In Trouble With Men 8/1 Monday Meditation

To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.   --A.W. Tozer

Stand Up for the Real Jesus 7/29 Friday Faith

Wherever I am, whatever I am doing, I hope and pray to God that I will have the courage to stand up for the real Jesus of the New Testament, regardless of whom I offend.

--A.W. Tozer

Face of God / Face of Man 7/28 Thursday Thoughts

He who comes forth fresh from beholding the face of God will never fear the face of man.  

-- Charles Spurgeon

Political Reality 7/27 Wednesday Wisdom

It is a profound political reality that Christ now occupies the supreme seat of cosmic authority. The kings of this world and all secular governments may ignore this reality, but they cannot undo it. The universe is no democracy. It is a monarchy. God himself has appointed his beloved Son as the preeminent King. Jesus does not rule by referendum, but by divine right. In the future every knee will bow before him, either willingly or unwillingly.  - R. C. Sproul

Feel the Breath of God 7/26 Tuesday Truth

As I'd warned, I did not get out a Monday post due to too many family and best friend events going on.

“We should discipline ourselves to read the Word until it comes alive…until we can almost feel the breath of God.” —A. W. Tozer

Seems Strange 7/22 Friday Faith

Does it not seem strange that the generation with the most advanced technology and the easiest-to-read Bible translations is the weakest generation of Christians in the history of our country?  Church attendance has never been lower, and the Christian influence in our culture never weaker.

--A.W. Tozer, The Crucified Life

Pray for Your Preacher 7/21 Thursday Thoughts

Do you pray for your preacher?  The praying ones are to the preacher as Aaron and Hur were to Moses.  They held up his hands and decided the issue that is so fiercely raging around them.
--E. M. Bounds  (1835-1913)

Prayer Degeneration 7/20 Wednesday Wisdom

Prayer is always in danger of degenerating into a glorified gold rush. How to get things from God occupies most [books].

Aiden Wilson Tozer: ( Tozer Devotional
God's Gentle Whisper)

Imperfect... but Perfect in Christ 7/19 Tuesday Truth

I may not be able to post every day this week, as my daughter and granddaughter will be here from Florida, our son's family is moving from Kansas to Toledo, and we have some vacation activities planned.
 

"Do you not feel in your own soul that perfection is not in you? Does not every day teach you that? Every tear which trickles from your eye weeps "imperfection;" every harsh word which proceeds from your lip, mutters "imperfection." You have too frequently had a view of your own heart to dream for a moment of any perfection in yourself. But amidst this sad consciousness of imperfection here is comfort for you - you are "perfect in Christ Jesus."
-Charles Spurgeon

We had better explain... 7/17 Monday Meditation

"To accept Christ is to know the meaning of the words 'as he is, so are we in this world.'
We accept his friends as our friends, his enemies as our enemies, his ways as our ways, his rejection as our rejection, his cross as our cross, his life as our life and his future as our future
If this is what we mean when we advise the seeker to accept Christ, we had better explain it to him. He may get into deep spiritual trouble unless we do"
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Aiden Wilson Tozer:
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The Best of A. W. Tozer Book One

Expect Little, Content With Little 7/15 Friday Faith

Arthur Walkington Pink (1886 – 1952) was a Black English Bible teacher who sparked a renewed interest in the exposition of Calvinism. Virtually unknown in his own lifetime, Pink became "one of the most influential evangelical authors in the second half of the twentieth century.

 Most Christians expect little from God,  ask little and therefore receive little, and are content with little.

--A. W. Pink

If We Understand... 7/14 Thursday Thougths

 If we understand that everything happening to us is to make us more Christlike, it will solve a great deal of anxiety in our lives.

--A.W. Tozer

Not Hearing God's Voice 7/13 Wednesday Wisdom

Most Christians don't hear God's voice because we've already decided we aren't going to do what He says.
--A.W. Tozer

God Has Never Surrendered 7/12 Tuesday Truth

While it looks like things are out of control, behind the scenes there is a God who hasn't surrendered His authority.
--A. W. Tozer

Remarkable Answers 7/11 Monday Meditation

We cannot leave out any part of the gospel without weakening all the rest, and if there ever was an age when the world needed the witness of God's supernatural working, it is this day of unbelief and satanic power.  Therefore, we may expect as the end approaches, that the Holy Ghost will work in healing of sickness, casting out of demons, in remarkable answers to prayer, in special and wonderful providences, and in such forms as may please His sovereign will -- to prove to an unbelieving world that the power of Jesus' name is still unchanged.

--A.B. Simpson 

Invasion of Power 7/8 Friday Faith

We may be sure of one thing, that for our deep trouble there is no cure apart from a visitation, yes, an invasion of power from above.  Only the Spirit Himself can show us what is wrong with us and only the Spirit can prescribe the cure.  Only the Spirit can save us from the numbing unreality of Spiritless Christianity.

--A.W. Tozer 

Is This You ??? 7/7 Thursday Thoughts

In the average church service the most real thing is the shadowy unreality of everything.  The worshiper sits in a state of suspended mentation; a kind of dreamy numbness creeps upon him; he hears words but they do not register, he cannot relate them to anything on his own life-level.  He is conscious of having entered a kind of half-world; his mind surrenders itself to a more or less pleasant mood, which passes with the benediction, leaving no trace behind.  It does not affect anything in his everyday life.  He is aware of no power, no Presence, no spiritual reality.  There is simply nothing in his experience corresponding to the things which he heard form the pulpit or sang in the hymns.

--A. W. Tozer 

The Need in the Church Today 7/6 Wednesday Wisdom

I think there can be no doubt that the need above all other needs in the church of God at this moment is the power of the Holy Spirit.  More education, better organization, finer equipment, more advanced methods -- all are unavailing.

-- A. W. Tozer 

Live Like the World? 7/5 Tuesday Truth

You can be sure, the Holy Spirit never enters a man and lets him live like the world.
--A. W. Tozer

A Variety of Writers 7/4 Monday Meditation

I have finished quoting Watchman Nee.  I'm going to make a switch to very brief quotes from a variety of Holiness preachers and writers of the late 19th through mid-20th Centuries. 
You will never know the fullness of Christ until you know the emptiness of everything but Christ.

--Charles Spurgeon