By: Pastor Joshua Adeyekun
Date: Sunday, 29th January 2023.
Venue: UNILAG Multipurpose Hall.
Texts: Psalm 62:1-2; 63:1
God chasers operate in a class where they are desperate for God beyond the ephemeral. They are a set of people who experience God, and his presence is the hunger and thirst of their souls.
Nothing else makes sense than having God’s tangible presence in their lives. They have touched God, and they are willing to touch God more.
There is no point you get to that you get enough of God. God is too deep.
Visible dimension of God’s presence.
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- Fire of God
- Glory of God
- Power of God
If you are to experience the visible dimension of God’s presence, you must be a God chaser.
Chasing after God deliberately will make a lot of difference in your life. You do not become a God chaser and be stranded or abandoned. God gives every God chaser a platform to reveal His glory and power.
Lifestyle to cultivate to become a God chaser
GODLINESS. This is an all-encompassing lifestyle of God chaser. – I Tim 4:17. “…Godliness is profitable into all things…”.
God is never accessed casually; you have to be intentional about him.
GODLINESS is …
– God-centered life
– Building yourself in God
– Measuring up to God’s kind of life
– Living the life of God.
– Having God’s nature. The more of God you find for yourself, the more you be like him.
– A God-focused life
– Life separated unto God
– Life giving pleasure to God
– Life deeply rooted in God
– Life connected to God
– God influenced living
– God prioritized living
– God devoted living
– God-inspired living
– God committed living
– God’s delightful life
– God-controlled living
– God’s choice living
A life opposite to Godliness is worldliness. You either hold on to God or to the world. James 4:4
If you are to keep company with God, you will look away from the world. Galatians 4:14. I John 2:15-17
There is a dimension you cannot access until you are tested with “..do you really love God?”
As worldliness is unto calamity, so also is Godliness unto spirituality. The deep things of God can only be accessed by those who are spiritual.
God chasers are spiritual. They live in the flesh but are not controlled by the flesh. Their eyes are centered on God. Philippians 3:7-10
Key Takeaways:
- The lifestyle of a God chaser is not tied to religious activities
- The prerequisite to finding God is to cultivate a lifestyle of Godliness
- Godliness is an encompassing lifestyle of a God chaser 1Timothy 4:7
- God chasers do not get tired of seeking God; they keep yearning for Him Ps 62:1-2, Ps 63:1-3
- Godliness will deliver a fruitful life in you
- Complacency in spiritual things denotes you have not experienced God.
- There are mysteries in God, in which when you begin to access them, you will become a mystery to your generation.