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The Power Of Silence By A.W. Tozer
There are truths that can never be learned except in the noise and confusion of the market-place or in the tough brutality of combat. The tumult and the shouting teach their own rough lessons... But there is another school where the soul must go to learn its best eternal lessons. It is the school of silence. "Be still and know," said the psalmist, and there is a profound philosophy there, of universal application. Prayer among evangelical Christians is always in danger of degenerating into a glorified gold rush. Almost every book on prayer deals with the "get" element mainly. How to get things we want from God occupies most of the space. Now, we gladly admit that we may ask for and receive specific gifts and benefits in answer to prayer, but we must never forget that the highest
kind of prayer is never the making of requests. Prayer at its holiest A.W. Tozer moment is the entering into God to © 2021 oChristian. a place of such blessed union as often enough, would do more to com. All Rights makes miracles seem tame and cure our ulcers than all the pills Reserved > remarkable answers to prayer that ever rolled across a desk. appear something very far short of wonderful by comparison. Holy men of soberer and quieter times than ours knew well the power of silence. David said, "I Mandeville was dumb with silence, I held my Health Care and Rehabilitation Center peace, even from good; and my 985-626-4798 • www.heritagemanormandeville.com sorrow was stirred. My heart was 1820 W. Causeway Approach • Mandeville, LA 70471 hot within me; while I was musing the fire burned: then spoke I with my tongue." There is a tip here for God's modern prophets. The heart seldom gets hot while the mouth is Quality Nursing Care • Hospice Care open. A closed mouth before God Medicare Skilled Nursing Unit and a silent heart are indispensable for the reception of certain kinds Intermediate and Respite Care of truth. No man is qualified to Short and Long Term Rehabilitation speak who has not first listened. It Ventilator Dependent Unit might well be a wonderful revelaOn-Site Dialysis tion to some Christians if they Positions available for were to get completely quiet for a RN • LPN • CNA short time, long enough, let us say, to get acquainted with their own Between Paris Rd. and Bullard Ave. souls, and to listen in the silence 14500 Hayne Blvd. • New Orleans 70128 • 504-246-1426 for the deep voice of the Eternal Visit our website www.ferncrest.com God. The experience, if repeated
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