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The God Chasers: "My Soul Follows Hard after
Thee."
(A Book Review by Virginia H. Lane) This book is dedicated "to God chasers everywhere--to pursuers of His presence." So we ask "What is a God Chaser?" Before reading The God Chasers, I had never considered this term. Like most Christians, I thought I knew God. I even congratulated myself that I was actively seeking God by attending Bible College. (As I write this, I am only a week away from graduation.) I found that a God Chaser is one who loves God and pursues Him with their whole heart. Other sentences in the forward which really speak to me are "The difference between the truth of God and revelation is very simple. Truth is where God's been. Revelation is where God is. ...There is a vast difference between present truth and past truth (II Peter 1:12). I'm afraid that most of what the church has studied is past truth, and very little of what we know is present truth. If you want to recognize a real God chaser, think of a whooping, barking, tail-pounding dog trembling with excitement. Just give God chasers the scent that God is nearby and see what happens. As the Bible says, the scent of water causes many things to happen (Job 14:9). Like bloodhounds on a trail, they'll get more excited when they reach their prey. In this instance, their prey is His presence." Are you like a bloodhound in seeking God's presence? The majority of us "don't have time." We have to work for a living. Then there are the children to consider... While these things may indeed be true, it is also true that Satan eggs us on, nudging us onward in the belief that we don't have time to pursue God. Tenney begins Chapter One with a story of how the Holy Spirit moved one day in a church he and his wife visited in Houston. Whether it was the guest speaker or the worship music, there began to be an expectation and hunger. No one wanted to go home. People felt the presence of God and repented for their sins. Many felt the need to be water baptized; baptisms when on for hours. Passers-by stopped to see what was happening and felt the annointment of God and a call on their lives. While this is a dramatic and somewhat unusual story, the details given by Tenney illustrate that most of the time, we don't really allow God into our lives and especially into the church. Our services are rigid and scheduled. We need to get out of that box. There needs to be "less of me." As John the Baptist said in John 3:30, "He must increase, but I must decrease." This applies to us today as much as it did in the 1st century. Our "self" must decrease to let Jesus increase in our lives. This is a continuing thing. We must never become complacent but must be seeking God daily. I believe there is a famous quotation: The day I quit learning is the day I die." We should have a hunger for knowledge. But in this case, our hunger for God and the knowledge he gives us should continue until the day we die. Tenney discusses that there is a price to pay for pursuing God. It sets us apart from our neighbors. Even church friends may consider a God Chaser to be fanatic. But does that really matter? By your loving example, these people can be won over for the Lord and will themselves become God Chasers. ------------------------ The back cover of the book provides the following information: What is a God Chaser? A God chaser is an individual whose hunger exceeds his reach. A God chaser is a person whose passion for God's presence presses him to chase the impossible in hopes that the uncatchable might catch him. A child chases a loving parent until, suddenly, the strong arms of the father enfold the chaser. The pursuer becomes the captive; the pursued the captor. Paul put it this way: "I chase after that I may catch that which apprehended me" (Phil. 3:12). Job was a God chaser. He said, "Oh that I knew where I might find Him!" David was one; he said, "My soul followeth hard after Thee." Paul was one too: "That I may know Him...." The passionate paths of God chasers can be traced across the pages of history from Moses the stutterer, David the singer, and Paul the itinerant preacher, to contemporaries like A.W. Tozer, Leonard Ravenhill, and countless others who share one common bond: an insatiable hunger to know their Lord. These are people whose relentless, passionate pursuit of Christ often made them appear foolish in the eyes of others. Yet, having tasted His goodness and glimpsed the invisible, they could be satisfied with nothing less. Add your name to the list...become a God chaser. Who knows? You might be one whom he catches. "I must warn you, this is a dangerous book. If you are comfortable and complacent and want to stay that way, don't even open its pages!" --Cindy Jacobs, Co-founder, Generals of Intercession "The God Chasers is not for the fainthearted but for those who, in pursuit of God, are willing to die in the process." --Ken Gott, Revival Now!, Sunderland, United Kingdom Meet Tommy Tenney--God Chaser. The youngest voice of three generations of ministry, Tommy was born in 1956 and began preaching at age 16. He has spent almost 10 years pastoring and ore than 17 years in mobile ministry, traveling to more than 30 nations and most states. Tommy is a well-known revivalist and has been used to both spark and fuel the fires of revival. he has experienced the miraculous, but more importantly, he knows the value of intimacy with and humility before God. The magnificent obsession of his life is the pursuit of the manifest presence of God. He has recently founded the GodChasers.network. Tommy and his wife Jeannie reside in Louisiana with their three daughters, Tiffany, Natasha, and Andrea. A Yorkie, Little Romeo, rounds out the Tenney household. |
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