This post was started back in March 2024, and I forgot that it was saved as a draft until today!
I have subscribed to Jerry Jenkins newsletter for a while, and he’s often talked about writing even when tired (and I think writing every day. I’ve also heard others say this too). Starting this past Monday, I’ve been working on being in my writing every day. Even if just in small chunks at a time.
Monday the spiritual warfare hit in one of the heaviest waves, I’ve felt in a long time. I rebuked the devil and his attack, and then he came at it from another angle! He used a close person in my life, to try and get his way. But this time I caught it! I’m very grateful to Jesus, I did, because that is something I’ve prayed and asked Him for, the ability to catch Satan in his tactics, so I can chop him off at the knees!
I feel like I’ve faced many personal mountains while writing this book, and they have also made me stronger. I think they’ve made me lean on God more as well. As I’ve been writing the character of Jackson, I’ve realized I am a lot like him, and while I write his scenes, God has been revealing things to me and helping me heal through the writing. This isn’t the first time He’s done this, but it always takes me by surprise when He does!
One scene in particular I wrote with Jack, every time I re-read it, I would cry. And I realized this is how I feel inside — I didn’t maybe recognize it when I wrote the scene, but I suspect my heart did and it came from there, but reading it out loud, I realized it.
Because I started this post in March, and now realized here it sat, now in July… I’m not sure where I was going with the initial post. But I will share what the Holy Spirit recently told me, when (at the time) no one had yet read my rock star book WIP.
I was struggling with wanting someone to love and read my book on this day, and desiring this and feeling down.
And I heard these words next:
I LOVE your book, I WANT and AM reading your book! I AM helping you write your book! It is a love story, a labor of love, never forget that!!!
And while this book is a love story, I knew he didn’t mean in that way, between the characters. That it was a different love story, I think perhaps a love story from Him to me. Because healing is happening, and things I thought I had dealt with, come to find out, not really. I never thought I was a stuffer, but come to find out — I did stuff some things, and some things I never really dealt with, or realized. But God is working on my heart and helping me and it to heal!
These words just came to me “He makes all things new”. And I searched for where it this is mentioned. It’s Revelation 21:5
5 Then He who sat on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” And He said [b]to me, “Write, for these words are true and faithful.”
I am also reminded of Isaiah 43:19, which God has reminded/given to me multiple times:
19 Behold, I am doing a new thing;
now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?
I will make a way in the wilderness
and rivers in the desert.
I have hung onto those words the Holy Spirit gave me about my book, and they are so beautiful to me. I pray they help you reading this. God is in your calling, He is the one who has called you, and placed that desire in your heart. Lean into it! Seek Him, He cares about the work you are doing — whether it’s writing, music, or another field completely different from the arts! He cares, and wants to share in and be an active part of that journey!
Until the next blog! 🙂
~K