer In the beginning None of us can approach a consideration of the eternal nature and Person of Jesus Christ without sensing and confessing our human inadequacy in the face of the divine revelation. John, in his gospel, provides a beautiful portrait of the eternal Christ, starting with those stark, incredible […]

In need of a physician – A.W. Tozer

In need of a physician – A.W. Tozer In need of a physician The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads my beside the still waters. He restores my soul…. –Psalm 23:1-3 Human nature being what it is, the man of God may […]

Imitating the imitators of God – A.W.Tozer

Imitating the imitators of God – A.W.Tozer Imitating the imitators of God Spiritual experiences must be shared. It is not possible for very long to enjoy them alone. The very attempt to do so will destroy them. The reason for this is obvious. The nearer our souls draw to God the larger our love will […]

Image restoration – A.W.Tozer

Image restoration – A.W.Tozer Image Restoration The idea of the divine-human friendship originated with God. Had not God said first ?Ye are my friends? (John 15:14) it would be inexcusably brash for any man to say ?I am a friend of God.? But since He claims us for His friends it is an act of […]

If we would , we may-A.W.Tozer

If we would , we may – A.W.Tozer If we would , we may If any man will . . . let him follow me, He says, and some will rise and go after Him, but others give no heed to His voice. So the gulf opens between man and man, between those who will […]

If Jesus came today-A.W.Tozer

If Jesus came today – A.W.Tozer If Jesus came today People have asked me if our present generation would gladly accept Jesus if He came at this time, instead of 2,000 years ago. I have to believe that history does repeat itself! In our own day, many who want to follow the Christian traditions still […]

If God is-A.W.Tozer

If God is – A.W.Tozer If God is We being what we are and all things else being what they are, the most important and profitable study any of us can engage in is without question the study of theology. That theology probably receives less attention than any other subject tells us nothing about its […]

If God answers prayer-A.W.Tozer

If God answers prayer – A.W.Tozer If God answers prayer So I said: “Woe is me, for I am undone! Because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.” –Isaiah 6:5 Why does […]

I know I’ll be in trouble-A.W.Tozer

I know I’ll be in trouble – A.W.Tozer I know I’ll be in trouble But even after we had suffered before and were spitefully treated at Philippi, as you know, we were bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God in much conflict. –1 Thessalonians 2:2 It is good for us […]

I choose to worship-A.W.Tozer

I choose to worship – A.W.Tozer I choose to worship Strange things are happening all around us in Christian circles because we are not truly worshipers. For instance, any untrained, unprepared, unspiritual empty rattletrap of a person can start something “religious” and find plenty of followers who will listen and promote it! Beyond that, it […]

Humble service-A.W.Tozer

Humble service – A.W.Tozer Humble service You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier. –2 Timothy 2:3-4 Save me from the error of judging a church by […]

Humans judge the Lord-A.W.Tozer

Humans judge the Lord – A.W.Tozer Humans judge the Lord It is a fact that God made us to worship Him, and if we had not fallen with Adam and Eve, worship would have been the most natural thing for us. Sinning was not the natural thing for Adam and Eve, but they disobeyed and […]

How to keep from going stale – A.W.Tozer

How to keep from going stale – A.W.Tozer How to keep from going stale Periods of staleness in the life are not inevitable but they are common. He is a rare Christian who has not experienced times of spiritual dullness when the relish has gone out of his heart and the enjoyment of living has […]

How much I could have done – A.W.Tozer

How much I could have done – A.W.Tozer How much I could have done And not only as we had hoped, but they first gave themselves to the Lord, and then to us by the will of God. –2 Corinthians 8:5 Before the judgment seat of Christ my service will be judged not by how […]

How do we listen?-A.W.Tozer

How do we listen? – A.W.Tozer How do we listen? The living God has spoken to lost mankind in a variety of ways. The general response among us has been, “We did not hear His voice. We did not hear anything.” John recorded in his gospel the reactions of an audience of people who heard […]

Houses of God-A.W.Tozer

Houses of God – A.W.Tozer Houses of God That Christ actually inhabits the nature of the regenerate believer is assumed, implied and overtly stated in the Holy Scriptures. All the Persons of the Godhead are said to enter the nature of the one that engages New Testament truth in faith and obedience. “If a man […]

Hopelessly lost-A.W.Tozer

Hopelessly lost – A.W.Tozer Hopelessly lost Philosophically man has lost his way. Could he think himself out of his age-old predicament he would long ago have done it, for the world has had more than enough serious-minded men of superior intellectual endowments to examine every rabbit path in all the meadows of human thought and […]

Hope – or despair?-A.W.Tozer

Hope – or despair? – A.W.Tozer Hope- or despair? John the Baptist gave his questioners a brief sentence that I have called the “hope and the despair” of mankind. He told them that “a man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.” John was not referring to men’s gifts. He was speaking […]

Hope keeps us going-A.W.Tozer

Hope keeps us going – A.W.Tozer Hope keeps us going Among those treasures with which we are all endowed by nature, hope stands by itself as being at once the most precious and the most treacherous. Just because hope is so common we accept it as a matter of course, without realizing how precious it […]

Honoring others above-A.W.Tozer

Honoring others above – A.W.Tozer Honoring others above I think there are great numbers of Christian believers who ought to go home and go into their places of prayer and apologize to God for their demeaning attitudes toward the Holy Spirit of God. Included in their numbers are Bible teachers who are guilty of leading […]

Honor God’s Spirit-A.W.Tozer

Honor God’s Spirit – A.W.Tozer Honor God’s Spirit I think there are great numbers of Christian believers who ought to go home and go into their places of prayer and apologize to God for their demeaning attitudes toward the Holy Spirit of God. Included in their numbers are Bible teachers who are guilty of leading […]

Holy motives-A.W.Tozer

Holy motives – A.W.Tozer Holy motives . . . All these examples point up to a grave modern evil, permitting temporal consequences to decide eternal issues. A word of caution should be added. Sometimes an act, though good in itself, may, in a given set of circumstances, be better held in abeyance. Only be sure […]

Holiness and worship first-A.W.Tozer

Holiness and worship first – A.W.Tozer Holiness and worship first Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,…that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. […]

Holding unswerving to hope-A.W.Tozer

Holding unswerving to hope – A.W.Tozer Holding unswerving to hope In the dealings of God with men, hope has held a noble place. The expectation that Messiah would come cheered Israel in her years of victory and kept her from despairing in her periods of captivity and dispersal. Those who feared the Lord have often […]

His cross is my cross-A.W.Tozer

His cross is my cross – A.W.Tozer His cross is my cross To take Jesus Christ into your life without reservation is to accept His friends as your friends and to know that His enemies will be your enemies! It means that we accept His rejection as our rejection. We knowingly accept His cross as […]

Here for our time-A.W.Tozer

Here for our time – A.W.Tozer Here for our time Just as those who lived in the past had the privilege of being God’s people of faith then, so do we in our own day! It is good to come to the understanding that while God wants us to be holy and Spirit-filled, He does […]

Helping or hindering new believers-A.W.Tozer

Helping or hindering new believers – A.W.Tozer Helping or hindering new believers The happiest man in the world,” said a well-known preacher some time ago, “is the new convert before he has met too many Bible teachers and seen too many church members.” . . . The first half of our opening quotation, then, is […]

Heart seekers-A.W.Tozer

Heart seekers – A.W.Tozer Heart seekers The amount of loafing practiced by the average Christian in spiritual things would ruin a concert pianist if he allowed himself to do the same thing in the field of music. The idle puttering around that we see in church circles would end the career of a big league […]

Heart matters-A.W.Tozer

Heart matters – A.W.Tozer Heart matters It will probably be found at last that there is no sin except sin of the mind. It is the carnal mind that is enmity against God, that is not subject to the law of God, neither can be. It should, however, be remembered that when the Bible speaks […]

Heart perception-A.W.Tozer

Heart perception – A.W.Tozer Heart perception There is a deeply spiritual and thoroughly mystical quality in New Testament religion that we cannot afford to ignore if we would be Christians in fact as well as in name. I think it well to let our worshiping hearts decide our theological questions. After the purity of the […]

Heart hunger-A.W.Tozer

Heart hunger – A.W.Tozer Heart hunger In nature everything moves in the direction of its hungers. In the spiritual world it is not otherwise. We gravitate toward our inward longings, provided of course that those longings are strong enough to move us. Impotent dreaming will not do. The religious urge that is not followed by […]

Heart health food or just tasty snacks-A.W.Tozer

Heart health food or just tasty snacks – A.W.Tozer Heart health food or just tasty snacks Dr. Samuel Johnson, the famous English sage, once said that one of the surest evidences of intellectual immaturity is the desire to startle people. Yet there are Christians who have been fed upon the odd, the strange and the […]

Hearing the voice of God-A.W.Tozer

Hearing the voice of God – A.W.Tozer Hearing the voice of God . . . There are two questions before us. The first question is: How many of us are willing to hear the voice of God? Jesus said, Therefore I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will […]

Hearing from God-A.W.Tozer

Hearing from God – A.W.Tozer Hearing from God Now John himself was clothed in camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey. Then Jerusalem, all Judea, and all the region around the Jordan went out to him and were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing […]

Healing silence-A.W.Tozer

Healing silence – A.W.Tozer Healing silence And when He had sent them away, He departed to the mountain to pray. –Mark 6:46 Very few of us know the secret of bathing our souls in silence. It was a secret our Lord Jesus Christ knew very well. There were times when He had to send the […]

He leadeth me-A.W. Tozer

He leadeth me – A.W. Tozer He leadeth me Except for those things that are specifically commanded or forbidden, it is God’s will that we be free to exercise our own intelligent choice. The shepherd will lead the sheep but he does not wish to decide which tuft of grass the sheep shall nibble each […]

He can be grieved-A.W.Tozer

He can be grieved – A.W.Tozer He can be grieved And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. –Ephesians 4:30 Because He is loving and kind and friendly, the Holy Spirit may be grieved…. He can be grieved because He is loving, and there […]

He became poor that we might become rich-A.W.Tozer

He became poor that we might become rich – A.W.Tozer He became poor that we might become rich The announcement of the birth of Christ came as a sunburst of joy to a world where grief and pain are known to all and joy comes rarely and never tarries long. The joy the angel brought […]

Harmonious living-A.W.Tozer

Harmonious living – A.W.Tozer Harmonious living This brief list does not at all exhaust the number of infirmities we are likely to find in the Christian assembly. Who has not had to bear lovingly with a brother (or sister) who is afflicted with logorrhea, the incurable propensity to talk without pause or punctuation? That the […]

Guidance is by the Spirit-A.W.Tozer

Guidance is by the Spirit – A.W.Tozer Guidance is by the Spirit We can always trust the moving and the leading of the Holy Spirit in our lives and experiences, but we cannot always trust our human leanings and our fleshly and carnal desires. That calls for another word of balance. We know that the […]

Growing up into Christ-A.W.Tozer

Growing up into Christ – A.W.Tozer Growing up into Christ By “instant Christianity” I mean the kind found almost everywhere in gospel circles and which is born of the notion that we may discharge our total obligation to our own souls by one act of faith, or at most by two, and be relieved thereafter […]

Growing up in Christ-A.W.Tozer

Growing up in Christ – A.W.Tozer Growing up in Christ The true Christian is a saint in embryo. The heavenly genes are in him and the Holy Spirit is working to bring him on into a spiritual development that accords with the nature of the heavenly Father from whom he received the deposit of divine […]

Growing Oaks or ears of popcorn-A.W.Tozer

Growing Oaks or ears of popcorn – A.W.Tozer Growing Oaks or ears of Popcorn The church must claim again her ancient dowry of everlastingness. She must begin again to deal with ages and millenniums rather then with days and years. She must not count numbers but test foundations. She must work for permanence rather than […]

Growing numbers do not guarantee increasing quality-A.W.Tozer

Growing numbers do not guarantee increasing quality – A.W.Tozer Growing numbers do not guarantee increasing quality The question of numbers and their relation to success or failure in the work of the Lord is one that disturbs most Christians more than a little. . . . There are Christians, for instance, who dismiss the whole […]

Growing in experiential union-A.W.Tozer

Growing in experiential union – A.W.Tozer Growing in experiential union God, being perfect, has capacity for perfect friendship. Man, being imperfect, can never quite know perfection in anything, least of all in his relation to the incomprehensible Godhead. Perfection lies on God?s side, but on man?s side there are weakness of purpose, lack of desire, […]

Growing faith and increasing capacity-A.W.Tozer

Growing faith and increasing capacity – A.W.Tozer Growing nfaith and increasing capacity To receive in a measure more in keeping with God’s liberality five things are necessary. The first is faith. We must be convinced that God is kind, generous, goodhearted and ready to bestow His blessings upon His people with the bounty of a […]

Growing despite the obstacles-A.W.Tozer

Growing despite the obstacles – A.W.Tozer Growing despite the obstacles A lifetime of observation, Bible reading and prayer has led to the conclusion that the only thing that can hinder a Christian’s progress is the Christian himself. The true child of God can live and grow in circumstances that are wholly unfavorable to such life […]

Growing by means of trials-A.W.Tozer

Growing by means of trials – A.W.Tozer Growing by means of trials In reading Second Corinthians, it is difficult to restrain a feeling of real pity for the noble old man as he sweats under the bitter lashings of the enemy. But such pity is wasted now. He has long been where the wicked cease […]

Grappling with change-A.W.Tozer

Grappling with change – A.W.Tozer Grappling with change We need sweeping reformation. Let me give a definition of reformation as it is given in a religious dictionary: “Change by removal of faults or abuses, and a restoration to a former good estate.” Now that is not so bad. I do not know how anybody who […]

Gospel corollaries-A.W.Tozer

Gospel corollaries – A.W.Tozer Gospel corollaries To allow the gospel only its etymological meaning of good news is to restrict it so radically as actually to make it something it is not. That Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures is good news indeed. That He, having by Himself purged our sins, sat […]

Going on is for those who have begun-A.W.Tozer

Going on is for those who have begun – A.W.Tozer Going on is for those who have begun In the Hebrew epistle a great deal is said about the need for persistence in the Christian life. The converts were losing heart and the man of God sought to encourage them to “hold firmly till the […]

God’s Word stands forever-A.W.Tozer

God’s Word stands forever – A.W.Tozer God’s Word stands forever . . . Here is where we need a reformation, a purgation, a removal of the faults and a restoration again of the faith of Christians to a belief in the truth. May Christians say, without a question, “Yes, that is true.” Actually, I suppose […]

God’s word gives light-A.W.Tozer

God’s word gives light – A.W.Tozer God’s word gives light “I’m sorry. . . . I’m a stranger here myself.” That is the only honest answer. Others are sometimes given, but they are never valid answers. They spring out of pride or error or uncritical and wishful thinking, and they are not to be trusted. […]

God’s sovereign plan- A.W.Tozer

God’s sovereign plan – A.W.Tozer God’s sovereign plan Many people continue to live in daily fear that the world “is coming to an end.” Only in the Scriptures do we have the description and prediction of the age-ending heavenly and earthly events when our Lord and Savior will be universally acknowledged as King of kings […]

God’s place as creator- A.W. Tozer

God’s place as creator – A.W. Tozer God’s place as creator We make a mistake if we do not learn to admire God in all things, great and small; for a new rich mine would be opened in our consciousness if we could learn to recognize God in nature as well as in grace! We […]

God’s overcomers – A.W.Tozer

God’s overcomers – A.W.Tozer God’s overcomers I insist that if we are burdened with genuine concern, we have the responsibility of examining the true spiritual condition of men and women within the church’s ranks. We do live in a time of soft, easy Christianity. It is an era marked by a polite “nibbling” around the […]

God’s highest will- A.W.Tozer

God’s highest will – A.W.Tozer God’s highest will Let us consider three simple things reinforced in the Word of God for those who would discern God’s highest will. First, be willing to put away known sin! Second, separate yourself from all of the attractions of the world, the flesh and the devil! Finally, offer yourself […]

God’s gracious act- A.W.Tozer

God’s gracious act – A.W.Tozer God’s gracious act We do well to remember that mankind is only one order of God’s beings or creatures. So we wonder: How could the Infinite ever become finite? And: How could the Limitless One deliberately impose limitations upon Himself? In the book of Hebrews we learn to our amazement […]

God’s grace is eternal-A.W. Tozer

God’s grace is eternal – A.W. Tozer God’s grace is eternal It is a typical and accepted teaching in Christian churches today that Moses and the Old Testament knew only God’s law, and that Christ and the New Testament know only God’s grace. I repeat: that is the “accepted” teaching of the hour – but […]

God’s gentle whisper- A.W. Tozer

God’s gentle whisper – A.W. Tozer God’s gentle whisper There are truths that can never be learned except in the noise and confusion of the market place or in the tough brutality of combat. The tumult and the shouting teach their own rough lessons. No man is quite a man who has not been to […]

God’s faithful voice – A.W. Tozer

God’s faithful voice – A.W. Tozer God’s faithful voice In a day when judgments are soon to come upon the earth, we are often warned by doctors that we eat too much-and that we worry too much. More of us suffer from mental illness than suffer from major physical illnesses. In our self-centered lives, even […]

God’s blueprint of believers living – A.W. Tozer

God’s blueprint of believers living – A.W. Tozer God’s blueprint of believers living In Matthew 5:3-10 we read: Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. Blessed are those who […]

Gods character is infinitely holy – A.W. Tozer

Gods character is infinitely holy – A.W. Tozer Gods character is infinitely holy Because this is a moral universe, character, which is the excellence of moral beings, is naturally paramount. As the excellence of steel is strength and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character. An honest man […]

Godly products of suffering – A.W. Tozer

Godly products of suffering – A.W. Tozer Godly products of suffering But Paul’s trials yield for us more than this negative kind of blessing. They also teach us positive lessons to help us to endure affliction by that well-known psychological law by which we are able to identify ourselves with others and “halve our griefs […]

God centered and other centered living- A.W. Tozer

God centered and other centered living – A.W. Tozer God centered and other centered living Human society is built upon a balance of personal interests. People are so used to seeing everyone serving his own ends that no other kind of conduct is expected. Only the eccentric dreamer would expect that unregenerate men could be […]

God understand us – A.W. Tozer

God understand us – A.W. Tozer God understand us We should revel in the joy of believing that God is the sum of all patience and the true essence of kindly good will! Because He is what He is, we please Him most, not by frantically trying to make ourselves good, but by throwing ourselves […]

God the heart opener – A.W. Tozer

God the heart opener – A.W. Tozer God the heart opener About the intimate workings of the Holy Spirit in the human heart there is a highly personal relationship in which no third person can share. The sacred work of redemption was wrought in darkness. No strange eye could see what was taking place when […]

God set no limit – A.W. Tozer

God set no limit – A.W. Tozer God set no limit Do you know that there are Bible “interpreters” now who believe they can set rules as to how much we can have of God? However, the Lord Himself has promised that as far as He is concerned, He is willing to keep the candles […]

God reveals Himself – A.W. Tozer

God reveals Himself – A.W. Tozer God reveals Himself I often wonder how so many people can live with a continuing hope that they will in some way be able to commune with God through their intellectual capacities. When will they realize that if they could possibly “discover” God they realize that with the intellect, […]

God moves in mysterious ways – A.W. Tozer

God moves in mysterious ways – A.W. Tozer God moves in mysterious ways To the child of God, there is no such thing as accident. He travels an appointed way. The path he treads was chosen for him when as yet he was not, when as yet he had existence only in the mind of […]

God love – A.W. Tozer

God love – A.W. Tozer God love The truth of the divine indwelling is developed more fully in the epistles of Paul. “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? . . . For the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are” […]

God lives in people – A.W. Tozer

God lives in people – A.W. Tozer God lives in People The truth of the divine indwelling is developed more fully in the epistles of Paul. “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? . . . For the temple of God is holy, […]

God knows the hypocrites – A.W Tozer

God knows the hypocrites – A.W Tozer God knows the hypocrites I do not consider that it is my place as a Christian to stand around making judgments and calling other people “hypocrites.” Our Lord Jesus Christ is the only man I know who was holy and perfect enough to call the religious leaders of […]

God knows our prayer – A.W. Tozer

God knows our prayer – A.W. Tozer God knows our prayer We modern Christians seem to be a strange breed in many of our ways. We are so completely satisfied with earthly things and we enjoy our creature comforts so much that we would just rather stay on here for a long, long time! Probably […]

God is sovereign – A.W Tozer

God is sovereign – A.W Tozer God is sovereign Oh, how I wish that I could adequately set forth the glory of the One who is worthy to be the object of our worship! I do believe that if our new converts-the babes in Christ-could be made to see His thousand attributes and even partially […]

God is on our side- A.W. Tozer

God is on our side – A.W. Tozer God is on our side It was a gracious revelation to my human spirit when I discovered that the Word of God was actually on my side, operating in my behalf! I was reading Psalm 71 and I came to this amazing statement: “Thou hast given commandment […]

God is not a railway porter – A.W. Tozer

God is not a railway porter – A.W. Tozer God is not a railway porter Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, measured heaven with a span and calculated the dust of the earth in a measure? Weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance? –Isaiah 40:12 We […]

God is in that – A.W. Tozer

God is in that – A.W. Tozer God is in that Now, Lord, look on their threats, and grant to Your servants that with all boldness they may speak Your word, by stretching out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus. –Acts […]

God is God -A.W. Tozer

God is God – A.W. Tozer God is God But someone may say, it is not God people fear, but demons–the devil himself and evil spirits generally. The answer is that the whole business is still superstition, for it makes God a party to all this supernatural carryings-on, and even if He is on our […]

God hunger -A.W. Tozer

God hunger – A.W. Tozer God hunger These words are addressed to those of God’s children who have been pierced with the arrow of infinite desire, who yearn for God with a yearning that has overcome them, who long with a longing that has become pain. “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, […]

God has a remedy- A.W. Tozer

God has a remedy – A.W. Tozer God has a remedy Seekers and inquirers have often voiced this deep question of concern: “Why does God forgive? and how does God forgive sin?” There is plain teaching throughout the Old and New Testaments concerning God’s willingness to forgive and forget. Yet there are segments of the […]

God gives and gives – A.W. Tozer

God gives and gives – A.W. Tozer God gives and gives We ought to spend more time remembering the blessings and the benefits God is continually giving us while we are alive-before we leave this vale of tears! He gives us forgivenes – so we are to live for Him as forgiven sinners. He gives […]

God exegesis – A.W. Tozer

God exegesis – A.W. Tozer God exegesis There is only one Man whom we can trust to follow. That Man is Jesus Christ. Why is He different from any other person? Why do I refuse to follow other people, and yet follow this Man? Of no other person can it be said, “In the beginning […]

God encounter – A.W. Tozer

God encounter – A.W. Tozer God encounter It is fear of falling into the hands of God that makes us so eager to get things reduced to a formula. We feel that if we can learn the ?secret? of salvation or the ?steps? into the blessed life, we can control our future and (though we […]

God at work or just me? – A.W. Tozer

God at work or just me? – A.W. Tozer God at work or just me? To apply pressure, a person projects himself or herself into the minds and consciences of people made in the image of God and forces them psychologically to do something they have no particular reason for wanting to do. They are […]

God at the center – A.W. Tozer

God at the center – A.W. Tozer God at the Center After Jacob’s first memorable encounter with God in the wilderness, he called the place Beth-el, which means “the house of God.” Many years later, after he had suffered and sinned and repented, and discovered the worthlessness of all earthly things, he renamed the place, […]

God and the individual- A.W. Tozer

God and the individual – A.W. Tozer God and the individual When the eternal Son of God became the Son of Man and walked on this earth, He always called individuals to His side. Jesus did not come into the world to deal with statistics! He deals with individuals and that is why the Christian […]

God always acts like Himself- A.W. Tozer

God always acts like Himself – A.W. Tozer God always acts like Himself Since true faith rests upon what God is, it is of utmost importance that, to the limit of our comprehension, we know what He is. “They that know thy name will put their trust in thee” (Psalm 9:10). The name of God […]

Glory to God- A.W. Tozer

Glory to God – A.W. Tozer Glory to God When the Holy Spirit comes among us with His anointing, we become a worshiping people! Now, that does not mean that all Christians everywhere must all worship alike – but that under the guidance of the Holy Spirit believers everywhere are united in their praises to […]

Glory of the Trinity- A.W. Tozer

Glory of the Trinity – A.W. Tozer Glory of the Trinity The more I read my Bible, the more I believe in the triune God! With the prophet Isaiah, I am stirred by the vision of the heavenly creatures, the seraphim around the throne of God, engrossed in their worship and praise. I have often […]

Glorious contradictions – A.W. Tozer

Glorious contradictions – A.W. Tozer Glorious contradictions God has revealed so many glorious contradictions in the lives and conduct of genuine Christian believers that it is small wonder that we are such an amazement to this world. The Christian is dead and yet he lives forever. He died to himself and yet he lives in […]

Glamour instead of glory – A.W. Tozer

Glamour instead of glory – A.W. Tozer Galmour instead of glory One ominous sign in the social structure that surrounds us is the false attitude toward anything that can be called “ordinary.” There has grown up all around us an idea that the “commonplace” is old-fashioned and strictly for the birds! This existing mania for […]

Give time to God- A.W.Tozer

Give time to God – A.W.Tozer Give time to God I have often wished that there were some way to bring modern Christians into a deeper spiritual life painlessly by short easy lessons; but such wishes are vain. No shortcut exists! God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our […]

Give God the control – A.W. Tozer

Give God the control – A.W. Tozer Give God the control I know that I am being repetitious – but this needs to be said again and again: our Lord will not save those whom He cannot command! The lifetime God has given us down here is a lifetime of decisions. Each person makes his […]

Gifts and graces – A.W. Tozer

Gifts and graces – A.W. Tozer Gifts and graces I go back often to Genesis 24 for the illustration and the figure in the Old Testament reminding us of the adornments of grace and beauty that will mark the believing Body of Christ. Abraham sent his trusted servant to his former homeland to select a […]

Getting honest with God – A.W. Tozer

Getting honest with God – A.W. Tozer Getting honest with God Try what I call the pad and pencil method. This method is very simple and consists of getting on your knees with your Bible, a pad of paper and a pencil. Read the Bible and then write down what is wrong with you. The […]

Getting God in focus- A.W. Tozer

Getting God in focus – A.W. Tozer Getting God in focus While many are busy trying to set forth satisfactory definitions of the word “faith,” we do well to simply consider that believing is directing the heart’s attention to Jesus! It is lifting the mind to “behold the Lamb of God,” and never ceasing that […]

Gentle but determined restorers – A.W. Tozer

Gentle but determined restorers – A.W. Tozer Gentle but determined restorers It is more than probable that in the whole history of the United States there was never at any one time so much religious activity as there is today. And it is also very likely that there was never less true spirituality. . . […]

Geared into things eternal- A.W. Tozer

Geared into things eternal – A.W. Tozer Geared into things eternal The coming of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost was a gracious experience of fulfillment and blessing and direction for the Christian church. It was the continuing emphasis for believers that we must live to gear ourselves into things eternal and to […]

Gazing upon Christ – A.W. Tozer

Gazing upon Christ – A.W. Tozer Gazing upon Christ We have all seen the person who begins all arguments with the unassailable proposition that he is right and reasons from there. We have received a few letters which purported to settle all questions, not by bringing forth reasons, but by establishing the writer’s qualifications to […]

Grasping for the glory of God – A.W. Tozer

Grasping for the glory of God – A.W. Tozer Grasping for the glory of God True spirituality manifests itself in certain dominant desires. These are ever-present, deep-settled wants sufficiently powerful to motivate and control the life. For convenience let me number them, though I make no effort to decide the order of their importance. 1. […]

Game of pious words – A.W. Tozer

Game of pious words – A.W. Tozer Game of pious words Do you realize that most men play at religion as they play at games? Religion itself being of all games the one most universally played. The Church has its “fields” and its “rules” and its equipment for playing the game of pious words. It […]

From Spiritual infancy to maturity – A.W. Tozer

From Spiritual infancy to maturity – A.W. Tozer From Spiritual infancy to maturity Surely we need a baptism of clear seeing if we are to escape the fate of Israel (and of every other religious body in history that forsook God). If not the greatest need, then surely one of the greatest is for the […]

From failure to radical transformation – A.W. Tozer

From failure to radical transformation – A.W. Tozer From failure to radical transformation For all his faults, or perhaps because of them, Peter could do one thing superbly: he could shed tears of grief when he had offended his Savior. The ability to repent is a sweet treasure, and one that is rare among us […]

Friendship trust – A.W. Tozer

Friendship trust – A.W. Tozer Friendship trust It should be pointed out that no revealed truth becomes automatically effective. The effect any truth has upon us depends upon our attitude toward it. First it must be accepted in active faith and received into our minds as completely trustworthy and beyond dispute. It must become a […]

Friends or just acquaintances? – A.W. Tozer

Friends or just acquaintances? – A.W. Tozer Friends or just acquantances There is a great difference between having ?company? and having a friend in the house. The friend we can treat as a member of the family, but company must be entertained. God is not satisfied until there exists between Him and His people a […]

Formula for a burning heart – A.W. Tozer

Formula for a burning heart – A.W. Tozer Formula for a burning heart I have previously said that any Christian who desires to, may experience a radical spiritual renascence, and this altogether independent of the attitude of his fellow Christians.The important question now is How? Well, here are some suggestions which anyone can follow and […]

Form and Substance – A.W. Tozer

Form and Substance – A.W. Tozer Form and Substance Another substitute for discipleship is . Our Lord referred to this when He reproached the Pharisees for their habit of tithing mint and anise and cumin while at the same time omitting the weightier matters of the Law such as justice, mercy and faith. Literalism manifests […]

Forgiveness for the past and provision for the present -A.W. Tozer

Forgiveness for the past and provision for the present – A.W. Tozer Forgiveness for the past and provision for the present . . . To offer a sinner the gift of salvation based upon the work of Christ, while at the same time allowing him to retain the idea that the gift carries with it […]

Footprints in Song- A.W. Tozer

Footprints in Song – A.W. Tozer Footprints in Song One of the serious weaknesses of present-day evangelicalism is the mechanical quality of its thinking. A utilitarian Christ has taken the place of the radiant Savior of other and happier times. This Christ is able to save, it is true, but He is thought to do […]

Following the Truth – A.W. Tozer

Following the Truth – A.W. Tozer Following the truth To know the truth is the greatest privilege any man can enjoy in this life, as truth itself is without doubt the richest treasure anyone can possess. This follows from the nature of truth, and from the world-outlasting dowry it brings to those who open their […]

Fleeing the rut- A.W.Tozer

Fleeing the rut – A.W.Tozer Fleeing the rut If we call Him Lord, how dare we sit any longer in the rut! The Lord has called us to move on. But when people are in a rut, not even the angel Gabriel can help them if they will not come out of it. This is […]

Finding truth in Christ – A.W. Tozer

Finding truth in Christ – A.W. Tozer Finding truth in Christ The Christian is concerned primarily with truth, and especially with Him who is Truth incarnated. Facts are not to be despised. They are to be sought for their practical value and used in the service of truth, but they are never to be allowed […]

Finding light and life in Christ – A.W. Tozer

Finding light and life in Christ – A.W. Tozer Finding light and life in Christ The happiest man in the world,” said a well-known preacher some time ago, “is the new convert before he has met too many Bible teachers and seen too many church members.” Even after we have made what allowance we must […]

Finding Christ in chrismas- A.W. Tozer

Finding Christ in chrismas – A.W. Tozer Finding Christ in christmas Christmas will come and go again this year as it has done through the lost centuries and, after a brief moment of kindness felt, they of the cold, hard world will go on killing and hating and contriving to outwit and outfight each other. […]

Fencing with masters – A.W. Tozer

Fencing with masters – A.W. Tozer Fencing with masters  For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. […]

Fellow workers with God – A.W. Tozer

Fellow workers with God – A.W. Tozer Fellow workers with God Faith, constant meditation on the Scriptures, obedience, humility, . . . 3. “Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Romans 10:17). The Scriptures purify, instruct, strengthen, enlighten and inform. The blessed man will meditate in them day and night. 4. […]

Feeding on God’s Word – A.W. Tozer

Feeding on God’s Word – A.W. Tozer Feeding on God’s Word Faith, constant meditation on the Scriptures, obedience, humility, . . . 3. “Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Romans 10:17). The Scriptures purify, instruct, strengthen, enlighten and inform. The blessed man will meditate in them day and night. 4. […]

Favoritism – A.W. Tozer

Favoritism – A.W. Tozer Favoritism There is an evil which I have seen under the sun–one that grows and does not diminish. And it is all the more dangerous because it is done without evil aforethought but, as it were, carelessly and without wrong intent. It is the evil of giving to them that have […]

Fatherly chastisement – A.W. Tozer

Fatherly chastisement – A.W. Tozer Fatherly chastisement Chastisement is an act of God; cross carrying an act of the Christian. When God in love lays the rod to the back of His children He does not ask permission. Chastisement for the believer is not voluntary except in the sense that he chooses the will of […]

False teaching on obscure teaching – A.W. Tozer

False teaching on obscure teaching – A.W. Tozer False teaching on obsure teaching The last three days of this year—that would be December 28, 29, and 30—I expect to be one of the preachers, and from the looks of the program, they’ve given me a tremendous amount to do, I’m speaking to the—honestly, I don’t […]

False predentenders- A.W Tozer

False predentenders – A.W Tozer False predentenders All persons who are alienated from God and outside of Christ are part and parcel of a mighty deception! They are called upon to pretend that they can have peace of mind within and that they can be relatively happy and make a big success of their human […]

False hope and certain hope – A.W Tozer

False hope and certain hope – A.W Tozer False hope and certain hope Only a Christian has a right to hope, for only he has the power of God to give substance to his hope. The man who hopes in Christ is as safe as the rainbow-circled throne where sits the God who cannot lie. […]

Faithless action and actionless faith – A.W Tozer

Faithless action and actionless faith – A.W Tozer Faithless action and actionless faith Rightly understood, faith is not a substitute for moral conduct but a means toward it. The tree does not serve in lieu of fruit but as an agent by which fruit is secured. Fruit, not trees, is the end God has in […]

Faithful use of God-given resources- A.W. Tozer

Faithful use of God-given resources – A.W. Tozer Faithful use God -given resources One thing taught large in the Holy Scriptures is that while God gives His gifts freely. He will require a strict accounting of them at the end of the road. Each man is personally responsible for his store, be it large or […]

Faithful stewardship- A.W Tozer

Faithful stewardship – A.W Tozer Faithful stewardship God has been pleased to deal with us in a most remarkable way concerning our Christian stewardship and responsibility of honoring Him with the things He has entrusted to us. The Bible teaching is plain: you have the right to keep what you have all to yourself-but it […]

Faith that acts in Faith – A.W Tozer

Faith that acts in Faith – A.W Tozer Faith that acts in faith People use the word fanatic whenever you get a little bit joyful about the Lord. They say you are a fanatic. Webster says that a fanatic is somebody who is too enthusiastic about religion, as if you could be too enthusiastic about […]

Faith must be restored – A.W Tozer

Faith must be restored – A.W Tozer Faith must be restored The Bible tells about man’s being alienated from and an enemy to God. Should this sound harsh or extreme you have only to imagine your closest friend coming to you and stating in cold seriousness that he no longer has any confidence in you. […]

Faith must be demonstrated – A.W Tozer

Faith must be demonstrated – A.W Tozer Faith must be demonstrated Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us. –Hebrews 12:1 The […]

Faith identification with Christ – A.W Tozer

Faith identification with Christ – A.W Tozer Faith identification with Christ If we would be followers of Christ indeed we must become personally and vitally involved in His death and resurrection. And this requires repentance, prayer, watchfulness, self-denial, detachment from the world, humility, obedience and cross carrying. That is why it is easier to talk […]

Faith grows wit use -A.W Tozer

Faith grows wit use – A.W Tozer Faith grows with use It was a saying of George Mueller that faith grows with use. If we would have great faith we must begin to use the little faith we already have. Put it to work by reverent and faithful praying, and it will grow and become […]

Faith divisions – A.W Tozer

Faith divisions – A.W Tozer Faith divisions It should always be kept in mind that the Church is a divine family and that its loyalties sometimes cut sharply across the ties that bind earthly families together. The cross is a sword and often separates friends and divides households. The idea that Christ always brings peace […]

Faith despite feeling or sight – A.W Tozer

Faith despite feeling or sight – A.W Tozer   Faith despite feeling or sight A fanatic is somebody seeking desirable ends but ignoring constituted means. Seeking to get out of the religious rut is a desirable end. It is right and it is in the will of God. But trying to do it in a […]

Faith and Prayer – A.W Tozer

Faith and Prayer – A.W Tozer Faith and Prayer In Hebrews we find a long list of benefits which faith brings to its possessor: justification, deliverance, fruitfulness, endurance, victory over enemies, courage, strength and even resurrection from the dead. Then, everything that is attributed thus to faith might with equal truth be attributed to prayer; […]

Faith and Obedience -A.W Tozer

Faith and Obedience – A.W Tozer Faith and Obedience What is our answer to the many confused persons who keep asking: “How can we know that we have come into a saving relationship with Jesus Christ?” First, we stand together on the basic truth that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. A […]

Faith and Fiction – A.W Tozer

Faith and Fiction – A.W Tozer Faith and Fiction Credulity and faith are like toadstools and mushrooms respectively, near enough in appearance to be mistaken for each other, but so wholly unlike that their effects are exactly opposite. The true man of faith is seldom credulous, and the credulous man seldom has real faith. Faith […]

Faith and Experience – A.W Tozer

Faith and Experience – A.W Tozer Faith and Experience I insist that the effective preaching of Jesus Christ, rightly understood, will produce Christian experience in Christian believers. Moreover, if preaching does not produce spiritual experience and maturing in the believer, that preaching is not being faithful to the Christ revealed in the Scriptures. Let me […]

Failure of Religion – A.W Tozer

Failure of Religion – A.W Tozer Failure of Religion Millions of men and women refuse to face up to the fact that religion, in and of itself, is not enough for the sinner’s need. It is amazing how many things religious people want to do to you. They can start with infant baptism and end […]

Face down , listening – A.W Tozer

Face down , listening – A.W Tozer Face down , listening Then Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him, saying: “As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of many nations.” –Genesis 17:3-4 The Scriptures declare, “Abram fell on his face” as the Lord talked […]

Exploring Divine revelation – A.W Tozer

Exploring Divine revelation – A.W Tozer Exploring divine revelation God has given us a broad world of truth for our spiritual and intellectual habitation. This universe of truth is to the human soul as limitless as the air to a bird or the sea to a fish. There the Christian mind can luxuriate at perfect […]

Explore God’s Word – A.W Tozer

Explore God’s Word – A.W Tozer Explore God’s Word What a strange paradox! The atheistic free-thinker rants and raves about the Bible being a “dangerous” book at the very same time that the Word of God is speaking life to my soul! Strange indeed that some humans have the idea that the Word of God […]

Experiencing God despite the distractions – A.W Tozer

Experiencing God despite the distractions – A.W Tozer Experience God dispite the distractions In the normal course of things a certain number of distractions are bound to come to each one of us; but if we learn to be inwardly still these can be rendered relatively harmless. It would not be hard to compile a […]

Exercising our Option to Experience God – A.W Tozer

Exercising our Option to Experience God – A.W Tozer Exercising our option to experience God Without doubt the greatest need of the human personality is to experience God Himself. This is because of who God is and who and what man is. God is the essence of intelligent, self-conscious life and man is created in […]

Except ye repent -A.W Tozer

Except ye repent – A.W Tozer Except ye repent There are many compelling lessons to be drawn from the Scriptures and one of the clearest is that sinful and rebellious people can never be forced into repentance. The same act that may cause one person to repent and believe will cause others to hate and […]

Exaltation of the humble- A.W Tozer

Exaltation of the humble – A.W Tozer Exaltation of the humble Someone wrote to me recently asking what I meant by a statement which occurs in the booklet Paths to Power, which I wrote some years ago. The passage reads: “No one was ever filled with the Holy Spirit without knowing it. The Holy Spirit […]

Evidence of the Spirit at work – A.W Tozer

Evidence of the Spirit at work – A.W Tozer Evidence of the Spirit at work Someone wrote to me recently asking what I meant by a statement which occurs in the booklet Paths to Power, which I wrote some years ago. The passage reads: “No one was ever filled with the Holy Spirit without knowing […]

Everything in Jesus- A.W Tozer

Everything in Jesus – A.W Tozer Everything in Jesus God’s gifts are many; His best gift is one. It is the gift of Himself. Above all gifts, God desires most to give Himself to His people. Our nature being what it is, we are the best fitted of all creatures to know and enjoy God. […]

Everyone’s Savior-A.W Tozer

Everyone’s Savior – A.W Tozer Everyone’s Savior It may shock some people to be told that Christ is not an American. Nor was He a Jew merely. He was born of the seed of Abraham of the line of David, and His mother was a Jewess of the tribe of Judah. Still Christ is vastly […]

Everyone may come-A.W Tozer

Everyone may come – A.W Tozer Everyone may come There is a strange beauty in the ways of God with men. He sends salvation to the world in the person of a Man and sends that Man to walk the byways, saying, “If any man will come after Me!” No fanfare; no tramp of marching […]

Everyday worship-A.W Tozer

Everyday worship – A.W Tozer Everyday worship It is my experience that the totality of our Christian lives-our entire attitude as persons-must be towards the worship of God! If you do not know the presence of God in your office, your factory, your home-then God is not in the church you attend, either! I became […]

Every hindrance removed-A.W Tozer

Every hindrance removed – A.W Tozer Every hindrance removed There are many legal and governmental reasons why lost men and women should not go to heaven! It should not be difficult for us to acknowledge that a holy and righteous God must run His universe according to holy law – and we do not belong […]

Evangelical Intellectualism and the Spirit’s Power-A.W Tozer

Evangelical Intellectualism and the Spirit’s Power – A.W Tozer Evangelical Intellectualism and the Spirit’s Power There has emerged lately in American Christianity a school of religious thought conceived in intellectual pride and dedicated to the proposition that everything of value in the Christian faith can be reduced to philosophical terms and understood by the human […]

Enoch escaped death-A.W Tozer

Enoch escaped death – A.W Tozer Enoch escaped death The Genesis record concerning Enoch should speak to us of our own troubled times-for that is the purpose of the Word of God. It should be our concern that we hear and that we obey! The faith and deportment of the man Enoch compose a vivid […]

Enduring hardship-A.W Tozer

Enduring hardship – A.W Tozer Enduring hardship Almost every cult with which we have any acquaintance practices this art of selecting and ignoring. The no-hell cults, for example, habitually stress everything in the Bible that seems to support their position and play down or explain away all the passages that deal with eternal punishment. But […]

Encountering the whole Word of God-A.W Tozer

Encountering the whole Word of God – A.W Tozer Encountering the whole Word of God Almost every cult with which we have any acquaintance practices this art of selecting and ignoring. The no-hell cults, for example, habitually stress everything in the Bible that seems to support their position and play down or explain away all […]

Encountering God-A.W Tozer

Encountering God – A.W Tozer Encountering God The man that will have God’s best becomes at once the object of the personal attention of the Holy Spirit. Such a man will not be required to wait for the rest of the church to come alive. He will not be penalized for the failures of his […]

Empty words-A.W Tozer

Empty words – A.W Tozer Empty words We Christians owe it to ourselves and to the human race to be above all persons, candid, downright and completely transparent. We must have no truck with fancy, but see to it that our religious talk hugs the facts as tightly as a glove and that our words […]

Emergency living-A.W Tozer

Emergency living – A.W Tozer Emergency living Before there can be acceptable service there must be an acceptable life. Before we can know how much we owe we must learn how great is the need. Men are caught in a disaster worse than earthquake or flood, and the redeemed of the Lord are to work […]

Embracing the cross of Christ-A.W Tozer

Embracing the cross of Christ – A.W Tozer Embracing the cross of Christ Let us plant ourselves on the hill of Zion and invite the world to come over to us, but never under any circumstances will we go over to them. The cross is the symbol of Christianity, and the cross speaks of death […]

Embracing God’s thoughts-A.W Tozer

Embracing God’s thoughts – A.W Tozer Embracing God’s thoughts Whenever and wherever there is a controversy between God and a man, God is always right and the man always wrong. “So that you may be proved right in your words and prevail in your judging” (Psalm 51:4). The only way any man can be right […]

Easter and missions-A.W Tozer

Easter and missions – A.W Tozer Easter and missions Do we really believe that the resurrection of Jesus Christ is something more than making us the “happiest fellows in the Easter parade”? Are we just to listen to the bright cantata and join in singing, “Up from the Grave He Arose,” smell the flowers and […]

Dross removal-A.W Tozer

Dross removal – A.W Tozer Dross removal If God sets out to make you an unusual Christian He is not likely to be as gentle as He is usually pictured by the popular teachers. A sculptor does not use a manicure set to reduce the rude, unshapely marble to a thing of beauty. The saw, […]

Dottng on the past-A.W Tozer

Dottng on the past – A.W Tozer Doting on the past I always get an uneasy feeling when I find myself with people who have nothing to discuss but the glories of the days that are past! Why are we not willing to believe what the Bible tells us? The Christian’s great future is before […]

Doing today what ought to be done-A.W Tozer

Doing today what ought to be done – A.W Tozer Doing today what ought to be done Altogether apart from the prophetic expectations of devout men, there is the familiar fact of death itself. Of those Christians who had died, Paul said simply, “Some have fallen asleep.” What a vast and goodly company they make, […]

Do you love beauty?-A.W Tozer

Do you love beauty? – A.W Tozer Do you love beauty? When we look closely at this world system and society, we see the terrible and ugly scars of sin. Sin has obscenely scarred and defaced this world, taking away its harmony and symmetry and beauty. That is the negative picture. Thank God for the […]

Do you know where you are going?-A.W Tozer

Do you know where you are going? – A.W Tozer Do you know where you are going? It is a simple axiom of the traveler that if he would arrive at the desired destination he must take the right road. How far a man may have traveled is not important; what matters is whether or […]

Do we follow in their steps?-A.W Tozer

Do we follow in their steps? – A.W Tozer Do we follow in their steps? Read history and see how the covenanters stood and died rather than give up to the enemy. Are we satisfied to be degenerate sons of great fathers? Consider A. B. Simpson who walked the shores of the Atlantic Ocean with […]

Do things possess us?-A.W Tozer

Do things possess us? – A.W Tozer Do things possess us? I think a lot of people in our congregations get confused when some learned brother advises us that we must all join in a fervent fight against “materialism.” If men and women do not know what materialism is, how can they be expected to […]

Divinely occupied-A.W Tozer

Divinely occupied – A.W Tozer Divinely occupied The doctrine of the divine indwelling is one of the most important in the New Testament, and its meaning for the individual Christian is precious beyond all description. To neglect it is to suffer serious loss. The apostle Paul prayed for the Ephesian Christians that Christ might dwell […]

Divine initiative-A.W Tozer

Divine initiative – A.W Tozer Divine initiative The Christian Scriptures, particularly the Gospel of John, contain two truths which appear to stand opposed to each other. One is that whosoever will may come to Christ. The other is that before anyone can come there must have been a previous work done in his heart by […]

Distractions distractions distractions-A.W Tozer

Distractions distractions distractions – A.W Tozer Distractions distractions distractions And what is the devotional mood? It is nothing else than constant awareness of God’s enfolding presence, the holding of inward conversations with Christ and private worship of God in spirit and in truth. Public worship embraces the community of believers and is genuine only as […]

Distorting word meaning-A.W Tozer

Distorting word meaning – A.W Tozer   Distorting word meaning The constant use of biblical terms to express non-biblical concepts is now common. Yet not everyone who misuses religious words is guilty of wrong intent. For two full generations the habit of emptying words of one meaning and refilling them with another has been taking […]

Distinguishing what is Caesar’s and what is God’s-A.W Tozer

Distinguishing what is Caesar’s and what is God’s – A.W Tozer Distinguishing what is Caesar’s and what is God’s One thing must be kept in mind: We Christians are Christians first and everything else after that. Our first alliegiance is to the kingdom of God. Our citizenship is in heaven. We are grateful for political […]

Distinguishing between Jacob and Esau-A.W Tozer

Distinguishing between Jacob and Esau – A.W Tozer Distingshing between Jacob and Esau There are areas of Christian thought, and because of thought then also of life, where likenesses and differences are so difficult to distinguish that we are often hard put to it to escape complete deception. Throughout the whole world error and truth […]

Discipling as many as possible-A.W Tozer

Discipling as many as possible – A.W Tozer Discipling as many as possible Now the serious Christian wants to escape both extremes. Yet he is much concerned about the whole matter of numbers and is eager to find the will of God for his life and ministry. Should he go out for larger crowds or […]

Disciminating reading-A.W Tozer

Disciminating reading – A.W Tozer Disciminating reading I hope my readers conclude right here that I have contradicted myself in the above paragraphs. It will indicate that they have been reading with their critical faculties awake. But actually there is no self-contradiction present. I have warned against harmful books and declare that there is no […]

Discerning leadership-A.W Tozer

Discerning leadership – A.W Tozer Discerning leadership For I know this, that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. Also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves. –Acts 20:29-30 Within the circles of evangelical Christianity itself there has […]

Devotion to things holy-A.W Tozer

Devotion to things holy – A.W Tozer Devotion to things holy Success is any field is costly, but the man who will pay the price can have it. The concert pianist must become a slave to his instrument; four hours, five hours each day he must sit at the keyboard. The scientist must live for […]

Determining to follow the Lord-A.W Tozer

Determining to follow the Lord – A.W Tozer Determining to follow the Lord That religion lies in the will is an axiom of theology. Not how we feel but what we will determines our spiritual direction. An old poem states it for us: “One ship drives east and another drives west with the selfsame winds […]

Determining the cause of pain-A.W Tozer

Determining the cause of pain – A.W Tozer Determining the cause of pain But how can we tell in a given situation whether our pain is from the cross or the rod? Pain is pain from whatever source it comes. Jonah in flight from the will of God suffered no worse storm than did Paul […]

Determined implementation of change-A.W Tozer

Determined implementation of change – A.W Tozer Determined inplementation of change . . . Well, here are some suggestions which anyone can follow and which, I am convinced, will result in a wonderfully improved Christian life. . . . 8. Deliberately narrow your interests. The jack-of-all-trades is the master of none. The Christian life requires […]

Detailing the everything-A.W Tozer

Detailing the everything – A.W Tozer Detailing the everything It is important that we trace our benefits back to their source and express our thanks to the One ?from whom all blessings flow,? rather than merely to feel a vague stirring of gratefulness that results in nothing real. I once lived with a fine old […]

Desire to be filled-A.W Tozer

Desire to be filled – A.W Tozer Desire to be filled And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit. –Ephesians 5:18 Again, before you can be filled with the Spirit you must desire to be filled. Here I meet with a certain amount of puzzlement. Somebody […]

Desire and the end of the age-A.W Tozer

Desire and the end of the age – A.W Tozer Desire and the end of the age It is precisely the “yearning” and the “fainting” for the return of Christ that has distinguished the personal hope from the theological one. Mere acquaintance with correct doctrine is a poor substitute for Christ, and familiarity with New […]

Dependence on God-A.W Tozer

Dependence on God – A.W Tozer Dependence on God Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content. I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to […]

Demonstrate your faith-A.W Tozer

Demonstrate your faith – A.W Tozer Demonstrate your faith We know of many who have been deceived into believing that the learning and the memorizing of Christian doctrine is all-sufficient. They actually think that somehow they are better off for having learned the doctrines of religion. God actually asks of us what He asked of […]

Deliverance from “me” – A.W Tozer

Deliverance from “me” – A.W Tozer Deliverance from “me” What are the terms of discipleship? Only one with a perfect knowledge of mankind could have dared to make them. Only the Lord of men could have risked the effect of such rigorous demands: Let him deny himself. We hear these words and shake our heads […]

Delighted wonder-A.W Tozer

Delighted wonder – A.W Tozer Delighted wonder God always acts like Himself, wherever He may be and whatever He may be doing; in Him there is neither variableness nor shadow of turning. Yet His infinitude places Him so far above our knowing that a lifetime spent in cultivating the knowledge of Him leaves as much […]

Defining church-A.W Tozer

Defining church – A.W Tozer Defining church It is time for us to reconsider this matter of the church. Most people think of the church as a familiar social fact. Their attitude toward Protestantism generally is that of a matter of course, and people, even average Christians, think they are in favor of the church. […]

Defining sin-A.W Tozer

Defining sin – A.W Tozer Defining sin For an act to be sinful the quality of voluntariness must also be present. Sin is the voluntary commission of an act known to be contrary to the will of God. Where there is no moral knowledge or where there is no voluntary choice, the act is not […]

Deeply personal-A.W Tozer

Deeply personal – A.W Tozer Deeply personal I once wrote of the need of the inner witness and pointed out that the lack of it is producing a strain of feeble Christians, weak, half-hearted and pitifully unsure of themselves. A reader wrote to say in effect that she agreed with me fully and wanted very […]

Decisions or disciples?-A.W Tozer

Decisions or disciples? – A.W Tozer Decisions or disciples? Today we need people who dare to question the status quo and say, “Wait a minute here. Where do you find this in the Bible?” The idea that all you have to do is to accept Christ and you are in is a great mistake. It […]

Dealing with the roots of fretfulness-A.W Tozer

Dealing with the roots of fretfulness – A.W Tozer Dealing with the roots of fretfulness The Holy Spirit in Psalm 37:1 admonishes us to beware of irritation in our religious lives: “Do not fret because of evil men or be envious of those who do wrong.” The word “fret” comes to us from the Anglo-Saxon, […]

Dealing with sin-A.W Tozer

Dealing with sin – A.W Tozer Dealing with sin Many evangelical teachers insist so strongly upon free, unconditional grace as to create the impression that sin is not a serious matter and that God cares very little about it! They make it seem that God is only concerned with our escaping the consequences. The gospel, […]

Dead passivity-A.W Tozer

Dead passivity – A.W Tozer Dead passivity Most readers will remember (some with just a trace of nostalgia) his or her early struggles to learn the difference between the active and the passive voice in English grammar, and how it finally dawned that in the active voice, the subject performs an act; in the passive […]

Dead churches-A.W Tozer

Dead churches – A.W Tozer Dead churches …These things says He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: “I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead.” –Revelation 3:1 I think we are going to have to restudy this whole teaching of the […]

Daring to stand for truth-A.W Tozer

Daring to stand for truth – A.W Tozer Daring to stand for truth The nearer we draw to the heart of God the less taste we will have for controversy. The peace we know in God’s bosom is so sweet that it is but natural that we want to keep it unbroken to enjoy as […]

Dare we expect miracles today?-A.W Tozer

Dare we expect miracles today? – A.W Tozer Dare we expect miracles today? I also long in the tender mercies of Christ that among us there may be the following: . . . 8. Answers to prayer; miracles should not be uncommon. I am not a miracle preacher. I have been in churches where they […]

Daily following -A.W Tozer

Daily following – A.W Tozer Daily following A strange thing under the sun is crossless Christianity. The cross of Christendom is a no-cross, an ecclesiastical symbol. The cross of Christ is a place of death. Let each one be careful which cross he carries. And follow me. Now the glory begins to break in upon […]

Daily cross-carrying-A.W Tozer

Daily cross-carrying – A.W Tozer Daily cross-carrying Our Lord called men to follow Him but He never made the way look easy. Indeed one gets the distinct impression that He made it appear extremely hard. Sometimes He said things to disciples or prospective disciples that we today discreetly avoid repeating when we are trying to […]

Cultivating spiritual disciplines-A.W Tozer

Cultivating spiritual disciplines – A.W Tozer Cultivating spiritual disciplines Perhaps they have committed sins of the mind. . . . To think God’s thoughts requires much prayer. If you do not pray much, you are not thinking God’s thoughts. If you do not read your Bible much and often and reverently, you are not thinking […]

Crossless Christianity-A.W Tozer

Crossless Christianity – A.W Tozer Crossless Christianity About 300 B.C. a Greek king named Pyrrhus fought a battle with the Romans at Heraclea. Pyrrhus won the battle but in doing so he suffered such appalling losses as to more than offset his gains. Thus a victory that costs too much is often called a Pyrrhic […]

Crossing over Jordan-A.W Tozer

Crossing over Jordan – A.W Tozer Crossing over Jordan The prophets and the psalmists of the Old Testament wrestled as we do with the problem of evil in a divine universe but their approach to God and nature was much more direct than ours. They did not interpose between God and His world that opaque […]

Cross-carrying-A.W Tozer

Cross-carrying – A.W Tozer Cross-carrying The spiritual man wants to carry his cross. Many Christians accept adversity or tribulation with a sigh and call it their cross, forgetting that such things come alike to saint and sinner. The cross is that extra adversity that comes to us as a result of our obedience to Christ. […]

Crises of love-A.W Tozer

Crises of love – A.W Tozer Crises of love If we lived in a spiritual Utopia where every wind blew toward heaven and every man was a friend of God, we Christians could take everything for granted, counting on the new life within us to cause us to do the will of God without effort […]

Created for God’s glory-A.W Tozer

Creatd for God’s glory Philosophers have noted the vast difference between men and beasts and have tried to find that difference in one or another distinguishing characteristic. They have said, for instance, that man is the thinking animal, or that he is the laughing animal, or that he is the only animal with a conscience. […]

Courageous prayer-A.W Tozer

Courageous prayer – A.W Tozer Courageous prayer In a world like ours, courage is an indispensable virtue. The coward may snivel in his corner, but the brave man takes the prize. And in the kingdom of God, courage is as necessary as it is in the world. The timid soul is as pitiable on his […]

Counterfeit christians-A.W Tozer

Counterfeit christians – A.W Tozer Counterfeit christians . . . If we compare what we ought to be and could be with what we are, and we don’t see that we are in a rut and we are not concerned, then one of three things may be wrong. First, we may not be converted at […]

Cost of complaining-A.W Tozer

Cost of complaining – A.W Tozer Cost of complaining The complainer is further embarassed by the moral company in which he finds himself. His is a spiritual affinity with some pretty shady characters: Cain, Korah, the sulky elder brother, the petulant Jews of the Book of Malachi who answered every fatherly admonition of God with […]

Costly discipleship-A.W Tozer

Costly discipleship – A.W Tozer Costly discipleship To be happy, adjust to the social norm. That is the popular notion but it will not hold up under examination. This norm to which we must adjust-where did it come from? What Moses brought it down from what mount? Where are its credentials? From whence its authority? […]

Costly adjustment to this world-A.W Tozer

Costly adjustment to this world – A.W Tozer Costly adjustment to this world To be happy, adjust to the social norm. That is the popular notion but it will not hold up under examination. This norm to which we must adjust-where did it come from? What Moses brought it down from what mount? Where are […]

Conviction and pain-A.W Tozer

Conviction and pain – A.W Tozer   Conviction and pain I consider it a good sign that some people are still asking questions like these in our churches: “What should happen in a genuine conversion to Christ?” and “What should a man or woman feel in the transaction of the new birth?” If I am […]

Confused about worship-A.W Tozer

Confused about worship – A.W Tozer Confused about worship To really know Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord is to love and worship Him! As God’s people, we are so often confused that we could be known as God’s poor, stumbling, bumbling people, for we are most prone to think of worship as something we […]

Confirming signs-A.W Tozer

Confirming signs – A.W Tozer Confirming signs And they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word through the accompanying signs. –Mark 16:20 Such words as these in the second chapter of Hebrews stand as a rebuke to the unbelieving Christians of our day: “God also bearing them witness, […]

Confining the Holy Spirit to a footnote-A.W Tozer

Confining the Holy Spirit to a footnote – A.W Tozer Confining the Holy Spirit to a footnote The question being discussed by many these days–why religion is increasing and morality slipping, all at the same time–finds its answer in this very error, the error of religious intellectualism. Men have a form of godliness but deny […]

Confidence in Him-A.W Tozer

Confidence in Him – A.W Tozer Confidence in Him Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. –Hebrews 4:16 You can have this confidence in God, and you can have this respect for His will. Do not expect God […]

Confessing our Love-A.W Tozer

Confessing our Love – A.W Tozer Confessing our Love Consider with me the appealing Old Testament story of the beautiful young woman in the Song of Solomon. Deeply in love with the young shepherd, she is also actively sought out by the king, who demands her favor. She remains loyal to the simple shepherd, who […]

Confess Christ’s Lordship-A.W Tozer

Confess Christ’s Lordship – A.W Tozer Confess Christ’s Lordship I think it is a completely wrong concept in Christian circles to look upon Jesus as a kind of divine nurse to whom we can go when sin has made us sick, and after He has helped us, to say, “Goodbye, Jesus”-and go on our own […]

Condemnation or no condemnation-A.W Tozer

Condemnation or no condemnation – A.W Tozer Condemnation or no condemnation A sinful man should be afraid; he has plenty to be afraid of. The consequences of his sins, death, judgment and hell are all awaiting him and he cannot escape them by looking the other way. While he lives on earth there are dangers […]

Concepts of Spirituality-A.W Tozer

Concepts of Spirituality – A.W Tozer Concepts of Spirituality The concept of spirituality varies among different Christian groups. In some circles the highly vocal person who talks religion continually is thought to be very spiritual; others accept noisy exuberance as a mark of spirituality, and in some churches the man who prays first, longest and […]

Concentrating on things that really matter- A.W Tozer

Concentrating on things that really matter – A.W Tozer Concentrating on things that really matter In the Christian life also we find this pattern repeated: a few important things and a world of burdensome but unimportant ones. The Spirit-taught Christian must look past the multiplicity of incidental things and find the few that really matter. […]

Compromise is costly- A.W Tozer

Compromise is costly – A.W Tozer Compromise is costly Christianity today is so entangled with this present world that millions never guess how radically they have missed the New Testament pattern. Compromise is everywhere-but actually no real union between the world and the Church is possible. When the Church joins up with the world it […]

Completely dedicated to Christ: Are we? – A.W Tozer

Completely dedicated to Christ: Are we? – A.W Tozer Completely dedicated to Christ: Are we? The truth is, dedication of the life to any thing or anyone short of God Himself, is a prostitution of noble powers and must bring a harvest of grief and disappointment at last. Only God is worthy of the soul […]

Commiting to personal revival – A.W Tozer

Commiting to personal revival – A.W Tozer Commiting to personal revival One consequence of our failure to see clearly the true nature of revival is that we wait for years for some supernatural manifestation that never comes, overlooking completely our own individual place in the desired awakening. Whatever God may do for a church must […]

Commendation in the face of condemnation- A.W Tozer

Commendation in the face of condemnation – A.W Tozer Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest Email   Commendation in the face of condemnation Paul’s Corinthian detractors first tried to discredit him entirely by starting a whispering campaign to the effect that he was actually no apostle but a power-hungry impostor seeking to bring them under his control. […]

Come as you are – A.W Tozer

Come as you are – A.W Tozer Come as you are Let me say this to any of you who are still trying to add up your human merits-look away in faith to the Lord of abundant mercy! Fixing yourself over and trying to straighten yourself out will never be sufficient-you must come to Jesus […]

Collection of A W Tozer prayers volume 9

Collection of A W Tozer prayers volume 9 Collection of A W Tozer prayers volume 9 “Let’s pray. Oh Lord, Lord, Thou hast brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. Thou hast set a candle in every Christian grave. Thou hast sanctified every floating Christian body in the vast sea. Thou hast sanctified […]

Collection of A W Tozer prayers volume 7

Collection of A W Tozer prayers volume 7 Collection of A W Tozer prayers volume 7 “Let’s pray. Oh Lord Jesus, We’ve just been thinking of an incident that took place in Thy earthly life, back in old Judea. Here we are Lord in another part of the world on another continent, among another kind […]

Collection of A W Tozer prayers volume 6

Collection of A W Tozer prayers volume 6 Collection of A W Tozer prayers volume 6 “Oh Good blessed Lord Jesus, blessed Lord Jesus. Thou didst come on a mission; our trembling hearts tell us thou should have come with raging eyes to be our judge. Thou shouldst have come as our executioner to put […]

Collection of A W Tozer prayers volume 5

Collection of A W Tozer prayers volume 5 Collection of A W Tozer prayers volume 5 “Father, Bless Thou this exhortation on our shoulders Father, and send us out a happy people. For surely we are to be a happy people, Since Thou art our Father, and Jesus our brother, and the Holy Ghost our […]

Collection of A W Tozer prayers volume 3

Collection of A W Tozer prayers volume 3 Collection of A W Tozer prayers volume 3 “Father, we pray Thy blessing upon these words, and upon the little commentary that we’ve made on them, trying to apply to them to our practical living. We pray that Thou will give consent of heart and willingness to […]

Collection of A W Tozer prayers volume 2

Collection of A W Tozer prayers volume 2 “Oh Son of God, most Holy God, that holy thing which shall be born of Thee shall be called the Son of God. Oh holy thing, born, crucified, risen, enthroned, we beseech Thee that Thou would rebuke all the unholiness in us that would grieve Thy Spirit […]

Collection of A W Tozer prayers volume 1

Collection of A W Tozer prayers volume 1 Collection of A W Tozer prayers Father we pray: Bless thou this truth. Oh God, thy mercies are abundant. Are not thy mercies full and free, and have they not, oh God, found out me? We thank thee for thy mercies, thy many, abundant, full mercies. Now […]

Cleaning out the closets- A.W.Tozer

Cleaning out the closets – A.W.Tozer Cleaning out the closets Another question to put to yourself is, “Do I have any habits I am ashamed to let anybody know I have? Have I any personal habits that I am ashamed of? Do I hide something when the pastor is coming? If everything were known in […]

Claiming all that is ours in Christ- A.W Tozer

Claiming all that is ours in Christ – A.W Tozer Claiming all that is ours in Christ Those spiritual blessings in heavenly places which are ours in Christ may be divided into three classes: The first is those which come to us immediately upon our believing unto salvation, such as forgiveness, justification, regeneration, sonship to […]

Claim your inheritance- A.W.Tozer

Claim your inheritance – A.W.Tozer Claim your inheritance Did you know that it is possible for a Christian believer to live day after day, clutching the book of Ephesians, and still not realize that he is spiritually lean and hungry? If a pastor or evangelist suggests that this person could be in a more prosperous […]

Church essentials-A.W.Tozer

Church essentials – A.W.Tozer Church essentials The Church as announced by Christ, seen in the book of Acts and explained by Paul is a thing of great simplicity and rare beauty. The church as we see it today is unsymmetrical, highly complex and anything but beautiful. Indeed I think that if some angel of God […]

Church as the Bride of Christ-A.W.Tozer

Church as the Bride of Christ – A.W.Tozer Church as the bride of Christ . . . the church is the bride of Christ. Jesus was a complete man. He had all the nature of a man, but He never married. He could have, but He never did. He never married any woman though He […]

Christ’s world of nature-A.W.Tozer

Christ’s world of nature – A.W.Tozer Christ’s world of nature Jesus Christ came into our world in the fullness of time, and His own world, the world of nature, received Him, even though His own people received Him not! It is my own feeling that when Jesus came, all of nature went out to greet […]

Christ’s unique sacrifice-A.W.Tozer

Christ’s unique sacrifice – A.W.Tozer Christ’s unique sacrifice In a friendly conversation with a Catholic priest I learned from the lips of this appointed spokesman of the Roman Church the philosophy of the Mass. He started with the blood offering of Abel and traced the practice of propitiatory sacrifice down through the Scriptures to the […]

Christ’s Picture everywhere-A.W.Tozer

Christ’s Picture everywhere – A.W.Tozer Christ’s picture everywhere We try to sympathize with the writer John as he attempts to describe heavenly creatures in human terms in the book of Revelation. He knew and we know that it was impossible for God to fully reveal Himself and the heavenly glories to a man. John tries […]

Chrismas is real-A.W.Tozer

Chrismas is real – A.W.Tozer Christmas is real The birth of Christ was a divine declaration, an eternal statement to a race of fallen men and women. The Advent of Christ clearly established: First, that God is real. The heavens were opened and another world than this came into view. Second, that human life is […]

Christmas breezes-A.W.Tozer

Christmas breezes – A.W.Tozer Christmas breezes For those nations of the earth which have known the story of Jesus, Christmas is undoubtedly the most beautiful time of the year. Though the celebration of the Savior’s birth occurs in the dead of winter, when in many parts of the world the streams are frozen and the […]

Christ:Our only grounds for boasting-A.W.Tozer

Christ:Our only grounds for boasting – A.W.Tozer Christ:Our only grounds for boasting The faith of the Christian rests upon Christ Himself. On Him we repose and in Him we live. Christ gains nothing from any human philosophy, however pure and noble it may be. He owes nothing to Plato or to Aristotle. If these men […]

Christ will rule-A.W.Tozer

Christ will rule – A.W.Tozer Christ will rule I am not surprised that I still meet people who do not believe that Jesus Christ is going to return to earth. In fact, some of them, armed with their own Bibles and interpretations, are insistent on setting me “straight.” One gentleman has written saying that I […]

Christ the sacrifice receiver-A.W.Tozer

Christ the sacrifice receiver – A.W.Tozer Christ the sacrifice receiver In the New Testament, John tried to tell us about God. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (1:1). “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the […]

Christ precedence-A.W.Tozer

Christ precedence – A.W.Tozer Christ precedence . . ?If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters–yes, even his own life–he cannot be my disciple. And anyone who does not carry his cross and follow me cannot be my disciple? (14:26-27). What Christ […]

Christ made the world-A.W.Tozer

Christ made the world – A.W.Tozer Christ made the world Think about the world into which our Lord Jesus Christ came-it is actually Christ’s world! Every section of this earth that we buy and sell and kick around and take by force of arms is a part of Christ’s world. He made it all and […]

Christ is not divided-A.W.Tozer

Christ is not divided – A.W.Tozer Christ is not divided Much of our full gospel literature and much of our preaching tend to perpetuate a misunderstanding of what the Bible says about obedience and Christian discipleship. I think the following is a fair statement of what I was taught in my early Christian experience and […]

Christ in all-A.W.Tozer

Christ in all – A.W.Tozer Christ in all One thing the young Christian should be taught as quickly as possible after his conversion is that Jesus Christ is all he needs. When he believes effectively on Christ as his Lord and Savior he can humbly declare his independence of everyone and everything outside of Christ. […]

Christ in you-A.W.Tozer

Christ in you – A.W.Tozer Christ in you The supreme purpose of the Christian religion is to make men like God in order that they may act like God. In Christ the verbs to be and to do follow each other in that order. True religion leads to moral action. The only true Christian is […]

Christ came to save-A.W.Tozer

Christ came to save – A.W.Tozer Christ came to save  Millions who have rejected the Christian gospel have generally been too busy and too involved to ask themselves a simple question: “What really is God’s intention toward me?” They could have found the plain and simple answer given by the Apostle John: “For God sent […]

Choosing Light-A.W.Tozer

Choosing Light – A.W.Tozer Choosing Light God has given us a broad world of truth for our spiritual and intellectual habitation. This universe of truth is to the human soul as limitless as the air to a bird or the sea to a fish. There the Christian mind can luxuriate at perfect liberty. While the […]

Choosing God’s will-A.W.Tozer

Choosing God’s will – A.W.Tozer Choosing God’s will No act that is done voluntarily is an abrogation of the freedom of will. If a man chooses the will of God he is not denying but exercising his right of choice. What he is doing is admitting that he is not good enough to desire the […]

Choosing God’s side-A.W.Tozer

Choosing God’s side – A.W.Tozer Choosing God’s side The points at which God’s way and man’s intersect are likely to be four (though there may be others), and we will usually find our differences with God to occur somewhere in these four areas. . . . Second, our moral standards. There are probably as many […]

Choices-A.W.Tozer

Choices – A.W.Tozer Choices I have chosen the way of truth; Your judgments I have laid before me. I cling to Your testimonies; O Lord, do not put me to shame! –Psalm 119:30-31 The important thing about a man is not where he goes when he is compelled to go, but where he goes when […]

Child of two worlds-A.W.Tozer

Child of two worlds – A.W.Tozer Child of two worlds In the kingdom of God, the surest way to lose something is to try to protect it, and the best way to keep it is to let it go. This was the word of our Lord Jesus Christ: “If any man will come after me, […]

Cheap religion-A.W.Tozer

Cheap religion – A.W.Tozer Cheap religion What passes for Christianity in our day is cheap religion! To listen to the current concepts of Christianity, we would conclude it is little more than bits of beautiful poetry, a man-made bouquet of fragrant flowers, a kindly smile for our neighbor and a couple of good deeds on […]

Chasing truth-A.W.Tozer

Chasing truth – A.W.Tozer Chasing truth To think well and usefully a man must be endowed with certain indispensable qualifications. He must, for one thing, be completely honest and transparently sincere. Another qualification is courage. The timid man dare not think lest he discover himself, an experience to him as shocking as the discovery that […]

Changing times and unchanging thirst-A.W Tozer

Changing times and unchanging thirst – A.W Tozer Changing times and unchanging thirst There is a well-known saying which I think originated with the French, that the more things change the more they remain the same. The wisdom of this saying may be seen in almost every department of human life, the reason probably being […]

Changes regress or progress-A.W.Tozer

Changes regress or progress – A.W.Tozer Changes regress or progress I challenge the idea that we are advanced. I know the majority of modern educators, newpaper writers, TV personalities, radio reporters, politicians and all the rest do not agree with me. Nevertheless, I challenge the idea that we are any further advanced than they were […]

Causes of a dozing church-A.W.Tozer

Causes of a dozing church – A.W.Tozer Causes of a dozing church What is the present condition of the evangelical church? The bulk of Christians are asleep. I do not mean that the bulk of Christians who come to evangelical churches are not converted, because if I meant that I would say they were dead […]

Buried under the snow-A.W.Tozer

Buried under the snow – A.W.Tozer Buried under the snow Now He did not do many mighty works there because of their unbelief. –Matthew 13:58 How many blessed truths have gotten snowed under. People believe them, but they are just not being taught, that is all. I think of our experience this morning. Here was […]

Brotherhood of the redeemed-A.W.Tozer

Brotherhood of the redeemed – A.W.Tozer Brotherhood of the redeemed Anyone making even a quick review of Genesis will discover that God has told us more about His presence in creation and in history than about the details of human civilization. We believe that eternity dwells in the Person of God and that the material […]

Bringing us to glory-A.W.Tozer

Bringing us to glory – A.W.Tozer Bringing us to glory As Christian believers (I am assuming you are a believer), you and I know how we have been changed and regenerated and assured of eternal life by faith in Jesus Christ and His atoning death. On the other hand, where this good news of salvation […]

Break with this world

Break with this world – A.W.Tozer Breaking with this world I dare to say that Christians who have genuinely come to love and trust Jesus Christ have also renounced this world and have chosen a new model after which to pattern their lives. Further, we should say that this is the aspect of the Christian […]

Bragging about God-A.W.Tozer

Bragging about God – A.W.Tozer Bragging about God Basic beliefs about the Person and the nature of God have changed so much that there are among us now men and women who find it easy to brag about the benefits they receive from God-without ever a thought or a desire to know the true meaning […]

Bowing to the givers-A.W.Tozer

Bowing to the givers – A.W.Tozer Bowing to the givers Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy. –1 Timothy 6:17 Remember, my giving will be rewarded not by how much […]

Books to be chewed and digested-A.W.Tozer

Books to be chewed and digested – A.W.Tozer Books to be chewed and digested The devotional works that have appeared have been so varied as to make classification difficult. Some of the great names are Meister Eckhart, Bernard of Clairvaux, Jan van Ruysbroeck, Michael Molinos, John of the Cross, Thomas Traherne, Richard Rolle, William Law, […]

Books and the Christian-A.W.Tozer

Books and the Christian – A.W.Tozer Books and the Christian The book that informs us without inspiring us may be indispensable to the scientist, the lawyer, the physician, but mere information is not enough for the minister. If knowledge about things constituted learning, the encyclopedia would be all the library one needed for a fruitful […]

Boldly Christ’s-A.W.Tozer

Boldly Christ’s – A.W.Tozer Boldly Christ’s To become a member of the body of Christ and join with the bride of Christ, you must be born into the family of Christ. It happens by believing in your heart that Jesus is Lord and confessing your faith with your mouth to the people. This is reasonable, […]

Body health depends on body member health-A.W.Tozer

Body health depends on body member health – A.W.Tozer Body health depends on body member health First, they misunderstand the nature of Christian faith. . . . Second, they misunderstand the nature of the church. . . . Third, they misunderstand what is wrong with them. You cannot cure a weak member by prescribing a […]

Blurred goals and Spiritual impediments-A.W.Tozer

Blurred goals and Spiritual impediments – A.W.Tozer Blurred goals and Spiritual impediments Like a doctor with a sick patient whose disease eludes diagnosis, religious leaders have for some years been aware that there is something seriously wrong with evangelicalism and have yet been unable to lay their finger upon the precise trouble. The symptoms they […]

Blind optimism-A.W.Tozer

Blind optimism – A.W.Tozer Blind optimism The close of World War II saw a radical change in the religious mood, especially on the part of the masses. It was a complete reversal. Religion came into its own. Faith became once more intellectually respectable and people stopped being ashamed to admit that they believed in God. […]

Blessed maladjustment-A.W.Tozer

Blessed maladjustment – A.W.Tozer Blessed maladjustment The second prominent tragedy is that the gospel churches are confused and intimidated by numbers. They accept the belief that there has been change and that Christians must adjust to the change. The word used is adjustment. We must get adjusted, forgetting that the world has always been blessed […]

Blame someone else-A.W.Tozer

Blame someone else – A.W.Tozer Blame someone else In the earliest day of failure and tragedy in the garden of Eden, Adam came out of hiding, knowing full well his own guilt and shame. Adam confessed: “We ate from the fruit of the tree that was forbidden-but it was the woman who enticed me!” When […]

Beyond the symbols-A.W.Tozer

Beyond the symbols – A.W.Tozer Beyond the symbols I have noticed lately among so-called evangelicals a renewed interest in the religious gadgets that our Protestant fathers once threw away to make room for the Holy Spirit. It is becoming more common now to see in our churches (and in some Alliance churches, I regret to […]

Beyond empty profession-A.W.Tozer

Beyond empty profession – A.W.Tozer Beyond empty profession Preaching from the pulpit about the Christian “deeper life” does not automatically produce a deeper life church and congregation. The profession of men and women that they believe in “the deeper Christian life” is no assurance that their fellowship is actually a deeper life church. The deeper […]

Better than gold-A.W.Tozer

Better than gold – A.W.Tozer Better than gold Every Christian believer should be aware that our God has given us definite promises of an amazing inheritance to be realized in the eternal! The blessings and riches of our divine inheritance are not riches that will come to us for anything that is worthy or superior […]

Better farther on-A.W.Tozer

Better farther on – A.W.Tozer Better farther on Truth that is not experienced is no better than error, and may be fully as dangerous. Remember that the scribes who sat in Moses’ seat were not the victims of error; they were the victims of failure to experience the truth they taught! We should see that […]

Betrayed by time-A.W.Tozer

Betrayed by time – A.W.Tozer Betrayed by time Churches get in ruts only because individuals get in ruts. It is impossible that the church should do anything that individuals do not do. It is impossible that we should make any progress except as made by individuals. It is impossible there should be any regress unless […]

Best seller of Bread of Life-A.W.Tozer

Best seller of Bread of Life – A.W.Tozer Best seller of Bread of Life Of the millions of Bibles bought during the last few years there is no certain way to discover how many are being read. But there is a pretty sure way to discover how many readers obey them. Total committal of a […]

Benifit of grace-A.W Tozer

Benifit of grace – A.W Tozer Benifit of grace Only a believing Christian can testify, “I am a sinner-saved by the grace of God!” But that is not the whole story. All that we have is cut of His grace. Jesus Christ, the eternal Word who became flesh and dwelt among us, is the open […]

Believing the unvisualizable

Believing the unvisualizable – A.W Tozer Believing the unvisualizable Unbelief is so prevalent that I do not wish to say anything that might be interpreted as excusing it, but for all our being so slow to believe I still think that sometimes we blame ourselves for unbelief when our trouble is nothing more than inability […]

Believing the declaratives and obeying the imperatives-A.W.Tozer

Believing the declaratives and obeying the imperatives – A.W.Tozer believing the declaratives and obeying the imperatives The last cause I shall name is nonobedience. Truth is given to be believed and obeyed. Certain truths can only be believed, the reason being that they are revelations of fact and contain no command or instruction to be […]

Believing prayer-A.W.Tozer

Believing prayer – A.W.Tozer Believing prayer Men may, and often do, pray without faith (though this is not true prayer), but it is not thinkable that men should have faith and not pray. The biblical formula is The prayer of faith. Prayer and faith are here bound together by the little preposition of, and what […]

Believing heart and confesssing mouth-A.W Tozer

Believing heart and confesssing mouth – A.W Tozer Believing heart and confession mouth If you want fellowship with the church, if you have not formally joined, there are two ways to do so. One is to pray in public, give money, show enthusiasm and fill out a card. The other is to do first things […]

Beliefs nominal and real-A.W.Tozer

Beliefs nominal and real – A.W.Tozer Beliefs nominal and real One area of thinking that needs reform is our practical beliefs about God’s design for mankind. I emphasize practical beliefs, because there is a difference between nominal beliefs and practical ones. A nominal belief is what you hold in name, and the practical belief is […]

Being who we are-A.W.Tozer

Being who we are – A.W.Tozer Being who we are This need for external support for our sagging faith accounts for the introduction into religious activities of that welter of shoddy claptrap that has become the characteristic mark of modern Christianity. . . . To guarantee immunity to this disease of the heart, we must […]

Being still in God’s presence-A.W.Tozer

Being still in God’s presence – A.W.Tozer Being still in God’s presence In coming to God we should place ourselves in His presence with the confidence that He is the aggressor, not we. He has been waiting to manifest Himself to us till such time as our noise and activity have subsided enough for Him […]

Being Church-A.W.Tozer

Being Church – A.W.Tozer Being church If we could bring together in one huge directory a list of all the organizations, great and small, that exist throughout the earth for the promotion of special interests we would be astounded at the number of them. Almost everything that human beings do or can do has its […]

Being and doing as God enables-A.W.Tozer

Being and doing as God enables – A.W.Tozer Being and doing as Gos enables Failing to get ready in time for eternity, and failing to get ready now for the great then that lies out yonder, is a trap in plain sight. There is an odd saying in the Old Testament, “How useless to spread […]

Being and doing-A.W.Tozer

Being and doing – A.W.Tozer Being and doing Emerson complains in one of his essays that society tends to overlook our essential humanity and to think of us as being what we do. There should be no farmers, he argues, or carpenters, or painters; there should only be men who farm and paint and do […]

Being about the Lord’s business-A.W.Tozer

Being about the Lord’s business – A.W.Tozer Being about the lord’s Business Nehemiah, the good, rose up from his weeping to do something about a vision God had laid on his heart. Under divine providence, he was soon transported from Shushan to his beloved city, Jerusalem, armed with authority and equipped with materials to rebuild […]

Beholding His Glory-A.W.Tozer

Beholding His Glory – A.W.Tozer Beholding His Glory It is true that a select company of Christians through the centuries have testified that they were rapt into a state where for varying lengths of time they were able to experience the Beatific Vision at least to some degree while still here in their natural bodies, […]

Begin with God-A.W.Tozer

Begin with God – A.W.Tozer Begin with God I am really sad for the great throngs of men and women who have never known the satisfaction of believing what God says about all of the good things He has created-and everything having its purpose! This is an area in which you must begin with God. […]

Beautiful simplicity and radiant love-A.W. Tozer

Beautiful simplicity and radiant love – A.W. Tozer Beautiful simplicity and radiant love I am afraid of a new wave of religion that has come. It started in the United States, and it is spreading. It is a sort of esoteric affair of the soul or the mind, and there are strange phenomena that attend […]

Be widely read-A.W.Tozer

Be widely read – A.W.Tozer Be widely read Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. –2 Timothy 2:15 All else being equal it is desirable that Christians, especially ministers of the gospel, should be widely read. It is a […]

Be Thou Exalted-A.W.Tozer

Be Thou Exalted – A.W.Tozer Be Thou exalted The Lord lives! Blessed by my Rock! Let God be exalted, the Rock of my salvation! –2 Samuel 22:47 O God, be Thou exalted over my possessions. Nothing of earth’s treasures shall seem dear unto me if only Thou art glorified in my life. Be Thou exalted […]

Be Patient-A.W.Tozer

Be Patient – A.W.Tozer Be careful  Rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in prayer. –Romans 12:12 Think of the kernels of grain, the seed, that the farmer plants in the ground in the fall of the year. How patient the farmer must be! Throughout the long, cold winter the seed is dormant. There […]

Be careful of what you think-A.W. Tozer

Be careful of what you think – A.W. Tozer Be careful of what yoy think Ask yourself another question: “Am I using my money wisely? Am I using my money to bless people? Am I using my money to help find the lost sheep? Am I using my money to help feed the hungry children?” […]

Avoiding Spiritual Deformity-A.W. Tozer

Avoiding Spiritual Deformity – A.W. Tozer Avoiding Spiritual Deformity There are areas in our lives where in our effort to be right we may go wrong, so wrong as to lead to spiritual deformity. To be specific let me name a few: 1. When in our determination to be bold we become brazen. Courage and […]

Avoiding Deception-A.W Tozer

Avoiding Deception – A.W Tozer Avoiding Deception These are times of moral and religious confusion and it is sometimes hard to distinguish the false from the true. Our faithful Lord has tried to save us from the consequences of our own blindness by repeated warnings and many careful instructions. It will pay us to give […]

Authority in Preaching-A.W.Tozer

Authority in Preaching – A.W.Tozer Authority in Preaching Because we are Christians who believe the inspired Word of God and because we believe that the Holy Spirit is the abiding third person of the Trinity, there should be more divine authority in our preaching ministries. A preacher of this gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ […]

At home in the prayer chamber- A.W.Tozer

At home in the prayer chamber – A.W.Tozer At home in the prayer chamber Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went home. And in his upper room, with his windows open toward Jerusalem, he knelt down on his knees three times that day, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, […]

Astonished reverence- A.W Tozer

Astonished reverence – A.W Tozer Astonished reverence In my own being, I could not exist very long as a Christian without the inner consciousness of the Presence and nearness of God! I can only keep right by keeping the fear of God on my soul and delighting in the fascinating rapture of worship. I am […]

Ashamed of Sin-A.W.Tozer

Ashamed of Sin – A.W.Tozer Ashamed of Sin  Brethren, I am not ashamed of this world God created-I am only ashamed of man’s sin! If you could take all of man’s sin out of this world, there would be nothing to be ashamed of and nothing to be afraid of. Our apologies must be for […]

Ascription of Glory-A.W.Tozer

Ascription of Glory – A.W.Tozer Ascription of Glory – A.W.Tozer I am discovering that many Christians are not really comfortable with the holy attributes of God. In such cases, I am forced to wonder about the quality of their worship. The word “holy” is much more than an adjective saying that God is a holy […]

As the Son so the Father-A.W.Tozer

As the Son so the Father – A.W.Tozer As the Son so the Father It is a rare mind, I suppose, that is much concerned with the conduct of God in those distant realms that lie beyond human experience. But almost everyone has wondered how God would act if He were in our place. And […]

As Holy as you want to be-A.W.Tozer

As Holy as you want to be – A.W.Tozer As Holy as you want to be Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled. –Matthew 5:6 It may be said without qualification that every man is as holy and as full of the Spirit as he wants to be. […]

Armed with courage-A.W.Tozer

Armed with courage – A.W.Tozer Armed with courage But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. –James 1:6 When entering the prayer chamber, we must come filled with faith and armed with courage. Nowhere else in the […]

Are we missing the church Purpose?-A.W.Tozer

Are we missing the church Purpose? – A.W.Tozer Are we missing the church purpose? It would be too easy to dismiss this dislike for church as only another symptom of original sin and love of moral darkness, but I believe that explanation is too pat to be wholly true. It doesnt explain enough. Some persons, […]

Are we mired down?-A.W.Tozer

Are we mired down? – A.W.Tozer Are we mired down? God will speak to us if we read and study and obey the Word of God! But when He does speak, we should speak back to Him in prayer and devotion. Otherwise, we are among the Christians who are mired down right where we are. […]

Appointed to be Eternal fruit-bearers-A.W.Tozer

Appointed to be Eternal fruit-bearers – A.W.Tozer Appointed to be eternal fruit-bearers . . . No man is ever the same after God has laid His hand upon him. He will have certain marks, and though they are not easy to detect perhaps we may cautiously name a few. . . Another mark of the […]

Applying the Test of Biblical Accuracy-A.W.Tozer

Applying the Test of Biblical Accuracy – A.W.Tozer Applying the test of Biblical Accuracy The tests for spiritual genuineness are two: First, the leader must be a good man and full of the Holy Ghost. Christianity is nothing if not moral. . . . But the test of moral goodness is not enough. Every man […]

Answering God’s Call-A.W.Tozer

Answering God’s Call – A.W.Tozer Answering God’s Call When will men and women realize that when God calls us out He is completely faithful to call us into something better? In his faith, Abraham was against idolatry and idol-making, but that was not his crusade. Because of his faith, God led him into a promised […]

An Instrument of God to Use-A.W.Tozer

An Instrument of God to Use – A.W.Tozer An Instrument of God to Use If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory […]

An Exclusive attachment-A.W.Tozer

An Exclusive attachment – A.W.Tozer An Exclusive attachment I am not in the business of trying to downgrade any other believer’s efforts to win souls. I am just of the opinion that we are often too casual and there are too many tricks that can be used to make soul winning encounters completely “painless” and […]

Altering God’s Image-A.W.Tozer

Altering God’s Image – A.W.Tozer Altering God’s Image . . . at the root of all superstition is an inaccurate and unworthy conception of the character of God. To be more explicit, men believe God to be whimsical, and consequently expect Him to be impulsive and unpredictable in His dealings with mankind. Out of this […]

Alone with God-A.W.Tozer

Alone with God – A.W.Tozer Alone with God And Jesus went up on the mountain, and there He sat with His disciples. –John 6:3 Just prior to this miraculous multiplying of the bread and fish, Jesus “went up on a mountainside and sat down with his disciples”(6:3). That fact is noteworthy. It seems plain that […]

All people are …People-A.W.Tozer

All people are …People – A.W.Tozer All people are …People The man of God may labor on in complete trust and in full expectation of success, provided he is aware of a few basic truths. One is that however different people may be in externals, they are all alike fundamentally. That in us to which […]

Agape Love-A.W. Tozer

Agape Love – A.W. Tozer Agape Love “Love,” said Meister Eckhart, “is the will to, the intention.” By that definition, it is possible to obey the divine command to love our neighbor. We may not in a thousand years be able to feel a surge of emotion toward certain “neighbors,” but we can go before […]

After winter the eternal tomorrow-A.W.Tozer

After winter the eternal tomorrow – A.W.Tozer After winter the eternal tomorrow To the man out of Christ, the fall of the year, in spite of its many charms, must surely bring with it a deep and hidden terror. For it speaks of the approaching end, the time when it may be said, ?The summer […]

Advertizing our imperfections-A.W.Tozer

Advertizing our imperfections – A.W.Tozer Advertizing our imperfections Our Lofty Idealism would argue that all Christians should be perfect, but a blunt realism forces us to admit that perfection is rare even among the saints. The part of wisdom is to accept our Christian brothers and sisters for what they are rather than for what […]

Adoring worship-A.W.Tozer

Adoring worship – A.W.Tozer Adoring worship Neither the word adoration nor any of its forms is found in our familiar King James Bible, but the idea is there in full bloom. The great Bible saints were, above all, enraptured lovers of God. The psalms celebrate the love which David (and a few others) felt for […]

Admiring God-A.W.Tozer

Admiring God – A.W.Tozer Admiring God The dictionary says that to admire is ?to regard with wondering esteem accompanied by pleasure and delight; to look at or upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure.? According to this definition, God has few admirers among Christians today. Many are they who are grateful for His goodness in […]

Activity is not enough-A.W.Tozer

Activity is not enough – A.W.Tozer Activity is not enough Those who try to give warnings to the Christian church are never very popular. Still, I must voice the caution that our craze for “activity” brings very few enriching benefits into our Christian circles. Look into the churches, and you will find groups of half-saved, […]

Active faith-A.W.Tozer

Active faith – A.W.Tozer Active faith In practice we may detect the subtle (and often unconscious) substitution when we hear a Christian assure someone that he will “pray over” his problem, knowing full well that he intends to use prayer as a substitute for service. It is much easier to pray that a poor friend’s […]

Acting out unbelief-A.W.Tozer

Acting out unbelief – A.W.Tozer Acting out unbelief Human sin began with loss of faith in God. When our mother Eve listened to Satans sly innuendoes against the character of God she began to entertain a doubt of His integrity and right there the doors were opened to the incoming of every possible evil, and […]

Acquaintance , Not Hearsay-A.W.Tozer

Acquaintance , Not Hearsay – A.W.Tozer Acquaintance , Not Hearsay And they said to one another, “Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?” –Luke 24:32 “It is one thing,” said Henry Suso, “to hear for oneself a sweet lute, […]

Accountability to God-A.W.Tozer

Accountability to God – A.W.Tozer Accountability to God And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment. –Hebrews 9:27 It was the belief in the accountability of man to his maker that made America a great nation. Among those earlier leaders was Daniel Webster whose blazing eyes and fiery […]

Accepting personal responsibility-A.W.Tozer

Accepting personal responsibility – A.W.Tozer Accepting personal responsibility It matters little how twisted a man’s life may be, there is hope for him if he will but establish a right attitude toward God and refuse to admit any other element into his spiritual thinking. God and I; here is the beginning and the end of […]

Accepting Christ means rejecting all else-A.W.Tozer

Accepting Christ means rejecting all else – A.W.Tozer Accepting Christ means rejecting all else The notion that we enter the Christian life by an act of acceptance is true, but that is not all the truth. There is much more to it than that. Christianity involves an acceptance and a repudiation, an affirmation and a […]

Quotes-A.W.Tozer

Quotes – A.W.Tozer Quotes “What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.” “God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.” “It is doubtful whether God can bless a man […]

Short Biography-A.W.Tozer

Short Biography – A.W.Tozer Short Biography Aiden Wilson Tozer was born April 21, 1897, on a small farm among the spiny ridges of Western Pennsylvania. Within a few short years, Tozer, as he preferred to be called, would earn the reputation and title of a “20th-century prophet.”Able to express his thoughts in a simple but […]

A Shaky foundation-A.W.Tozer

A Shaky foundation – A.W.Tozer A Shaky foundation Thus says the Lord: “Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, let not the mighty man glory in his might, nor let the rich man glory in his riches; but let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows Me….” –Jeremiah 9:23-24 […]

A Sacred gift of seeing-A.W.Tozer

A Sacred gift of seeing – A.W.Tozer A Sacred gift of seeing As God created us, we all have to some degree the power to imagine. That imagination is of great value in the service of God may be denied by some persons who have erroneously confused the word “imagination” with the word “imaginary.” The […]

A Prayer of concern-A.W.Tozer

A Prayer of concern – A.W.Tozer A Prayer of concern Gracious Father in heaven, I am a pastor in the flock of God and I confess that I am a troubled man. It is too late in my ministry for me to be engaged week after week with men and women who do not hear […]

A Prayer at communion-A.W.Tozer

A Prayer at communion – A.W.Tozer A Prayer at communion Dear Lord and Savior, we come to your table in faith, for you have told us, “As often as you do this, do it in memory of Me.” Help us to celebrate this remembrance of death and resurrection in the very best way we know […]

A One time Sin sacrifice with continuing efficacy-A.W.Tozer

A One time Sin sacrifice with continuing efficacy – A.W.Tozer A One time Sin sacrifice with continuing efficacy And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers […]

A New type of Preacher-A.W.Tozer

A New type of Preacher – A.W.Tozer A New type of Preacher But none of these things move me; nor do I count my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace […]

A Moral pronouncement-A.W.Tozer

A Moral pronouncement – A.W.Tozer A Moral pronouncement What is God saying to His human creation in our day and time?In brief, He is saying, “Jesus Christ is My beloved Son. Hear Him!”Why is there rejection? Why do men and women fail to listen?Because God’s message in Jesus is a moral pronouncement. Men and women […]

A Man sent from God-A.W.Tozer

A Man sent from God – A.W.Tozer A Man sent from God The Bible record is very plain when it assures us that John the Baptist was a man sent from God. Our generation would probably decide that such a man ought to be downright proud of the fact that God had sent him. We […]

A Great moral blunder-A.W.Tozer

A Great moral blunder – A.W.Tozer A Great moral blunder Of all the people on the earth, the nation of Israel surely was the best prepared to receive the Christ of God. The children of Abraham, they were called to be a chosen people in an everlasting covenant with God, the Father. Yet they failed […]

A Good Husbandman-A.W.Tozer

A Good Husbandman – A.W.Tozer A Good Husbandman Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world. –John 17:24 I believe that a pastor who is […]

A Different man in the pulpit-A.W.Tozer

A Different man in the pulpit – A.W.Tozer A Different man in the pulpit You are witnesses, and God also, how devoutly and justly and blamelessly we behaved ourselves among you who believe…. –1 Thessalonians 2:10 I am afraid of the pastor that is another man when he enters the pulpit from what he was […]

A Closed mouth and silent heart-A.W.Tozer

A Closed mouth and silent heart – A.W.Tozer A Closed mouth and silent heart My heart was hot within me; while I was musing, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue…. –Psalm 39:3 Prayer among evangelical Christians is always in danger of degenerating into a glorified gold rush. Almost every book on prayer […]

A Church church-A.W.Tozer

A Church church – A.W.Tozer A Church church The church should be a healthy, fruitful vineyard that will bring honor to Christ, a church after Christ’s own heart where He can look at the travail of His soul and be satisfied. Among the people should be a beautiful simplicity and a radiant Christian love so […]

A Church cemented in the routine-A.W.Tozer

A Church cemented in the routine – A.W.Tozer A Church cemented in the routine What is the worst enemy the church faces today? This is where a lot of unreality and unconscious hyprocrisy enters. Many are ready to say, “The liberals are our worst enemy.” But the simple fact is that the average evangelical church […]

A Christian Virtue-A.W.Tozer

A Christian Virtue – A.W.Tozer A Christian Virtue I am being very frank about this and I hope I am being helpful: do not ever say you are not right with God because you like some people better than others! I believe you can be right with God and still not like the way some […]

A Career -and Christ-A.W.Tozer

A Career -and Christ – A.W.Tozer A Career -and Christ It is a beautiful New Testament story that tells us of Lydia of Philippi, a career woman in her own right, long before there were laws and proclamations to set women free. A seller of purple, Lydia traveled to the market of her day, and […]

A Bottle in the ocean A.W.Tozer

A Bottle in the ocean – A.W.Tozer A Bottle in the osean …To know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. –Ephesians 3:19 Pentecost means that the Deity came to mankind to give Himself to man, that man might breathe Him in as he […]

A Birth from above-A.W.Tozer

A Birth from above – A.W.Tozer A Birth from above This may sound like heresy in some quarters, but I have come to this conclusion-that there are far too many among us who have thought that they accepted Christ, but nothing has come of it within their own lives and desires and habits! This kind […]

A Believing remnant- A.W.Tozer

A Believing remnant – A.W.Tozer A Believing remnant What is God trying to do with His believing people?-the Bible calls us a remnant according to grace, believers taken out of the great, teeming swarm of so-called religious people in today’s world. I am inclined to join others in wondering if the Lord is postponing His […]

Praying till we Pray-A.W.Tozer

Praying till we Pray – A.W.Tozer Praying till we Pray Dr. Moody Stuart, a great praying man of a past generation, once drew up a set of rules to guide him in his prayers. Among these rules is this one: “Pray till you pray.” The difference between praying till you quit and praying till you […]

Make God’s will our will-A.W. Tozer

Make God’s will our will – A.W. Tozer Make God’s will our will The mystery of man’s free will is far too great for us! God said to Adam and Eve: “Thou shalt not eat from this tree.” Here was a divine requirement calling for obedience on the part of those who had the power […]

Just a Huckster- A.W Tozer

Just a Huckster – A.W Tozer Just a Huckster Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. […]

Don’t let me live wrong-A.W Tozer

Don’t let me live wrong – A.W Tozer Don’t let me live wrong I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not […]