Tommy Tenney > 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

“It takes the glory of God to conceal a matter. It takes the honor of the king to seek out for it.”
― Tommy Tenney

“With relationship comes access, and with intimacy comes influence.”
― Tommy Tenney, Finding Favor With the King: Preparing For Your Moment in His Presence

“Worship and spiritual hunger make you so attractive to God that your circumstances cease to matter anymore. He will move heaven and earth to find a worshiper. When you begin to worship with all your being and desire, your heart turns Him toward you. You capture His attention and attracts His affection.”
― Tommy Tenney, The God Catchers: Experiencing the Manifest Presence of God

“Whatever impresses you attracts you. Whatever you purse becomes your purpose.”
― Tommy Tenney, Finding Favor With the King: Preparing For Your Moment in His Presence

“God is no respector of persons, but He does play favorites.”
― Tommy Tenney, Finding Favor With the King: Preparing For Your Moment in His Presence

“Your problems aren't too big -- perhaps your worship is too small.”
― Tommy Tenney, The God Catchers: Experiencing the Manifest Presence of God

“I do believe that long periods of silence and introspection do a great deal to enrich a person’s spiritual and emotional dimensions.”
― Tommy Tenney, Hadassah: One Night With the King

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“God doesn't hide Himself from you so that He can't be found; He hides Himself from you so that He can be found.”
― Tommy Tenney, The God Catchers: Experiencing the Manifest Presence of God

“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

“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

“Seu plano é alcançar os perdidos e, se Ele não poupou Seu único Filho para salvá-los, não nos poupará também.”
― Tommy Tenney, Os Caçadores de Deus

“Não importa o que façamos: somente o arrependimento vai nos levar a algum lugar com Deus.”
― Tommy Tenney, Os Caçadores de Deus

“A busca de intimidade traz bênçãos, mas a busca de bênçãos nem sempre traz intimidade.”
― Tommy Tenney, Os Caçadores de Deus

“Satanás tem obtido "bons resultados" ao fazer os crentes cruzarem falsas linhas de chegada. Ele trabalha incansavelmente para isto. Corremos poucos quilômetros e dizemos: "Conseguimos!" Ele se delicia ao nos ver sentados no acostamento. E, então, percebemos, no último momento, que a linha de chegada está mais adiante.”
― Tommy Tenney, Os Caçadores de Deus

“É hora de você santificar sua vida. Pare de assistir ao que você costuma assistir; pare de ler o que você costuma ler, se isto tem lhe tomado mais tempo do que a leitura da Palavra de Deus. Ele deve ser sua maior fome e mais urgente.”
― Tommy Tenney, Os Caçadores de Deus

“Precisamos nos arrepender por preparar cultos para agradar aos homens, ao invés de prestar a Deus a adoração que Ele merece.”
― Tommy Tenney, Os Caçadores de Deus

“...corrompemos a unção de Deus quando dizemos: "Aquela foi uma boa pregação!" ou "Aquele louvor estava realmente muito bom!" e damos ao homem a glória e a atenção devidas a Deus - ou então, buscamos a glória e a atenção vindas de homens.”
― Tommy Tenney, Os Caçadores de Deus

“Se Deus puder contar com pessoas entre Seu povo, em uma determinada região, que rejeitem o domínio satânico com humildade, quebrantamento, arrependimento e intercessão, então Ele vai entregar uma "ordem de despejo" ao poder demoníaco vigente naquela área. E quando assim Deus o fizer, veremos a manifestação de Sua glória.”
― Tommy Tenney, Os Caçadores de Deus

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

“O Senhor não está satisfeito com nossas versões malfeitas de Sua Igreja perfeita.”
― Tommy Tenney, Os Caçadores de Deus

“Esqueça o "culto-entretenimento". (...) Acho que o Senhor procura aqueles (poucos) que realmente O amam, não aqueles que só querem ser entretidos.”
― Tommy Tenney, Os Caçadores de Deus