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The Pursuit of God Daily
A daily reading from A. W. Tozer's The Pursuit of God with Scripture (KJV), reflection and prayer. Tozer and Scripture are read word for word; the reflections and prayers are AI-written, and all voices are AI-generated.
Episodes
The Pursuit of God DailyRemoving the Veil, part 9 of 10: Self at the very altar
Tozer names the self-sins that form the veil hiding God's face, warning that self can thrive even amid orthodoxy and can be removed only by the work of the…
The Pursuit of God DailyRemoving the Veil, part 8 of 10: The veil within
Tozer asks why believers linger outside the Holy of Holies when Christ has opened the way, and names the cause as a second veil in the heart, the uncrucified…
The Pursuit of God DailyRemoving the Veil, part 7 of 10: The scribe and the prophet
Tozer contrasts the scribe who tells what he has read with the prophet who tells what he has seen, insisting that hearts aflame with love for God come from His…
The Pursuit of God DailyRemoving the Veil, part 6 of 10: The beginning, middle and end
Tozer holds up Frederick Faber, whose burning love for the Father and for Christ shows the adoration open to a heart that seeks God. The episode opens with 1…
The Pursuit of God DailyRemoving the Veil, part 5 of 10: A sea to swim in
Tozer marvels at the eternal, unchanging, all-knowing God whose holiness is best pictured by fire, and says the truest love for Him glows in the human spirit…
The Pursuit of God DailyRemoving the Veil, part 4 of 10: The God Behind the Veil
Tozer names the One who dwells behind the veil, the triune God of the creeds, revealed in Christ and waiting to show Himself to the humble and pure in heart…
The Pursuit of God DailyRemoving the Veil, part 3 of 10: The veil rent from top to bottom
Tozer shows that the rending of the last veil at Calvary opened the way for every believer into God's very Presence, and warns against resting in positional…
The Pursuit of God DailyRemoving the Veil, part 2 of 10: The road home is already open
Tozer distinguishes God's omnipresence from His manifest Presence, and shows that redemption is God's work of reconciling us and drawing us back, pictured in…
The Pursuit of God DailyRemoving the Veil, part 1 of 10: Formed for Himself
Tozer begins chapter three with Augustine's confession that God formed us for Himself and that our hearts are restless until they rest in Him, and with the…
The Pursuit of God DailyThe Blessedness of Possessing Nothing, part 7 of 7: The testing place
Tozer teaches that the blessedness of renunciation must be lived, not learned by rote, and that God brings each seeker to a testing place with one choice and…
The Pursuit of God DailyThe Blessedness of Possessing Nothing, part 6 of 7: Safe in His keeping
Tozer teaches that whatever we commit to God is truly safe, that our gifts are His loan, and that the seeking Christian must stop defending himself and deal…
The Pursuit of God DailyThe Blessedness of Possessing Nothing, part 5 of 7: Everything, Yet Nothing
Tozer shows that after Moriah Abraham still had everything but possessed nothing, his real treasures now inward and eternal, and he warns that possessive…
The Pursuit of God DailyThe Blessedness of Possessing Nothing, part 4 of 7: The Lad Given Back
Abraham resolves to obey God and trust Him to raise Isaac from the dead, and God, having removed the boy from the throne of Abraham's heart, gives him back…
The Pursuit of God DailyThe Blessedness of Possessing Nothing, part 3 of 7: The Delight and Idol of His Heart
Tozer turns to Abraham and Isaac as a picture of the surrendered life, showing how even a God-given love can grow perilous when it crowds God from the center…
The Pursuit of God DailyThe Blessedness of Possessing Nothing, part 2 of 7: The enemy within and the Cross
Tozer names the possessive self-life as an enemy that is overcome not by fighting but by surrender at the Cross, and urges us to take this as a step to climb…
The Pursuit of God DailyThe Blessedness of Possessing Nothing, part 1 of 7: The tyranny of things
Tozer shows how God's gifts, meant to stay outside us and serve us, have pushed God out of the heart's central shrine, and how the possessive “my” and “mine”…
The Pursuit of God DailyFollowing Hard After God, part 7 of 7: All Things in One
Tozer concludes the first chapter: the one who has God for his treasure has all things in One, and loses nothing when lesser treasures go; he closes with a…
The Pursuit of God DailyFollowing Hard After God, part 6 of 7: I am thy part
Tozer teaches that making God our All does not narrow the heart but enriches it, urging us to seek God Himself rather than His gifts, as Levi received the Lord…
The Pursuit of God DailyFollowing Hard After God, part 5 of 7: Omit the “and”
Tozer urges holy desire for God and a return to the simplicity that is in Christ, warning that seeking God-and keeps us from finding God Himself. Opening…
The Pursuit of God DailyFollowing Hard After God, part 4 of 7: Seeking the One Already Found
Tozer points to David, Paul and the singing Church as believers who kept seeking the God they had already found, and mourns a teaching that treats first faith…
The Pursuit of God DailyFollowing Hard After God, part 3 of 7: The soul's paradox of love
Tozer teaches that the new birth is not the end but the beginning of a lifelong pursuit of the infinite God, illustrated by Moses, who, having found grace…
The Pursuit of God DailyFollowing Hard After God, part 2 of 7: God Is a Person
Tozer warns that we can lose God amid the wonders of His Word, and reminds us that God is a Person who is known through long, loving, conscious fellowship…
The Pursuit of God DailyFollowing Hard After God, part 1 of 7: God is always previous
Tozer teaches that before we can seek God, God has first sought us, yet we must answer His drawing by following hard after Him rather than settling for a…
The Pursuit of God DailyPreface, part 2 of 2: Not mere words, but God Himself
Tozer warns that right opinions and sound exposition can leave God's people starving unless they lead to finding God Himself in personal experience, and he…
The Pursuit of God DailyPreface, part 1 of 2: Thirst for God Himself
Tozer opens The Pursuit of God by naming a growing hunger for God Himself, warning that correct doctrine without the fire of God's presence cannot satisfy that…