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A review by okiecozyreader
Anything: The Prayer That Unlocked My God and My Soul by Jennie Allen
4.0
My notes
resurrection “That should wreck everything about our reality. There IS more to life than nothingness and there is something bigger than us and our little story playing out on this spinning planet.
The world has yet to see what God can do with and for and through and in a man who is fully and wholly consecrated to Him.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot loose. Jim Elliot
A.W. Tozer if we exalt God to his right place in our lives “a thousand minor problems will be resolved at once” Matt 6:33 seek first His kingdom…
Before praying, I had a thousand minor problems and everyone I knew had them too. I wanted to be fixed and healed and I read all the books and followed all the steps and write honestly was more stuck and broken than before.
When my kids spoke back to me in public, I would overreact bc I was embarrassed. Or when I would let someone down by being late, I would get stuck in an over-reactive feeling of shame. I was ridden with anxiety about church and all the people I wanted to please. I often felt sad and I couldn’t even determine it’s cause.
These struggles were evidence of how much I loved this short life more than the next one. I was trying to measure up with my behavior, striving for perfection.
If someone had told me these problems would shrink if I would just surrender everything to God, I would have written them off… So how do we let God change us?
We’ve learned the art of being verbally passionate but highly unresponsive Christ followers.
“The majority of us cannot hear anything but ourselves. But to be brought to the place where we can hear the call of God is to be profoundly changed” Oswald Chambers
What if we wanted what God wanted most? What if we wanted, like Jesus, God’s glory above every other thing?
I keep forgetting that life is temporary - so temporary. “If life is temporary, why create the safest one possible that gets you through it with the least amount of scars?” Tyler Merrick of Project 7 Coffee
We want joy, passion, love and peace. We read books looking for it. We get married hoping for it. We have kids in search of it. We climb ladders reaching for it… We spend too much money at the Apple store trying to buy it. We check e-mails looking for it. Is it possible we have it all backwards?
Matt 16:25 whoever saves his life will lose it…
When we don’t live or feel joy or peace or passion it’s bc we don’t know his love or his joy or peace or passion. He is a person, not a magic pill you take when your life or your soul is broken.Someone you choose over anybody else, over anything else.
resurrection “That should wreck everything about our reality. There IS more to life than nothingness and there is something bigger than us and our little story playing out on this spinning planet.
The world has yet to see what God can do with and for and through and in a man who is fully and wholly consecrated to Him.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot loose. Jim Elliot
A.W. Tozer if we exalt God to his right place in our lives “a thousand minor problems will be resolved at once” Matt 6:33 seek first His kingdom…
Before praying, I had a thousand minor problems and everyone I knew had them too. I wanted to be fixed and healed and I read all the books and followed all the steps and write honestly was more stuck and broken than before.
When my kids spoke back to me in public, I would overreact bc I was embarrassed. Or when I would let someone down by being late, I would get stuck in an over-reactive feeling of shame. I was ridden with anxiety about church and all the people I wanted to please. I often felt sad and I couldn’t even determine it’s cause.
These struggles were evidence of how much I loved this short life more than the next one. I was trying to measure up with my behavior, striving for perfection.
If someone had told me these problems would shrink if I would just surrender everything to God, I would have written them off… So how do we let God change us?
We’ve learned the art of being verbally passionate but highly unresponsive Christ followers.
“The majority of us cannot hear anything but ourselves. But to be brought to the place where we can hear the call of God is to be profoundly changed” Oswald Chambers
What if we wanted what God wanted most? What if we wanted, like Jesus, God’s glory above every other thing?
I keep forgetting that life is temporary - so temporary. “If life is temporary, why create the safest one possible that gets you through it with the least amount of scars?” Tyler Merrick of Project 7 Coffee
We want joy, passion, love and peace. We read books looking for it. We get married hoping for it. We have kids in search of it. We climb ladders reaching for it… We spend too much money at the Apple store trying to buy it. We check e-mails looking for it. Is it possible we have it all backwards?
Matt 16:25 whoever saves his life will lose it…
When we don’t live or feel joy or peace or passion it’s bc we don’t know his love or his joy or peace or passion. He is a person, not a magic pill you take when your life or your soul is broken.Someone you choose over anybody else, over anything else.