A 365 - DAY DEVOTIONAL

TOZER

FOR THE

CHRISTIAN LEADER

A. W. TOZER

COMPILED BY RON EGGERT

Today’s Reading

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© 2001 by The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago

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ISBN: 978-1-60066-793-0

Previously published as Tozer on Christian Leadership

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Dedication

To my four children, Jodi, Jon, Jeremy and Jessica (who is with the Lord)

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth. (3 John 4)

Love, Dad

Preface

Aiden Wilson Tozer was born April 21, 1897, on a small farm among the spiny ridges of Western Pennsylvania. Within a few short years, Tozer, as he preferred to be called, would earn the reputation and title “twentieth-century prophet.”

When he was fifteen years old, Tozer’s family moved to Akron, Ohio. One afternoon as he walked home from his job at Goodyear, he overheard a street preacher say, “If you don’t know how to be saved … just call on God.” When he got home, he climbed the narrow stairway to the attic where, heeding the preacher’s advice, Tozer was launched into a lifelong pursuit of God.

In 1919, without formal education, he was called to pastor a small storefront church in Nutter Fort, West Virginia. That humble beginning thrust him and his wife, Ada, into a forty-four-year ministry with The Christian and Missionary Alliance.

Thirty-one of those years were spent at Chicago’s Southside Alliance Church. The congregation, captivated by Tozer’s preaching, grew from eighty to 800.

His humor, written and spoken, has been compared to that of Will Rogers—honest and homespun. Congregations could one moment be swept by gales of laughter and the next sit in a holy hush.

But Tozer’s forte was his prayer life, which often found him walking the aisles of a sanctuary or lying face down on the floor. Tozer biographer James L. Snyder notes that “his preaching as well as his writings were but extensions of his prayer life.” An earlier biographer and confidante, David J. Fant, wrote, “He spent more time on his knees than at his desk.”

Tozer’s final years of pastoral ...