Tozer on Christian Leadership

Love this devotion today!!

“I remember the days of old; I meditate on all Your works; I muse on the work of Your hands. I spread out my hands to You; My soul longs for You like a thirsty land.”—Psalm 143:5-6

These people who have to have truckloads of gadgets to get their religion going, what will they do when they don’t have anything like that? The truck can’t get where they’re going.

I heard a man boast this afternoon on the radio to come to his place because they were going to bring in equipment from Pennsylvania and Ohio to serve the Lord with. What equipment do you need to serve the Lord with, brother? Why, the dear old camp meeting ladies used to say, “See, this is my harp with ten strings and I praise the Lord!” And they’d clap their little old wrinkled hands with shining faces. What claptrap do you need? Do you need a bushel basket full of stuff to serve the Lord with?

Brother, if you have two knees and even if you’re stiffened up with arthritis so you can’t get on your knees, you can look up in your heart. For prayer isn’t getting on your knees—prayer is the elevation of the heart to God. That’s all a man needs. You can pray in a prison, you can pray in an airplane, you can pray in a ship; you can pray anywhere and you can worship God, because it’s Himself that we want, Himself. Success and the Christian, 30.

“Lord, show me Yourself this morning. I don’t have any ‘claptrap’ or equipment here; I just want to get on my knees and worship. I meditate on Your works, my soul longs for You, here in the quiet of my study. Amen.”