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  AS HOLY AS YOU WANT TO BE
  by A.W. Tozer
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Summary: The depth of our spiritual experience is directly tied to the
depth of our desire for God.

Topics: "Spiritual Fulfillment", "Desire for Righteousness"
Scripture References: Psalm 42:1, Matthew 5:6, James 4:8

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A.W. Tozer emphasizes that individuals are as holy and filled with the
Spirit as they truly desire to be, based on the teaching of Jesus in
Matthew 5:6. He explains that true hunger and thirst for righteousness
can lead to a profound filling by the Holy Spirit, but many Christians
remain complacent in their spiritual state. Tozer encourages believers
to cultivate a deep longing for God, recognizing that the key to
spiritual fulfillment lies in the intensity of their desire for Him. He
calls for a heartfelt prayer for a holy longing that allows the Spirit
to fill the void in their lives.

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Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they
shall be filled. --Matthew 5:6

It may be said without qualification that every man is as holy and as
full of the Spirit as he wants to be. He may not be as full as he wishes
he were, but he is most certainly as full as he wants to be.

Our Lord placed this beyond dispute when He said, "Blessed are they
which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be
filled." Hunger and thirst are physical sensations which, in their acute
stages, may become real pain. It has been the experience of countless
seekers after God that when their desires became a pain they were
suddenly and wonderfully filled. The problem is not to persuade God to
fill us, but to want God sufficiently to permit Him to do so. The
average Christian is so cold and so contented with His wretched
condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed
Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness. Born After Midnight, 8.

"Lord, quiet my heart today and fill me with this holy longing. I don't
want to be contented with my present condition; I long for that vacuum
of desire into which the Holy Spirit can rush. Amen."

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