How to Be Filled with the Holy Spirit
By A. W. Tozer
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The only way to live with true spiritual power
"Are you sure you want to be possessed by a spirit other than your own? Even though that spirit be the pure Spirit of God? Even though He be the very gentle essence of the gentle Jesus? Even though He be wisdom personified, wisdom Himself? Even though He be as loving as the heart of God?" —A. W. Tozer
In a little book that's hard to swallow, A. W. Tozer teaches plainly who the Spirit is, why we should desire Him, but why few of us do. He instructs us in how to be filled with the Spirit, but first poses this question: Do you really want to be filled?
A. W. Tozer
The late Dr. A. W. Tozer was well known in evangelical circles both for his long and fruitful editorship of the Alliance Witness as well as his pastorate of one of the largest Alliance churches in the Chicago area. He came to be known as the Prophet of Today because of his penetrating books on the deeper spiritual life.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Do you desire to be filled with the Spirit? Do you have a hole in your heart that refuses to be filled by anything but God? Are you spiritually lonely? Do you want God to be Lord of your life? A very concise little book about how to be filled with the Holy Spirit: what you need to get out of the way before the Spirit can come in and live in you and how you can cooperate with God to begin making room for Him. Discusses what it means to "give up the keys" to your soul so that you don't have a key of your own, but are fully owned by Christ. How to be Filled with the Holy Spirit - Four things needed: 1. The desire to be filled; 2. Ask God to fill you; 3.Be ready to obey the Spirit; 4. Have faith, p. 23.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It was simple, refreshing and enlightening. good book well written.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is a great compilation. The words are simple yet so powerful.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Practical lesson on cultivating a relationship with the Holy Spirit. Great read to help with self reflection on ones readiness for a life of spirit filled commitment.
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How to Be Filled with the Holy Spirit - A. W. Tozer
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Preface
The following pages represent the gist of a series of sermons given on successive Sunday evenings to the congregation of the church of which I am pastor. The talks were taken down stenographically and later reduced to their present length. A fifth message which was a part of the series has been omitted here.
The fact that these were originally spoken messages accounts for their racy style and for the personal references which occur in them occasionally. Had I been writing the messages I should have exercised greater care in the composition. The subject is, however, so vitally important that I feel sure the reader will pardon the offhand style of the language. The truth is always good even when the vehicle in which it rides is homely and plain.
This book is made available to the Christian public with the prayer that it may help to lead many thirsty believers to the fountain of living waters.
— A.W.T.
Chapter 1
Who Is the Holy Spirit?
We all use the word spirit
a great deal. Now I want to tell you what I do and do not mean by it. In the first place, we rule out all of the secondary uses of the word spirit.
I do not mean courage, as when we say, That’s the spirit!
I don’t mean temper or temperament or pluck. I mean nothing so nebulous as that. Spirit is a specific and identifiable substance. If not definable, it can at least be described. Spirit is as real as matter, but it is another mode of being than matter.
We are all materialists to some extent. We are born of material parents into a material world; we are wrapped in material clothes and fed on material milk and lie in a material bed, and sleep and walk and live and talk and grow up in a world of matter. Matter presses upon us obtrusively and takes over our thinking so completely that we cannot speak of spirit without using materialistic terms. God made man out of the dust of the ground, and man has been dust ever since, and we can’t quite shake it off.
Matter is one mode of being; spirit is another mode of being as authentic as matter. Material things have certain characteristics. For instance, they have weight. Everything that is material weighs something; it yields to gravitational pull. Then, matter has dimensions; you can measure the thing if it is made of matter. It has shape. It has an outline of some sort, no matter whether it is a molecule or an atom or whatever it may be, on up to the stars that shine. Then, it is extended in space. So I say that weight, dimension, shape and extension are the things that belong to matter. That is one mode of being; that is one way of existing. One power of spirit, of any spirit (for I am talking about spirit now, not about the Holy Spirit), is its ability to penetrate. Matter bumps against other matter and stops; it cannot penetrate. Spirit can penetrate everything. For instance, your body is made of matter, and yet your spirit has penetrated your body completely. Spirit can penetrate spirit. It can