Jennie Allen - Anything: The Prayer That Unlocked My God and My Soul

PRAISE FOR ANYTHING

Anything does theology without hanging out a sign. Intersecting everyday issues, Jennie carefully plants Gods word inside the heart, in the weak and discolored places, so we can be strengthened by grace and flower in truth. This is a success in its own right, but Jennie does more. She writes not as a detached observer but as a friend, inviting you to sit down for coffee and open up your heart while she pours in grace. Pull up a chair, crack the book, and open your heart. Youll be glad you did.

JONATHAN DODSON
Author, Gospel-Centered Discipleship
Pastor, Austin City Life

Jennie Allen is a visionary, a girlfriend, and a Jesus-chaser. I cant think of three qualities I more appreciate in a woman. I loved this book from cover to cover and have been really contemplating the way a one-word prayer can affect ones heart and ministry in this life. I want to be an anything kind of girl, and I appreciate and respect the example Jennie has set in pursuing God and what he desires in us. Its just a word on paper, but its a lifetime choice that can make all the difference. You in?

ANGIE SMITH
Speaker, Women of Faith
Author, I Will Carry You and What Women Fear

If you are content, comfortable, and satisfied with life as you know it now, dont read this book. By writing Anything, Jennie has become to me what she calls a spiritual domino. I have been affected deeply by her passion and, more important, by the Lords voice through her to the point that I couldnt help but fall on my face and cry to him, Anything!

LAUREN CHANDLER
Speaker, Singer, Wife of Matt ChandlerThe Village Church

Jennie Allen is one of those people you remember long after you meet her. When it comes to communicating Gods truths, she is passionate, relevant, and authentic to the core. Im excited to see where God leads her and will be cheering her on all the way!

VICKI COURTNEY
Speaker and Author, Five Conversations

In her book Anything, Jennie Allen issues an invitation to simply pray, God, I will do anything. She doesnt presume to know what that will mean for me, which is perhaps one of the main reasons why I trust her voice as a communicator. Jennie doesnt push me to a certain radical act or a dramatic experience. With a fresh perspective on surrender, she simply points believers to Jesus and challenges us to actually believe. I cant stop talking about this powerful book.

EMILY P. FREEMAN
Author, Grace for the Good Girl

Its this simple: if every believer prayed this prayer, lived his or her own story with this type of abandon, the gospel would be unleashed in every corner on earth, including the darkest corners of our own hearts. Jennie has given us a true gift. Read, receive, discuss, then run straight into your own anything.

JEN HATMAKER
Author, Interrupted and Seven

Jennie Allens Anything is the kind of book you have to put down. Expect your reading to be interrupted by the overwhelming desire to get on your knees and beg God to help you utter the impossible word: anything. Between each chapter I discovered new scraps of my heart to surrender to him, and with the turn of every page I felt fresh joy bubbling up in me at the possibility of living a life where God gets everything. Reading this book wasnt an intellectual exercise. It was a transforming experience.

FABIENNE HARFORD
Womens Discipleship
Austin Stone Community Church

Jennie Allen tells her story with transparency, honesty, and humor. She is one of those rare writers who does not take herself too seriously but takes God very seriously! She includes the reader on her spiritual quest to see where her anything prayer will take her. This book will encourage anyone of any age who is exploring what it means to surrender everything to God.

SUSIE HAWKINS
Bible Study Teacher
Author, From One Ministry Wife to Another

In her book Anything, Jennie Allen gives me great hope for the church in our American culture. At a time when droves of younger adults are leaving the church, Jennie and her husband Zac have discovered what authentic faith is all about. To me, Jennie represents a growing movement of individuals like Francis Chan, David Platt, and others, who deeply desire to follow Jesus in every way. Jesus taught us that following him was not easy. In Anything, Jennie is honest and open about her journey, from the struggles of letting go to the peace that only Jesus can provide. Jennie is transparent, honest, rooted in Scripture, and a gifted communicator.

STEVE CARR
Executive Director, Flannel

My heart is deeply stirred after reading Anything. I stand beside Jennie Allen in this fresh movement of unbridled surrender to God... grateful for the lives Anything will forever change. A compelling, powerful read!

LISA WHITTLE
Speaker, Advocate, Author, {w}hole and Behind Those Eyes

Jennie Allen is a fresh, energetic voice in todays world with great insight into what modern women both want and need.

ROBERT LEWIS
Author, Mens Fraternity

Whether were crying on bathroom floors or sitting behind cubicle desks, there is a small voice within demanding more. Not the hollow American version of more, but the belief there is more than the bare line of existence. Because there is. More.

When the belief of more meets the desire to do anything, the fearful becomes fearless, the wanderer becomes the leader, and the doubter becomes the believer. Because when we pray audacious prayers promising God to do anything, he shows up.

In Jennie Allens book Anything, the pages unfold and undo the knotted chain of purpose, desire, and the quest to do more by agreeing to do anything. If there was a book to open the door to reckless abandon and complete surrender, its Anything. Im waiting for the floodgates to flail open with women pouring out, shouting fiercely that they are willing and ready to do anything. And Ill be one of them!

BIANCA JUAREZ OLTHOFF
Teacher, Speaker, Chief Storyteller for the A21 Campaign

Its been a great joy to know Jennie for most of my life. She radiates sincerity, wisdom, and godly leadership. Im excited for you to get to know her too.

JOHN SOWERS
Author, Fatherless Generation

Jennie Allens memoir-manifesto Anything is a picture of what Matthew 13:44 looks like in one life. Jennie has found the Treasure in the field and is selling all that she has to have it. As you read this book, youll find that with Jennie this is no real sacrifice. Trading rubbish to have Treasure is a very good trade (Phil. 3:78). And I hope, with me, youll join Jennie in saying, Yes, Jesus. Anything, anytime, anywhere, at any cost. For you are the Treasure I want more than anything.

JON BLOOM
President, Desiring God
Author, Things Not Seen

2011 by Jennie Allen

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