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Chapter six

A.W. Tozer’s words were the outpouring of a worshipper. His god was God. He deliberately set his love upon the Father, His Son and the most Holy Spirit, and did his utmost to convince his audiences to do likewise.

Keys To the Deeper Life, A.W. Tozer

Chapter 3: For a generation certain evangelical teachers have told us that the gifts of the Spirit ceased at the death of the apostles or at the completion of the New Testament. This, of course, is a doctrine without a syllable of biblical authority back of it. Its advocates must accept full responsibility for thus manipulating the Word of God. The result of this erroneous teaching is that the spiritually gifted persons are ominously few among us.

Chapter 3: We need men with the gift of knowledge. In their place we have men with scholarship–nothing more.

Chapter 3: Clearly, however, we have yet to see what God would do for His Church if we would all throw ourselves down before Him with

an open Bible and cry, “Behold Thy servant, Lord! Be it unto me even as Thou wilt.”

Chapter 4: A church without the Spirit is as helpless as Israel might have been in the wilderness if the fiery cloud has deserted them. The Holy Spirit is our cloud by day and our fire by night. Without Him we only wander aimlessly about the desert.

That is what we today are surely doing. We have divided ourselves into little ragged groups, each one running after a will-o’-the-wisp or firefly in the mistaken notion that we are following the Shekinah. It is not only desirable that the cloudy pillar should begin to glow again. It is imperative.

Chapter 4: Complete and ungrudging obedience to the will of God is absolutely indispensable to the reception of the Spirit’s anointing.

Chapter 4: Before there can be fullness there must be emptiness. Before God can fill us with Himself we must be first emptied of ourselves. It is this emptying that brings the painful disappointment and despair of self of which so many persons have complained just prior to their new and radiant experience.

There must come a total of self-devaluation, a death to all things without us and within us, or there can never be real filling with the Holy Spirit.