#119 Resurrection Power for Your Writing

Welcome everyone. My name is Shelli Hits. I am the founder of Christian Book Academy, our membership where we help you to finally finish your book by taking a step of faith and partnering with God. Let me just pray for you, God. They thank you for what you're doing in and through their writing. And Lord, we just come to you. We pour out ourselves. We, we just take a moment right now to just literally choose to crucify our flesh, to die to our flesh, to, to what we can do. A lot of us have gifts of writing and we have a lot of great ideas. But God, we want to die to ourselves so that you and Jesus and his resurrection power in us can be made seen that you can do things in us that we cannot even think or imagine through your power. Ephesians 3 says it's through your power. So Father, we just want to die to ourselves and say, jesus, come live in me. Help resurrect my writing. And I just pray this in Jesus powerful name. Amen. First of all, I just want to ask, are you an unwriting writer? Now, some of you are not. You have been on a good writing habit, but how many of you would say you're an unwriting writer? You've been stuck, you've installed, you have been just confused or, you know, whatever it is. Some signs of unwriting writers might be that you feel a little moody, a little irritable or discontent. Because when we are called to write, when we are gifted to write and we're not writing, then yeah, it can just be this little irritation, right? Or you feel this pressure, like, or the shame of like, oh, I should be writing. And so right now I just want to say, you know, be gone in Jesus name, all the shoulds, any shame in Jesus name. But if you have been an unwriting writer, you are in the right place and come alive in our writing. It's time to wake up sleepy writers and to tap into his resurrection power. And as you partner with God, and that's what we help you to do in our, our trainings and in our membership Christian Book Academy. But as you partner with God, you will experience his power through. How many of you want to experience his power in your writing this week? His resurrection power. This is not just any old power. It's not the electricity that you plug your lights in or your phone to get charged. This is God's resurrection power. I felt like God wanted me to share this message with you, but also he brought to my mind Lazarus. And I feel like some of you need to hear this today. Like Jesus was saying to Lazarus, I feel like he is saying this to your writing today. And this is from John 11, verse 43 to 44. I'm just going to quote it from the ESV. Jesus cried out with a loud voice, lazarus, come out. The man who died came out, his hands and feet bound with linen strips and his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, unbind him and let him go. And right now, I want you to put your name there, whatever your name is. Jesus is saying, come out. And when you come out, I'm saying, all right, unbind yourself. You know, I'm going to help unbind you. And now it's time to let you go and release a tsunami of words. And the words not just of your own flesh, but of God's resurrection power. Amen. If you want this today, just say, I receive God's resurrection power because. Because it is for you today, and not just today. You can tap into his power every day. And so I am just so excited for what God is going to do. Father, thank you for what you're doing in and through us as we just choose to partner with you, as we choose to surrender to you. And I just pray that you would bring the increase this week, that there would just be so many breakthroughs, there would be so much written, and people would just be amazed at what is, what. What was accomplished by the end of the week. So, Lord, I thank you for what you're doing, and we just give this week to you. In Jesus name, Amen.