God Chasers

320 Pages·2005·22.82 MB·English

by  Tommy Tenny

TOMMY TENNEY
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Pursuing the Lover
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The God Chasers, Personal Study Guide,
and Devotional Journal
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E X P A N D E D E D I T I O N
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Contents
Part One The God Chasers—Persuing the Lover of Your Heart . . . . v
Part Two The God Chasers—Interactive Study Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Part Three The God Chasers—Daily Meditation & Personal Journal . 219

Part One
The God Chasers
Contents
Introduction There Have Always Been God Chasers
Chapter 1 The Day I Almost Caught Him. . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Running hard after God—Ps. 63:8
Chapter 2 No Bread in the “House of Bread”. . . . . . . . 17
Crumbs in the carpet and empty shelves
Chapter 3 There’s Got to Be More . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Rediscovering the manifest presence of God
Chapter 4 Dead Men See His Face. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
The secret path to His presence
Chapter 5 Do We Run Away Or Go In? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
A chance to meet the One you always knew was there
Chapter 6 How to Handle the Holy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Moving from anointing to glory
Chapter 7 He’s Done It Before; He Can Do It Again. . . 101
Send the rain, Lord!
Chapter 8 The Purpose of His Presence . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Divine radiation zones—presence evangelism
Chapter 9 Dismantle Your Glory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
The burial of man’s glory is the birth of God’s glory
Chapter 10 Moses’ 1,500-Year Pursuit of God’s Glory. . . 139
You can’t seek His face and save your “face”
Introduction
There Have Always Been God Chasers
As long as there has been God, there have been God chasers.
History is filled with their stories. Mine is just another. Stories of
this type can be read as road maps to the Holy of Holies, or to
places of access to the heavenly.
God chasers transcend time and culture. They come from
every background imaginable. They come from every era of
time that has existed…from Abraham the wandering herdsman,
to Moses the adopted stutterer, to David the shepherd boy. As
the parade of time continues, the names keep popping up:
Madame Jeanne Guyon, Evan Roberts, William Seymour of
Azusa Street fame—until we reach today. Really, only history can
tell us the names of God chasers, but they’re there. Are you
one? God is just waiting to be caught by someone whose hunger
exceeds his grasp.
God chasers have a lot in common. Primarily, they are not
interested in camping out on some dusty truth known to every-
one. They are after the fresh presence of the Almighty. Some-
times their pursuit raises the eyebrows of the existing church,
but usually they lead the church from a place of dryness back
into the place of His presence. If you’re a God chaser, you won’t
be happy to simply follow God’s tracks. You will follow them
until you apprehend His presence.
The difference between the truth of God and revelation is
very simple. Truth is where God’s been. Revelation is where God
is. Truth is God’s tracks. It’s His trail, His path, but it leads to
what? It leads to Him. Perhaps the masses of people are happy
to know where God’s been, but true God chasers are not con-
tent just to study God’s trail, His truths; they want to know Him.
They want to know where He is and what He’s doing right now.
Sadly, today the bulk of the Church is like some proverbial
detective holding a magnifying glass in his hand and studying
where God has been. Of course, a hunter can determine a lot by
studying the tracks of an animal. He can determine which direc-
tion it’s going, how long it has been since it passed there, how
much it weighs, whether it is male or female, and so on. Unfor-
tunately, the Church today spends countless hours and much
energy debating where God has been, how heavy He was when
He was there, and even His gender. To true God chasers, all
these things are immaterial. They want to run hard and hot on
this trail of truth until they arrive at the point of revelation,
where He presently exists.
A God chaser may be excited about some dusty truth, and
may even be thrilled somewhat over determining the weight of
the kabod, or glory, that passed in the path, and how long ago it
was. But that’s just the problem. How long ago was it? A true
God chaser is not happy with just past truth; he must have pres-
ent truth. God chasers don’t want to just study from the moldy
pages of what God has done; they’re anxious to see what God is
doing.
There is a vast difference between present truth and past
truth.1 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 whoop-
ing, barking, tail-pounding dog trembling with excitement. Just
give God chasers the scent that God is nearby and see what hap-
pens. As the Bible says, the scent of water causes many things to
happen.2 Like bloodhounds on a trail, they’ll get most excited
when they reach their prey. In this instance, their prey is His
presence.
All I can say is, I’m a God chaser. And so are a lot of those
who have had God encounters. Why don’t you come join the
company of God chasers?
We just want to be with Him.
Endnotes
1. See 2 Pet. 1:12.
2. See Job 14:9.