Tozer's Daily Devotions
Thursday, October 31, 2024
A. W. Tozer
(1897-1963)
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This page is updated daily with meditations from Tozer's daily devotionals Mornings with Tozer, and Evenings with Tozer “Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer |
Mornings with Tozer
October 31
A Prayer at Communion
"Ye do shew the Lord’s death till he come." - Corinthians 11:26
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 how.
Do then, we pray Thee, overshadow us with Thy very breathing Presence. Breathe on us, O Breath of God; quicken and heal and purify and cleanse. Strengthen and perfect that which is wanting in us.
Bless the strangers and the friends who happen to be within our gates today. Dear Lord, make them sense that they have found a home among us as we worship, and to realize that they are just as much “owners” here as we are; for it is the Lord’s house and the Lord’s table—it is not ours.
We are all guests and children in the household—all of us! And we pray that we may love Thee acceptably, for we would not wound Thee again! Thou didst love us with such poured-out love that not even the blood in Thy veins was dear enough to Thee—we were dearer than that blood!
All of this we ask in Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.
A Prayer at Communion
"Ye do shew the Lord’s death till he come." - Corinthians 11:26
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 how.
Do then, we pray Thee, overshadow us with Thy very breathing Presence. Breathe on us, O Breath of God; quicken and heal and purify and cleanse. Strengthen and perfect that which is wanting in us.
Bless the strangers and the friends who happen to be within our gates today. Dear Lord, make them sense that they have found a home among us as we worship, and to realize that they are just as much “owners” here as we are; for it is the Lord’s house and the Lord’s table—it is not ours.
We are all guests and children in the household—all of us! And we pray that we may love Thee acceptably, for we would not wound Thee again! Thou didst love us with such poured-out love that not even the blood in Thy veins was dear enough to Thee—we were dearer than that blood!
All of this we ask in Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.
Evenings with Tozer
October 31
We Are Declared Not Guilty by the Highest Court
"Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil" - Ephesians 6:11
The Christian believer cannot be happy and victorious in the true liberty of the children of God if he is still quaking about his past sins.
God knows that sin is a terrible thing—yes, and the devil knows it, too! So the devil follows us around and as long as we will permit it, he will taunt us about our past sins.
As for myself, I have learned to talk back to him on this score.
I say, “Yes, Devil, sin is terrible—but I remind you that I got it from you! And I remind you, Devil, that everything good—forgiveness and cleansing and blessing—everything that is good I have freely received from Jesus Christ!”
Everything that is bad and that is against me I got from the devil—so why should he have the effrontery and the brass to argue with me about it? Yet he will do it because he is the devil, and he is committed to keeping God’s children shut up in a little cage, their spiritual wings clipped.
Brethren, we have been declared “Not guilty!” by the highest court in all the universe. It is good to know that on the basis of grace as taught in the Word of God, when God forgives a man, He trusts him as though he had never sinned.
The Bible does not teach that if a man falls down, he can never rise again. The fact that he falls is not the most important thing—but rather that he is forgiven and allows God to lift him up! That is the basis of our Christian assurance and God wants us to be happy in it.
We Are Declared Not Guilty by the Highest Court
"Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil" - Ephesians 6:11
The Christian believer cannot be happy and victorious in the true liberty of the children of God if he is still quaking about his past sins.
God knows that sin is a terrible thing—yes, and the devil knows it, too! So the devil follows us around and as long as we will permit it, he will taunt us about our past sins.
As for myself, I have learned to talk back to him on this score.
I say, “Yes, Devil, sin is terrible—but I remind you that I got it from you! And I remind you, Devil, that everything good—forgiveness and cleansing and blessing—everything that is good I have freely received from Jesus Christ!”
Everything that is bad and that is against me I got from the devil—so why should he have the effrontery and the brass to argue with me about it? Yet he will do it because he is the devil, and he is committed to keeping God’s children shut up in a little cage, their spiritual wings clipped.
Brethren, we have been declared “Not guilty!” by the highest court in all the universe. It is good to know that on the basis of grace as taught in the Word of God, when God forgives a man, He trusts him as though he had never sinned.
The Bible does not teach that if a man falls down, he can never rise again. The fact that he falls is not the most important thing—but rather that he is forgiven and allows God to lift him up! That is the basis of our Christian assurance and God wants us to be happy in it.
Mornings with Tozer, and Evenings with Tozer are devotionals which have been gleaned from A. W. Tozer's taped sermons and editorials of the 20th century. Aiden Wilson Tozer was an American Christian pastor, preacher, author, magazine editor, and spiritual mentor. Over the years, many have been inspired by the life and sermons of Tozer. He authored numerous books including his best known work, The Pursuit of God.