'This little book of the spiritual way has not been 'made' in any mechanical sense it has been born out of inward necessity. His book will be to him not only imperative, it will be inevitable. The man who is thus charged with a message will not be turned back by any blase consideration. When such a work has gestated within a man it is almost certain that it will be written. 'The only book that should ever be written is one that flows up from the heart, forced out by the inward pressure. In his preface, Tozer gives his reason for writing the book: For all who will hear, for all who will obey, here is God's answer to our need-Himself.' Don't even fear the bold, jagged stroke of lightning of the speech. Don't be afraid of the thunderings of the language. Here he speaks no, he preaches no, he thunders the message of God for those of us who are dreadfully poverty-stricken, though we think we are rich and have need of nothing. The author is a prophet, a man of God his life as well as his sermons attest the fact. Only then can we experience what some of us know by rote. May the slain of the Lord be many may the hopeless be multiplied. For a generation content in its own smugness, emotionally exhausted by the claptrap and bunkum of some well-meaning but misled leaders, glibly familiar with all the niceties of careful theological phrases, the medicine may be too bitter.

'This book contains strong medicine, bitter to the taste but potent if taken in contrition and in belief. In his foreword to this book, William Culbertson writes: Tozer then explains how it is through the power and promise of the Holy Spirit that we can truly understand the mystery of the Triune God. A prequel of sorts, God's Pursuit of Man speaks fervently of God's desire for man to be saved and the action He takes as He invades the human soul. Tozer's God's Pursuit of Man sets forth the biblical truth that before man can pursue God, God must first pursue man. Formerly Published as The Divine ConquestĪlthough written two years after the publication of The Pursuit of God, A.

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