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a.w. Tozer Audio Prayers - Part 9
A.W. Tozer

A.W. Tozer (1897 - 1963). American pastor, author, and spiritual mentor born in La Jose, Pennsylvania. Converted to Christianity at 17 after hearing a street preacher in Akron, Ohio, he began pastoring in 1919 with the Christian and Missionary Alliance without formal theological training. He served primarily at Southside Alliance Church in Chicago (1928-1959) and later in Toronto. Tozer wrote over 40 books, including classics like "The Pursuit of God" and "The Knowledge of the Holy," emphasizing a deeper relationship with God. Self-educated, he received two honorary doctorates. Editor of Alliance Weekly from 1950, his writings and sermons challenged superficial faith, advocating holiness and simplicity. Married to Ada, they had seven children and lived modestly, never owning a car. His work remains influential, though he prioritized ministry over family life. Tozer’s passion for God’s presence shaped modern evangelical thought. His books, translated widely, continue to inspire spiritual renewal. He died of a heart attack, leaving a legacy of uncompromising devotion.
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This sermon is a heartfelt prayer seeking God's guidance, protection, and salvation for all, especially the youth. It emphasizes the need for surrendering to God, breaking free from sinful lifestyles, and finding eternal life through Jesus Christ. The speaker prays for spiritual insight, prophetic vision, and a deep understanding of God's will, urging listeners to open their hearts to the Savior and follow Him faithfully.
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Let's pray. O Lord, Lord, Thou hast brought life and immortality to life 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 every dry fleck of dust that was once a tabernacle of the Holy Ghost. Great God, Thou hast taken the darkness out of the future, and Thou hast set a thousand suns there. We thank Thee. Thou hast made the bitterest pain tolerable. Thou hast taught us to so remember our days, as those whose days are given as a school for the world to come. We pray for any who may be lost today. We pray that they may turn their hearts back to Thee, back to the scriptures, back to the cross, back to the blood, back to the Savior. O God for our young people. O God, anoint this terrible day. O God, anoint this terrible day. We're inventing vaccines to keep them from dying polio. And we're keeping them alive to keep them to be cool, and to live like fools and die. My God, how confused everything is. We're licking one disease after another. We've pushed life expectancy up from 34 years to 60 some years, and all those years that we've gained on earth were wasted. My God, forgive us. We're stupid. We're as beasts before Thee, O Lord. My God, we pray nobody might go out of this building tonight that hasn't found Thee as his God, and Jesus Thy Son as his Savior, that doesn't know that immortality has come to him in essence, an eternal life in fact, and that now he can spread his wings and soar out, and rise and become an amateur of those things where Christ set us at the right hand of God. O my Father, don't let anybody here tonight be lost, we pray. Save our young people from the assaminity, and nonsense and foolishness and chatter, and all the devil-inspired traps and tricks that would ruin them. Save them from their own lust. Save them from their own high spirits and hot blood. Save them from their poor ignorance. Pray God, save our young people. Save them all. Add to their numbers. Make them such magnets that they'll draw other young people in off the street. They won't wait for them to grow up from their kindergarten, but they're coming off the street to see what makes these young people happy-faced. My Father, do something for us. Spread the gospel message. Bless every man who at this hour in his city may be ending his sermon and inviting people to the front. Bless, we pray, every gospel preacher. May Satan suffer a major defeat tonight in the kingdom of God, a major victory. Receive a major victory. Help us now as we wait upon you. O God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you're going to be around long, notice these young people, without a roof, without a gray hair, without any evidence of age at all upon them, they won't be around long. Time like an ever-rolling stream bears all its sons away. Faith flies forgotten as a dream dies at the opening day. The little tribes of flesh and blood with all their cares and fears are carried downward like a flood and lost in the following years. O God, we pray, give us spiritual goods. Give us insight. Give us prophetic vision. Please help us to see past brick walls and water and food and treatment and blessings and bread. My God! These things all perish with you. Help us to see past it all and discern the Lord's body and discern the deep and the lonely things. Lord Jesus, they crucified you because thou didst see the deep and the lonely things and they saw nothing but the shell. Please help us that we may not be on the side of them who crucified you and not you to be. Help us, rather, to get over on the side of them that are understood by mid-life that the kingdom of God is within you and that you are the temple of the Holy Ghost which is the house of God and that Christ dwelleth in you as such the director of it and that Christ in you is the hope of glory. Please, Lord, we pray thee, keep us right and help us to be right in the buildings and all the practical things of life. Help us to be sound and practical and help us all so good that God the peace to all that is suffering and goes and goes and goes where there is a kind of fire burning between the wings of the shade. Oh, bring me, oh, bring me thy loving spirit into every troubled breath. Let us all in thee inherit, let us find that second breath. Great God, take away our bent for sinning, our sin and all negativities. In the face of this beginning set our hearts at liberty. Now, God, we pray thou talk to everybody's heart tonight. In this frank and blunt message, we pray that thou wilt help everybody to understand what is meant that no good person might be offended. If an angry, bad man goes away mad, we have nothing to care. To cause evocation, we fight with anger. But we don't want any good person to go away feeling bad, unless by conviction the Holy Spirit's trying to keep him in the air of his ways. Oh, for Christ's sake, we pray, thou wilt make thy people good people. May it be said of us, everyone, if not now, may it very soon be true of every one of us, he was a good man and full of the Holy Ghost. Grant us, we pray, for Jesus. Oh, Father, we pray for all these who raise their hands before God. We pray, break them loose from their friends, break them loose from their little block of society. Break them loose, we pray, from the little things that interest them. And take them aside, if need be, into the desert. Take them into the silence of their own room. Take them somewhere where in an awful glorious vision may they come to a place where they take in Christ as their all in all forever. And surrender to the Spirit of God to be in them, to guide them through, into them, inward and outward and around and beneath and above, all that the water is to the fish. All that the air is to the bird on the wing. More than that, all that the soul is to the human body. All that the spirit is to the soul. May they do this, Lord, for Jesus' sake. Disturb them, Lord. Don't let them forget this. Don't let them settle down, oh God, to another week of grubbing. May this be the week that all that we've heard over the last week and heard today may become a living reality in my heart. Jesus breaks every fetter. Jesus breaks every fetter, Jesus breaks every fetter, and it sets me free. Even though that doesn't quite, not quite imbue with the message, I have a feeling that a lot of people have fetters banging them and preventing them from entering into moral understanding with what I've talked about. Let's trust God to break the fetters of this sinful lifestyle. Let's watch. Let's pray. Lord, thank you. Let's thank you for the faith once delivered. Amen. For all the magic and poetry and artistry. All the high... of the religious spirit. All the readings of the Holy Name and the visions of saving fear. We thank you for the places that are mosques, chambers, of men who once walked on this good man and true, faithful man and true. And we thank you for all the activities and faith and belief and discipline and prayer and warfare and all of this to him who is his fulfillment. Now we have found him. We have found him, Lord, with everything we ever did. This wondrous man who never sinned, who will sit and talk to us who never did. How we thank you for this miracle, this wonderful, shining miracle, and who came from there. Blessed Jesus Christ. Receive our thanks. We thank you, Lord, we thank you. We pray that thou would help everybody here tonight to open his heart, her heart, wide to the Savior. That he will come in an instant and at once plant a well there and spring up and spring up and on while the ages go by unto eternal life. Lord, help us. Help the borderline tonight. That there may be partly that there may be partly wandering that there may be doubting. Let's do this now. Let's do a quick turning of the spirit to the God of spirit to keep us kept and to worship him spirit and in truth. We ask of you, Jesus Christ. O Christ, Emmanuel, God with us. The word made flesh, the God of flame. who is risen again, who is with us now, O Christ, we pray help us out of this Old Testament story which thou hast said was written for our admonition upon whom the end of this world has come. We beseech thee, O Christ, may the Spirit who inspired this story, may He use it as a torch, as a candle set tonight. We pray for those who have been out there a little too much in the world, listening rather with some sympathy to the siren songs that have been listening a little to the soft cooing of songs that take our cross. Turn our backs upon Baal and all that is, and follow the Lamb with us where we go. Help us tonight and in this hour, this moment, this moment of making up our minds what it is to be Jehovah of Nazareth, what it is to be Christ in the world. Give us, my cross has taken, all to thee and follow thee.
a.w. Tozer Audio Prayers - Part 9
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A.W. Tozer (1897 - 1963). American pastor, author, and spiritual mentor born in La Jose, Pennsylvania. Converted to Christianity at 17 after hearing a street preacher in Akron, Ohio, he began pastoring in 1919 with the Christian and Missionary Alliance without formal theological training. He served primarily at Southside Alliance Church in Chicago (1928-1959) and later in Toronto. Tozer wrote over 40 books, including classics like "The Pursuit of God" and "The Knowledge of the Holy," emphasizing a deeper relationship with God. Self-educated, he received two honorary doctorates. Editor of Alliance Weekly from 1950, his writings and sermons challenged superficial faith, advocating holiness and simplicity. Married to Ada, they had seven children and lived modestly, never owning a car. His work remains influential, though he prioritized ministry over family life. Tozer’s passion for God’s presence shaped modern evangelical thought. His books, translated widely, continue to inspire spiritual renewal. He died of a heart attack, leaving a legacy of uncompromising devotion.