If your inbox is like mine, it was stuffed with pre-Christmas enticements to buy stuff we really don’t need. And now, pre-New Year, you’re also probably overwhelmed with requests for year-end donations from numerous ministries and organizations. The needs are legitimate and dear to my heart.
No child should go to bed hungry, much less starve to death. No child or adult should be sexually abused or homeless. Human trafficking and the persecution of my brothers and sisters in Christ – the persecution of any person for we are all created in God’s image – is deplorable. How the Father heart of God must break.
It’s all too easy to wring our hands in despair when, instead, we need to clasp them in prayer. And then we need to put them to work on our keyboard starting and finishing what He is calling us to write.
An army of Christians committed to “write His answer” can make a difference – a H U G E difference if we don’t get discouraged and give up.
Father has given us a blueprint for our writing ministry in Habakkuk 2:2. I encourage you to end 2016 or begin 2017 by making time to study the Scriptures that amplify each section of this passage:
And the Lord said to me,
Write my answer
Make it large and clear
Write so that anyone can read it
At a glance
And rush to tell the others
You’ll find the references by clicking here. To listen to me presenting this Bible study at a seminar in CT, click here.
Father, You know how easy it is for us to feel overwhelmed by the needs around us. And You know how we doubt ourselves and the gifts You have entrusted to us. Please forgive us and help us to “write Your answer” in the new year.
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Other ways you can prepare to make a difference through your writing in 2017:
- Order the entire 2016 Greater Philly Christian Writers Conference as MP3 files on two DVDs. Through next Saturday, January 7, I’m offering 20% off the already low price of $99. That means for only $79 (I’ll pay the shipping) you’ll have over 100 hours of instruction from our outstanding faculty. Click here for the order form and click here for the 2016 brochure for more info.
- CDs from the 2016 Colorado Christian Writers Conference can be ordered through January 7 for 20% off the price of $6 each for 1-9 CDs. Orders of 10 or more are 20% off the $5 each price. Click here for the order form and click here for the 2016 brochure for more info.
- Put the May 17-20 Colorado or July 26-29 Philly conference on your calendar. I’m working to begin uploading info to the websites hopefully next week. (The websites presently have 2016 info.) With over 500 prospective faculty on my Excel spreadsheet it’s easy to become overwhelmed. It’s also exciting – very exciting – to experience His enabling to do what I could never do in my own strength.
To give your work the best opportunity to get in print, invest in The Christian Writers Market Guide 2017. I love the new easy-to-read format. Copies are available through Write His Answer Ministries at $5 off the retail price of $22.99. Click here to order.
- Join a Christian writers critique group. The new market guide lists groups around the nation. For helps for critique groups (including forming a group), click here. If you live in the Philadelphia area, click here for info about the group that meets in my Lansdale home one Thursday morning a month or call me at 484-991-8581 for info about the women’s critique group that meets bi-weekly on a Thursday evening in my home. Being part of a group is an important key to growing as a writer.
- If you do not have my book, Write His Answer – A Bible Study for Christian Writers, or if it’s been some time since you’ve done this study, I encourage you to order a copy. Click here for the 176 page paperback or here for the Amazon ebook.
I completed this study some time ago and recently decided to purchase a new book. This study has helped me to focus on the steps necessary to move closer to achieving my writing goals. The questions challenge me to press through to achieve the next goal. I have built a firm biblical foundation for a steady and successful writing career thanks to this study!
Now glory be to God, who by his mighty power at work within us is able to do far more than we would ever dare to ask or even dream of-infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, or hopes.Ephesians 3:20 (TLB)
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