#067 - God is With You
3 Mar 2023 · 4 min
Shelley Hitz reminds Christian writers that God is with them through the ups and downs of writing and publishing. She offers community resources including monthly Zoom calls and Voxer office hours, and grounds her message in scripture: God never leaves or forsakes.
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Welcome back to another episode of Hit Splits. This is Shelly Hits, the owner and founder of ChristianBookAcademy.com and today I just wanted to remind you, God is with you. Whatever you're doing right now, whatever you're walking through, whatever you're facing, he is with you. You are not alone. And you also have a community of Kingdom writers that is able to walk beside you. If you are a Christian Book Academy member. We have our private group, we have our monthly zoom calls. Join us, post in the group, let us know when you need help. We don't know how we can help you until you let us know. And if you want to ask a private question, come on the Voxer office hours and ask me a private question during that time. And if you're not yet a member, come join us@christianbookacademy.com but not only do you have our community of Kingdom writers with you, but God is with you. And that is the most important thing. As you're writing, publishing and marketing your book, there are going to be a lot of hills and. And valleys. Can I get an amen? I think of the song, I think it's by Torin Wells. Hills and Valleys and oh, I can relate so much. I'm a feeling oriented person anyways. And so it's so easy for me to go up and down with my emotions and to allow my, you know, to allow me to go up and down with my circumstances, all the things. And yet the Lord is the. The same yesterday, today and forever. He is with you. He will never leave you. He will never forsake you. Those are both scriptures. And you know, it's just, it's just a promise like he will not change even when the social media algorithms change, right? Even when the Amazon ads stop working or even when the words just seem like they're not coming for that first draft. He is the same yesterday, today and forever. He is with you. He will never leave you. He will never forsake you. Nothing can separate you from his love. Nothing can separate you from your from his love. If you are his child. If you have received Christ and asked forgiveness for your sin, you are following Christ, you are his, then nothing can separate you from his love. And so just soak in that, take in that truth today and know that he is with you. Whatever you're walking through the, the hills, the victor. You know, some of you have told us you clicked publish and you were able to publish your book this week and we are celebrating with you or the valleys. Maybe you've had a book launch and now you're hitting those post book launch blues, those that, I mean it is a real thing. It is so real. And so just know that whether you are on a hill or whether you are on a valley, we are with you. But God is with you. He is there to help you and to. To comfort you, to guide you. So let me pray for Lord, I just pray for every Kingdom writer listening right now. I just pray God that you would just help them to encounter you. Not just to know about you, not just to read your word, but to actually have an encounter with you, with your spirit, where you are, are, are personally connecting with them. You want a personal relationship, Lord. And so I pray that they would open their hearts right now to a personal relationship with you, to an encounter to receive your comfort, to receive your love. Today, Lord, wrap them in your love. Help them to know that you will never leave them, you will never forsake them. Nothing can separate them from your love. You were the same yesterday, today and forever. And we can depend on you. We can put our trust in you when we cannot put our trust in anything else. So Lord, we thank you that you are with us. And we pray this in Jesus powerful name. Amen. Amen. Friends, thank you so much for joining me today and I will talk to you in the next episode.