========================================================================
  LONGING FOR GOD
  by A.W. Tozer
========================================================================

Summary: The sermon emphasizes the importance of having a deep and
sincere longing for God, and praying for a new work of love within us to
experience spiritual growth.

Topics: "Spiritual Thirst", "Longing for God"
Scripture References: Psalm 42:1

------------------------------------------------------------------------
DESCRIPTION
------------------------------------------------------------------------

A.W. Tozer emphasizes the deep spiritual longing for God, comparing it
to a deer's thirst for water. He expresses a profound awareness of his
need for God's grace and a desire to cultivate a greater longing for
Him. Tozer acknowledges his shame over a lack of desire and pleads for a
fresh outpouring of God's love and glory in his life. He prays for the
grace to rise from spiritual complacency and pursue a deeper
relationship with God. The sermon is a heartfelt call to seek God
earnestly and to be filled with an insatiable thirst for His presence.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
CONTENT
------------------------------------------------------------------------

As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for You, O God.
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and
appear before God? --Psalm 42:1-2

O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made
me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need of further
grace. I am ashamed of my lack of desire. O God, the Triune God, I want
to want Thee; I long to be filled with longing; I thirst to be made more
thirsty still. Show me Thy glory, I pray Thee, that so I may know Thee
indeed. Begin in mercy a new work of love within me. Say to my soul,
"Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away." Then give me grace to
rise and follow Thee up from this misty lowland where I have wandered so
long. In Jesus' name. Amen. The Pursuit of God, 20.

"...I want to want Thee; I long to be filled with longing; I thirst to
be made more thirsty still. Amen."

========================================================================
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/aw-tozer/longing-for-god/
========================================================================