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  WHOLE LIFE PRAYER
  by A.W. Tozer
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Summary: The key to powerful prayer is a whole life that is lived in
purity and love, with Christ's enabling power.

Topics: "Living in Christ", "Whole Life Prayer"
Scripture References: John 15:5, John 15:7, Philippians 4:6

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A.W. Tozer emphasizes that true prayer is an expression of our entire
life, asserting that the effectiveness of our prayers is directly linked
to how we live. He reflects on the regret many feel when they realize
their prayer life is not as natural as it should be, especially in times
of stress. Tozer encourages believers to cultivate a lifestyle of purity
and love through Christ, which transforms individual prayers into
powerful expressions of faith. He highlights that the moral power
available through redemption enables us to live in a way that makes our
whole life a prayer. Ultimately, Tozer calls for reliance on God's
enabling power to live a life that naturally flows into prayer.

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"I am the Vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him,
bears much fruit, for without Me you can do nothing.... If you abide in
Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it
shall be done for you." --John 15:5,7

Prayer at its best is the expression of the total life....

All things else being equal, our prayers are only as powerful as our
lives. In the long pull we pray only as well as we live....

Most of us in moments of stress have wished that we had lived so that
prayer would not be so unnatural to us and have regretted that we had
not cultivated prayer to the point where it would be as easy and as
natural as breathing....

Undoubtedly the redemption in Christ Jesus has sufficient moral power to
enable us to live in a state of purity and love where our whole life
will be a prayer. Individual acts of prayer that spring out of that kind
of total living will have about them a wondrous power not known to the
careless or the worldly Christian. The Root of the Righteous, pp. 91-93

"Lord, the real key here is that there is 'sufficient moral power'
available. In my own strength I fail, but thank You for Your enabling
power. Amen."

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/aw-tozer/whole-life-prayer/
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