When we commit our plans to the Lord, He affirms them or redirects them so that we can be successful in the work He’s created us to do.
Category: Writers Prayers
Who am I, Lord, that I should be so blessed by Your imagination? The words I pen today can’t begin to capture an iota of the detail you’ve woven into even the smallest of molecules. And yet, how can I not try?
It’s so much easier for me to take those difficult steps of faith when I remember that You are right here beside me. There are so many questions in this life. So much uncertainty. And I wonder sometimes, did I hear You correctly?
Lord, It’s so easy to get distracted when I’m constantly bombarded with all the “how-to’s” of the writing world. I can have the greatest author platform, be represented by the world’s best agent, perfect the art of the query, and publish book after book, but it will do me little good in the measure of…
Lord, You know me so much better than I do. You know when I’m being impatient and when I’m hesitating out of fear. I want to run now, but You are still preparing me for a much bigger race—one that requires training and perseverance. In Your wisdom You know I need to learn how to…
Lord, I trust You. But sometimes it’s difficult. I believe You have given me a specific gift to use and my desire is to use it for Your glory. But Your timing is so different from mine. I think I’ve got everything all figured out, but then rejection or delays come and I wonder what…
Lord, Everything I create is a mere copy of what you have already done. You spoke the heavens and the earth into being for Your pleasure, knowing that heartache, sickness, destruction, and grief would enter in. Help me remember that You didn’t shy away from pain and suffering, but willingly sacrificed all for the benefit…
Lord, You have given me an incredible gift and an amazing responsibility as a writer. You’ve created in my soul a passion for letters and punctuation, exclamations and questions, love and rejection, faith and doubt, victory and defeat. May each word I pen today bring honor to You rather than glory to myself. I pray…