The God Chasers Quotes

“Ironically, it was the father's blessing that actually "financed" the prodigal son's trip away from the Father's face! and it was the son's new revelation of his poverty of heart that propelled him back into his Father's arms. Sometimes we use the very blessings that God gives us to finance our journey away from the centrality of Christ. It's very important that we return back to ground zero, to the ultimate eternal goal of abiding with the Father's in intimate communion. (pg. 243)”
― Tommy Tenney, The God Chasers: My Soul Follows Hard After Thee

“He’s looking for people who are hot after His heart. He wants a Church of Davids who are after His own heart3 (not just His hand). You can seek for His blessing and play with His toys, or you can say, “No, Daddy, I don’t just want the blessings; I want You. I want You to come close. I want You to touch my eyes, touch my heart, touch my ears, and change me, Lord. I’m tired of me the way I am, because if I can change, then the cities can change too.”
― Tommy Tenney, The God Chasers: My Soul Follows hard After Thee

“The word of the Lord to us is to stop seeking His benefits and seek Him. We are not to seek His hands any longer, but seek His face.”
― Tommy Tenney, The God Chasers: Pursuing the Lover of Your Soul

“I am tired of reading about God’s visitations of yesteryear. I want God to break out somewhere in my lifetime so that in the future my children can say, “I was there. I know; it’s true.” God has no grandchildren. Each generation must experience His presence. Recitation was never meant to take the place of visitation.”
― Tommy Tenney, The God Chasers: Pursuing the Lover of Your Soul

“Repentance prepares the way and makes the road of our hearts straight. Repentance builds up every low place and takes down every high place in our lives and church families. Repentance prepares us for His presence.”
― Tommy Tenney, The God Chasers: Pursuing the Lover of Your Soul

“people don’t want doctrine, they don’t want tracts, and they don’t want our feeble arguments; they just want Him! (When will we learn that if people can be argued into the faith, then they can just as easily be argued out of it as well?)”
― Tommy Tenney, The God Chasers: My Soul Follows hard After Thee

“There is much more of God available than we have ever known or imagined, but we have become so satisfied with where we are and what we have that we don’t press in for God’s best.”
― Tommy Tenney, The God Chasers: Pursuing the Lover of Your Soul

“Good things have become the enemy of the best things. I challenge you and release you right now as you read these words to let your heart be broken by the Holy Ghost. It’s time for you to make your life holy.”
― Tommy Tenney, The God Chasers: Pursuing the Lover of Your Soul

“I used to pursue preaching good sermons and great crowds, and attempt great accomplishments for Him. But I’ve been ruined. Now I’m a God chaser. Nothing else matters anymore. I tell you that as your brother in Christ, I love you. But I love Him more. I couldn’t care less about what other people or ministers think about me. I’m going after God. That’s not a pride thing; it’s a hunger thing. When you pursue God with all your heart, soul, and body, He will turn to meet you and you will come out of it ruined for the world.”
― Tommy Tenney, The God Chasers: Pursuing the Lover of Your Soul

“We have churches filled with people who can win Bible trivia contests but who don’t know Him. I am afraid that some of us have been sidetracked or entangled by everything from prosperity to poverty, and we’ve become such an ingrown society of the self-righteous that our desires and our wants and those”
― Tommy Tenney, The God Chasers: Pursuing the Lover of Your Soul

“Break out of our boxes, Lord, and ruin everything that isn’t of You!”)”
― Tommy Tenney, The God Chasers: My Soul Follows hard After Thee

“sanctify” is qadash, and it means to “separate” or “make holy.”6 In other words, we have to”
― Tommy Tenney, The God Chasers: My Soul Follows hard After Thee

“I set myself on fire, and the people come to see me burn.”
― Tommy Tenney, The God Chasers: My Soul Follows hard After Thee