The degree of blessing enjoyed by any man will correspond exactly with the completeness of God’s victory over him. “The experiences of men who walked with God in olden times agree to teach that the Lord cannot fully bless a man until He has first conquered him. God's Pursuit of Man: Tozer's Profound Prequel to The Pursuit of God Nothing can take the place of the touch of God in the” We must see with our eyes, and hear with our ears, and our hands must handle of the Word of Life. He is best discerned by an intellectual touch of Him. To seek our divinity merely in books and writings is to seek the living among the dead we do but in vain many times seek God in these, where His truth too often is not so much enshrined as entombed. He will crave to know God with a vital awareness that goes beyond words and to live in the intimacy of personal communion. What have I to do any more with idols?” For he cannot love a God who is no more than a deduction from a text. His language will be, “I have heard Him and observed Him. But the man who has been taught even slightly by the Spirit of Truth will rebel at this perversion. By this they mean a conviction of the trustworthiness of the Word of God (a conviction, it may be noted, which the devils share with them). “Some who desire to be teachers of the Word, but who understand neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm, insist upon “naked” faith as the only way to know spiritual things.
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