Current Readings

It's Christmas break, and I finally found myself at a computer. First off, I freakin love Christmas.(enough said) But my favorite part about Christmas is 2 things, Jesus & Christmas morning breakfast...my Nana knows how to fill a lonely stomach on a joyful morning. Did I mention the elf? If you don't like the Elf, something is wrong with you.

OKAY! to the good stuff....

I finally have a chance to catch up with some reading, like most of you I am sure, I try to read one book at a time but somehow end up with 3? Go figure... Well I just finished one book but I am currently reading 3 books(set aside the Bible, which is always in use)

The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence.

I have read this book before but, rereading it has been a whole new experience and I would highly suggested it if you want to better understand how to enjoy the Lord's presence.  One of my favorite passages from it so far (considering I am only on pg 30)

"That the most excellent method he had found of going to God was that of doing our common business without any view of pleasing men and purely for the love of God. That it was a great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other times; that we are as strictly obliged to adhere to God by action in the time of action as by prayer in the time of prayer. That his prayer waws nothing else but a sense of the presence of God, his soul being at that time insensible to everything but divine love; and that when the appointed times of prayer were past, he found no difference, because he still continued with God, praising and blessing Him with all his might, so that he passed his life in continual joy."

The book is all of 110 pages long and is a to the point, encouraging, but challenging book by a monk.

The other I am reading is Sex Is Not The Problem, Lust Is by Joshua Harris, this book is highly recommened for all the men out there, in terms of understanding the obvious title and understanding the true intentions that God has placed inside of us.  And also how much God is after our hearts and how much he wants our undivided passions. 

 

So I know I said I am reading three books, but the third is a devotional, in which i'll always be reading but the third is a book called Radical, which a friend gave me and I REALLY REALLY want to start reading it but I know I have to finish these two first!

I would recommend these both and if you read this and have any books to recommend I am always in need of stocking my book shelf, coming from a guy who hated reading up until my first year of college, go figure! If you could also be praying for two friends.  One is in Africa and has been the last 5 months and is on a mission trip that was totally a God thing.  And the other is in Haiti for a week, just be praying that there times there are blessed and especially safety.

Psalm 139:23-24 "Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life."