Chasing God, Serving Man by Tommy Tenney

Author:Tommy Tenney
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Religion, General
ISBN: 0768423074
Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers
Published: 2000-12-31T22:00:00+00:00

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with a statement such as, “And now we move on to the next part of the service.” What did we do? We just pulled out our vacuum clean-er. By our actions we tell the Holy Spirit of God, “Well, we’re glad You dropped by. Here’s Your hat, but don’t be in a hurry to leave.

We’ll just work around You….”

What an incredible dichotomy! On one hand we say, “O come, Holy Spirit. Come and manifest Your presence among us.” When He comes, we say, “I hope You didn’t plan on

staying too long. We have roasts in the

“We fail to

oven, first-time visitors in the congregation, and agendas to follow.” We fail to turn

turn divine

divine visitation into holy habitation

visitation into

because we don’t value His presence. The

solution is simple: “Martha, when His pres-

holy habitation

ence is in the house, you take off your

because we

apron, come out of the kitchen, and sit at

His feet.”

don’t value

We honor God by prioritizing His presence His presence.”

over our preparations for His presence. It all comes down to choices.

Many people have a popular feature on their home telephone system called “call waiting.” You may be in the middle of a conversation when a little beep interrupts you mid-sentence and confronts you with a decision of priorities: Do you offend the person on the first line by asking them to wait “on hold” while you talk to someone on line two who is obviously more important to you? If you ignore the incoming call and carry on your conversation, you might be missing the call of your spouse, your mother, your stranded child, the President of the United States, or most likely, a telemarketing call.

JESUS IS SAYING, “DON’T PUT ME ON HOLD!”

Jesus was trying to tell Martha, “Don’t put Me on hold. I am the priority.” He’s trying to tell us the same thing today. If you are driving down the road and you sense the presence of the Lord enter the 100

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car, what do you do? Do you tell the King of Glory, “I’ll get back with You later, Lord”? I think I would stop the car and tend to the call of Divinity. Everything else can wait.

At times I’ve sensed the presence of God enter a service right in the middle of my message and I knew I faced a choice. I could say, “I need to follow my notes,” or I could tell myself, “It’s time to choose the best part, the one thing that really matters—I need to follow Him.”

Life consists of daily decisions and continual choices because it is Divinity’s design for humanity. The first hint of it shows up in Genesis, the book of beginnings. If you examine the first two chapters of Genesis, you will notice that the tree of the knowledge

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