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Anything: The Prayer That Unlocked My God and My Soul
by
Jennie Allen
Safe. Comfortable. Happy.
Words we all love. Feelings we want. Even crave. We may love God, but being that he's invisible, words like "comfortable" seem to feel better faster.
We are all chasing something. Our hearts were made to run hard and fast after things that move us. But as a generation we are all beginning to stir and wake up, identifying that these words don't sat...more
Words we all love. Feelings we want. Even crave. We may love God, but being that he's invisible, words like "comfortable" seem to feel better faster.
We are all chasing something. Our hearts were made to run hard and fast after things that move us. But as a generation we are all beginning to stir and wake up, identifying that these words don't sat...more
Paperback, 193 pages
Published
April 3rd 2012
by Thomas Nelson Publishers
(first published 2011)
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Jennie and her husband Zac prayed a prayer one night that told God they would do ANYTHING he asked them to do. This prayer radically changed their lives and opened up the way for this book to be written.
I’d read some great reviews for this book and was looking forward to reading it to see if it lived up to my expectations. I wasn’t expecting it to blow me away. It isn’t the style of writing or stories, although those are good. It’s the message that she is presenting. What would happen if every C...more
I’d read some great reviews for this book and was looking forward to reading it to see if it lived up to my expectations. I wasn’t expecting it to blow me away. It isn’t the style of writing or stories, although those are good. It’s the message that she is presenting. What would happen if every C...more
Jennie Allen is a pastor’s wife who, along with her husband, dared to pray a dangerous prayer. It was simple and profound. It was a prayer that told God that they would do anything that he wanted. They simply wanted to be obedient and faithful to the life he wanted to lead them in.
I found the book challenging and comforting. Jennie found that, yes, the prayer of anything is dangerous and scary, but the God to whom it is prayed knows us. The life to which He calls is always better than the one we...more
I found the book challenging and comforting. Jennie found that, yes, the prayer of anything is dangerous and scary, but the God to whom it is prayed knows us. The life to which He calls is always better than the one we...more
ANYTHING
The Prayer That Unlocked My God and My Soul
By Jennie Allen
Often our familiarity with the concept of God keeps us from the reality of God and Jesus. We bring them out for special occasions, like a holiday decoration that has become a tradition over the years. But how do we make God and Jesus a real and tangible part of our being and our life?
In Anything Jennie Allen takes us on a journey, a journey of turning over our lives to God. Until we give Him our anything we are incomplete. We will...more
The Prayer That Unlocked My God and My Soul
By Jennie Allen
Often our familiarity with the concept of God keeps us from the reality of God and Jesus. We bring them out for special occasions, like a holiday decoration that has become a tradition over the years. But how do we make God and Jesus a real and tangible part of our being and our life?
In Anything Jennie Allen takes us on a journey, a journey of turning over our lives to God. Until we give Him our anything we are incomplete. We will...more
Jennie Allen has written an extremely honest, transparent and thought-provoking book. Readers will feel challenged and encouraged by her testimony of what happened when she and her husband decided to give God everything by praying that they would do anything for Him. Allen breaks up the book into three parts: Everything keeping us from anything, Praying anything and Living anything. The first part discusses how certain parts of our everyday lives may be keeping us from experiencing all that God...more
In ANYTHING: The Prayer That Unlocked My God and My Soul, Jennie Allen writes about abandoning our pursuit of the comfortable things in life that make us happy, and choosing to be fully committed to living the life God wants us to live. Somewhere along the way we have chosen to believe that the white picket fence American dream of the 50s is a portrait of a good Christian life: we do what society deems proper, along with a token acknowledgment that God has blessed us.
Jennie Allen writes, “I beli...more
Jennie Allen writes, “I beli...more
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I absolutely love Jennie Allen. Must be a Jennie thing. I saw that it was offered as a Kindle book (on sale) and jumped at it. This book walks you through the beginning of her ministry and how she created her two Bible studies: Stuck and Chase.
It was helpful to see the back story behind the studies. This book helped me understand the studies so much better.
Jennie realized that she was made for more, that she had so much more to give than she was, and that her purpose was greater than just being...more
It was helpful to see the back story behind the studies. This book helped me understand the studies so much better.
Jennie realized that she was made for more, that she had so much more to give than she was, and that her purpose was greater than just being...more
I made quite a few notes from this book. "Why had I sat on every gift He had given me to make Him known? Because I cared more about being judged by everyone else but Him."
"You have to thank God for the seemingly good and the seemingly bad because really, you don't know the difference." The hardest thing sin her life have brought her the deepest relationships. The hardest things have become the things that define the most beautiful things about her. The hardest things in her life have given her m...more
"You have to thank God for the seemingly good and the seemingly bad because really, you don't know the difference." The hardest thing sin her life have brought her the deepest relationships. The hardest things have become the things that define the most beautiful things about her. The hardest things in her life have given her m...more
OH my goodness, I can't say enough great things about this powerful book!! It goes down as one of my very favorites, if not favorite!!! It really messes with you in a way that maybe you have never been messed with before. It challenges you to become the person God would have you to be. To live abandoned to the Lord such as we have never been before! She is an example, and has a powerful testimony! Please, read!!! God bless!
This was a super quick read. I was skeptical of this book at first for several reasons but Jennie is a great writer and pointed out clear Biblical truths that were very relevant for where we are today and forces you to consider MANY things.
{This is where I wish Goodreads involved decimals in the rating scale because I really may have given it a 3.5 or 3.75 but.... it was such an easy and true read, I bumped it up! :o) }
{This is where I wish Goodreads involved decimals in the rating scale because I really may have given it a 3.5 or 3.75 but.... it was such an easy and true read, I bumped it up! :o) }
I want to do some deeper studying and then come back to this one and re-read it. I won't rate it until then.
Despite my slight hesitations with certain teachings(which I'd rather not mention until I've did some more studying), this book has a great overall message! I did glean a great deal from reading it.
Despite my slight hesitations with certain teachings(which I'd rather not mention until I've did some more studying), this book has a great overall message! I did glean a great deal from reading it.
I think the concept of the book was great! It's a wonderful reminder that when we give it all to God and have Him use us in anyway that He wants we grow so much closer to Him. I recommend reading this if you need that push/testimony to give God your all. It's a tad bit repetitive but still worth the read.
I was truly sad to finish this book. Jennie Allen has a way of honestly, openly revealing all the Lord is teaching her in a way that challenges and inspires her reader. I'm stingy with my goodreads stars but she earned every one of the 5 with this one.
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Amazingly hard to put this book down. Fiction books are great escapes but sometimes I need to be brought back to what is real in life. Jennie Allen made me think, examine my life, and look at reality.
I gave it the 4th star for the message. While it took me a while to get into the book, once I got going there was much to appreciate in what the author shares and how she challenges us to consider what we're willing to do for The Lord: Anything?
I absolutely loved this book!!! It was entertaining, challenging, and inspiring...and not over-the-top. It asks us to be willing to do anything for God, to live for His glory. And it acknowledges that this looks different for different people. Loved it! Highly recommend it!
Highly, highly recommend this book. So challenging and encouraging. Got it thru the library but ended up purchasing my own copy so I can highlight, re-read, and loan out!
Phew - this one opens the door to a lot of necessary prayer. Convicting but optimistic Jennie Allen makes you desire to live a surrendered life and hear God's call the same way she has. I'm so glad I read this book.
I loved this book! The author evaluates the question, if what the bible says about God is true, how does this change my life? She shares her journey from God being a "plastic idol" on a shelf to the living God who wants us to experience Him in a real way. This book is an open and honest account of her experience. It is beautifully written. I could only read a few pages at a time because I wanted to stop and pray and think about what she had written. Her conclusion? When we let go of control and...more
What an excellent book! A quick read filled with much passion and abandon. Half way through I was praying my "Anything!" prayer.
Recommend to anyone.
Recommend to anyone.
Great book, very challenging and thought provoking. What if we really lived for our future in heaven? And, are we willing to say to God, I will do anything?
Finished the bulk of this book in a day. Astonishing example of how God can work through a person who gives up self and just says "anything."
Wonderful. Powerful. Thought-provoking. Really inspired me to live out the Bible and live surrendered to God. I think I'll be passing out some copies of this one!
This is a book that really makes you think and question your life and want to seek God more.
Great read, very compelling, challenging; in my opinion, a must of any believer.
Incredible, thought-provoking book!
Personal story about God's work in Jennie's life through her abandonment to God in several key areas, such as adoption. Each chapter is a mix of personal reflection and devotional, perhaps wish she had separated the two but overall a good read.
Put your seat belt on and make sure it's on tight and get ready for ANYTHING! This book truly changed my perspective on what relationship with God looks like. It is a must read, and a re-read. God absolutely wrecked me while reading this book and I pray that He wrecks your life as you say yes to God and ANYTHING He has for you. Get the book!
I absolutely loved this book. Her analogy of us being on a cruise ship sinking while the captain in yelling "abandon ship", spoke SO MUCH to me! Thank God He is waking me up!
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“I am a human, and we humans arrive with "screwed up" on our foreheads. We come that way, but somewhere between toddlerhood and being a grown-up we learn to wipe off our forehead signs. Sit up straight. To be good. But before God I am no different from these men. My forehead is clean my soul certainly is not. That day on an old, beat-up sofa with some old, beat up guys, I rethought the things of value to people and the types of people I've valued, and I realized that God shown more through those accused and hurting men then than in me.”
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“From His eternal perspective, it's tolerable to allow our temporary dreams to fall apart.”
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