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Monday, April 16, 2012
Book Shelf - Your 100 Day Prayer
I’m a book worm.
I LOVE books. Old books, warn
books, brand spanking new books. Thrift stores with book rooms are like a
treasure trove. Best not to leave me unattended in such places; you may not see
me for an hour or so.
I spend more hours then I would
like to know with books; reading them, looking for them, crafting with them, talking
about them, and drooling over them. Actually, it would be quite interesting to
find out how much time I do spend with books...
I came across a list of ‘Must
Reads’ by a random person, and of course I had to look. As I was reading this
list I was mentally checking off whether I’ve read it, don’t want to read it,
or should read it. It was then that I realised I should make a list of my own!
Why not!?! At the moment I have the time, I have the blog, and I have the
numerous books I’ve read! It’s perfect!! Plus I love list making, bonus.
Next came deciding what kind
of list to make, and I’ve chosen an on-going list. I’m going to write about the
books I’m reading as I’m reading them and while doing that I will make a more
concrete list. Like a top ten must read books.
I hope my Book Shelf entries
are as enjoyed by others as I know they will be enjoyed by me.
Your 100 Day Prayer – John I.
Snyder.
‘The transforming power of
actively waiting on God’
Religion/Christian Life/
General
I’ve just picked up this book,
and I already love it. The reason I’m reading it; my sister had nothing but good
things to say about it, and my sister doesn’t do that with a lot of books. This
book is about actually taking your prayer requests to God and trusting Him with
it. I hadn’t even gotten to the intro before I decided that I loved this book.
All I had to do was read the ‘How to Use This Book’.
“Finally, we present to him
all the things we want him to do. We can ask anything of him we want to,
anything at all. If he thinks that what we ask for is good for us and in
accordance with his perfect will, we’ll have it. We can ask for health,
healing, rescue, a mate, a career, or even a new Lamborghini! The worst that
can happen is God can say no. If it’s a no, then that means it’s not the best
thing for us. How bad could that be? So let’s put aside any false humility or
pride and come before God with boldness, asking for the moon. Remember, we’re
coming not to our employer but to the Creator of the universe, who wants to be
seen as our heavenly Father and who has our best interests at heart.”
Such anti fearing logic.
Do to such logic (because I do have quite the respect for logic), this book has already made it onto the list of 'Top Ten Life Changing Books', even though I haven't even finished it!
This book is a short and sweet
daily devotional full of advice, encouragement, and an on-going lesson of being
persistent. I’ll let you know how it went in another 96 days...
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