The God Chasers: My Soul Follows Hard After Thee
What
is a God Chaser? A God chaser is an individual who 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 who 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. "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