{"id":287,"date":"2012-08-08T13:06:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T13:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/blog\/2012\/08\/08\/have-you-ever-asked-yourself-why-should\/"},"modified":"2015-11-25T12:24:06","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T19:24:06","slug":"have-you-ever-asked-yourself-why-should","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/have-you-ever-asked-yourself-why-should\/","title":{"rendered":"Write the Vision ~ Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nHave you ever asked yourself why should<\/i> I<\/i> write
\nChristian Fiction…what\u2019s the point…should I keep going? Take a look at
\nNehemiah. Those close to Nehemiah probably never expected the mild-mannered man
\nto ever step out of his comfort zone, leave the safety of the king\u2019s palace to
\ngo on work detail. Add to that the fact he was in captivity. He served a
\nforeign government. He also didn\u2019t have a background in planning or building
\nthat we know of…he was the king\u2019s cupbearer. Yet this man became instrumental
\nin rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem. We can look at that wall both literally and figuratively. Nehemiah
\nis a role model today of a man who listened to God and followed His guidance
\nand make a great impact. Nehemiah was a builder. <\/div>\n
\nBut how does Nehemiah\u2019s wall compare to writing Christian
\nfiction?<\/div>\n
\n\u00b7        
\nHe saw a need. Maybe for you it\u2019s a personal burden
\nor maybe someone has shown you the need.<\/div>\n
\nNehemiah 1:3  And they said unto
\nme, \u201cThe remnant who are left behind from the captivity there in the province
\nare in great affliction <\/i><\/div>\n
\n\u00b7        
\nHe had dual purpose. The people who build the
\nwall had one hand at work and one hand on a sword. Don\u2019t Christian writers do
\nthis too? Your story is on one hand from you and on the other, filled with God\u2019s
\nword (the Sword of the Spirit)<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nNehemiah 4:17-18  Those who built on the wall and those who
\nbore burdens with those who loaded \u2014 every one with one of his hands wrought in
\nthe work and with the other hand held a weapon. For the builders, every one,
\nhad his sword girded by his side, and so built. <\/i><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n\u00b7        
\nHe desired to be used of God.  Nehemiah had his conflict. He had people who
\ndidn\u2019t want that wall built. There was opposition within his group and
\nexternally but he didn\u2019t quit. He prayed and he perceived that his work should
\nkeep going, that God was behind him. He finished the task.<\/div>\n
\nNehemiah
\n6:15-16 So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month of
\nElul, in fifty and two days. And it came to pass that when all our enemies
\nheard thereof, and all the heathen who were about us saw these things, they
\nwere much cast down in their own eyes; for they perceived that this work was
\nwrought by our God.<\/i><\/div>\n
\nRead the whole book, it is really
\nis amazing.<\/i><\/div>\n
\nSo built we the wall…for the people had a mind to work. Nehemiah 4:6<\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you ever asked yourself why should I write Christian Fiction…what\u2019s the point…should I keep going? Take a look at Nehemiah. Those close to Nehemiah probably never expected the mild-mannered man to ever step out of his comfort zone, leave the safety of the king\u2019s palace to go on work detail. Add to that the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[504],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editing-writing-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}