God told me to write a LONG time ago
Hey guys . So I just needed to vent … God gave me the title of a book that I needed to write back in 2019 & I still haven’t fully written it 🤦🏾♀️ I know I know. I can’t disclose the title he gave me . But man is it deep & I think it hit TOO deep to my core. And when he gave it to me , I was still dealing with this issue for a long time. So in the beginning I wasn’t sure if I could write it because I didn’t want to be a hypocrite, then when I got delivered I was so scared of going back and tainting my testimony. & now I’m at the point where I can finally write it and it feels like so much fear has crept in. I think maybe I fear because I know that souls are attached to this. I just really want things to be right, to be biblically accurate . But there’s also a DEEP diving that I have to do with God in order to execute this. And I think that’s where a lot of things come from as well. Because when I start to question my WHY , it makes me have to question myself and my view of God. For instance I was scared because I know the pain that I’ll have to feel in order to pull this out raw . But I had to ask myself , do you not trust God then? Hasn’t he always taken care of you and your heart? So as I’m trying to process where to go from where I’ve started , it’s a big journey and it almost feels like a sanctification process to get this book done. Y’all pray for me because it is literally pulling all of my issues out of me and exposing me to myself and that’s a huge pill to swallow. Anyways I needed to get it out . If you have any suggestions / comments of encouragement please let me know. 🙏🏾❤️I’m just trying to climb this mountain 😭
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