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Dimensiunea Sufletului: Principiile Trezirii Și Ale Creșterii Spirituale
Va fi nevoie de ceva mai mult decât vorbăraie și rugăciune pentru a aduce trezirea. Trebuie să aibă loc o întoarcere la Domnul în prectică înainte ca rugăciunile noastre să fie auzite în ceruri. Să nu îndrăznim să continuăm să strâmbăm calea lui Dumnezeu dacă vrem ca El să binecuvânteze calea noastră!
Este aproape de necrezut cât de departe mergem ca să evităm să-L ascultăm pe Dumnezeu. Îl numim pe Isus „Domn” și Îl implorăm să ne înnoiască sufletele, dar avem grijă să nu facem ceea ce ne spune El. Când suntem confruntați cu un păcat, cu o mărturisire sau cu o schimbare morală în viața noastră, ni se pare mult mai ușor să ne rugăm jumătate de nopate decât să Îl ascultăm pe Dumnezeu.
Mulțimi întregi de tineri cresc fără să fi cunoscut altceva decât soiul degenerat de creștinism care acum trece drept religia lui Hristos. Ei sunt victimele nevinovate ale unei stări la care nu au contribuit cu nimic. Nu ei, ci o conducere castrată din punct de vedere spiritual va trebui să răspundă pentru jalnica lor stare.
Care este remediul? E simplu. O întoarcere radicală la creștinismul nou-testamentar atât în ce privește mesajul, cât și metoda. O repudiere îndrăzneață a lumii și o luare a crucii. O astfel de întoarcere pe scară largă va însemna o reformă de mari proporții. Unii dintre cei care acum sunt sus vor fi coborâți, și mulți dintre cei smeriți vor fi înălțați. Va însemna o revoluție morală. Câți sunt gata să plătească prețul?
Este aproape de necrezut cât de departe mergem ca să evităm să-L ascultăm pe Dumnezeu. Îl numim pe Isus „Domn” și Îl implorăm să ne înnoiască sufletele, dar avem grijă să nu facem ceea ce ne spune El. Când suntem confruntați cu un păcat, cu o mărturisire sau cu o schimbare morală în viața noastră, ni se pare mult mai ușor să ne rugăm jumătate de nopate decât să Îl ascultăm pe Dumnezeu.
Mulțimi întregi de tineri cresc fără să fi cunoscut altceva decât soiul degenerat de creștinism care acum trece drept religia lui Hristos. Ei sunt victimele nevinovate ale unei stări la care nu au contribuit cu nimic. Nu ei, ci o conducere castrată din punct de vedere spiritual va trebui să răspundă pentru jalnica lor stare.
Care este remediul? E simplu. O întoarcere radicală la creștinismul nou-testamentar atât în ce privește mesajul, cât și metoda. O repudiere îndrăzneață a lumii și o luare a crucii. O astfel de întoarcere pe scară largă va însemna o reformă de mari proporții. Unii dintre cei care acum sunt sus vor fi coborâți, și mulți dintre cei smeriți vor fi înălțați. Va însemna o revoluție morală. Câți sunt gata să plătească prețul?
132 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1992
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About the author
A.W. Tozer
664 books2,097 followersAiden Wilson Tozer was an American evangelical pastor, speaker, writer, and editor. After coming to Christ at the age of seventeen, Tozer found his way into the Christian & Missionary Alliance denomination where he served for over forty years. In 1950, he was appointed by the denomination's General Council to be the editor of "The Alliance Witness" (now "Alliance Life").
Born into poverty in western Pennsylvania in 1897, Tozer died in May 1963 a self-educated man who had taught himself what he missed in high school and college due to his home situation. Though he wrote many books, two of them, "The Pursuit of God" and "The Knowledge of the Holy" are widely considered to be classics.
A.W. Tozer and his wife, Ada Cecelia Pfautz, had seven children, six boys and one girl.
Born into poverty in western Pennsylvania in 1897, Tozer died in May 1963 a self-educated man who had taught himself what he missed in high school and college due to his home situation. Though he wrote many books, two of them, "The Pursuit of God" and "The Knowledge of the Holy" are widely considered to be classics.
A.W. Tozer and his wife, Ada Cecelia Pfautz, had seven children, six boys and one girl.
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July 8, 2021
Was This Really Tozer?
I rated this a two, and in all my years of reading A.W. Tozer's books, this is only the second one that I did not like; It's almost like it isn't even written by him! Did they just put it together by using his notes? Do they do that? It doesn't even sound like anything I've ever read of his before.
It starts off great, and he has some amazing things to say about revival for self, and the church, and he held me almost spellbound, as he usually does, because he goes into great detail about how it has to be personal to you, God has to be real, and the revival has to start with you before it can start, period! And it's great until he gets into the speed reading; from there it went downhill for me, and try as I may, I couldn't pull it back up! I actually had to put it down and leave it unfinished.
I'm so sorry, but I cannot recommend it, but I sure hope I'm the only one who is disappointed with this book! A.W. Tozer is one of my very favorite authors!
I rated this a two, and in all my years of reading A.W. Tozer's books, this is only the second one that I did not like; It's almost like it isn't even written by him! Did they just put it together by using his notes? Do they do that? It doesn't even sound like anything I've ever read of his before.
It starts off great, and he has some amazing things to say about revival for self, and the church, and he held me almost spellbound, as he usually does, because he goes into great detail about how it has to be personal to you, God has to be real, and the revival has to start with you before it can start, period! And it's great until he gets into the speed reading; from there it went downhill for me, and try as I may, I couldn't pull it back up! I actually had to put it down and leave it unfinished.
I'm so sorry, but I cannot recommend it, but I sure hope I'm the only one who is disappointed with this book! A.W. Tozer is one of my very favorite authors!
March 24, 2024
Tozer Remains As One Of My Favorite Authors
To find a Christian who speaks boldly the word of God only with reverent fear of the Lord in His heart is not rare but definitely hard to come by. Reading Tozer sometimes reminds me of an extremist for God but in today's day and age we're desperate and parched for preachers who speak plain black and white. This is the word of God. There is no grey area and that is Tozer to me. He speaks to my heart. It was a delight to read the chapters about books and to my very own pleasure there were confirmations from the Holy Spirit Himself in my person life in this book which made me ecstatic. The Size of the Soul touched so many topics and I'm so happy to have prophetically ended on thr subject of Easter Sunday as it's Holy Week right now. I can't wait to pick up my next Tozer and it's probably going to be a book I've read that's been on my heart but my TBR is excessive so let's see!
To find a Christian who speaks boldly the word of God only with reverent fear of the Lord in His heart is not rare but definitely hard to come by. Reading Tozer sometimes reminds me of an extremist for God but in today's day and age we're desperate and parched for preachers who speak plain black and white. This is the word of God. There is no grey area and that is Tozer to me. He speaks to my heart. It was a delight to read the chapters about books and to my very own pleasure there were confirmations from the Holy Spirit Himself in my person life in this book which made me ecstatic. The Size of the Soul touched so many topics and I'm so happy to have prophetically ended on thr subject of Easter Sunday as it's Holy Week right now. I can't wait to pick up my next Tozer and it's probably going to be a book I've read that's been on my heart but my TBR is excessive so let's see!
May 23, 2023
This is the 12th collection of editorials from Tozer, originally written for The Alliance Witness. I don’t think it’s quite as good as some of the others I have read, but there are some real gems in these pages. 3 1/2 stars.
December 7, 2024
The size of this book was not big enough. Beautiful in every way. Patricia STAYS wrong.
September 30, 2024
Persons out of Christ often try to comfort themselves with the remembrance that they have never in their lives committed any really great sin.
Lack of moral energy may prevent a man from enjoying himself in sin, but he is in sin nevertheless.
The only hope for a restricted heart is the mighty inworking of the Spirit. He can enlarge the mansion of the soul, but only He can do it.
Our mistake is that we want God to send revival on our terms. We want to get the power of God unto our hands, to call it to us that it may work for us in promoting and furthering our kind of Christianity.
We cannot continue to ignore God’s will as expressed in the Scriptures and expect to secure the aid of God’s Spirit.
There must be a return to the Lord in practice before our prayers will be heard in heaven.
Unless at least a few individuals seek and obtain a spiritual transformation in their own hearts, there can be no hope for their church, for a church is composed of individual Christians.
No church is any better or worse than the individual Christian who compose it.
A man may throw himself on his face and sob out his troubles to the Lord and yet have no intention to obey the commandments of Christ.
Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress.
To desire revival, for instance; and at the same time to neglect prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another. “Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.” - Bacon.
No one can do God’s work. Nor does He turn His work over to others to do. He works in His people and through them, but always it is He who works.
The truth is that though all godly persons are zealous, not all zealous people are godly.
A prophet is one who knows his times and why God is trying to say to the people of his times.
We must not only know what God has said; we must hear what God is now speaking.
It’s fear of falling into the hands of God that makes us so eager to get things reduced to a formula.
Lack of moral energy may prevent a man from enjoying himself in sin, but he is in sin nevertheless.
The only hope for a restricted heart is the mighty inworking of the Spirit. He can enlarge the mansion of the soul, but only He can do it.
Our mistake is that we want God to send revival on our terms. We want to get the power of God unto our hands, to call it to us that it may work for us in promoting and furthering our kind of Christianity.
We cannot continue to ignore God’s will as expressed in the Scriptures and expect to secure the aid of God’s Spirit.
There must be a return to the Lord in practice before our prayers will be heard in heaven.
Unless at least a few individuals seek and obtain a spiritual transformation in their own hearts, there can be no hope for their church, for a church is composed of individual Christians.
No church is any better or worse than the individual Christian who compose it.
A man may throw himself on his face and sob out his troubles to the Lord and yet have no intention to obey the commandments of Christ.
Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress.
To desire revival, for instance; and at the same time to neglect prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another. “Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.” - Bacon.
No one can do God’s work. Nor does He turn His work over to others to do. He works in His people and through them, but always it is He who works.
The truth is that though all godly persons are zealous, not all zealous people are godly.
A prophet is one who knows his times and why God is trying to say to the people of his times.
We must not only know what God has said; we must hear what God is now speaking.
It’s fear of falling into the hands of God that makes us so eager to get things reduced to a formula.
November 2, 2010
Hordes of concise wisdom here for pastor and layman alike.
"Again, the pastor when facing his congregation on Sunday morning, dare not think of the effect his sermon may have on his job, his salary or his future relation to the church. Let him but worry about tomorrow and he becomes a hireling and not a true shepherd of the sheep. No man is a good preacher who is not willing to lay his future on the line every time he expounds the Word. He must let his job and his reputation ride on each and every sermon or he has no right to think that he stands in the prophetic tradition."
"Again, the pastor when facing his congregation on Sunday morning, dare not think of the effect his sermon may have on his job, his salary or his future relation to the church. Let him but worry about tomorrow and he becomes a hireling and not a true shepherd of the sheep. No man is a good preacher who is not willing to lay his future on the line every time he expounds the Word. He must let his job and his reputation ride on each and every sermon or he has no right to think that he stands in the prophetic tradition."
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