a.w. Tozer Audio Prayers - Part 5 — A.W. Tozer

Prayer for Joy and Fellowship With God

Father, bless thou this exhortation of our shoulders, Father, and send us out a happy people, for surely we ought to be a happy people, since thou art our Father and Jesus our Brother, and the Holy Ghost our indwelling Paraclete.

Save us from angers and help us to sing unto the Lord a new song, and rejoice continually, for the Lord has set our feet upon a rock, and put a new song in our mouth, even praises unto our Lord. Dear Heavenly Father, we pray this night, O Heavenly Father, that through Jesus Christ thy Son we bring our petition.

Repentance From Spiritual Carelessness

Father, we apologize to thee this night for the way we have been living. We are sorry for carelessness and that insidious ease and Zion that cares nothing for the troubles of Jacob. O God, O God, we pray this evening that thou wilt burn truth home.

Be there to ask, and we do ask. Don't let anybody escape the arrows of the Almighty. Don't let anybody escape the net of the divine fish. We beseech thee thou wilt so move upon us that one after the other, board members and Sunday school teachers, and people who have a reputation for being holy, all of us together will see how desperately we need a visitation from thee, and how we are hindering it by our rot, thinking in the rot, praying in the rot, expecting in the rot, living in the rot.

O Lord, we thank thee there is a way out. Precious blood of Jesus cleanses from all sin, for the blood cleanses the Holy Ghost anoints. So we pray this night that there might be some, even one, that will say, I am the man, I am the man, and will do something about it.

And we believe that if we repent of the rot, thou wilt repent of the rot that thou art leaving us in, and will bring us out to a wealthy place. We ask this in Christ's name. Son of God, immortal love, whom we that have not seen thy face by faith and faith alone embrace, believing where we cannot prove, we believe tonight.

Surrendering Scattered Lives to Christ

We reject the claims of men, and we will follow none of them. But we own thy claim, O man who is God. We admit the validity of thy claim. Teach us, we pray thee, to bring in our scattered lives and concentrate them upon thee, as Paul did, and the other Saints.

Teach us, we pray, to listen to the sound of thy musical voice, until we are charmed and enthralled and enraptured by it. That we might not go our sleepy way, being mediocre, half-awake, Christians, while the coming of the Lord God nigh.

Grant, we pray, that these friends may take this home and do something about it. We ask this in Christ's name. Amen. O God, O God, thou knowest the world is spinning on, time is getting running out, children are becoming youth, and youth becoming middle-aged, and middle-aged are getting older and older, and thou hast said, Redeem the time, for the days are evil.

Praying for Revival and Spiritual Renewal

Lord, let us fail here. Lord, thou dost want us to be revived again. Revive thy people, Lord, individual people. And if numbers of individual people can band together, revive thy people. Grant, Lord, to help.

Now as we have a few people, just for a minute more of prayer, I would say, Mr. Tozer, please pray for me, that I might have in my soul, alone, apart from our relation to others, that I might have a new inflow of power and purity and grace, that I might be a revived soul.

Pray for me. Would you raise a hand? Father, bless thy word. We are one in this, as I judge it in my ways, past, present, and future. God, help me to be present in the present as well as in the future.

We thank you, Lord, that these who claim things outnumber the others, perhaps a thousand to one. Bless thy word. All these who raise their hands, break them loose from their little blockages. Break them loose, from the little things that interrupt them.

And take them aside, if need be, into the desert. Take them into the silence of their own room. Take them somewhere in an awful glory, maybe, where they come to a place where they've taken Christ as their all and all for us.

Surrender to the Spirit of God

And surrender to the Spirit of God, to be in them, to guide them through, to be to them, inward and outward, and around and beneath them above, all of the waters of the fish, all of the airs of the birds of the moon.

And more than that, all of the souls of the human body, all of the spirits of the soul. May they do this, Lord, as Jesus said. Disturb them, Lord. Don't let them forget this. Don't let them settle down, O God, to another youth and brother.

And may this be the reason that all that we've heard over the last few weeks, we've heard today, has become a living reality in our hearts. Jesus breaks every fetter. Jesus breaks every fetter. Jesus breaks every fetter.

And it's up to you, too. Even though that doesn't quite, it's not quite in the mood of the message, I have a feeling that a lot of people have fetters, I mean, and he presented them from an interneed moral understanding of what I've talked about.

Let's construct the basic fetters, let's go on. We thank thee for all that we've heard in every age, through months, in later times, in every way, from the dawn of the cross, the darkness into his light.

Humility, Conviction, and Prayer for the Lost

We thank thee for every one of us. O God, help us, if we're as bad as David, help us, we pray, to be humble and to be as persistent, to be willing. We thank thee for all the people we thank thee. May be some who will make specific decisions here tonight.

May be some who will wander in, prayer speakers and singers and those in charge, musicians and everybody that there will be a humanity within our spirits. So let the holy ghost stand without hindrance, lay conviction upon those who need it, and give faith to those who are just desperate in faith.

Lord, nearer than our breath, Lord, nearer than the impulses of our nerves, Lord, nearer than our thoughts, amid the seven golden candlesticks, eyes about the caps of the golden girdle, Lord, the high priest, we pray for the lost sheep here tonight.

We pray, Lord Jesus, for the half-saved crystal. We pray for the backslide. We pray for those who have turned from the thing they knew was right. Their first memory is a Sunday school class and prayer table.

We turn from it to go to church occasionally and then only to listen and go home. My Lord Jesus, tonight we pray the half-saved who have listened to the voice of the animal, the dull voice of the brain, and they have ignored that in them which cries for God in eternal life.

Have mercy, we pray, upon them, and how the two voices are sounding, the voice of Esau and the voice of Jacob, the voice of earth and the voice of heaven, sounding. We pray that they may have the wisdom and courage to turn their backs on the sirened voice of the world and turn to the Lord Jesus Christ while it's called to day.

Praise God, this is thy meeting, we don't know what to do with it, it's up to thee, Lord. Praise God tonight, don't let the devil have everybody, please, God, save some for thyself, bless thee some for thyself.

The Cross, Creation, and the Call to Salvation

Help in ages past, our hope for years to come, we lift our hearts to thee, we thank thee thou didst ever create us, we grieve that we ever marred that creation by sin, but having done that, we rejoice that thou didst find a way through love to save us, the sacrifice of thyself.

He who was from the beginning, yielded himself on a tree that he might die, we thank thee, Father, we can never thank thee enough. We pray thee for those who are lost and in our midst this evening. O Spirit, do thou draw and win, pull, and may the unsaved hear the voice of Jesus say, come unto me and rest.

May the thirsty hear him say, come unto me and drink. May the blind hear him say, come unto me and see. May the dead hear him say, come unto me and live. O Lord have mercy. Here, like Jacob, we're tempted to say thou art in this place and I knew it, no, but we did know it after a fashion.

This is none other than the gate of heaven, this is the house of God, Bethel. We will raise our altar here at this presence. We pray for men and women and particularly young people who are charmed, the serpent of the world has charmed them like a bird.

Turning From Worldly Temptations

They gaze with fascination upon all the showy glamour of the world. They would die to become famous. Women here would give twenty years off their lives, five years to be a movie star. Great God, we're sick, sick, sick inside that we have sought the gutter.

Instead of the clouds. We have learned to love and live in and admire and imitate and follow the filthiest, lowest, most profane element in society. There is a light and men don't see it, and a voice and they don't hear it.

In the presence and they don't feel it. We pray, get hold of men and women and young people and children tonight and pull them out of this mud, moral and intellectual mud. Get them out of it, we pray.

We pray that thou will give to all of us who have been here tonight a renewed and livid sense of the sacredness and spirituality of the world that thou hast created. Sin we have no truck with, and there's nothing good can be said about it.

No eloquence can remove from it the ugly bestiality of sin. But apart from sin, oh God, thou art in the world, art here. Pray to help us morning and night and all during the day and night and wherever we may be to keep in contact with thee, knowing that he is in the world.

And the great grief of the world is the world knows him not. But oh, we Christians can say, thank thee, Father, we know thee. We know thee through Jesus Christ thy son. We call thee Father. We have called thee Abba Father.

We have stayed our hearts on thee. Blessed be thy name. Now we trust thee through Jesus Christ our Lord. I'm going to pray for you in a moment. Oh Lord, we pray for these five persons who have raised their hands and asked us to remember them.

Full Surrender and the New Birth

Oh Lord Jesus, the world is so full of temptations, and the magnetism of the world is all but impossible to resist. But these people want to do it. They want to turn from everything that beads the Lord and follow him.

They want to be thine completely, fully, and we pray for them. I said pray one for another. We lift our hearts in prayer now and ask, oh Lord, that you will help these five persons to put away their resistance, throw down opposition, and meekly surrender now their hearts to thee.

For thee to come in, take over, set up thy throne and reign from within, king of their lives by thy grace. Grant this, we pray thee, Lord Jesus, even right now, for thy name's sake. Would you bow your heads in a moment of prayer with me, please?

Receiving Christ as Savior

Lord Jesus, thy going forth has been from of old, even forever. Thou art moving from eternity that was to eternity to be, passing by. And the magnetism of thy presence is finding a few, a few that are with thee and yearning and longing, a few.

O Christ, even as thou didst walk down the streets of Jerusalem, and they came out of houses and leaned out windows, others flowered and walked away, so it is today. We beseech thee, help those that are rejecting.

We pray thee, let them reject. Those that will receive, we beseech thee, let them receive. We say, Selah, amen. So be it, God. Our invisible, mysterious person, present in our midst, the physician is near, the sanctifying, healing Jesus, the Lord and the Savior is near.

We pray thee for those who, up to this hour, have been careless, shallow, modern, irresponsible believers, who want tonight to change all that and to settle it with thee, that they will take thee as their Savior now, that they will make thee thine, theirs, that they will make themselves thine, that they will lay hold of thee by all the aggressive acts of their personality, believe on thy name, receive thy person, cease to be sinners, and move over into the new and heavenly birth that makes them children of God.

It is for thy name's sake.