The Presence of God That Almost No One Keeps | A.W. Tozer

You have had it before. That is what makes this so painful. There was a season — maybe a year ago, maybe eleven years ago — when God was near, and prayer was not a duty but a place you went because you wanted to be there. And you cannot point to the day it stopped. That is the part that frightens you. There was no scandal. There was no moment you walked away. The room simply went quiet, and you have been trying to get back ever since. This message is not about finding the presence of God. Almost every believer watching has found it at least once. It is about the thing almost nobody is ever taught: how to KEEP it. In this message we explore the teachings of A. W. Tozer on the difference between visiting the presence of God and keeping it — and on why we have built an entire religion out of the visit. 🕯️ THE PRESENCE IS NOT LOST IN A CRISIS. IT IS LOST IN A CALENDAR. Let us be clear: nothing replaces the Word of God. Your Bible is the foundation and the final authority. But the Lord Jesus gave the church at Ephesus a remedy in three words, and every one of them is practical: REMEMBER. REPENT. DO THE FIRST WORKS. Not the first feelings — the first works. A man getting up in the dark at the old hour, in the old chair, with the old Book, feeling absolutely nothing, and doing it again on Tuesday. That takes a plan, not a mood. So we built one. 👉 Get The War Room Manual + 3 FREE bonus books right here: https://hotm.io/warroommanual (30 days. One page a night, five minutes. Every day ends with one concrete thing you go and do before you sleep.) "The man who has God and nothing else has more than the man who has everything else and no God." — A. W. Tozer 📖 Base texts: Exodus 33:11 — "And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle." Song of Solomon 5:6 — "I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone." 📖 Topics covered in this sermon: Moses went back to the camp, and a young man with no title and no congregation STAYED. "Departed not out of the tabernacle." What lingering after the meeting is over actually costs a man — and why the tent was pitched outside the camp where everyone could watch you walk to it The most astonishing refusal in Scripture: God offers Moses the angel, the land, the milk and the honey, and says "I will not go up in the midst of thee" — and Moses says, if thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence Song of Solomon 5 — she never once says no. She says "I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on?" The presence is almost never lost by saying no to God. It is lost by saying NOT RIGHT NOW until the door is empty Judges 16:20, the saddest sentence in the Old Testament — "he wist not that the LORD was departed from him." Samson went out with the same walk and the same voice and the same reputation, and was the last man in Israel to find out 🔍 Strategic keywords: A.W. Tozer, presence of God, pursuit of God, Exodus 33, Joshua departed not, Song of Solomon 5, Samson wist not, Ichabod, first love, Revelation 2:4, abide in Christ, The War Room Manual, Christian Thinkers 🎥 This video is part of the A. W. Tozer series here on the Christian Thinkers channel. 📌 Subscribe to receive new powerful messages. 👍 Like and share to awaken the remnant.