Do You Believe God Delivers Help?

 

Last week, I needed God to help me in a big way. I just signed a contract for a Christmas novella with the manuscript due next spring and all I had for the story was the time, Christmas; the setting, the Outer Banks; and the genre, contemporary romance. One possible, vague idea involved letters and grandmothers, but that’s it, folks.

I’m Inadequate; God is limitless.

 

Writing is intimidating at times. It’s usually a lonely business spent looking at a blinking courser or a blank page. Writers, if they’re lucky, have writing or reading friends who help brainstorm when the words dry up, but mostly the work sits on the individual’s shoulders.

A recent devotion I read admonished not to worry about my inadequacy. Instead, accept it, even embrace, it. Why? Because when our inadequacy is revealed, God’s limitless sufficiency can be displayed. Our weakness highlights His strength.

“And my God will meet all your needs according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:19

Daunting Task? Don’t be intimidated.

My assignment this past week seemed daunting. I somehow had to find a story with characters and backstories and conflict and the happily ever after–in five days.

Instead of wallowing in fear, I thanked God for the ability and strength to do what I needed to do. God gave me the desire to write, the skill to write, the opportunity to write. He has faithfully carried me through the writing of four previous novels. FOUR!

He can and will do it again.

Show me the way, Lord.

Every day I prayed for Him to show me the way. Which steps to take. What story He wanted me to tell.

When I began this fiction path, I prayed these verses from Exodus 4:10-12  “Moses said to the Lord, ‘O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since You have spoken to Your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.'” (Lord, I can’t write fiction. I don’t know how.) “The Lord said to him, ‘Who gave man his mouth? Who makes him deaf or mute? Who gives him sight or makes him blind? Is it not I, the Lord? Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say.”

Yes, writing is scary, and every time I begin a book, I think, “I don’t know how,” but guess what? God is the original author. He created ideas and words and stories.

“For I am the Lord, your God, who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, ‘Do not fear; I will help you.” Isaiah 41:13

And God delivered help last week. I left the beach with 4566 words toward the novella. I still need the reason the male protagonist comes back to Hatteras and the conflict. Yes, pretty big needs, but guess what? My God is big, and He delivers!

What do you need Him to deliver for you this week? Pray these verses or others that speak to you and watch what God does!