Praying with Tozer

There are a few books that I read over and over again and Tozer's The Pursuit of God is the one I read the most.  His second chapter, "The Blessedness of Possessing Nothing," is about Abraham's struggle with the call to sacrifice Abraham.  Basically, after a night of prayer where Tozer says, "The sacred writer spares us a close-up of the agony that night on the slopes of Beersheba when the aged man had it out with His God, but respectful imagination may view in awe the bent form wrestling convulsively alone under the stars."  
He speaks of Abraham coming down from the mountain after God stopped him and provided a ram, "After that bitter and blessed experience I think the words my and mine never again had the same meaning for Abraham.  The sense of possession which they connote was gone from his heart.  Things had been cast out forever..."
At the end of each chapter Tozer closes with a prayer...the prayers are worth the cost of the book.  Consider praying these words today,
“Father,
I want to know Thee, but my coward heart fears to give up its toys.  I cannot part with them without inward bleeding, and I do not try to hide from Thee the terror of the parting.  I come trembling, but I do come.  Please root from my heart all those things which I have cherished so long and which have become a very part of my living self, so that Thou mayest enter and dwell there without rival.  Then shalt Thou make the place of Thy feet glorious.  Then shall my heart have no need of the sun to shine in it, for Thyself wilt be the light of it, and there shall be no night there.
In Jesus’ Name,
Amen.”