Tickles my humble soul every time I passed by misty pavement ornamented with ambriosial Lavender bushes and this ,thus, too provoke the feisty writer and sermons the chinese proverb inside me saying, “The palest ink is better than the best memory” as gradually unfogging the train entrants the flirty cottonseed ballerina dancing gracefully on my sight demanding my palm as its dancefloor.
God has again graced His revelation unto me.
And so they say, Writers by very nature, are loners (literally at this moment, I am!!!) who find solace, companionship and inspiration in the written word. The Bible (the greatest book ever written, IMO) offers words of inspiration to lone writers who are struggling with their career choice, struggling with writers block, struggling with change, deadlines or just struggling in general.
These are a few of my favorite inspirational Bible verses that have encouraged me during times of writing struggles.
Inspirational Bible Verse When Doubting Writing Ability
I had some early successes in the beginning of my writing career, then came a few rejections. I took the rejections personally and began to doubt my ability to write. I overcame those doubts, kept writing and honing my writing skills with the inspiration of several Bible verses which promise us that God will bless the work of our hands. One such inspirational Bible verse for me during times of doubting my writing ability is Deuteronomy 28:12 – The Lord shall open unto thee His good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.
Bible Verse To Inspire During Times Of Change
One thing that remains constant is change. The world of writing is always changing and as writers, we must adapt our writing style to met the client’s needs. Some of those changes which involve technology, like the recent changes in Google listings, often leave an old school, technologically challenged gal like myself scratching my head. During times of challenging changes, I turn to Bible verses to inspire me and encourage me. One inspirational verse which never fails me is Philippians 4:13 – I can do all things through Christ which strengthened me.
Bible Verses To Overcome Writer’s Block
Most of the time, writers are filled with story titles and writing ideas, but then there are those days (weeks, months) when we draw a blank and have nothing to write about. During those times when I find myself staring at a blank computer screen with nothing to write to about, I meditate on the Bible verses which tell the story of how God gave Jacob one idea about sticks from poplar, hazel and chesnut trees, which made Jacob a very wealthy cattle rancher. I know I am just one idea away from overcoming writer’s block and writing a prize winning story. That inspirational Bible story can be found in Genesis 30:37-43 and is well worth the read to overcome writer’s block.
Bible Is A Writer’s Inspiration
The Bible itself is a writer’s inspiration; a composite of 66 books spanning the gamut of subject matter, author’s styles, education and backgrounds. All authors of the Bible’s books received their inspiration from the same source, God, who even had a ‘hand’ in writing the Bible, literally. Daniel 5:5 tells the story of how fingers of a man’s hand appeared and wrote a message on the wall. Those writing fingers belonged to The Author of Authors, God.
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 22 helpful votes
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 18 helpful votes
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Acts 20:35 ESV / 12 helpful votes
In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
Isaiah 40:8 ESV / 12 helpful votes
The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.
Habakkuk 2:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And the Lord answered me: “Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it.
Deuteronomy 28:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes
The Lord will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. And you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.
John 10:35 ESV / 4 helpful votes
If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken—
Hosea 11:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes
I led them with cords of kindness, with the bands of love, and I became to them as one who eases the yoke on their jaws, and I bent down to them and fed them.
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. …
Hebrews 12:12-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed.
1 Corinthians 14:1-40 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy. For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit. On the other hand, the one who prophesies speaks to people for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation. The one who speaks in a tongue builds up himself, but the one who prophesies builds up the church. Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but even more to prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless someone interprets, so that the church may be built up. …
Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 2 helpful votes
When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. …
John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 1 helpful vote
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. …
1 Corinthians 6:9 ESV / 0 helpful votes
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,
Romans 1:26 ESV / 0 helpful votes
For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature;
Isaiah 53:1-12 ESV / 0 helpful votes
Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed. …
Isaiah 8:20 ESV / 0 helpful votes
To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn.
Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 0 helpful votes
If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
