What a massive endeavor - to consider writing a Christian book to assist God's people in moving forward in their lives. Although excited with the prospect of writing and publishing your book, at the same time you feel overwhelmed with the task before you in representing God's heart through the written word.
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Everything inside you reminds you that you are a needy person...needy to connect with God. You may have no trouble talking to God, but how are you at listening? The real issue is hearing from God in prayer. This article will not discuss much about how a Christian writer should pray. As you are in the process of writing your Christian book, we are going to talk about how to hear...how to hear God speak to you, not so much how you speak to him.
Everyone can pray. Most everyone does pray already. It may not happen often, but everyone knows how to pray. Normally people pray when things are going wrong. Their prayer goes something like this: "Oh God, HELP!"
So we know how to pray in one sense. But in another sense, we feel awkward at times, asking God to help us develop story lines, characters or thoughts on our Christian book that we want to publish. We may feel distant from God, ashamed due to some sin in our lives or the way in which we have been living. We also have history in praying, a history that usually includes a feeling that prayers have remained unanswered.
All these collective thoughts contribute to a weak prayer life, and when we do pray, we really don't expect our prayers will be answered. And if we are not expecting an answer, then we don't really listen for His voice speaking into our hearts and minds. Sad, but all too normal.
Source: EzineArticles.com
Patrick J. McGuffin is an author, business leader, journalist, publisher and missionary and brings his diverse background and experiences together in reaching many venues.
McGuffin, a University of Florida journalism graduate, spent the first part of his professional career publishing newspapers, ending that part of his life as president and publisher of 19 newspapers. Additionally, he published family magazines throughout Florida. Currently he owns two national printing companies (Reliance Media and Apopka Printing) and a nationwide book publishing company (http://www.NewBookPublishing.com).
He is married to his wife of 30 years, Sheila, and they have two grown daughters and four grandsons. His missionary efforts focus in South America, where he visits several times each year. McGuffin's latest book, Making Sense Out Of Life, is insightful and very timely in light of current economic and relational issues worldwide.
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