Paths to Power: Living in the Spirit‘s Power
Overview
God intends for us to receive the power to use for His glory and our blessing. Tozer helps us examine our steps along the journey. In these pages Tozer presents an outline which at the least serves to suggest the way to greater spiritual power for believers. The path is what leads to somewhere; for Tozer, it leads to a life of abundant grace promised in Scripture. He reminds us that a knowledge of truth is not enough; the truth must be followed in order to experience the blessedness described in these pages.
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Product Details
- Title: Paths to Power
- Author: A. W. Tozer
- Publisher: WingSpread
- Publication Date: 1964
- Pages: 64
About A. W. Tozer
Aiden Wilson Tozer (1897-1963) was born on a small farm in what is now Newburg, PA. His family moved to Akron, Ohio, when he was just a young boy. At the age of 17, Tozer heard a street preacher, responded to the calling of Christ, and began his lifelong pursuit of God. After becoming an active witness of Jesus as a lay preacher, he joined The Christian and Missionary Alliance and was soon serving as the pastor of West Virginia’s Alliance Church, in 1919. He transferred to the Southside Alliance Church in Chicago in 1928, and his ministry continued there for 31 years. During that time he preached on the Moody Bible Institute’s radio station. In the 1940s Tozer was invited to speak at Wheaton College, and seldom a year passed after World War II that he didn’t preach in the college’s Pierce Chapel. In 1950 he became the editor of The Alliance Life magazine and served in that capacity until his death.
Self-taught, with no formal Bible training, Tozer has been called a twentieth-century prophet within his own lifetime. Through years of diligent study and constant prayer, he sought the mind of God. A master craftsman in the use of the English language, he was able to write in a simple, cogent style the principles of truth he had learned. For Tozer, “there was no substitute for knowing God firsthand.” He wrote many of his books with one idea in mind—that his reader would achieve the heart’s true goal in God and maintain that relationship with Him.
Tozer moved to Toronto in 1959 and spent the final years of his life as the pastor of Avenue Road Church. He and his wife, Ada, lived a simple, non-materialistic lifestyle and let much of the royalties from his books go to those in need. The Tozers had seven children, six boys and one girl. James L. Snyder, said of Tozer that his “preaching as well as his writings were but extensions of his prayer life. He had the ability to make his listeners face themselves in the light of what God was saying to them.”
Top Highlights
“To obey, in New Testament usage, means to give earnest attention to the Word, to submit to its authority, and to carry out its instructions.” (Page 23)
“First, I mean spiritual energy of sufficient voltage to produce great saints once again” (Page 10)
“The Bible knows nothing of salvation apart from obedience” (Page 24)
“God works as long as His people live daringly: He ceases when they no longer need His aid.” (Page 35)
“Let it be remembered that no one ever received the Holy Spirit’s power without knowing it. He always announces Himself to the inner consciousness. God will pour out His Spirit upon us in answer to simple faith, but real faith will be accompanied by deep poverty of spirit and mighty heart yearnings, and will express itself in strong crying and tears.” (Page 57)
- Title: Paths To Power: Living in the Spirit’s Fullness
- Author: A. W. Tozer
- Publisher: WingSpread
- Print Publication Date: 1964
- Logos Release Date: 2008
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Christian life › Christian and Missionary Alliance authors
- ISBNs: 9780875091907, 0875091903
- Resource ID: LLS:PATHSPOWER
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:08:47Z
A. W. Tozer (1897–1963) was a dynamic preacher, prolific writer, and a no-nonsense man of God. Aiden Wilson Tozer responded to the call of Christ at the age of 17. After becoming an active witness of Jesus as a lay preacher, he joined The Christian and Missionary Alliance and was soon serving as the pastor of West Virginia’s Alliance Church.
In 1928, he transferred to the Southside Alliance Church in Chicago where he served for 31 years. During that time he preached on the Moody Bible Institute’s radio station and was often invited to speak at Wheaton College in Pierce Chapel. Tozer spent the final years of his life as the pastor of Avenue Road Church in Toronto and the editor of The Alliance Life magazine.
Tozer authored over 40 books, including The Attributes of God, Volume One, Tozer on Christian Leadership, We Travel an Appointed Way, The Pursuit of God, and God’s Pursuit of Man.