How to Be Filled with the Holy Spirit

By A.W. Tozer

The following pages represent the gist of a series of sermons given on successive Sunday evenings to the congregation of the church of which I am pastor. The talks were taken down stenographically and later reduced to their present length. A fifth message which was a part of the series has been omitted here.

The fact that these were originally spoken messages accounts for their racy style and for the personal references which occur in them occasionally. Had I been writing the messages I should have exercised greater care in the composition. The subject is, however, so vitally important that I feel sure the reader will pardon the offhand style of the language. The truth is always good even when the vehicle in which it rides is homely and plain.

This book is made available to the Christian public with the prayer that it may help to lead many thirsty believers to the fountain of living waters.

— A.W.T.

• Language: English
• Publisher: CrossReach Publications
• Release date: Dec 2, 2017

A.W. Tozer

The late Dr. A. W. Tozer was well known in evangelical circles both for his long and fruitful editorship of the Alliance Witness as well as his pastorate of one of the largest Alliance churches in the Chicago area. He came to be known as the Prophet of Today because of his penetrating books on the deeper spiritual life.

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How to be Filled

with

The Holy Spirit

Illustrated Edition

By

A. W. Tozer

(1897-1963)

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Harrisburg, Pa.

Copyright 1960. Christian Publications. Harrisburg, PA.

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CONTENTS

1. Who is the Holy Spirit?

What Is The Holy Spirit?

Who Is The Holy Spirit?

What The Creeds Say

What The Hymnists Say

What The Scriptures Say

What Is He Like?

2. The Promise of the Father

The Period Of The Promise

The Period Of The Preparation

The Period Of The Realization

The Internal Evidence

The Witness Of The Holy Spirit

The Spirit Comes Today

3. How to be Filled with the Holy Spirit

Is The Spirit-Filled Life For You?

Can You Believe This Is Part Of God’s Plan?

Can You Believe The Spirit Is Lovable?

Can You Believe This Is Scriptural?

Do You Want To Be Filled?

Do You Want Him To Be Lord Of Your Life?

Are You Sure You Need Him?

How To Receive Him

4. How to Cultivate the Spirit’s Companionship

Are You Ready For This?

1. The Holy Spirit Is A Living Person

2. Be Engrossed With Jesus Christ

3. Walk In Righteousness

5. Seek To Know Him In The Word

6. Cultivate The Art Of Recognizing The Presence Of The Spirit

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PREFACE

The following pages represent the gist of a series of sermons given on successive Sunday evenings to the congregation of the church of which I am pastor. The talks were taken down stenographically and later reduced to their present length. A fifth message which was a part of the series has been omitted here.

The fact that these were originally spoken messages accounts for their racy style and for the personal references which occur in them occasionally. Had I been writing the messages I should have exercised greater care in the composition. The subject is, however, so vitally important that I feel sure the reader will pardon the offhand style of the language. The truth is always good even when the vehicle in which it rides is homely and plain.

This book is made available to the Christian public with the prayer that it may help to lead many thirsty believers to the fountain of living waters.

— A.W.T.

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CHAPTER ONE

Who is the Holy Spirit?

We all use the word spirit a great deal. Now I want to tell you what I do and do not mean by it. In the first place, we rule out all of the secondary uses of the word spirit. I do not mean courage, as when we say, That’s the spirit! I don’t mean temper or temperament or pluck. I mean nothing so nebulous as that. Spirit is a specific and identifiable substance. If not definable, it can at least be described. Spirit is as real as matter, but it is another mode of being than matter.

We are all materialists to some extent. We are born of material parents into a material world; we are wrapped in material clothes and fed on material milk and lie in a material bed, and sleep and walk and live and talk and grow up in a world of matter. Matter presses upon us obtrusively and takes over our thinking so completely that we cannot speak of spirit without using materialistic terms. God made man out of the dust of the ground, and man has been dust ever since, and we can’t quite shake it off.

Matter is one mode of being; spirit