Every Woman's Battle by Shannon Ethridge

Every Woman's Battle: Discovering God's plan for sexual and emotional fulfillment. Growing up in the church, I think I already realized that women's temptations are more emotional that physical, but that we are called to holiness in everything and are called to be wholly for our husbands, mentally, spiritually, physically, and emotionally. I think my favorite chapter was the one about retreating with God. It gave creative ideas on how to do this, and stated why it is important. And it's probably more applicable to me now as a single woman.

The Knowledge of the Holy by AW Tozer

My favorite part of this was that Tozer pointed out that we can only know God because God has made himself known to us. And how AMAZING is that?!

We can also only know God by the Holy Spirit. It is then that knowledge about God becomes knowing God, which is what we need.

These facts, as many of those in this book, are things that I *know* but benefit greatly from meditating upon and applying to my life. I also really liked Tozer's take on the whole "God's sovereignty vs. man's free will" endless argument. He says:

God sovereignly decreed that man should be free to exercise moral choice, and man from the beginning has fulfilled that decree by making his choice between good and evil. When he chooses to do evil, he does not thereby countervail the sovereign will of God but fulfills it, inasmuch as the eternal decree decided not which choice the man should make but that he should be free to make it. If in His absolute freedom God has willed to give man limited freedom, who is there to stay His hand or say, “What doest thou?” Man’s will is free because God is sovereign. A God less than sovereign could not bestow moral freedom upon His creatures. He would be afraid to do so."