Anything: The Prayer That Unlocked My God and My Soul

by Jennie Allen

Most of my life I was looking for God to lead me loud and clear as he had for Mary with the angel. I had listened to sermons and read books about how to know the will of God. And with one simple, sincere prayer, he came flooding out of the woodwork as though he had been just waiting for this all my life. In the days to come, as I processed this, God started clearly bringing to life Scriptures I had read a hundred times. Through these Scriptures God was explaining to me, Jennie, you hear me now so loudly and clearly because . . . “I am the LORD, that is My name; my glory I give [or share] to no other.” (Isa. 42:8) And that is what you have been asking me to do until now. To share my glory. And I knew, Jennie, that “no servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other.” (Luke 16:13) So I was waiting. I was waiting to be the only thing. As with Martha, when I was in her living room while I was here in the flesh. She was worried and upset about many things, but only one thing was needed. Mary had chosen the good portion, and it would not be taken away from her (Luke 10:41–42). Mary had chosen me above every other thing—nothing was more important to her than me. Nothing mattered here but me. When the rich man wanted me but wasn’t willing to do anything, I had to show him he still loved something more, that he had another master, so I told him, “You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have ...