Praying with Tozer part 2
At the end of chapter 6 in Tozer's The Pursuit of God, he prayed the following prayer
“Lord,
Teach me to listen. The times are noisy and my ears are weary with the thousand raucous sounds which continuously assault them. Give me the spirit of the boy Samuel when he said to Thee, ‘Speak, for Thy servant heareth.’ Let me hear Thee speaking in my heart. Let me get used to the sound of Thy voice, that its tones may be familiar when the sounds of earth die away and the only sound will be the music of Thy speaking Voice.
Amen.”
Tozer wrote those words in 1948. If he thought the times were noisy then...what would he think today? Samuel was in a place to hear God. We must learn to step aside and listen. We must learn to step out of the busy and into the still, to step out of the mundane and into the sacred, to step out of the world and into the Kingdom so that we can speak and hear from the King!
Over the years I have found that God's prayer warriors often help me verbally put before God what my heart longs to say. Tozer is one of those men who just tend to help me say what I want to say.
“Lord,
Teach me to listen. The times are noisy and my ears are weary with the thousand raucous sounds which continuously assault them. Give me the spirit of the boy Samuel when he said to Thee, ‘Speak, for Thy servant heareth.’ Let me hear Thee speaking in my heart. Let me get used to the sound of Thy voice, that its tones may be familiar when the sounds of earth die away and the only sound will be the music of Thy speaking Voice.
Amen.”
Tozer wrote those words in 1948. If he thought the times were noisy then...what would he think today? Samuel was in a place to hear God. We must learn to step aside and listen. We must learn to step out of the busy and into the still, to step out of the mundane and into the sacred, to step out of the world and into the Kingdom so that we can speak and hear from the King!
Over the years I have found that God's prayer warriors often help me verbally put before God what my heart longs to say. Tozer is one of those men who just tend to help me say what I want to say.
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