You Don't Have to Feel Ready to Be Called

Welcome to Kingdom Writers, where we help equip and empower Christian writers of all genres to share your unique gifts with the world. We're your hosts, C.J. and Shelli Hitz.

This podcast is filled with spiritual encouragement as well as prayers to help you overcome the resistance you face as a writer. Your story matters.

If you feel called to write a book, but secretly wonder, who am I to do this, this is for you. Because the truth is, God doesn't call the equipped. He equips the called. Even when it comes to writing and publishing your book. I'm Shelley Hitz, founder of Christian Book Academy, and we've helped over a thousand writers to take a step of faith to write and publish their book. Some of them were moms with toddlers, others were pastors writing during their lunch breaks. And many had no writing background at all. Just a yes in their spirit and an assignment from God to do it. But here's what I see. Trip most people up. They think that being called means they should automatically feel confident or fully prepared. So when imposter syndrome hits, when they Google something and get overwhelmed by formatting, ISBNs or, or Amazon algorithms, they think, maybe I wasn't meant to do this after all. But that's just not how God works. Because think about it. Moses didn't feel qualified, Esther didn't feel ready, and Gideon literally asked for three signs, but they all said yes. So God's pattern is the same today. He doesn't wait for us to have it all together. He meets us in our obedience and he equips us as we go, even when it comes to publishing. So that's exactly why we created Christian Book Academy. Not just to give you tools, but to walk with you as you take your next faithful step inside. We break things into 15 minute daily writing rhythms. We surround you with a community of Kingdom writers who get you and we help you to finish, publish and share your message one step at a time. So if you felt called but not equipped, that's okay. You're in the perfect place for God to move. You don't need to have all the answers. You just need to have a simple yes. And we'd love to walk this path with you inside Christian Book Academy. So let me pray for you today. So Lord, thank you for every Kingdom writer listening right now. I just pray that your power and your presence would just envelop them with, with your love. That they would know that. That you got them, that they can partner with you as they write and publish this book. That they don't have to have it all figured out. They don't have to know where all of the resources will come from. Lord, you are their provider. And so I just pray right now Lord that you would take away any self doubt, any imposter syndrome, any confusion and overwhelm and I just ask that you speak to them directly and encourage them in their next steps for writing and publishing their book. We thank you for them. I pray that their writing would impact many lives and we pray this in Jesus name. Amen. Amen Friend. I hope this encouraged you today and I will talk to you again soon. Bye bye.

If you're ready to take a step of faith and finally finish your book, we have a few ways we can help you. First of all, you can join our Free Writing Week challenge to create a writing habit in just 15 minutes a day. Free. Thousands of writers have taken this over the years and it is incredible the progress that you'll see. So join us@writingweek.com and again, this is completely free. Inside our Book Writing Lab workshop you can choose your book topic, write an outline and create a writing plan in just 90 minutes so you'll finally feel confident that you'll actually finish your book. Get started@bookwritinglab.com and finally you can get more support and personalized feedback from myself and our team by joining Christian Book Academy because the honest truth is most writers stay stuck and never finish their first draft. But inside Christian Book Academy, we help you partner with God to write your book so you can become a published author.

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Thank you for listening to this episode of Kingdom Writers. We believe that you as a Christian writer have a specific role to play in the Kingdom of Heaven to impact lives for eternity.

And because of this, we choose to pour out our lives into encouraging writers like you to not only tell your stories, but to take the courageous step of self publishing your stories in books that will outlive you and leave behind a powerful legacy. This podcast is sponsored by Christian Book Academy where we help you give birth to your books. We invite you to join our community of Kingdom writers.