Short answer: Use these ten chapter-based prayer prompts to turn Tozer’s major themes into Bible-governed prayer. These prompts are editorial prompts created for this Knowledge Catalogue; they are not quotations from Tozer’s own closing prayers. Read the chapter first, open the suggested Scripture, then pray in your own words.
A simple three-move method
- Read: identify the chapter’s central burden.
- Anchor: read the suggested Bible passage in context.
- Pray: use the prompt as a doorway, then continue honestly in your own words.
Chapter 1 — Following Hard after God
Scripture: Psalm 63:1–8. Prayer prompt: Father, show me where familiarity with Christian truth has replaced desire for You. Awaken grateful hunger that grows from Your grace, not from fear that I must earn Your acceptance.
Chapter 2 — The Blessedness of Possessing Nothing
Scripture: Matthew 6:19–24. Prayer prompt: Lord, reveal the gift, plan, possession, reputation, or security I am gripping as though it belongs to me absolutely. Teach me stewardship without possessiveness and generosity without performance.
Chapter 3 — Removing the Veil
Scripture: Galatians 2:20; Hebrews 10:19–22. Prayer prompt: Jesus, expose the self-protective habits that resist Your lordship. Keep me grounded in Your finished work as I confess pride, self-righteousness, and the desire to manage how others see me.
Chapter 4 — Apprehending God
Scripture: Hebrews 11:1–6. Prayer prompt: God, make Your revealed truth more governing than my changing feelings. Help me act in faith toward what You have made known rather than waiting for emotion to certify Your reality.
Chapter 5 — The Universal Presence
Scripture: Psalm 139:7–12. Prayer prompt: Lord, You are already present before I notice You. Let that truth reshape my work, loneliness, interruptions, private choices, and worship today.
Chapter 6 — The Speaking Voice
Scripture: 2 Timothy 3:14–17. Prayer prompt: Speaking God, give me humble ears and an open Bible. Guard me from treating my impressions as Scripture, and help me receive, understand, and obey the Word You have given.
Chapter 7 — The Gaze of the Soul
Scripture: Hebrews 12:1–2. Prayer prompt: Jesus, when attention turns inward toward fear, comparison, or self-measurement, teach me to return to You. Let faith rest in who You are rather than in the intensity of my concentration.
Chapter 8 — Restoring the Creator-Creature Relation
Scripture: Romans 11:33–36. Prayer prompt: Creator, take the rightful center of my ambitions, decisions, relationships, and plans. Correct every place where I try to make You serve a life organized around me.
Chapter 9 — Meekness and Rest
Scripture: Matthew 11:28–30. Prayer prompt: Christ, free me from the exhausting work of defending my image, comparing myself, and pretending. Teach me the courage and rest of Your meekness.
Chapter 10 — The Sacrament of Living
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 10:31; Colossians 3:17. Prayer prompt: Lord, receive my ordinary responsibilities as worship. Show me how integrity, gratitude, patience, work, rest, and service can be offered to You without calling sinful choices holy.
How to avoid turning prompts into scripts
A prompt is successful when it disappears into real prayer. Do not feel pressure to use every sentence. If the Scripture exposes a different need, follow the text. If grief or confusion makes words difficult, a simple honest prayer may be enough.
How these prompts differ from Tozer’s closing prayers
Tozer closes each original chapter with his own prayer. If your goal is to study and personalize those printed prayers, use How Should Readers Use Tozer’s Closing Prayers?. If you want to turn them into a journal, use the prayer-journal method.
Use one prompt, then review the response
Choose the prompt connected to the chapter you are currently reading. Write one response only if writing helps you remember. Seven days later, ask whether the prayer changed an action, conversation, habit, or belief.
For readers who want chapter summaries, questions, and prayer/application tools in one place, the Our Kingdom Assignment study edition is an optional companion.