Book #40: Anything - Jennie Allen

First off let me say that I can't believe it's been a month since I've done a book review!

Where did that time go?

Either way, I'm back and I'm ready to get reading again.

I just finished this book

It's a powerful book by Jennie Allen about giving herself to God fully.

It's the kind of book that makes you look around your own world and rethink what is important and what is really necessary.

I think we all reach points in our lives, multiple times in our lives, when we wonder if we are doing enough for God.

When that happens we need to do what Jennie did...

It all started with a simple prayer asking God to do something with her and her family, not just something, but ANYTHING.

I learned a few things from this book that I would love to share with you:

1st: "A.W. Tozer wrote, 'What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us'.  NOTHING defines a soul more than what that soul believes about GOD.  And no outward observer can know what is in the soul of a person". (pg 7)

2nd: "To risk is to willingly place your life in the hand of an unseen God and an unknown future, then to watch him come through.  He tarts to get real when you live like that". (pg.9)

3rd: "His presence is the only place where invisible weight is lifted.  The only place where hidden, broken spaces are mended.  The only place where we are defined apart from our successes and failures". (pg 32)

4th: "There is no escaping it.  He is God, and if our suffering brings him the most glory, let it be.  Easy to preach, difficult to live". (pg 56)

5th: "Through our love, we display our God, especially to our spouses and those closest to us and through our radical submission to them, God moves". (pg 87)

6th: "There is always doubts.  We doubt because God, while he gets louder, is still invisible, because of the people questioning your sanity and he difficulty of just following a wild invisible God into uncomfortable spaces.  We doubt because of the risk, the cost, the abandonment of rights and comforts, the disapproval of people you really love, and then on top of it all, because you now officially picked a fight with the devil". (pg 155)

7th:  "So do your everyday and your ordinary, Godliness is found and formed in those places". (pg 165)

Don't those points make you stop and think?

They did for me.

Jennie Allen has a knack for writing it in such a way that I felt I was sitting across from her at the coffee table and just hashing out thoughts and feelings.

Are you looking for a book that will motivate you to view your life differently?

A book that will help you put in perspective how our time here is but a moment and we must live it for HIM?

This is that book.

Even if you aren't fully able to ask God to do ANYTHING with your life, this might be the motivation to ask him to do SOMETHING....baby steps.

Check out Jennie Allen here and find out more about this and other books she's done!

I hope you have a Blessed Saturday!

I received this book free.  I was not required to write a positive review.  The opinions I have expressed are my own.  I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission's 16 CFR, Part 255: "Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising."