The Most Important Thing About You 9/1 Thurs. Thoughts

The most important thing about you is what comes to your mind when you think of God.

--Aiden Wilson Tozer

Sanctuary of Our Thoughts 8/31 Wednesday Wisdom

God tells us to make a sanctuary of our thoughts in which He can dwell.

--Aiden Wilson Tozer

The Meek 8/26 Friday Faith

Jesus calls us to his rest, and meekness is His method. The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided that the esteem of the world is not worth the effort.

― A.W. Tozer, Pursuit of God


I will not be posting for Monday and Tuesday, as I will be on vacation.

Only the Redeemed 8/25 Thursday Thoughts

Only the redeemed have the ability to like what God likes and to be pleased with what pleases God.    -- A.W. Tozer

The Highest Accomplishment of Humanity 8/24 Wednesday Wisdom

The highest accomplishment of humanity is entering the overwhelming presence of God.

-- A.W. Tozer:  Experiencing the Presence of God

Believe the Right Thing 8/23 Tuesday Truth

"I do not recall another period when ‘faith’ was as popular as it is today.
‘If only we believe hard enough we'll make it somehow.’
So goes the popular chant.
What you believe is not important. Only believe...
What is overlooked in all this is that faith is good only when it engages truth;...
when it is made to rest upon falsehood it can and often does lead to eternal tragedy.
For it is not enough that we believe; we must believe the right thing about the right One."

 --A.W. Tozer

 [ Gems from Tozer: Selections from the Writings of A.W. Tozer ]

God Is Not Your Servant 8/22 Monday Meditation

God is not a railway porter who carries your suitcase and serves you. God is God. He made heaven and earth. He holds the world in His hand. He measures the dust of the earth in the balance. He spreads the sky out like a mantle. He is the great God Almighty. He is not your servant. He is your Father, and you are His child. He sits in heaven, and you are on the earth. 

--A.W. Tozer

Man-Centered Christianity 6/19 Friday Faith

Christianity today is man-centered, not God-centered.

God is made to wait patiently, even respectfully, on the whims of men.

-- A. W. Tozer, Daily Inspirations from Great Christians

Bible Widens and Deepens 8/18 Thursday Thoughts

Many books in my library are now behind and beneath me. They were good in their way once, and so were the clothes I wore when I was ten years old; but I have outgrown them. Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.

--Charles Spurgeon

The Person of Christ 8/17 Wednesday Wisdom

Popular fundamentalist theology has emphasized the utility of the cross rather than the beauty of the One who died on it... The "work" of Christ has been stressed until it has eclipsed the person of Christ.
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Aiden Wilson Tozer [ Evenings with Tozer: Daily Devotional Readings ]

The Best Book and Best Writer 8/16 Tuesday Truth

 "In our serious reading we are likely to be too greatly influenced by
the notion that the chief value of a book is to inform; and if we were talking of textbooks of course that would be true, but when we speak or write of books we have not textbooks in mind.

The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself. The best writer is one that goes with us through the world of ideas like a friendly guide who walks beside us through the forest pointing out to us a hundred natural wonders we had not noticed before. So we learn from him to see for ourselves and soon we have no need for our guide. If he has done his work well we can go on alone and miss little as we go."
A.W.Tozer: ( Man - The Dwelling Place of God )

A Short Time 8/15 Monday Meditation

God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.
If we refuse mercy here, we shall have justice in eternity.

--Jeremy Taylor, 1613-1667

No Greater Happiness 8/12 Friday Faith

There's no greater lifestyle and no greater happiness than having a continual conversation with God.   --Brother Lawrence

The Highest Activity 8/11 Thursday Thoughts

Prayer is beyond any question the highest activity of the human soul.  Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.

-- D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Prayer Produces Fruit 8/10 Wednesday Wisdom

"The Christian's heart must be soaked in prayer before the true spiritual fruits begin to grow."
 -- A.W. Tozer  (Tozer for the Christian Leader: A 365-Day Devotional)

We Please God Most... 8/5 Friday Faith

We please [God] most, not by frantically trying to make ourselves good, but by throwing ourselves into His arms with all our imperfections, and believing that He understands everything and loves us still.
--A.W. Tozer


I will not be posting Monday or Tuesday as I will be on vacation.

Opiate for the Conscience 8/4 Thursday Thoughts

The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the conscience of others.    -- A. W. Tozer

The Shortest Route to Spiritual Perfection 8/3 Wednesday Wisdom

“The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian."


-- A.W. Tozer

What Passes for the Gospel 8/2 Tuesday Truth

"I am positive that much that passes for the gospel in our day is very little more than a very mild case of orthodox religion grafted on to a heart that is sold out to the world in its pleasures and tastes and ambitions."

A. W. Tozer, How to Be Filled with the Holy Spirit