When God Changes Everything

It can make a big mess of things… At least with my own plans.

“My destiny is to go to heaven, my responsibility is to bring heaven.” — Bill Johnson, Pastor, Bethel Church

When I first started writing, it was by the encouragement of others and the inspiration that writing was a talent that I had not fully explored. What finally got me over the hump to really make writing a priority was divine intervention.

A pastor from our church shared with me a calling he saw over my life. That I would teach, encourage, and build up the Kingdom of God. And shortly after sharing this, he encouraged me to get back into writing.

In May 2017, I started my blog and went to work on becoming a writer. And since then, I have published a book, launched a planner, created a course. While I have learned a lot from doing these things, they haven’t been the wild successes that others have found in their writing.

And then, in the last week, something happened…

God Changed My Direction

First, I should be honest about this. Over the last year, I have been feeling this pull to move my writing into a direction that is purely faith-based. My belief in Jesus fuels everything I do. And when I’m not at my best, its because I am not living into the identity God has for me.

This last year has been amazing with the things I have created with my writing, but there doesn’t seem to be traction. Sure, some people say this is because I still have another two to three years to go before things really take off.

And this might be true. But I think there is something else.

Recently, I was reminded in a dream how much I desire to use my entire life for Jesus. And right now, my self-help/self-improvement writing is only halfway to the mark.

And it isn’t yielding a whole lot toward God’s Kingdom and what I believe Jesus has called me into for my life. I enjoy writing about goal setting, life planning, and productivity.

But it seems as though it is all for not if I don’t share how much my faith makes a difference in my success for these things.

Living Our My Faith — Writing Out My Faith

And so, I’m going to be changing directions in my writing. Not suddenly, but it will begin to change ever so slightly over the rest of this year. I am abandoning projects that don’t bring my faith into them and starting new ones to share Jesus and the life we have in Him.

It won’t be popular. And I expect my engagement to drop here on Medium.

But I know it is what I should be doing. It is something that I wanted to do before, but now I realize how important it is for me to take the leap now. I know better now. And it is time to live out my faith in my writing too.

And so, here I go. I’m going for it.

If you aren’t familiar with my faith writing, here are three stories you can check out: