a.w. Tozer Audio Prayers - Part 3 — A.W. Tozer

Applying Scripture to Daily Obedience

Father, we pray thy blessing upon these words and upon the little commentary that we've made on them, trying to apply them to our practical living. We pray that thou wilt give consent of heart and willingness to obey and cheerful faith to do as we're told by the Spirit in the scriptures.

Bless us during the day and for the afternoon and for the evening, and may this day be a big day, a great day. Not a dramatic day necessarily that the newspapers will talk about, but a day deep in the things of the Spirit.

We give thee praise. Amen. For her our prayer shall rise, and for her we promise to labor and work thy poor churches, only if a ragged beggar woman, when she could be a coon, when she could be a princess, and upon the arm of her beloved Lord Jesus, we pray for thy church.

Revival and the Church's Spiritual Poverty

We pray for thy people who believe thy word or claim to believe it. We cannot pray now at the moment for the liberal, for the cultist, for the false teacher, we cannot. But we pray for those who believe the Bible.

We pray for those who claim they are evangelical, and yet they wear rags where they should wear silks. O God, we pray thee, revive thy church in the midst of the years, revive this church, O Lord, revive the Alliance, revive every denomination that stands for the truth, O Lord, save us from fear and save us from intimidation.

Repentance and the Power of the Holy Spirit

We have grieved thy Holy Spirit by neglecting him. We have quenched thy Holy Spirit. We have listened to the blandishments of men who ought to know better, and they have made us afraid to believe in the power of the Holy Ghost.

We grieve for this, and we apologize to thee for it. We pray thee, O God of grace, out of infinite grace, send to this church the sweet wave of power to be, the sweet wave of ability to be holy and good and faithful and temperate and joyful and bright.

Send, we pray thee, such a wave. We thank thee for the Blessed Spirit, Father, of its sending to the earth to be our advocate, our indweller, to show us the Lord Jesus, to lead us as a shepherd leads his sheep, to be a mentor and teacher, showing the things of Christ to us.

We've acted as if he didn't exist, and we're sorry. We apologize and we repent for our neglect of the Spirit and our mistreatment of the Spirit. O Father, wash us clean and make us white in the blood of the Lamb, and then pour a horn of oil on our heads, for the poor world bleeds and dies, and we have not to help them.

They starve and we have not to give them. Forgive us, Lord. Behold, breathe thy breath upon us and say, Receive thee the Holy Ghost. Save us, we pray thee, O God, from magicians and men with pencils and rules and squares and levels, always driving us away from the fountain.

Lord, we would put them behind us and under our feet and rise on our dead selves for better things. Help us, we pray, over these evenings together. May the total result be that one after the other of us shall be filled with a new power and a new grace and a new ability to be and do, that we might show forth the excellency of him who called us out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Holy Week, the Cross, and the Resurrection

We ask the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We have entered into what men call Holy Week. We are going to be thinking this week about thy suffering and thy death. The next Lord's Day we are going to celebrate thy resurrection.

O blessed Lord Jesus, we thank thee of all that is past, and while we may commemorate it now, it doesn't repeat. It's not repeated. We are not going to die Friday, nor rise Sunday, nor send the Holy Ghost 50 days later.

All that's history and done. We are the beneficiaries of it all if we only dare believe it. Help us to believe it, O Lord, and forgive us for doubting it. We are the recipients of all that is trusty and all that thou didst bring them by death and suffering and tears and groans and sweat, resurrection and by ascension to the Father's right hand.

We are the heirs of the ages. Upon us the ages have converged. We, O Lord, are richer than angels. But thou didst do this not for angels, but for men. We are thy church, Lord. We are a people set aside here that have met on this corner in this building which thou hast graciously provided for us.

Here we are, Lord. We're waiting, Lord. We're expectant, Lord. We need help, Lord. O Lord, we pray thee, put thy arms about us and squeeze us together so tight that there be no pockets between us, no non-conducting elements that ground or hinder the power from flowing.

Let it be this week, let it be on over Easter, let it be for the days ahead. We beseech thee, O Lord. And let one after another of us pray, O Lord, find the secret place in their weight with our open Bible until our vessels are clean and empty.

We are waiting and believing, and we believe that one after the other thou will give power and working forward, Lord Jesus, to that moment when there shall be a sudden nearness of the Savior instantaneously bestowed, lovingly bestowed upon a thirsty people.

Save us, we pray thee, from the cheap pattern of the worldly churches. Bring us back to Calvary, back to Pentecost, back to all that they meant and mean, and has now perpetuated for us. O blessed Lord Jesus.

Ministry and Witness in French Quebec

O God for thy work there in French Quebec, where everything is stacked against the people, against the true people of God. Bless our young brother, we pray. May thine oil be upon his head in such measure that everybody there, even though they hate him for his Protestantism, may love him for the fragrance of his life, and slowly turn and see that the fragrance of a holy life comes from the same doctrines that they hate, and thus give up their opposition and turn to thee.

Perseverance, Backsliding, and Repentance

With mercy we pray thee, attend the ministry of this young man and all of those who labor there, we ask this in Christ's name. No weaker, no smaller. Jesus, God is big, and as eternal as God is eternal.

Even the devil is going about like a roaring lion. The temptations are strong. Maybe some of us are cooling off inside our hearts. Please, Lord, before it's too late, help us to get enough of it quick before it's too late.

Please, Lord, don't let harm and backsliding slide us. People that have lost their conscience because they no longer sorrow, but they don't feel so, look at us again today in our hearts. We're no better than Peter.

I, Peter, have sneaked out of discipleship, or at least inwardly, to have you look on us, Lord, and break our hearts. Look on us and make us weep. Give the grace of tears this morning, Lord Jesus, a few tears.

If we knew that we could have this morning $10 ,000 offering plates for the Church and permissions, we'd be glad. But if we knew instead we were to have 10 ,000 tears of grief and repentance and penitence and faith and hope and joy, we'd lay the $10 ,000 away and take the tears that we might.

Worship, Holiness, and Personal Dealings with God

And let's believe God together. Now we're going to close. When you go to him and sing tonight, don't sing junk. I know you don't think you do, but sing only that which warms your heart and makes Jesus Christ glorious.

And then slip away home, and don't waste your time selling jokes and making quips. Lose everything you've got today in the house of God. Let it stand. Jesus, God, won't you, friends, have dealings with God before you close your eyes and slumber this night?

Father, we pray, first we want to thank thee that we have life on earth. We want to thank thee that in thine infinite mercy thou hast not let us go like cattle to the slaughter, not knowing where we're going because we're fat and sleep, imagining that we're all right when actually we've been fattened for the slaughter.

We thank thee, Lord, that we've got light on this. Now help us to walk in. Bless us, everyone. Take away all false hopes, all unscriptural expectations. Pull us back to the word of the Lord. Father, as we go down the steps and onto the sidewalk tonight, mark the forage of them that sigh and cry.

Repentance from Idolatry and Prayer for America

Great God, have mercy upon our America. Have mercy, we pray, upon our America. Dozens of gods, at least a dozen gods, have mercy, Father, and help us to turn from idols to servants, to wait for thy Son from heaven.

God's Grace in Temptation

Dismiss us now. We ask in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. I want to talk about the doctrine in the Bible. God and Father of our Lord Jesus, we thank thee this hour. Thou hast not allowed us to wander into the serpent-infested valley and left us there.

But thou hast allured us and wooed us, and even there has placed the door. Wherever we are, there's a way out and a way in from that spot. Thou hast so arranged it in thy grace. Thou hast sent thy Son Jesus to die, to rise, to live, to feed, to be for us, above, as Savior by the throne of love.

While he's there and we are here, the door is within touch. We bless thee. We will not despair. We will not give up. We will not surrender to the tins of the enemy. We will dare to believe that with every temptation thou wilt make a way.

Thou wilt turn our tin into silver and our silver into gold. And thou wilt give us the garments of praise for the garments of heaviness. Bless thou the word spoken this morning. We ask it of Jesus Christ, our Lord.

Justification, Redemption, and Assurance in Christ

Dear Lord Jesus, we are unworthy to be members, but we are not going to be tricked by the devil into letting our unworthiness make us morbidly unbelieving, even though we're not worthy to be. We're accepted in thee, and thou hast made us members of thy body, and we accept it.

And we leave the matter of our work with thee. And if angels or archangels question our right to be there, we look to thee as a sheep looks to his shepherd and say, Answer for me, Lord, answer for me.

I admit I am not worthy, but answer for me, dear Lord, and thou wilt answer for us. For thou didst come from high heaven to low earth, from the immortal and eternal liberty of the Godhead to the confines of the virgin's womb, that we might be redeemed.

Now this die on the cross of shame and suffering drives that we might be justified and forgiven, and be reunited again with the Father from which we fell in the fall. Lord, all this is true, and we leave it with thee.

Faithful Fellowship and the Church's Mission

Now wilt thou bless and help us to see how wonderful it is to be a member of however small a group that believes in thee? We leave the great top-heavy Christendom to find its own way. We shall pray, O God, for all the Church, all who call themselves Christians.

We shall be tolerant and kind and charitable and loving and friendly to them all, but we will only go with those that love thy name, that trust the precious work of Christ on the cross, and that are ready to leave all and follow him.

We pray, O God, for every Christian in Toronto. We pray for all the ministers of the truth, and we thank thee there are many who preach the truth. Bless them all, Father. Grant that over these weeks that lie before us we may see a constant rising tide that shall eventuate and flow, that it shall be like the river that flows out from the throne of God.

Prayer for Spiritual Power in the City

All this we ask in Christ's name. Amen. Leave me, pray thee. Let there be a positive glory left in this city as a result of these releases, the Lord. Nothing to do for these people, for the churches of this city, for the people who will be here, whether there be many or few.

Pray thee, work it out. Do it over and over, God, we pray thee, as clearly as raising a dead man or healing a sick man, as in olden days. Now do these miracles, do them within the hearts and lives of people, miracles as sharp and clear as those miracles were.

When the meetings are over, those will have a positive power and grace within their hearts they didn't have when the meetings.