Tozer on the Holy Spirit: A 365-day Devotional

by A. W. Tozer

Publisher:

WingSpread

, 2007

Overview

This 366-day devotional focuses on the work of the Holy Spirit in a Christian’s life. These pages, excerpted from Tozer’s writings reflect the passion that drove him to state, “If we are going to reproduce Christ on earth and be Christlike, we must have the Spirit of Christ.” In this volume, Tozer encourages his readers to recognize the Holy Spirit as a Person and to pursue an intimate relationship with Him. Each one-page devotional incorporates Scripture for the day and is enhanced by supporting quotations by classical authors.

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Product Details

• Title: Tozer on the Holy Spirit
• Author: A. W. Tozer
• Publisher: WingSpread
• Publication Date: 2007
• Pages: 370

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.”

Contents

Top Highlights

“The best way to control our thoughts is to offer the mind to God in complete surrender. The Holy Spirit will accept it and take control of it immediately. Then it will be relatively easy to think on spiritual things, especially if we train our thought by long periods of daily prayer. Long practice in the art of mental prayer (that is, talking to God inwardly as we work or [relax]) will help to form the habit of holy thought.” (source)

“A doctrine has practical value only as far as it is prominent in our thoughts and makes a difference in our lives.” (source)

“Holiness in the Christian life is nothing else but the Spirit of God dwelling, filling, satisfying the surrendered, committed, trusting believer.” (source)

“In religion more than in any other field of human experience a sharp distinction must always be made between knowing about and knowing. The distinction is the same as between knowing about food and actually eating it.… A man can remain spiritually dead while knowing all the historic facts of Christianity.” (source)

“Your thoughts pretty much decide the mood and weather and climate inside your heart, and God considers your thoughts as part of you.” (source)

Product Details

• Title: Tozer on the Holy Spirit: A 366-Day Devotional
• Author: A. W. Tozer
• Publisher: WingSpread
• Print Publication Date: 2007
• Logos Release Date: 2008
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Devotional calendars
• ISBNs: 9782007923988, 200792398X
• Resource ID: LLS:TOZERONHS
• Resource Type: Calendar Devotional
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:28:16Z

About A. W. Tozer

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.